Release Notes - December 10, 2009

[Charles Darkwolf]

Originally Posted by Basil Dreadflint

In total, this update is terrible!

1) Even on high graphics, the ships look worse than ever.
2) Enemy ships don't leave the compass when sunk. This is confusing to say the least.
3) They still haven't stopped enemy ships from spawning right on top of you.
4) The new speed increase in my ship makes it so that you run right up against the enemy. It's like, the closer you get, the faster you go, and the closer you get!
5) The whole thing about peeling the masts stinks. I was peeling masts from Man-O-War from the very edge of shooting range with only iron shot. If you can strip 4 masts from an enemy ship when they aren't even in compass distance yet, that is wrong.
6) The ability to go through people is wrong also. I want my personal space back!
7) Personally, I think the new lighting stinks. It looks like you are under flourescent lights all the time. This is the Caribbean, it's supposed to be natural sunlight!
8) Shadows! There were times, especially on ship, when I had 2 or even 3 shadows going in different directions. Like there were multiple suns in the sky! When did the Caribbean move off planet to a place with multiple suns?
9) Although my crew display didn't disappear once, my friends/guild list went away every single time I transported. Go through a door, friends list off screen, launch a ship, friends list off screen, TP to someone, friends list gone.

What Disney referred to as improvments, seems to mean, cheaper to make work, and uses less server to function!

Thank you Basil for saying this! If I wasn't in such a fit of rage over this so called "update", I probably would have said a lot of the same things or at least said them in a better way. I'm a player who took pride in the ships he owns, and now I can't stand to look at them. I play on low graphics, but even when I switched over to the high graphics, my ships still looked horrible!

Even though I have a decent graphics card, I play on the low or medium settings so I don't have to worry about alot of lag.

thanks for the post, it's nice to know I'm not the only one that feels this way!