If we did that, we'd only be extending the potential imbalances. When skills move between chains, it's not possible to adjust one chain at a time. In some cases, as many as three chains many be involved in a single change. Then there's the overall disparity between careers with the number of tiered skills. Aside from that, if we released one chain at a time it'd take over nine months to work its way into the game. During that time, any skill design would be hampered by being conducted in an environment that we know is obsolete and changing. That means we'd need to duplicate a lot of work by setting it up for how it needs to be in the current, then changing it to how we want it to be in the future.

I suggest reading this thread for more information on the current process, and this Devlog on what it will very soon be changing to.

Yep, servers are now live.

There is a minor interface bug with 1.3.30.0 that prevents you from selecting a server that is different from your default server (usually, your default server will be the last one you logged into).


For players who only play on one server, this shouldn’t be a problem simply click Login. However if you regularly use more than one server we have posted a temporary workaround here.


We are working to resolve this issue as soon as possible.

There is a minor interface bug with 1.3.30.0 that prevents you from selecting a server that is different from your default server (usually, your default server will be the last one you logged into).

For players who only play on one server, this shouldn't be a problem – simply click Login. However if you regularly use more than one server then the following workaround will enable you to switch servers:

To change your default server using prefs.xml:

1 ) Open prefs.xml in a text editor such as notepad. You can find this file in your My Documents\Pirates of the Burning Sea folder.

2 ) Search (ctrl+f usually opens the search dialog) for the following text: <name>PrefClient</name>

3 ) On the next line, you will see something similar to <server>Roberts</server>. Change the name of the server between <server> and </server> to the one you want to connect to. So for example, for Antigua, you should change it to <server>Antigua</server>

4 ) Save your changes to prefs.xml and then re-start the Pirates of the Burning sea client. Your newly chosen default server should now be selected at the top of the list and you can click Login to enter it.

UPDATE: We've discovered an issue with the patch which is temporarily preventing us from taking the servers live. We will update you once we know more.

4am in which timezone? If there's a problem, please feel free to file a support ticket so that we can investigate!

Well spotted!

You can find the full release notes here.

I have updated the posts to point to the correct notes.

Due to some additional essential maintenance tasks, the downtime has now been extended by half an hour to 4.00a Pacific. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this.

We will be bringing the servers down on Tuesday, April 29th during the normal 1:30a to 3:30a maintenance window, in order to publish build 1.3.30.0.

We appreciate your patience, and look forward to hearing your thoughts on the latest build. In the meantime, patch notes for build 1.3.30.0 can be found by clicking this link.

These changes are taking what already exists and refining it then expanding on it by reducing redundancy. We're not fundamentally altering the gameplay of any existing careers or taking away core skills.