William the Drake

I am very curious if any of you here on the forums have ever played East India Company. Personally, I thought that the naval combat engine was a bit sub-par. However, coming from PotBS, I did like few aspects of the direct ship control. Most notably, the ability to change your perspective in the 1st person view from the view of the helmsman/Captain to facing either port or starboard side, or facing off the bow or stern. In PotBS, you can zoom in close enough to get a sort of 1st person view, but you are stuck in that one spot, the camera will only ever rotate and zoom around that one central node (the player's avatar on the ship), However, in EIC there is little camera freedom when in the direct control mode. You are not allowed to rotate or zoom with the camera, something I consider a drawback. While on one of the broadsides, one should at least be able to rotate a 180 from bow to stern for that side. I would very much like to see the ability to have different 1st person vantage points from the ship while in combat. Perhaps even amongst the rigging.

Ahoy everyone! This game has me very exited. It has so much potential considering the staggering detail going into it. PotBs has always had a place in my heart: my first MMO I really got addicted to, but with the recent drop in population and the apparent absence of the Developers, I must say that it will take little encouragement to have me jump ship to this Game. Considering that the PotBS community doesn't even have a forum to communicate with at the moment, I can say that I have been and will continue to promote this game to my society members; The collective leadership of my society is eager to move as much of our members here upon the game's launch. I hope to spend more time in the forum reading what updates there are and throwing out my suggestions when I see the need to do so. Fair seas and swift winds to you all!