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Looking at this I want to give AMRED props for not having any fleet ships. I see CKA is still up to there old things of bring fleets to a battle they all ready out number folks in. Same thing NPG always did too specially in the shallows. You know if you stop depending on your fleets to do the work for you guys than you might actually get good at fighting. Take a quee from the other Brits CKA and come solo for these fights. We where going to come out and do OW brawl with you guys after but there was a little communication error and JD storm into the thick of it. The rule is every one jump in port and repair and then come back out in one group together......but you always have to have that one guy....that one guy was JD lol As for the time I was thinking on a weekend we might get better numbers before server down time. Would that be a better time to do a battle? I know the biggest problem with AUS/SEA players is like the US you cover about 4-6 times zones so your always going to leave some players out.

Other than the Capital green zone you can still do Pirate vs Pirate in that area. Now what I haven't tested as I don't go after other pirates unless they are killing fellow pirates (guys that tend to go after only noobs and traders). Is if we can still call reinforcements. That would be mess up but will check it tonight to see, don't think you can. Honestly I though it would of been better if they just made Kidd's our safe zone and Mort was left just another region that any one can have. Than again I don't believe you should be able to make a Pirate char either, it should be something you become in game through your actions with chance to be pardon and return to a nation (good way to in game have folks switch nations). That is all fine and great but those nations have nothing to do with the theme of this game. To be honest we really should have US (they where a nation at that time in the area and 50% of the sales was to North America), GB, FRANCE, SPAIN, DUTCH. With special other rules for the Pirate/Privateer factions. I know ya'll love playing your close to nation, but Swede's and Danes had little influence in these areas with just about all the other nations mention above by players. Right now this game seems to caiter to the EU players and we don't retain the other half of the sails and why is this? Maybe instead of adding more EU nations to a game theme that didn't have them they should find out why they can't keep the NA side of the sales. And added more EU nations is not a way to do this. If they are going to add/change nations they need to drop two of them and give Pirates actually Pirate mechanics (though do a Privateer/Pirates split of the faction). There was a reason POTBS went with three nations (Spain, France, GB) and Pirates Faction. Less is some times better, more is not. If you look at any games out there they tend to split things into 2-4 factions even though they might have multi sub groups within each of those factions. If you want to play you home nation than pick a group that is close to it and than make your sub CLAN based off your parent nation as a player. Devs need to stop trying to please one group and ignoring the others they need to figure out how to retain or get back into play. Adding more and more nations is not going to do that.

Funny how just about every proper suggestion with balance changes to pirates to make them more like pirates/Privateers has been by PIRATES that want us to be more like Pirates/Privateers. Cause what is a Pirate? A Privateer without a job. The guys that want to do RvR could be Privateers for a nation (under a contract for a set time) and the guys that want to be true pirates can be so. That is why this would make more since to be implemented with pirates FACTION (not nation) as a way to test this. Lets all be honest here pirates are way over due for some attention if they plan to every do something with them other than make them some bastard of a nation. That would make Pirates even more clan base as you clans decides if they want to be Privateers or Pirates. SOlO players pretty much have to be Pirates/Outlaws though. Prob the same as what happen when pirates was one ported and Mort was camp by US and GB for weeks on time. We went and used a free town in the Danes area they allowed us to hide there and grow and even gave us ships until we got back on our feet. This is how the PvP2 relationship started between BLACK and CCCP (than CN). Many folks haven't been on the game long enough to remember what was done to pirates back than. It's why they have such a hard core hard on against certain clans that keep wanting to do that over and over to pirates and why we stop them. Your very clan was one of those involved int that camping MORT for keeps on time killing any new player that left the port until they quit or rolled national. Remember US has never been one ported, but every nation other than them has been. Every other week there is a new post pretty much. Most of them are trash as it's some nationals trying to limit pirates as much as they can without giving up anything for nationals or allowing perks to being a pirate to make up for extreme limits. I have made a good number of suggestions myself about how to change pirates. We really need some work on them and this would be better than adding a bunch of sub nations to the game is to do something to make Pirates more like pirates or privateer like.

That kinda why I mention just make this something for pirates to test. Would give us closer to having actually different mechanics too.

Your trying to please every one. High Risk should have HIGH REWARDS. Every game I been on if you wanted the ELITE gear you had to do the ELITE dungeons or gets some one else to grind it and buy it off. Many games didn't even allowed this cause elite gear would lock to your char. Though this tend to be only after you put it on as Auction House and trade got big in many games. So why should joe blow average player that doesn't do PvP or RvR get the same rewards or better rewards? Cuase right now to get the best gear you have to do PvE grind. Instead give PvP big rewards that only they can get and if others want they have to buy it from the folks that do RvR/PvP. Brining back things like Paint Chest would be a good balance way to test this out. Sorry you want paint you need to do the RvR/PvP part of the game or pay some one that does it. Certain none Port battle ships is another way. You have skins for some ships that have multi look? Santa Ceclian and the other Hermione for example. Same ship but two paints. I saw an outlaw paint for the Heavy Rattler. You can have some paints any one can get, but have certain paints that only can get if you PvP. I thought of a cool way to do this is make the 5th slot on any ship only unlock with PvP xp. Once it's unlock it gives a special paint for that ship that only folks with that slot unlocked can use. This will show folks this is an Elite ship and the player or owner of the original ship (you can cap or trade them) unlocked his ship fully.

And how would one switch to one of these nations an such? I'm not a big fan of adding more nations to the game, but hay lets test it if you want to. Though I wonder if pirates would be a good way to test instead of adding new nations....we are the bastard child nations and it might help gear us to maybe having something different about us than the other nations? I mean aren't we suppose to be hard core mode? As for the first question I could be willing to give up one of my pirates to test such if I was given the option to keep rank and such and change name...shhhhh don't want every one know it's my char;)

You mean ports that have the items to make the refits and such?

I know for the most part Pirates are done with taking empty ports. Might even let a few go back to neutral. Kinda like being able to grind on the shallows for easy coin and xp for folks to level up. We have a few dead ports great for that. As for the formants it should be the winners to post, but there will be a problem I don't think US has ever posted a port battle they been in and I know CKA never has. So I posted a few that I been in (back when I was Erik Ethenwolf) for the Danes. When I was doing port counts every week it got to be a pain, we have that in game now so no need to post that. I think just listing hostility towards each nation and battle resolts are enough and keep the smack talk out of here.

US has never been One ported are almost one ported. The closes you ever came was back in AUG last year when we got US down to 11 ports. That was before the Big alliances and Pirate taking GB down to 1 port (a nation along with every one accept US that can say they have been one ported). Which by the way happen Aug 27 last year when we one ported GB. The closes ya'll came was 20 ports when we had regions. So don't say you where almost one ported just cause you lost a port or two while US. Ya'll act like you been one ported every time you loose a port though. LOL and where exactly was your clan in that fight? I don't remember being shot at or seeing a single GA guy in the middle of the Brawl. It was pretty much all ARMED and CKA guys who I do admit give us good fights and we enjoy them, but don't take credit that is not yours. I mean out of 13 guys (16 but 3 of us was dual boxing) vs 20 and ya'll where only able to kill one guy (Dead and Longshire kinda don't count cause that was my alt that blew him up). Did wonder where the hell was the Mortar brig at the whole time...lol We saw the tower go down but I never saw him. That is a sucky port to defend by the way with how open it is. We will try for something better time later if we do try to take it back. Maybe something before server down time on a weekend? Though this is better talk about in the PB section. My view is winner should make those post not the loosers. They get the bragging rights of taking the port. Seems this whole topic has gone off what it was intended.

Might want to get your facts straight. We hit Cart cause of the Points we wanted with the new Victory System. We had no plans to take it, that is why we went for a lesser port Potbello and we stayed away from main area's we knew most of the nation was at. If we wanted to teach VCO/TF a lesson wouldn't we have hit there ports instead? GB had all the ports, the only way to get the points was to take ones that gave us the most points. We even gave ya'll plenty of time to get out of Cart before we took it. As for talking about the past than lets leave it there. You keep bringing up the past yourself. If you notice each patch we fight differently. No more one porting. No more taking all ports around one area. No more hitting major ports off hours. We have adjusted alot for the server and we still get treated like crap. The problem is some of the other Nations has not adjusted at all and still trying to do the same thing they did a year and half ago. If it didn't work than it's not going to work now. Each patch we loose more and more players and when I say we I mean the whole server all nations. We got a slight boost when some folks came over with the wipe, but we also lost a lot of players before that which haven't came back. Folks are getting bored, burned out and just flat out tired of the game. Doing the same carebear alliance and only fighting one nation or clan is not helping at all. Look at ya'll numbers when there was fights between US and GB. The combnews was popping the numbers broke over 200. It encourage folks to get out and fight and not the same people fight the same fight over and over, it was something new and new fokls to fight. We need to keep that going. Maybe with VCO merging with Pirates we can get our numbers back up and do that on the Pirates side, but if the other nations won't fight each other and just fights one small nation than it's going to drain folks out on all sides that either get bored or tired of it. I honestly think it's not just the Danes or a clan or two feeling this. Some reason US got a spark of players but feels like most of the other nations are hit hard with last patch and loosing players. GS6 in the pirates just up and POOF, some of RAT and DEA are now Spain, but FC and some other clans we haven't seen since this last patch drop. I think the game is hitting a honest low as there is not really any new content and it's a bit to late to fix some of the past issues. The only thing we can do is try to work together and keep the players we have right now.

Your a Forum troll too, but at least you play the game lol

No this would be abused much like the gold mods where for isntant board one shot kills if they used some type of moral system to have them surrender. Now what I would like to see if they get down to taking on water they stop firing at me or try to rage board cause shouldn't they all be working in survival if they are that far along cause sure enough that is what my crew does.

Says the guy that doesn't even play the game unless trolling forums is a game now. Seems like it to some folks.

If you didn't sink them than some one needs to go and scuttle or cap the ship.

@admin So what the hell was this post about again? Can't leave us hanging before a weekend. Even if it had a point that is....

Only if Nationals fight each other too. That is why I'm glad Allainces are gone, but we all ready know from the great meaning the care bears are going to ball up and kill evil pirates. LOL you do know US is prob twice as big as pirates. GB prob is too. Going off these old numbers you can see that GB and US make up about 60% of the server being around 30% of the population while pirates is just under 20%. That is total players of the server though it's a bit closer numbers on th active with GB actually at that time having less active players than US. US is still the largest nation now even with VCO moving around. GB is second largest behind them. I honestly think Pirates have way lower numbers now cause we didn't get any new clans when the wipe happen from EU, we got a few returning players and new players and that was it. Most of those are now MIA or went to Spain (RAT/DEA both where new players). So stop acting like we are a big nation. Ya'll had 40-50 guys out side Cayo last night trying to screen us out of an AI fight we where only brought 10 guys too. We have always had a hard time getting a full 25 into port battles. Something US and GB never has had a problem when they aren't hiding in port being a bunch of care bears. Though we know as soon as we sink a bunch of your 1st rate in a port battle ya'll will go back into hiding and cry we are OP.. You know the same 15-20 guys that ya'll are so scared of all the time. Though honestly it's more liek 10-15 now and some nights we can hardly get 5 on so we welcome VCO coming over to give us some more bodies if the Carebears aren't going to fight each other and think once again trying to roll Pirates to one port is going to work. You know how we get folks back. They see ya'll showing up in 1st rates out numbering us and want to fight. Than we get our numbers back and folks have need for blood push back until you guys stop playing again. It's a every repeating cycle cause of some folks ego's that just can't stand one nation over past stuff. The problem with the Danes is they have players in off times and a long standing they have always protected our backs when the US and GB zerg us to one port and gave us a place to regrow. We just see no reason to have empty port battles when we can not field the same number of players have in one time zone. Danes and Gb do have that match up and it makes since for them to fight each other. Other wise it would b just like when France and Danes fought, nothing but opposite time flips. I really not sure what is going on with SCAR, they say they will do something and than you hear crickets. @Skully we normally can't get you to shut up, so what is up with them? I know CCCP is kinda bored so ARMED you want a good fight I would say just flip a Dane port in a good time for you both and have fun. They will bring the fight.

Well if you wanted a fight that was the point of us fighting over Leo and PaP not some one econ port. That was one of the few ports we actually made money off to pay for the other ones. That is the problem I had with it. You target an econ port (as in tax made off it). It's like us going down and hitting one of your ports off hours. You wouldn't been to happy about that either would you. That was the whole reason we let ya'll move up there without screening and such to fight over ports that doesn't mean anything to either one and have some fun and so ya'll can do the same with the Danes. If it was Leoguana or one of the other old french region ports we would of just showed with who was on and tried to have a half decent fight. Ya'll also didn't have to bring all the other guys. If it was an Armed vs Black/Blood the fight would of been more even matched. We just don't have the Aus/SEA presence ya'll do or the Danes. No clue what going on with them, but even Danes CCCP would be hard press to made that battle as they follow times more close to your West Coast Aussies and it would of been to early for them to make as that was a work day. You want a good showing than think of the times and that other nations might fill the best numbers at. On a weekend about 2 hours later we prob could of matched numbers. On a work day....not going to happen.

If you look at the map and scroll over the region capital, you see that big bubble, if your in that your in it. Pretty much. Ya'll don't want GPS in game (which was never a dot on the map you still had to figure Long and Lat out) but you want something to tell you when your in waters you prob shouldn't be in? Really folks if your having to guess if your in the wrong waters? You prob are in the wrong waters.

Pretty much the same thing from PvP2 GB and US refuse to fight each other and want nothing but to kill pirates. Ya'll should of see how many first rate and ships was out side of Cayo today. Either they just made a crap load of 1st rates since last patch or these guys been holding out for a long time. Just a small screen JD caught and that wasn't even a small part of them. There was some GB there too. You think these guys really hate us or something. Well we are use to fighting 50 to 1 so nothing new. I'm sure they will loose one good 1st rate port battle and all run off crying about Pirates being OP. Well off to bed 5am port battles come quick. Trying to muster as many folks as we can cause apparently the Auss GB think we have numbers at that hour on a work day...lol Honestly was half tempted to tell none one to show up but unlike other nations we don't just give up like that.

I'm going to do the math as it changes every day what we take in, but we have 20 ports between BLACK/BLOOD right now. That is 2 million a day. I think it cost us 1.3 mill last reset. Other dayd it cost us less. That is a big hit when you have very small player base. I mean I can make that easily per day, but for most it should be cover by most of the income in them.

I haven't set up our spread sheet for cost of ports and was about to do that for today, but that might be why we cost a bit more than normal for port maintenance. @Ink can we check to confirm folks weren't charged double upkeep with the roll forward with the down time?

Your always going to have folks complain about it not being some one Optimal time, Hell the poor AUS/SEA players loose an hour+ every day cause of server down time. Some complain, but most move on. Remember not every one in EU has the exact same times as every one else. I use to mainly play on SEA/AUS servers along with EU cause I worked nights and grave yard ships in the past even though I lived in the US those where my best times to play on servers with the most population during those times. To restrict most of your population just cause a few guys don't want to loose a port (that is now clan owned not national) while they are work or asleep is just silly. If you have set blocks than folks of the nations of those prime times will fight each other. The problem EU had int he past was that ya'll split into an Alliance of east and west so you had no one to fight in each others time zones and that limited who folks can fight. Now with no Alliance system if you have a Danish clan that is SEA/US prime time they can fight the players in say GB/US that have those prime times. Instead of trying to push those players way these other nations that tend to have a majority of EU players should be trying to get none EU prime time players to join and play. Instead we keep doing things to push more and more folks away.

I think it had a roll back or something cause the settings I changed are now set on some ports that wasn't suppose to take effect until tonights down time.

I'm sorry if your earnings are 10% off profits than your trading in the wrong goods. I made a ran last night and made over 50% off profits after the 10% tax and it was just stuff I picked up in a port cause I was going to be empty on the run back. It just means you need to trade a little smarter and there isn't an instant get rich option like before when folks was making killing off only trading. Now you have to work a bit just like we have to go out and do a bit grinding to get the same or more money in the same time.

Well it's the EU bias to be honest. If devs was right saying that 50% of the sales was from North America than why isn't 50% of the population playing from North America? Cause of how they set up the servers, did a piss poor job of the wipe which still encourage every one to stay on the most populated server. Refuse to give us the tools to balance the nations out on all servers. They are now talking about bring more EU nations into game (maybe who knows what they mean with this post) that have nothing to do with this region the game is based in. I never been on a game that had multi servers in development other than like a super-test and than the main server we all where on. Never been in a game that split the player based between three or more servers while in development. Hell most of the folks don't even want RvR, they want a big server with a large player base, that is why a lot of players flock to EU cause it has the largest player base. It's why I started there, but than I found out how rude the EU player base is to English speaking players that try to play in other nations than GB or US and while it's not all the players it's still very toxic and chases away the new players that you need to keep around. IF they want to retain players they need to find out why half their sales aren't staying around and playing the game. Though honestly I"m starting to think the hint of this post from admin was they are prob going to announce the next ship and it will be from one of those nations that isn't in game currently or something. Cause bring in more nations instead of fixing the problems we all ready have with not enough players and to many nations is just going to kill the game more.