One of the things that sets Pirates of the Burning Sea apart from other MMO games is the amount of user participation that the developers are actively encouraging, particularly in that of user content.

Custom sails and flags can be submitted for peer-approval, and many of those have been accepted by the developers. There are a few tutorials here you might want to have a look at if that interests you.

An aspect of user content that is much more challenging and groundbreaking though is that of user created ships.

Flying Lab have recently updated their Ship Creation FAQ to include more advanced and detailed information, and the toolkit they provide has had an extra ship and a scale avatar model added to it as well.

Look out for our extensive ship creation tutorial soon, so keep your eyes peeled, budding shipwrights.

Society of Gamers' Pirates of the Burning Sea section hosted a recent competition asking readers to submit questions, the winner of which would recieve a PotBS t-shirt and get their question answered in full by a member of Flying Lab Software.

The winner this week was Jhadmae, who asked "How is Pirates of the Burning Sea going to provide content for the different kinds of player - the PvP'er, the PvE'er, the Crafter, the Socializer, the Casual player, and the Hardcore player?"

Isildur's answer to this question explores how the decisions the developers have made help to ensure that Pirates of the Burning Sea will appeal to all sorts of different gamers. As the start of a new era of news editorials, I'm going to read between the lines and explore his answer in full.

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We are very excited to have some exclusive wallpapers fresh from the FLS art department to share with you.

We were given wallpapers with the theme of the British, one of the four playable nations in Pirates of the Burning Sea.

You can download these very cool wallpapers here. Enjoy!

Modified - now the sail shows an historically appropriate Union Flag.

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We are happy to announce that we have just expanded our PotBS forums. The new sections are all empty at the moment, so we invite you to go and fill them up!

You can vitis our PotBS forums here, or by clicking on the "Coldfront forums" link on the menu on the left of this page...

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As many of you noticed, we weren't able to get through as many questions as we would have liked at our last devchat.

But don't fret! We sent our list of unanswered questions to Flyinglab, and our new hero game designer Kevin "Isildur" Maginn has ploughed through them and given his answers! We thank you sir, oh yes we do.

Releana has sent us a photo of her looking stylish with her winnings from our draw your character contest!

Thank you Releana!

Tonights devchat was a lot of fun, and we'd like to thank FLS and everyone who attended for making it possible. You can read the log below. If your question wasn't answered, keep your eyes peeled for an update on this site in the very near future about that ;)