Greetings KrazyPete, Jeaniegirl, MattyD and Iris,..
Since I had not seen any of the recent facts of the game offered as of yet to your questions...
if you'll allow me,.. I’ll gladly give you all a update.
The advances have been a long time coming and certainly worth the wait.
It appears the Kraken will not be landing in our ocean very soon, perhaps by the first of the coming 2010 year, but instead, it appears attention and focus has been redirected to new advances in the game. Advances that will allow multi interaction on several levels and advanced story lines that are a few instead of one. (referring to the Kraken)
The new game advances have landed on the Test Servers and has shown the Disney has the capability to pioneer in MMO's.
The have delivered (with some wrinkles to iron out) the first 3D (which is optional) MMO in Pirates Online.
The build up has been as a "Coming War" in the Caribbean.
The day it landed (on Test Servers) was truly amazing...
The Event initiates as a declaration that looks like this...
The event does a countdown also at 10 minutes and then 5 and then 1 minute...
then,...the Ship appeared like the flying Dutchman off the harbor at Port Royal.
A massive Phantom ship and the words of Jolly Roger himself bellowing out like the voice of God.
The event begins with several wave attacks of undead in an attempt to destroy the barricades that block the path to destroy the Governors Mansion. It has options of victory or defeat. Pirates must work together and utilize the newly implemented revive system that is all too necessary to bring your fellow Pirate back to life on the spot in attempts to overcome Jolly's minions of evil doers. At the end,.. jolly roger himself lands to complete what his army could not finish if they are defeated… and he is one powerful foe,.. We had a 20 or more on him and he still managed to overtake us…. On another occasion, we took him down… one bad dude for sure!
There are so many details of this new feature... it will not be a holiday event but a interactive part of the game.
Sensational, unprecedented and genius is all I can say about the ability to, at your choice, play the game in 3D mode. It was simply fantastic.
As also stated,.. the Notoriety cap is raised to 50 along with weapons skills to 30.
GM Captain Walter of the Online Staff "Marceline Guild" was overheard saying this.....
"the War is coming and will be fierce, (as he has openly said before) and the Caribbean ,
I fear will be a vey haunting place this coming Month of October!"
There is so much that has landed and so much more coming.
This bring life to the game like I have never experienced.
Very cool stuff... so glad it is here... my Family and I are having a blast playing...
Yes, I too have incurred the cost of paying for 3 accounts,.. but it is a whole months worth of family
enjoyment and I could easily burn that up at one outing to the movie theatre. (and then some)
Fun stuff... a magical adventure....
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