Ice Ocean

From Puzzle Pirates

  The Ice Ocean was first launched in February of 2005. Spake Captain Cleaver: "As long mooted, today we are opening a Test Server, to be known as the Ice Ocean. The Ice Ocean will be available only to subscribers and will usually be running a preview version of the next full release. As such it will require a separate client be installed on your machine."

For the first week of Ice's existence, the testing ocean served as a place to test the Doubloon mechanism prior to the launch Viridian, the first production ocean to use doubloons. It also tested the concept of Cold Start Ocean Launches. After that first week, Ice saw its first and only database wipe.

Ice is online now and the client can be found here:

• Windows: http://www.puzzlepirates.com/aclient/test-install.exe
• Mac: http://www.puzzlepirates.com/aclient/test-install.dmg
• Linux: http://www.puzzlepirates.com/aclient/test-install.bin

Captain Cleaver said at the Ice Ocean's launch: "Although we hope that players will establish a vibrant, if small, community and economy on Ice, it will be subject to instability and it may be necessary to perform wipes. We will try to avoid such, but be warned that they may happen."

There are three archipelagos in Ice, each with five islands, for a total of fifteen islands.

Narya Fort Royal Maelstrom Island Mini Island Wemadeit Island Yorrick Island

Nenya Eieio Island Kings Island Oubliette Island Shatterstone Island Wyeth Island

Vilya Cold Spring Island Cringe Island Diablo Island Escher Island Winking Wall Island

[edit] Access

While Ice is a subscription ocean, as part of the July 18^th Ice release access to the ocean was opened to non-subscribers who have bought doubloons. These accounts essentialy have a non-expiring trial access on Ice and are limited to items that non-subscribers can have.

[edit] External Links

• Forum post with questions and Answers regarding the Ice Ocean
• Ice Changelog