Be frugal when spending your skill points! Only spend them when you have to, and only on skills you really need right now. Keeping your skill levels low guarantees you high rep earnings, even when you reach high level Notoriety.

When your helping someone to do the boss battle for thier first time.
Don't bother bugging everyone to press ESC for the boss battle cutscene, its not going to happen.
Just because YOU have seen it 50 times, doesnt mean the person doing thier first boss battle has.


BTW, why do i have to press my ESC key about 8 times to get it to actually bypass the cutscene?

Speaking of Boss Battles...

If you have a Boss Battle ready, but do not want to beat it, do not go on any boss battles! It will finish not only the one who starts it, but everyone else who has it at that 99% mark.

I cannot count how many times I have invited friends to a bb, we beat it, then they tell me, "Oh, I guess mine is gone too..." :(

Depressing way to lose it.

Though I don't have to press it 8 times - when I do I find it takes everal seconds before it realises I want it to skip and then I get the (waiting for others) message...

I just figured that it was part of the ESC 'Loop' that the Key was on - that it only checked for a press every 10 seconds or so :)

DO NOT say yes to random friend invites. :)

Lessons for today....

Do not read Guild chat while fighting 2 EITC soldiers.... NO MATTER HOW FUNNY AND INTERESTING THE CHAT MAY BE.... :P

Do not try typing r chatting while running... u may run into a wall or fall off a Castle ... :P

VIL for 9/17
 

IF you reach the Gunner part of the Pearl quest before you have the ability to teleport to Padres, then you are doing to much questing, and not enough weapons leveling. Truely, you should be level 30 (have your staff) before you do the Gunner part of the Pearl quest.

If you get left behind, frozen at a cannon, while the rest of the crew is enjoying the free liquor on the flag ship they just boarded, pull out any weapon (to unfreeze yourself), re-engage the cannon and fire chainshot.

Remember to tell your Captain that you were aiming for the enemy, eh hem, not the bottles of rum in his hands.

Side note: I have never been able to skip the stupid cut scene.

This works on ALL the cut scenes.. I mean come on.. after 2 pirates, do you really wanna see every cut scene again???

VIL.. Help those who help you, get heal or cure. :)

When using high explosive at the cannon:
1) If you fire at a ship that is too close to you, or if you accidently shoot the ship you are on, the back explosion won't damage your ship, but it WILL kill your shipmates!!!!! (If you need verification of this, ask Sarah,, one shot sent her to jail!)

2) This would also work for when you get left behind and everyone else is on the flagship drinking looted rum!

For those reading, and posting, to this thread; I started this to be a place where we could post "Quick advice" messages. PLEASE,, don't turn it into a discussion forum, that's what a lot of the others are for.

*looks at post above*

A VIL for here at POF... learn to use the Search Feature to find simple answers like 'who are the gold names' or ' where are the dig spots' :)

The Link To The Search Page

Gordon Greer will heal you! But he won't talk to you at all, if you are already at full health.

9/19 2 VIL's today
 

1) Do regular housekeeping! Daily, at the end of the night, repair your ships, and ammo up at both the gunshop and the blacksmith! This way you are ready to get involved as soon as you log in! Weekly, take a look at your friends list. It's confusing when you want to make a new friend and your list is full. The snap decision on who to delete can bite you later.

2) Ammo up before you teleport! ( Myriad of reasons here, they should all be obvious.)

Note to self.... Can't ladle soup with a spoon that has holes

note to self... no chatting while fighting 2 Stumps.... u get stomped... :(