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We did actually consider using the exchange shop structure for the junk dealer missions. In the end, we thought there was enough plot and a small enough number of missions to be manageable.

I will, however, see what we can do about getting the mission descriptions to be more helpful ;-)

Have you tried to use the hat by right clicking on it? (You'll need to be level 45+)

If we do the level 20 thing, all that matters is if you have a level 50. It doesn't matter what you're creating or what 50 you have.

These are not additions to the current pirate career. These are abilities for a new career. That means the comparisons that keep coming up like this are largely irrelevant if they assume existing pirate abilities. For example, Buccaneers wouldn't be able to get as much speed as Cutthroats.

The Bacon chatter pleases ModeratorCat.

At least one was built that actually carried 16 guns. Best not to think of the modern catamaran per se, but of an actual double-hulled ship.

The net is all about Schadenfreude, and we knew going in it that people would scream end of the world.. Much harder to scream how WoW will die without your 15 bucks a month. :-)

I think, though, that the overwhelming urge to avoid any sign of weakness creates problems in games. It makes it so that the game creators don't want to admit they screwed up, and it freezes them from making necessary changes lest they be perceived as a sign of weakness. Which, in MMO terms, means you never shut down a server until you're gasping on life support.

We could have gone that way. As multiple people have said in this thread, they felt like their servers were perfectly viable. Our belief is that it'll be a lot better with a higher concentrated population. There are two ways to accomplish that. The first is with free trials (which we're working on) but that will be a bit in the future, and will be a slow build up. The second is to merge the servers, and take the PR hit. If we were like most other game company, we would have just kept the servers going and wait.

But I think that's the wrong approach, and the reason I think it's wrong is that there's no better advertising than word of mouth. Over the next few days we'll have a few stories about the servers merging, but then, after that? It's back to what players actually think. That's the long term buzz, and what we're focused on. By owning up to a mistake, and fixing it, and continuing to improve the game, we think that the buzz simply grows and grows, and we build up the game over time.

I think that sums it up for me. Which isn't bad except for the personal digs.

I brought both posts on this under the same roof and into the User Content area.

As the announcement states, flag and sails are supposed to transfer along with other personal inventory. If it doesn't, please file a support request and post the ticket number here.