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We are trying to add the function that you can increase the angles for swivels if your other decks are switched off. current workaround - find a book or an upgrade allowing increased vertical sectors which will allow you to aim down (if you switch off the lower deck)

yes we indicated that in one of the next hot fixes we will address some stat rebalancing (including wasa) + ship BRs

nassau is a very large port

single enemy ship Example 3 cutters and enemy Bucentaure are present in the zone. 3 cutters still capture the zone as before (due to numbers) BUT they have to drive enemy bucentaure away from the zone (or sink her) for points to start ticking.

Outlaw battles is/was a great feature, but its flaws could not be fixed. Tutorial will have a massive impact on retention of new players and we are focused on the tutorial now instead of trying to figure out how to fix outlaw battles.

Captains Patch has been deployed to live servers Deep water port battles now only accept ships of mortar brig and above (mb/cerberus and up) BR limits for port battles rebalanced (mostly increased for deep water ports and decreased for shallow water ports) Zone diameter reduced from 2km to 1.2 km to reduce efficiency of kiting on the edges the objective zones IMPORTANT CHANGE: Victory conditions/points for captured zones Every port battle has 3 zones (objectives) that accumulate points if captured (as before) Zones are still captured by the side that has more ships in the zone (as before) But the captured zone points don't accumulate if even a single ENEMY ship is present in the objective (NEW FEATURE) Expected effects This means that you no longer need to have all the ships in the circle to win the objective. You no longer need to brawl in the diameter of the objective. You can maneuver normally around them and fight without the need to enter the zones. You only need to send 1 ship to stop the points from ticking even if enemy has a numerical advantage (which still matters but matters less) If enemy have capped the point with many ships (and your ship is blocking the zone) they must get you out of the zone to start getting points, promoting aggressive action (and not kiting)

Of course not.. but people are on the map.. and concentrations of players can be found with hunting experience. One could argue that adding player markers on the map will increase pvp for one day - but we doubt it is a good idea.

combat news give a good indication where hunters are.

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It won't cost you 750 combat marks. PvP marks are provided for pvp activities only. You probably would have to buy pvp marks from active pvp players on market or in private.

when did small unorganized countries won port battles against players? It seems that the dominant strategy is to to maximize number of ships and then cannons. Not everyone got adjusted to it yet. Lets move the feedback on port battles here

currently all ships have real name on ow. But.. i am thinking of adding a misdirection perk or paint that will switch your ship to a trader of the similar class and vice versa. For example Agamemnon on OW will look like indiaman. Rattlesnake as trader brig.

its worse compared to a constitution in every regard EXCEPT for 3 things. It has swivels It can enter any port with a smuggler flag It has 1000 cargohold

Raids. We worked on the raids for good amount of time - but they don't work. PvP raids already exist (port battles). Mixed pvp/pve raids where you can take spawn into a bot ship won't work because of alts. PvE raids will be too easy due to bots behavior near land. Raids are on hold. We will see how players accept the epic events. and if strong bots are interesting pve raids could become a reality. But tutorial is more important for the game. Stop asking about raids until ui is done and game is localized. In fact these are the only three features you can ask us about until they are done.

Punish who? Punish how? Wipe an ensign in a brig? Ban the account? Delete account/ create an alt/ attack again. Do you think we removed it because of one shitty tribunal post about some brig attacking pirates and leaving? We spent full programmer month on outlaw battles and fixing bugs internally (it was very hard to make). We really wanted to make it work. It did not work out. It was interfering in many areas and we got hundreds of reports on it, just because it sucked. PvP players will find pvp. No-one will remember this feature in 6 months. If outlaw class comes back it will come with full wipe of xp on boarding by nationals. regarding you leaving? Fine. we knew some pirates will hate it with passion. But 1000s of others would be happy (and 7000 other nationals from our average monthly audience) If you don't care what overall community wants for the game perhaps its not the community for you.

What was always the point of pirates? Rob traders and officers of national navies. Capture and rob cartagena?

Its a feature not a bug. You still have to move to another ship for them to surrender. They are on their side shaking under decks but you don't know it yet until you send people to their side by clicking attack

There is no big picture in mechanics that don't work. The fact that they worked for you does not mean anything for the big picture. New orders received: Pirates should fight nationals.

actually crafted elite upgrades and pve drops are on same quality or higher

no))) too early lets finish this one first

in the next game with no instances yes. Not this time. Restrictions are needed to limit abuse not to limit sandbox

PvP marks are granted for PVP activity.

hiding in battles was not the main reason for removal. it was just one of them. the amount of complaints and confusion from the feature exceeded our desire to review and fix them. No more outlaw battles don't like it - roll poland. They have no ports and can only live on what they can capture and hold. In fact no - i take it back. If you want daily pvp non stop? roll Britain on EU. PvP comes to you itself. You don't even need to sail away from the capital

you can sail in outlaw battles and sail very far so any joining would be useless.

Again its a sandbox. Pirates will do what others allow them to do. For example pirates cannot capture cartagena - but its not because they don't want to. But because Sweden does not let them or anyone to take it.