PVP

Ready to challenge your fellow Pirates for the sheer joy of the battle? Choose one of Pirates of the Caribbean Online's PVP games and prepare to take on the Curse of the Black Pearl.

How To Open It

First, you must open your sea chest and open up your Lookout Menu, there are two ways:
You can open your sea chest, and clicking the Lookout Icon, .
You can push the "L" button on your keyboard.

Lookout

You are given two choices of activities to choose from. The first one is Parlor Games, and the other, is Pirate vs Pirate. To play Pirate vs Pirates, click on the button called "Pirate vs Pirate". You will then be given the next menu which is called, "Pirate vs Pirate".

Pirate vs Pirate

Once clicking the "Pirate vs Pirate" button, you are given two choices of Pirate vs Pirate games to play. They are "Mayhem" and "Team Battle".

Mayhem is "Every pirate for his/her self". Once the game has started, all pirates in the game, are put in a cave, with no exit. You are also "dead", so no "harm" may actually come to you. Then once the game has told you to begin, you can pull out any weapon that you have and you try to defeat any of the other players. This is the only place where you may attack other pirates, without breaking "The Pirate Code". You are allowed 3 minutes to try to defeat as many people as you can. Once the game is done, you are given the results of what each person did, and how many times they were defeated. Once the game is done, you are brought back to the island you last visited.
Team Battle is a "Pirate team vs. Pirate team". Once the game has started, all pirates in the game, are put in a cave, with no exit. You are also "dead", so no "harm" may actually come to you. Then once the game has told you to begin, you can pull out any weapon that you have and you try to defeat the other team, while working with your other team member. Each team is broken up into different colors. Some known colors are blue, red, and yellow. You are on the same team as the other people with the same color as you. You are given three minutes to defeat as many people on the other team(s) as possible. Once the game is done, you are given the results of what each person did, your team's score, and how many times each player was defeated. Once the game is done, you are brought back to the island you last visited.

Options

There are two different options for Pirate vs Pirate, because there are two different types of games.

The options for Mayhem, is for how many players you want to have in the game. All you have to do is click how many you want, and when you search for the game, it knows you only want that amount of people, no more, no less. You can scroll down the list of how many people you want in the game, to get more people to select. If you don't use the options page, the computer can put you in any game that's available, with any amount of people. Once you are done with the options page, and you want to make sure that your changes are saved, click the button called "Confirm".

The options for Team Battle are similar to the options for Mayhem. You choose how many people you want playing the game. All you have to do is click how many you want, and when you search for the game, it knows you only want that amount of people, no more, no less. Currently, there's only 3 choices, since there must be even teams for a team battle: four, six, and eight. Since there are only three choices, you cannot scroll down for more options. If you don't use the options page, the computer can put you in any game that's available, with any amount of people. Once you are done with the options page, and you want to make sure that your changes are saved, click the button called "Confirm".

Once you click the button called "Confirm", you are brought to a menu called "Status". If you do not use the options menu, and you

Pirates of the Caribbean Online has two environments for PVP play:
Jungle Cover – The deepest jungles of Tortuga are a notorious playground for Team Battle.
Ground Down – An underground labyrinth of caves is the setting for Mayhem.

Status

Once you have started your search for either the game Mayhem or Team Battle, you get a message called "Status".

The Status Menu tells you a few things like, the category (either Parlor Games or Pirate vs Pirate), the game type (in this case either Mayhem or Team Battle), a "Cancel search" button, a "Continue search" button, and your chances of finding a game. The changes of finding the game are based on how many people are currently wanting to play that game, at the options set. If not many people want to play at the settings made, then you will be told the chances of finding a game are low, and son on to high. If at any time during the search, you wish to no longer wait, you can simply pus the "Cancel search" button on the Status Menu. If you have your Status Menu open, and wish to close it but still be searching, click the "Continue search" button on the Status Menu.

Messages

Once you start your search for a Pirate vs Pirate game, you're first message is telling you that you will be notified when a game is found.

Once a game is found, you will get a message telling you that the computer has found a game. You then have 20 seconds to join the game.

Once you have joined a game, you are given a message telling you that you'll be teleported when the game is ready for all players.

If you decide to cancel the game you joined, you get a message telling you that you have canceled the game.

Strategies

''These are some strategies found to be helpful to players who have spent lots of time playing POTCO. If you would like to submit a strategy, post them in the POF Wiki Forum. One strategy if you have a Voodoo Doll is to attune to your opponent and constantly run around in circles using hexes until your enemy is dead.