"My life in VCO"

Arrrr morning fellow pirates and landlubbers. We all have great memories gathered from previous years, some of us are here from beginning that was almost ten years ago ( oh boy we are old) , some of us are new - but we all have great memories  of playing the game - sieges, battlegrounds, grinding for levels or silver, goofing around with guild, friends and enemies. Its time to share them with others.

Since memories are personal, and each person has its own way to tell the story - it will be up to you how you tell the story. Make it in writing, use screenshots, make a comic, make a video, dig up old old screens from times that we all forgot - make new ones to show we are alive and kicking - its all up to you. IT IS YOUR STORY!



One entry per account.

1st place 12 Golden Faith Update Card or 1600 gen.manuals or 14 Amethyst Stone (Perfect)
2nd place 12 Golden Faith Update Card or 1600 gen. manuals or 14 Amethyst Stone (Perfect)
3rd place 12 Golden Faith Update Card or 1600 gen manuals or 14 Amethyst Stone (Perfect)
4th 6 Golden Faith Update Card or 800 gen. manuals or 7 Amethyst Stone (Perfect)
5th 6 Golden Faith Update Card or 800 gen manuals or 7 Amethyst Stone (Perfect)

so this month stone will be amethyst one that gives you towards +50 on weapon damage bonus.



Tried to put rewards for everyone. atleast the refining stones would benefit almost everyone. It will be up to you what will you choose. From now on we try to keep similar prizes and rotate the stones so you can gather for every skill and for those who want to save up Golden faith cards - same thing. Take part from more events and you can get them whole bunch.

This is event thread only. Discussion one will be made separately and you can live out your frustration or joy HERE

I join the game in 2006 and the Guild is already created and I find many old friends from a website for pirate games , and the one player " Marcus " who swears to me this game is different and NOT like " evercrack " .
 It is new and we have exploration and the map is black is you did not explore there.
 We have a use for items things we kill drop . so it makes SENSE to have guild HUNT BELLWEATHER ! to make cloth and get seeds and learn to plant . ALL skills mean something and it is VITAL we learn to chop wood and mine and plant and sew , BUT we have a LIMIT of the skills we can promote past 31 .. So almost everyone makes an alt or more . I have ALL of my alts from my first days in VCO still in game .
 Each has a ROLE and it only changed when they make me useless from being top with few players and having everything in game of any use  refined to max . Plus being RICH and handsome .
 Unfortunate for MANY this is a huge disaster and so many sweat blood to get BEST in game and find it now a JOKE on the player , as VCO doesn't have any way to recognise OLD valuable players and place them in a good situation in NEW version of the game that we now play . So for the most part , in both Asian form and in West the game almost DIES and we see RU , Brazil , Bounty all go out of business and SG makes new games as it fails badly and loses huge sums of cash . But IGG VCO will not DIE , a few very hard core stay and start over OR better yet had only just joined this game at its very highest popularity , before SG kills it . Others like me curse them and wish bad things on them but STAY with friends who do not care about " gear and refines " They are happy in a ship selling HEMP and buying beer . Or like me they race to TOP again and get superman 120 ! EVERYTHING -then another UPDATE and alll this money AGAIN SG decides " screw all these old players " and despite the fact the game has recovered they REALLY kill it off badly this time and I and many others just remove ourselves from item mall rat race and see the game a s a scam to take to our money ..as this is how SG decides to ACT . And the players not being blind and stupid respond . and the game is shrinking ever since . It has a small resurgence when I and others say it is nice idea to make a server for only NEW players , but someone in IGG gets GREEDY and WRECKS this new server , And again we see a huge wave out of the game while a small group are allowed to become a terror and own this server , IGG makes a promise to respond and somehow screws it up even WORSE and this kills off any hope for those who wait to see , and they leave . So we float along leaking players faster than we gain for a while .
 Transfers help a little to keep game alive but the leak is getting bigger and worse IGG / Snail Games has nothing to offer . We are past our prime and old game , IGG is now a Public company and old staff is almost all replaced , VCO becomes an ORPHAN with no Admin aside from ME , and zero support aside from VIP and even that after some time is closed as we lose even VIP and VIP players .
 We all are still left and try to play and we are small and we know each other well and this keeps us Viable barely . You see IGG decides to focus away from PC titles and to cheaper , low overhead android and browser based titles . The PC side become a ? and Hmmm what do we do ? It has almost no staff or support , But in ASIA things happen and PVP titles become HUGE so SG has suddenly many new and old VCO players who used to nave these huge convoys of trade ships now come with Guns and swords and axes and start KILLING everything ! each other the tree's , pets and guards , if it can DIE they kill IT ! -so SG says hmmmm we have new title and it is doing OK but this OLD game we thought was dead , it is a ZOMBIE and it comes and eats our brains -Lucky for us we are Snail games and have NO BRAINS !! So we are ok ... SG snatches up old VCO franchises where it can so it keeps a FOOT in the door for future titles it can release in the USA and west , And it seems it discovers IGG didn't die and it finds al the messages asking for help it ignored ...and somehow a meeting of mindless and minds takes place . We can only speculate what happens .But this guy named FUNofKing drops in and we all wonder if it is a trap ... he claims he is GM ...we report him to IGG as a FAKE -very true story .  He is NOT a fake and somehow starts playing the game to find out WTH is going on and starts FIXING STUFF - well ok about time , we figure he last maybe three months TOPS , but he stays and fixes things and we get help and players must HEAR something because slowly they drift back to us . I am so happy I go work and the people see I am happy so they break my back and almost kill me , and I am in very bad shape for a few years BUT I feed my poor pets and refine my noob toon , as Guilds kick me out , except for The Guild and BN , they keep me around for giggles ... I never say anything about being hurt bad ..but I recover enough to play and find I HATE GAMES that are LIKE A JOB !!  And this VCO now is worse than a job as you need 33 hours in a day to get one God pearl .. But if you are still here and reading this you know the games insane and I think we are all are like the game , because WE ARE STILL HERE ! , But maybe it is because EVERYONE tries to help you ! ( I am  thinking it is because you are much more fun to KILL when you have decent stuff than old crap ) . How can you leave ?
 The players are great and those that are left you know forever ..it is like family . and you stay because it is what families do .
 So now I am on with alts on three PC's driving my wife nutty . And I also BUY crap because this game is all about getting crap to make your crap better crap all the time until you die .
 And this is my story . Also we have no idea what Bern is , Boy / Girl ? animal / vegetable / other ... so we just lock him in his room with his dolls .
 I tried to quit Mod job three or more times . I really did ..I get somehow these PM's or even phone call ..and maybe they have some mind control on me ..but I seem STUCK here . So I guess I go FIND some mag ore and some CRAP so I can make more crap better crap until I die ...

 THE END .

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