Latest News
Maintenance Outage 5/15
| 05/13/2013 | Maintenance Notice | Discuss
We will be taking all game servers offline for maintenance on Wednesday, May 15th at midnight Pacific Time* to fix some back-end tools. We expect the downtime to last about an hour.
Outage Tonight 5/8
| 05/08/2013 | Maintenance Notice | Discuss
We will be taking the game down for maintenance tonight at midnight Pacific Time (7am GMT) to fix some back-end tools. We expect the downtime to last less than an hour.
Account Issue Resolved
| 04/07/2013 | News | Discuss
The database issue has been fixed, and any missing items or upgrades should now be back when you log in (or change zones if you are already logged in). We are very sorry this issue occurred, thank you for your …
Account Issue Notification
| 03/30/2013 | Maintenance Notice | Discuss
Regrettably I must inform you that earlier this morning (around 7:50 AM Pacific Time) an aspect of our account management system suffered a database failure. To be clear however, we have NOT lost any of your data and we are …
Account Creation Now Available
| 03/22/2013 | News | Discuss
New accounts are now available! New players can get their ships in the water by creating an account at www.burningsea.com/register.
Migration now available
| 03/19/2013 | News | Discuss
We’ve gotten our migration system working! If you missed the original migration window, please send your account name to customerservice[at]portalusgames.com.
Note that only accounts that have characters on them from before the transition can be migrated. We’re working on account creation …
Burning Sea Note Store now available!
| 02/27/2013 | News | Discuss
The Burning Sea Note store is now available at www.burningsea.com/page/store! When you purchase Notes through the website, they will be added directly to the character of your choosing. Thank you for your patience while we got this working.
We're Back!
| 02/15/2013 | News | Discuss
We’re back! You can download the new launcher here. Currently just the Test Server is unlocked, we will be opening Roberts and Antigua shortly.
Transition Updates
| 02/11/2013 | News | Discuss
Things are going well with the transition from FLS to Portalus Games. You can find updates about the transition process at Portalus Games or on the forums. Thank you for your patience while we complete the transition!
Website Downtime 1/31
| 01/31/2013 | Maintenance Notice | Discuss
At 10:30 PM Pacific Time, the BurningSea.com website and the forums will go offline temporarily. This is part of our data center transfer. We do not yet know how long this outage will last, but we should have things back …
Server Outage Jan. 31st: Portalus Transition
| 01/30/2013 | MotD Item | Discuss
At 10:30pm Pacific time on January 31st 2013 we will be taking the game servers offline to begin their transition from Flying Lab Software to Portalus Games. The game servers will not be available during the transition process until …
Outage Tonight: Build 2.12.35.0
| 01/24/2013 | Maintenance Notice | Discuss
We will be publishing build 2.12.35.0 to our live servers on Friday, January 25th, between midnight and 5:00am Pacific*.
This milestone will allow players to retrieve their migration codes in-game. If you have already migrated your account through the website …
Migration is Live!
| 01/22/2013 | MotD Item | Discuss
The migration system is now up and ready! You can migrate your accounts here. You must complete this process for each account you want to migrate.
Note that after January 31st there will be no way to spend Station Cash …
Migration Process Update
| 01/15/2013 | News | Discuss
There’s a lot of concern about the migration process, so I wanted to post here and let everyone know what the plan is and what they can expect from the migration process.
Roberts Back Online
| 12/19/2012 | Maintenance Notice | Discuss
After resolving some issues arising from hardware failure, the Roberts server is back online again.
Customer Service Notification
| 12/18/2012 | News | Discuss
After much review and consideration, SOE and Flying Lab Software have decided that Pirates of the Burning Sea will leave the SOE family of games on January 31, 2013. Portalus Games, a new company made up of former Flying Lab …
Outage Tonight: Build 2.12.33.0
| 12/11/2012 | Maintenance Notice | Discuss
We will be publishing build 2.12.33.0 to our live servers on Wednesday, December 12th, between midnight and 5:00am Pacific*.
This milestone build features changes to captain skills, boarding, ship sailing characteristics, ship construction recipes, and ship insurance payments. Changes …
Release Notes for Build 2.12.33.0
| 12/11/2012 | Patch Notes | Discuss
This milestone build features changes to captain skills, boarding, ship sailing characteristics, ship construction recipes and ship insurance payments. This build also contains several UI and ship bug fixes as well as a localization update.
Release Notes for build 2.11.69.0 …
Release Notes for Test Server Build 2.12.33.0
| 12/06/2012 | Patch Notes | Discuss
The 2.12.33.0 build adjusts ship insurance values and features changes to careening camp outputs. We look forward to feedback regarding these changes.
Release Notes for build 2.12.31.0 are here.
Differences between 2.12.31.0 and 2.12.33.0 include but aren’t limited to:
Economy:
- Careening …
Release Notes for Test Server Build 2.12.31.0
| 11/26/2012 | Patch Notes | Discuss
The 2.12.31.0 build is bug fix build. This build includes fixes to ship recipes in structures.
Release Notes for build 2.12.28.0 are here.
Differences between 2.12.28.0 and 2.12.31.0 include but aren’t limited to:
Economy:
- Recipes for Medium Merchant/Warship Hulls were not …


