Lets Make A New POTCO

Would You Play A POTCO Remake?

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Zachary

Zachary

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Ahoy mates! If all the complaints don't work, me and a couple of friends who are game developers will make a new online pirate game. We need feedback. We love POCTO and have played it since 2007, so if Disney doesn't bring back POTCO we will make a game similar to POCTO. We have to make some changes as Disney will get us for copyright, but we will keep the gameplay as close as possible to POTCO.

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Name For The Game: Pirates Of The Caribbean Online​
Would You Play A POTCO ReMake: Yes/No​
Most Important To Keep The Same: Ship PvP​
Most Important To Change: Grahpics​
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This is a good idea...

The thing though is, $$$. That's the problem. Like anyone could create a remake of potco, it's very easy. Then we have a thing called MULTIPLAYER.

The online infrastructure would have to be stable, meaning: an anti-bypassing network, server-overloading, and money! It would costs thousands of dollars to do this, well. So I wish you the best of luck in your journey.
 
Name: Pirate Online (maybe? I dunno, best name I could come up with)
Would you play: yes
Most important to keep the same: ship customization
Most important to change: graphics, character creation, loot system, more story missions
 
First, I wish you luck. You are undertaking a enormous project, take your time and do it well. Don't try to take on huge projects to do all at once. Do one thing at a time, make small goals for yourself so you get a sense of accomplishment, and bug test all you can.
Second here are my suggestions.

1. DONT USE PANDA 3D!!!
This is the easy way out, sure it would be much easier to simply copy over some files and revise them. However you will run into tons of Copyright problems, and the biggest reason why not to use Panda is because Panda 3D is a terrible game engine.

2. Find a suitable game engine.
This could take awhile, and money.

3. Foucus on creating a game enviorment first.
Dont' make one area and then go and make a quest for that area.

4. Advertise.
If you are going to go through with this, get the word out. Get people excited, start a kickstarter so you can get some money to countinue making the game.

Once again good luck.
 
Bart Gunshot said:
First, I wish you luck. You are undertaking a enormous project, take your time and do it well. Don't try to take on huge projects to do all at once. Do one thing at a time, make small goals for yourself so you get a sense of accomplishment, and bug test all you can.
Second here are my suggestions.

1. DONT USE PANDA 3D!!!
This is the easy way out, sure it would be much easier to simply copy over some files and revise them. However you will run into tons of Copyright problems, and the biggest reason why not to use Panda is because Panda 3D is a terrible game engine.

2. Find a suitable game engine.
This could take awhile, and money.

3. Foucus on creating a game enviorment first.
Dont' make one area and then go and make a quest for that area.

4. Advertise.
If you are going to go through with this, get the word out. Get people excited, start a kickstarter so you can get some money to countinue making the game.

Once again good luck.
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1. We are making the game 100% in Unity using Maya 2013 for models.
2. We believe Unity 4 is the best current option.
3. We are working on small parts at a time, starting with planning the islands out.
4. Tell people about this, get the word out. We plan on starting a KickStarter as it will not be cheap so any support is greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the feedback!

Every one else thanks for the feedback as well, we are discussion all the feedback you guys give us!

Jason O'Connell said:
Name: Pirate Online (maybe? I dunno, best name I could come up with)
Would you play: yes
Most important to keep the same: ship customization
Most important to change: graphics, character creation, loot system, more story missions
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Sires said:
This is a good idea...

The thing though is, $$$. That's the problem. Like anyone could create a remake of potco, it's very easy. Then we have a thing called MULTIPLAYER.

The online infrastructure would have to be stable, meaning: an anti-bypassing network, server-overloading, and money! It would costs thousands of dollars to do this, well. So I wish you the best of luck in your journey.
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Crazy Jonah said:
The best parts of potco is the loot system and the social aspect.
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First of, I wish you best of luck with this project and I hope it is (way more) successful than POTCO is/was.
:pirate ship:

Name For The Game: Have no idea..... yet
Would You Play A POTCO ReMake: Yes
Most Important To Keep The Same: Ship types, Islands and Old Bodies but enhanced.
Most Important To Change: Everything else

About the 'Other Thoughts and Suggestions' I highly recommend you take a look at this thread. Its going to give you some great ideas :)

https://piratesforums.co/threads/pirates-online-ideas-concepts.8572/

That's all for now, again, good luck with everything and don't hesitate to ask the Community to volunteer if they want/can :D
 
Hi There, I would absolutely love to play another pirate themed game. Since you are focusing on the name first I will throw in my two cents. Whatever you decide to use, needs to have panache and connection to the theme of the game. Ie, sound cool and tell me its a pirate game. I don't think you can use Pirates of the Caribbean, LOL. Fortune Hunter, Rising Tide, The Black Flag, countless others come to mind but I am sure you can nix plenty based on copyright, etc.
As far as what to keep, a great emphasis on ships is a must. However, I always enjoyed that you could spend time on ship or shore and have fun. I think that allowing for skills to be more specialized would be nice. Some of the other games on the market let you level up but offer so many skills to select from that your "crew" can each be a specialist. Other things that are a must is the collaboration to achieve a goal. If I wanted to play alone I would use a console. Encourage the teaming idea in order to reach the goal. These all sound easy but you have plenty of heavy lifting ahead of you. Get to the fundraising now if this is what you really aim to do. Good luck to you. I will be happy to try it out.
 
Griffin the Crazed said:
Hi There, I would absolutely love to play another pirate themed game. Since you are focusing on the name first I will throw in my two cents. Whatever you decide to use, needs to have panache and connection to the theme of the game. Ie, sound cool and tell me its a pirate game. I don't think you can use Pirates of the Caribbean, LOL. Fortune Hunter, Rising Tide, The Black Flag, countless others come to mind but I am sure you can nix plenty based on copyright, etc.
As far as what to keep, a great emphasis on ships is a must. However, I always enjoyed that you could spend time on ship or shore and have fun. I think that allowing for skills to be more specialized would be nice. Some of the other games on the market let you level up but offer so many skills to select from that your "crew" can each be a specialist. Other things that are a must is the collaboration to achieve a goal. If I wanted to play alone I would use a console. Encourage the teaming idea in order to reach the goal. These all sound easy but you have plenty of heavy lifting ahead of you. Get to the fundraising now if this is what you really aim to do. Good luck to you. I will be happy to try it out.
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Any name ideas?
 
Greetings! I wish you good fortune in this project and will back you up 100% on it, sure there won't be a same POTCO but as you said " We have to make some changes as Disney will get us for copyright, but we will keep the gameplay as close as possible to POTCO."
Just what I think"
Name For The Game: N/A Currently.
Would You Play A POTCO ReMake: Without a doubt, yes.
Most Important To Keep The Same: DC items(Counting old bodies), Guilds, Leaderboards, The looting system and eventually I'll think of more.
Most Important To Change: In game glitches like Swift Foot, etc. The weather conditions, Lag, Lack of updates and lastly a little bit more freedom to the basic players. All the best! :)
 
Captain Rai said:
Greetings! I wish you good fortune in this project and will back you up 100% on it, sure there won't be a same POTCO but as you said "We have to make some changes as Disney will get us for copyright, but we will keep the gameplay as close as possible to POTCO."
Just what I think"
Name For The Game: N/A Currently.
Would You Play A POTCO ReMake: Without a doubt, yes.
Most Important To Keep The Same: DC items(Counting old bodies), Guilds, Leaderboards, The looting system and eventually I'll think of more.
Most Important To Change: In game glitches like Swift Foot, etc. The weather conditions, Lag, Lack of updates and lastly a little bit more freedom to the basic players. All the best! :)
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So no names? Thats the only thing holding down this project right now@Irene @Bart Gunshot @Jason O'Connell @Sires @Crazy Jonah Captain Rai Griffin the Crazed
Sorry For All The Tags

How About Pirates Of The Poison Sea?
 
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well best of luck you guys :D I think the most important thing to keep would have to be pvp, svs, looting, ships, and the social network
 
I hope this goes well for you and your friends Edward!
Name: Pirates Vengeance Online (Only thing i can come up with, for now at least.)
Yes i would play a POTCO remake.
Keep the same: Ship Customization, looting system, social aspect. (Ill Think of more later)
I have to think a little bit on ''What to change'' thing, like i said, later i'll think of more.
Good luck! :D
 
Emily1 said:
I hope this goes well for you and your friends Edward!
Name: Pirates Vengeance Online (Only thing i can come up with, for now at least.)
Yes i would play a POTCO remake.
Keep the same: Ship Customization, looting system, social aspect. (Ill Think of more later)
I have to think a little bit on ''What to change'' thing, like i said, later i'll think of more.
Good luck! :D
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You cannot legally copy anything from POTCO, since it is copyrighted. If anyone copies anything Disney owns and uses it to make a profit, they will be sued by Disney, which will be thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars.
 
General Warhawk said:
If you copy anything from POTCO, name included, you will most likely be sued by Disney.
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POTCO is such a fail when it comes to features so the only copying would be crews, guilds and maybe islands to an extent but those are stuff every MMO has, so it wouldn't matter much. Also Im sure that the 'ReMake' is going to have very enhanced and much more features so it will be nothing like potco.
 
Irene said:
POTCO is such a fail when it comes to features so the only copying would be crews, guilds and maybe islands to an extent but those are stuff every MMO has, so it wouldn't matter much. Also Im sure that the 'ReMake' is going to have very enhanced and much more features so it will be nothing like potco.
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True. if Disney wanted, they could sue the makers of Pirates of the Burning sea just because of the islands (Pirate islands, British Islands, French Islands. and Spanish Islands)
 
Emily1 said:
True. if Disney wanted, they could sue the makers of Pirates of the Burning sea just because of the islands (Pirate islands, British Islands, French Islands. and Spanish Islands)
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That is not the same as POTCO, the sailing, loot, weapons, and everything is somewhat different than POTCO is. What you are saying here is copy EXACTLY how POTCO is, which is illegal and would end in a lawsuit.
 
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