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Captains. More and more rumors surface that the main Spanish treasure fleet carrying gold and silver was lost in storms after leaving Havana. Casa de Contratacion has even issued a Statement that - if this true - it will not have any effects on the precious metals supplies whatsoever. End of message.

Just to confirm we are about to change the large battle timers around this main slot .. right?

There are 1537 bots on the open world. we might need to tune distribution so they prefer trading centers, capitals and regional capitals. But we believe in no handholding and think that players should try to find the hunting spot themselves - it is the part of the hunt for the enemy. 2 suggesions If you want PVP just sail to Jeremie area, Road town and you will have enough pve and pvp every day. There are at least 6-8 areas with very good concentration of bots (i see the bot concentrations right now through our dev tools). You just have to find them. Feel free to share the places you know here in this topic - or keep them for yourself. One of them has around 20-30 ships within 20 min sailing.

please stop posting topics that bring no value to the community.

We don't believe in multi crews for several reasons. It is going to be very hard to constantly maintain a stable group. If you played POTBS you know what it meant to bring an untrained captain to a fleet. If one of your friends if offline you will not go out because you will lose the ship or a battle. Gunner will always be a most popular role. Nobody will want to stay in the hold to fix leaks. 25v25 turns into 125v125.

we read everything and keep note of good posts. When the time comes we will bring it up for discussion again.

We had the bounty discussion some time ago Unfortunately it is too easy to claim your bounties by asking friends. No bounty system will work unless the gameplay for the person is severely limited or account disabled for some time. If someone has good ideas on the bounty systems that work please post in a separate topic in the suggestion forum.

feel free to propose in a separate topic

Perfect chance to experience the pirate life for some time before the next wipe. Regarding attacking friendlies there is always a warning. It is a one way ticket currently, because if you provide the way out for pirates that will be exploited. People will target your rare ship for example (or your trader with goods) and later claim it was a misclick or a mistake.

brig has much better speed close hauled - + it tacks better. run at 90 degrees to wind. and maybe tack a couple of times

This could be possible for testing when we fix couple of exploits that were allowed by alt accounts. Like constant creation and deletion of new accounts to sell yachts, use 10,000 starting money and using 1000 hours and repeating again.

Sail to road town area lots of pvp.

Exploits and game breaking bugs. It is the responsibility of captains to report exploits and game breaking bugs. If you found something that allows you to receive abnormal amounts of XP, money or goods - please report this by using F11 or on the forum. Its ok if you used that bug for testing reasons and reported all cases to us. It is not ok to use the exploits consistently. Captains with abnormal net wealth will have all their assets removed and in subsequent cases their accounts deleted.

I suggest you raise the bar about your dreams. Dream big man, like be a president or something. Also - if you continue with posts with low usefulness you will be put into a pre-mod queue. Don't ruin first good impressions of you.

We are not planning to add ship position to the map. The map itself was a BIG compromise for us.

Yes its not a bellona Bellona has those statues and paintings and heavier weaponry.

Name changes are not possible in the alpha version. Offensive names could happen and because it is very time consuming to change the names they will be just banned from all chats ( but will still sail in the open world)

Ship characteristics descriptions Wood types Fir - faster ship, weaker hull Live oak - stronger frame (+ planking), +1 class of armor quality, less speed Oak - stronger frame (+ planking) - no speed effect (need feedback on more timber types if they are needed in the timber qualities topic http://forum.game-labs.net/index.php?/topic/4636-timber-types-used-in-ship-construction-request/) Characteristics Stiffness - heel; from less reduction to more reduction Speed - speed; from low to high Crew space - crew size; from lower to higher Planking - structure leaking; from more to less Build strength - planking amount; from less to more Rigging quality - sails up and down speed/ yard turning speed; from less to more If you think more inherent characteristics please propose in this topic.

Не знаем пока по поводу этого она точно решает вопрос с chain boarding (постоянно повторяющимся повторным абордажем). Для атакующего конечно не совсем идеальное решение. Для защищающегося очень помогает. Если вы снесли паруса и команду то можно за минуту снова добрать 50 и снова взять.

pirate frigate is WIP and untuned (could be weak or op) It provides bonuses to morale and preparation.

Multiple characters are for testing. If you have not created money out of nowhere you wont have abnormal wealth. Multiple accounts will stay and are allowed to use for some time (in alpha), and wont be affected unless they somehow allowed the creation of the huge wealth that could not realistically be achieved by 2-3 players working together without exploiting. If a player have found a money making exploit and reported it and actually did not exploit a lot - its great, and you will be rewarded.

Good evening Sirs. Some captains are creating money using our after-wipe help bonuses to Captains (10,000 starting money and yacht) This is done by creating new accounts, selling yachts and buying resources and then transferring those resources to their main accounts. Some captains stockpiled enough resources to provide them with ships until release.This is game breaking and will not allow us to test pricing and economy properly. As we have a close knit of testers and we track all transactions and net wealth; it is easy to find those Captains. If you have exploited we suggest the following course of actions 1) Delete all assets on your account 2) Purchase ships or upgrades and destroy them to eliminate cash from your account We know you worked hard. This easy steps above will help you save your player, battle rank and crafting XP, but you will still lose all your assets. Captains who wont delete the resources/money/ships and upgrades will have their accounts wiped completely before weekend. To rephrase: All Captains with abnormal Wealth (that includes all assets) will be wiped. If you have exploited but reported it before yesterday (when it was announced in game chat) please come forward in private.

We have implemented events guys

he is referring to a particular case player gets 10k of hard earned money buys a cutter using all this money then finds out he needs canons - while he cannot install basic cannons

Does it really say riggen?)))