Latest News 
1.6 Ship Changes
07.21.08 
by Taelorn
We feel like weve addressed most of the crucial skill issues with the changes in the recent builds, so weve been looking at addressing high-end ship issues. As always, everything contained here is subject to change. If theres something specific …
Potential Login Server Issues
07.19.08
by Aether
We’ve been investigating reports of sporadic outages impacting our login server. While this issue has been reported by a very limited number of people, if you should experience problems while attempting to login to Pirates of the Burning Sea, we …
David Hunt Sails the High Seas with Gamestah!
07.17.08
by Rhaegar
Our friends at the Australian internet radio station Gamestah run a weekly live broadcast call Sailing the High Seas, dedicated to life on the Invincible server.
This week, they caught up with Game Designer David “Taelorn” Hunt to chat about various …
Roberts Server Reboot!
07.16.08
by Rhaegar
Technical glitches as reported by our players required an emergency reboot of our Roberts server. This will take place at 13:45pm Pacific.
We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience as we work to remedy the problem.
/ Rhaegar
I, Grognard
07.16.08
by Snap
Hi, everyone. I’m Snap, the “new guy” in DevCo as of a couple months ago (see Brady’s welcome devlog). Working on Pirates of the Burning Sea, with all the amazing folks here at Flying Lab Software, …
Server Downtime: Thursday Morning
07.15.08
by Rhaegar
We will be deploying version 1.5.48.4 to our European and North American servers on Thursday morning, from 1:30am to 4:00am Pacific Time (9:30am – 12.30pm British Summer Time). This is a server-only update, so you will not need to patch …
The Great Testbed Screenshot Hunt!
07.15.08
by Rhaegar
Ahoy!
As you know, one of the ways we use Testbed is to help nail down difficult bugs, or to make sure that our fixes for certain problems have worked. Our players are an invaluable part of that process.
We know …
PotBS Meet Up at Gen Con Indy!
07.14.08
by Aether
It’s that time again! The Flying Lab Software gang is packing up and heading out to show off Pirates of the Burning Sea at this year’s Gen Con Indy! For those of you attending the show, you will be able …
Video Contest Results are In!
07.14.08
by Daeke
The results are in! The winner of our Boarding Tutorial video contest is AlanB! We’ve posted his video below for your viewing pleasure. It was a very close vote, and we’d like to thank everyone for their awesome submissions. We’ll …
The Boarding Party Introduces New Ships!
07.10.08
by Aether
The Pirates of the Burning Sea Boarding Party has been hard at work collaborating with Designer David ‘Taelorn’ Hunt to introduce the world to the new ships that are on the way in Build 1.6!
You can read more about …
Publishing a New Build Tomorrow Morning!
07.09.08
by Aether
We will be publishing a build to our European and North American servers Thursday, during a maintenance window of 1:30am to 5:00am, Pacific Time (9:30am to 1:00pm, UK Time).
This build serves to remedy the problem introduced by the House …
Help us Test!
07.09.08
by Rhaegar
We’ve just deployed a new build to Testbed, and we’d like your help to test it.
All we need people to do is log on to Testbed and use the auction house. Buy things, sell things, buy more things and …
Reminder: Regular Service Downtimes for Server Maintenance
07.05.08
by Rhaegar
In order to mitigate a couple issues with our servers that have been manifesting over long periods of up-time, we are now restarting all of our clusters twice weekly.
Our North American and European servers now have regular maintenance periods …
Rackham Server Reboot!
07.05.08
by Rhaegar
Technical glitches as reported by our players required an emergency reboot of our Rackham server. This will take place at 13:30pm Pacific.
We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience as we work to remedy the problem.
/ Rhaegar
July's Community Member of the Month: ArmEagle!
07.03.08
by Aether
If you are a Pirates of the Burning Sea player, chances are that you’ve benefited from this guy’s suite of API tools.
Not only is he providing an amazing resource for our community, he’s a great guy as well!
So join me …
Publishing 1.5 to Invincible!
07.03.08
by Aether
We will be publishing Build 1.5 to Invincible within the next hour. Patch notes for this build can be found by visiting this link.
We appreciate your patience and look forward to hearing what you think about this new …
Come Vote for Your Favorite Video!
07.03.08
by Daeke
The submissions have been collected, and now it’s time for you to decide who the winner should be! Here we have our four submissions, by four daring community members. Watch all of their videos, and vote for your favorite. The …
Build Discrepancy Fixed!
07.02.08
by Aether
Individuals who were experiencing issues with the 1.5 build discrepency should now find those issues resolved by closing and restarting their Pirates of the Burning Sea game client.
We want to thank everyone for their help in tracking down the …
Character Copies to Testbed: LIVE!
07.01.08
by Aether
With the deployment of build 1.5.46.0 to the live servers, our Testbed and live server build versions are now in synch! This means that players can copy a character directly to Testbed by visiting this link!
Enjoy, won’t you?
Aether
SOE Maintenance Today
07.01.08
by Aether
Beginning today at 9:00a and ending at 12:00 noon Pacific Time, SOE will be performing maintenance that will impact your ability to log into our site.
This means that during the three hour maintenance window, individuals will not be …
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