Charles Warmonk
Wiki Staff
I won't go on about what I've done wrong in my experience of another remake, and other gaming communities. I will simply say my statement on what I (Myself) believe our general POTCO community needs to do. Not that a Pirates Of The Caribbean Online is a bad idea. I simply think we need something to do while they are in development. Since my personal experience with programming is that, it's not done in a year or 2. Trust me. Anyways, here is what I think (My belief not fact) should do to keep the community alive!We don't have to have a large development team to integrate the community, and we're not suggesting a 500 person Community Congress to decide on every aspect of an emulator. But what we do need is to recruit people who have the community's interests at heart. More @Shamus The Brute 's, @Davy Darkrage 's, @Charles Warmonk 's etc. Have people like them in important management spots whether it be managing development or other necessary aspects of the emulator. Recruit these people with their understanding being that the only thing they truly have to gain from managing is being able to re-experience POTCO without the "politics" of emulating the game (If you ask me, the fact that arguing is so bad that we can call it politics is pretty terrible.... Not that I'm not guilty of participating in them earlier on.). A project of Unity should happen. It has to. We're so behind. Even if another remake and TLOPO have been delayed, backstopped, restarted, we should still be further than we are. I'm sure people that lead some of these emulators can agree that due to the politics of things with this emulation process that it has made it much harder to develop. another remake has a history of 3 people in leadership because of politics. TLOPO was spawned out of politics with the emulation of the game and distrust with another remake. I don't mean to bring any negative attention to the people who run them, I'm more so trying to illustrate the fact that there's so much internal fighting how will we ever expect to emulate our beloved game when all we do is shoot at each other and not keep to the Pirate Codex?
In essence:
- Unify all the emulation projects into a conglomerate of concerned people with different progress or expertise.
- "Appoint" Community leaders with the Community's interests at heart in key emulation positions.
(Step 1) Come make a account here on Pirates Forums. (Step 2) Finds your crewmates, friends, and guild mates. (Step 3) Then start a conversation of game type of games you like and as THAT particular group move to the game together. (Step 4) Then share you experiences with our community here on the Pirates Forums and over time... We will slowly, but surly re-connect the severed bond of gaming that we call, our beloved, POTCO Community.
@John Foulroberts and @Kat Five Knives have done this and moved to RIFT and are building a wonderful guild.
@Johnny Sea Slasher and others have moved to SWTOR and are having a blast.
@Punkin Pie and myself have moved to LOTRO and are already catching up on good POTCO memories while making friends and in a crazy fun community.
Sadly, everyone else who has not moved to a game or have just moved to a "another remake forums" and are just sitting waiting for the game seem to just disappear everyday... and more of my old friends I want to talk to disappear from the forums here I don't care if you want to wait for another remake or if you want to move to a game besides LOTRO, or if you simply can't play a game and stay with us on forums. Just don't sit and wait for POTCO to come back... stay and connect with us. The legend of Pirates Of The Caribbean is long from dead.... it's right here.
That's my option, and this is my home.