Ultimately, i got into some other games, and the relaunch of PotBS flew under my radar until some months later, after which my interest simply wasn’t around any more.I tried to get into it recently, but the game’s age is very much showing. Though only one can be sailed, the others can be docked in port, fitted and ready for action. After a player has chosen a nation, they can customize the looks of their character, selecting from a variety of costume pieces. The new zone persists until it is quelled, or until one faction accumulates sufficient points to put the port into contention.

Pirate players capture highest level ships for free. On the 31 August 2018, it was announced that Portalus Games would be closing and that the game would go offline on 30 September, a month later. Coupled with a very small population, it simply isn’t something i will be picking up.Great vibes too, loved the art-style and sound-track, some really fun systems in the game too for what really was just a marketing tie-in, a lot of thought went into it.

Merchant ships are generally less armed than warships, but have more cargo space. It also has a lot more content than EVE (and interesting historical and geographical content to that), and is more complex.Very serious. The missions kinda got a bit boring after a while as well.An interesting game for sure, but it needed more flexibility for players, at least players like me at the time.Seriously their site is made in like blogger, I think it’s purely being kept online as a passion project and hey, good on them for doing it.ultimately from what i remember when people were talking about potbs alot is that it suffered heavilyh from both faction play andSOE enforcing players to not multifaction. When you learn what it's taken to keep Pirates of the Burning Sea afloat for 11 years, it's even more remarkable that there are still discoveries to be made, or that there's a game left at all.

- Burning Sea Notes purchased during the roll back period should be delivered automatically to the account they were originally ordered for. 6.2K likes. Players in Pirates of the Burning Sea can create up to six characters per server to represent themselves in the game. This can be any one of either Originally, a player was restricted to one nation per server, and this choice could only be undone by deleting all of that player's characters on that server. Here, working together with other players can save many dubloons in production as the player will not be dependent on third party production. They attributed this decision to the game's last remaining programmer leaving the company.After a period of continued availability thanks to "contributions from players and management",Over two hours of original swashbuckling music were composed for This means that the player will have easy access to any of his ships, no matter how far away they are.

In November 2008, seven servers were closed. This is especially important to freetraders (the more cargo the player can bring from one port to another, the more they will be able to earn on a single trip).

Beta testing began on 14 December 2005, and ran until 1 January 2008. This way, players will want to keep as many Durability Points as possible, because durability directly equals the value of the ship. Various types of ammunition are available for use, and can be manufactured, purchased or, made available as a quest reward. The economy in PotBS is a player-driven, production-based system. Has the game gone into stealth maintenance mode?