That does appear to be a bug. We'll look into it.

Ok, I suck. As noted, I went off and pushed this in front of DesignCo who said "Interesting, we were going to look at this soon." So I said "Well, how about now?" And off they went.

And off I went on other stuff. And completely forgot to post the outcome of this. Fraxl noted it for me today, so here's what's going on (plus a mea culpa from me) from DesignCo:

For 1.4 (currently in Testbed) we removed the unrest protection from the ports West End, Nassau, Riding Rocks, Santa Clara and while we intended to remove it from Sabanqui, we found a bug that protection had not been removed, so we'll be fixing that in 1.5. All five of these ports had unrest protection because their unrest zones covered new player ports. We reduced the size of their unrest zones so that they would no longer cover new player ports, and then removed the unrest protection.

There is, at this point, only one port that is not strictly a new player port that has unrest protection: Riding Rocks. This is because it is very close to Cat Island, so it's unrest radius would have to be tiny, and the only resource it has is abundant game, which is not in particularly high demand.

Hello all,

Let's remember that whilst it is okay to discuss and debate, it's not okay to throw poo on each other. Let's save that for the monkies at the zoo, mkay?

Thank you for your understanding.
Danicia

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Hello gang.

Let's remember that whilst it is fully appropriate to discuss and debate just about whatever you wish, the mudslinging and profanity is not.

I'd like to direct you folks to the Community Guidelines, conveniently located in my signature if you have any questions.

Thanks for your understanding,
Danicia

I see two items in your flags and sails in game ("Graveyard Shift Sail" sail and "Graveyard Shift v4" flag); if you're not seeing them in your flag and sail shop, please file a support ticket with as many details as possible, and we'll look into it in more depth.

We gave level boosts to 47 players (including you) who had confirmed level 50 characters on other servers. They got ships and other goodies to use for PvPing and they have been giving quite a bit of feedback.

My hope is that people will continue to play on testbed over the weekend and next week. We're working on getting people organized to be on at the same time, too. We definitely want your feedback!

I assume you're talking about Break Formation? The timer is completely broken in the current 1.4 testbed, and lasts about 3x as long as it's supposed to.

He didn't have /tells disabled intentionally- it was part of a larger bug having to do with trial accounts. It was annoying, though- sorry about that!