So a while ago, some pirates were grinding to create unrest at Bartica for a port flip. Now, Bartica is home to some important natural resources, it’s true, but it’s also heavily involved in many of the beginner missions for the British players. In other words, it’s a noob port. And since pirates don’t KEEP ports we capture for longer than three days, there’s no point in pirates conducting a port flip on a town like that… unless you consider noobganking reason enough to go through the effort of PvE grinding for three or four hours to make a port flip happen.

So I teased them. One of them seemed to get really emotional about it, so I drew it out, had a good laugh at their expense about how Bartica is a terrible zone, they should flip Grenville and Cayo de Marquis instead, this went on for at least half an hour. During this time, one of them made a crack about how I was probably a Brit’s alt and that I was probably sailing around in a pink failboat. In fact, I wasn’t. But this gave me an idea.

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This week, we revisit Garbad’s treatment of the ‘Prince’ First Rate Ship of the Line. This 100-gun lineship is the first ship of the line covered in the Ship of the Week column. It is a user-created ship modeled by Victariand and based upon a 17th century English First Rate ship of the line. The historical ship was 136 ft. long, 44 ft. wide, had a draught of 19 ft., an even 100 guns and was launched in 1670.

Few ships in PotBS get as much admiration as the Prince. In terms of sheer firepower, nothing can compare to it. As the largest, most expensive, and most powerful ships in the game, they are admired by all. People take notice when a Prince is in the battle (or even on the OS), and they are regularly the flagship of a wealthy nation or guild.

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Of the writing world, that is? Maybe, maybe not.

In the last few weeks, I’ve spent less and less time playing PotBS and more and more time looking for community resources and how I might be able to improve them. Of course, much as I’d like to say I’m just an all-around nice guy (I am!), I have my own motivations for this. MMORPG.com has been looking for what they call “Game Correspondents” for several MMO games that nobody else is spending a great deal of time on. These Game Correspondents aren’t employees so much as freelance writers; game enthusiasts with a passion for writing and who are willing to take the time to deliver relevant articles for the MMO gaming community at large. They are not paid by check, but they are compensated in the form of having an account subscription for the game they write about paid for by MMORPG.com. They already had one for EVE, but not for PotBS – until now.

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After an extended break for New Year’s, the Defias Blog is back! And since it’s Friday, I’m also resuming the Garbad’s Ship of the Week column. Since I captured one of these a couple of weeks ago, this week we’re going to look at his take on the ‘Hercules’ Heavy Frigate (also known as HHerc, or simply HH).

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1 : blood feud
2 : an often prolonged series of retaliatory, vengeful, or hostile acts or exchange of such acts

The Pirate Hunter

Somewhere off the Florida Keys, December 1720
Aboard the Xebec Jackal

“Sails on the horizon!” came the spotter’s call. Captain Stephen MacKenna brushed a lock of stray hair from before his eyes as he took the spyglass from Quartermaster Dugan. By the shape of her sails, the captain made her out to be some manner of packet-boat and by her speed, he surmised that she was probably heavily modified; perhaps a ‘Hermes’ Sleek or an ‘Expedition’ Privateer Packet-boat – wouldn’t that be nice! Her ensign was that of a French Naval Officer and she sported the arms of a society called the Legio Auxilia, an unknown factor recently arrived in the area.

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