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Amazon Star Gazing.
If I had any wish, it would be for Disney to really see the potential this game had and missed. It would take someone at DIMG (Interactive Media Group) to champion the game and get the resources to get it overhauled, moved to a better graphics engine, better servers and actually promote the game to attract new players and coax the old timers back.
I know its a matter of money, but you can't make some without spending some.
Scrap the Kraken, scrap the Club Penguin guy's idea of just having mini-games and no more continuing plot... (That was him by the way that made that change. He's gone now.)
Dig back out all of those countless images, phase files, audio tracks, music tracks and the unfinished maps. Put just a bit of that 3.8 billion dollars made by the Pirates movies into hiring a team of folks to continue what was started.
Re-write chapters 2, 3 and on to get us back on track with the movie's story timeline and not stuck forever between films 1 and 2. Give pirates a reason to come back day after day, and we will.... and we will glad pay our two-bits to be part of that.
At it's peak, this game had over 500,000 players. Half-a-millon. That's staggering isn't it? At $9.95 a month for a year. That was a potential $60,000,000.00 that was once poured into their coffers. Isn't continuing to the horizon worth just a fraction of that?
But, an Amazon can only wish...
If any Disney folks ever peer inside these hollowed walls, here's a few practical ideas to keep us going.
Trading - nuff' said. If we're never getting trading, then either a Captain's Quarters or an expanded storage chest, even just a catch all bin for extra junk would work.
More, Lots More Recycling Quests - If we're never getting Chapter 2, then every NPC should be offering us basic little quests for gold, XP, or hard to find items. Add to that random dig spot treasures give just one or twice a day - you might stumble upon something special
More Mini-Games - How about Dagger Darts, Arm Wrestling, or Coin Flipping games in the Taverns? How about earning a permanent skill in Ship Repair so we can earn extra materials?
Clean up Kingshead - If we're never gonna' have to rescue Jack from the Keep in Chapter 2, then a lot of the island is wasted space and unused buildings. Might actually run smoother.
Smithing Skills - We have custom ships, why not custom weapons? But it would not really have to be true custom weapons. Adding a quest to learn blacksmithing or gunsmithing could allow a player to upgrade a weapon to equal a hard to find famed one. And ANY new quests are welcome.
Sorry, if I've gone long.
EC
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