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My suspicion is that the system broke when so many port battles attempted to start at the same time. we reserver good large instances for them and maybe thats the reason. Can be fixed with some programming time but not today unfortunately. we will see if it is possible to move them but the chances are slim.

lol thats unfortunate sorry mate - will check but i guess they are delayed until tomorrow or cancelled

for us? maybe you should elaborate who are US what nation what clan and what cities.. you know? more information

Its not about ganking Liq. It's about capital waters and area where a new player can learn and rebuild. It should work for him even if he is ALONE on the server against usual 75-100 pvp players getting on scoreboards every day.

They will learn. you just need to enter fleet and help them fight you. But the design will of course improve.

they are fine as their only goal is to deter the average attacker and protect the player. Eve online spawns huge ships as well. and actually stops your ship (we don't and you can escape).

We are very very sure that legends will find their audience. And will make sure you are happy there. But we have to make players here (in the open world) are happy too. In terms of the open world, Capital waters are safe. Nations protect them. You can still sink the target there (just like in EVE - the harshest game of all) but its very very hard so its basically suicide ganking. Current rewards will support this play style. Capital waters and uncapturable zones provide the way for players to build up and venture on their own convenience. We attempted for the year and a half to find the way to make it work but it does not works as even the harshest worlds have some safe areas for the players. The new design document on solo hunting near enemy capitals looks like this Current design is the final design for the open world. Nations tax players to protect them against modestly skilled hunters. Very skilled hunters can still overcome this challenge.

group content exists in all games and works fine.

its a lot easier now. Several large missions will recover the losses.

limits under review

It was not working correctly before and we reset the battles manually - the fix is coming. The battle should set up next day 22 hours after hostility reached 100% if it this time (+22 hours) is within the window. regarding the drop to 0 for hostility 100% drop is a parameter. We can change it to 50% so only 50% is dropped during maintenance leaving some breathing room. But it might create edge cases which might be confusing. And will provide less incentives for defenders to react. What do you think?

Thats the feature - it was on testbed. All (player and clan) Hostility points drop to 0 on maintenance to encourage clans to get hostility up to port battle during one session. There are several reasons for 100% drop. We want defenders to react to hostility generation today. If defenders don't react PB will be set up. As a result we want clans to generate hostility today - so defenders know when to react. If several clans are generating hostility only the clan having most points gets the entry rights (and his ally list). If we don't drop maintenance some edge cases appear that will allow others to finish what you started and steal your pb (using your work). As port battle entry rights are clan based we want to drop all points to zero on maintenance so one cannot save his hostility points in reserve because then they can be used to enter other clan's port battles and interfere in them.

admiralty builds them and gives distinguished captains (owning combat marks) the chance to get them straight from the government

If you want people to get to pvp fast you have to give players an option to recover losses fast.

we will update the PB times to times when they should have happened manually (but one time).

ah .. well. crashes happen due to completely new engine and new untested configurations. will be fixed one by one. hang on there.

it did not crash on testbed for you ?.. did you fight?

did you play on testbed?

Thats not the point he is making. He is making the point that the game is geo blocked and some players have NO access to content if they are located in some region. Like for example Amazon Prime Videos cannot be watched if you are in Poland (completely blocked, all of them). This statement is completely false because any player from any time zone can participate in port battles in their assigned time window (which is large on global and narrow on eu). You can do it from ANY region. Thus there is no geo - blocking Thats what we said. There is no geo blocking and while port battles could be unavailable on 2 servers PVE or EU, you can always participate in one on Global from ANY region. Which means there are not any geo blocking whatsoever. This concludes the topic.

its temporary.

You cannot enter bank branches or stores at 5am too. Which is a business decision and under eu law if your business is not mission critical (hospitals etc) time of business operations is totally fine. For example the driving license tests or plastic surgeon appointments are usually at certain time slots; Dutch consulate interview times for refugees are happening once a week and at a certain time slot as well. Same logic applies here. The port battle operation window is open for certain hours per day and its the rule of the server. But there is no geo - blocking. Once port battle window is open ANY user from ANYWHERE in the world can access the port battle on the EU server (unlike eu consulate visits). Same in reverse - any user from the EU can play on the global server with unrestricted port battle times, and any user from EU can play on the PVE server where there are no port battles at all.

hmm - bug

its a legacy problem we will tune it soon. (all non regional capital ports were 4th rates in database).

?? can you explain?

They are currently available for combat marks as fully built ships - when using the ship note you will be able to pick the wood type and trim to your liking. Prices are not final but we are expecting combat mark prices to fall within a short time.