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its like balancing head shots from AK74 vs M4 If your game is somewhat historical their headshot value will be the same. Can you provide specifics on how you make santisima feel MUCH MORE different from le Ocean?

не махайте ерундой сэр корабли когда запускали туда еще свиней клали и куриц и овец. крысы сами заходили

Social perk will return back in another form. yeah

Experimental hot fix deployed today 1) Instance loading systems rework. Players will experience a lot less crashes on instance start. 2) Special event changes deployed - more information here: http://forum.game-labs.net/index.php?/topic/16206-test-event-changes/ 3) Regional changes implemented for vessels as an experiment that will spread to other high ranked vessels Victory - requires british national good to construct - removed until regions are introduced Santisima - requires spanish national goods to construct - removed until regions are introduced Ocean - requires french national goods to construct When introduced - Christian first rate will require Danish/Swedish national goods to construct When introduced - Dutch first rate will require Dutch national resources Second rates are under consideration This is done as an experiment to see if regional changes will create more variety in large scale port battles, making national choices more interesting. 4) Tournament room now requires a password. Password can be received from organizers 5) Social perk disabled UPDATE (H. Darby): The Regional Changes for vessels will be rolled back in a hotfix tomorrow only for existing first rates (L'Ocean will still require national resources). Bear in mind that this change will be made in the future when trade routes are more correctly established/balanced and more ships are in the game. In the future, Exceptional ships will be rare, first rates will be rare and hard to build. Many vessels will require you to conduct economic warfare to be able to build them. Exact post from Admin later in this thread:

A new player can request the ship from some rich guy and sail it with 40 crew - or capture a gross venter from NPCs for free trader brig with a perk can do it too.. what are you talking about? also just got it in the email I returned home today and discovered the event was yesterday. I know this is unlikely but, if there is anyway you could give me any one of the event BP's I would greatly appreciate it. giving everyone a chance to capture him as a result right? Or favoring an organized escorted group as intended. the real event that finally requires people to escort traders.

Yes. That ship requires a minor update to hull as well but can it wait?

A lot of clans provide ships for free. BTW We originally wanted to give that freedom to sail everything. But since then reconsidered. If leveling changes the ability to sail anything will be gone first. People should be able to sail only what they earned and allowed by rank or prestige. PvE events with named bots - lords, admirals of the blue/red/white and other high ranked NPCs carrying better rewards including chests will be done within 1-2 months. Thats a guarantee. We will make what we promised (conquest changes) and then will refocus on solo and small group player (including pve players)

yeah good point. founder can leave the clan only by destroying it (or you can reappoint new leadership by suicide) well enjoy your leadership for some time. You were appointed by god and country. And wait for the new button.

Copper plating explanation is very simple Ships could not maintain max speed constantly and what we use is an average max possible speed (distance covered over time over time to do this trip) Copper plating was working over time.. so if you take the ship maximum average speed over 12 months without copper plating and compare it with average for 12 months with copper plating the ship with copper plating will be faster on average. Fair and historical. we have not yet taken time to rebalance them and their bonuses. but we will (Including incorrect % of staysails/jibs power from total power) guaranteed to be done by october. we are not doing it now to not ruin the tournament in the middle.

they can actually whats funny is that you can sail ANY ship you want in NA if you can get it. Statements about low accessibility of the high end lvl80 raids are getting to ridiculous levels. Take a trader's brig and participate.. what are you talking about? Also - level up maybe - lots of nations need your frigate comandeering skills.

haha.. No. Unfortunately it wont work like that. He will just take your 1 dura ship and will sail away in it (using his original combat ship as fleet escort). He has to just have a free fleet slot. If you are really stuck please file an F11 bug report if you cannot exit the port, join the mission, buy an assault flag, attack a player. That might be a very serious bug if you cannot do anything. Of you have sarcasm in your post and are ONLY referring to an event, our response will be this: All games have events targeting high ranked players only. I see no problem that low level players cannot sail santisima first rate ship of the line (or wait.. they can actually) or LGV fast blockade runner (they can sail it at lowest rank too) or Indiaman heavy armed trader (they can sail it at lowest rank as well). I guess even midshipmen can help high rank players get more rewards and be those carriers for them. I believe your statement just shows that you dont have a full understanding of game mechanics yet but its ok for a new young captain.

leave the clan new founder will be assigned then rejoin as the common officer.

Yes. Other events are coming.

You can attack a bot and make them kill you too. If you have a chest - you can do whatever you want with it. You can log off at sea too - safe logoff timer is 2 mins. If there is a ship on the horizon it will get you. Then your log off will not help. If you don't have ships on the horizon - you can of course waste the chest by logging of until tomorrow.

Groups of players who are interested in pure pvp will have most fun during that mexican standoff.

Changes to BRS will come in september. (battle result screen) Right now they CAN theoretically sit in the battle screen for 1-2 hours. But then they will still have to exit and get to port.

There was a time when we only had a cutter and HMS victory in testing, some content was missing but it did not matter long term. We have said multiple times that there will be other ways to obtain those BP. The fact that we are testing events now and how we do it has no influence on the long term conquest mechanics, especially knowing that ports will reset by end of september + will be reset again on release of the game. pve server will have to wait for the AI fleets in the future Captain. For PVE server it is an Indiaman race event now.

When i played WOW i leveled only in Battlegrounds. I hated raids. They never worked properly in PUGs, someone was slacking, healers did not heal, tanks did not hold aggro. Hated them.. But i never asked Blizzard to remove the raids.

flag takes long time to code.. we will add flag in 2-4 weeks right now the ship is the flag if indiaman/LGV/Trader brig is sailing from the location event - it might have something. But beware. organized clans will have fake indiamans sailing to hide real carrier logout WONT WORK - chest is timed! you have limited hours to bring the chest to port it also cannot be destroyed at sea - so the trader cannot deny the goods to you

This event is just one type of the events planned to be introduced over time. This is not a solo event. Its not for everyone. It requires some coordination. Even WOW had raids requiring 25 players to actively coordinate for several hours and receive nothing (due to others rolling need). Those who feel its a waste of time can do other things like capture ports, gank, craft, trade or fight in a tournament. We are working on adding things to do every month. Not everyone should like things other players like. The answer to rage is simple - wait for the events for you. If someone loves this event it will stay in game. And we know there are people who are happy about it.

no AI fleet is going to sit in battle and only 25 people will see it. Here you get real players caravans - which you can hunt, search for, rob, and board. They will behave realistically, run properly and will have protection (or maybe not). If everyone takes trading ships its fine with us. Then only first to location will get chests then. Its not our problem if you don't intercept them. Taking loot from players will actually require battles. just like you said.

You can add that ship to your fleet right there if you have crew. it will provide some minimal protection. in the future you will be able to use fleet cargo too, it will work better then too.

you have not replied mate can you elaborate in more detail? which are good and which are not ? and why

You combat ship will then board at least one of those unprotected vessels on the way back.

yes lgv and indiaman will be able to carry it