Nice improvements, good screen shots too...still dont understand the code/clothes thing. Does it mean if you see a clothe in the shop but u dont have the money, later when u arent at the shop..u can just put in a code and buy it without being in a shop? I assume thats it, idk.

ummm i thought the c stood for color? you know red blue black brown green......

The Code options in the screenshot Molly posted is at the bottom fo the pop up menu for the clothing items. Apparently, when we get things from the game (such as the Founder's Feast bandana's), we will be given a code. We click on the Code button on the pop up menu, enter the code, then the item is placed in our inventory.

If this is incorrect, one of you that have Test access, please correct me.

That's how I understand it Rackat.

Wasnt there an article earlier on how Disney was going to be promotional items at its parks / stores (and so on) and there is where you would get the codes for additional items in Pirates? Or did I just dream that up somewhere (I went searching last night for this until a serios RL issue came up and I had to stop - but I though this is where the Codes would come from...)

As it is - it could be used as a reward system like events just held :)

Could the codes be off D items purchased in RL to unlock items in game just like on Carsonline.

Some new shots for ya ;)

This is the new Loading screen for PR

http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/f...pictureid=1192

Message pops up now in green when your chat may not go thru

http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/f...pictureid=1193

And now there's a new shipright....in the middle of the path to the new fort...strange location, not sure if she's staying there or not.

http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/f...pictureid=1195

Sweet, gonna check it out later

Cool stuff...thanks for sharing Sarah. I wonder what the ETA is for public release...

Just my opinion on the ETA here. We shouldn't be impatient on the live release. Its a big update that needs more time to be worked on.

I popped in for about 10 minutes after the update today, about half the stuff was fixed. With no longer the mac players script up, I assume that was one fix.

Fixed:
Ammo shop and sign now next to June.
Tracking is now working it appears.
Old warehouse with sign, and now exits properly.
Tree growth after exiting jewelry shop now looks fixed.
Some more signs now in place.
Barber shop exits properly.

Not fixed:
Tattoo, and jewelry, can't get to my items.
Several shops with black out furniture.
A new wall glitch.
Graphics option, and also a dx10 for vista users.
Sailing, and screen cuts ? machine specific to others.
Codes no meaning yet.
Players button no meaning yet.

Codes are under clothes, jewelry, and tattoo's what the purpose for these are unknown. I am sticking with them as the new level 40 bordom reducer, putting endless random numbers there and see if anything comes up, haha.

C next to clothes is the button for choosing color.

I wouldn't expect a release until at least we all could get to our items in tattoo's and jewelry, but who knows. Sailing and such things others couldn't do I have no idea, may be vista users related.

Cool stuff, gonna have to check it out.

Thanks for posting Sarah!

Another update.
Map of PR shows up in compass.
Chat no longer auto sends after 50 characters,,,thank you.

Breaks:
Quest tracker.
Ship tracking in compass
No goto button to guild members.
Crewing having issues, some not showing up in crew.

Just a few things with a ongoing process, as well as previous issues.

Poison Elf, THANK YOU very much for your updates. Sounds like they are making some progress.

Theres also a backround on the compass that I do not like.
Only for PR i noticed

Is that when on land, or at sea? Are islands still missing from the compass when at sea?

Its when ur on land, Ima try sailing through island glitch real fast
Nope not at sea.

Also on the map, with all the islands, The ocean names are gone, For example, t doesnt say the hinterseas and all that anymore

LOL. No, I meant when at sea near an island (e.g. when you launch,) you should see either the border of the islands, or some island texture, or something.

Do the ocean names still appear as you cross the boundaries? Or are they only missing from the MAP?

They are only missing from the map,

and i dont see the bondries

You can see a map of the island you're on while using the compass now. That's something to add into your guide.
You can't see the islands while at sea, though.
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...4_13-56-16.jpg

That is downright cool! Please go ahead and add some - I've no monopoly on that guide. And actually, it was about sailing, so it probably isn't entirely relevant. I'm curious what it looks like at different zoom levels, though.

I'll go get some more pictures for you right away.

EDIT:
Here's all of the zooms all the way out to all the way in.
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...4_14-15-28.jpg
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...4_14-17-36.jpg
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...4_14-13-20.jpg

Currently at sea you can't see the islands but maybe they'll add that in.

Fantastic! Look, you can see the boundaries it uses to calculate "YOU ARE SAILING TOO CLOSE TO SHORE." Quick! Get one of each island before they take it away!

Lol, I doubt they'll take it away since it's such a good improvement to the compass.
Later I'll go get some pictures of the other islands.

LOL. It's maybe too good - that's why! :-)

It will give me something to do when the update hits, that's for sure. If you get some more, please try to make sure you are facing exactly North. For each island, like this, I'll be able to enlarge the maximum zoom view, then supplement it with minimum zoom overlays (and actually get the positioning right!)

This opens up all sorts of things for game cartography. Might finally get a decent picture for Queen's Nest.

I hope you don't plan on trying to take pictures and then put them all together to make a map of each island. If so it's going to be a big task and almost impossible to do to make it look good. The arrows will have to be taken out and you'll have to put whatever the arrow was on back in.

I wouldn't want to do it.

There is only a map for PR i hope you know.

I can't wait to see what the other island maps will look like when they come out.

There are no other island maps lol

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Hey guys!!! this be my second post i believe...so thanks for having me!! anyway, awesome screenies guys!!! my pirates name is Machazzard of The Spell Breakers guild!! cya later =]

Lol.. gotta love ya Edgemenace...what would we do without the OCD people in this world.

That's coming from a woman who has a master list of all of her favorite authors' (pleural) books so that when I look for a new book I can check my list and make sure I haven't already bought it or read it.

I got Test working by reinstalling it: I had to switch the drive regular POTCO was on. Anyway, I think I approve of the change. But now, with POTCO on D, everything when I'm walking on open land is whitened down. The ground is blank white, and the walls are various forms of peach and other light colors--the insides of buildings and the seas are fine though.

Anyone know how to solve those problems?

all you testers out there when do you think the new update will come on open

I give it a month or a few weeks.

As usual Salty - I expect them to take our issues, do two one or two sets of fixes, we'll send in more but they will release it anyway LOL :D

Since they are on their second set of adjustments... I would think soon...

Has june been added in yet?

Read back a few pages, June was located. She's nowhere near where the "beam" says she is, in an unmarked appt on the beach. Still sending in reports on her.

And speaking of the "beam", it's very messed up now. Seems to be pointing to all four quests I have going on now. Several reports sent today.

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/h...25_17-0-32.jpg

After a server crashing a few things straighten out, like goto others and tracking.

Then another update today brought in a few new issues. First a new map under compass was added to show the town area.

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Many issues not changing while some are apparently just not transferring over such as guild status in the new pop-up windows of characters like below.

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I do wonder a bit on the map myself, I assume this will just be the case for the new PR. With tracking arrows I don't really see the point. These updates are causing more and more issues each time, while not seeing those be dealt with yet. Boat tracking is off with the new compass set up. A hour or so everyone in guild continually got booted out every 5 minutes or so, slowly got better.

I don't know about you Poison, but I personally don't like the map. I think it takes away from the fun. Come on, let folks explore a little!

I've reported the new "character info card" a few times already for not showing with the right guild info. Everyone is showing up as "Pirate Guild so-in-so"

Thanks for the screenies!

ill give the update 1-2 months. Maybe earlier

Quiet a while.
I don't think this update will hit open until all of the maps for Port Royal are done and once most of the bugs are fixed.

It could take two weeks to a month. Maybe even longer. I've seen more issues with the new Port Royal than old. There's a lot of missing textures when changing graphic levels which could take a while to fix.

These maps are a great addition to the game. I can't wait to see what all of them look like when they're finished.

these things are cool mim in test also but we need new story quests and new noto caps!!!!!! but pr and everything LOOKS AWESOME!

The map looks really neat. Very interesting that it is such a small portion of the island. I love how it shows the crew-bonus-radius circle. I hope they can generate the maps for all the islands, fairly easily. (Don't most games have map features similar to this?)

I think pirates of the burning sea does but I'm not sure.
Runescape has a map, though. It's similar to this but I think POTCO's maps look better.

I would like to see these maps extend to sea so we can see maps of our ships.
I think that would come in handy for the crew-bonus-radius circle you were talking about.

I like how you can also see the location of enemies if you get closer to them.
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...rt_charles.png

I didn't mean specifically pirate games, but all games. :shrug:

The non-fog-covered area in your picture is what I am calling the "crew-bonus circle." COOL BEANS! It should help a lot of people understand how/when crew-bonus kicks in.

Thank you for the great map pictures, MacIronhawk!