Current News - Dec 18, '09

[Jack I]

Calling All Testers
December 18, 2009




Attention all Testers! Players in the game have already been enjoying the invasions on Port Royal and Tortuga, now we're bringing invasions to Padres del Fuego! If you have access to the Test Server, log in now to experience this great new addition to Pirates Online.

Jolly Roger is angered by Pirates that repeatedly repel his forces on Port Royal and Tortuga so Jolly turned his attentions to the town of Padres del Fuego!
Protect the town defenses! If the walls fall, Jolly will stand tall!

Testers, thanks for your help in testing this new feature, we plan to make this feature available to everyone soon. Please note, you may experience bugs and other issues while playing on Test, please help us by reporting any bugs or problems you encounter when playing on Test. We will work to fix these issues as soon as possible. Thank you for playing!

Experiencing Game Slowdown? Close ALL programs beside Pirates Online, this includes any IM application or a web browser. Try a 'Quiet' or 'Ideal' server. Try lowering your graphics settings.

Want access to the Test Server? We will be sending out more Test Server Invitations to players in good standing soon, sign up for access here.

[Capt Seafury]

What will we defend on Padres??? Why is Jolly attacking there??? Why did the Tortuga invasions not last very long??? Will there still be Tortuga invasions? These are some of my questions to ask while I'm waiting for it to update.

[MacIronhawk]

Originally Posted by Jack I

Experiencing Game Slowdown? Close ALL programs beside Pirates Online, this includes any IM application or a web browser. Try a 'Quiet' or 'Ideal' server. Try lowering your graphics settings.

How about you guys fix the loading screen lag problems with all us using windows?

And how about that memory leak?

They shouldn't tell us what to do when they're too lazy to work on fixing a major, very old memory leak with Panda3D.

[Sven Osymthe]

Originally Posted by MacIronhawk

They shouldn't tell us what to do when they're too lazy to work on fixing a major, very old memory leak with Panda3D.

I doubt that they'll ever get around to it, so much easier (for them) to just tell us what should "help" their problem.

There solution doesn't even help me. When I first joined, and months after, I was able to play with pretty much no lag, regardless of how many pirates I had open (I managed to get 4 on at a time). But ever since they added the new islands, I am unable to play for a little bit without lag, on one single pirate. Even when its the only program open. Funny thing though, I have a lot of other programs open sometimes, because pirates is acting slow.. and theres no difference with, or without the other programs.

What will we defend on Padres??? Why is Jolly attacking there??? Why did the Tortuga invasions not last very long??? Will there still be Tortuga invasions? These are some of my questions to ask while I'm waiting for it to update.

This should answer questions 1-2..

Jolly Roger is angered by Pirates that repeatedly repel his forces on Port Royal and Tortuga so Jolly turned his attentions to the town of Padres del Fuego!
Protect the town defenses! If the walls fall, Jolly will stand tall!

As for why the Tortuga ones were so short, they're probably in a rush to get new updates out. And if its like the Port Royal ones, they won't happen, or if they do, very rarely.

[djr_8fan]

Originally Posted by Capt Seafury

Why did the Tortuga invasions not last very long??? Will there still be Tortuga invasions? These are some of my questions to ask while I'm waiting for it to update.

If the server loses to Jolly on Tortuga, you hear Jolly exclaim that Jack Sparrow fled. My theory is that Jack may run to padres, but idk.
I doubt that the tortuga invasions will be going on while Jolly invades tortuga. Can he be in two places at once when he is to come to shore?

Have a question though. I logged into test earlier b/c I saw this posted here, but didnt see an update. Asked a friend about it but they hadnt seen any invasions on Padres yet. Has anyone been on test for a Padres invasion yet? Or did pirates announce the Padres invasions on test too soon? After all, no updates, no info on launcher about the PDF invasion.

[mikhailskills]

this "pdf invasion" is NOT on test. Idk why they posted that it was.

[The Commodore]

It sounds promising, but what I wanna know is how they're gonna structure it up.

Port Royal, the governor's mansion. The streets were all leading towards it.

Tortuga, the Faithful Bride. Again, the streets led towards it.

PDF, ?????? The entire town is on the water. Also, the only logical target I can think of besides the taverns would be Fort Dundee, but no self respecting pirate would be there.

Finally, and not to hijack the thread, but we've all heard jack was there, but did anyone see him? Maybe have Jack standing as an npc outside the bride/wherever on pdf, shaking his head or something. When Jolly lands, he goes in the tavern.

[Jamesvsthekraken]

Originally Posted by Capt Seafury

What will we defend on Padres??? Why is Jolly attacking there??? Why did the Tortuga invasions not last very long??? Will there still be Tortuga invasions? These are some of my questions to ask while I'm waiting for it to update.

About less invasions on tortuga i think they ran outta time lol or jolly did yeah its another disney "fail" they announce something too early get our hopes up and then crash them hopefully im wrong about this though.

[JakeTheSnake]

Didn't someone say the PDF invasion sound files were in the phase files and arrived at the same time as the Tortuga ones? If that's true, they probably already put what they need to start the invasions in the update with the Tortuga ones, but haven't started them yet. Who knows.

[ukebec]

LOL - close all other programs and play on low graphics??? I already close all other programs, the load screens are now ridiculously long and why do I want to play on low graphics? Everything looks ugly on low graphics.

This game was beautiful AND playable in high graphics once upon a time. This is not an acceptable response by Disney, IMHO.

[The Commodore]

Originally Posted by ukebec

LOL - close all other programs and play on low graphics??? I already close all other programs, the load screens are now ridiculously long and why do I want to play on low graphics? Everything looks ugly on low graphics.

This game was beautiful AND playable in high graphics once upon a time. This is not an acceptable response by Disney, IMHO.

My guess ukebec, is that they assume people are playing with standard comps. Using this assumption, they form a genreralized comment that fits enough people. I for one can play in high graphics, with chrome, iTunes, and other assorted items running as well. As for the load screens, only when tping are they long for me. If ur game is lagging, instead of closing all programs, try opening ur task manager and seeing what NON NECESSARY programs r using a lot of ram (things like web cam programs or Dell video chat for example)



Btw, I'm half asleep, so if this makes no sense, I apologize

[Jamesvsthekraken]

Ok i heard its on their "test website" so what im wondering is.. Are we being forced into downloading the new feature of the "test website" to play there instead of the program anymore or are they going to add the padres invasions to the test server and the test site so you dont have to download the whole thing and yes i am very confused about this. :/

[Capt Seafury]

The main problem (besides that I was only in a single Tortuga invasion, and now they're ending) is that there is nothing to defend on Padres. The only place there I can think of defendin would be the Ratskellar, but there is no way that can be it.

[The Skirata Clan]

I wonder if they are going to invade Cuba? Or maybe lift The Embargo. Anyways Tortuga was a target for what... 2 weeks? Then what? Are they invading all randomly? Maybe the Padres Invasion will come from within Padres... Meaning that are the invaders going to come from the cave systems of Padres? I thought Jolly had an outpost at Padres. Disney is rushing yet again.

[Midhav]

Theyre rushing because they want to get done with these invasions and start off with the continuation of the story and release all that we want. Padres definitely is the last invasion, and may be after this, invasions will be like the Muertos Moon, only happening very rarely...
On the note of Cuba, I believe it or Kingshead will have to be redesigned for an invasion, and that Cuba will have not the Pantano River but instead a whole new city. Thats how it should be IMHO, but the mentioned river will have to be moved to Isla de Pelegosto as that goes according to story.