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Suddenly I'm all hot and bothered.

Oooooh, so much this! I look forward to the patrol zone tweaks, we might get anti-ganking mechanics there. You could call it pro-active competitive measures since ganking doesn't exist. 😋

I'm 110% sure 148% is enough to achieve 98% satisfaction.

Hermione is the Cecilia. (Ech! Could have it mixed up with Lhermie but I think I remember right)

I will keep it updated, no need to worry about that in the foreseeable future. I actually don't have any expenses with it as of now.

Define "unrealistic"... Oh, for sure! Many, many people have already contributed over the years. They do exist, however you may not have them. Which one is missing?

That does make sense as far as sandbox eco goes. However, it would decimate the value of the item they wish to sell. The balance is delicate.

Hmm... I would like to talk about this without using my habitual polarizing low-brow rhetoric. Seriously, I don't want to pick a fight. I came here for the fighting with ships against other human beings. Why is it horrible that I wish to do what I think is fun and avoid what I find boring?

This has been suggested quite a few times. I wonder if the pirate and privateer role-players would be happy pretending to make an eco impact by hitting on bots? It's a moot point, I'm afraid, last time admin commented on this suggestion it wasn't feasible from a server performance priorities decision. (You know how this game puts combat mechanics front and center? If we had lol mechanics like in EVE that would free up loads of math crunching resources)

I know. It's just not my idea of fun is all. Since the beginning I've actually done quite a bit of port clicking and hauling. Only three times have my stuff been threatened, only once have I lost things. I've never had my operation in protected waters. I'm sure some poor guys lose their stuff every day, but I'm also pretty sure almost all hauls get done without interference, zone or no zone. In my mind it's very close to a fake feature because, statistically, it happens so very seldom. I'm not gonna pick at you guys keeping the IDEA of piracy afloat any further, your fun is your fun.

Correct. Apparently, it's important to force all but everyone to do repetitive and tedious hauling because some feel it's important to have the chance to bully haulers. To them it's "content", "PvP" and "meaning". Don't look at me! I don't understand it in the least.

Admin said they will look at patrols when they don't have as much on their plate. Patience.

Some of us started to bemoan this ow+eco main/side(?)effect two years before the Requin was released. But, sure, blame the prems... So hot right now.

In a game like NA where the fighting itself is the core of cores and of top shelf quality; Your other content and ladders or customization is of far less importance. IMO anyway. You can enjoy your enchanted two-handed sword of epic destruction (+120%) in other games where they don't take pride in their PvP fighting mechanics.

If you get attacked by players you can click a button and get AI reinforcements to match the attacking force.

This is kinda the intention of current sail mods. But then woods, books and stacking enters the stage and throws balance into the crowd.

I do them all alone and have had quite a few good duels and small fights. I expect to die every time because, like I mentioned, the OW heroes tend to come in groups and steamroll the patrol zones. We're trying to "fix" that.

Hi there, sunshine!

A lot of hopes were dashed, we're in the same boat (if you can manage to think very long term there might still be hope) Solo play could be called a struggle, but there are quite a few of us who are working tirelessly to make "patrol missions" a good fit for those who like fair-ish and challenging fights as opposed to the open world stars who seem content ganking in packs and bullying people around capitals.

Well, there's the smaller ships rebalance to mix it up a bit and the possible expansion of the prem lineup. Should it be possible for premium ships to become as popular as you're predicting if the ow is filled with fans of eco and crafting?

It may be true that the more capable the ship the more it sells, but I truly don't need, but more to the point, don't want even close to OP premiums. Their main feature or selling point for me is that they allow me to partly bypass boring eco. Now they're beaten with the ugly stick in the form of cooldown, that somewhat diminishes their value. But, as a fan I'd buy several normal ships with premium status to mitigate the eco imposed cooldown. Premium ships are given the bad "OP" name not mainly because of their inherent qualities but rather because of the good old mod stacking. That has been a problem since day one, but what can we do when do many sandboxers love the excessive customization? Nah... There is hope, admin has a plan to deal with that which sounds like it'll work.

Legends model was never tried in full. Things would be very different if that happened, eco/pve/ow fans should be very glad Legends was shelved.

One dura dlc's is what the sandbox guys want too. I would never buy a one off thing, but I'll empty my pockets for permanent things... Maybe that is an answer?

Against bots or players? A half decent player won't hand you good rakes and even fighting bots turn and burn enough to make consistent good rakes pretty hard.

How many stone did he weigh, tho?