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

[The Skirata Clan]

maybe.... it was to test the lag levels in the game.... you know?

to see how much lag there was with a lot of pirates in a single server?

[Commodore Larence]

I was in the Barano server for the 1:00 pm (pst) race. I think all but 2 showed up for the race I was in. I finished third, but I seen a lot of people cheating. Some didnt make 3 laps... some didnt swim around the shipwright and the dock... Some just ran over to the G.M. infront of the jail and said tag after about a minute or so lol. This thing as I thought was a total joke. It would have taken them maybe a days work to actually create a boss arena to take each group of pirates to, and run a fair type of race. The GM person over the line ups for the race I was in was named Rose some thing. She began the race by asking if any one had any question, and I replied that I did. As we all know the final leg of the race in the online instructions said to kill a crocodile. I being worried if this was some new creature within the swamp, wanted to know if it really just meant a regular gator. So I said I had a question and proceeded to ask after being recognized that I had a question, and told to pose it. As I was typing... "Get Ready ... Set... Go..." pops up on the chat. Being befuddled I hit "R" and went for it. I managed to pick up some ground and get in the 1st place spot as I was heading to the shipwright. After that I seen no one else till I got to the jail... There was some one behind me in the water, but that was it. I got to the jail and seen 2 others say tag... so i fired a shot at a gator, and put up tag. This could have been so much more organized... with so much better prizes than just gold. After talking to the GM after the race, I recieved rude comments, and threats of being booted by her if I didnt act properly. She then eventually answered me and said that a crocodile and gator are in the same family, its not that big of a difference... then she instructed me I should become a biologist if I knew so much. I couldnt believe how rude she was. I do not think any of these GM's really play the game... They may just be interns at Disney more than likely. I am going to wait one more month on substantial upgrades... Then I will be joining the continually growing sect of Basic Level 40's.

Larence Tuppington
Lvl-40
GM: Skallywag Alliance

[The Skirata Clan]

Go Disney?

way to treat a paying costumer... you should have reported her... she should abide the rules just like anyone else...

[Sarah]

Commodore,

I feel your pain.

I hopped on this afternoon to watch a guildie race. What a lag fest. I was on Barano, for the noon PST race, but they were running WAY behind, so we were probably there at the same time.

I saw the start of two races...no one "competing" did the whole thing. It was one lap around Tortuga, and check back in with Rose.

Then, the prize...gold. I know that at least two in dueces tried to enter the code to get their gold, and did not. When asked about the invalid codes, Rose said, "Oh, we will see if we can get that fixed for you", then she started gabbing away about how she liked some pirates tats....HUH??

Personally, I think POTCO is testing the new code system implemented in test for clothing shops. (just my opinion...) Not enough testers. "let's make up some game to see how our enter a code thingy works on open". And so they did. And It Failed.

I sent a long email today to Disney. May not do any good, but it made me feel better.

For those signed up for the rest of the weekends races...have some fun, don't take it all to seriously.

[Edward Edgemenace]

I can't believe they left the GMs out there with no method of immediately booting people. If Rose hadn't been hung out to dry there, she probably would have had a lot more patience for your question, Lawrence. (I was standing by the seamstress' shop and saw your race. Oh my.) I can't imagine how many aspirin tablets she must have inhaled, as the voodoo-staffs kept blasting. From my vantage, I just kept PvP challenging everyone that I saw with a weapon out, but nothing seemed to help.

Barano server, Tortuga.

[Commodore Larence]

I sent a complaint to Disney about the incident. Im sure this was just some sort of test like mentioned. There was no reason though for her rude behavior towards me. Prior to the race I was trying to help others out by answering some of the vast amount of random questions popping up about what the race was, and where to find the information pertaining to it.

Side Note: I really think that some of these G-M's are just interns at Disney. I watched Rose attempt to jump on that box infront of the Shipwright about 20 times while watching the last 3 races after mine. She never made it on the box, I was so amused at it. I wish they would offer some real players an opportunity to give ideas for the game, and try to help.... but alas I guess that would be to much for them....

Im just very disgusted with the game right now lol... (off the soap box)

Larence Tuppington
Lvl-40
GM: Skallywag Alliance

[CaptainGreenGene]

Ed I'm right smack in the middle of that picture and I can tell you
the crowd was mean and there was no way to communicate.
Players were threatening Rose the GM and when she threatened to
send them to "jail" they chased her and demanded that she do
it if she could or shut up! Of course she can't because Disney left her
hanging out there with no way to control the crowd. I was on that
server from start of day practicing with a guildmate until well after
the time you took that picture at around 4pm est. The GM's had no
way of verifying who did what and where. They were communicating
with each other but my guess was in guild chat because it was slow
and on occasion Xavier typed in the wrong chat box as we all do on
occasion. What a mess it all was. My advice to anyone signed up for
tomorrows events, if you don't need the little bit of gold you might win
stay away. You can earn more gold in one hand of BJ in 30 second
then you will make after all the aggravation running this race.

[Edward Edgemenace]

Originally Posted by Commodore Larence

...attempt to jump on that box in front of the Shipwright about 20 times...

I dunno. I normally have no trouble getting up there, but I couldn't (during the start of the event) either. When I tried to do a practice lap (between races) it took me about 20 seconds to make it to the archway, 15 seconds to make it all the way around back to the dock, then 45 seconds to make it to the side of the shipwright.

As far as theories about why they chose this particular event: my theory is that someone on the Disney staff, lost a bet. :-) But really, who knows? Hopefully they collected good data about lag induced, with different pirate densities.

[ukebec]

My guess is that this event spawned from the Founder's Feast. Walter held impromptu races through Tortuga then and a lot of people joined in. Of course, that was a lagfest too, and there was no prize at stake, so it was all in the spirit of fun.

This is a different animal and I think the Disney folks didn't take that into account.

And the GM's HAVE to have some way of controlling people. I was there too, at the same time as Edward and Lawrence and it was a nightmare. There were players there who were BEGGING to be booted. I was hitting report like crazy.

[Rackat]

I was totally dissappointed by the entire fiasco.

1) Lag, lag, lag, lag
2) Griefers staffing the entire area prior to the race
3) Having one of the guildmembers of the race throw grenades at their guildmember's opponents to lag them and slow them down....it worked.
4) The guild that was supposedly there to 'help' the GM's, even though nothing is mentioned about a "help" guild in the grog blog. One of my friends actually had the leader of that guild kill the alligator as she approached. Thankfully, the GM that was there noted it, said to stop it, and my friend still got second place.

I am growing more and more disappointed with POTCO. As you said Commodore, I may become a basic lv40 as well.

[Sarah]

Side Note: I really think that some of these G-M's are just interns at Disney. I watched Rose attempt to jump on that box infront of the Shipwright about 20 times while watching the last 3 races after mine. She never made it on the box, I was so amused at it.

I don't care if she is a GM, Rose was not gettin on that box Mine!




but sven managed to knock me off...




It was a total lag fest, and poor Rose seemed greatly ill prepared to deal with the crowd. And again with the "like your tat comment"...pfft

Nice to see a lot of POF'ers there though

[Achilles]

Well,.. I agree that the Lag was just off the hook crazy.
Really, there is no way to have this type of event and not have the lag, unless, as it was mentioned, contestants whisked off to a private server or, perhaps added for the moment of the event in a special Crew and then have access to a special server location?

There are many other type of contests that would work, but in truth, a MMO will not work with this type of event with all congregated in one location.

And last,.. for the record,…
Rackat, I do apologize to your friend, whoever that is, who participated at the time I "shoe in" participated as well. Your description clearly points to me with the exception that “Achilles” is not the guild master, John is,.. But,.. nonetheless, that was the last race and contestants were lacking and Captain Walter declared a “all can race” moment and so I took off with the group and ran the whole course, and at the last, killed a gator, perhaps since I was a shoe in I shouldn’t have shot the gator, GM Xavier was a little surprised as well as you noted and I had some explaining to do at that moment.
So, please tell your friend I am truly sorry to add to a frustrating moment if that was her perspective, and I would gladly give her a gold code if she did not receive one or was unfairly deprived of such.
Most sincerely,….

-Achilles


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[Rackat]

If you are feeling uneasy about your actions during the contest and feel you need to discuss it, please PM me so that the thread can continue unedited. There is a rule on this forum regarding "Naming Names". Please note that I did not name any names. I did not name the name of the guild that had their members throwing grenades at their guildmember's opponents, nor did I name any other guild.

[Bill Sunbowers]

Hey, did anyone get the standing of winners circle?

Chris always seems to make a post of results...? anything Chris?

Many Pirates were unruly and discourteous to the GM's.

[ninety3rd]

I took part in the Feats race (I must be masochistic) on Sunday. Barano server, 1:45 race time.
Dutifully following the guidelines on Grog Blog I arrived early, and proceeded to crash 8 times because of the lag.
I finally got up on the seamstress' porch and that seemed to help, just being away from all the gibbering monkeys in the crowd. Most of these were endlessy repeating "Can I change my race time?" "Can I be in this race?" Geez.
Did I say 1:45 race time? HA! Late, of course. My race started at 2:15.
Bozos standing right in front of us racers as we waited at the line up, most moved after first being asked, then told to move.
I did not experience any lag during my race, oddly enough. As it was the last one on Barano for that time, perhaps a lot of people had left by then.
The race GMs were Ruby and Rose. Neither of whom would answer anything I tried to ask. Not even, "Which race is this"? when I merely wanted to know if my time had come up yet.
So, the race starts and I go out in the lead right off, and stay there. WAY out front. No one near me. (One non-racer doofus tried to run with (or into?) me, but I left him behind as well. I do all 3 laps, swim the correct water lap, get to the jail and run over to the swamp with pistol ready (no one else in the race has yet to catch up with me) and ....... NO GATORS. I am counting the seconds. No gators. The other racers all arrive, all looking for gators. None. Zip. Nada. We are all shouting, "WHERE R THE GATORS?" Still no gators. Racers are running all over the swamp area. No gators. Then the GM announces some guy as the "winner". What? He claims he went into Misty Mire to shoot a gator. Uh uh -- the gators are supposed to be by the jail area. I tell the GM so, and changing the rules in the middle of the race is wrong.
I get announced as "second place".
OK -- I did this whole thing KNOWING it was going to be yet another farce and FUBARfest, but by googly moogly, I had won the blamed thing by the proverbial mile and this was utter fecal matter.
And guess what, all the time she's announcing the winners, and giving us the codes.....still NO GATORS.
Then without a word of farewell both GMs disappear.
Know what happened immediately after the 2 GMs left?
Yep...the gators appeared.
Way to go, POTCO.
Just another badly planned, poorly executed, over hyped dog and pony show.