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Cosplay
Pirate King Online Presents Cosplay Event! We're excited to host yet another cosplay event. This round it will be focused to single piece and manufacturing piece of cosplay. You'll be crafting piece of weapon or tailoring one piece such as hat or attire. Rules You should craft and/or manufacture the item, it should be not a multiple pieces and you are not required to equip or make yourself visible, but you can, if you want include yourself. The item must be visually indicate an item known inside our Pirate King Online game. If our judging committee asks you what item you've constructed, you are expected to reveal what item name, so we may run by comparison. The contestants must be original, not existing work, they also must be proven...
V1.0.9 Halloween Content is enabled once again, we will be running same events from last year once more this year. There will be separate topics to introduce the events and it's rules along schedule. Please stay tuned for those topics to be posted in next few days. Introduced Account Manager on the client, when you successfully login the client will now remember the credentials and for your convenience you may quickly re-login any of accounts without typing in username or password. We know it can be difficult to cope our frequent restarts and we hope this tooling help you cope our improvements toward this game. Introduced Items Cooldowns, it was previously not possible to know accurately or at least convincible the length of items...
Tidbits [10-5-2017]
New weapons apparels has been added to item mall, with special seasonal weapon apparels being added to limited category as well. With combined of over total two dozens, we hope everyone enjoys those new additions as we gear up to develop and release more choices for players to fuse their equipment into. All of the new apparels should glow delightful, we'll need to develop a lot more to improve and perfect the constructing of between models and glow meshes, in general, we strive to make more, better, higher quality weapons. The bar arena received some of important updates including: Confirmation to bet-PvP with amount, Confirmation to play PvP with melee/skills both disabled, it is now possible to disable manufacture usage in the arena...
Braintree
We're delighted to announce there's now another way to process credit card payments besides PayPal. Traditionally we've been leveraging on PayPal to process our credit card but we know sometime PayPal is not so friendly, and we've listened to our players, they've been asking for more reasonable credit card processor. So it happens there is a company called braintree which specializes in processing credit card for which paypal are sensitive to process. It's been growing a lot and saw very great relations and for that reason we've decided to go ahead and collaborate with them as our next payment processor of choice. Braintree also offers alternative payments, such as Apple Pay, Google Store Credit, PayPal, and even bitcoin all depending...
2FA Protection
There is nothing more gut wrenching than watching all of your hard work getting stolen or become destroyed because of unauthorized access. At Pirate King Online we take all security incident very seriously, which is why we've been slowly but carefully developing a brand new security enhancements. Today most of frontier security-researchers would agree Second Factor Authentication (also known as 2FA) 2FA could be anything other than standard default password, however in our case we will use a time-based password, as it relatively the most safest as the time-based would mean the factor is always regenerating thus the pins are always changing, hackers could steal or capture your 2FA but in less thirty seconds it's useless. Today I am...
PvP Mods
There used to be days where endless nights of pirates battling each to other just for eternal glory, this place is known as "Bar" a special place in argent south docks. It was used to be filled with people, socializing and sharing culture as well disagreements with only one real way of proving and that was PvP. Today I am delighted to announce that we've given PvP a new facelift including providing basic common additions. Please observe the following new PvP invitation dialog, for the initiator of battle can select rules and even wage amount! This new PvP system is also inclusive MvM system as well, you now can initiate complex battles between 1v1 or 2v2 or even 5v5 with 50k wages from each member, and winner takes it all! As you may...
Tidbits [8-29-2017]
V1.0.7 Total of six apparels set has been added to limited category in Item Mall, Remember limited apparels now have around two hours cooldown in between purchases, you'll need to be quick or wait until cooldown finishes before purchasing a set yourself. Void Stone has been improved so it catches quest and npc based given EXP, no longer receiving experience points from NPC/Quests. Please report if you happen to obtain experience elsewhere while void stone in your inventory. As per Pop-Song event winning, the winner's character has been solidified into a permanent NPC at Argent 2263,2789 with dialog explaining how players can listen to this produced song. Lv 40 and above bows now attain weapon-glows when forged with gems; however it is...
Gems Addendum
Long awaited changes have finally arrived. We've gathered and analyzed most common issues in our game and broaden our ideas. In this particular update there is three parts, Broken/Cracked Gems, Refining Gem Drop Rate, and Colorized Gem Hints. Broken/Cracked Gems Broken and Cracked Gems are now available at Item Mall for 49/149 rums each respectively. Exclusive Principle rules are in full effect, meaning: You cannot forge broken, cracked, or unique gems together on same equipment. The goal is to not disrupt the current leading players and; To provide newbies and monopoly-stuck players at potential of becoming maybe third or second best. The broken and cracked gem would offer alternative to players who struggle securing unique gems and...
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://devxf2.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...
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