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Why do you think that is so? What factors drive the meta focus?

Banished calls out from foul-mouth purgatory and claims that the above quote is misrepresentation of facts. See, @xDDDDDDDD? This is why I ask you to refrain from running headlong into the banhammer. Now my reputation is ruined! Everyone now knows I'm just your obedient forum sock-puppet. edit: ___________________________ Alt usage vs. eco vs. RvR is interesting, though... Everyone: "We need meaning, depth, rewards and reasons to do stuff, then it will work!" Also everyone: "I just bypassed all of the above with my alt."

I would like that too. I also wish i had unlimited tows to the patrol zone freeport du jour. There is a voice in my head telling me this can't happen for reasons I don't fully understand. Remember that some people wish we didn't have patrol zones at all because the zones don't adhere to their idea of sandbox play.

This? It was made from dev info and we haven't been told about any changes, so I assume it's still valid. Mods have changed quite a bit since then so I'm sure it can feel different depending on books and mods.

Of course she did! She wants him to pump up those rookie numbers!

Yes, so they tell me, so sorry.

Same for me, but all is relative and I don't have time to play as much as I'd like. After the return to 2 min timers I've ditched the gank-zone and done proper OW hunting.

This post is from the first major forum campaign to get timers that would enable smart OW PvP hunting. It's a short and good read with pictures an all. RAKERS and TDA were "bitter" enemies at the time but we stood together on this point along with most prominent players and forumites. @Prater's (Oh, brother! Where art thou?) illustrations and examples indicates that even if you see something in OW (like crossed swords) you can still be days away depending on ship and wind. So, I challenge your idea of "I can see so I should be able to enter" and how logical that is. Allow me to suggest that what you're experiencing is related to emotions and not logic. It's the same for everyone; OW time-warp leads us on and let's us down when logic (2 min wysiwyg timer compromise) denies us the fight. It happens to me too and even I get involuntarily frustrated. This is my weak point as I'm often tempted to ditch sensible OW mechanics in order to shoot at ships. However, since 2015 we've argued that (best compromise) wysiwyg OW mechanics will attract and retain the type of player that OW is made for. I'm a Legends and patrol zone guy so I sin against the true OW experience, but I hope I can atone by fighting alongside true OW players to save the Open World from devolving into one big king-of-the-hill patrol zone. If you're available for open ended conversation; I'm willing to test crossed swords visibility, measure distance, calculate OW time vs. instance time factoring in good wind and bad wind. Are you a true OW champion or are you corruptible, like me?

I've thought about it. Big circle made it hard to not get bots inside the pull. I might've whined about that, I can get downright pissy about the PvP-griefing bots.

Allow me to be non-combative but testy with you... I understand the frustration of coming up on closed battles. You want to fight or help your nation or friends, it's commendable. But by beating upwind in a slow ship and still being able to join any selected battle allows you to cheat on a carefully planned OW attack. You can see it, sure, but in a 1:1 time world you would've arrived well after the fight was concluded. That's not fair to the guys playing it smart. You would get a science fiction teleport into the fight. Consider your frustration towards closed battles you were too far from against the sensible OW/instance time and space break compromise that 2 min timers provide. Think of the wargamers, the "playing it smart" dudes and the careful OW hunters. Do you want smart OW play or do you prefer patrol zone-like arena mechanics? I'm not teasing, I'm dead serious. ___________________ I've forgotten @Vernon Merrill, what kind of whining made insta close RoE go bye-bye?

Been proposed many times. It's a good suggestion, I think. Won't happen until after release, if ever... most likely.

I was about to say "it's neither here nor there for me, I'll take anything from nothing to gps with a shrug", but then I realise I want revenge ganks to be as hard as possible so I would actually vote for "nothing".

Don't worry about it, won't ever happen.

As I understand realism would go something like this: At noon they "quickly" decided latitude by measuring sun angle over horizon. Then some (unknown to me) fiddling with a time-piece to determine longitude. The rest of the day and night it was lines on a map according to log speed, compass, leeway and currents. Dunno how often they would gaze at stars or how accurate that could be. We only have dead reckoning by using landmarks, then imaginary lines on map according to laser accurate course and speed. I understand why people want this, but accurate position all the time is science fiction in our game's setting.

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Maybe? BTW, sextant is noon-fix. F11 is continuous GPS.

Don't worry about that. A global rebalance of ships could include dlc's. As I understand it's the cool down that can't easily be touched. Admin had said he wants to go back to individual and special sailing profiles. Changes are very possible. Consider this... The forum outrage after a dlc-only nerf would be quite severe.

Just so you don't waste a bunch of energy, @Hemp Amore, but the number of players up until last wipe/release isn't weighted much. Trends following changes will be followed more closely after release. Your OP is well thought out, just know that panic about player numbers isn't the best way to suggest "what's good for the game" in the stage we're in. Do continue with suggestions, especially in the format you picked. I wish more people put stuff forward the way you do, so much easier on the eyes. Some days I get tired of the alarm and outrage, thanks for the respite!

That would fix positive pvp statistics associated with dlc ships! 😶

WTF!!?!? I must've dozed off in that class. edit: About that... Sell cerb as dlc, I'd frikkin' buy and use it. Moving ships is a pain and I can drop dlc's wherever I find myself.

That'd be extremely interesting to know. After dlc, did overall pvp go down, stay the same or increase? Did the dlc's do something or did meta shift from other ships and away from PB in favour of OW/patrol where dlc can be used? Stuff like that...

We can go overboard and remind everyone that small amounts of poison is in some cases medicine.

I only know why I don't use capped bots. 5 min to get a ship you want may be right, I rolleye at the idea of spending time with bots to get a fighting ship, but I know I weird that way and should know better. I rather craft ships so I have control over the speed/tankiness. Bot ships are often either too slow or too weak. There's nothing wrong with that as they should not compete with crafting, even I agree with that. End result is less time spent crafting and getting a capable ship vs. spending time hoping to get a decent ship in the bot lottery. I may be mistaken by that is how I perceive it. Now a herc can be clicked out with full control over speed/tankiness with a more than decent vanilla speed profile. You could argue it doesn't need a bunch of expensive mods to do both chasing, running or fighting if it comes to that. DLC clicking is the most time effective way to get what you're looking for. That's why I'll welcome all DLC ships that may come and sulk if they don't. I'm actually keeping myself to crafted ships for the time being as some sort of "normal player" role-play testing. I don't want to dive into a DLC-only world and forget how the other half lives just yet. It has little importance outside my head and I defo will start using herc a lot at some point.

Interestingly enough RU server is by far the largest with EU coming second. They struggle somewhat on the US server. WGN themselves say that they struck gold almost by accident with using tanks for the arena game. Tanks are a thing with russians. WoT first drawing board idea was orcs and elves!

No, not at all. Now that you prepared a readers' digest I see the bigger lines that you wish to draw.