From Flyinglab:

Recently, it’s become apparent that there’s a problem in the cannon accuracy settings. The numbers are off by small amounts in several areas. Once they’re all added together, the compounding numbers make it so that many small and medium ships will win a straight up broadside exchange against large ships at close-medium range. While it’s important for small ships to be valuable, your first double-decker warship should not lose to a small ship in a close-range slugfest. We’re making numerous changes to accuracy values to help address this issue.

From Flyinglab:

Pirates of the Burning Sea CEO Russell Williams and Content Director Jess Lebow had a chance to chat with our friends from Ten Ton Hammer during this year’s Consumer Electronics Show.

From Flyinglab:

We thank you for your patience while we worked to deploy a fix to our mission servers. All servers are live at this time and missions are functioning as expected. Should you experience any further challenges, please be sure to file a support ticket with a detailed explanation of the problem you are facing.
We thank you for your patience while we worked to deploy a fix to our mission servers. All servers are live at this time and missions are functioning as expected.

From Flyinglab:

Pirates of the Burning Sea Producer, John Scott Tynes, has written a developer journal for our friends at PotBS Vault! You can find out more information regarding how our group mission Red Tide works, and our plans for similar endeavors into the future by visiting the link!

This Friday, Pirates of the Burning Sea will begin its open beta phase. For those of you who want to get a taste of this unique MMO that is all the rage right now, this is your chance. Click read more for the full official info.

PRESS RELEASE

PIRATES OF THE BURNING SEATM OPEN BETA SCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7th
European Retail Pre-Order Scheduled to Start December 12th
WHAT: Pirates of the Burning Sea, the MMORPG featuring action and adventure on the high seas, is scheduled to begin its worldwide open beta on Friday, December 7th allowing naval captains, freetraders, privateers, and pirates alike to experience first-hand this highly-anticipated online game.

From Flying Lab:

Members of the Pirates of the Burning Sea development team will be on hand to take your questions at a developer chat hosted by GameSpy! The chat takes place on Monday, December 3rd at 4:00p Pacific Standard Time, and requires a download of the GameSpy Arcade, which you can find at the link.

From FlyingLab:

We’ve had several reports of people who experienced some confusion as to the way FP keys work. In order to make up for that, we are inviting everyone with a Stress Test II key to join us as beta testers!

The winners of the PoTBS Wicked Flag Design Contest have been chosen!

The results are in! Members of ConCo and the Communi-Kingdom got together to judge the previous round of the Wicked Flag Design Contest and the winners are in!

From Flyinglab:

Those crafty folks over at Coldfront’s Pirates of the Burning Sea fansite managed to corner Troy “Aether” Hewitt to ask him some questions about The Boarding Party.

From Flyinglab:

Our friend Xaphod at Coldfront has published an interview with the Pirates of Burning Sea User Content Ship Steering Committee!