PotCO is in a bad shape...

[Isaiah Ropeswine]

I agree with lightflame... The point is the game HAS gotten a lot better. Aside from the random chat filters and the many bugs and glitches it has, would you really like to travel 3 years back with the lvl cap 40, you get 6 basic weapons with no special attacks. No amazing clothing such as brights, dark blacks, magentas and lavenders. Ships hold crappy cargo with just gold, no bosses, no fishing or potions, no ravens cove. I mean the list goes on mate... My point is that this is a game and we're here to have fun, I'm paying to have fun, with like thousands of others! That basically proves that if THAT many people are paying to play, I'm leaning towards the fact that their on the same boat as me. But again, it's just my opinion.

[SEAKING23]

I think the game is really good, but it could be WAY better, and its run by a lame company.

[Edward Edgemenace]

Originally Posted by Isaiah Ropeswine

...would you really like to travel 3 years back with the lvl cap 40...no special attacks...no amazing clothing...just gold, no bosses, no fishing or potions, no ravens cove...

HECK YEAH! The damage tables made a lot more sense back then, the quests had a point, the graphics were a thousand times better, the system requirements were nil, the lag was sub-second (as opposed to 30 second freezes now.)

I would LOVE to romp around on the original version, again. No directx overhead, no compass distortion, no weapon intentional misfires, no broadside MIS-aiming, no skating through the boss battle in 3 min, NO MINIGAMES.

Sounds like heaven.

[Angel Daggerfury]

Originally Posted by Isaiah Ropeswine

No amazing clothing such as brights, dark blacks, magentas and lavenders.

omg isaiah, u must've forgotten, unless u lied about being the same isaiah that was ronin vengence with me eons ago... disney is clearly recycling previous ideas.
if u remember a LONG time ago, we could buy bright colored clothes, the old items just don't have the color of the cloths in the title when u hover over the item in the inventory. All I know is that my old brightly colored clothes is like the same exact shade as the new Bright colored looted clothes & so r my lavender clothes that used to be able to be brought in stores that are now only lootable. And blacks, lolol if anyone remembers, back when clothing merchants/tailors were first added to POTCO back in like spring 2008, if anybody brought clothes during that tiny gap window, we could BUY BLACK CLOTHES IN STORES (how is it that only I remember this???), this was around the time they gave out that first free bandanda. black clothes is not a new thing, for some silly reason they removed black clothes from stores & made only black clothes available during CreateAPirate, & then all the sudden our Starting Outfit's inventory choices got majorly decreased & made black items not available now, only lootable, totally lame.
Same thing goes with the Royal Chest Corset, I got that corset in a variety of colors (including black) for my various pirates' starting outfit, the only way you could get that colored was from the CreateAPirate screen which they have now removed, so impossible to get now.
Seems like Disney is secretly encouraging ppl to sell their "abandoned" pirates that own clothes that is unattainable nowadays.

Originally Posted by xdj1nn

The game was awesome, if I am not wrong it had wind influence on the ships at some point, we had pets, we had that awesome Shipwreck Isle

Pets?? i dont remember that, if that did exist already, what is up with Disney recycling their own ideas, geez. & Idk what Shipwreck Isle is lol

Lag problems got worse then they were in beta, with my rig that I can run Age of Conan (the most heavy MMORPG) smoothly on it, I get bizarre lags on PotCO, why? Bad programming with a mediocre engine... Memory leaks are the biggest players on these laggy moments...

Disney is making itself look bad for hiring average game programmers/developers lol. Ya 1 game I play is way more graphically intense than POTCO & the game loads SO much more faster on loading screens than POTCO & not as much lag either.

The game is fun, but the quests are insanely repetitive and they take hours and hours to be finished, some skills like Take Cover from Sail, are really bad positioned, I mean, those are unbalanced and can give you lots of headache until you can get those essential skills for each skill-tree. Why the hell would I need the tacking speed before Take Cover?

lol ok, i think Take Cover is overrated & unless ur under fire of like 20 ships at the same time coz silly people on ur ship don't know when to stop attracting attention from ships, then its not that useful, i mean its useful if u love driving right up next to enemy ships & kiss them hoping u got a good crew to sink the enemy ship before u take too much damage (idk why like 99% of random ppl i encounter sail this way??? makes no sense to me), then u prolly spam Take Cover a lot & think its the bestest thing in the world. i don't think it's used that much (other than previous said ppl) & disney prolly planned it being some sort of an "award" for lvling sailing that high, kinda like how mastered pirates don't get groggy anymore. I looooove tacking, if u knew how to utilize that skill, u could dodge so many cannonballs being fired at ur ship coz u can spin ur ship so much faster, but if u only have like 1 pt on it, its pretty useless.

Ive also noticed many glitches with the fighting system, like the Blade Storm, or whatever it is called, my attacks should give around 700 dmg based on the numbers coming up from the dmg counter, but the health bar on enemies drops the same amount as I had given 400 dmg, I mean, wth?

base damage is just an average number, & that average only works for enemies the same lvl as u, higher lvl enemies have higher amount of hit points. sure 50% of their bar goes down but their total hit points/health points whatever probably were way different. 1 prolly had 1600 total hp, the other prolly only had 1200 hp?

[Isaiah Ropeswine]

omg isaiah, u must've forgotten, unless u lied about being the same isaiah that was ronin vengence with me eons ago

sadly that Isaiah Ropeswine quit and game all his pirates and his guild to his first mate, me. Sorry!

[Angel Daggerfury]

Originally Posted by Isaiah Ropeswine

sadly that Isaiah Ropeswine quit and game all his pirates and his guild to his first mate, me. Sorry!

omg aww, i was wondering how come i hadn't seen him log onto x fire in so long.
I think he was the only person from Ronin Vengence/Pirate that kept actively playing POTCO after all that guild drama happened. I continued playing PotCO but another game got my attention a few months after that, so I wasn't rly actively playing PotCO that often anymore.


[QUOTE=Pirate Guy;287503]

Originally Posted by xdj1nn

I'll admit some quests can get boring but usually I never get bored while working on Black Pearl quest. also you need to calm down Tacking speed, I believe , increases the turning speed while take cover protects your ship. I don't see at all how those two are related but whatever works.

No xdj is referring to how Take Cover unlocks so much later than the lvl that Tacking unlocks.