Hello all,

We do encourage people to discuss and even debate almost whatever they wish. As long as people do not break the PotBS Forum Rules & Expectations, you can discuss your thoughts on the game.

However, if you do want to respond to a post where folks have expressed frustration or dissatisfaction, you should also be following the PotBS Forum Rules & Expectations.

Specifically, these rules:

- Do not abuse new users
Remember that new users will not always know where to find information that may be common knowledge to the seasoned forum user.

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

We believe that the technical problems experienced on Blackbeard have been resolved, and the server is now live.

We thank you for your patience, see you on the Burning Sea!

Best,
Aether

It's up. Give it a try and let us know if you run into any problems.

I'm sorry, but I don't think it's going to work with the built in graphics you're using.

Well, how about now?!

We have a fix for Blackbeard that's deployed. Give it a try and let us know if you have any problems.

We think we have a fix for Blackbeard. Give it a try and let us know if you run into any problems.

Here's an update from the mouth of one of the horses involved in fixing this.

Blackbeard is (obviously) down right now. We've diagnosed the misbehavior of some of the server components, and are digging into why it's happening. We're testing a few different hypotheses, which is why you'll see Blackbeard show up, disappear, go from offline to locked, and back, etc.

Like rusty said, just about all of our technical people, from developers to operations folks, are working on this. We're digging at it. This isn't a hardware issue, or a network issue, or a Sony issue, it's us!

As i write this, I just flipped Blackbeard on. We think we may have nailed it. Here's hoping!

Devlin, I think we're up now. Are you still seeing the problem?

Ah aieee. for the first part...I meant that the reputation of the general Canadian populace is /nicer/ than the typical "Ugly American". Since I am always polite and respectful, folks don't think I'm from the US.

On the other hand, my sweetie tells me that they say that because it's better than insulting a Canadian by assuming they're from the US.

And yes, that's exactly how I felt about the Quebecois. Good to know I was spot on.

Never thought I would hate gold farmers quite so much.