Puzzle Pirates
Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 2:29 pm
Does anyone here play it? It's my new addiction since about a week ago. I think it's cool.
For people who aren't familiar with it, it allows starting to play without registering, so there is a low threshold to trying it out. The only thing that might have made me not want to try it out was the long loading time, but you can download the program to your computer and then it starts almost instantly. It has a lot of different puzzles, some can be played alone or with NPCs, but probably the best part is pillaging together with other players' characters. The game appears newbie-friendly and it's possible to learn things fast, so you could discover a talent that'll be helpful to a crew or something that'll help you earn pieces of eight fast. The game has nice graphics. It's possible to customize your pirate's appearance a bit and there are several clothing options to buy, in many different colors. Apparently there are at least 33 different colors in the game. The economy also seems pretty interesting, there are lots of player-owned shops and others can work for them and get paid automatically according to the quality of their performance. The shops use resources that are foraged or produced in the game.
Downsides: Recently the game has been logging people out at random, which can happen several times a day. It's rather lame when it happens in the middle of a battle or just when one is about to start. But it doesn't happen all the time. Another thing, the game is very addictive. I don't tlak to people much when I'm puzzling. Then one more thing that's a bit annoying is that they have a lot of stuff that cost dubloons, which are bought with real life money. Fortunately it's also possible to buy them from people with in-game money, and the exchange system is very handy because if you offer to pay more than the cheapest offer is to sell, you'll get refunded the difference. But dubloons cost about 1.9k PoE each at the moment, so it takes a while to earn enough money for buying stuff. Pillaging seems to be the fastest way to make money, but there's a chance that you lose more fights than you win and end up with less than on a good trip.
My character is on Sage ocean and I'm not planning to make any more characters, so if people want to play with me, come to Sage ocean.
For people who aren't familiar with it, it allows starting to play without registering, so there is a low threshold to trying it out. The only thing that might have made me not want to try it out was the long loading time, but you can download the program to your computer and then it starts almost instantly. It has a lot of different puzzles, some can be played alone or with NPCs, but probably the best part is pillaging together with other players' characters. The game appears newbie-friendly and it's possible to learn things fast, so you could discover a talent that'll be helpful to a crew or something that'll help you earn pieces of eight fast. The game has nice graphics. It's possible to customize your pirate's appearance a bit and there are several clothing options to buy, in many different colors. Apparently there are at least 33 different colors in the game. The economy also seems pretty interesting, there are lots of player-owned shops and others can work for them and get paid automatically according to the quality of their performance. The shops use resources that are foraged or produced in the game.
Downsides: Recently the game has been logging people out at random, which can happen several times a day. It's rather lame when it happens in the middle of a battle or just when one is about to start. But it doesn't happen all the time. Another thing, the game is very addictive. I don't tlak to people much when I'm puzzling. Then one more thing that's a bit annoying is that they have a lot of stuff that cost dubloons, which are bought with real life money. Fortunately it's also possible to buy them from people with in-game money, and the exchange system is very handy because if you offer to pay more than the cheapest offer is to sell, you'll get refunded the difference. But dubloons cost about 1.9k PoE each at the moment, so it takes a while to earn enough money for buying stuff. Pillaging seems to be the fastest way to make money, but there's a chance that you lose more fights than you win and end up with less than on a good trip.
My character is on Sage ocean and I'm not planning to make any more characters, so if people want to play with me, come to Sage ocean.
