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Join us for the latest Official SOE Podcast! SOE Podcast #23 is now available for download! Listen in as the Community Relations Team talks about what's going on in our games, chat with dev-team members, and do what we do best--make fun of ourselves. You can download the file from the SOE Podcast Homepage.

If you want to leave us some feedback, feel free to fire off an e-mail to Brenlo@soe.sony.com or post your feedback over on the Station forums!

All SOE games, websites, message boards, Knowledge Base, Station store, and other services will be unavailable for approximately 24 hours beginning on Tuesday, September 25^th. All SOE services will be undergoing upgrades to the authentication system and as a result, all logins for SOE services will be unavailable. Technical and Account support will only be available by phone during this time. Please keep an eye on this website for more news and information about this maintenance as it becomes available. We appreciate your patience and understanding during this downtime.

The highly anticipated Pirates expansion launch, Pirates of the Crimson Coast, has been delayed until Thursday October 4th, 2007. We apologize for any inconveniences this may cause and look forward to seeing everyone sail on the Crimson Coast.

Thanks!

The Pirates CSG Online team is pleased to announce that the next expansion, The Crimson Coast, is set to launch on September 26, 2007. This latest installment for Pirates CSG Online will feature loads of new ships, crew, and of course Forts!

Stay tuned since we’ll be featuring some of these great features in the coming weeks!

Join us for the latest Official SOE Podcast! SOE Podcast #22 is now available for download! Listen in as the Community Relations Team talks about what's going on in our games, chat with dev-team members, and do what we do best--make fun of ourselves. You can download the file from the SOE Podcast Homepage.

If you want to leave us some feedback, feel free to fire off an e-mail to Brenlo@soe.sony.com or post your feedback over on the Station forums!

All SOE forums will be brought down for maintenance on Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007 at approximately 10:00 AM PDT. This maintenance is scheduled to last for one hour, ending at approximately 11:00 AM PDT. Included in this maintenance will be an upgrade to a new release of our forums software.

A note for our international friends: PDT is UTC – 7 hours for the purposes of tracking when this will happen in your day.

The scheduled maintenance for today has been extended further for two hours and should end at approximately 4:00 PM PDT (GMT- SMILEY

. All affected services will be unavailable until that time. Thank you for your patience while we process these updates!

The scheduled maintenance for Tuesday, August 14th has been extended an additional 2 hours.

Thank you for your understanding and patience during this maintenance period.

The scheduled maintenance for Tuesday, August 14th, is scheduled for 4:00AM and will include an update to the SOE sessions servers as well as other SOE servers. As such, the maintenance period will last for approximately eight hours, beginning at approximately 4:00 AM PDT and ending at approximately 12:00 PM PDT.

With the maintenance now involving the session servers, all services requiring a login will be unavailable during the maintenance period. This includes (but is not limited to) the game servers, all forums, Station Exchange, Character Transfers, Customer Service, the SOE Store, and the subscription tools.

Thank you for your understanding and patience during this extended maintenance period.

Each week we’ll be breaking down a card and giving you some strategy ideas on how you can utilize them in your fleet. This week’s Card of the Week is the “El Algeciras ”!

Name: El Algeciras
Rarity: Common
Type: Ship
Cost: 11 Points
Faction: Spanish
Cargo:3
Movement: S+L
Guns: 2S, 2S
Ability: This ship may dock at an enemy home island and load one treasure. If able, she must leave on your next turn.
Card Set: Pirates of the South China Seas

Notes: The El Algeciras is a tricky ship to play in a Deathmatch and is suited better for a Guns and Gold or Standard match since her ability can be fully utilized in those matches. She has good speed so she won't be left behind in many matches, but she can't hold a ton of gold so you'll need to find clever ways to gather gold and make it back to your home island. Her strength lies in sneaking around till later in the game and getting some of your opponents gold that's sitting around on their island, it's a two-fold benefit since you gain gold and they end up loosing some.

She doesnt' have the strongest cannons out there, but they are good enough to keep opposing captains honest. She's a solid ship to employ in a Guns and Gold or Standard match so give her a try!

Are you ready for one of the best gaming convention around? If you enjoy playing games—tabletop or desktop—we invite you to join us at Gen Con this year in Indianapolis, IN for the time of your life!

As part of the festivities for Gen Con in Indianapolis, Sony Online Entertainment will be hosting a Meet and Greet for those of you in the area. Join us at Jillian's on August 17th from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM. Food and drinks will be provided, along with entertainment and fun.

Address: 141 S. Meridian St., Indianapolis, IN 46225
Phone: 317-822-9300
E-mail: ecindianapolis@jilliansbilliards.com
Web Site: Jillian's
Distance from Monument Circle: 0.27 miles

Each week we’ll be breaking down a card and giving you some strategy ideas on how you can utilize them in your fleet. This week’s Card of the Week is the “El Alquimista ”!

Name: El Alquimista
Rarity: Uncommon
Type: Ship
Cost: 11 Points
Faction: Spanish
Cargo:4
Movement: S+L
Guns: 3S, 3L, 3S
Ability: One of this ship's treasures is worth +2 gold when unloaded at your home island.
Card Set: Pirates of the South China Seas

Notes: The El Alquimista is set up to be a great gold runner and she does a fantastic job at that. She has a relatively low cost at 11 points, she has a nice cargo hold that can store 4, and she's speedy with S+L speed! For treasure runners this is a rather nice ship to have just on the base stats alone. Where the El Alquimista gets that extra push to being an exceptional ship is the fact that one of the ships treasures nets you +2 gold when it's unloaded on your home island. You make 2 trips and your up 4 points, that's not bad at all and in Guns and Gold and Standard matches those extra points could be the difference in winning and loosing.

If you're playing Guns and Gold or a Standard match the El Alquimista is a ship that would suit you very nicely so see about commissioning her into your fleet today!

Each week we’ll be breaking down a card and giving you some strategy ideas on how you can utilize them in your fleet. This week’s Card of the Week is the “Grand Path ”!

Name: Grand Path
Rarity: Rare
Type: Junk Ship
Cost: 20 Points
Faction: Jade Rebellion
Cargo:5
Movement: L
Guns: 2S, 2S, 2S, 2S, 2S, 2S
Ability: This ship gets +1 to her boarding rolls
Card Set: Pirates of the South China Seas

Notes: Wow, just a bit of an overkill here with the Grand Path but she's a mighty fine ship. If anyone gets in close to her, they are pretty much going to look at the underside of Davy Jones' locker. She gets +1 to her boarding rolls, and with 6 masts it's pretty darn tough to beat if you are using her as a ramming or boarding ship. While you are at it, if you're up close, feel free to unleash all 6 rank 2 cannons as a welcome present to a rival Pirate.

Although she's not the fastest ship out there, one L move is fairly decent for a gunship and if you toss a helmsman on her she can keep up pretty well with most ships out there. Either way you look at it, this is what a gunship in a fleet is all about, power, and destruction.

Each week we’ll be breaking down a card and giving you some strategy ideas on how you can utilize them in your fleet. This week’s Card of the Week is the “HMS Prince of Chinchester ”!

Name:HMS Prince of Chinchester
Rarity: Uncommon
Type: Ship
Cost: 13 Points
Faction: British
Cargo:5
Movement: S+S
Guns: 2S, 2S
Ability: This ship cannot be shot at by ships within S of her.
Card Set: Pirates of the South China Seas

Notes: Similar to other ships such as the Fallen Angel, the HMS Prince of Chinchester is a difficult ship to take down. It has above average speed and 2 solid rank 2 cannons. Even though she's only a 2 masted ship she's a fantastic treasure runner as her cargo hold has room for 5! This means where other "Cannot be shot at by ships within S" ships have trouble being cargo runners, this ship can really shine.

She's useful in Deathmatches, load up a firepot specialist, captain, and a helmsman and she's a very dangerous gunboat! Using her in a Standard game and she's equally deadly since her treasure is even harder to take from her. Be sure to find a spot for the HMS Prince of Chinchester in your fleet today!

The Station.com website (http://www.station.sony.com) has been updated and includes over 60 pages of exciting new content including a new Community Portal and dozens of Casual and Mobile games. You can also find new updates and features never before seen on the website. Be sure to check it out today to learn more about everything SOE has to offer you for your entertainment needs!

The 4th of July is a day for celebrating with the three F’s: friends, family and food. Make sure you grab all three and enjoy the holiday activities. Whether you are barbequing chicken or steak, kicking back and watching fireworks, or playing your favorite online game, all of us here at Sony Online Entertainment wish our U.S. players a very happy Fourth of July, and we hope our players all over the world are having a fantastic summer.

Technical and Account phone support will be unavailable on Wednesday, July 4th 2007 in observance of Independence Day. Phone support will return to its normal hours of 10:00am through 7:00pm PST on Thursday, July 5th 2007.

Live chat will be available on July 4th 2007 at its normal hours of operation at http://www.station.sony.com/kb. E-mail support is also available any time at http://www.station.sony.com/kb.

Our Self-help knowledgebase is also available at http://www.station.sony.com/kb with answers to your questions.

The downtime is approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes long. The purpose of the downtime is to improve the overall performance of the forums, it will also fix the issue with the Dev Tracker on the EQII Forums. We are also adding new icons and avatars that celebrate Summer. We hope you enjoy them.

All forums will be affected.

Each week we’ll be breaking down a card and giving you some strategy ideas on how you can utilize them in your fleet. This week’s Card of the Week is the “USS Montezuma ”!

Name: USS Montezuma
Rarity: Uncommon
Type: Ship
Cost: 8 Points
Faction: American
Cargo:2
Movement: S+S
Guns: 2L, 2L
Ability: Other ships do not block this ship's line of fire
Card Set: Pirates of the South China Seas

Notes: The USS Montezuma may not look like a heavy hitter, but if used as a super-support ship she can round out a fleet very nicely. She has excellent cannons that can hit targets at L-Range away, plus other ships do not block her line of fire allowing her to stay close to a big gunship and tack on additional points of damage.

She's not going to win head to head fire-fights by herself however she will provide an excellent option as a quick tiny gunboat that will take out masts and support your bigger ships. She's a rather nice addition to any Guns and Gold or Deathmatch fleet so give the USS Montezuma a spot in your fleet!

Join us for the latest Official SOE Podcast! SOE Podcast #19 is now available for download! Listen in as the Community Relations Team talks about what's going on in our games, chat with dev-team members, and do what we do best--make fun of ourselves. You can download the file from the SOE Podcast Homepage.

If you want to leave us some feedback, feel free to fire off an e-mail to Brenlo@soe.sony.com or post your feedback over on the Station forums!

Here are just some of the great things we have in store for registered Fan Faire attendees:

Anticipated world debut of a brand new SOE product
Sneak Previews of new MMOs in development
Fan Faire exclusives- Demo of Gods and Heroes: Rome Rising
Live entertainment (to be announced) and dancing poolside at the Rio
Costume contest- dress up as your favorite character!
Beta invitation to selected upcoming SOE titles*
Specially created in-game items for Fan Faire attendees**
Gaming industry forums and keynote speakers
Tournaments involving SOE Denver’s newest line-up of casual and strategy games

*Beta Keys expire September 30, 2008 limit one (1)Beta card with two(2) Keys per registered Fan Faire attendee. Valid For any two (2) Beta programs that may be available on or before September 30, 2008. Non-transferable
** Limit one (1) item per registrant, valid only for one (1) character for primary registered game. Redeemable after the close of Fan Faire, More details available at www.soefanfaire.com

Each week we’ll be breaking down a card and giving you some strategy ideas on how you can utilize them in your fleet. This week’s Card of the Week is the “Virtuous Wind ”!

Name: Virtuous Wind
Rarity:Common
Type: Ship
Cost: 14 Points
Faction: Jade Rebellion
Cargo:5
Movement: S+L
Guns: 2L, 2L, 2L
Ability: Junk. This ship may dock a an enemy home island and load one treasure. If able, she must leave on your next turn.
Card Set: Pirates of the South China Seas

Notes: Ahh the Virtuous Wind, this ship is a powerful ship to have in your fleet! A quick look at the ship reveals that she's rather quick, sporting a S+L range, this is on par with the quickest ships out ther so she's not going to have any problems trying to keep up. If you take a glance at the cargo you may have to do a double-take, yes that reads a massive 5 cargo spots to carry crew and treasure. This alone would make her a compliment to any fleet as a quick treasure runner. At next glance you find that the Virtuous Wind has 3 rank 2 long cannons! That's a great amount of firepower for a decent if you weigh it all out.

Ultimately the way the ship is set up you could easily use it as a general all-purpose ship that has great guns, swift sails, and a mighty large cargo hold. The ship can steal treasure from another player's home!

With this ship being able to compliment many fleets, it's high time she makes her way into your fleet!.

From everyone here at SOE, we would like to extend a Happy Father’s Day to all of you Dads out there! We hope you have a great day full of rest, relaxation, family, and perhaps some gaming!

The South China Seas is the next Pirates expansion and it'll be hitting the virtual market this Wednesday, June 13, 2007. Are you ready?

Share your thoughts, ideas, and general discussion here!

Each week we’ll be breaking down a card and giving you some strategy ideas on how you can utilize them in your fleet. This week’s Card of the Week is the “Panama Sun”!

Name: Le Descharges
Rarity:Uncommon
Type: Ship
Cost: 13 Points
Faction: French
Cargo:5
Movement: S+S
Guns: 2S, 2L, 2S
Ability: If this ship wins a boarding party, she may take as much treasure from the other ship as she wants, up to her available cargo space..
Card Set: Pirates of the Mysterious Islands

Notes: The Le Descharges is a quick little "grocery getter" that has very good cannons and a nice special ability! She has one of the quicker movement speeds out there so she can get to the treasure that she wants and return home faster than most ships out there. Her cannons, while only 3, are rank 2 cannons and can easily take out masts on all but the toughest opponents ships. The 5 spaces available in her cargo are also above average when it comes to storage space, after all where are you going to put all the loot after you get it?

Now, the Le Descharges also has a special ability and a nice one at that. Since she's quick and manuverable she can find ships that have tons of treasure on them, beat them up a bit, and take all the treasure she wants (as much as she can hold) and then sink the ship that she's come across. the Le Descharges can't do that to every ship out there but she does have a fighting chance when it comes to this sort of tactic with some of the smaller rigs out there. She's a solid above average ship to have in your fleet!

Each week we’ll be breaking down a card and giving you some strategy ideas on how you can utilize them in your fleet. This week’s Card of the Week is the “Panama Sun ”!

Name: Panama Sun
Rarity:Common
Type: Ship
Cost: 10 Points
Faction: Pirate
Cargo:4
Movement:L
Guns: 3S, 3S, 3S
Ability: Ramming cannot eliminate this ship's masts.
Card Set: Pirates of the Mysterious Islands

Notes: The Panama Sun is a quick little ship! She can get you to those islands quickly (even quicker if she has a little help from a helmsman) and she has a good ability as well -- ramming doesn't eliminate her masts.

While she may not be the most stout ship or the quickest out there she has solid, average guns, to fend off would be attackers and the added benefit of ram protection does warrant that the Panama Sun get a fair shake when looking for ships to add to a fleet. Try her out and she should impress!

Each week we’ll be breaking down a card and giving you some strategy ideas on how you can utilize them in your fleet. This week’s Card of the Week is the “HMS Pacificum ”!

Name: HMS Pacificum
Rarity:Rare
Type: Ship
Cost: 15 Points
Faction: British
Cargo:4
Movement: S+S
Guns: 3S, 3S, 3S
Ability: This ship gets +1 to her boarding rolls. She gets +2 instead if her opponent is a submarine.
Card Set: Pirates of the Mysterious Islands

Notes: Do you need to take out crew post haste? Look no further as the HMS Pacificum is simply one of the most brutal boarding ships on the high seas. Load her up with Virgil and the Inquisitor and you're really looking to take down a whole lot of crew fast!

The HMS Pacificum isn't the fastest in the fleet, nor does she have the deadliest cannons but she can have an impact on the high seas none the less.Use this 5 masted ship to her strengths and you'll be punishing those who stand (or sail) in your way!

Each week we’ll be breaking down a card and giving you some strategy ideas on how you can utilize them in your fleet. This week’s Card of the Week is the “ ”!

Name: Nautilus
Rarity:Rare
Type: Submarine
Cost: 16 Points
Faction: Mercinary
Cargo:4
Movement:L
Guns: 3S, 3S, 3S
Ability: Two hits from the same shoot action are required to eliminate one of this ship's hull pieces
Card Set: Pirates of the Mysterious Islands

Notes: The fabled ship that the one and only Captain Nemo served as captain on -- it could only be the Nautilus. The Nautilus is a fine submarine, an extremely durable and deadly sub at that. While she can't move all too fast, adding a helmsman can help. The Nautilus has average guns, but only 3 of them so she's not quite a gunship -- this is a drawback due to her high 16 point cost.

The Nautilus has strength in ramming her opponent, then hiding under water. If she rammed a 4 mast ship that can actually shoot her (shooting ships underwater) this would only leave 3 cannons to fire meaning at best that ship could only take out one hull plate because of her special ability. This is very powerful indeed!

Each week we’ll be breaking down a card and giving you some strategy ideas on how you can utilize them in your fleet. This week’s Card of the Week is the “HMS Gallows ”!

Name: HMS Gallows
Rarity:Uncommon
Type: Ship
Cost: 16 Points
Faction: British
Cargo:5
Movement:L
Guns: 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L
Ability: This ship gets +1 to her cannon rolls against any ship..
Card Set: Pirates of the Mysterious Islands

Notes: Wow, what a ship! This is as close to a sure hit on a cannon roll as you'll likely see this side of Davy Jones' locker. Now the HMS Gallows isn't the quickest ship out there, nor is it the illustrious 5 mast ship that is so coveted, but it is a really solid 4 mast ship with decent speed, and a good cargo capacity. Add a captain and a helmsman and you've got a fine ship to lead the charge.

The HMS Gallows is a solid ship that should be serviceable for all forms of the game -- standard, guns and gold, as well as deathmatch. Be on the lookout when you see her on the seas, she's a powerful ship indeed!

Each week we’ll be breaking down a card and giving you some strategy ideas on how you can utilize them in your fleet. This week’s Card of the Week is the “La Sirviente ”!

Name: La Sirviente
Rarity:Uncommon
Type: Ship
Cost: 14 Points
Faction: Spanish
Cargo: 3
Movement: S+L
Guns: 2L, 2S, 2L
Ability: Schooner. As past of the move action, this ship may initiate a boarding party against a ship up to S away from her, without having to ram. The boarded ship may not use any boarding bonuses.
Card Set: Pirates of the Mysterious Islands

Notes: The La Sirviente is a very powerful ship to have on your side! When matched with crew that can eliminate all of the opposing crew upon winning a boarding party -- this ship becomes extremely dangerous to those crew heavy fleets such as those who employ the "RedEx" tactic. The ship also has devestatingly strong cannons -- 2 long and 2 short, which is as close to a guarenteed hit as you'll likely come!

The speed of the ship is also a major factor -- S+L is quick but matched with a helmsman and it's not going to have much competition getting to just the right spots quickly on the playing field. Overall this is a powerful, quick, ship, that can cause havoc on the high seas!

Hey Folks,

With the upcoming launch of the Mysterious Islands, the debate will rage on about submarines versus seamonsters. Who or what are more effective?

What do you think?

So what are you looking forward to most in the Mysterious Islands? Why?

Each week we’ll be breaking down a card and giving you some strategy ideas on how you can utilize them in your fleet. This week’s Card of the Week is the “HMS Plantagenet”!

Name: HMS Plantagenet
Rarity: Common
Type: Ship
Cost: 8 Points
Faction:British
Cargo: 3
Movement:S+L
Guns:3S, 3S
Ability: This ship gets +1 to her cannon rolls against Pirate ships.
Card Set: Pirates of the Spanish Main

Notes: The HMS Plantagenet is quick and packs a solid punch up close. When matched with a helmsman she's as quick as any ship out there and her cannons are enough to keep the many commanders honest when attacking her.

She doesn't have the largest payload, nor does she have the long range cammons, but she does have a good value, costing only 8 points, and she has a decent payload capacity with 3 cargo spots. Commanders looking for a good quick ship with decent cannons to run wild on Standard and Guns and Gold games should check out the HMS Plantagenet today!

Each week we’ll be breaking down a card and giving you some strategy ideas on how you can utilize them in your fleet. This week’s Card of the Week is the “Snipe”!

Name: Snipe
Rarity: Rare
Type: Ship
Cost: 6 Points
Faction:Pirate
Cargo: 1
Movement:S+L
Guns:3S
Ability: L-range cannons cannot hit this ship.
Card Set: Pirates of the Spanish Main

Notes: The Snipe is a tough little ship! The Snipe is very quick and can be used to confront some of the bigger ships who only have L range cannons such as the Flying Dutchman. This makes her a hard adversary to confront if you happen to have a ship such as the Fallen Angel working with her. The speed and quickness mixed with their abilities can cause havoc on the open seas.

A very dangerous ship, and for only 6 points, the Snipe is a worthy addition to any fleet. She’s best served for Deathmatches but could also be a useful addition to a Guns and Gold fleet. Set out on the high seas with the Snipe and see what you can do with her today!