Pirates of the Burning Sea
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| Developer(s) |
Flying Lab Software (defunct) Portalus Games (present) |
| Publisher(s) |
Portalus Games (Europe, USA) Gamearena (Oceania) Sony Online Entertainment (former) |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
| Release | January 22, 2008 |
| Genre(s) | Massively multiplayer online role-playing game |
| Mode(s) | Multiplayer |
Pirates of the Burning Sea is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Flying Lab Software. The game is set in the Caribbean in an anachronistic 1720 and combines tactical ship battles and swashbuckling combat with a player-driven economy and open-ended gameplay. In the game, players can choose from 4 nations, Great Britain, Spain, France and the Pirates.
Players can choose a career for their avatars when they begin the game. The Career determines what abilities and features he will accrue as a captain. The player will receive one point for his avatar's career on every other level gained. These points can be spent in various ways depending on which career the player has chosen. Once a career is chosen, it cannot be changed.
There are a total of 45 skills for each career. The skill trees are composed of 9 skill chains, each 5 skills in depth. A player will be able to reach the end of a single skill chain by Rank 15, and is then considered somewhat equal to a Rank 50 in that skill chain.
The different careers for nationals (British, Spanish, French) are:
The different careers for pirates are:
Players in Pirates of the Burning Sea can create up to six characters per server to represent themselves in the game. Each of them will captain their own ship and fight either for a nation of their choice or as a Pirate (see below). As the player moves along in the game, the character will develop by gaining ranks (The equivalent of levels in other MMOs). The player can thus unlock new features, such as fighting abilities, and, most importantly, will be able to captain larger and better ships. The maximum rank a player can reach is 50.
When the character is first created, the player chooses a faction to join. This can be any one of either Britain, France, Spain or the Pirates, known as the Brethren of the Coast. The Dutch are also shown throughout the game, but are not playable. Each of the four factions have different starting ports, and therefore access to different resources at the start of the game.
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