Shining some light on the POTC Maintenance
 

Okay. Well you guys are wondering why all the Maintenance and glitches and stuff
well Its because of Infamy. But this is where all the glitches come into play.
Whenever theres a major updates (Ravens Cove) there are glitches.
One of the glitches is the dreaded level zero glitch. The reason POTC keeps resetting the servers is to try and kill the glitch. Well picture it like this.
Your computer gets a virus or something. It gets all screwed up and stuff.
Well you have to do a System Restore. This is why POTC resets the servers to kill the bug. They have restore points. They reset the system back before the glitch happened. Well thats why you lose levels, fames, weapons.. rep... and so on.
Every time they reset the servers they go back a little farther and a little farther.
Thats why everyone is losing the weapons and stuff. But disney being the smart people that they are keep doing it. They need to stop resetting the servers and go in and address the issue with the Infamy update.

Hope this makes since.

So... we aren't going to get our weapons back?

I'd figure if you had your weapons for a while, then you get to keep them. But if you just got them yesterday, you might lose them...
A counter to this glitch would be to leave pirates running as long as possible, before you logged and got the level 0 glitch...

Guilds were not affected by the reset, fortunately.

If you plundered them Friday, I'd say its a 50/50 chance. Anything you got before that you'll get back.

There was a reset

Does anyone else get the feeling that this all could have been avoided?

yep, but its Disney, it all has to be difficult

I think we all have that feeling... See disney, if they were nice, would have let us play while they were doing maintenance...

Mates before you say its able to be avoided and to be difficult. Please send me a link to your mmo and if it has as many players as this then go right ahead and say that it could be avoided. I'm sure its very hard to keep a successful mmo running and takes alot of time and effort you should be supportive rather than bash them down...
~O'fury

I hope I dont lose my scared pistol I found 2 weeks ago, it's my fav famed so far :psmiley27:

I played WoW from the time it was released until a few months after Wrath, and in all of those years of playing it, I have never seen any problems such as the ones we are seeing here on POTCO.. Which leads me to believe that Disney is seriously under staffing its development and programming team.

There's hundreds of lines of program just for Blackjack tables. Now think of all the rest of the stuff they have to do: keep track of loot drops, chat, clothing, potions, notoriety, quests, weapons, fishing, treasure... all of this and more for each and every pirate. And I'm guessing there's at least 200,000 pirates. It's the equivalent of probably 2 million lines of coding, because you have to keep track of a certain thing at the exact same time as 20 other things. Disney works hard, and if a line or 2 of bad coding slips in somewhere, they have to go through most of that coding until they find it, fix the error, see if the game is working properly, if it messed something else up, they have to take it back down, find that error, and make sure the game is running then.

I know most of you play games with less bugs than this, but Disney is doing their best to make this a fun game for us all.

You shouldn't youll only lose the weapons/gold/ships/loot you found within the last 1 or 2 days

Your right actually. Are you a programmer?? You understand this rather well!! :buds: