Test Release Notes - January 13, 2009

[Poison elf]

I guess I popped back on yesterday a day to early, after a few weeks.

So looked at stuff for a hour or so today. Port Royal has had a full make over.

So far I saw some good things some bad.

Clicking a persons name out of chat window to bring them up I immediately thought of all the spammers hiding in a wall and spamming their name over and over, haha.

As for a quick view of some things I reported.
Tattoo's and jewelry "my items" not showing up.
In guild options refreshing the list with showing members locked the game.
Port Royal has now one ammo shop (grenades quest) no longer a convenient ammo shop when you dock. Hopefully will be fixed with the empty room of one of three doors by the dock.

40's now have something to do. The pic Sara put up, you can see the code button under clothing. So we now can hit that code button and put in random numbers over and over, and see if we can get something, lol.
(actually didn't look to close to that maybe that is for the color)

Lag better, maybe. Did get a couple stops, but over all seemed better. Going into Quarry on Padres, I use to lag bad from the start with the bat, that area seemed better.

Chat no longer has the + sign. Typos turn red in the sentence you are typing, but still go through. Sentences cut after like ten words and automatically sends, and cuts to send rest in a second sentence. At least in guild chat, not liking that much cutting part of the sentence off or word off you are typing. At least better than typing things over and over to get it to finally go through.

A quick run through on all the new material only saw a couple wall glitches.

[lostmymarbles]

Lol.. I didn't see this thread when I posted on the other...nice pics Sarah! Like I said in my other post.. lots of AFK relocation potential on Port Royal!! Loved the large bridge!

And yes. ... we will have to start using our tracking beams just to find our way around Port Royal.. has anyone been able to locate June with a beam?

[Edward Edgemenace]

What is that microphone circle icon thing, underneath th notoriety/level circle?

[Sarah]

It's the lookout/find a crew thingy. (and it's a telescope )

[ukebec]

Has anyone checked out the other enemy areas of PR? Like Murky Hollow, Kings Run, Wicked Thicket, etc? I just wonder if they've been affected by the Extreme Island Makeover or not.

[Maximvs]

Originally Posted by uk

Has anyone checked out the other enemy areas of PR? Like Murky Hollow, Kings Run, Wicked Thicket, etc? I just wonder if they've been affected by the Extreme Island Makeover or not.

I did a run through the back areas last night - and they all look the same to me (though all the entries are in different locations now)... only PR itself has had the 'Extereme Town Makover" by Ty and his disign team

[ukebec]

- thank you Max.

[Rnmusie]

wow pr looks awsome can wait for it to come on open

[The Skirata Clan]

i don't even understand all of that...

[League]

On Test, all my writing has gone skewed, from character titles upon the character page to the Quit and every other button, the same problem when I put regular POTCO on Dx9. What's the problem here, anyone know?

[drwr]

On Test, all my writing has gone skewed

Sounds like something's wrong with your DirectX9 driver. Have you tried using the "Graphic Option" button on the launch panel to change the graphics mode back to OpenGL?

[Arioch]

Do you have an old voodoo graphics card? Think they were 3DFX they were bought out by Nvidia years ago but those cards where only open GL if that helps.

Think they were from 1996 to 2000 I am guessing and in computer years that is decades ago at least. (computer years being much longer then dog years) 1 year for a computer is roughly 15 human years in comparison

A 6 year old PC is more then old enough to retire.

[lostmymarbles]

Now a Mystery is Solved....

I know why they did a Port Royal makeover. It's my fault. Not long ago... I glitched my burning ship into Port Royal with... yes, I confess... and intense urge to burn down June's house.

Which explains her temporary housing situations as of late.

But not to worry.. and I"m sure someone already beat me to the post.. June has been given a beach front apartment. She now lives in the building right along the beach.. First door on the left.

*evil grin..at least next time I glitch to burn her place.. I won't have to destroy the whole town.

[Sarah]

Originally Posted by lostmymarbles

Now a Mystery is Solved....

I know why they did a Port Royal makeover. It's my fault. Not long ago... I glitched my burning ship into Port Royal with... yes, I confess... and intense urge to burn down June's house.

Which explains her temporary housing situations as of late.

But not to worry.. and I"m sure someone already beat me to the post.. June has been given a beach front apartment. She now lives in the building right along the beach.. First door on the left.
*evil grin..at least next time I glitch to burn her place.. I won't have to destroy the whole town.

LOL Kelly, I thought you were joking, but June really is there.

[Dr. Zeppers]

Originally Posted by Sarah

LOL Kelly, I thought you were joking, but June really is there.

Yeah, found her last night.

She wasnt there originally, that was an empty room, similar to the empty room that PR on open has near the shipwright when the updates first hit test.

Anyhow, seems a silly place for them to put June. There were all sorts of better places in town that seemed available!!!