Since the birth of dynamic websites, people have wanted to reset their passwords and changed their email addresses.
Players of PotBS are likely to be no different in that regard, which is why i've added a simple 'Account Settings' page to the site, when you log in.
You'll need to re-enter your password to be able to update anything on this page; its a security feature I hope won't be too annoying - to prevent someone from messing with your profile if you accidentally left yourself logged in on a public computer (try to remember to logout, eh?).
The form is simple; to change your password - enter the new one (twice), if you don't want to - leave those fields blank. To update your email address, type it in the relevant box.
I've added a couple of other options here, Gender and Timezone. You don't have to fill these in, but the plan later is to implement some social functions so that you can communicate with other people from the game world while you're at work, and features like this just help you find people you have something in common with.
Sorry that wasn't the most interesting of features, but its important to any site to have them!
Following the development of www.potbs-companion.net; a utility for players of Pirates of the Burning Sea.
Sunday, 28 December 2008
Monday, 22 December 2008
Site Feature: Ship Comparison Tool
One of the big reasons why I built this site is because along with a lot of people, I don't possess an encyclopaedic knowledge of the pro's and con's of each and every ship in Pirates of the Burning Sea.
A really great thing about the game is that there are almost 200 ships (including variants) for you to sail, and although they can be handily divided off into classes such as Merchants, Warships and Scouts - they each handle that little bit differently, giving them uses in some situations while they fare less well in others.
For the most part, once you've got the hang of PvE in Pirates, any well outfitted ship appropriate to the level of the opponent should suffice to blow them all to smithereens, you just have to adapt your tactics accordingly. When it comes to PvP however, some of the opponents you'll face are a sight tougher than the NPC opponents you're used to.
What you need then, is a way to compare ships - so that you can learn which ones suit your own personal fighting style, or which will compliment your group mates, or whether you think you might have the power to engage that target of opportunity you just saw obliviously sailing through the red zone.
So thats why i've built the Ship Comparison Tool - which at the moment, is the main reason that the PotBS companion site exists at all.
There are two parts the ship tool - called the shipyard, on the site. The first is a sortable and filterable list. This is a great way of finding your next ship, or quickly comparing a number of ships against each other in a certain area - while you can compare pretty much any stat, they don't all fit on the one display - so you need to specify what you want to look at.
A set of options at the top of the screen allow you to filter out a ship or subset of ships by name (useful if you want to compare all the variants of a given ship type, for instance). You can also filter ships by many other things; such as the variant, the size, the level range, the classes allowed to sail it, and so on. The bottom control is the sort order, where you can select upto three stats to sort on, in any order.
When you click the 'update' button; the list below the box will show you the ships you selected; and all the stats in the subset that you picked. If you sorted your ships by something specific, then this might be a handy way to reference say - which ship out of the selection has the best armour, or DPS, or highest number of cannons.
If you want to see all the stats of a given ship together, click on the name of the ship which will take you to the in-depth comparison screen. Every stat in the game (and a few that are worked out based on the others) is presented here, in groups. A drop down menu at the top allows you to pick one other ship to directly compare against, and the resulting page will show you how the ships stack up against each other, so you can see whether you need to be running, shooting at long range, or rageboarding your opponent!
The ship comparison tool is a community project - MMO's are constantly rebalanced and PotBS is not excluded from that. If you notice that a ship has incorrect stats, simply log in to the site (creating an account is quick, and costs nothing) - If you access the ship list while you're logged in, you'll have the chance to edit the statistics of any given ship. Your help in this regard is truly appreciated.
Thanks for reading, and let me know what you think.
A really great thing about the game is that there are almost 200 ships (including variants) for you to sail, and although they can be handily divided off into classes such as Merchants, Warships and Scouts - they each handle that little bit differently, giving them uses in some situations while they fare less well in others.
For the most part, once you've got the hang of PvE in Pirates, any well outfitted ship appropriate to the level of the opponent should suffice to blow them all to smithereens, you just have to adapt your tactics accordingly. When it comes to PvP however, some of the opponents you'll face are a sight tougher than the NPC opponents you're used to.
What you need then, is a way to compare ships - so that you can learn which ones suit your own personal fighting style, or which will compliment your group mates, or whether you think you might have the power to engage that target of opportunity you just saw obliviously sailing through the red zone.
So thats why i've built the Ship Comparison Tool - which at the moment, is the main reason that the PotBS companion site exists at all.
There are two parts the ship tool - called the shipyard, on the site. The first is a sortable and filterable list. This is a great way of finding your next ship, or quickly comparing a number of ships against each other in a certain area - while you can compare pretty much any stat, they don't all fit on the one display - so you need to specify what you want to look at.
A set of options at the top of the screen allow you to filter out a ship or subset of ships by name (useful if you want to compare all the variants of a given ship type, for instance). You can also filter ships by many other things; such as the variant, the size, the level range, the classes allowed to sail it, and so on. The bottom control is the sort order, where you can select upto three stats to sort on, in any order.
When you click the 'update' button; the list below the box will show you the ships you selected; and all the stats in the subset that you picked. If you sorted your ships by something specific, then this might be a handy way to reference say - which ship out of the selection has the best armour, or DPS, or highest number of cannons.
If you want to see all the stats of a given ship together, click on the name of the ship which will take you to the in-depth comparison screen. Every stat in the game (and a few that are worked out based on the others) is presented here, in groups. A drop down menu at the top allows you to pick one other ship to directly compare against, and the resulting page will show you how the ships stack up against each other, so you can see whether you need to be running, shooting at long range, or rageboarding your opponent!
The ship comparison tool is a community project - MMO's are constantly rebalanced and PotBS is not excluded from that. If you notice that a ship has incorrect stats, simply log in to the site (creating an account is quick, and costs nothing) - If you access the ship list while you're logged in, you'll have the chance to edit the statistics of any given ship. Your help in this regard is truly appreciated.
Thanks for reading, and let me know what you think.
Monday, 1 December 2008
Welcome to PotBS Companion
Hello there.
My name is Kipper and I sail in the Pirates of the Burning Sea world, as a British Captain on the Roberts server with my happy band of captains known as the Wolves of the Red.
This is a companion blog to a new website i've created (and still creating) called potbs-companion.net. The companion is a custom built site aimed at offering players of the game, new and old, an intuitive way to get information on anything from the games ships, economy, other player societies and anything else I can think of later.
Over the coming weeks and months, as the site gets updated with new features or changes, i'll post messages here to let you know whats happened, why i've done it, and what i'm thinking of doing next. Feel free to share your own comments and experiences of the site with me as I go, after all - while the idea came from finding a lack of a decent ship comparison tool anywhere else online for my own use, I now have to consider other people that might want to use the resource too. I hope you do, it will make it all more worthwhile.
If you don't know what the hell i'm banging on about and have no idea what Pirates of the Burning sea is, its a massively multiplayer online game (MMO) set in the 18th Century Caribbean, when tall sailing ships bristling with artillery ruled the oceans - why not check out the official site at www.burningsea.com. At the time of writing, there is a free trial available.
My name is Kipper and I sail in the Pirates of the Burning Sea world, as a British Captain on the Roberts server with my happy band of captains known as the Wolves of the Red.
This is a companion blog to a new website i've created (and still creating) called potbs-companion.net. The companion is a custom built site aimed at offering players of the game, new and old, an intuitive way to get information on anything from the games ships, economy, other player societies and anything else I can think of later.
Over the coming weeks and months, as the site gets updated with new features or changes, i'll post messages here to let you know whats happened, why i've done it, and what i'm thinking of doing next. Feel free to share your own comments and experiences of the site with me as I go, after all - while the idea came from finding a lack of a decent ship comparison tool anywhere else online for my own use, I now have to consider other people that might want to use the resource too. I hope you do, it will make it all more worthwhile.
If you don't know what the hell i'm banging on about and have no idea what Pirates of the Burning sea is, its a massively multiplayer online game (MMO) set in the 18th Century Caribbean, when tall sailing ships bristling with artillery ruled the oceans - why not check out the official site at www.burningsea.com. At the time of writing, there is a free trial available.
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