Ice Ocean

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 Doubloons mechanism, prior to the launch of the production ocean. It also tested the concept of Cold Start Ocean Launches. After that first week, Ice saw it's 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."

Questions and Answers regarding the Ice Ocean can be found here: http://www.puzzlepirates.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=15288