Urchin

No you don't only lose performance downwind with battle sails and I suggest you test her agility not just speed and turn rate for yourself some more. Adjusting playstyle, what join nearly everyone else on the server just sailing 4th rates or Redoubts looking for something easy to broadside, no thanks. If that's all that's left I'll spend my time elsewhere.

I don't give a hello kitty about NPC battles or with a mate vs a Wapen who should demasted you both with the first few minutes especially you sailing around at full sail, that would literally be just four hits from the stern chasers to demast a Priv if he knew where to shoot, same deal for a Prince. Testing I've had over a dozen solo battles since the update in a Prince vs other players in everything from Indiaman to a Connie. No one has more hours and kills in a Prince solo on this server since release than me. And I can guarantee you that the ship is now seriously nerfed because with battle sails you lose all agility and performance. Full sail you get demasted in a instant even if they don't know where to shoot. Before with skill you could fight a greater range of enemy ships and be successful, basically anything you could tag was winnable. Now the performance is degraded so heavily you're pretty much left to hunt traders and warships with 250 crew or under. Considering the dwindling player base and that most now sail 4th rates and bigger that leaves hours of searching to maybe find one enemy you're able to engage. And for that amount of time involved this just isn't worth it anymore.

A decent rattlesnake that must be a 15kt snake. Agility doesn't mean turn rate.

So for 6th and 5th rates you basically have a choice between slow with improved turning but very little acceleration/deceleration and overall maneuverability or being instantly demasted. While these changes might work for SOL battles it significantly degrades the performance of smaller ships especially 6th rates.

Around and around we go.

Do you actually play the game? Or talk to clan CO's from all nations other than the seven players you listen to?

I was in SEKI clan for a few weeks but left after a Tequila gate crash. All nations have potential, but not until Russia collapses.

Unless you're Poland, Nation chat is empty and now the game is empty of almost all player interaction.

Well after more battles in the Prince that ship has truly been nerfed now to be practically useless vs anything except Traders. Full sail just get demasted in a instant. Battle sail and everything is slowed down to half speed or slower with no real control over the ship and all of that with the wind in your favour. Even a well sailed Indiaman can put up a good fight as you can no longer use acceleration and reverse to avoid their buffed turn rates under battle sail. Unless you enjoy pew pew with line ships there is practically nothing left in this game now for those who prefer smaller frigates and 6th rates.

Fault with that logic is you are assuming everyone sails for one of the high population nations. Poland, Nation chat doesn't exist. So the removal of Global makes the smaller nations even more remote, unattractive and difficult.

Well after three battles last night this appears to be the worse update since 8kt boarding. As expected anything smaller than a ship with 32lb guns is near obsolete.

With the new Pen model I expect sinking NPC ships will never be so easy.

How about you only implement the wind changes for now so we don't have two major changes to combat going in at the same time. Because this pen and demasting change is looking more ridiculous by the day.

GB has less RVR clans at this moment than any other time in recent years. But if you want to spend time with your alts painting the map in colours Mama Russia allows then go right ahead. No one cares when the balance is so one sided.

Unless one of the seven players that the devs listen to make this suggestion we are just wasting our time. If ports and ship building wasn't such a huge investment in time and resources then some sort of war goal and map reset would be good. Currently with Russia owning over half the map and the other nations holding the ports which Mama Russia allows RVR and any incentive to really play NA remain dead. Player base and activity is almost back to how it was leading up to the wipe before release. If they do ever reset the map, please return the game back to 4-5 historic nations and make pirates pirates.