What do you think will happen with the Kraken?

[Juliana Maria]

I personally am hoping the Kraken IS a new story quest. Here is what I think about all the recent updates in relation to the Kraken. I am hoping that all of these mini events and minor updates are just little temporary distractions. I be hoping that they are really working on a massive update and have put all of these little events in to keep us occupied for the time being.

You can look at it one of two ways. One, if they updated consistently that would make regular players happy yes, but If they added one big major update every year they could advertise for a whole new wave of pirates, bring back the one's that were impatient, and Make many loyal players happy with a huge update. It's like do you eat small little portions throughout the day or eat one big meal to last you.. (sorry lol.. poor comparison but you get the idea)

So back to what I was saying, my hope is that they are planning a MASSIVE update hopefully including: (KRAKEN) New Chapter, Cap raises, New weapons, Ship Customization, New Enemies, Maybe even a new island; all within a close time span. This massive update would give them the chance to once again, advertise the game like crazy once again. Get in a whole group of pirates and set up the regular with content to last them over for awhile.

Whether this be true or not one can only dream. As for the Kraken, whichever way they put it in the game is fine with me... as long as they put it in. Yes I would prefer it as a Story Chapter... but either way it would be new content. POTCO has definitely been going through it's ups and downs but I guess we will just have to ride it out and see where it takes us. This be for sure though.. I'm not going anywhere anytime soon. I've got faith in good ol' POTCO... I just hope my faith makes em' hurry up LOL

[Commodore Larence]

I want to make sure people dont think the above is what I want to see happen.... just my personal prediction of what will.

What I want to see:

I want to see the Kraken be a Boss Battle just like with the Black Pearl in chapter one. Having to excel in quests, to a final point of a crew battle against the Kraken. The battle would be much more crew important this time. You would need people with dolls especially trained to use the chains to hold the Kraken's individual tentacles statoinary while others attack it. Each tentacle would be like an enemy, and they must be defeated one at a time, and have their own health bar...Then coordinate with a health bar for the total life bar of the Kraken. Like each tentacle could be a level 30-40 enemy boss.... But the story quest would include some thing to do with Jack Sparrow again... Like you have set sail with Jack to do some thing on the Pearl, while completing that part of the Boss Battle, the Kraken attacks you and must be defeated...( defeating the Kraken in your journal would also result in a special prize, a leadership skill for some weapon, or a special very unique clothing item). Then that segways some how into a Chapter 3 story quest that relates to repairing the Pearl, giving the developers time to come up with another substantial story quest for Chapter 4, with Davey Jones, and maybe the Locker.

With the coming of this new Chapter 2 story quest I would like to see included a new island, with higher level enemies on it that take a new style of fighting to defeat. Possibly the Orient some how like in the movies. This would result in higher level caps, and the ability to reach higher levels by defeating much harder enemies. The new island could include new side quests for clothing, tats, and jewelry...

As of now, the new updates to me really are not that big of a deal. The new islands are just new eye candy. It is not that big of a deal to create new buildings, and landscapes. They are just dressing up things, then placing the same stuff we had before into the islands, same shops, bars, etc... It is not that hard to do what they are doing. I am a drafter-designer, and have messed with alot of 3-d modeling, all they are doing is making new models... It really isn't much different to things I do. The hard part comes with designing the new thing, PLUS adding the code to make players interact with them (fight, control the ships, splash water etc...). It probably takes them a week or 2 to come up with a new islands layout, then they just copy the old islands door openings (various interactions), and shops from the old one into the new one. You can see on many of the islands jails they forgot to do that this last time by all the "statue like" guards who dont move or breath while sleeping. I will admit though, all is not bad, I like the new set up for crewing, and friends. I like the added map sections in the compass, and the map that you can make appear on your screen.

Larence Tuppington

[skullduggery bones]

If you went to the celebrations at the Rowdy Rooster last weekend you would have caught Captain Walter talking about the Kraken coming, being a 'fierce and terrible' sea creature and needing much STRONGER ships, STRONGER weapons (he spoke of a new flaming sword??) and a LARGE crew. So personally I think this won't be a small event but something more along the lines of a Boss Battle. And it's coming soon.
As for stopping paying until then, I don't think I could ever stop. I have 2 unlinited accounts (one founder status) and a test account so I always have plenty to do. And to be honest I dont think a pound (UK) a week is much to pay for a game you can play 24 hours a day.

[Bonnylass64]

I hope the Kraken is something that anyone can experience not just large crews. I can fight with other players at my side, I just for the most part go my own way. But I would still like to see the Kraken now and again