I take part of that back, it looks like POTC suffers from the same memory leak issues as toon town.

I was starting to get a bit laggy and when I checked my machine the page file usage was up to 1.9 GB!!! and that is with 1.5 gb of memory and as soon as I quit POTC it dropped right back down .

I hope that they can fix this as toontown has always had this problem. I will also cross post in bugs in the hope that they reply

Well for the basic version, I'm not getting so much lag, because my pop-ups are blocked, its just that the things seem to pop up out of nowhere, and sometimes, I'm just floating in empty space..

As for worth, get the $79.95 for a year if you like it. Its only about 6.66 a month.

Is there still lag if you buy unlimited?

From popular answers, no.

Here's my question.
 

So, here's my question... if you get unlimited access and finish everything (Get all weapons, blah blah) then when you decide to leave unlimited access and go back to basic, do you keep all the weapons and things that you did? Or do they disappear? (I certainly hope they don't.)

Sonicblur

Get Unlimited, it lags less, from what I've heard. From what I've heard, free play stinks.

According to a in-game hint from the game, it says that you get less exp from monsters if you're a basic member.

I tried the basic route and it wasn't too bad. I was able to level up lots of times and accomplish quite a bit. Unfortunately, not only was I unable to level any items any further or acquire new weapons and skills, I also ran out of quests that were not locked for basic members. I found this to be the most frustrating element. I suppose if you want a truly freeform game, where you can just wander and do as you wish with no directives or missions to accomplish, basic would be ok. You will always struggle in battles past a certain point, since your skills cannot go above 3, but you can still level your notoriety (albeit dreadfully slowly) just by killing enemies. I am sad to admit it, but after 2 days of no quests to do, I caved and paid the $5 for the first month. In the end, I am sure I will get that much enjoyment out of it, if not more. I still haven't decided if I will re-up for a longer time.

If you change oceans to a more "quiet" ocean that tends to help with the lag sometimes. I've done that before for several reasons, to change oceans if you don't know, hit the "M" key and click on the arrow beneath your ocean name.

I personally don't experience a lot of a lag, it can get more glitchy on the "ideal" oceans more so than the "quiet" oceans.

Try that and see if it helps :)

On pahse 2 of beta, I started as an unlimited account, and then was changed to test the basic. The lag was horrible, adds drove me crazy, and too many bugs for basic. If I didn't know the Unlimiated Access was ALOT better, I wouldn't have paid.

~Cpt.Sea

It is fantastic being Unlimited. I don't know how Basic members can stand it.