Suggestions for Potco?

[Edward Edgemenace]

Suggestion: Fix this glitch. Send pirates to jail if they don't board.

Disney, please fix the "sailing glitch" - it has gotten entirely too popular. Why? Several reasons:

A) It destroys the game for people who want to practice cannons or sailing. ("Why are they running away? I know I just hit it...")
B) It teaches people learning to "sail" very bad sailing habits - habits that kill pirates in Ship vs. Ship (SvS) - again, making that more miserable than it is on its own.
C) It prevent "captains" from learning the radial movement limitations of all the different cannons on all the different ships. By the time someone has "mastered" sailing, they really should know these, inside and out.
D) It teaches "captains" to incorrectly ignore the penalties of making cannoneers switch cannons. These penalties have steadily increased recently.
E) It prevents "captains" from learning how to navigate through tricky patches of traffic. Since they don't avoid collisions of any sort (friend or foe) they often interfere with other players (sailing and SvS.)
F) Reduces the pool of ships available for people doing real quests (corvette flagship, anyone? Oh, sorry, someone used it to glitch off, again. Spanish Cerberus? Sorry...sail out on a different server, bud.)
G) Reduces the opportunity for new players to experience one of the best sequences in the whole POTCO - boarding and defeating an enemy ship! (OK, outright ELIMINATES the possibility for new players to see it, until they get to level 10 or so.) (Hey! Bring back the super-easy bulwark flagship!)

Now, the ignorant people that leveled up sailing and cannons using this "glitch" don't even know what they are doing wrong, much of the time. It is hard to say they are guilty of criminal stupidity, when they never had the opportunity to learn, in the first place. The steady increase in popularity of this glitch, ensures lots of misery for lots of people, for lots of other secondary reasons as well.

How can it be fixed? Simple. If someone doesn't board a flagship before the timer runs out (or doesn't even grapple in that same amount of time) they go to jail. Reducing that timeout should help prevent people from doing the glitch for three minutes then boarding.

[sharpy]

I think it would be cool to be able to change your name. Like in a quest. That would be fun, especially because I want to choose my name instead of choosing from a list of names. I didn't see that when I first got on so... I know I can make a new pirate, but I've gotten super far (IMO) and that would be bad to have to start over just because of a name change so I think they should add a name changing quest. And I think Basic members should be able to buy the rest of the "light" class of ships. Like the light frigate. Maybe.

[BlackEnsign]

I am sure this has been suggested before but:

Allow the ships to be able to be customized. I.e Custom Flags & Sails

I would also like to be able to go inside and explore ships. It would be cool if you could go on and explore ships like davy jones ship and be able to go below deck.

[akamystic]

How about adding whirlpools to the Caribbean? I think this would undoubtedly add some excitement to the sailing experience. Imagine being in a heated battle while your ship is getting sucked in. They should allow you to escape it and I'd imagine you lose everything if you are completely sucked under. Or perhaps make it a portal to another area of the map? Perhaps it sends you to Davy Jones Locker? Just a thought.....as I'm sure we all want sea creatures this idea was something different.

Robert Darkskull
Pistols N Bladez

[Andrew]

Make the rank co-Gm for guilds. And allow the gm and co-GMs to view the levels of the other members and officers. Well Technically, a GM can view everything

[BlackEnsign]

Originally Posted by akamystic

How about adding whirlpools to the Caribbean? I think this would undoubtedly add some excitement to the sailing experience. Imagine being in a heated battle while your ship is getting sucked in. They should allow you to escape it and I'd imagine you lose everything if you are completely sucked under. Or perhaps make it a portal to another area of the map? Perhaps it sends you to Davy Jones Locker? Just a thought.....as I'm sure we all want sea creatures this idea was something different.

Robert Darkskull
Pistols N Bladez

Yeah, that would be great. I would love if there would be just more actual weather in the game. Huricanes and such.

[Richard SharkBones]

Originally Posted by BlackEnsign

Yeah, that would be great. I would love if there would be just more actual weather in the game. Huricanes and such.

Man Weather would be a perfect condition for Pirates online. I mean even
WOW has a little rain. But they need to have a better graphics engine for
that and they need more developers. But having a Malestorm like in the
third movie during PVP battles and swinging onto other players ships for a
raid would be the most Awesome PVP battle ever!

Originally Posted by akamystic

How about adding whirlpools to the Caribbean? I think this would undoubtedly add some excitement to the sailing experience. Imagine being in a heated battle while your ship is getting sucked in. They should allow you to escape it and I'd imagine you lose everything if you are completely sucked under. Or perhaps make it a portal to another area of the map? Perhaps it sends you to Davy Jones Locker? Just a thought.....as I'm sure we all want sea creatures this idea was something different.

Robert Darkskull
Pistols N Bladez

If they have wirlpools and malestorms thent they are going to need a bigger
ocean with bigger islands because the Islands are way to small compared to
the ones in the movie.

[charle88]

If they add whirlpools and cyclones,they should also add Water Spouts in the sea,and Tornadoes on land.Imagine sailing through a Hurricane and suddenly you and your ship is sucked up by a Water Spout!

[SpiritSkull]

i have alot to say they should add..... storms to the game, new weapons, new clothes, new levels, new quests, and much needed more places!!!! heehee they need alot of suff

[Swash]

They need weather and private islands.

[firemal]

I Think they should have lookout in the crows nest? Because you could like climb up and press shift and you could see farhter then if you were on deck

[Mr.LoveLocket]

Private servers - good for double rep day-

[firemal]

1 We should send this to POTCO 2 we should have ship auctions for stolen ships (read my thread called flagships in the sailing forum)

[Mr.LoveLocket]

How about seamtress creates our clothes

[Chris]

Yea i wanna see more rewards for quests other than gold and rep and a few specialized quests for clothes tatts and jewlery.