I've noticed that people have become more and more rude lately. when I started playing in around 07 the game was a lot different I spent a long time without a guild but when I started people where much much nicer to others I remember being able to stand on abassa tortuga and actually have a good time talking to random people and if you ever needed help you just asked and you would have a huge group of people WANTING to help you. and need guild members? go into the kings arm do the old glitch too get behind the front counter with the boxes behind it and stand with a thought bubble with you're guild and reasons people should join... when I ran a guild back then called "Dog's Daggers" I got many good members that way... if you did that now you would get nothing but terribly rude guild hoppers and if you ask for help you get called a noob even though it might be a pirate you just started when you have a level 50 or even a lot of level 50s you still get called a noob because they don't bother to learn anything about you before the judge you for being a low level.

it really makes me sad to see that you can't really start a crew with random people anymore because one of them is bound to be the classic Abassa pirate we've all come to dislike


we need to get back to the way it was in 07-08

This was said in another thread in different wording:

The community was smaller back then. Let's say the ration of good to bad pirates was 5:1. There were less people over all, so there would be less rude people, and you would be less likely to encounter them. Now, since the game has grown, that ratio has probably gotten bigger too, perhaps its 15:5. More people have joined the game, meaning more people that are rude have joined, so there are simply just a larger portion of rude people.

(Now this is my message) Also, people probably think that just because they are anonymous, they can do whatever the blazes they please. I'm not gonna lecture, because you've all heard it, but they just think its funny to harass others when they know they won't get more than a ban. There is really nothing that POTCO can do to help rude people. Just have that report button there so that they can (hopefully) get that ban they deserve. And maybe they should make it so that if you are permabanned on POTCO, no new accounts can be made coming from that IP address.

As for Noob being filtered... lets not. Honestly, its a pretty lame insult. I don't think that I've ever called someone a noob in the recent past as an insult. Its actually kinda funny when they say it. Its like back in Elementary School when someone called you stupid. They would just use that insult because it was mean and they couldn't think of anything better. Same idea with noob here. If they call you that, just say something like "So desperate to come up with an insult that you call me a noob, eh? At least use your brain and think of something a bit more creative." Noob is a pathetic insult, used by mainly pathetic people. Just ignore it and report. Not much else to do.

Sorry I droned on... I just wanted to say all that stuff.

Somebody called me a noob and I told Him I heard better insults from sock puppets:laughks2:. Hey its a disney site what else could I have said?:laughks2:

I do see your point Davy, I would miss calling my friends noobs. But lets be honest, if they did ban the word noob, couldn't people just say n00b, nuub, or nuouououb ( :D ) ? I suppose now I take away wanting it to be filtered.

I hate that word. I've had an experience like those on two separate occasions.

The first one was at Darkhart Abassa (I realise the error of my ways). I was happily fighting, in a good mood, when I noticed this guy. I made a little joke about his name, I think he found it funny, but this other guy came along and started saying in capitals that my joke was 'hurtful' and I should 'apologise'. I said that the guy didn't really mind, because he was already LOLing. The guy just kept on, telling me to say sorry and stuff. This guy was trying to be the boss of me. I said sorry anyway, because I was sick of him. Then he started insulting me, calling me a fartbag (and a noob), and the other guy joined in too. I reported them both and left.

The second one was a lot more offensive. I was on my little character at Neban (Abassa), about level 8 or so, and I was getting rep, being revived when I was knocked out, which was nice of the guys fighting there. Then this guy joined up and noticed me being constantly knocked out. He started calling me a noob and refusing to revive me. I told him that this wasn't my main character. Naturally he didn't believe me. This nicer guy kept reviving me and telling the guy that he shouldn't say those things, regardless of level. I got sick of it and went onto Misty and to find him, but by the time I'd got to Neban he'd scarpered. :laughks2:

What has Pirates come to?

What??? Fartbag??? LOL! That is messed. I absolutely HATE that word. I actually prefer Newbie other than NOOB because of the key word here... "New"bie. If a level 50 calls my level 36 a noob (or newbie to be exact), he is badly mistaken. Even if a pirate is level 10, they aren't much of a newbie, they probably have been playing at least two or three weeks at level 10, and the game is the cause for low levels and low level pirates dying more easily. Thankfully, I haven't really had too many incidents, but i have had a few VERY annoying ones. I was at Darkhart on Andaba once and i was leveling my staff. I was using Desolation? Anyway,... probably since i was a "Noob" (likely level 32 or 33 at the time), this guy with nearly all of his weapons mastered and around level 45-49 was calling me a "rep stealer" for using Desolation on darkhart (which is kinda weird because that attack on Darkhart is equal to Blade Storm on a level 25 enemy for me). He told me to use a weaker attack, so i used Whither or something like that... but i'm pretty sure he kept getting "mad" at me. I checked his levels on the player card and told him that i'm not a "rep stealer" if he is using a mastered weapon. After that, another guy there started annoying me too. I think more people came and it stopped or... actually, a girl told him to go to another server, but i just decided to go to Abassa or to a friend rather than let it go on.

I've also had a similar yet not so similar experience to Dark Pixie's "Neban" experience... I was on a privateering island and there happened to be many others there. I was "killing" all of the privateers from that island because i was from the opposite side. So I ended up blowing myself up with a grenade and then I was revived and i tried a glitch that involved Desolation and some grenades... died again. None of the higher level pirates would revive me. :D My fault I guess. I think they were calling me a noob though and were getting mad at me for no reason (other than grenades).

Oh... I know this is random, but... Captain Trench or another GM was at King's Arm after an invasion and (speaking of grenades) told me that the bar owner might not be very pleased to see people throwing grenades in his bar (I was throwing A LOT of grenades). hehe told you it was random.:laughks2:

I also hate it when people who are level ones are calling level 50' s noobs. Sure if their a level 20 and the lv1 is the second pirate, but calling a level 50 is just pulling a prank on your self. :P

I hate people like these. They look for any reason to call a person a noob.

I am lvl 42. I get called noobs by level 2.
Eg
They Whisper "Hey, Noob, Let me use your ship"
Usually I ignore these sorts of people because it drives them insane. They deserve it. But then some people take it over the top.
Eg
I am at Folberto. I wasnt there to fight, I was healing people. At some poitn this person got knocked out. I revived him. A lvl 20 started calling me a noob for reviving the person. Whats up with that? After that I started fighting against Foulberto. Everytime I got knocked out he would yell "Dont Heal Solomon!" But I always do get healed.

That guy was a lower level than me as well! :laughks2: Can't stand it when people assume what they don't know.

Hammy's random story made me imagine if a GM called someone a noob. :piratetongueor4:

"dont get dates..." immature. i agree. im not saying you didnt ask them to stop, but, this is probably what i would do
1. ask them to stop nicely.
2. if they dont stop, warn them of reporting.
3. ignore the player
4., if you other people getting mad, report him/her.
I remember, my friend, Phishytwonya, he was doing a PvP against someone and the other person called him a noob bc he thought Phishy was cheating. Phishy just has very good swordsmanship. i think that Noob-callers should just have to learn what is proper and mature.

To me the word Noob means Never Owned Or Beaten... I made it mine so when I am called it I say, yeah your right I am a noob... It's just a word and we own them, not the other way around...