Lol i couldn't compare or say anything about POTBS because i never played it. Also there is much more that could be added to POTCO, i just wrote what camee first in my mind.

Very Addicting game !!!.... -_-
~ Just saying ~ cause Ive played it for at least 12 hours each day of winter break :P and i almost burnt the video card up in my comp. fromm playing it so much :P

P.S. ~ Happy New Year to all ~

What I would translate this into is basics can DO almost anything, but bascis can't GAIN anything from it once they have all their weapons at max, and plus you can't even recruit past 91% for the first recruit in the Black Pearl Quest.

Even though my main account is unlimited... And I haven't complained about basic access needs... I now have two basics, and I can see their point. Basics do need to be able to do more.

Also, POTCO is a really fun game, but yes, definitely needs more new, fresh content .

none of them, WoW wins, no contest!

Yes, because we all love killing 100 Warthogs for a meager reward, right! :laughks2: No offense, mate, but I'm not patient enough for WoW. :P

Neither am I, thats why I am taking a break. I am into Akella's pirate games at the moment. I mod them too. I did try POTBS. Its fun, but I have no idea what the heck I am supposed to do next.

POTBS looks very facinating. I love the graphics and it's good to see there's a Pirate MMORPG out there for hardcore gamers but I've never considered myself a "hardcore gamer" and it seems too complicated and not as much fun to me. I'll still with POTCO personally but it's good that there are other options for those who want it

POTBS does not install correctly for me.

I love POTCO, I've tried POTBS, and I do admit, very nicely done. But just the fact that my family and friends are here on POTCO, I don't think I'll ever leave. Though the posts look like most are in favor of POTBS.

Well no, there really isn't much of a contest.

1/ POTCO is p2p. Yes, there is almost 1 percent you can do as a basic, but thats it. POTBS is COMPLETELY free. Yes, there is an option to pay, but that just gives random benefits that you can actually buy with doubloons anyway. Seeing how well built POTBS is, that's extremely generous.

2. POTBS has a huge arsenal of ships, most unique and full of polygons, along with textures that are high quality.

3. I'm able to run POTBS smoothly with no server turbulence at all. The same cannot be said for POTCO, which is rather ironic.

4. POTBS has a challenging PVP system. For SVS, it's not a "See how many shots you can get in with a Light Sloop with 2 fury gunners as you take down ships 9000 times your size" deal. PVP take skill, tactics, and preperation. You need to tactically decide what you're going to do to make life miserable for your oppenent, whether it be taking down their sails to attempt boarding or an easy kill, aiming for crew to create large debuffs, or simply take out their armor.

Swashbuckling is also improved. It's not a "Fidget to the left and right, quick canceling between weapons and bombarding your enemy with exploited glitches and then claim that you're not exploiting because that would put your cool guy persona in peril" deal. POTBS is a different game, and you can't exploit in an RPG. It's all fair.

The only problem with POTBS's pvp is lowbie ganking.

5. Quests are much better. They are not the "Kill 20 *insert ship here*" deal. They all try to do something different, something clever to show the power of their game engine. Disney has tried to do this with the Raven's Cove quests but that was rather short. Almost all the quests in POTBS try someting new, and believe me, there are a lot of quests.

6. You can play as 4 factions, all with unique ships and skills.

7. You can shoot people, you can drink rum, you can ransom people, you can capture and strip down a derelict ship for supplies. POTBS certainly feels more like a pirate game.

8. POTBS has better graphics. And when I mean better, I MEAN EXTREMELY GOOD graphics. Some of the best graphics, if not THE best for a free game.

9. Very few glitches, if not any. The developers who work at FLS would faint if they saw pirates just floating in midair everywhere you go. If there is a glitch, they'll fix it within a day, if not less of a time.

10. You won't get banned for using an emote, nor do you have to worry if using an emote will get it removed.

Number 10: so if you where misusing an emote, no one would care?

Mostly because there isn't any emote that could *almost* be considered vulgar. Also, even if there was, the community is much more mature than POTCO's.

POBTS and POTCO are for two different types of players. POTCo is for pure fun. POBTS is for people who want to play a game as if it were real life. They want it to be as realistic as possible, hence the boring SVS and, from what i've heard PVP. There's such a big learning curve in POBTS it made my head swim.

I've heard that you can swear as much as you want. Someone posted it here on the thread that the game was full of racist comments, Swears, and other nasty things. How can you consider that mature??

If you want an awesome pirate game play Sid Meier's Pirates! Just do it, you can reward with rum afterward! Seriously one of the best games I have ever played.

The only good quote from Super Paper Mario: "I love going onto forums to complain about video games i've never played!"

People in POTBS don't play it for it's realism. Of course, in POTBS, your ship can't back up as if it were a car, nor do they go 9000 miles per hour. That doesn't mean people play POTBS for realism, they play it because it's the most faithful, and most fun pirate game out there.

SVS isn't boring and nor is PVP. It's not even an opinion. Well actually it is, but saying that the SVS in POTBS is boring compared to POTCO's SVS is downright absurd. Theres nothing "fun" about being sunk in your collosal War Frigate by a puny light sloop just because they have fury gunners.

You can swear as much as you want, but it's all censored. You can swear as much as you want in POTCO, but you'll (maybe after a year of doing it) will get banned. The same goes for POTBS. The only racist people are trolls. All of this is standard in ANY online game.