The game itself is great, especially if you like naval warfare. The whole crafting design, unfortunately, leaves something to be desired though.

I have recently stopped playing WoW, which I had been playing since beta, since there are simply no challenges left unconquered (lack of content for our uber guild, not out of hate. I am actully kind of sick and tired of the WoW bashers I see everywhere, I mean… 10 MILLION subscribers people, nuff’ said).

I did get an invitation back to EQ2 for the summer, with access to all the expansions, in an attempt by SOE to get people to start playing again. As much as I disdain SOE, its hard to say no to a free couple months and tons of new, free content.

Hey Schill, any chance you would divulge what servers you play on?

in a game i want:
mmoFPS - ww2online, fixed version. thats the only game that held me for 4.5 years.
i want REALITY or historic based weapons and vehicles, one shot kills etc… if say a tank was historically easy to kill with a side shot…then keep it that way, don’t make something into what it’s not. i wish some company would buy crs out or re-invent that thing. a game based in old world, ww1, ww2 or even a modern day battlefield with reality but has to be large scale would be great.

what i don’t care too much for is…
8v8, 16v16, 32v32…bunny hopping, instanced pvp, pve or optional pvp, leveling, anything to do with dungeons, lazers, 100’s of hits to kill something, instant med/health packs, unlimited spawns at the same location, aircraft in which dogfighting consists of doing circles, turning invisible, magical spells, grinding the same pve mob for hours, +whatever hit ratings, i could go on and on.
/rant off…i feel better now.

Rangers, 2008, I mean 2009. Umm, maybe 2010. Nevermind, lets go Cowboys!

Anyway, I’m a huge mmo gamer and always enjoy testing, bug reporting, and giving feedback on all upcoming mmos during their beta phases. I was looking into POTBS for years and was very excited about it. POTBS does have a lot of enjoyable aspects such as the naval combat, beautiful environments, and a deep crafting system However, after testing it out for a few weeks I have to be honest and say i’m disappointed in POTBS as a whole.

The main problem I have with POTBS is that it lacks the social interaction that all mmos should have. Everything, besides the port cities are instanced. All missions are instanced, so you’ll never see anyone out on the open seas. Even pvp is instanced. When a port becomes contested only 25 players are allowed to engage in the contested seaport battle. All the instancing really kills the games immersion and social aspect. In the end, it felt more like a single player game than a mmorpg.

Guess i’ll be sticking to Tabula Rasa until I get a chance to beta test Age of Conan. AOC looks fantastic and the visuals are amazing in full DX10 glory. Perhaps, it will even be a game that can push the beefed up specs you have on your alienware computers

I play Tikal on spielbyweb —
my SBW user handle is lefty
my BGG user is sigtaulefty

Full disclosure, I am a Yankees fan but I can put aside the fact that you play in boston to knock you around the Tikal board.

The economy is fairly deep, but not as immense as say EvE. There is zero grind to the economy, it’s all based on organization and efficiency.

The conquest system involves fighting for control of the carribean by taking over ports. You kill NPCs and players near a nations port to create unrest which ultimately can end up in a final battle which is 25vs25. I can’t wait for release on 1/22. The game is currently in ‘pre-boarding’ which is 2 weeks of playing before live with a level cap of 21, mainly to get the economy established before the unwashed masses roll in.

Snok Perez - Spanish Privateer - Antigua Sever
Sturmgrenadier

The people on that Pirate site were wrong–You are a THREE time World Series Champion.

Once when the D’Backs beat the Yankees in 2001.

And, well, TWICE with The Red Sox!!

(Gee, I never get tired of saying that!!!)

Happy New Year!

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