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Golden Stalls
At Pirate King Online we know how important stalls are, and we are always looking into ways to improve players' trading experience. And today I'm delighted to announce we've got another trick up our sleeves. This time it's called gold stall, or sometime called as golden stall as well, those stalls offer nothing but simply a golden stall title bars. Those golden stalls can help your shops to become more iconic and rather curious to more players. Those golden stalls may prove useful for especially those high-volume shops. Almost as if players who deem golden stalls to be more likely higher quality over regular stalls due to fact golden stalls imply that seller have invested more time and money toward their shops. Golden Stalls are...
V1.0.3 Void Stone is added into Item Mall under Character category, void stone is a precious item which affects your character's experience points causing it to not receive any as long you hold the item in your inventory bag. This item can be useful in some situations like for characters who desire to attend level-restricted mazes such as Forsaken City several time without accidently gaining too much EXP. New ignore system is activated and working, to use this new ignore system you may type into chat box with command "/ignore <charactername>" with example of /ignore Zankza. When you ignore someone, you will be not able to receive any messages or view any messages from those particular ignored players. You can too open your friend list...
There are assortments of improvement and changes to client.The client has many new critical components, For those who already have Pirate King Online client should only have to launch the launcher and allow it to receive all the updates. In case if you are un-able to login or enter client, You should try first running "Version Check" via launcher form, If it doesn't solve, then, at last resort, You may re-download the Client Setup for complete re-install. A separate Cumulative Patch download is also available, this download is good for upgrading any client version to latest. You may now download the client at following URL https://piratekings.online/index.php?act=downloads&cid=1
One Year
Today we mark a important timeline: One Year Anniversary! It's been exactly 365 days since the first concept of Pirate King Online inception into public, and ever since we've saw explosive growth and endless of improvements that netted both remarkable features and bug fixes that nobody imagined being fixed. We're very excited of what lies ahead of us, with new server-backed we're fully ready to start adding more fun and exciting changes. I ask kindly: If you have any favorite memories, in either text form or screenshot form, share it here in this topic among your friends and let us remember those memories! Happy Anniversary once again, and let us prosper into other year of boldness! Pirate King Online Team
V1.0.2 We've successfully moved all server binaries to x64 architecture a great milestone as it means our services and application now have literally unlimited memory access to handle ever more increasing game features and game players. Due to x64, we're no longer having problems running out of memory that caused frequent restarts lately. Server looks ultra reliability and even so expect a lot more relief in terms of easier to continue playing due to upcoming resumable sessions which allows people to close and open their client without disconnecting their character and thus not kicked out of a maze. More about this to come later. Launcher has been changed significantly with how it handles empty index database, some players reported...
Gleam Giveaway
We're running a Gleam Giveaway! You get free stuffs, your friends get free stuffs, everyone get free stuffs! This means all you have to sign up and enter our gleam contest and random winners will be drawn! Depending on how many entries we receive at end of contest, more entries means more random winners with even BIGGER reward pool! For more information please visit our official Gleam Giveaway: https://gleam.io/2gkfY/pirate-king-online-summer-festive-give-away However when you enter the contest, you will be asked to verify your email address otherwise how will we be able to contact you so you can receive your rewards, we do not keep or have access to those email address. It is important the email address you provided is working and...
Create Smilies
Develop Smilies Concept Artists must develop smilies that resonates to PKO The smilies must be in three default Smile, Wink, And Cool face The smilies should be developed in vector, if not, please make sure your pixel count is high enough The smilies need to be friendly and usable in forum/game for future use You may submit as many "groups" as you want, each group will be treated as one "entry" but you may only win once, additionally, if you want to collect your rewards, you must first disperse the necessary files. Artists must agree to declare the event submissions license-free and must comply sharing the source (.PSD or .AI) to winner entries. The smilies preview must posted before end of event but can be edited until end of event...
Summer Cookout
If there's anything to be certain it's summer, it's the scent of cooking food, only you are certain it is summer! In Pirate King Online we've decided to have plenty of cook-outs! There is a bonfire that's placed at northgate Argent beach near the melon bartender, talk to it to begin your cookout today! You will be required to bring lots of food ingredient, and now is good time to start using our game database to locate those foods as they all come from various monsters all over! The special food you might cook will give incredible boost to your character, however they will perish quickly so be sure to eat them up soon! The bonfire and food will be finished at end of July month, so what are you waiting for, get your first cookout! Talk...
Fan-Fiction Story
Write a fanfiction story for Pirate King Online! Theme: It's future! The world of PKO is facing heat, a global warming phenomenal! For this reason the scary demonic world is melting... write a story about how the horrific creatures in those mazes are battling melting caps as those very ice give the bosses power it needs to secure it's kingdom. The story must be original. The story should be minimum of 500 words, no maximum limit. The story should have plot and some taste into it's story-telling. The story must posted before end of event but can be edited until end of event, where the submissions will be locked, and event judge will make final decision of best story. Post your stories here as a post, please refrain from off-topic or...
Pop-Song Contest
So you think you can Pop-A-Song about PKO ? Contestants can join up by uploading their recording about/of Pirate King Online to YouTube Strong Vulgar is not allowed, some bomb is OK but please control yourself. Otherwise disqualified automatically. If your song doesn't mention or make proper relation to PKO, you are disqualified automatically. If your song doesn't contain many words, it's your job to make sure the acoustics or noises to be relative to PKO somehow. Minimum of minute and 30 seconds of song itself; we will not count intro or outro (IE time not blasting music won't be counted). No more than four minutes either please. The video you upload, should contain PKO logo in the visual (video) area, unless you intend to produce...
Melon Invasion
Melons! Walking, Moving, Attacking Melons! It started with Physican - Ditto becoming curious with Whammy Lamb's salvia, however being clumsy The physican has accidently spilled some of it's salvia onto window outside, unknownst to physican there was melons laying around. The saliva was binding onto the melon's biological molecular, it's became alive... The melon had gained consciousness and quickly escaped from Physican Ditto's place. Ditto being excited to chop up melons and making drinks for this very hot summer, only to discover a weird strange trailing what seemed almost like as if melon had dragged itself out. Becoming alerted, the physican determined melons must had somehow mutated when the salvia touched it, beyond a wildest...
Post-A-Screenshot
Summer breeze is among us, sharing your favorite screenshots with your friends and world has never been more fun! To participate this event is simply to take a screenshot of Pirate King Online, however you desire and post the said screenshot to one of social media sites. After you've posted the screenshot on one of following social media sites, return back here and create a forum post describing your submission, providing a link (url) to your social media posting containing the screenshot. Please do not post screenshots in here this forum. Screenshots must be friendly and nice for everyone to view Screenshots may be edited with tools like photoshop however they must retain originality and; Screenshots needs to be able to recognize what...
Tidbits [7-11-2017]
V1.0.1 Server continues to see almost daily-restarts mainly due to fact we are placing new binary files on production as we continue to fix critical bugs after the last Maintenance However we are rapidly seeing performance improvements and hopefully more reliable in long run. Ninja Apparel set has been improved to show less artifacts Because when we were attempting to add new apparel sets we saw something very wrong with the new sets, and so it turns out there was a bug within game's graphics engine that caused artifacts, we have since then identified and pushed new engine to fix this bug. After the engine update, we were finally able to add two sets for each race, one limited, one regular, they are now purchasable in item mall! Tons...
Create a Comic | Pirates Life
Artist must draw and create a comic about PKO pirates' lifestyle The comic must be original The comic must contain at least three story boxes, at minimum The comic needs to be able distinct PKO and written in english The comic can be humorous, motivational, nostalgia, good-feeling in general The comic must posted as a post in this topic before end of event but can be edited until end of event, where the submissions will be locked, and event judge will make final decision of best comic. Begins July 10 Ending July 16 23:59 Three winners, First, Second and Third place; with 600, 300, and 200 rum barrels as contest prize respectively. Additionally all winners will receive hair decoration kit set. Pirate King Online Team
Summer Carnival
Summer has arrived! The warmth in air means it's now time for you pirates to train up and go out on an adventure! The carnivals of summer has begun, and every other week we will publish what kind of rates bonuses and how long their durations will be. In general, there will be boosted rates daily, however the timing will vary to reach all players from all over world, additionally every other week the rates bonuses will differ in between. The first week of July has already begun and here's the details for the week, some time before the second week starts we will publish the details of following week. First Week of July Month | July 5 - 8 | EXP and Fairy Growth 2017-07-05 @ 11:00:00 UTC | 2:30:00 Hours | 1.5/2X EXP/Fairy 2017-07-05 @...
Write a Poem | Summer Love
Write a poem Writers must write an original poem about PKO embedding topic of "summer love" The poem must have some originality but can be inspired by other poems Poem must be at least 20 words, preferably no more than 150. Poem must be friendly and not too harsh, as we will publish some of poems Poem must posted before end of event but can be edited until end of event, where the submissions will be locked, and event judge will make final decision of best poem Beginning at July 5 Ending at July 15 23:59 UTC Three winners (equal winners | equal custom rewards | variation rum barrels ) Winners will be given following: A one selection of weapon apparel, this weapon apparel is unique clone and has permanent visual effect binded to...
SUMMER FESTIVES
It is this time of year again where everyone feels sand buried beneath their feets, gloated by warmth of local campfire. Nurtured by finger-licking delicious foods with plenty of extravagant activity for everyone to participate. PKO Team is happy to announce we've got a lot of events for all range of players including the newly joined and old veterans, with some requiring few moments of effort and as long multiple days of orchestrating and planning! The following list is official summer festival event list, to prevent and reduce clog we won't be launching all of the events at once, instead we wanted to share some insight so everyone can prepare their-self for their preferred upcoming events. Forum: Poem Event Forum: Fan-Fiction Story...
We will be having a server/infrastructure maintenance on this upcoming Wednesday. Which is roughly 48 hours from this topic creation. The purpose of this maintenance is to move the servers into to newer generation hardware, additionally, will begin to use new re-written gameserver codebase. This new codebase will give us the final tool needed too build of many things we have elaborated in past, including HoP, Guilds Expansions, Item Mall's hiccups, and MORE! Due to nature of too big of code-changes, it means that we will be running the game on what we call "unknown code" even though we've ran and tested the code many times, it is still unknown how it will respond to thousand users playing and literally hammering it with every function...
Tidbits [6-15-2017]
V0.9.6 Brand new apparels! Two apparels for each character has been added into item mall, please check the regular apparel category to view the new apparels. Launcher has been updated to fix various bugs including a bug where sometime it would select higher ping server over lower; Launcher now has new second tweak for players to activate, this tweak is known as one-view inventory UI, observe the following picture: Note: Guide Center is now officially under construction, while you may view and read, but they are under heavy re-writing and many guides may have wrong or outdated information, and pictures are being replaced with correct one, please excuse our mess and thank(encourage) the volunteers who are helping building frontier...
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