No, the two don't have anything to do with one another, I just thought I'd economize posting!  Pixels are in short demand around here sometimes.

Pirates of the Burning Sea will be updating to 1.5 tomorrow morning, so be warned matey!

We will be upgrading our live servers to build 1.5.46.0 during the usual maintenance window (1:30am-4:00am Pacific / 9.30am-11.30am British Summer Time) on Tuesday, July 1st.

You can find information on the exciting changes in 1.5, including our new epic mission Fortaleza da Luz, in our Developer Logs section.

We appreciate your patience, and look forward to hearing your thoughts on the new patch.

On the cross teaming front our wonderful Aether has posted Flying Lab's policy on Cross Teaming and Selling Durability!

While players are welcome to have as many accounts as they wish, people with multiple accounts are not allowed to have characters of differing nations on the same server. If a player is found in violation of this policy, they will be forced to either move or delete the character in violation. Repeat offenders will be subject to further disciplinary action, up to and including permanent suspension of their Pirates of the Burning Sea accounts.

There's, obviously, more where that came from!  So everyone get some sleep while the servers are down tomorrow, and enjoy the patch!