Pirate101 Monthly Newsletter

Arrrgust was a great success! It all started off with a free Shark mount for Shark Week. Soon afterwards, the pirates of Pirate101 enjoyed fan site contests, a free hook for a hand on Left-Hander’s day, and even had a few Crown Shop surprises with MooShu furniture, the Mini-Minotaur, and the Gryphon mount. To finish it all off, Arrrgust also saw the introduction of powerful Henchmen and other updates to the game! What a great month!

We hope everyone enjoys September as a lot of us head back to school and into the autumn season. Not to worry, Pirate101 will be keeping the skyways sunny and full of fun all year long.

What's in a name?

Hello my friends! I see you are the type of pirate who is on quest . . . perhaps a quest for information! Let me gaze into my crystal ball and see if I can give you a little something extra to help your curiosity.

I see you’re interested in names. Yes, the names of Pirate101 are many and varied. It’s a little known fact that there are over 10,500,000 unique name possibilities in Pirate101, and our very clever castaways have chosen over 3 million unique name combinations so far!

I also see that certain rebellious pirates are definitely not “following the pack” – in fact, the most popular name “Wolf” still has only been picked by 9,000 boys -- the girls are even more varied in their choices, with the name “Bloody Mary” being the most chosen girl’s name only 1,900 times.

Aha! I see you enjoy using descriptive words in your name as well! If you’re looking for something more unique in Pirate101, I’d steer clear of the words “Silver” and “Strong,” which are both nicknames as well as last names. “Bloody,” “Dead-eye” and “Fearless” are also in the running for most popular nickname.

If you are trying to pick a name that will be unique, try “Anneke,” “Fabienne” and “Llewella” for girl pirates and “Layne,” “Caley” and “Carlyle” for boy pirates. “Ushawe” and “Unreeve” are very uncommon last names and not surprisingly, almost none of our rebel castaways are nicknamed “Cowardly” or “Weak.”

And what is this? Astonishing! I see 1 nickname and 1 last name that have never been used as of this viewing session into the powerful, omnipotent Crystal Ball.

Come back next month, pirate, and we will gaze more into my crystal ball.

Here’s the eighth video in our Rogue’s Gallery video series with an expose’ on the famed Sarah Steele Companion from Scrimshaw.

Boochbeard: "You weren't supposed to take ‘Blow The Man Down’ literally, It’s a pirate song!" - Fair Christina Nightingale

Who will caption the next Puppet Pirates? Stay tuned to our Facebook page to enter your caption on the next Puppet Pirates.

You know ‘em and you love ‘em! Pirate101 has fantastic fan sites who keep the fun in Pirate101 all the time! Here’s our list of a few threads that caught our eye this month:

• On both the Pirate101.com forums and on Central, our fans were busy asking some thought provoking questions:
• Who really are Pirate101’s iconic characters? Bonnie Anne, Troggies, Boochbeard? Be sure to add your two coppers worth!
• Everyone needs a song! What’s your pirate’s theme song?
• And also this great thread: What keeps you Playing Pirate101?
• The Pirate fans on Central keep entertaining us with their unique creativity:
• This is a hilarious recreation of the Pirate101 Tutorial in Minecraft – featuring Kobe Cowjimbo!
• Here’s your favorite companion, El Toro, as an 8-bit hero!
• . . . and who’s that rocking out in Style, Old Scratch or Old Slash?
• Dr. Zeppers and friends gave the tune “Yo Ho! Yo Ho! A Pirate’s Life For Me” a much needed Cool-Ranch-Makeover with this remake, “Wahoo Wahoo Buffaloon Poppings for Me.”
• We also saw a lot of helpful information in the Month of August:
• Here’s an excellent player-made guide to defeating Witchdoctor enemies.
• A Pirate’s Portal inspired us with this well written walk-through of Cool Ranch.
• At the 13:30 minute mark, Luke shares a good tip for hiring henchmen.
• Duelist101’s did a nice take on Sun Tzu’s Art of War as it relates to PvP in Pirate101.
• If you were looking for some fun, we certainly hope you took a few of our fan sites up on their party invitations! Here’s a few that caught our eye:
• Sink 101 Ships Nautical Exp Party by Secrets of the Spiral.
• “Gold in hand from Friar Sand” Farming Party from Stormgate Pirates.
• Check out this Buccaneer pride party from Pirate101 Skyways.
• This month we welcomed a brand new fan site to the fold: Petnome Pirates! They were off to a great start this month as well, adding the Mini-Minotaur pet to their excellent database.
• And last but not least, Ambrose2Zeke is starting a nice webpage devoted to player housing.

Pirate friends! You return to Valencia seeking more knowledge from Librarian Adelmo!

I know you love Swashbuckling, and I know you love tales of the terrible -- a good captain always reads up on the dangers awaiting him in the skyways, and what better way to entertain yourselves than with tales of fantastic beasts and adventure in a good book, yes? Well, I’ve got just the thing for you!

This month’s book is called “How to Be a Pirate,” by Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, translated from the Old Norse by Cressida Cowell. If you remember Hiccup and his dragon Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon, you’ll want to check out Hiccup’s further adventures – in piracy! Hiccup is forced to enroll in the Hooligans’ Pirate Training Program and learn Swordfighting at Sea – despite not being any better at sword fighting than he is at anything else the Hooligans do. But when the whole tribe goes in search of the lost treasure of Grimbeard the Ghastly, the greatest pirate of the Inner Isles, Hiccup has to worry about terrifying ten-foot-tall dragons, cannibals, shipwrecks, and Grimbeard’s plans for his True Heir.

Ten-Ton Hammer is a gaming portal website that reports news on MMOs of all kinds (Note: Some content on these sites may not always be appropriate for our younger players). Two of our Pirate101 Team members were recently spotlighted on their site for some of their past work as well as their current work for Pirate101: Sara Jensen and Mike Stone. Check it out!