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Video Sailing is back!
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Benjamin Calicovane
Notorious Pirate
Sailing in its state right now is... painful, to say the least 
piratebellic
Pirate Apprentice
that ship looks odd
Stephen Teague
Pirate Lord
That was fun
Stephen Teague
Pirate Lord
It's a light brig it looks exactly how I remember it, http://piratesonline.wikia.com/wiki/File:Light_Brig_Wildrat.jpg?useskin=oasis
Ember Heartless
Wanted Pirate
I know, I got kicked out of the servers every time I tried to go to someone's open ship. I bought my own ship, the White Tiger and that seemed to be okay. Nothing to shoot at, but nice to sail the seas and take a look at that aspect of the game developing.Sailing in its state right now is... painful, to say the least
Stephen Teague
Pirate Lord
Molly Ironscarlett
Site Founder
i took several last night.... the broadsides are waaaaaaaaay out of whack...however the cannons look really good ,well done team....i even got to dock....brings back sooo many memories
Austin1538
Buccaneer
Is it just me or does the water look weird?
Stephen Teague
Pirate Lord
Looks how I remember it, I could be wrong though
Austin1538
Buccaneer
It seems almost too much of a light blue. I don't know maybe it was always like that.
Benjamin Calicovane
Notorious Pirate
You're right, the water is not the same as POTCO. I'm pretty sure the devs are working on bringing back the old water though, I've seen at least 1 screenshot from the dev server with POTCO's water.
Bobby Flat Foot
Pirate Lord
I think @Mike Wass spent a good amount of time entirely re-writing the code for water. It's been a tricky feature. I'm not sure if there are plans to change it or not.
EDIT: Correction, the lovely @loblao was the one who re-wrote the code.
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Bart Gunshot
Site Founder
The waves and such like POTCO and shader details were implemented for a short time on alpha but then taken down due to them being very resource intensive. I'm sure they will re-lease them sometime when they have the time to optimize it, but its probably not at the top of their priorities (I would assume).
Mike Wass
Former TLOPO Developer
Water is one of the trickiest things in the code.. it's strange. @loblao rewrote the entire code which handles waves, etc, in C++. Which even in C++, the game still lags with it -- just not as much.
In game, we noticed about a 20 FPS drop by having the water implemented on the islands.. so for now it's disabled. After we optimize the water a ton, we'll be more than happy to rerelease the water again.
The screenshots of the game being exactly like POTCO's is when we kinda toyed around with the game. I think John set his settings to something strange, and then entered full screen and closed back out of it. After doing that, he had the old water. We haven't been able to replicate this via the code of the game yet, but eventually that'll happen.
I agree with Bart, this isn't high on our priorities list -- but rest assured, it is one of our priorities.
In game, we noticed about a 20 FPS drop by having the water implemented on the islands.. so for now it's disabled. After we optimize the water a ton, we'll be more than happy to rerelease the water again.
The screenshots of the game being exactly like POTCO's is when we kinda toyed around with the game. I think John set his settings to something strange, and then entered full screen and closed back out of it. After doing that, he had the old water. We haven't been able to replicate this via the code of the game yet, but eventually that'll happen.
I agree with Bart, this isn't high on our priorities list -- but rest assured, it is one of our priorities.