I'm a casual gamer myself, although most people wouldn't agree since I play three MMOs. Okay, so not all that casual; but my time in each game would be considered causal.

I can log in for an hour and do a wee bit of economy and a couple missions. Or, I can log in and group with others for some PVP/group missions and such. I never feel like I am behind everyone else.

We have a saying here, which came up from one of the PVP discussions in Closed Beta "There's no crying in the red circle".

You'll always know where the PVP zones are; they're big red circles. You can sail around them if you wish. If you need to get into that circle, you can always talk to your nation mates (You have quests or economy structures there) to run you in or you can just choose to play a different toon or just do some NPC hunting. It's very flexible.

More heads is on our list. We won't be doing sliders.
A fatter body character type is also in the works.

On Monday, January 21st at 6:00p Pacific Time, we will be taking our servers down to prepare for the January 22nd launch of Pirates of the Burning Sea.

We will resume service at 9:00a Pacific Time on Tuesday, January 22nd.

We thank you for your patience, and look forward to seeing you on the Burning Sea!

Best,
Aether

Please file a support request. Include your latest PotBS log from My Documents\Pirates of the Burning Sea.

Have you tried the networking issues KB article Rev mentioned?

Our current bug reporting blows chunks. We will improve it eventually and I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

You're right it should, I'm surprised it didn't. I'll have to check that out.

Did you get the pre-order box with the soundtrack CD? The Pre-Boarding Party key should work, if it doesn't please file a support request including the exact error message you get and as many details as possible.

The Landing Key from that same box is meant to be used in conjunction with the key from the release box, to claim your parrot & sword. That one won't work until 1/22.

AFAIK BestBuy shouldn't be handing out any keys other than these two, inside the preorder box.

You guys know there is a technical forum? If anyone feels there is an issue with the server itself, the client et al, then you should file a support ticket and read up on what's happening in the technical forum.

If something is wrong, if you don't tell anyone, they'll never know.

The Hermes gun loss rate hasn't changed since July, and that was only a 5% change. Gun loss is a ratio of your armor and structure, so building up your survival stats organically reduces gun loss.