Has the game changed much since release, I'm mostly a pve:er so is there any point in trying it now? I really like the setting but I could care less about pvp. What I want is a pirate/naval mmo where I can pve and relax some, but also with some depth (that is don't point me towards that Disney game...).

Not saying they should remove pvp in this game, but is there a place for a questing pve:er moving at his own pace, or will I just be yet another ganking victim having my all too small amount of spare time getting ripped apart?

I am not playing it at the moment but have kept an eye on the updates.

I haven't noticed a huge amount for a none PvP player to do added. They have added a bunch of new quests with very strong story arcs. I believe they are a little like the map quests or the zombie island questline (can't remember the name of the island.

They  doubled the resource production so you can make twice as much now as you could before. They also simplified the number of different production buildings a little. I guess thats good if your  into the economy.

The art team has updated a few more of the cities too.

To be honest I don't think they have that many people working on it anymore. Its been almost 2 years now and we still haven't seen anything of Player run ports or player run shops. At launch they said those + PvP were the three legs of the economy. Its been running for 2 years on one leg.

Originally posted by kazamx

To be honest I don't think they have that many people working on it anymore. Its been almost 2 years now and we still haven't seen anything of Player run ports or player run shops. At launch they said those + PvP were the three legs of the economy. Its been running for 2 years on one leg.

Do you have a link to that? I'm not questioning the veracity of your statement, rather I'm interested in reading that three-prong plan for the economy.

Thank you, informative answer, if not what I wanted to hear. Any other pirate like MMOs out there? Or has any of you tried Age of pirate 1 or 2? I liked the first Sea Dogs, but not the 2 follow ups.

Originally posted by OBK1

Thank you, informative answer, if not what I wanted to hear. Any other pirate like MMOs out there?

Voyage Century and Bounty Bay Online are two F2P but they'reheavy on the item mall.

PKO and Tales of Pirates are two F2P with a cutesy style to them. Can play fine without ever paying but they do turn into a grind after a while.

Pirates of the Caribbean is interesting and seems to appeal to kids a lot.

World of Pirates has crappy graphics, great gameplay, and a cool EU community to its servers. A one-time fee of 14.95 to play forever. Has a trial also.

Puzzle Pirates is a cartoony skill-based pirate themed MMO with lots of player competition components to it from poker and drinking games to territory control (blockading and occupying islands).

Out of them all, in my opinion, Pirates of the Burning Sea has the best graphics, most fun gameplay, coolest community and fastest route to the endgame. It also has much better quests and ingame story than the others. Actually, POTBS just plain kicks ass.

There ya go. :D

Originally posted by LynxJSA

Originally posted by kazamx

To be honest I don't think they have that many people working on it anymore. Its been almost 2 years now and we still haven't seen anything of Player run ports or player run shops. At launch they said those + PvP were the three legs of the economy. Its been running for 2 years on one leg.

 

Do you have a link to that? I'm not questioning the veracity of your statement, rather I'm interested in reading that three-prong plan for the economy.

http://www.burningsea.com/page/news/article&article_id=10746

Also note that this was published in April of last year, and that nothing has really been done since then.

if you havent got a lvl 50, and done all the quests and only the Econami and PvP is left then there is alot of fun stuff to do in POTBS. They have alot of fun quest arcs and I think they just aded more, some sort of Tresure hunt story arch.

So if you havent played it mush before there is lots off stuff to do..