Talk:Privateering/@comment-75.224.145.142-20121121063237/@comment-1984959-20130403220153

I hate to break this but the only thing written above that is correct was "Granted this game is in no way historically accurate ." Sorry to say but any history lessons or learnings are more or less meaningless in the POTC world. Someone put this better (and in my opinion the best way to describe the issue) the POTC universe should only be taken as a world based on our history - an alternate timeline, if you will. Deny it if you wish but it is the cold-hard truth. More details on the subject of the timeline follows.

Even when making the first movie, they couldn't give it a solid date, which kinda made the timeline ambiguous - the writers (and director Gore Verbinski) had put the films somewhere between the 1720s and 1750s, but nowhere definite. The same was said for the second and third movie. It wasn't until the fourth movie did they come closer to a real date; if one paid attention to small details or even interviews from the film crew, they would know that P4 takes place around, or one the exact date, of 1750. This is noted by the presence of George Augustus, Henry Pelham, and John Carteret. As for Blackbeard, well, his life between 1718 and 1750s are to our interpretation(as long as it leads to his appearing in P4); but we're definitely to only to assume his death in 1718 was only one of his many legends - like his "supernatural powers", which is also historically inaccurate as far as we know.

To attempt a bottom line in this matter: POTC isn't meant to be a on par with history, only as a swashbuckling tale. Any member of the cast and crew can say the same, taking from experience. As an example, the words of Geoffrey Rush(aka Barbossa):
 * We might have been a little loose with the dates. I thought the first film had the feel of being earlier in the 18th century, but this one is more the mid-1700s. It’s a pirate yarn. We’re not making a history lesson or a documentary — it’s a fantastic pirate fable.

Sorry for bringing this small discussion back after a month, but this had to be said. Cheers!