That is correct Zep. It was in Beta and released in game, and after the BB was down for six months, it re-appeared for a short time after the BB was brought back. I saw it on my first BB. (BB went "down for six month maintenance" the day brefore I was ready to try it the first time...grr) However, by the time my second Pirate was ready for the BB, the line about Valentina was gone. I was really hoping it was leading somewhere...guess not.

I know I have a screenie back in my archives. I'll hunt it down.

carry on...

2 years, 5 months and a number of days from the instant I post this, the next story chapter will be released on the THIRD anniversary of the game.

It will be a MASSIVE update that takes over 3 hours to download, if you have a T-1 or faster connection. Longer for all the rest.

IT will contain a story line that includes the Kraken, the EITC, Jolly Roger and Davy Jones. The Notoriety levels will be raised to level 80, and the progression to each level will follow the non-linear progression that is already in effect. To get from level 79 to 80, you will need 102,600 rep. Level caps will be raised on all existing weapons, new versions of those weapons will be achieved by questing, and two new weapons will be introduced. (I think rifle and blunderbuss. But Blunderbuss may just be a skill of rifle, so I'm not sure.)

The day all this is released, there will be 3 level 40 pirates sailing on Abassa server in a light sloop. They will be the entire population of POTCO, because everyone else will have finally given up on the game. They are in a light sloop, because even they are only basic access. They are together on Abassa because only one of them thought to sell his war Frigate when he let is account go to basic, so he is the only one with a ship to sail.

Disney will start a massive ad campaign to try to make the game popular again, but all those of us who are gone will still remember the bad taste Disney put in our mouths for over 2 and a half years, and will not come back.

Approximately 2 weeks later, the same three pirates will be sailing in the same light sloop, when Disney finally realizes that they screwed up the game during it's early first year and a half of development, and that no one has any interest in being sucked in to the fiasco again. They, Disney, will pull the plug and the oceans will drain. The 3 pirates will then be able to walk around the ocean floor, from island to island, picking up those hundreds of thousands of ROYAL chests that we have all lost because our ships were sunk before we could get to shore.

The problem is that Disney forgot to raise the gold caps and they are still maxed at 65K in gold, and have nothing to spend it on anyway.

(OK, I'm being facetious here, but how far off is this, really?)

Nice story Basil! The end doesn't seem too farfetched.

Basil,

Here... take a little Chill pill. It'll be okay... But, that was very funny.

EC

Score another one for thinking we see updates when the UK version is released, which I have a feeling we will see for the holiday season, very conveniently LOL:piratear:

I still think a lot of players here are confured about this infamous "UK Version". Although I can't confirm or deny any of the rumors about this:

My opinion about this is that there is NO DIFFERENCE between the current version of the game and the "UK Version". Disney is just putting servers in the UK. Primarily Great Britian. One of the drawbacks that the Europeans have with the game is that they get tremendous lag during the busy times because they are logged into servers that are here in the US.

I do not belive that there is a "Special" version of the game being developed for players in the UK.

Again, I can neither prove nor disprove this. Just that with all the lack of content development here, I can't see Disney investing tons of development dollars for a "new" version of the game just because it is for a different continent. Maybe some translational stuff, but not an entirely different version.

Completely agree Basil, by UK version I was referring to the updates that are to come with it that were advertised, I think it will all be the same game as well just updated on our end.

ok, so here it is,

jack, joshamee, carver, and scary mary blew up xavier hench's ship. he's angry so he shoots then with a tripple barrel pistol with silver shot. they are like "OH NO YOU DIDNT" and then they fire scary mary in the cannon at xavier. xavier says, "uh-oh" :P. then out of nowhere comes Ollie the Magical Gravedigger and he shoots out ten desolations without getting hurt. then ollie has a hard attack and explodes into a cloud of dust. out of the cloud of dust comes the kraken and the kraken eats scary mary. jack is like, "eh, im out of here!" and he ran off with his best friend, JOLLY ROGER? anyway, the kraken coughs out davy jones, ollie kills everyone with one battle call:
IMA KEEL YOU ALL!!!
obviously he wins the war and forever is prosperous.

(none of this will really happen)
(i think the kraken is really coming with the next big update).