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Rusty
1 in thread FLS You should realy be ashamed! [General PotBS Discussion]
1.1 is targeted for the Tuesday after this one. I'm a little disappointed it's not coming out sooner than that, but we've learned some lessons from deployment of it that will help speed up 1.2. We're putting out dev logs ahead of each patch that explain what's coming in said patch.

Oh, and the new Nvidia drivers should be out on Monday or Tuesday. 169.38.

1.1 is a bug fix/tuning patch, 1.2 is a big content patch, and 1.3 will have new game systems as part of it.
Rusty
1 in thread A word to those who are critical of FLS. [Known Issues / Troubleshooting]
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Originally Posted by Spartanicus1
Problem I have is the tweaking they are doing now and the obvious catering to certain groups of players and ignoring the others. They are working on the wrong problems plus they have not fixed the massive memory leaks in this game that should have been done long ago.
You should play on testbed, which just had 1.1 deployed to it. It has a number of memory leaks fixed in it, as well as other problems. Give us your feedback and let us know if we're fixing the issues that are affecting you.
GavinIrby
Do'h!

/bowsheadinshame
GavinIrby
1 in thread Mission: In like Flynn bugged? [Discuss: World & Missions]
Yes, it should be the door near Ibrahim (that's not the one you enter from). If you can get the quest in the first place, then it won't be locked because of level. Did you already do the part of the quest where you speak to Rashid?

If the door doesn't light up, try activating it with "x."
Rusty
1 in thread Undo The New Contention Patch [General PotBS Discussion]
The 30% number is a general goal, as opposed to terrain vs. ports. It's hard to define it in terrain because there's high value terrain (where many ports are) and low value terrain (broader, empty ocean). The overall goal, of course, is to provide sufficient PvP that if you just want to play PvP every day, you have it there to play, and if you don't want PvP, you can reasonable avoid it.

People get very excited about these changes that we make, but it's still too early to really be passing judgment on how it's panning out, because players from other games show up with different models in mind. They assume that they have to level to 50 to be competitive, and they also try to take their best, most outfitted ships into PvP. Neither of these are entirely wrong, of course, but people will eventually learn that PvP can be played at any level, and that by default you should be taking cheaper ships into PvP, and leave the high value ships for the big moments where they really matter.
Misha
1 in thread Where's that gold you owe me? [Known Issues / Troubleshooting]
sirlucius9 didn't file a support request and doesn't claim to have. Apparently, he's asking all y'all: any clues? From his description, I really don't know what could have happened. If he logs a support request, someone will (eventually) try to find out. Although our server logging is such that we also may not be able to guess either.

Yanishka did file a support request as he should and got our current abysmal response: form letter in short order then crickets... For which he has my deepest and most humble apologies. It's not that we don't give a rats ***, it's that we're completely swamped. We really are trying to do better.
GavinIrby
1 in thread Help ;) - my character turned *** [Discuss: World & Missions]
Try emoting with them in the Algerian Consulate. I believe I put in support for /flirt, /dance, /kiss, and maybe /rude.
Aether
1 in thread The Wicked Flag Design Contest [Flags and Sails]
We ship so many prize items out of our office that it can be a bit challenging to keep track of things! Regardless, I'm happy to resend your prizes to make sure you've got what you earned!

Using our forums, would you send me a PM with your information, including t-shirt size? We'll slip a little something extra in there as a way of saying sorry for the inconvenience.

Best,
Aether
GavinIrby
1 in thread The RP Story Arc (Questions answered here) [Discuss: World & Missions]
The Battle of Grand Turk has already been fixed. That will roll out in the next patch.
Taelorn
1 in thread New Devlog: The Road to v1.1 -- Ships and Ship Combat [News and Press Releases]
The Arcadia is one of the ships that is improving, but I can't predict whether you'll consider it to be viable.