You rock.

So, let's follow up the continuing debate in a friendly manner, folks. Take a page from Issara's book.

Thank you!

This pretty much sums it up. That's the simple forum policy. The hard part is that many folks who try to discuss this are breaking other forum policies at the same time, specifically flaming and insulting.

If you wish to discuss the validity of a tactic, you may do so. You can debate it...as long as you're not breaking the Community Rules. The biggest reasons the threads on this have been closed are these:

- No Flaming
While debate and discussion are encouraged, we will not tolerate rude or insulting posts, personal attacks or inflammatory posts of any kind.

-Do not discuss Exploits
Exploits in Pirates of the Burning Sea should be reported via the Support Website not the forums.

Which means:

1. If you don't like a tactic someone used and feel it is an exploit, then you need to file a ticket. If you're told it isn't an exploit, then you can as the Dev team politely if this is a fair tactic.

2. You should not be calling each other cheaters, griefers or exploiters. See the bit above about "No flaming".

When we close a thread, we tell you exactly why it's closed.

We do have updates to the UI coming; check the threads for the IRC Dev chats via MMORPG.com or Coldfront if you want a lot more details about it. But yes, the UI is being worked on.

Since we already have numerous threads on this same topic, it is going to be closed.

The topic at hand is okay to discuss. However, discussion of exploits, existent or not, is not appropriate. Hope that clears it up. If you want to discuss the validity of a tactic. You can even debate it.

The minuite you start yelling "exploit", you take the thread into places we don't want. If it isn't an exploit but you accuse people of it, you've moved into flaming and insulting.

These are both things we do not want on the forum. If you believe there is an exploit, you should file a ticket. Simple enough. If you want to discuss whether an actual game mechanic is appropriate or fair, I encourage you to take it to the PVP & Conquest and discuss it without calling it exploiting & cheating.

Nope, you'll want to keep your accelerated framerate. Leave the pirates_local there.

You're talking about the new Station Launcher beta yes? We have a bug in with SOE on this issue; I understand they're having a meeting today to discuss options. FYI it also fails to update DirectX, and never tells you about the requirement.

I agree with your suggestion about the error message, and have filed a bug in our internal database.

We are planning on doing a whole hook fighting combat style when we release the hooks to you. We don't have any time estimates for it yet.

Also, the range of your guns change depending on what kind of ammo you use.

@ Replay

From what I've read your chipset supports software vertext shader 2.0 and we require hardware vertext shader support.