im wondering if you change servers

[nat sharkskull]

Wait a minute. I like someone to help me draw them in and we both get points. Just getting there first is a bunch of tomatos or tomatoes lol.

I like to play with other pirates, to see who can throw the best.

[Maximvs]

Originally Posted by nat sharkskull

Wait a minute. I like someone to help me draw them in and we both get points. Just getting there first is a bunch of tomatos or tomatoes lol.

Well, its your choice - if you are at a location and others show up and you ask them / want to allow others to help or assist you then that is fine

But - if you arrive where someone / others are there already and you just start taking for yourself or they decline the offer of assistance but you interfere anyway - now thats considered inappropraite (as in frowned upon by most of the community).

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I hope the Kingshead TP will be put into place in the near future - this would at least solve the Server Change issue

OK, so it would be nice if other players always chose to give us the space we desire, but they're getting their time wasted the same way as I am. The real culprit is the game maker, for their CHOICE to not provide adequate resources for the higher level players. Worse yet, it smacks of desperation to retain higher level players, even at the cost of wasting their time on non-compelling, time-wasting gameplay.

Agreed Jim - the big D shoud of planned an entire storyline of the entire pirate character levels - the fact that you finish the main storyline at L26-28 leaving nothing to work on and the hardest levels coming up with just 'repeating' kills in only a few selected places is a huge issue - until the story catches up with an entire pirates level age we will have no choice but to take these 'self-induced-side-quests' to spend days and weeks doing nothing but 'leveling a pirate'... shame shame

[Steely Jim]

I've been pretty fortunate in mostly avoiding the Kingshead parade ground. I never went anywhere special for grenades, as they've been my first choice weapon since I got them. I did get quite a bit of my first 12 Staff levels against the parade group, but I have so little patience for the the Voodoo Staff (I don't like the Doll either) that it has mostly taken the form of just taking them out once or twice as I run by them (it goes back to me being a grenadier who is used to a highly mobile "run and turn" combat style--I dislike having to stand still while the Staff charges and the blasts just aren't strong enough to use on the run).

[Dr. Zeppers]

Originally Posted by Maxximvs

But - if you arrive where someone / others are there already and you just start taking for yourself or they decline the offer of assistance but you interfere anyway - now thats considered inappropraite (as in frowned upon by most of the community).

I wish more of the "community" would take this into consideration.

Some people don't believe in being polite and asking.
Meanwhile, im alot more receptive to those that ask versus those that just jump in and take over.

I've been told by numerous pirates when I mentioned it, that "asking" was just stupid, and that I should get over it.


Zeppers lvl40
http://pirates.teamofx.us

[Steely Jim]

I suppose my reaction to Tormenta and Kingshead relates to my own idiosyncratic style of play.

I admit it's me that refuses to do rotational sharing. Whether I was in the area first, or arrive to find someone else there, it is going to be me that leaves without a word. If I'm standing around in the game, then I should be standing in the backyard working on grooving my golf swing. To me, Kingshead is a wonderland of groupings of 3 officers; sometimes I forget that way down below there might be people fighting over 6 Veterans.

Help is a tricky business for me too. On one hand, especially since I seldom encounter that many people in the places end up, I'm usually happy to stop whatever I was doing to help someone out (these are always people that talk, but not necessarily that use some form of "help me" exactly). However, I also understand the flip side, as I prefer not to be helped myself. In fact, one of the reasons I pursue MMOGs instead of offline games is that persistent online worlds are generally more apathetic toward my character; I prefer that my character not be the focal point of all the game's content.

[Lucy]

I get similar responses 9 times out of 10 SamuelMcMalley

[Steely Jim]

That's always a contentious issue anywhere there is multi-way combat/resource extraction. As a social network, it seems like normal etiquette should apply; however, the programmers really can't assume that everyone will share a common definition of "normal etiquette," so they try to balance the game as though people will just walk up and join in at any time (this game is also particularly keen creating the perception that it's always the more is the merrier).