Hoist Your Colors, Privateer Contest Ahead!
 

Hoist Your Colors, Privateer Contest Ahead! August 18 2008

http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g..._gennote2b.jpg The islands of the Caribbean overflowed this weekend as Basic Access Players enjoyed a Free Preview of Unlimited Access, while Unlimited Access Members took advantage of 50% discounts on all Customization items in the shops.

However, the generous financial reserves of the Pirate "Lords" Garcia de Avaricia and Pierre le Porc have now run dry and it's back to business as usual in the Caribbean ... or so we thought. It seems that as a result of the increased population of Pirates in the Caribbean the battle between the two "Lords" has taken a dramatic turn and there has been a sharp rise in skirmishes between both sides.

The battle for control is now more intense than ever before, and we need your help in fighting for the cause - so join us this coming weekend for the "Hoist Your Colors" Privateering Contest! Starting Friday, August 22 (12:01 AM), the Top 100 Basic and Top 100 Unlimited Access Pirates with the highest Privateering Score will be eligible to win fantastic prizes. More details to come!

i am so not joining that conest not really into PVP :D

Yea but this is SvS might be a chance to get the guild on for a while!

Im certainly looking forward to this event, decided i wouldnt delay going from 24 to 25 sailing, was just gonna take er easy and gain that last level causually. TO BAD I WASTED THOSE 2 POINTS IN TREASURE SENSE, lol anyway.

Probobly gonna be sailing the war sloop most likely. Ill be looking to fill some spots with a seasoned crew. (preferably rank 5 on your preferred ammo, Thunder shot and higher, rank 5 on rapid reload and firing would be nice too!)

But can anyone tell me for sure that they have or will have that healing on the run glitch fixed for the event? I did some SvS last night and it hadnt been adressed at the time.

yeah i'm going to sail my frigate with strong sailors and people with lightning cannonballs and fury.


Jack Osprey, Lvl. 13, Captain of Dark Storm Chaser Frigate, Guild: Norusblue

not into svs that much. alot of players cant play without cheating O_o. i report every cheating glitch i see and exactly how to do it so disney can fix it. so thats why im not going to "participate"

Whats the cheating glitch? And does the whole crew get to participate for the prizes if they get into the top 100 or just the captain of the ship?

I have had 10 people utsmarted because of this glitch. Not in the way you think.
If it's a glitch what is it and how do I do it?
How is it cheating anyways? I noticed my ships hp go up with the bigger bounty and score.
Now how is it cheating to get more HP when your score and bounty goes up? Disney obviously made it to where your HP went up with your score and bounty so you would have a better chance to survive with so many people after you.
So tell me......which seems more likely?
Lastly.....when you sink a ship your HP goes up a little bit or a lot depending on what bounty it was. So you could be red, sink a ship, then be green.

And yes the 100 prizes are only for the captain. So 100 ships means 100 captains.

thats ot a glitch. there are lots of glitches. but im not going to say them because some guy looking here might use them. really. i hate cheating and i know what it is.

MacIronhawk apparently hasnt been reading all our forums. There are numerous glitchs to cheat with in SvS, auto-repairing, repairing all repair points at once, repair while sailing, invincibility, invisibility on radar, some of our members have come up with means of countermeasures for them, but its too bad it even has to come to that.

how will they score this
 

so, i read where someone said only the captains will get the credit.

does anyone know if this is true? or just how the scoring system will be?

I do not think anyone knows for sure. But since the scoring is per ship, which has a single owner/captain, I dont think it would be possible to credit the crew which could be TP'ing back and forth.

:piratewheelgo2: where do you go to see the scores? the potco dxd site has the leaderboard for pvp matches but i can't find the leaderboard for SHIP pvp or SVS as we know it. The official site don't have the scores either...anyone know where ye can view SVS scores? :bookishfj7:

But since the scoring is per ship, which has a single owner/captain, I dont think it would be possible to credit the crew which could be TP'ing back and forth.

i think that sounds correct so it seems that only those pirates who have a high level crew will get rewarded...which somehow just doesn't seem right. i mean after all not everyone has a war ship that has access to a high level crew.

and of course the ones who can afford to be on line for 48 straight hours.

So i'm guessing the people with a chance to win will be limited.

I think this contest might be better suited for a guild competition.

I don't think I am going to be to interested in this either. Too many loop-holes in the svs. Though I haven't found the healing cheats much a threat, it really brought in the setting how so many play now. Run in and shoot a ship, and run off all around the entire world. If someone gets near you, dock.

Prizes for who can run off the fastest, use healing cheats best, and stay in the game more than a few minutes with all the tech issues, really doesn't say much IMHO, for a prize. Too bad grape shot wasn't the farthest range canon ball, that would stop some of the running while healing.

Ain't it the truth brutha! Ain't it the truth!

I think i'll call this contest...

The glitchers vs The snitchers ;)

You're a bad, bad person Zep! Bad! :laughks2:

the glitchers vs the snitchers vs the bit...oh, i guess i can't write that here.

lol, yea, I spose that works too. I do hope everyones laughing... ;) :laughks2:

I am sure this is going to bring out the absolute worst in pirates, but I am still looking forward to it.

We should plan a POF crew.

And by "we" I mean one of you with motivation and organizational skills.

There are?
I apologize then.
But well....they're using a glitch?
Well i'm laughing right now because i've beaten people before then with a glitch.

Also your HP does go up if your bounty and score are high and you sink a ship.
I don't mean it goes up I mean if your damaged it will go up to full hp.

Well, obviously I am not the Pirate for this task!

I am fully aware that your ship gets a boost of health after defeating an enemy. and thats certainly not what concerns me. What concerns me is an enemy ship running away from everyone and repairing, WHILE SAILING AWAY. ok alright then good deal, we on the same page right? or do you do any SvS at all?

/sarcasm(thats the sarcasm tag)

it was a fun time, got to meet new people, had it high and lows. got up to about 50k and got booted lol. but over all good time.

I do wish the rules has been much more explicit. Were they tracking the amount of damage an individual pirate dealt from his cannnons and broadsides? Were they tallying up that damage only after a ship sinks, or as ships were hit? Did "score" have anything to do with it at all, or was it some calculation derived from it? Would reported players be excluded? Would all reports for the weekend be ignored? Would all your scores from the weekend be added together, or will they take only the highest score you landed? Was score adjusted to zero if you were repairing while sailing (I wish)? Does your score count if you sunk, instead of landing? Would scores be weighted by server busy-ness, or can you blast away at a dummy pirate (that you start from another computer) on a quiet server? Can an entire guild take turns signing in as a single player, to sail a crew boat to over 800,000 score, and do they track the IP addresses that "one" captain comes from? And how do the guild members share that hat anyhow? If the ship they sink is sailed by members of the same guild, are those points ignored? Will the "winners" be posted? When? Where?

I agree with the sentiment that there were good aspects and bad. Overall, I feel the bad outweigh the good.

My short experience although fun, still left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth.
The ships with highscores/bounty's on them would race into an existing melee, and flee while repairing as soon as thier ship got about 1/2-1/3 damage. They would always appear to swoop in on someone elses battle snag the kill then run.

The sad thing is, that most of those receiving special Privateering credentials will have done so by cheating. Making these credentials not the mark of prestige as one would like to believe, but a credential of deceit instead.

aye zep agree with u there was alot of that , but i play anyway for the fun of it , don't really care about the prize. there was always a ship w high points but no where around i guess park f awhile, we got in to a match with one ship and we traded r bounty more than once, it was like a vendetta thing we would sink them, then it was on till they got us. still have a good time because we didnt care if we sunk. but still i hav to blame disney for not fixin thing right.

I didn't spend as much time on SvS this weekend as I would have liked. In part due to the weather failing to cooperate (I was hoping for rain) and in part because I kept getting booted from the busier servers (which is where you have the highest marginal propensity to acquire a big, nasty, fury flinging crew).

What I did determine through totally un-scientific research and observation was that some people don't have the first clue how to SvS.

Time and time again I was on ships with captains who drove straight into the enemy's island oblivious to who was behind them, what was in front, or the ring of red ships around the middle of their compass. Then, incredulously, they would label the enemy combatants as cheaters and glitchers - only to do the same stupid thing over, and over, and over.

The definition of insanity according to some is exercising the same conduct repeatedly, but each time expecting a different outcome.

If so, insanity - thy name is POTCO!

I do agree with Edward - a better understanding of the rules would have been nice. The scoring should have been set up to equally reward the pirate on the cannon as much as the one at the wheel. It would have been easier to put together crews if that little <GIGANTIC> point had been clarified.

Sill - when I wasn't cursing my internet provider, or seriously questioning the cognitive ability of our country's future it was fun. I haven't had that many targets to shoot at since the SvS first started.

The Codgers (that's old people for you whipper-snappers) didn't do too bad.

It's interesting - as that type of conduct (swooping in on a wounded opponent) is a relatively sound strategy. Not the kind of thing that makes for epic tales, movies, or video games - but, does tend to keep the combatant alive (which, is HUGE for the combatant in question).

Think about Manfred Albrecht Freiher Von Richtofen. He had 80 confirmed victories (and as many as 30 more unofficial wins according to some reports). But, he got tunnel vision, followed a lesser pilot across into enemy territory, and was shot down by AA fire. Had he stayed behind his lines, as was his practice to do so - fought prudently and logically - he might have ended up with twice as many victories. Whose to know, right?

I have a sneaking suspicion that some of those "high bounties" were communicating with their fleet and using their bounty as bait. I know a few times this weekend when the bounty on a ship I was on crept up the vultures would be on us like flies. If you had a decent level of participation from the other ships on your team you could use that as a distinct advantage (i.e. knowing where the enemy would go / chase, and then falling on the weak points).

Something to ponder before the next trip out to sea.........

I guess I wasnt thinking too much on the strategy end of things, since I had little control over it (by choice.. im sure I had a voice in the matter), I just fired cannons getting some SvS experience in, as due to all the glitching, id avoided it.

It is a rather piratey way to do battle at that... just was frustrating, hehe.

I had fun, but really want Disney to fix the glitchs. Not knowing, who and who isnt glitching is half the frustration to begin with.

The other "big question" in my mind after this weekend is - "Where do all the other ships on our side disappear to?"

It's nothing to hit the "~" key and see 10 vs 10 and think "AWESOME" only to pull out from the shore and see all 10 bad guys - but only one or two on your team. Where are the other ships? Have they all absconded to the ends of the limitless sea? Are they off somewhere parked in purgatory while the owner eats dinner or finished their homework? Why isn't there an inactivity clock on these guys. Come on, there are people queing up on the beach to get in sometimes!!!!!

Can you tell I had a bad weekend?



AFTER FURTHER CONSIDERATION BY THE REPLAY OFFICIAL: Going to add that I have had a sneaking suspicion that some of the loop-sided sessions have been the result of "spies" from guilds working together. I find this very, very piratey.

Guild member "A" tells noob "b" to join team "S" whilst "A" joins team "F". "B" parks his ship in the nether regions and "F" has a distinct numeric superiority / advantage.

Best part, how can you prove it?

this contest is a farce. you can bet that most of the top got there with glitching. i dont even enjoy privateer anymore because of the glitching that i encounter.