Pirates of the Burning Sea™ Free to Play - Start Mon 22 Nov 2010

[Ace Rimsey]

Pirates of the Burning Sea will relaunch as a Free to Play service on Monday 22nd November 2010.
Pirates of the Burning Sea - Free Trial

For more information, visit our TOG Private Member Forum (Once you have signed up as a TOG Member) and read this post.


Ace Rimsey
TOG Guild Leader - Pirates of the Burning Sea.

[Ace Rimsey]

Currently my plans are on Tuesday 23 November 2010 to start on Roberts (Eu) as French.

The great thing about Free to Play is there is no pressure to game if you are too busy due to other games & real life commitments.

I intend on focussing all our energy on getting the French Society operating on Roberts with the crafting supply chains for ships and consumeables operating before we split our energies across two servers by starting the Pirate Society on Antigua.

Obviously, if US Game time TOGs want to join in, we can bring forward the launch, but my intent is to keep this division pretty relaxed about levelling up or doing ingame economy.

First things will be organising new characters and scheduling group levelling activities.

Roberts (European Game Time) - French Society (Deferred until critical mass reached)

As I have two level 50 characters plus a level 23 Privateer and many ship and econ deeds as well as established production structure and some savings from before. I expect this society to be the most active in game and focus of all our initial energy.

I will be focussing on starting a new Freetrader for the new group leveling.

I will eventually finish levelling my Privateer to Level 50, unfortunately, the recent game balance changes have made the Privateers uncompetitive in PvP.

Antigua (US Game Time) - Pirate Society

Outside the European peak time of Roberts [Eu], I will work on a Buccaneer on Antigua [US] so that I can eventually sail the Pirate Treason Flagship which is a Pirate refitted 3rd Rate Wenden, which makes it currently the best ship that can still be made in the game.

As I have no characters on Antigua, I will be leading a team of new pirates on levelling up and establishing the society infrastructure to turn out Pirate Treasons.

So have a read of my guide to Pirates of the Burning Sea
http://www.theoldergamers.com/forum/...ml#post2958152

And express your intent to join us ingame by signing up here
http://www.theoldergamers.com/forum/...ml#post2958161

Don't forget to give me a suggestion for 10. Name of the Overall Division.

As well as 11. the faction specific society name.

Once I have collected sufficient responses, I will post up a poll to select the name of this new division in TOG as well as the names we will be using to establish our new societies on Roberts [Eu] ('Rob') and Antigua [US] ('Tiggy').

[Ace Rimsey]

I hate grinding and I hate forcing people to do what they don't want to do.
Hence given the small size of the interested players, I will

NOT be having a Society Economy for ship and consumeables
NOT forcing the Faction.
NOT forcing the Server choice.

I will guarantee we will have group leveling (up to six at a time) of new starter characters doing the PvE Story missions on whatever server and faction the majority of players decide in this poll.

If you intend to return to this game and want to play with TOG, please click on this link and vote now on one of the six combinations of

(1) Roberts (Eu) / (2) Antigua (US) servers and the
(A) English, (B) French, (C) Pirate Factions.

http://www.theoldergamers.com/forum/...g-society.html

[Ace Rimsey]

Come on all you lurkers. Vote on the Server.

At the moment its 2 each for Roberts - French, 2 for Pirate Antigua.

Help break the deadlock by voting once on the six combinations.

We are less than a week from the relaunch so make your vote count now.

[Ace Rimsey]

Current Plans.

When the Free to Play goes live on Mon 22 Nov 2010, I will be forming a TOG Pirate Society on Antigua (US Peak Playtime).

If you would also like to play the French National faction, you are welcome to join me in my existing society Les Condamnes (LC) on Roberts (European Peak Playtime, 10.00 pm AEST and later for Australian players).

Read this post if you want more info on LC
http://www.theoldergamers.com/forum/...ml#post2962903

So all you lurkers get ready to slap on your Pirate hat or a French Chappeau as Pirates of the Burning sea goes Free to Play next week.

[Kerogi]

I've heard that there's going to be a delay with f2p by about a week. I blame soe cause there rubbish.

[Aldmw]

I hope not, im looking forward to trying it out.

[Aldmw]

Pirates of the Burning Sea Patch 2.1 (Free to Play) Goes Live Next Monday!

[Ace Rimsey]

Originally Posted by Kerogi

I've heard that there's going to be a delay with f2p by about a week.

Unfortunately, this is true. Here is the actual posting.

Pirates of the Burning Sea Patch 2.1 (Free to Play) Goes Live Next Monday!
Patch 2.1 (Free to Play) Goes Live Next Monday!

Posted by mrthetooth | 11/16/2010 | Maintenance Notice | Discuss


We plan to publish build 2.1 to our live servers on Monday, November 29th. Antigua and Roberts should be down between 4am and 9am PST*.

This patch will take Pirates of the Burning Sea Free to Play!


The exact release time may change based on conversations we have with SOE later this week, and we plan to keep you up to date with any changes.


We invite you to hang out in the official Pirates of the Burning Sea chat channel while the servers are down.

* noon – 5pm GMT / 11:00pm – 4:00am AEST


Posted by mrthetooth | 11/16/2010 | Maintenance Notice | Discuss

Originally Posted by Kerogi

I blame soe cause there rubbish.

So do I! If it was only on Steam it would be working. Now that they are tied to the devil called SOE. You need to hold you nose and use a very long spoon to sup with the devil.

Another excuse is due to the thanksgiving holiday in the US, they would be under resourced to cope with solving any player problems to be expected with a new influx of gamers returning to the game.

Hence the week after thanks giving (the one week delay) means they can staff up to handle the flow of new players.

1. What does that mean for TOG PotBS Society?

1.a. Tortuga Oriental Guards (TOG)) Pirate Society to form on Antigua (US Peak Playtime).

The only issue is that you can only change factions within the first 72 hours (3 days) after a server victory has been declared. This happened on Sunday.

So with the delay, the option to switch factions before the start of the round has now closed.

As the launch date is slipped, you need to be careful about what nation you are subbed to on Antigua (US Peak Playtime).

Currently I have an alt French level 2 Naval officer on Antigua which I plan to delete before starting a fresh set of Pirate newbies

1. Ace Cutty - My cutthroat to provide muscle for
2. Ace Bucky - The sinister buccaneer criminal mastermind behind the Toruga Oriental Guards (TOG) [The winner of the society naming poll].

If deleting my French holding character on Antigua does not let me start pirate, then I will probably have to wait until the round resets in 2 months time to formally lead a new society of TOG pirates.

As I will be starting from ground zero on Antigua, there is no way that I will have a 1000 doubloons to form a new society on day one.

But we can work towards that as well as running a contest to design our logo and ship livery. As a poor new society, we have no prizes, but you will have the honor of knowing that every TOG Pirate on Antigua is sailing under your artistic design and colours!

This Society is designed to be fun and flexible for anyone to jump in at any time and jump out for as long as they feel like it.

There are no grand plans beyond providing the opportunity for TOG players to level up new characters together.

Antigua is ill suited to Realm versus Realm battles, especially if you are a Pirate as its almost impossible to beat the nationals to the win because you can't keep captured ports like the nationals. Any port taken is ransacked but returned to the natioanl owner in 3 days time which returns them the 10 points you won beating them in a port battle.

1.b. I am not American and play on Roberts (European Peak Playing Time)

The style or Roberts means the player population is more balanced and a healthy rivalry is around enabling all factions to share in the excitement of trying to win the Realm versus Realm (RvR) strategic goal to claim Marks of Victory (provided your character is level 20+ and is the same faction as the victor).

I have surveyed the returning PotBS players and no one wants to make the commitment required to support a self contained Society economy.

Without such a system ship deeds and consumeables become expensive and often hard to obtain.

The minimum commitment is at least 10 regular people to provide the ship and outfitting and consumeables that a functioning society needs.

As we don't have the time or interest in setting up this infrastructure, we TOG will not be officially launching any National faction on Roberts in the foreseeable future.

1.c. If there is no TOG society on Roberts (European Peak Playing Time) what are my options.

Glad that you asked!

You are welcome to sign up to my old guild, which I will be returning to play as French on Roberts.

They also have a mirror image Spanish faction to allow for a swap of faction in the next round to shake up the powerplay alliances.

If you read my posts in our private forum, you will see I love the historical context of the English faction. Unfortunately, a lot of people think they can become the Next Aubrey/Hornblower/Nelson and opt to go English the first time they play.

The consequence is that there is a large number of PvE English players in a Society which weakens their ability to be a cohessive force in Port Battles which is essential for winning RvR.

Unless you are French or Spanish, the PvE population of these two factions is almost non-existance, so any players from these two factions likely belong to a society deliberately formed to provide that focus and commaraderie necessary to win the strategic game.

Visit our forums and check out my Posting of Les Condamnes (LC).

If you are happy to play french, then there is no problems signing up to LC.

The only thing they ask is that every few days when your structures fill up, you sell them at cost the surplus production.

Doing this at cost means you can buy ship deeds and outfittings and other consumeables (eg. Mast Braces, heavy round shot, etc.) at cost price.

Sounds like a good deal to me.

You get access to all the best stuff at the lowest possible price for doing a bit of econ that you would have to do anyway.

So no need to worry about organising a supply chain, just sell your stuff to the society and they have haulers to take your goods to our main shipyard Cayo de Marquis (Cayo for short).

In the initial weeks when this game launches around the start of December 2010, I expect to be busy on Roberts working on my French Privateer.

So focus on leveling up your Pirate following the story and career mission tress around marsh harbour and when you have the chance, log in to Teamspeak 3 and see if there is anyone around who wants to group up to do some ingame missions or pirate mayhem by blockading a port.

As its free to play, I expect TOG to gradually establish a major presence on both Roberts and Antigua.

So be patient as we await for the phoenix to rise from the ashes.

Note if you want to accelerate this timetable, then the best thing would be for you to volunteer to help run the society.

A competitive National faction economy requires ten committed players to cover all the roles, so until there are ten volunteers, don't expect to see a TOG national society on Roberts.

Les Condamnes (LC) is a non-TOG sanctioned Society that will contain many of the TOG players on Roberts.

Happy Sailing

Ace
Society Leader for the TOG Division of Pirates of the Burning sea.

[MMOGAddict]

Resolute Storm is a level 50 Spanish NO on Antigua, I play during the Australian primetime, currently still in my old society of Sturmgrenadier, but will be dropping from them pretty soon.