Pirate The World - Online Adventure Game

First, I have to say I am still new in this game, but I already realise how mappers can have an overwhelming advantage vs non-mappers, especially for weaker ships.

The main reason people map is that islands have a much greater advantage over the other tiles, you can keep your fame low, earn gold and maybe even win prizes!

I feel that instead of scrambling the map, perhaps we can raise the usefulness of the other tiles. For example, oceans/rifts/lagoons now have absolutely no use at all. Perhaps we can add some rare, random and automatic effects when ships travel on such tiles.

This has never happened to me before, but I believe searching in islands can yield some prizes such as free upgrades, free dubloons, etc. I suggest these rare events to be moved to ocean tiles/etc. For example, automatic events such as "You see a bottle floating on the waters. You opened it, and a genie appears, granting you a free upgrade".

Of course, since these events are very rare, it will not significantly reduce the advantage that mapping has. Mapping is still a legitimate strategy and mappers will still have an advantage.

You have good suggestions. We will take them into consideration.

bcp19 and I have a lot planned for PTW. Things take time, though, and certain programming tasks are more important than others.

To all:

Remember that I have been monitoring and posting in the suggestions forum for over a year--I haven't forgot.

Looks like you guys already have things in store before I gave my idea :p

Pearls.... hee

You can also check out the development page in the member's area to get an idea about what we're up to.