Improvements to the game!

[Captain Jessie Hawk]

I had recently lost five of my friends from the game due to what they called "A not so good game."

I asked them what was wrong with the game. This being my first MMO that I have played I wasn't sure what the problems were. My friends showed me things they can do in games such as World of War Craft and City of Heros. I have also played a bit of Pirates of the Burning Seas and I have realized what they mean by this being a "not so good game."

They complain a lot about the graphics I personally do not care that much about making things look great. However after speaking with them I realize where they come from, Characters like Jolly Roger and Jack Sparrow look awesome but my character looks eh comparatively. I do not think this means the Graphics need to be changed but more of a unique feel to each pirate making them more rugged I guess less cartoony? That's just my opinion on the matter of what they think on that. They also do not understand how this game requires so much more to play it and a game such as World of War Craft that has more detailing better graphics can require so much less. That being said this might help the team figure out a better way to make the game not so huge and require less I know it would be much better to let's say allow a video card play the game over a graphics card. For example most college students have laptops that can not play games due to graphics cards lap tops don't come with. However most MMO's use video cards so they can bypass that. Such as Pirates of the Burning Seas.

Now that is my suggestion for my friends the other things that bothered them somewhat bother me but I live with it because I like the game. However I came up with an idea to make the game much more enjoyable while questing. I get tired of doing the same thing over and over, by that I mean.

"Go get crab legs"
"Go get crab claws."
"Sink a ship or two."
"Kill a wasp"

When you look at the big picture it is always the same, so how does one go about fixing such a thing such as this? I was thinking instead of having to go get crab legs why not get the legs of a "Killer Crab" or a named crab for the sense of my idea we give it the name "Godzilla!" The idea is this type of crab is a boss, only found during that quest. Essentially putting in boss battles more often. It would also make it easier for people to crew each other. Having to kill bosses is never an easy thing and normally takes a few people to help. This would somewhat "force" the friendly come help me have fun. When you have to capture a Captain how bout boarding the ship and having to fight him. His life bar goes down and when it does he falls to his knees and you then you can get the information from him then maroon him. Something like that. Its knew it keeps the questing fresh and more fun. Because killing crabs and other enemies like that for each quest for forty levels gets boring. It's the same thing there's no reason to keep playing other then I want to see the end. (For most people that is not enough)

The last thing is the lag. Now for me it doesn't lag unless I am in an area where there are way to many people or I've been playing for three hours straight and the game is starting to lag up. Now one of my friend suggests fixing the servers up which will help but also I would love to see more area's. I do not mean more islands. Like for instance Cuba, there is a port then Tia Dalma's swap and we are all set. Well why can't we go to other parts of a much larger island? Why can't I walk along the whole shore around the whole island? Pirates explored around looking for valuable things. There isn't enough in the Caribbean to explore. I feel very lonely in this Caribbean. There are so many islands and I feel like I have just found a nice little area that happens to be active with ships and that's about it. Granted I believe it'd be nice to see Isle Crueses, Isle De Muerta, Isle Pentogostas, Turkish Prison, Shipwreck Cove and Singapore. Sure more islands would be awesome as well however I think each island should be more then several area's you can walk around. Port Royal is huge Tortuga is Huge why do we explore 10% of the jungle and then a cave. This also goes into hand with my questing. The layout of how the jungle and caves end up are similar on each island. One area may not have a cave they may have a swamp area lead into a jungle and the other island with the same lay out might go jungle then cave yet it's all the same. You find the same enemies that don't give much experience when you reach my level which I am at lvl 28. As long as there is more to look around and explore something to explore not such set paths it would make the game more worth playing when your board explore there is so much on each island. That sort of an idea works in every game not just MMO's games like Morrowind and Oblivion. With those two games you fight a lot of the same thing but there is always something new to look for and explore on each land mass that it makes it takes away the repetitiveness of the games.

I have one thing to say to back me up on all of this aside from five people dropping the game because of this. I have been a member since November if not October when the Beta fully started. I have been a member before live. I am one to have a founders title. I love the game it's so much fun but other MMO's when I look at it they give the players so much more to do. If this game did the same thing it would bring in more of a crowed to play also. I think a bigger crowed would help out with the game and the money it makes for fixing problems as well. I just wanted to let everyone know where I come from so they know I'm not some new kid coming in from out of nowhere saying this is what should be done.

I guess overall the idea I am trying to get a cross is the game is repetitive with everything. With the look of characters that are not major characters from the movies, with the look of towns and the lay out of the islands and last but not least and the major one the quests. For example I don't use my credit card to play because of those things so I buy a game card ever so often to finish up the game. I guess the only other suggestion I would say is put in new story archs to expand the game more at a later date with new levels weapons and other such things.

I hope this gets read and looked at with the knowledge that I seriously want to help this game become so much more awesome then it already is.

P.S. I think I forgot to mention that the getting crab claws is fine for like the first ten levels or so while you are learning the basics of the game but after that it should advance to harder quests and that's where you'd involve the Bosses.

Fairwinds to ye!
Captain Jessie Hawk aka Wildhawk lvl 28 Guild Master of Pirates of Drk Wtr