My experience with Unlimited status

[SammyJay]

I'm trying out this game for the second time. The first time I played POTCO, I got extremely frustrated with the game glitches and shortly after starting, I uninstalled the game. My biggest complaint was visual glitches, perhaps caused by lag, where I would be attacked by unseen mobs and also mobs that seemed to appear out of nowhere only to kick my butt. I even got attacked by a mob that I couldn't see while I was running through a town. That mob shouldn't have even been there!

Another thing I disliked was the inconsistency of mob levels throughout the zones. Maybe I'm spoiled by other MMOs, but I feel that a low level player should be able to complete a quest involving a specific level range of mobs without an insanely high level mob being thrown into the mix. This game sends players out into the world, never knowing what level enemy they are going to encounter. That is frustrating.

I am willing to overlook that, and I did because I recently downloaded the game client again and decided to give POTCO another try. I played last night with little difficulty except for the above mentioned enemy level issue and a few minor game glitches.

Today, however, I decided to upgrade my account. With it only costing 5 bucks for the first month, I figured that would give me plenty of time to decide if the game itself is worth the $10 monthly price tag. The upgrade seems to be causing me more headaches than the free version.

After I upgraded, I loaded the game and logged in. I've made attempts to play many times today and it's always the same issues, though not the same issue each time. Sometimes I will get an error saying my internet connection was unexpectedly broken. Whatever. Other times I will log in fine, but will have intermittent lag issues. Enough lag that if I actually attempted to play it would cause problems.

But the big thing is this: I can no longer launch my ship. I can approach the launch dinghy, and press shift to bring up the launch window, but many times that window never opens and when it does, my game freezes during the loading screen and my ship never loads. This only started after I upgraded my account.

This is just my personal experience and is not to say that anyone else will have issues like this if they upgrade. I don't know what to do at this point but maybe reinstall the game and try again. If that fails to remedy the problem, I will just have to uninstall the game once again and find another MMO. I sent a bug report, but won't hold my breath waiting for a response.

I'm not discouraging anyone else to upgrade if they wish to. This is simply my experience so far, after having just upgraded.