Expanding Maps and Antisocial Pirates

[Kat Five Knives]

Originally Posted by ex8404

Potions are making the Caribbean a very antisocial place...

I agree that guild chat was almost non existent yesterday after potions was added to the game. However, I was at Cuba and there was a gathering of people from many guilds and we were talking, showing off our potion results, laughing, joking, and just having a great time. So.. I wouldn't say it is is more antisocial. Just for now, I think guild chat may be a little more quiet while we experiment with some of the new things, but I believe it is temporary. I laughed so hard last night I had tears in me eyes.

[MacIronhawk]

Once people get bored with potions, because you know that the potions will get boring after a while, it will get better.

Also, I did notice the islands are farther apart now. Good, IMO, because they were way too close before. I wonder if they also did this because of the new "shrouded islands".

[ex8404]

Originally Posted by MacIronhawk

...because you know that the potions will get boring after a while...

Yeah. Flatulent Fizz gets very old very fast...

[lostmymarbles]

Originally Posted by MacIronhawk

...Also, I did notice the islands are farther apart now. Good, IMO, because they were way too close before. I wonder if they also did this because of the new "shrouded islands".

I haven't been in-game for awhile but one of the things I did notice long ago was that they moved the islands closer together, which IMO was ridiculous, especially since it didn't take long to sail from island to island anyway. I think it's great if they started spacing them further apart.

(I started my pirating gaming on Sid Meier's Pirates which used a historically correct Caribbean placement of the islands and ports. In that game, it took longer to sail from say Tortuga to Cumana, or from Port Royal to Barbados and you had to try to search for the enemy ships, whose location was always changing, based on information from the port NPC's. Now if that game had ever gone to an MMORPG, I'd be there in a heartbeat.)