New Shrouded Islands have suddenly risen from the seas!

[Jamesvsthekraken]

Nope they said the test server meaning the test game.

[Juliana Maria]

I think it was just one of those responses that they use for everyone. As far as I know these islands are not yet on test. When they will be coming out? Probably not for awhile. Potions just came out. My guess is they let that play its course before rushing even more new content. Gotta stretch the releases out or else they'll run out of new content eventually and we'll end up with another 2 year lull.

[MacIronhawk]

Originally Posted by CarribeanThunder

In fact, if I were a Disney Designer, I would make one of the islands a kind of "parallel universe" island, where you go back in time to the old days of POTCO - kind of like a "Back In Mah Day" mode - and there would be all the gaming mechanics of the old POTCO, such as the sailing timer, no X-Marks-The-Spot, huge Goliath War Frigate, and other things. But keep the lag out...

That'd be... unproductive in my opinion.

If they changed things, they changed them for a reason, and to have an island to go back to before the changes seems... useless.

Also, this whole talk about islands being on the test server, no. Maybe on the developers own server for testing, but not on the regular test server.

(P.S. Member services for asking about new content isn't going to help much. They usually say something that can be interpreted in hundreds of different ways.)

[Midhav]

Exactly. I understand, if 2 years from now the game has extremely RADICALLY changed... maybe then as Edward Edgemenace suggested, they can release the first original BETA version as a stand alone game, without any updates.

[Midhav]

Originally Posted by bartholomew bladeroberts

possible swamps for the new places and the islands are called isl mysterious

Those swamp mini maps Bart, are the ones that have recently been added to all swamps and forests in the game.

[seafox]

anyone else think Kings and Avaricia are really, really close together....they could just let us swim to them...aaarr...

[Jamesvsthekraken]

Aye, I agree.

[2Cool]

What are the Phase Files??

[Jamesvsthekraken]

I just saw this on The Grog Blog:

May 22, 2010 07:46AM
Camption Joe lvl 50 Member of Rouge Seawalkers
Amazing, pure amazing. The game has had many interesting and excellent updates in the last month. I, my self was going to quit but then my friends ( in real life) started telling me about the great updates like the Rifles and potions, so I checked it out and now i play almost every day! Very smart of you Pirate Masters, very clever.

May 22, 2010 07:46AM
ADMIN GM Cayman Trench
ADMIN

Happy to hear it, Camption Joe! My spies tell me that Pirates have been getting word of even more that may be in store from certain characters throughout the Caribbean! How bout you investigate, report back and let us all know if you find these individuals?

Does this mean The New NPC Rumors? xD
Cool huh?

[James Bladefury]

One can think of many responses to what the GM is asking.

[Jamesvsthekraken]

Aye, but you never know mate.

[ex8404]

Originally Posted by Jamesvsthekraken

My spies tell me that Pirates have been getting word of even more that may be in store from certain characters throughout the Caribbean! How bout you investigate, report back and let us all know if you find these individuals?

Not sure what it means. But it is pretty clever. Are the clues out there right now?

I think that we are on the cusp of something huge.

[Jamesvsthekraken]

Aye, a change in the wind says I. I'm just saying I hope new islands come tomorrow or thursday.

[goldenpirates]

Strange, seem NPC is not mention about new islands. I checked few NPC players and not saying about new island.

[Luckie OClover]

Originally Posted by goldenpirates

Strange, seem NPC is not mention about new islands. I checked few NPC players and not saying about new island.

I was at Avaricia, and the NPC's there know about the islands.
So the news is out there, just not everywhere yet.