User blog comment:Piplupower/old video/@comment-3122926-20100926155600

I saw this somewhere else before... I think this was Beta's opening or something. And definitely, the game is much better than it was in Beta (except that we can't leave directly from islands, or board directly into ships; and no seagulls!). But recently the game devs have tried reducing what we saw of PotCo a few months ago to what it is now (excluding Fog and 3d). They removed lots of amazing effects such as smoke (huge lumps that would come out of yer hulls, cannons and burning buildings), tears on sails and even polygon counts (over a year ago, this).