WARNING!!! 60k gold bug

[Thalore]

I don't think we tested sailing and cannon skill. But we tested the other weapons.

Then we tried losing some money at gambling, and went back against the same guys, and got rep until the gold capped at 60k again. And you guessed it, you can't gain rep anymore.


So if this isn't a bug, this is how the game is going to work? once you have 60k gold you can no longer gain rep in weapons/notoriety? Wow that would be pretty lame if they don't fix that.

[Captain Grizzly]

Totally in agreement there. The caps dont make much sense to begin with. You max at 60K, you buy a war frigate that costs 60K and if you did like most ppl do, you sell your regular frigate at 56K to reach the gold you need, once you buy your new war frigate you got nothing left to make repairs if you happen to get sunk. Go figure!

[koalita]

I did try sailing (I'm Thalore's wife btw) and you can get rep from that because you wouldn't get the plunder until you dock. It has to be a bug. Why would maxing your gold mean you can't level up your weapons anymore? Just because it was like that on beta doesn't mean that's how it's supposed to work. Otherwise we'd be sailing through islands and crashing every five seconds.

[ScurvyCory]

Yea, I just discovered that when I was buying my War Frigate. It took forever to get the last 500 in gold because it had to be exact. I tried playing poker, won a 1,000 gold pot, but it didn't add anything. After a while of playing and not getting any gold, I went sailing and finally got the right ammount.

I really hope they fix this problem...

[Pirate Rose]

What also a little confusing is, after you buy your war frig, and upgrade all your weapons, what happens when you reach 60k again? There's really nothing else to spend your money on.

You're kinda stuck since you can't level weapons, and have nothing to spend your money on.

[koalita]

The way I've been getting rid of gold is to go play poker with a friend and let them win my money.

[Vangelis]

Best way to lose lots of gold is

1. Play Poker
2. Buy Health Tonics

[NannerFL]

Originally Posted by koalita

The way I've been getting rid of gold is to go play poker with a friend and let them win my money.

Except you keep winning

....or was it I kept losing?

[koalita]

Originally Posted by NannerFL

Except you keep winning

....or was it I kept losing?

Well if you wouldn't fold when I was about to let you win...

[NannerFL]

Hey not my fault the other pirates wouldn't fold! Bluffers the lot of them! Steal my plunder they did!

[Captain Grizzly]

Originally Posted by koalita

Just because it was like that on beta doesn't mean that's how it's supposed to work. Otherwise we'd be sailing through islands and crashing every five seconds.

All I know is that it has been that way since the first beta. The devs have had reports about it going back to then. So either thats the way it's supposed to be or it's not an urgent issue for the devs. Either way, now that you know you have to stay below the max to keep getting rep, you can control the amount of your gold. Lose it at poker or do what we did in beta 1. Buy the most espensive ship and sell it back, cuts your gold in half just like that.

And I still sail through islands on occassion and crash Of course that could just be the rum

[DrStinglock]

If any of you people need help unloading this money at a gambling table to anyone, feel free to send me a PM and ill make sure im at the table

[WizardHawk]

This would have been handy info a few days back when we tried to push a guild mate to 60k to get their war frigate only to find the 13k+ pot won went nowhere and had to start over again.

There are so many examples in the game where it feels much more like advanced beta than a full priced gold version. Between the cap issues, the lack of higher level content, the serious lag and memory leak issues, and the very real problems with the grenades (just to name a few) it is becoming harder to understand why we should be paying full price for this game at this time.

[Scarlet Hunter]

OK, this 60K bug sort of explains what I'm seeing, but I want to be sure.

I'm one of the folks whose been "lost at sea" for a few days (another bug - ship permanently sailing ... can't board/launch). This morning, I got my boat back (frigate). In the time period where I couldn't sail, I've been playing poker to get to 60K to get my War Frigate.

Well, I'm at 59998. I won a 1K pot in poker, nothing. I went to fight some Veterans, nothing. No exp, no rep, no gold. I went to sell my frigate to buy the War Frigate, and it said my gold was maxed out.

So, in order for me to purchase the War Frigate, as well as resume getting notoriety, weapon exp and gold, I have to get *exactly* 2 gold to drop. If I kill lvl 1 skele's in Port Royal I think I get 1 gold each.

I can't try this out until tonight, but I hope this is my problem because at least it has a workaround, whereas my lost boat was a show-stopper.

[koalita]

Just so you know, if you complete a quest for gold, it will give you the remainder of what you need to reach 60k. Everything else has to be exact, but when I turned in a quest for 35 gold when I was at 59976, it gave me the 24 I needed to max out.