Jolly Roger's Island



As the Raven's Cove storyline began to enter Post-production in April 2010, the POTCO development team began production on their next big story quest project, which involved creating Jolly Roger's Island. The island would most likely serve as a base of operations for Jolly to house his army, and plan his nefarious invasions.

The POTCO development team started churning out themes for the island. Two designs were very prominent.

The Aztec Jungle
One had a very grand, tropical feel, in which Jolly's palace sat perched atop the highest point of the island, with a waterfall coming out of the palace, and falling to the village below. The village consisted of a fort, and a small town afloat on the water. Presumably, this could be a small outpost of the EITC, as they have been known to have worked with Jolly Roger on multiple occasions.

Farther up the island are a series of Aztec ruins. These ruins would have presumably had aztec-style undead enemies, as statues from the Phase Files evoke that theme.



Although, there are other Aztec statues that seem to be uncorrupted. Perhaps Jolly's dark magic hadn't reached a specific area of the island yet.



Update Cancellation
In May 2010, the Aztec development plan was scrapped due to it's development costs being too high. Also in may, another concept artist created a new, more eerie design of the island, in an attempt to salvage the project.



Although the redesign was good for reducing the cost of the update, it was not enough. A developer confirmed that the update was indeed canceled for good, as they moved on to the Ship Customization update as a new, successful venture.