hese aren’t the only innovations Pirates of the Burning Sea is bringing to the genre. PotBS features a unique player created content system, allowing players to create their own items and bring them into the game. Of course, players have been able to create things like Guild Tabards in MMOs before, however, Flying Lab actually allows players to go so far as to bring in their own textures, even their own 3D models into the game! This means in PotBS you could potentially sail around in a ship you modeled and created yourself. Players handy with Photoshop will be able to, among other things, create their own textures for their ship’s sails. Very cool.

Flying Lab accomplishes this by providing a kit to help players who are interested in creating their own content. The company is also extremely careful regarding historical accuracy, so you probably won’t see anyone sailing around in high-fantasy dwarven paddleboat of death. Flying Lab naturally will only allow quality player created content to become part of the game. So far this restriction hasn’t stopped the players. According to Troy Hewitt, Community Envoy at Flying Lab, “we anticipate UC [User Created] ships to make up half of our total fleet. At this point in beta, just over a quarter of our ships have been created by PotBS fans”. Amazing.