Pirates of the Burning Sea: Interview #3

Pirates of the Burning Sea Lead Designer Kevin Maginn gets our Q&A series running again with another set of questions and answers. This week we learn about population imbalance between the nations, the stress test and more.

WarCry: Your game lets people play as French, Spanish, English or Pirates. It seems likely that you'll face some population balance issues. Have you seen them so far in Beta and how do you plan to keep things fair after release?

Kevin Maginn: We're seeing the same population numbers consistently through every stage of the beta. 35% of the players choose Pirate; a similar number choose Britain. 15% choose Spanish, and 15% choose French. Obviously, those numbers aren't balanced, but they're not a failure state either. That said, we are working on some population balancing tools, with two goals: make the game more fair if your nation is underpopulated, and make underpopulated nations more appealing, particularly to large PvP guilds.

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