Current News: January 16th 2009 - Flex Your Pirate Muscles

[Chris]

January 15 2009



Feats of Strength Contest Details

Have you signed up for the Feats of Strength Contest taking place this weekend (January 17, 18, and 19 from 11 AM - 2 PM Pacific Time) on Tortuga? You could win recognition and other great loot! Hurry, your chance to sign-up is ending soon!

We'll post a full event schedule Friday afternoon, January 16 on the Grog Blog -- if you're signed up, be sure to review the details for the contest challenges, your competition time and server location.

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[Chris]

Feats of Strength Event Overview
January 15, 2009


All contestants should read these rules and familiarize yourself with the event challenges before the event.
The Feats of Strength Contest consists of three separate challenges. Pirates must complete all three challenges as fast as they can, in order, following the course routes. Pirates that finish the race without completing all task are disqualified.
Refer to the schedule posted here for your competition time. Please arrive at your designated ocean (server) early! Late contestants or no-shows will not be able to participate.
Please Note: All Pirates are welcome to watch the event from the beach or docks of Tortuga, but be respectful of your fellow Pirates competing in the Feats of Strength Contest. Please don't block the course route, use weapons during the contests or interfere with the contestants.
Challenge 1: 3 Laps around Town

The race begins with 3 laps, as Pirates run counter-clockwise around the town of Tortuga.

Challenge 2: Swim the Beach

After the footrace, Pirates swim the length of the beach. Pirates will go straight from the footrace to the swimming challenge without stopping. Please note the start of the swimming challenge - Pirates must swim around the Shipwright.
Challenge 3: Defeat 1 Crocodile

Pirates will swim to the Jail, then defeat 1 crocodile. After defeating the crocodile, the first player to race back to the GM in front of the Jail wins. There are prizes for first, second and third, so don't stop until you finish the race!

Event schedule will be posted with participants names Friday afternoon.

[Sarah]

Please Note: All Pirates are welcome to watch the event from the beach or docks of Tortuga, but be respectful of your fellow Pirates competing in the Feats of Strength Contest. Please don't block the course route, use weapons during the contests or interfere with the contestants.

Hmm, hate be all "glass half full" here, but how many hoards of pirates ya think will be blocking the GM chatting away?

[Chris]

Forget the dumb lifeless people blocking the path im worried about the lag! Ive been to those GM events and have seen the amount of people talking to them and even me with a very strong computer gets lagged by up to 2 minutes!

[Dr. Zeppers]

Originally Posted by Chris

Please don't block the course route, use weapons during the contests or interfere with the contestants.

Ok, im with Sarah on this one, sounds neat hope it all works out, but there are going to be people all around the GM (blocking that 'jail'). There are going to be staffers out there blasting... couldnt seem to avoid them on previous GM appearances. Lag likely to be an issue here.

Does sound like fun though, best of luck to all the participants!

[Maximvs]

Gotta agree with ya on that Chris - Lag is going to be a hefty issue... I rarely lag - but anytime I've been an area of more than 30-40 pirates its choppy...

Guess we'll have to see how they divi-up the servers / contestants to see how this goes...

[Chris]

Agreed max i hope they put some sort of barrier between us and the crowd and combine servers for more strength less lag hopefully or else before someone sees the word start its already over.

[Commodore Larence]

Do any of the rest of you think this will be a total farse? There is still nothing posted reguarding a schedule of times and servers that I can find. Nothing is taking place on the servers.... I got a feeling this was some thing cooked up in about a 10 minute confrence due to all the emails Disney is getting complaining about the lack of new things. I may be wrong, but I am very skeptical at this point as to what is going to actually happen this weekend. I know nothing I have ever posted in the Grog Blog ever makes it on the site... the same went with my registration for the Feats of Strength event. Has any one else heard any information I am missing?

Larence Tuppington
Level 40
GM: Skallywag Alliance

[Chris]

Another thing i just thought of they said there will be prizes im wondering how they will get us those prizes could they be testing a new way of putting items in our inventory manually or possibly trading also what kinds of things i mean only thing would be special clothes i doubt they would give the winners special weapons and most 40's have maxed gold so that would be pointless.

[akamystic]

I haven't even seen the list of those chosen posted as of yet. I am concerned about the lag as well. We shall see.



Robert Darkskull
Pistols N Blades

[Edward Edgemenace]

Events like this are very difficult to arrange. I can't see how they will monitor the lap checkpoints (no checkpoints even indicated) so I hope they have a few tricks up their sleeves (session recording, etc.) to make this run smoothly. I hope they have a mechanism for ejecting spectators that lag-bomb with flaming skull/grenades/etc.

Be interesting to see a motion-video capture of this event...Max, any possibility you could do your thing?

I wonder if contestants will be able to enter, while in the skelly glitch. Doing a quick grave shackles might slow some opponents down.

Hmmm. If an entire guild lines up and just clicks on people as they pass by, the clickees will incur extra lag, with no visible cause. Whispers could be more than annoying, too. Likewise friend requests, crew invitations, team battle challenges...

[Deadpool]

That last part sounds interesting. Defeat a Crocadile (alligators and crocadiles are two different animals) . I mean the only thing a higher level player can do is fire one shot from their pistol and hold that arrow button lol. Unless there is some kind of set up, a player could shoot both just for the fun of it.

[Maximvs]

Originally Posted by Edward

Max, any possibility you could do your thing?

Hard to say - between timing and locations... it would be all hit or miss...

[Sarah]

Originally Posted by Chris

Another thing i just thought of they said there will be prizes im wondering how they will get us those prizes could they be testing a new way of putting items in our inventory manually or possibly trading also what kinds of things i mean only thing would be special clothes i doubt they would give the winners special weapons and most 40's have maxed gold so that would be pointless.

Interesting Chris...right now on test there is a new feature in the clothing shop "enter code". Clicking on it opens a box to type in a "special code to claim your item {something like that}" (kind of like typing in a guild invite code).....could be.

[Chris]

Originally Posted by Sarah

Interesting Chris...right now on test there is a new feature in the clothing shop "enter code". Clicking on it opens a box to type in a "special code to claim your item {something like that}" (kind of like typing in a guild invite code).....could be.

Hmm im wondering if maybe thats what they will do...

TIMES ARE POSTED!

PIRATES A-D

PIRATES E-J

PIRATES K-Q

PIRATES R-Z