![]() A great MMO needs to have a great single player aspect in which the game magnifies with multiplayer. In the end Uncharted Waters Online faults on simply not being a solid single player experience. Honestly, how many maritime companies only had one ship? My great grandfather (Captain William Vincent) had a SMALL shipping company and he had 5 ships in it. If companies were giant things in which people could be recruited and advertise in their company the need for a war ship and a payment for a convoy… that wouldn’t be so bad.īut companies are miserably tiny and usually only enough for a single convoy. It wouldn’t be so bad if companies weren’t so tiny. Playing with friends means that you can convoy so you don’t get raided… but only one person will really progress with this. In fact the longer you sail the worse it will get for you.įor this reason the most common thing to do is just do really short trade routes for moderate amounts of profit. Your home harbour offers a lot of great trade routes and leaving your home harbor is often punished with an infinite number of pirate raids, random damage, random scurvy, random mutinies, random rats, and random theft. On top of that getting beyond your home harbours are treacherous. ![]() The main reason for this is that since it’s YOUR story there’s no reason for someone to take 3 hours to help you convoy to do YOUR quest. I spend half of my time picking up quests at a guild but I never seem to progress any sort of storyline at all. So this game focuses on YOUR story and doesn’t add much to it. You were in the story of someone else, you were role playing. It wasn’t a communal story it wasn’t even your story. When you invested you weren’t taking over ports for Mother England… you were taking them over for yourself. You never wished to play with other people. One of the things about Uncharted Waters that was really cool was you were playing in your own world. I know I love that series.īut this isn’t exactly the same thing. I understand people having sentimental feelings about Uncharted Waters. I get that the everyday business stuff keeps people playing consecutively… but how is it that people continue to play it? Investment in ports does literally nothing but build XP and shift the nationality of a port.īeing a fighter has a much bigger pay off now with there being so many war events.Īdventurer seems to still be kind of iffy but there’s still way more adventures to go on.Īs one of the most popular games on Steam its kind of odd to see how people are still so hooked to this game. But as the game has been playing so long it’s quite the opposite, it has no consequence. It was the only one with any consequence. In the old version of the game trading was really the only way to go. So the game still has its addictive flavour of playing the daily life of a sailor of various traits. But that’s just counter intuitive because I’m looking to make money off of trade skills, not lose it. I realized at this point that it was going to take a long time to fill up… or I could spend money.Īs another option I could go to a higher level crafter and spend ludacris amounts of in-game currency to get it. As I picked up crafting supplies I was unable to craft because I need to refill this bar. Then I remembered what it was for, crafting. I immediately forgot what this resource was for and burned through it in under one hour. By the time I figured this out I had lost most of my crew and had triple scurvy.Īfter a year of not playing I came back to a full vigour bar. I know I’m in Europe but where exactly would I have left off?Īs it turns out Bristol, which is one of the WORST places to start off. Now having not played this game for a year straight it is certainly hard to tell exactly where I am without a single land mark on this map. So one thing right off the bat that isn’t improved is the map: So I take a second (or maybe third more appropriately) look at Uncharted Waters Online. It stands as one of the most critical reviews of this free to play title and I’m proud to say many of the points I raised were used for developers to improve the game. ![]() ![]() Maybe you remember my review of Uncharted Waters Online.
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