Wildfire

Feel free to shoot this idea down in flames - I haven't quite decided how much I like this idea myself yet, but thought I'd share it to see what people make of it At the heart, I want to try to get as much variation on the sea as possible. I played PotBS for many years, and at any given point in its history there was always one or two ships with one or two setups that were the best, hands down. I want to see a system where I don't know what I'm going to run into when I leave port. So... What if a player could change the basic setup of a ship? People (myself included) tend to get stuck in this idea of 'X ship has x guns' or 'Y ship handles like this' What if a trader could take a SoL and strip out all the guns to create a cavernous hauler that might intimidate pirates at a distance? Or a frigate captain could exchange some performance and cargo space for an extra gun or two, or perhaps lose a few guns in exchange for better handling characteristics? I think that something like this, carefully implemented could potentially create quite a lot of diversity in gameplay. Finally, I want to say that this thought is still at an early stage - I'm positing it because I'd like to hear people's thoughts on how it might (or might not) work

I find myself in the unfortunate position of having to agree with Joel (feels dirty). The PotBS community was by far and away the best I've ever come across in a game, the pvp was great and almost blanced for a while (apart from OP CTs, Buccs, FTs and NOs ofc). A good community does make its own content, but that's not to say it should be relied upon to do so. Insofar as 'content' goes, FLS in it's last year, and Portalus after that seemed hell bent on making content that people just didnt need / want, for people that weren't there to appreciate it. While that in itself is no bad thing necessarily (more content is a good thing right?) it was done at the expense of other things that needed looking at a lot more urgently (RvR for example). And yes, I think at the end almost all of ISY got forum perma-banned for being Tem. I tried making another account to send in a ticket explaining that I wasn't Tem, but that got instantly banned too so I gave up. That kind of conduct from people running a game was not exactly what was needed at the time. Provided NA doesn't follow the same road (and looking at these forums, it's looking very promising that they won't) I have high hopes that this could bring back the PotBS golden age and then some!

Oh dear god... the noobs have arrived

Hang on... this can't be the old PotBS community... There's no flaming going on! Anyway, how did I not hear about this game til now? I've been looking for another Age of Sail MMO since PotBS started going downhill when it went F2P (bracing for abuse)... Definitely be great to get as much of the old guard back together as possible (along with as many new faces as possible) ISY is coming back (again)... let it begin! -Wildfire