I just think they should put in everything in the last game( such as BP boss battle and RC quest) before ideas like this should even be explored. Also I feel that not all change is a good change and this could severely impact the purpose of looting which is one of the biggest aspects of the game.
That is exactly what TLOPO is focused on right now: bringing back the game we knew and loved from where it last left off. They have been messing around a little bit on the side to show us their mission isn't just to bring back POTCO but add to it. Add depth to it. I do believe that TLOPO has officially stated or people from TLOPO have stated new things like Escondida and new features will come after they deliver the old POTCO we lost in September '13. This is far from now. They might have made a few minor changes but they are minor. THey were things they decided to improve right then and there because it was already something in front of them. It is like building the door of your car and instead of just putting the normal basic radio speaker, you upgraded it with something that has better sound quality, the door was already being built so why not improve on it. THat is the only changes TLOPO has made. I only mention the example for perspective of the minor changes. The Ship AI-while I may disagree with the changes personally-would be one of those.
Trading is going to be a disaster
We don't know because we have not gone there. You can't make assumptions when it has not even been widely tested by them.
ANYTHING that causes this kind of reaction is probably not in the game's best interests.
AGAIN, ANYTHING that causes this much CONTROVERSY can in no way be in the game's best interests, it just can't.
The sad thing is that in this community everything cause controversy, lol.
Devs: "Were raising the level cap to 51"
Community: *RAGEEEE*
Okay think about the potential backlash if they decide to NOT add trading... Nothing really, we just move on with our lives.
Now think about the potential backlash if they DO add trading... Mass chaos and controversy!
This controversy between opinions of trading is much MUCH more severe than any other thing that TLOPO has added that POTCO didn't have.
Wow. Really? I am not going to use real life historical examples in effort to deter the argument of "that is overly dramatic."
There was a time when people wanted another remake (Pirates Online Rewritten) and TLOPO to shut down. People like myself protested their existence because we thought it would turn out terribly. We got on our soap boxes and made noise by banging our pans together, by shouting in our metaphorical megaphones. The reality is we were a vocal minority and we were proven wrong. I know I was, and thank goodness for that. That controversy was a big one for a while and many have forgotten because better things have happened and this game has finally blossomed. Just because in this "controversy" someone is using a louder setting on their megaphone and brings a couple more people to their rally doesn't mean it is representative of the entire community, of which does not interact on this site or most facets of social media/external communications TLOPO is on. It misrepresents a silent majority.
I actually take back my real life examples hold back. (Regardless of your views of either candidate) In just this past American Presidential election season, people assumed Hillary Clinton would win generally blue Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. In the case of Wisconsin, she did not visit it and it was generally assumed she would win it. A vocal minority deemed it so. Come election night, a silent majority made it clear they thought differently of her and our current President. There is a saying by Napoleon Bonaparte that would accurately portray this "
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." It is easy to say
no No NO! on this site and portray it as the real voice of the people when there are 10 others to you that just remain silent not even part of this site.
looting is the primary in-game mechanic
Looting is a major aspect of this game, no matter who you are or what your stance on trading is.
It is right now. This is a game in beta. We are talking about a feature post-full release. This game has yet to prove that it will have various ways it can diversify and add depth post-full release and that looting won't be
the main staple of this game. It might be right now, but down the road I doubt the devs want it to be this way, or people as a whole for that matter. Escondida is but one small way they intend to add depth and diversify.
I've already talked to
SEVERAL prominent looters in the TLOPO community who said they were going to
QUIT the game if trading is implemented. One of these people being
@Charles Warmonk
losing dozens of thousands.
That's their prerogative. If they want to leave because of something they disagree, they may do so. That is their individual right, and no one is stopping them. Just because they are prominent does not mean that the hard working, limited play time TLOPO Fan's support for a feature should be immediately dismissed. If 3 prominent, prolific fans get their way over the 10,000 unknown fans who have not spoken on this matter and may very well never do so because they don't want to waste their time dealing with people that will tell them their thinking is wrong, is a bad idea.... that is a problem. When those people come in droves and say they disagree, then yes, you're right. More than just 3 people left. However, the fact 3 "celebs" threaten to quit is meaningless when there is a plethora of people who are not even prominent on this thread voicing their personal support for this feature, or even personal opposition. Additionally, there is no way to measure dozens of thousands. That's just... a terrible and very generalized assumption. We don't know how many will "quit" for sure. It could be more than 3, it could be 20,000, it could be none at all. We. Don't. Know.
Oh yes sorry i forgot about scams with real money and possibly children involved.
I would give away a repeat world eater blade for free to a good friend.
I stated in the first page all my arguments against "don't trade if it's a problem to you", wont paste anything again
you could already scam people for real money by offering leveling and looting services. It happens alot in MMOS and MOBAS
People have been scamming people on POTCO when it was POTCO for services unrelated to trading. Most of the people who "got hacked" were people who took up those services. Heck, I remember on Facebook in the POTCO Community that there was an underground trade for old body accounts. Scams were more prominent in POTCO than you may realize. It will happen regardless of trading. Scamming happens to people at my work place while they ar eon the clock. It doesn't mean we should shut down the store because our own employees get scammed, it just means we have to push for being educated on the matter. We have to educate people on not falling for scams, it is as simple as that. There is only so much we can do. Trading or not scamming
will happen.
There is no honor among thieves.
The Disney developers didn't put in trading for a reason, and I think we should keep it that way.
The Disney developers were fired a couple years before it was shut down. They were working on it and then got canned. That is why they didn't put it in the game.
They couldn't because big wigs thought this game should die.
you shouldn't be allowed to skip the hours it takes others to put good weapons into circulation
What about the people who work long hours and still play this game and do everything they can to enoy this game and level their pirate but don't have as much time as the prolific, prominent looters to get the famed? Oh well? Maybe some of them do try. The average player is not going to necessarily have all the time in their life to spend on this game. Trading lets them feel like the work they did put into this game in their time off that they got something out of it even if it means through means of trading.
) and such. When they added SvS I spent hours upon hours playing. Every new feature created new ways to spend your time and I think not moving forward at all would be the greater evil in the end. I think TLOPO is much more than looting and I feel it is wrong to reduce it to this one element.
