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My first battle against a Essex and Connie in my Bellona with those new cannons on both decks was fun. I mean waithing for every to reload (didn't have any other guns on it either, just those 24's on both decks). Destroyed the Essex in three broadsides but when I got to playing with the Connie he beached himself. I nuetralized my sails and used just enough wind to push me back from the shore and remain at his side. Poor connie just rolled over and died lol.....this is so going to be fun in battles with folks that have no clue how to sail. Actually going to make battles very interesting and places like that you will want o pick different ships that might not be effective as much in close shore battles. That and maybe we will see more folks actually using Battle sails in battle instead of running full sails.

Have you seen the paints we had? They where very much historical or close to it. There is a reason that they won't players do there own paints lol

It looks like a sunset to me, but wait until you catch a lighting storm in the distance. I have yet to get a screen shot, but on ultra settings it's so worth it when you see them.

Ok took my first trip out with the Victory loaded up with these on the middle deck. I wanted to try my grind build so I had medium 42's on the lower deck and 12's on all the uppers. I did a 20% reload build with the rest in accuracy. The cannons use the the cannos slots for the class so remember that folks. They act as Mediums for the most part with the penetration and accuracy. I should of ran the ship bare bone on mods/ship knowledge to test this though. I did't have any issues with aiming them with the 42 Mediums. With the 20% to reload 80 seconds while long wasn't as bad as I thought. They put a good punch into the 3rd Rate and bellona I fought first. Than the Pavel no problems, but than I'm in a 1st rate so should have a problem. Just a heads up they also act as Carros as you can't use Double Ball or Charge on them. I can see them being used on certain alpha strike builds. I wouldn't mind testing out a Santi with 42 Cannons, the Edinorog and than 42 carros on top deck. That would be a lot of damage on any full broad side at once. Guns take 8 crew each. A bellona with nothing but two decks of them will reload shock a Connie, but that is like 2240 damage on a broad side. Nasty guys, but man that reload is slow. I can see them as good AI grinding guns and maybe for an Alpha Strike Santi but prob not for OW PvP.

I heard they didn't show cause they feared that new Russian clan that no one can pronounce [UISK] Ushkuiniks. Glad some of the guys showed up cause I totally got the time wrong. Was all ready early morning thinking it was EU time and than forgot and got on late after it was over on US time. Yah never let me give you time or direction for things folks...lol

They have the pen of the Mediums but the accuracy of Carros. I can see them being used for an alpha strike on a SOL before other ships finish them off. Just htink of them going off with the 42's carros and longs on a Santi. That would be a beast even more if you used double ball. Hell might have to make a santi like that now. The other thing is maybe doing the same with smaller ship that has them on bottom deck but use the top deck of traditional long guns. Going to be some intesting fights. We can get that reload down to 75 secs though, but that is still long as hell. I'm wondering if they have anything hidden we don't know about them in stats. LIke higher chance to start fire or something. Until the new paint system comes out and I assume that is more like release time since you said we will need to wipe ships. I would say ya'll really need to bring back paint chest as rewards for like epic events and maybe for sale in PvP shop. Those are the type or rewards that aren't OP for any one and make great trade items. I have never owned an Endy other than the free redeemable one so I have all those paints and I prob won't be using a lot of Bellona's, but there are a lot of o other ships that had paints I used. So yah bring back paint chest please. To many bland wood color ships out there that look the same. Ok I made one and put paint on it.....

now if we can get some of the other paints back out. Seeing plan wood is just boring for most of the ships. Sadly I have no Endy's in my fleets so I will either save the paint, give it to some one else or finaly unlock that ship lol

I don't own an Endy so can't test the paint for you folks. I'm sure some one will have it up on a ship in no time.

Compare with normal 24 lbrs

While I notice there been some changes to weather (like rain in battle) it would be nice if we could get a few random storms once in a while. I mean no in his right mind would try to fight in a storm, but it could be used to escape though. lol A fatigue system would be interesting on a quilaity of ships and cannons. You can buy an old used ship that might fall apart in a good storm for cheap, or get a brand new one off the docks. Do the same with cannons. Captured cannons can be stolen off ships instead of taking the whole ship (add them to cargo of even player ships). Some cannons are lower quality cause they are old and warn over time could need to be replaced. I would love a mixed deck pirate ship. Something like they did with prince. Even though say the ship has two decks, it has more than 2 levels to put cannons on and they are mixed in wiht that deck. Like say you have 20 cannons on your port gundeck, but it has 4 slots to put cannons in so you can actually have 4 types of cannons of 5 a pop on that deck. That would be very much like a true pirate/privateer ship. lol but this is me, the guy RNG hates, every time I Tack I bet the wind will be blowing the wrong way. It will be interesting none the less to see how folks adapt to the new changes.

First off get your facts right. I have one main char and 4 alts (one I bought the last x-mas sale so not even full level after a year). Unlike some of my former clan members i didn't farm the crap out of alts to get Marks. I might of did one battle or two before the wipe to test it out, but I didn't run it over and over like others did as I didn't think it was right. So unless you have proof than you need to back your statements up. Oh and to list off my alts pre-wipe I had 4 Pirates and one Danish/Prussia so I didn't have chars in other nations I was in war with. Now with the merge I have 4 Russians and one Pirate (my original EU pirate I been very vocal about keeping for Sunday morning bored play). I get all my resources the old fashion way through trade or ports we own. Out of my chars 2 are level 10 and 2 are rank 8 or those 4 all are Crafting rank 50 I did all the old fashion way. I have one char that is still mid level and I"m taking my time to level him up. Hell he's only crafting 11 right now. If I was abusing alts than all my chars would be rank 50 by now. So I will welcome devs to check my chars any time they want and just have to message me and I'll give @admin or @Ink all there names cause I don't play dirty. Please review over the games rules. And my statement stands if some one is caught breaking the rules, it doesn't matter if it is myself, clan mate or any one else. They should be punish them harshly and that will fix the alt abuse problems. That has nothing against you or any other players, it's just a fact you want to curb a problem you deal with it harshly. Any one notice that BLACK split into three nations with the merge? There might be a reason. I left the clan and won't talk bad about it but a few of us joined together to make a Russian clan and plan to play by the rules and make a new name. Some stayed Pirates and others went off to another nation. I wish them all the best of luck, but if any of them including any [UISK] Guys get busted cheating I hope the devs punish them properly. As for any one in our clan we will also do our own punishment depending on the actions of the player and the officers vote on such violations.

and I assume we are getting the holiday goodies too. Man these sail changes, poor poor guys with no clue how to manual sail. Hell poor me and my fat fingers are going to be all over the place trying to manual sail lol.

Speed isn't the only state, 2/1st rates should still destroy a wasa broad side to broad side so not sure what your point is here. And if your sailing a 1/2 rate alone well that just explains why your getting owned by any 4th rates or below.

It's not a broken ship, it's just not balanced into the right tier of play. When you bring out new ships you shouldn't keep nerfing them towards old ships. Other games don't do this. What they do is they bring it out, tweek it and than balance most the other ships up to new tech levels. A lot of the old 4th rates are way out dated for a buff/rework of stats cause they where brought into the game when there was pretty much no other ships there tiers. At those times the Connie was very OP. The Aggy was very OP. The Wappen was very OP. There needs to be an all around rework of the old ships to bring them up to date from where they where balanced at a time that didn't have other ships in there own tier or very little. Again the BR should be a ship of it's class, instead of removing guns and what most folks want, you need to bump the BR up and put it with other ships with the same Broad Side and armor and that would put it just below 3rd rates (300 BR) since it has less crews. very little tweeking needed. The fact you will than be using 3rd rate and above ship knowledge with less % on them will help balance it out more. The speed and accelerations prob need to be tweeked a bit along with it's profile, but it's a minor change to fix the problem. I'm going to take a bet you weren't around when half those ships came out and was nerfed to death for balance, they need there old stats back and they would be more on par with the ship.

Are maybe now there isn't restrictions folks actually logging in to play more than just one part of the game. Really are all you EU guys so freaking salty that you don't get your way any more? Well I should say a few of you guys cause I meet a lot more that are embracing these changes and enjoying the new players added. Who gives a crap about a small window, we should worry about all player times not just the one a few of ya'll play in. I bet this weekend you see way more than 500 players on too as folks get settled in and can play during EU and US prime times. Oh wait folks don't tell me Aegir is another one of them ELITE EU guys that don't even play the game but just logs on to be crusty cause he can't get his way any more?

Now do that next to a Bellona and 3rd rate and you will see way I say move it to a 3rd rate and BR change. Ingermanland is suppose to be a glass cannon, but it does need some love. It has the worse stats of any 4th rate, but it's also a very very very out dated ship, prob one of the most oldest ships in game except maybe the Wappen. The Wasa has almost the same HP's a the 3rd rate, it has almost the same Broad SIde as the Bolona, the only thing it doesn't have is the crew which is it's weakness if you don't know how to manage crew. That which you should be comparing it to the a 3rd rate not the lowest 4th rate. Oh don't get me wrong i think the Ingermanland, Aggy and Connie need there old stats back, but a few of you prob wasn't around when those ships where OP too compared to any of the older ships in game when they came out. Instead of nerfing every thing to death they should bring back some of there stats. Back than when the Aggy came out I bet it old stats are very much like the current wasa as it had higher HP and armor than the thirds or close to it. SO they nerffed it to death. I'm not saying it's not unbalanced. It is and needs to be put in the place where it deserves right next to the third rates. As for why I think that would work is cause you raise the BR it will effect how many you can bring into PB. Why should it matter on the OW, BR doesn't matter so you can bring any ship you want to fight it. Also 3rd rate will make it follow the Ship Knowledge rules of the third rates and not 5-4th rates which means some stats would take a hit and can't be maxed out as high. It's part of a balance of the ship without totally neutering it.

Than expalin the none EU times being way higher than before? Hell I haven't even been on much cause I been busy with winter break as with many others I know. So you might want to check your facts a bit better. Hell last night there was almost 200 on into the wee hours of US prime time that is hardly ever seen that late at night. Now that I will say is cause of the break, but I been seeing large numbers during none EU times compared to before so take your full of crap some where else. It's Wed night on a work night (not all of us have this week off) and it's 180 players. Normally by this time 11 pm at night it is down to about 100-125 on global and dead on EU. So that is telling a bit more players are on, but I'm going with the winter break on those numbers mainly. Why don't we all stop pointing fingers at each other and wait until the first of the year and see how the numbers are when every thing is back to normal. Either way none of this has to do with the Tribunal

Your an elite player in most folks book so just about any ships is going to be OP in your hands. If you ever played WoT every one thought the Type 59 was an OP tank, it honestly wasn't but every one that owned it including myself had maxed out 5 perk crew cause there was no other Chinese tanks in the game for a long time. It seems way more OP than it is cause of the other ships being so nerfed after they came out and second when you put it in a very skilled hand player compared to most average joes out there he's going to mop the floor of them with it. For many that don't know how to use ships properly they need that edge. This ship isn't OP, it is just unbalanced and needs to be put up with the 3rd rates where it belongs. Drop the acceleration and maybe turn rate on it and make it more like the 3rd rate it is. Remember the OP posted 5 fir/fir ships couldn't beat one. Well from every fight i been in with the OP all I seen him do is run, I seen nothing but the tail of his ship in PB's and other fights. Maybe he needs to stop running all the time and come in ships that can take a beaten. Now that it's an expensive ship maybe we will see more folks back in Ballona's and other ships that are cheaper to get into, but have about the same fire power and armor.

In the right hands some ships aren't that OP. I beaten my fair share of Wasa's in my Aggy's so it's not that OP. Than again it wasn't a Fir Fir Aggy either. It has many weakness actually if you just know them. Than again if all you run is Fir Fir ships yes it's going to eat you alive. Many of the old ships could use some of there old stats they got nerf down for balance with older ships.

I remember in another game they tried to ban a player. Turned out he was going to a major university and it banned about 100 players that went to that school. So you can't just ban an IP. I Live in Houston, TX and use comcast which isn't a static IP. I know at least 6 other players most in other nations that live in the same city as me. To properly ban me they would have to ban that IP provider pretty much which means those other 6 players and any others that live in this city and use the same provider would be ban too. That is why Bans are done by account not IP. Just be strict to those that break the rules and you will see less and less folks abuse it.

Not sure what I just watched, but about 10 video's later I come to a conclusion ya'll make a lot of butter?

I believe it said after release they will work on more PvE content for both servers. That is prob why we haven't seen the Elite AI and such in game yet as it's not on the top of the list of things that need to be done first.

Could ya'll allow them to attack neutral ports though? Than just lock the ports owned by player nations? It would give them some PvE content on that server and maybe have it wipe later on when ya'll can get to changing some of the codes.

PvE would be a good server to test out map resets. Let them captured ports from AI only and than every so many weeks/months the map just resets back to start. Though honestly the three HARD CORE PvP Nations should never have been added to that server. At least not with proper mechanics.

Shroud Cay and La Tort are the main PvP hotzones. I was on only for a short time this morning pre-EU prime time and the combat news was hopping in these two areas. I went out with a H Rattler and grouped up with a few other Rats. We got a trader or two and had a scuffle with a prince which I"m sad got away when it shouldn't, but I was fighting with some randoms. That was only an hour and half and we did the big circle around the northern Bahamas and came back. Said our Merry Christmas and all logged off or went our ways. During that time there was prob about a dozen others killed in that area or La Tort so I'm pretty sure he wasn't trying to hard. I had all expected this and I think I was on when some one called out they got tagged out side Shroud by a Surprise so not sure if it was Slims group. GLobal US/GB is bad about doing this hagging out on the edge of the shallows to tag folks and get easy kills.....easy until they get swarmed by a bunch of small ships...lol Than again we expected to find some one around Turtle and the other port that had US hostility on GB ports and I warned the guys I was with they will more than likely be one guy in a 4-5th rate doing those missions. Think I'll have to set up a 5th rate for hunting them next time. The thing is there is PvP out there if you just follow the Combat news. I bet if they where on in a time slot to put agro on one of them ports you prob will see folks come out. That and he's in US so he's in a very bad position to get to most of the action unless they set up in free towns. Oh and again it's Christmas Holidays, hell I haven't seen any of my clan mates logged in since last night as we are all doing family things.