Take office in the expansion for Pirates of the Burning Sea

by Eliot Lefebvre Oct 6th 2009 at 10:00AM

Filed under: Historical, Pirates of the Burning Sea, Game mechanics, Interviews

Having thoroughly explored the cutthroat world of piracy on the high seas, Pirates of the Burning Sea's first expansion, Power and Prestige, is going to be turning to something even more cutthroat -- political office. An interview on MMORPG.com contains many details about the upcoming expansion, in which the designers want to focus in-depth on letting the players feel their own importance, starting with the option to run for and eventually win the position of governor.

The interview goes into more details regarding the process, allowing players to become the head of one of the game's many ports. Once in power, of course, they note that it works very similar to real office -- if you abuse your power too heavily, no one will vote for you when re-election comes due. Then again, with the option to alter taxes, fortify (or weaken) your town's defenses, and even make cosmetic changes to the port, who wouldn't take the chance to indulge their inner autocratic dictator?

Pirates of the Burning Sea will also be getting expanded factions, a few new subdivisions of the game's skill trees, and promises of some new visual polish to help spice up the gameplay. The expanded political options suggest that it might be time to put down the cutlasses for a bit and start working on your handshake for when the expansion drops sometime next year.

Tags: expansion, pirates-of-the-burning-sea, politics, potbs, power-and-prestige