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Captain Hotfix has been deployed in preparation for the Port UI patch The following temporary changes have been applied. Contracts and ship contract number has been set at 0 (no contracts can be placed) Time to expire for contracts and ship contracts has been set at 1 day (contracts expire in 1 day after placing) The changes will be reverted once Port UI patch is deployed (ETA this week - by 2nd November)

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this problem is fixed in the new UI - outpost cannot be closed on testbed if you have ships there. @ink will provide compensation next week please contact him in pm

This will come back on one form or another.

AI suprise attacking a human trader in Lynx would be just a waste of time for both participants.

neutral fleets are useless thus all neutral ports will generate standard west indies nations (like france, spain and britain)

read the post. contracts are no removed. its just new contracts wont be created.

yes we planned this but at a later stage lets translate basic things into multiple languages first (port ui is almost ready)

Captains NPC positioning changes next with Port UI patch. Feel free to use this information for changing locations for your future activities. One Port - One Flag. NPC fleets will carry the flag of the port they are assigned to. Dutch ports will send out Dutch traders, Dutch combat patrols, Dutch fleets to sea. Sail along them to get extra protection when trading or returning to base. Of course traders and NPC patrols will venture to enemy areas, but expect to see mostly Dutch ships if you are sailing through Dutch coasts. Regions Matter To help players find their perfect hunting spot, to help with search and destroy missions and to provide natural chokepoints and meeting places for players certain classes of NPC ships/fleets will now prefer to sail specific regions. For example: Yucatan Region, Hispaniola, and Lower Antilles will mostly have 1-3 st rates ship of the line sailing solo or in fleets. Missions currently avoid this requirement. Kill Missions will continue provide targets based on mission not on region.

never patch on friday, usually it ruins your weekend

they will expire in 1 day after hot fix is deployed.

To provide smooth and easy material conversion within couple of days we will issue a hot fix for live servers and apply following TEMPORARY changes Number of allowed buy/sell contracts and ships on sale will be set to 0 (no more new contracts) Number of days contract can stay live will be set to 1 (1 day) This changes will stay until the Port UI and material conversion is deployed / applied; these changes will be reverted after the patch. It is advisable to not set a lot of new contracts before the patch and claim all resources that are held in unclaimed contracts. Contract hotfix will happen on Monday 29th October

The compensation is not guaranteed if you closed your outpost after multiple warnings. But depending on the letter the admiralty might make exceptions. The only guaranteed compensations are listed in the topic i linked above. Family is sacred so if you kids delete something of yours make sure you mention this in the request sharing the story. This topic can be locked now.

These ships are not being worked on currently. But we plan to come back to them closer to release or right after.

DLC is for those who WANT others to see their amazing flag, for the purpose of pride or to generate confusion.

1 You will see alternate flags on ships if owner has chosen the alternate flag on both sides (enemy and yours) 2 If you join an ongoing battle for other nation you will use the standard flag of that nation.

It is almost ready - but we don know when it will be fully ready for live. Hopefully soon.

We have no position on paints yet. We cannot make it a DLC at this stage because we want the ship with paint to be capturable. And we have not yet tested the economy fully to add back paints into the game.

I wonder if it was a mistake to cave to some players who did not want that system. I found it exciting too.

We do not see that statement as such. This is a development discussions forum - for discussions and expression of happiness or dissent; something like a friendly conversation at a poker table with fellow sailors (like in texas in 1830 where everybody has a gun which helps to avoid excessive statements). If you only want neutral statements in form of carefully crafted news and patchnotes there is Steam forum. To talk to people you have to accept that people not always pick the best words when they talk. Thus direct statements like - this feature sucks is bad, or this feedback is irrelevant are acceptable between equals. We do not see anything demeaning or insulting in that statement we said, specifically we do not see where we insulted you as a person. Please don't look for insults where they dont exist. But if we do insult you as a person let us know and demand respect (rule n1 of this forum). Now lets get back on topic of interface feedback.

we are working on it..

First statement Every Single Other? Are you sure To our knowledge WoW allows multi boxing if button presses are done by a person switching windows. Archeage allows multiboxing (without third party software syncing button presses) - there is an official statement online Black desert allows multiboxing (without third party syncing) - there is an official statement online EVEn EVE allows multiboxing if you are not using software to automate (allowed if you switch between windows and press buttons yourself) It is not obvious - maybe someone can help us to decipher the video, but from what i have heard that guy switches the windows..(its not automated and synced between clients). Second statement - advisable? Its not advisable. But its not forbidden. If you know Gabe Newell email (we dont) please send them (Valve) an email and ask them to forbid running several steam accounts at the same time on one machine. We have no control over steam client. If we had our own launcher it would be possible.. but we cannot rely on our own launcher being a small indie team. It would be great if they changed that. Third … Its not a design decision. Ship combat is slow.. I am not sure where you lead with the design decisions statement. But here is the thing. A - we have bots and fleets - you can add 3 ships to your fleet. B - we are very sure its not actually easy. Lenin (the guy on video) did this in POTBS (pirates of the burning sea) and became in game famous for this, multiple people tried to copy him in time when the game was sub based (14 dollars per month) - but only he could do it. Maybe you can try and let us know how it worked?

I understand that design decisions could be right or wrong or convoluted. but … you have not provided the quotes of the insults…You have blamed me for insulting YOU as a customer… Can you please provide the quotes? Or withdraw your statements.

Hmmm… Can you provide a specific quote answering your post or a direct message or statement referring to you where I replied to you with an insult?

Action will be made only if there is clear evidence. If there is no detailed evidence you might get no reply at all, as is is not possible to reply to all requests. Requests like - "seems like i lost ship please recover wtf" cant reasonably be answered.