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Pirates Online Goes Mobile
January 23 2009
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We thought we'd take a second and tell you about a cool little thing the guys in the lab of Disney Mobile have been tinkering with. They've built a new site that lets you connect to your Pirate from your mobile phone - currently, this Beta version allows you to check your Pirate stats, embark on treasure hunts, ship battles, and earn loot. All Pirates can access the game for free - just enter www.PiratesOnline.com in your mobile phone's web browser or text PIRATES to DISNEY (347639) to play Cannons of the Deep exclusively on your mobile phone. Learn more about the mobile game here.

Interesting new feature....

Interesting!
I wonder if this has anything to do with the "codes" option weve seen on test?
(or if it eventually will)

I like this idea but my phone doesn't have internet connection.
I'd rather use my phone to talk to people.

Zeppers, I think that'd be a good idea but imagine all the people who won't be using their cellphones to go there.
Also, the codes have to deal with cloths. You can enter a code for a certain pants, a shirt, hat, etc... and get cltohs for free. But that's only if the code works for the cloths you want.

There's ship customization in this thing, which is interesting. It's all interesting, but unusable to a folk like me.

It'd be cool if you could gain experience with the weapons, sails and cannons with this thing and then transfer it. Who knows?

Thats where I read that... the other day when the Codes Button was asked I knew I had read somewhere that Disney was doing some 'off site' thing that if you played (hence pay more money via other means) you would get codes to redeem in the game...

Thats gotta be it :) Wish I could remember where that article went...

Doesn't really seem much different than that Club Penguin thing. Anyone else know about it, or am I the only one whoe periodically conveniently-sees the Disney Channel? Anyway, just because it's not a brand new model (being a practically new model) doesn't mean it ain't something cool.

On a different tangent, following the link, there's a picture with two options that make me wonder: there's a Transfer Loot item there, and a Transfer Gold one as well. Anyone know anything about this?

Here's additional information from Disney (sorry - don't know how to get the pics here)

I downloaded it to my phone. Here's what I can tell you - yes I can access all of my online pirates' information.


Here is what the "More Information" section says on my phone:

POTCO (it spells it out, but I'm tired)

I'm sorry - it's too late here for me to explore this any further, but I'll try to check it out in more depth tomorrow. Fair winds mates!

hmmm
 

rofl...ok,.. Man,.. this is interesting to say the least,.. this is like dangeling a porkchop in front of a bulldog!

I can see the POTCO obsessed flying down the road, looking like a DUI... due to blasting a Phantom on their cell phone!


Oh Baby,....

"My Name is Drew, I am a POTCO-aholic and I've been POTCO free for 2.5 hours....


:laughks2::laughks2::laughks2:

Well, all I can say is yahoo!

For a techno dweeb like me, sans laptop, this means on breaks and lunch during my usual work day I can get a little POTCO fix.

Being FAR too tired to try it out tonight, I'm looking forward to plugging my cell phone into the charger tomorrow and giving it a run.

Ship customization - something many in POTCO have wanted for a long time. I'm anxious to see that at work. And I really like that there are extras in the phone game that can be transferred to your online account.

Being a music fan I'm looking forward to winning some music I can take to a tavern and hear played. :D

I was thinking the same thing. Because we're not addicted enough... :laughks2:

Not bad but no real graphics you key in angle and cannon power and it tells you if you hit target hi or low. Still better than nothin if you cant get to ur comp.

LOL...too funny! I write in forums from work (and read them), play the game entirely too much as it is....and now this?? Lovely....I might as well head to the tattoo shop next. I'm being assimilated by Pirates!!!! Ahhhhhhhh!!!

:psmiley27:

We all have our "vices". Don't fight it! C'mon EVERYBODY"S doing it!


I just got done taking a look at it. It will help my "cravings" while working.
Just don't go "overboard" with it.


Marc BadBurn
Pirate at Large

My Blackberry and I decided to check things out since the PC version wasn't letting me log in. I'm not normally a fan of text-based games but CotD is neat.
You have Padres, Tortuga and Port Royal to explore and go back and forth to, and when you're 'sailing' to one of the islands you have the option to hunt for enemy ships. Each screen tells you your Ship Damage, and when you come across an enemy ship it will say "Ship Name has been spotted!" (ie. Barracuda, etc) and gives you the option to Fight, Flee, or Parlay.
All in all it's a nice little game, but I'll have to stick to my PC version, because unfortunately my college doesn't give me a degree for shooting at the EITC during classes. =)

I have played it for a few days...

here are the stats:

Current Mobile Gold: 5135

Ship Specs:

Cannons: Dragonhead
Damage: 4
Ammo Type: Dragon's Breath
Special Attack: FIRE
Sell Price: 600 Gold

Hull: War Sloop
Armor Rating: 980
Resistance To: FIRE
Sell Price: 500 Gold

Figurehead: Sea Goddess
Special Ability: Player's ship always breaks enemy lock-on after being hit by a special attack.
Sell Price: 150 Gold

Artifacts: (5 of 12)

Broken Ramrod
Cannon Wheel
Ignitor
Quoin
Silver Ramrod

*Sheet Music

I was wondering if anyone has found a hull larger than a war sloop. All in all the game is fun. I like that you can transfer gold and items to any of your characters. This way you can give your baby pirates some gold to at least buy a decent outfit :)

Enjoy!

Ihave gotten a war frigate.

Snagged a couple of screenshots for those that might be interested:

http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g.../CotD_Main.png
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There's a few more screenshots in this album

wow that looks sweet

Anyone have All the Artifacts? or Sheet Music's?

Photos of the Artifacts?

CotD have a Gold Cap?

COTD Artifacts
 

Gold Cap: I haven't hit one yet but then again, I transfer the max 1000 per/day to at least one of my POTCO pirates.
Sheet Music: don't know how many I have gotten anymore. They guy on PR isn't taking song requests since the BIG PR update.
Artifacts: Don't have all of these yet but here is a screen shot of what I have transfered over to POTCO so far.

No Data Plan on your phone/blackberry...no problem!
For those that don't have a data plan...there are a ton of mobile emulators online and for download.
I quickly loaded the game with this site: http://mtld.mobi/emulator.php and gave it the url of www.PiratesOnline.com, logged in as a guest.
I did not play it though with my account (didn't want to submit my POTCO login data to this site as I'm not familiar with it) so I do not know if you can log in and save game data. This was just to test if online emulators would work...and it seems to.

I've started a new thread here: http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/f...ad.php?t=10255 detailing Upgrades, Treasures and Enemies

Y'Know, this is probably some preview of what we could see in Ship Customization. Wouldn't be surprised if it were, but all that I could really ask for is new missions fr this before I rejoin. I just hope that is you can make your ship fire-, thunder-, or fury- proof, you have to be able to use these cannon ammo's yourself.

I like this game for the gold factor, but today for some reason, every time I try to transfer gold, I keep getting error messages that tell me to try again later. Anyone else had similar results?

Also, why don't we add some tips about how to make sure you always hit enemy ships with your first shot. I seem to miss every time.

Whenever I get a **** with close range, mid range, or long range I set the angles to 15, 25, and 35 degrees, respectively. Those are always correct, however, the power doesn't really correspond with the distance. What have you guys experienced?

I'm in it for the gold... nice way to funnel gold to my pc pirates.

Yup, I'm in it for the gold and new treasure items as well. I get the same error from time to time when trying to transfer gold too.

As for fighting tips...I use your same method Close=11, Mid=21 and Long=31, as for power I always shoot at Medium Strength first, sometimes I get lucky and if I don't you will know what the second shot needs to be as it tells you if you are short or overshot.

For you all that play...please contribute things that I'm missing over at this thread
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/f...ad.php?t=10255

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