As many of you may know, the test realm was just opened a few days ago. This test realm addition offered few changes, (one of which is Rooke getting a second chance chest. Yay!) most of which I believe could have been added through putting P101 offline for a few hours. At first I thought, O.K., maybe this was just slightly beyond the bandwidth of a single offline session, but just yesterday, the test realm got suspended for a week...suspicious. The test realm (from my experiences) has never gotten a suspension before, the usually just go offline at night. Also, I tested all of the additions, and didn't find a single bug, meaning that the suspension is likely not for bug fixes. To support this theory, One-Eyed Jack never said anything about bugs, but he did say, and I quote, " Any additional updates to the current Test Realm will be announced when it makes its return", meaning that more updates would be added...even more suspicious. I have a theory that will please everyone if it is true, and that is that the suspension is to implement new Books!! But why would KI release the test realm before the major update is on? simple. Loading. one of the major issues with the MB and AQ test realm was that it took a while for everyone to download it, then have everything loaded up. Releasing it a week earlier would let players download it, and let the old locations load up, while not releasing the new material all at once. To support this, it took approximately six months for the new story update to come out, and, wow, look at that! Six months have passed since MB and AQ...VERY,VERY suspicious. I could very well be wrong, but I do believe that this is what is happening and I just wanted to share my thoughts with all of you...

F.R. Holystone
lv 65

This guy probably is right. Odd that it closes but I bet One-Eyed Jack is doing one of his tricks again.

Elemutation on Sep 13, 2013 wrote:

As many of you may know, the test realm was just opened a few days ago. This test realm addition offered few changes, (one of which is Rooke getting a second chance chest. Yay!) most of which I believe could have been added through putting P101 offline for a few hours. At first I thought, O.K., maybe this was just slightly beyond the bandwidth of a single offline session, but just yesterday, the test realm got suspended for a week...suspicious. The test realm (from my experiences) has never gotten a suspension before, the usually just go offline at night. Also, I tested all of the additions, and didn't find a single bug, meaning that the suspension is likely not for bug fixes. To support this theory, One-Eyed Jack never said anything about bugs, but he did say, and I quote, " Any additional updates to the current Test Realm will be announced when it makes its return", meaning that more updates would be added...even more suspicious. I have a theory that will please everyone if it is true, and that is that the suspension is to implement new Books!! But why would KI release the test realm before the major update is on? simple. Loading. one of the major issues with the MB and AQ test realm was that it took a while for everyone to download it, then have everything loaded up. Releasing it a week earlier would let players download it, and let the old locations load up, while not releasing the new material all at once. To support this, it took approximately six months for the new story update to come out, and, wow, look at that! Six months have passed since MB and AQ...VERY,VERY suspicious. I could very well be wrong, but I do believe that this is what is happening and I just wanted to share my thoughts with all of you...

F.R. Holystone
lv 65

Wow... has it really been 6 months already, mate..?

Really doesn't feel like it... if I were to guess, I'd say it's been about 3 or 4 (i could be wrong, though). Has it really been 6 months?

Bloody Belle on Sep 13, 2013 wrote:

Wow... has it really been 6 months already, mate..?

Really doesn't feel like it... if I were to guess, I'd say it's been about 3 or 4 (i could be wrong, though). Has it really been 6 months?

5 months at tops.

Interesting theory, Elemutation, and the new books coming out soon will be great. Guess we'l have to wait and see, won't we?

An update now would be a little earlier than I, at least, anticipated. We are approaching the one year birthday of Pirate101 (late October), and I have been hoping for something big then. But if KI does want to launch something big before that, it's OK with me!

-Indigo