Current News: Nov 3 '09

[Batleth]

Gold from a Ghostly Captain November 03, 2009

Captain Cromwell haunts areas of Port Royal trying to make good in death what he did wrong in life. To release his sprit from the bonds of earth he must repay gold he stole that was intended to free an innocent man. Read more about Captain Cromwell and John Moses.

Cromwell must repay the gold he stole to free his spirit from the bonds of earth.

Captain Cromwell now roams the earth looking for 'good, worthy Pirates'. If you are one, tell Cromwell when you see him, mention the name of John Moses, or tell him 'I've come for Innocent John.' Cromwell will then give you a secret code that can be redeemed
for gold.

1. To redeem your gold code follow these steps: Open a chat window in game by pressing [ENTER].
2. In the chat window type /CODE followed by a space, then type the 21 character code you were given by Cromwell.
3. Press [ENTER] to redeem the code. You'll get an in-game pop-up message confirming the code worked and telling you how much gold you got.

Example: /CODE TBTWYZLLARRNVLPCKFE22


Please note: When you're given a code, we suggest taking a screenshot (F9) of the code for future reference. Since some characters look similar (for example 5 and S) they may be copied incorrectly if you write the code down. If you write your code down, double-check it to make sure you've written down the code correctly. Codes are for one-time use. Once a code is used it cannot be used again. Codes are not case sensitive.

[Cannonfury]

ohh I assume, like the other ghost he will be on abassa??

[Nelly Darkpaine]

Disney shouldnt host these events without giving times.

Family game?? Bull.

You get people who spend an excessive amount of time in game ANYWAYS, let alone those looking for GM hosts. Kids staying online too long, staying up too late.

People SHOULD have lives - kind of hard to do when you are online looking for a random ghost, at random times, on random servers.

BRILLIANT DISNEY!

I won't be looking, nor will I likely find one. Frankly, who cares. But, hey, I DO have a life at least.

[Sven Niscadae]

So... Cromwell is giving the pirates the gold? How's he repaying his debt to Constance by giving random pirates the gold? Wow. She's going to have such a fit when she hears about this.

[Jaquin DePlank]

**sarcasm mode on**

This is great, I'm going to spend all my time looking from Cromwell so I can go from 65,000 in gold to 65,000 in gold...

**sarcasm mode off**

[combatlizzy]

Hmmm...more tainted gold. Rott paid gold for ez quests & now this...Gets me to wondering

[Sarah]

Nelly, I dont't think they could do this as a timed event. Passing out hundreds of 21 character codes to an angry and disrespectful mob just wouldn't work.

[Juliana Maria]

I wish they had more GM's going around, or at least say: "Ok, look for the ghosts on the 'B' servers.."
That way we aren't going from server to server desperately searching.
All I want is to see them once and that'll be good enough for me.

I don't even care about the gold.. it's never significant enough to make a difference anyways. Yipee, 200, 500?
Just not making a big enough impact to make me care about the gold.
Idk.. I know they are just testing it out, but I would like to see the ghost's appearances a little more frequent?

[gingeeann]

Originally Posted by Pirategirl09

I wish they had more GM's going around, or at least say: "Ok, look for the ghosts on the 'B' servers.."
That way we aren't going from server to server desperately searching.
All I want is to see them once and that'll be good enough for me.

I don't even care about the gold.. it's never significant enough to make a difference anyways. Yipee, 200, 500?
Just not making a big enough impact to make me care about the gold.
Idk.. I know they are just testing it out, but I would like to see the ghost's appearances a little more frequent?

I totally agree with your sentiments. I just would like to see them around more.

[Basil Dreadflint]

Just another distraction to keep people occupied and not have to listen to complaints about lack of content, no new story line!

WHERE'S THE NEXT CHAPTER?

[Juliana Maria]

Originally Posted by Basil Dreadflint

WHERE'S THE NEXT CHAPTER?

Your so right Basil. (Please excuse my following mini rant But Basil has got me started now lol)
My hope is that this is all somehow leading up to it. But if they have plans for invasions on both Tortuga and PDF.. then we may not see it for awhile.
I would LOVE to see them come out with the new one by Christmas. T

hey missed Halloween, their ANNIVERSARY.. twice. So now I have NO idea when they plan to unveil all the new goodies. I
just keep hoping each month to see something on Test, but alas.. nothing.

I know we complain, and I know people say 'It takes a long time to make the stuff they are working on,' or 'You just have to be patient.'
Well I am tired of being patient. I WANT A NEW STORY CHAPTER!!!! Come on already!

[Speedway Master]

I'll just threaten Cromwell with Holy Water so he'll give me ALL the gold!

[The Skirata Clan]

I think it might be a test to use those codes in the future.

[Bonnylass64]

Originally Posted by Pirategirl09

I wish they had more GM's going around, or at least say: "Ok, look for the ghosts on the 'B' servers.."
That way we aren't going from server to server desperately searching.
All I want is to see them once and that'll be good enough for me.

I don't even care about the gold.. it's never significant enough to make a difference anyways. Yipee, 200, 500?
Just not making a big enough impact to make me care about the gold.
Idk.. I know they are just testing it out, but I would like to see the ghost's appearances a little more frequent?

I couldn't agree more.

[Sven Niscadae]

Originally Posted by Pirategirl09

I wish they had more GM's going around, or at least say: "Ok, look for the ghosts on the 'B' servers.."
That way we aren't going from server to server desperately searching.
All I want is to see them once and that'll be good enough for me.

I don't even care about the gold.. it's never significant enough to make a difference anyways. Yipee, 200, 500?
Just not making a big enough impact to make me care about the gold.
Idk.. I know they are just testing it out, but I would like to see the ghost's appearances a little more frequent?

Honestly I do like that they're placing a lot of "role-playing" into their events but I don't really care for the execution of it all, especially when they schedule it. A "random" encounter seems more fitting for role-playing. Like I said when the EITC came around "interrogating" pirates about Marceline, I would have liked it better if they just did impromptu appearances (e.g. cornered in an alley alone type of thing). The mob of off-topic and disrespectful people is annoying and ruins the atmosphere. What's going to happen when someone finds a GM ghost is that they'll post/call their buddies and the GM will be mobbed. It's likely they'll get overwhelmed with "requests for the gold" and fat finger one of them.

The entire mob aspect when someone spots a GM is what mostly keeps me away from these type of events. It's "role-playing" but it could be done and controlled a lot better than what they're doing now. Right now, it's still very scripted and unidirectional. From what's been posted, I don't really see much two-way interaction in regards to the players shaping the story. The GMs know what's going to happen and play it out for everyone, the rest of us can only react.