Good eye! That it is. I've been wanting to visit there for quite a while.

Looks like a crash inside Direct3D. Make sure you Send the Error Report when this happens. Please file a support request; include your dxdiag.

Tulor is 100% correct. Flares are for PVE encounters only.

Flares do not work in PVP.

Pirates of the Burning Sea does not support gold farming in our game. People who spam for these services in-game have been removed already, and we will continue to remove them as they are discovered.

Gold farming sites are being monitored and we will investigate all alleged transactions and will follow up with the appropriate disciplinary actions, which could include confiscation of grey-market gold, and ultimately the banning of accounts selling or buying gold.

I apologize that my previous statement wasn't clear enough, but I do hope this serves to illuminate our policy on the subject of gold farming.

Best,
Aether

Have you filed a support request? Have you talked to your school's IT staff? Our Ops staff is working with IT staff at a number of schools. Many schools block or shape particular kinds of traffic so games and file sharing apps get less bandwidth than direct downloads and educational uses. Contact information for your IT department will help us work with them to hammer out these issues.

I think the term 'raid' is misleading here. It implies a great many things that don't necessarily apply to what we're working on.

Our goal is to create some fun, challenging, repeatable, group oriented content for players who are interested in that content. If that's not you, that's fine. We're still going to create more fun single player content. We will continue to support PvP, the economy, and all the other parts of our game.

We are not going to force you to complete group content to compete in PvP.

We are not going to force you to complete group content to unlock solo content.

We are not going to force you to do group content.

We want to offer it as an option to players who are interested in it.

Yes, there will be rewards from completing group content. No, it will not be the only way to get the 'best gear'.

The issue has been investigated by Taelorn, our ship designer, and Raymond, one of our earliest and most knowledgeable content creators. We've eliminated a number of possibilities and demarcated some likely patterns. Right now it's on the very full plate of Brady, one of our lead programmers, who tells me he has a couple of higher-priority items to look at first.

The first thing you should fiddle with is anti-aliasing. Some people have had luck by downgrading their drivers to an older version.

I don't know if I'd say that. We want users with high-end cards and users with low-end cards both to have a good time playing our game. That said, when the high-end settings are stressing your machine, no matter if it's because we made a mistake or there's some incompatibility on your system or the moon is gibbous, turning down the settings will increase your stability and performance.

New graphics hardware exposes new timing issues, behavior-changing optimizations, fixes old bugs that devs didn't know were bugs and relied on the broken behavior, etc. New graphics drivers fix old bugs but introduce new ones. You can never tell for sure. The software development world moves too quickly to be an exact science. Welcome to the edge and thanks for helping us explore it!

Yes. Just type /claim every time you create a new toon.