It seemed fine for the past few days, there were no issues. However it says on the website they're dealing with Network Issues.

I really hope it's network issues and network issues alone. Due to the rollback, I am now very afraid another one could take place... And I had just gotten a Blightfang Edge and Fullmoon Special Repeater within the last two nights..

No! No level 0's!! Gah. Keeping my fingers crossed for some minor networking issues and not huge major 'someone spilled coffee on the computer' problems...hope we aren't gonna deal with the Weekend of Death again.

I'm pretty annoyed about this myself but fortunately, the pirate I lost hadn't gotten very far XD

If I am not mistaken that message about network issues has been up there ever since the restore they did Sunday. My favorite part of the message is the part they included in parenthesis regarding the network issues (outside of our control).

No... they fixed it and put up a new message for a few days. They put this message up just today.


And yeah, I noticed it too. But it is better to do it now when a lot of people are in school anyways.

I sure hope I don't lose anything again.

This is so annoying, I really wanted to play right now.

I hope their fixing the crash, it happens to me every about 1-2 hours.

My thoughts exactly.
If they did it any later we'd have a lot more complaints since the kids would be out of school and bored.

Still down for maintenance....so isn't just a lil fix. Svs withdrawals here...... :P

Maybe they are getting our post crash missing stuff back???

One could hope....

True but what about the folks (adults) that play? Such as me! That use the quiet time to work on things...

Hope they get it fixed sometime soon.

Can't wait to rank.

They need to fix it already. I wanna play. :(

If they wipe the memory again, I will be one disappointed pirate! I got a famed corsair dagger and leveled grenades yesterday...

I can't believe im saying this but I have not been disconnected in a month! Record!

I also hope it is simply network issues and not their wonderful "maintenance" that they love to do. If there is another reset I will be quite annoyed. I honestly think they are trying to change something about the game though. Maybe they are messing with the coding for some reason they have, I dunno. Or maybe they are just throwing a party with all the Marceline guild on Tortuga beach and saying how awesome it is that nobody can bug them <sarcmark> I honestly don't know. I just hope everything works out well.

Gosh, what is going on now? More errors? Must be some bug they have to laso.

What?! Maintenance right now?!

Still nothing, I checked at around 1 and it was down. It's not almost 8.

maybe they assumed the adults are at work :laughks2:

I've wondered if they're trying to change the 'technical' bits and pieces of the game as well. Maybe just working with stuff before spring breaks and summer breaks and the like. Either way, you've given me this great mental picture of all the GMs standing around doing the coin flip emote, using 'Open Chat' words, laughing their heads off. :vlaugh:

(sigh) I hope they aren't forced to do yet another rollback I just mastered grenades for the second time I really don't want to make it three.

I hope they don't reset anything, has anyone tried to go onto the Live Chat and talk to someone about the issues?

I'm not even sure if it's maintenance. It says on the site that the network is experiencing issues.

I was on this morning and I had zero level. I made a bug report, included a screen capture and spoke with live chat as soon as they opened up. Now I see that the game is down again. Before the roll back I was only about a 1000 points away from level 30, the roll back put me back into level 28, (the first 25 percent). I worked hard to get to 30 level again so I could get the staff. I got the staff last night and leveled it to level 2. Even picked up the ravens cove quest. Now that its down again I really hope I dont have to do all of that again. In the month that Ive been playing there has been alot of problems and issues. Please tell me this is not normal to have all these issues. Thanks

Better a Wednesday than a Saturday...that said, they need to get this thing under control.

I've played for around 3 years, I don't recall ever having this many issues. Granted the game does have minor problems from time to time, but fear not...this is in no way a normal issue. =)

They can only say what is on the site, and they asure me its just their servers and no rollback in needed. That is what I got out of it. Don't quote me on it, if it turns out to be false.

Its not, the rollback has never happened before in my 3 years of playing

thanks so much for the feedback. Im glad to hear this is not normal. I can only hope now that the repairs are done quickly and without a big roll back. I have 2 pirates and its kinda funny that the zero glitch affected the level 30 and not the lavel 5. lol..again thanks for the feedback

That's a little upsetting that they can't offer us more of a time-stamp on when the issues will be fixed, even an estimate would be nice.

-

The only good thing about this is all happening today is that my boyfriend did the roof and spent the day playing Little Big Planet with me, so no need for Pirates today : P

Hope they get this fixed for tomorrow. : D

Maybe even later tonight.

We better not lose anything again, I just got to gunner for the black pearl quest.

So... is the game running or down?
 

I'm confussed... the gamed said "you may experience intteruptions during gameplay" so it sounds like game is open, but then when I logged into POTCO, this showed up and well.... made it seem like game is closed for basic access, as the game didn't actually load...
Says you can skip this with unlimited...

It is closed to all not just basic. Been that way most of today.

Don't worry, it's nothing to do with basic access, the game has had lots of network trouble lately, I have unlimited and it's the same thing, minus the "Skip" thing, it should be back up by tomorrow, though. :)

No, its not up. I'm unlimited and it say it is closed for maintenance. So, the wait continues.....

It's 11:56 Eastern time now, and it's still down.
AHHHHH!!!!! I just mastered dagger, doll, and got 3 famed knives from Smasho in the last two days, not to mention I spent a bunch of money (About 45,000) re-doing skills, they're awesome now and my blunderbuss does like 15,000 damage, but I'm not sure I would spring for that again... (Cough) IWANTASOTLWHENITCOMESOUT (Cough)

Well, I just got on, and things have been to reversed to the monday before last AGAIN. Personally, I don't mind having to lose rep since that is pretty easy to gain back, however, I am VERY VERY VERY irked that I lost a Fullmoon Special Repeater and Blightfang Edge. Then again, may be too early to call, since they're going to down for maintenance again at midnight.

NOT impressed. This will now be my third time doing the Raven's Cove Quest which I did all by myself with the help of two random people at the very end. And the boss battle glitched so I beat it rather easily..

At least I'm still in my guild.. yay?

It was up when I checked now, but as soon as I got on everything was reversed, and I got the 15 minute warning for more maintenance.

I'm getting real sick of re creating my pirate and rebuilding gold so I can re buy the Valentines clothes ><

Ya know, and I could be chastised for saying this, but them saying that is a real cheap way to promote something that ain't working.
And I AM one of the paying customers.
:sadmh9:

No worries mate. Valentine clothes are GONE - from inventory AND from the merchants. I'm assuming then that the bug may have had something to do with them? Looks like we are backed up to last Monday again ( best I can tell )

Here is the note on their home page:

Pirates Online is open, however, some data loss may have occurred. We encourage players to play and help us as we continue to monitor gameplay and validate results. We apologize for the inconvenience and will be posting a full update including the resolution soon.

Guess I'll just chat until we are sure things are fixed :/

Kat

This is trash. We lost 30+ guild members this time and I lost all the work I did on little CC...

I lost everything. And I pay for this why?

Aye, I am not going to bother doing anything else for quite awhile.
Fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice....
:smiley_toxic:

Aye, losing new Guild members is unacceptable.
:piratemt2:

UGH! I just lost my silver freeze AND my pirates name (AGAIN)

I LOST MY PIRATE AGAIN!!!!!

I just had my name approved and leveled her up to 10 and received the voodoo doll and teleportation to Tortuga only to lose it all again!

I HATE THIS GAME!!!!

Haha this whole "reset" thing isn't getting anything but old.

Another reset!!
 

For the third time on the same pirate, I have to redo the raven's cove and staff quest!!! I can not believe that their way of fixing things is to do another rollback. I also lost my bright blue cotton t-shirt and red silk vest. Luckly I didn't really play on my level 50. My level 31 has to redo staff and raven's cove. Those quest are super hard to do for a level 30ish. I mean come on, I am so sick of all the resets. :vcry:

its not there fault people!!!!!!!!!! it isn't as big as last time!

Another reset!?
 

I just logged on, 5 minutes ago, the first thing I did was check my weapons.....
My new famed are gone, my skills that I recently re-did are back to how they were, this is getting terrible, I spent 7 hours at Smasho getting those!

EDIT: Oh, I also noticed my level was decreased to 46, and Dagger and Doll were un-mastered.
Great, just great.

yep.. good job Mickey !

Thank you Seaking, you stole the words outta my mouth :P (NOW GIVE THEM BACK! jk) Anyway, something bigger than the level 0 glitch is out there.... Don't know what, but there is something...
Guys, get over it, it's a game. Who knows, maybe they will give us our stuff back, or at least increase weapon drop rate for a while. Just give them time and all will be better.
-Davy

This is getting really ridiculous. I am mainly upset about using loot only or famed items but so many of us lost time and effort into leveling up too.

If there is a way they can give us our items back at least I think that would make up for it.

- Sigh - I've lost my guild again.

Nope, wasn't too early to call. So that is a total of about 10 days of any sort of progress lost. As I said, I don't mind the rep, but the loot I am VERY mad about. Each took me a few hours to get - getting either again will probably take a few hundred hours unless their "resolution" helps. :degen:

Same here.
I just found my first Famed item since re-joining Potc, and I also finished Raven's Cove twice solo.

Both those things took me a few hours.

Now I have to re-do that again.

Not to mention I leveled so much.

Guess they spoke too soon… :mybadki6:

This is so turning me off to re-upping my UA

I feel for you guys. I lost a set of Amazon daggers... how fitting they were. And I really loved the Valentine's tricorn hat. I want it BACK!!

I lost Tyrant's Blade! D: That was my first Famed in a long time....

I some news to shed some light. I got back from live chat and I told them that the Erin the EITC guy was not there to start the Valentine quest. Then he logged in to check it out for himself. He said he was gone to! So he sent in a report to the Developer team. Also any loot plundered since the data loss and the Feb 7 breakdown MUST BE REPLUNDERED! They don't have the power to re-add items back to your inventory. Hope this breifing helped the users talking about what happen on the data loss. :bookishfj7:

Nooooooo My Corsair Dagger is gone!!!

phew... good thing all I've been doing on POTCO is svs. If I found a famed I'd go nuts.
Didn't they say no more resets. I'm never gonna go looting anymore... lol

its just a game nothing to get mad about

I just got a notice in game. They added the V Day quest again!

Clothes were all I lost on most of my pirates. I just completed the PDF teleportation quest for the third time on one of my minis. xD

Free 3-day unlimited for everyone!!!!!! :laughks2: Not that it's gonna happen... but hopefully....

I hope they figure it all out soon. a fortunate aspect of being new to the game, is a didn't lose anything major, but still redoing quests (not to mention having to start from scratch on my pirates) is not fun.

Glad the Valentine's gear is back though.

It would be really good to give us a weekend or two of double rep/double gold. Although I'd rather have the double rep. :D

Wooow. All I can say is "Good job, programmers, good job" Apparently they don't have a clue what they are doing because they flat out stated its safe to play. Some bogus that was. IS COMPLETELY DISGUSTED!

It is absolutely ridiculous. I've mastered the same weapons twice already, and now I have to to do it again? And I just got a famed blunder - but, like my other weapons, it's gone. Totally ridiculous.

A game I pay for......

Aren't I glad I don't play POTCO during the week... wow, another reset? What in the world are they doing? I quote from their "urgent update."

See? They even admit that some of the hardware they have is bad. Honestly, they should upgrade some of their computers, as I'm sure they are running on some older ones. Sure, it may be a big investment, but it will hopefully clean up all of these things that are going on. I don't know what in the world they did, but if I see yet another reset, I will send an email. Even if I get a bad reply, I just want to send them one just so I feel that my voice is heard, even if it is just by that one guy that reads it and trashes it right after sending me a copied and pasted reply. They need to get their act together, because they are in a lot of trouble if they have any more issues.

Wait a minute... how far back did they reset?

I'm getting used to all this.... I almost expect to see the closed message coming up when I try to log on...

well now... its 2 weeks from the maintenance they had on monday that messed everything up... so anything from the first is gone if im right which means i lose my silver freeze -_- my only legendary ROAR

How many people actually played before the inventory exapnsion? I for one did. I am just happy to be able to loot weapons of different classes. I am happy to be able to get weapons with higher attack and skills that help in battle. (like Infinite Ammo, or Rolling Attack, etc.) Back in those days, you got one weapon for each class. Be happy you have the opportunity to get these new weapons, and everyone stop complaining. I lost some stuff just like all of you, but these thin gs happen and I am not very mad at POTCO.....

^ I am fairly sure that I lost a famed Dagger in the reset. I don't care too much about that though. I have a better one, so its not too upsetting. What IS upsetting is how guilds were reset as well. We lost a lot of great members and I am quite upset that I will have to track them down and find them again, if I ever will. That is frustrating.

They should launch a tripe look and rep for how many days the rest has gone back. (both)

hey davy fireskull i still want to be in shadow sorcerers, but i'm not really playing pirates until this matter is resolved only because i don't want to accomplish anything and have it all reset again, but i will make sure to hit you up when this whole thing is better!!

Revenant cannon ram gone... What a waste of playing the cannon game for hours and hours just to have it taken away in a roll back...

The only thing I'm upset about is that I lost the new pirate I created...luckily only a level 2 or 3 when this stuff started again. My boyfriend wisely said I shouldn't play for at least a week after the *ahem* 'fix' just in case, but I was too impatient with my free time. I lucked out in not getting any good weapon drops (sad day when I'm happy about crappy loot!) this past week in the few minutes I'd played. But agreed with you that I'm not highly mad at POTCO so much as being irritated that my little bit of gaming time is pretty much moot at the moment. Stuff happens, I can't hold it against them too much. :126:

They are closing again for maintenance, I just got a message in game. :(

Well people have the right to their own emotions. ESPECIALLY after spending hours to accomplish something like making it to lvl 30, doing the voodoo doll quest then being reset back to lvl 29 and having to do it all over again, NOT once, NOT twice, BUT three dang times?!?!

Yeah, there something to be bothered about. :piratear:
It's called wasting my time and energy. This will all be forgiven of course if it doesn't happen for a great deal of time or never again but for right now they're close to "walking the plank"! :laughks2::agapirateju3:

That is very unfortunate. We lost 2 new members but were able to recover one because he knew of our guild web site and contacted us through there. If you have their names written down, you should post them here - surely SOMEONE has them on their friends list and you can bring them home.

Probably would not be a bad idea to start a Lost Members thread. I would be glad to search my friends list for you.

Good luck CC. I hope you fine your peeps.

Do you mates know what I really, really fear!?!?

The mother of all resets and data lost,,, yes, you can guess,,, losing a pirate, or several pirates, better yet, a fully mastered one.

That would be the cherry on top!

They are deleting entire accounts, started alphabetically...

All the Aarons say buh bye!

Now that is something i would be very upset about.

I'm logging in to see what the damage is. Quite frankly I'm scared. o.0

Ha! When the recent servers were removed I told them it was a bad move! Well I guess I have to watch my visions more.

Oh well, I'm tired of the resets, taking a break from POTCO and playing POTBS until all of this blows over, I'll still be on, just no looting... :P

I agree eric no more looting ive lost my progress to many times!

Nothing to be TOO upset about, just remember that this is out of their control really. They update the site to draw us to the game, it's not their fault that stuff crapped out.

They are doing whatever they can to fix it and I'm sure they'll have something down the line about reducing the chances of finding rare items for a day or something.

And they DID provide an extension for unlimited access members.

Nothing happened over the maintenance last night. Thank god!

Yes! I lost nothing! woot!

I know some here are saying things like "its not their fault" or "they are doing the best they can" but you can only use the dog ate my homework excuse so many times…

With the amount of misinformation swirling about and POTCO doing very little to abate it, I honestly don't feel a tacked on one week extension to UA is a satisfactory compensation when players have lost any sense of assurance that this will not happen again. For some, deciding not to play until they feel the game has stabilized has the potential for players to miss out on this one week extension.

A fairer response to extending UA would be to send a code to UA players affected by the maintenance problems so they can determine for themselves when/if it is safe to make a return to playing the game.



(Edit: I see as I posted this POTCO has posted their official resolution to the maintenance problems)

Too be fair for this to happened on test as it happened many times when loot drops were first introduced is one thing. But for it to make it to open is a huge failure for the POTCO staff.