Massively on PotBS crafting

Note to self: Need to check whether the NDA for Pirates of the Burning Sea was dropped. Because it is either that, or Massively.com got a special dispense, or they are blatantly breaking the NDA with their extensive article on PotBS crafting. Some people compared the PotBS economy system to "EVE without the boring asteroid mining", which sounds rather attractive to me. :)

Massively also reports on an interview with the lead designer of PotBS, which reveals an interesting problem with their nation vs. nation PvP: Everybody wants to play the Pirates or the British (35% of population each), and nobody wants to play the Spanish or the French (15% of population each). Which is somewhat logical if you think of an international audience on English language servers. The British and the Pirates get all the good press in all the pirate movies you ever saw. The Spanish are just in to get their gold galleons robbed by the pirates, and I don't even remember the French really playing a prominent role in any of those movies. Which tells us that our "knowledge" of the pirate era is probably far more fantasy than historical. But of course for a game where you have 4 nations battling each other for dominance, the numbers are rather problematic.