Originally posted by ssnautilus
Greets.

How does this compare to Voyage Century Online? VCO is a free-2-play generic "Pirates!" clone of sorts - with some interesting elements.

How much of a clone is PotBS to the original "Pirates!" (by Sid Myer I believe)? I played the C=64/CD32 versions in the "golden days" of computing. :)

Thanks.
PS. Anyone have a spare Beta key? Thanks. :)

Well think of drinking a nice glass of wine then think of drinking spoiled grapejuice.  Thats about the difference between VCO and POTBS.  They have 3+ years worth of dev logs for you to look through and see all the differences between the games.

All naval games set in the same time settings can be somewhat considered a clone but none of them really are.  They use the same time setting and yeah they are at sea but what makes a game is a whole lot more then just that.

If you even remotely enjoyed VCO (or afking while your avatar did something) you will probably crap yourself when you play POTBS.

I've played VCO, and honestly it feels like every other grind-type MMO except with plausibly real tallships and poor language translations.

From what I can tell (and mind you my playing time is limited to some ship combat at PAX, everything else is guessing), PotBS is going to be much more like Sid Meier's Pirates! with historically accurate ships and plenty of swashbuckling action to go around.

PotBS looks like it will suit me perfectly. 

VCO is just another Mindless Grinder MMO. It is based on a world map but has only 41 ports. no ports in North america, or south america, or any of the poles,or australia and 10 ports in Africa. Not only does it only have 41 ports in a world map, but also the language is incorrect for it is filled with spelling errors, the quests are very bugged, not to mention the crummy PvP system that noone can figure out.

In PotBS you will not have to grind your way through lvls. Instead you will have to do some of the 1000s of quests that they have made.The combat will be unique and the ships on PotBS will be historicly accurate.The Graphics will be way better then VCO. PotBS actually has character customization while VCO has you choose a character and then you choose a hair style, thats all. I was also reading over a interview with one of the devs of VCO and he just about lied about evrything on it.  He said that PotBS will hav no exploring but only pirates and VCO will have merchants, exploring, and navy sure they have those but they are filled with bugs. PotBS has evrything plus way more. Not to mention that they will have more than 100 ports in the caribbean while VCO only has 41 in the world.

So to compare the two here it is.

VCO : PotBS= A lump of coal : A dimond

Originally posted by BlindGrave

VCO is just another Mindless Grinder MMO. It is based on a world map but has only 41 ports. no ports in North america, or south america, or any of the poles,or australia and 10 ports in Africa. Not only does it only have 41 ports in a world map, but also the language is incorrect for it is filled with spelling errors, the quests are very bugged, not to mention the crummy PvP system that noone can figure out.

In PotBS you will not have to grind your way through lvls. Instead you will have to do some of the 1000s of quests that they have made.The combat will be unique and the ships on PotBS will be historicly accurate.The Graphics will be way better then VCO. PotBS actually has character customization while VCO has you choose a character and then you choose a hair style, thats all. I was also reading over a interview with one of the devs of VCO and he just about lied about evrything on it.  He said that PotBS will hav no exploring but only pirates and VCO will have merchants, exploring, and navy sure they have those but they are filled with bugs. PotBS has evrything plus way more. Not to mention that they will have more than 100 ports in the caribbean while VCO only has 41 in the world.

So to compare the two here it is.

VCO : PotBS= A lump of coal : A dimond

Originally posted by stickm

Originally posted by BlindGrave

VCO is just another Mindless Grinder MMO. It is based on a world map but has only 41 ports. no ports in North america, or south america, or any of the poles,or australia and 10 ports in Africa. Not only does it only have 41 ports in a world map, but also the language is incorrect for it is filled with spelling errors, the quests are very bugged, not to mention the crummy PvP system that noone can figure out.

In PotBS you will not have to grind your way through lvls. Instead you will have to do some of the 1000s of quests that they have made.The combat will be unique and the ships on PotBS will be historicly accurate.The Graphics will be way better then VCO. PotBS actually has character customization while VCO has you choose a character and then you choose a hair style, thats all. I was also reading over a interview with one of the devs of VCO and he just about lied about evrything on it.  He said that PotBS will hav no exploring but only pirates and VCO will have merchants, exploring, and navy sure they have those but they are filled with bugs. PotBS has evrything plus way more. Not to mention that they will have more than 100 ports in the caribbean while VCO only has 41 in the world.

So to compare the two here it is.

VCO : PotBS= A lump of coal : A dimond

ya because a historically accurate game would have ports in north america.... LOL. What are the ports called in north america in potbs?

New Orleans off the top of my head. I'd have to look up the rest.