Yes, we will definitely do this at some point. I do not know when that feature will be available to you, and while the details have not been finalized, I imagine you will be able to take your character, your ships, and your economy structures.

That is certainly not intended, I'll check into that today, see if I can track down the problem. I'll be looking at our open sea spawn tables anyway.

Sometimes we allude to them in vague terms but the patch notes are generally written in time to post when the build goes to Testbed and the exploit is still available on the Live servers. As such, we really don't want to call it out...

Can you clarify? We generally try to post in the LaunchPad MOTD as well as the web site. I could be deluded or you could mean something else? Want it in the in-game MOTD? We could do that...

I have a LOT of work I'm doing right now, so my weekend was all work. I have about ten different things going on, and Misha's out of town. :-( But the real issue is that I'm really looking forward to addressing your guys' issues soon, but I'm waiting on some testing, some code, and so on. I have high priority flags on them, and rushing things is a sure fire path to ruin, but nothing's worse than preparing solutions but not being able to deploy them. As you might guess, I'm an impatient person! :-)

We actually have quite a few towns besides starter towns and tortuga. For what it's worth, in this new build, the French capital goes in, and it's even cooler looking than Tortuga. I was then going to have the team start in on remaking the Spanish, British, and French starter towns with the new instance+seamless approach, but we're waiting on some tools from our new dev to really do that right, so it's been postponed a milestone. This milestone (1.3) will have, among other things, a number of new jungle environments.

That is the entire point of this thread.

I've renamed this thread, so you can use it to preview your flag and sail designs all in one spot. Happy drawing!

All I can say, were that flag appealed, it would probably be accepted. Compare my own Portuguese merchant flag.

Exactly. Though I'd rather not take half measures.