Players in p Pirates of the Burning Sea will creat up to six characters per server to represent themselves in the game. Each of them will captain their own ship and fight either for nation of their choce or as a Pirates of the Burning Sea Gold. As the player moves along in the game. The character will develop by gaining ranks. The player can thus unlock new features, such as fighting abilities, and, most importantly, will be able to captain larger and better ships. The maximum rank can reach is 50. when the character is first created, the player choose a faction to join. This can be any one of either Britain, France, spain or the pirates, know as the brethren of the coast. The dutch are so shown throughout the game, but are not playable. A player is restricted to one nation per server, and this choice can only be undone by deleting all of that player is characters on that server. Each of the four nations will have different starting ports, and therefore access to different resources at the start of the game. This remains somewhat controversial, as while a national character can have any potbs gold and all classes, a pirate limited solely to pirates on that server, and can only have cross-class alts on a separate server. The recent server merge has further complicated the situation as, despite being open to all, different servers cater to different populations and have different peak activity. Only one semi-official European server exists, so the issue remain to be resolved.