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Misha
1 in thread Character Transfers to be Enabled Tuesday, April 15th [News and Press Releases]
We haven't announced anything. We will at some point (soon?) announce when we're going to turn off the dying servers so that you can no longer log into them. However, I expect we'll retain the ability for players to copy characters from those servers for quite some time after that.
Danicia
1 in thread How do I find my buddy keys? [Sony Station accounts]
Right here:
http://www.burningsea.com/pages/buddyKeys
Danicia
1 in thread Where's Lepper? [North America]
Thread was funny. Now it's not.
Thread had potential. Now it doesn't.
Thread was flame free. Now it isn't.

Okay, so I was going to try to use haiku but it failed this early in the morning.
Marion vanGhent
1 in thread Please, let me know what ya think! [Flags and Sails]
I was just about to post pretty much all of Rewth's advice, but he beat me to it I'd have two additions though:

1) Round the corner of the skull's left eye. Skulls with facial expressions tend to look too modern and cartoonish for the game's setting. Rounding the eye socket will make it look less like it's raising an eyebrow at you. To the best of our knowledge, skulls didn't have eyebrows to lift in 1720

2) You might consider removing the fangs as well.

Happy drawing! It looks like you'll be turning out first-class sails and flags in no time.
Marion vanGhent
1 in thread All Flags & Sails [Flags and Sails]
Most of them, yes.

The French flag, now that I look at it beyond just the thumbnail, could use a little more work. Try using a more cloth-like texture; there should be several posts to resources in this thread. You'll also want to avoid fully saturated colors. A purple in the neighborhood of RGB 70, 20, 80 (where the scale is 0-255) should work well!
Marion vanGhent
1 in thread Help Us Test User Content 2.0! [Flags and Sails]
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Originally Posted by Madd Matt
This might be a bug, but it also might just have been someone on the approval comittee having hit the wrong button. I received an email saying that one of my sails had been rejected, but when I went into UC it's labled as approved. It still has the reason for rejection posted... but it's approved... yet rejected... confused.... 8(

Anyhoo, I'm going to check the flag/sail merch tonight, since that cinch the question, and appeal if it's not there. It was rejected (maybe?) for being too modern, despite being a west-coast native design that was centuries by the time of the 18th century. Not to mention I had a similar one to it approved.
These show in our system as approved when I look at them, so hopefully you're seeing them at your faction's starter town.
Marion vanGhent
1 in thread All Flags & Sails [Flags and Sails]
Nice work!

I have to point out though that the ship in the last decal is about 150 years ahead of its time. Look for ships that were built between 1660-1740 instead
fraxl
1 in thread Career skills on test? [Test Server Discussion]
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Originally Posted by kungtotte
You mean like fraxl putting up a thread with that specific purpose?
<3!

Of course I want feedback about those missions... but I also don't mind if people want to play something other than a buccaneer.
fraxl
1 in thread Mission List [The Playability Lab]
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Originally Posted by Huneypie
What I miss in v1.3 J)ournal is the Sort by Newest.

I like many others I suspect skip about picking up missions as well as when grouped. Presently it is a pain to find the fresh ones as if I haven't picked it up from the NPC yet or if finished with a batch to turn in they are stuck someplace in the middle between low level and reds I still have at bottom or top.
I've been pushing to make it possible to share missions for a while now... it'll happen eventually, but I can't say when.
fraxl
1 in thread Open Feedback [The Playability Lab]
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Originally Posted by Alkie01
Something new Ive never seen before. Chillin at Cabo watching every national thats lvl 50 avoid the only red zone when I spot a derelict in open sea. This is something I had just never seen anyways here is screen shot.

http://i28.tinypic.com/b9jaq0.png
heheee!! yeah, that was me. i had to create myself a better ship because a player who shall remain nameless was going to come get me :-)