Ocean

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An ocean is your piratey world. In mundane, non-piratey MMORPG language, an ocean would be called a "server". The oceans are distinct and separate.

In-game items cannot be traded between servers; doing so violates the terms of service.

Each ocean maintains a separate Ultimate list.

1 Subscriber Oceans
2 Doubloon Oceans
3 Testing Oceans
4 Former Oceans
5 External/Other Links

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Subscriber Oceans

Subscriber oceans allow unlimited free play, however non-subscribers are limited in what they can do. To unlock items and privileges, users can opt to pay a regular fee (payable monthly, quarterly, or yearly) to gain access to the restricted elements.

The Midnight Ocean is a subscriber ocean, the oldest still open. It opened during the beta development stage on October 27, 2003.

The Cobalt Ocean is another subscriber ocean. It is geographically identical to Viridian. It opened on February 18, 2005.

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Doubloon Oceans

Doubloon oceans do not require a subscription fee. Instead, they work on a "pay as you go" model. Pirates may play as much as they like, but advanced functions require doubloons, which can be purchased from Three Rings. It is also possible to purchase doubloons with PoE, at the doubloon exchange.

The Viridian Ocean was the first doubloon ocean to be opened. It is geographically identical to Cobalt. Viridian and Cobalt were opened to the public simultaneously on February 18th 2005.^[1]
The Sage Ocean was the second doubloon ocean and opened on August 19th 2005.^[2]
The Hunter Ocean was the third doubloon ocean and opened on April 20th 2006. ^[3]
The Opal Ocean was the fourth doubloon ocean and opened on December 8th 2006. Opal is a German language ocean.
The Malachite Ocean was the fifth doubloon ocean and opened on May 6, 2008.^[4]

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Testing Oceans

The Ice Ocean is a test ocean which requires a separate client to play (links to download the client can be found on the Ice Ocean page). The Ice Ocean was reset on 2005-02-16^[5], but no further resets are planned. There is only a small community of dedicated Ice players despite the fact Ice receives new features before the other oceans. Ice is only open to those players who have subscribed or purchased 24 or more doubloons from Three Rings in the past month.

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Former Oceans

The Azure Ocean was the first Puzzle Pirates ocean; it closed on 2003-10-27. Until the release of Ice, it was used sparingly to test major game updates.

The Indigo Ocean is a German language ocean which was shut down on 2006-12-31. It was not maintained by Three Rings, but by Gamigo, a separate company. This ocean required a separate subscription, payable in Euros. There remains Gamigo's German language wiki for MMOG's at http://wiki.gamigo.de/wiki/Puzzle_Piraten.

There were several Chinese oceans (East, West, and others), but they are no longer available after the implosion of Three Rings's Chinese partner, Pulse Asia.

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