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Congratulations Flag & Sail of the Month Contest Winners!
12/03/2008 | News | | Discuss
Join the 2DSC and me in celebrating our Flag and Sail of the Month contest winners! December’s theme, as befitting the season, was “Celebrate the Holidays.”
We had several good entries to choose from this month—so good, both contests …
Transfers Re-Enabled!
12/02/2008 | News | | Discuss
We have fixed the problem with our transfer system that was preventing people from logging into Pirates of the Burning Sea last night. As a result, character transfers are now re-enabled.
/ Rhaegar
Login Problems: Transfers Temporarily Disabled
12/01/2008 | News | | Discuss
We’ve taken down our character transfer system while we investigate and resolve a problem that has been preventing people from logging into the game.
Edit: Transfers are now re-enabled.
/ Rhaegar
AvCom Revamp: NPC Archetypes
11/24/2008 | | Discuss
The avatar combat revision gave ConCo a really good opportunity to give a bit of a makeover to what NPCs could do. In the previous version of avatar combat, much of the strategy came from reducing your enemies’ balance to …
Build 1.10: The Calm Before the Storm Goes Live Tuesday Morning!
11/24/2008 | News | | Discuss
We will be upgrading our North American, European & Australian SOE live servers to build 1.10: The Calm Before the Storm during the usual maintenance window (1:30am-5:00am Pacific / 9.30am-1.00pm GMT) on Tuesday, November 25th.
When build 1.10 is deployed to …
Build 1.10 hits Invincible Today!
11/24/2008 | News | | Discuss
We will be upgrading Invincible to build 1.10: The Calm Before the Storm at 6am AEST on Tuesday, November 25th (3pm Pacific on Monday, November 24th).
Release notes for 1.10.30.0 can be found here.
Important note: We are upgrading our …Rackham Open Sea Server Reboot
11/22/2008 | News | | Discuss
We believe that we may have identified the cause behind Rackham’s technical issues, and the remedy requires a reboot of the open sea zone server.
The reboot will not occur until the current port battle has ended, and we will …
Investigating Rackham Port State and PvP Issues
11/22/2008 | News | | Discuss
We are aware that Rackham is currently experiencing issues related to port states, and we’ve recieved reports from our community of unusual PvP zones appearing on the open sea.
We are currently investigating the issues impacting Rackham, and we will keep …
Update: Flag and Sail of the Month Contests!
11/21/2008 | News | | Discuss
We’re excited to announce that, in addition to featuring winning entries for the Flag of the Month and Sail of the Month contests, winners will receive a free Pirates of the Burning Sea T-Shirt! You still have …
Feminizing the Female Avatars
11/19/2008 | Developer Log | | Discuss
In the past couple of milestones, the character team and our graphics programmer have been working to make our female avatars less masculine.
Server Transfers Live, For All!
11/19/2008 | | Discuss
The server transfer process is now enabled for our Australian, European and North American customers!
Our Apologies to Returning Customers!
11/18/2008 | | Discuss
We’ve just been informed by our friends at Sony Online Entertainment that the promotion allowing our previous customers to rejoin Pirates of the Burning Sea for a 14-day free trial was accidentally ended prematurely. We are working with our publishing …
Delay to 1.10 Upgrade
11/18/2008 | News | | Discuss
We recently announced that we will be allowing our Australian customers to transfer over to our SOE servers, and we will be unveiling that system imminently.
Our transfer system requires both the source and destination servers to be on the …
On Items, Tuning, and Flavor
11/18/2008 | Developer Log | | Discuss
In any RPG, and MMO’s especially, a large source of character progression is through items.
Items can be anything. They can be swords and magic wands, they can be starships and sailing ships. They might provide you some statistical …
Build 1.10: The Calm Before the Storm Goes Live Wednesday Morning!
11/18/2008 | News | | Discuss
We will be upgrading our North American / European live servers to build 1.10: The Calm Before the Storm during the usual maintenance window (1:30am-5:00am Pacific / 9.30am-1.00pm GMT) on Wednesday, November 19th.
When build 1.10 is deployed to our live …
Environment Revamp Revealed!
11/17/2008 | Developer Log | | Discuss
Hello there this is Eric, I am an environment artist here at FLS. I have been working on many exciting things for the past year in an effort to create the most awesomely monumental 17th century pirating experience! …
Flag and Sail of the Month Contests!
11/12/2008 | News | | Discuss
Marion and the 2D Steering Committee are excited to announce the next Flag and Sail of the month contests.
For our second round of contests, the theme is “Celebrate the Holidays!”
Winners will be selected by FLS and the 2D Steering …
Vision Thing
11/12/2008 | Developer Log | | Discuss
One of the problems with working on a game—or on any project, really—for as long as we’ve been working on Pirates is that it often becomes hard to remember the big-picture inspiration that started the whole …
Server Maintenance Announcement: Thursday, November 13th
11/11/2008 | | Discuss
We will be performing crucial server maintenance on the morning of Thursday, November 13th from 1:30a-4:30a Pacific (9:30am to 12:30pm GMT).
This server maintenance period introduces a fix that will improve stability across all servers. This means that the outage …
Testbed Event: The Dread Missionary
11/07/2008 | News | | Discuss
William Kidd has been shot!
According to anonymous sources close to Captain Kidd, the shot occurred following a clandestine meeting between Kidd and a man who claimed to represent a religious leader known as the Deacon.
