OPEN release notes 2/25/09

[Maximvs]

There are lots of 40s on test

I have seen several 40s on test - espically recently with all the new stuff (I would hope this to be a good thing, possibly pulling back in some who had been gone for a while).

If I need my pirate to be bigger, then I work on it.

True - but I know some of the best testers who have used the bugs on test to get higher levels to test higher level items... Ironhawk and his team were famous for using the Hex Shot in teams to quickly level pirate to their 30's within a week to test new side-quests (which you can't do if your only a level 10) and other quests (which if you past that quest item in your journal - the only way to test it is to quickly bring another pirate 'up to speed' as quickly as possible.

Not to say testing from the start is not bad either - but without a test function like "set pirate level to X" to test a specific function - glitching test to level up quickly does have its uses, as does playing the entire thing normally. Both sides have merit - so its a mute point

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Now for memory...

This update tanks... pirates was only using at max 560mb before the update- now its eating 700-800mb and Lagging like crazy.... if this is new memory management - bring back the old management... I can always log out every few hours - but the wreck of a game I played this evening was pretty bad... hadn't sen such lag and video issues like that in months...