Three Rings is making some interesting changes to its Puzzle Pirates MMO. A new post on the game's official forums outlines what's in store for the new year, and in a nutshell, players will be able to sail between many of the game's oceans (which, in regular MMO-speak, are actually the game's servers).
"We've been working on a way to consolidate the game's oceans for quite some time now, and after much deliberation, we determined that the fairest way to go about this is to combine the geographies of two oceans on one server," Three Rings explains.
The post hints at massive new explorable areas and also reassures players that their existing properties will be unaffected in spite of the mergers. There's a large FAQ in the thread as well, so head over to the Puzzle Pirates board for all the details.
Reader Comments (11)
Posted: Dec 9th 2011 5:36PM SnarlingWolf said
I won't lie, I found Puzzle Pirates pretty fun for a while. I didn't view it as even remotely close to an MMO though. It is fun in the same way that play Tetris Party vs 3 other people is fun.
Posted: Dec 10th 2011 12:26PM Killerham said
@SnarlingWolf
You might want to go re-examine. It's a full blown MMO, with quite possibly a much more sophisticated Guild/Alliance/World pvp aspect than many other MMO's. On top of that, it has sandbox aspects (Though not as many as they had at launch, care-bares whine a lot, lol) .
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You might want to go re-examine. It's a full blown MMO, with quite possibly a much more sophisticated Guild/Alliance/World pvp aspect than many other MMO's. On top of that, it has sandbox aspects (Though not as many as they had at launch, care-bares whine a lot, lol) .
Posted: Dec 9th 2011 7:17PM koolaroo said
Ugh I could go on and on about how this update will probally ruin the econimys of the severs or how some of the severs the are combining HATE each other or how this is probally all segas falt if I had to guess but I'll be nice and spare you... oh wait...
Posted: Dec 10th 2011 12:22PM Killerham said
@koolaroo
Isn't hate good? It will spark some LIFE into this game that I love so much! I don't know how anybody can be opposed to this, the population has been terrible for the past three years! It takes time to just load a sloop! Dont even mention the "economy" there are not enough people for a real economy. There is NO economy because of the horrible server population. Nothing is really what it's worth. Once there are at least 1,000 - 2,000 online at a time constantly then it will be restored to it's previous self - like it was in 2004/2005 and the economy will level out like it should be.
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Isn't hate good? It will spark some LIFE into this game that I love so much! I don't know how anybody can be opposed to this, the population has been terrible for the past three years! It takes time to just load a sloop! Dont even mention the "economy" there are not enough people for a real economy. There is NO economy because of the horrible server population. Nothing is really what it's worth. Once there are at least 1,000 - 2,000 online at a time constantly then it will be restored to it's previous self - like it was in 2004/2005 and the economy will level out like it should be.
Posted: Dec 10th 2011 12:58PM koolaroo said
@Killerham where as I agree that malicite could use some more life I just wish they had combined it with a slightly smaller server. I think a better way to do this is to have a vote on which sever is you main and what server you would most like it combined with.
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Posted: Dec 10th 2011 5:22PM pegasiswolf said
@koolaroo
i think the choice of which oceans to merge was well thought out... if u look at the server status page.. it is obvious that the choice was made to ensure the 2 future servers will be similar in size.... which i agree is the fairest way to do it :)
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i think the choice of which oceans to merge was well thought out... if u look at the server status page.. it is obvious that the choice was made to ensure the 2 future servers will be similar in size.... which i agree is the fairest way to do it :)
Posted: Dec 9th 2011 10:44PM pegasiswolf said
I think this will be alot of fun... more ppl to play with... i always thought it was silly to have so many oceans that are basically all the same thing... i can understand having a subscription ocean and a separate doubloon ocean.. but 6-7 doubloon oceans seemed silly to me... why make ppl decide where they want to play.... much better for all involved if all the players are available at the SAME time/place... to join pillages.. participate in blockades, etc etc.... and best of all.. visit with all our friends... :)
Posted: Dec 12th 2011 12:30PM StClair said
Probably too late, but... *shrug*
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