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Put port locks on flip times and there won't be no night flips. If you can't protect your port in your prime time night flips won't matter. It's very simple just have your clans ports set to your clans primes times and you will never have any issues.

Sadly though still no paints....back to the same old bland ships.

Sure been a lot of down time on the servers lately. Maybe we can get a gifted Paint Chest as a thanks for understanding.....

Been a few hotfix's recently and haven't had an update on the notes about what has been fixed, tweeked or added. @admin can we maybe get an update on the main page?

Uh he said they put both longs on top and bottom, where are you getting they put mediums? Actually depending the us of the ship Mediums aren't bad on bottoms if your going for a DPS build. WIth some combo's your Mediums and Longs can have the same reload. Now if your going for a pen/demast build you want all longs. Though I do agree LO/WO is crap builds now a days unless your doing a grind build. It took forever to get some of our clan mates so use to the tanked out builds for Port Battles to undrestand this. I can make a Teak/WO that is just as tanky but has more speed, doesn't loose it's Turn Rate, Acceleration and such and will out perform most Lo/Wo and Wo/Wo in battles. It's all about the right combo of open slots and mods. Wasa has a major weakness in crew with all those guns. If you can get that crew down and get them to run out of rum or be on cool down those guns don't mean crap if they can't get them reloaded. I have been tempting to do a same build test of both ships as I think the Connie needs some love. It needs it's old speed and turn rate back for sure if they are going to keep things like they are. The Aggy needs some of it's old stats back too.

Yah I was trying to think of a way to come of with a fix for that but couldn't think of one at that time. I would say they can make parts the note version of the snip mats a combo pack or you pay a set price of what those Frame/Planks would cost and a big jack up fee instead of having the actual woods. Say it would normally cost me 200,000 gold to buy enough wood to build a 1st rate. Well you will need all the normal mats for that Victory and plus 500,000 gold to make a note. The 500K is the Frame/Plank's price pluss a mark up. Dev's don't have to allow every ship to be able to turn into a note, just a few selected ones. This would mean you can still build ships and make money off them but it also means you can stock pile them for a rainy day at your clans home port. Make the notes heavy as hell like they are now so you can't just carry a bunch of them all over the place and open them up and have instant ships ready.

Didn't @admin (correct me if I'm wrong) say at one time 50% of the sales where from North America region? Maybe they need to think of why they have such a poor retention from players from this area before adding more EU nations to an area that didn't have those nations involved. I loved playing Spain on POTBS. I prob now would pick any nation except US to play if I ever went back to a none pirate Nation but it would be hard to play one on EU (this why I play on GLOBAL among many other reason) cause of the language issue and well the other part of being very anti-English speaker friendly I seen in the past with some nations. If any thing I honestly think we should merge some of the nations and keep with some big core nations that was involved in this area. US (cause of the large player base bought the game and actual nation on the Map). GB Spain France Dutch - Merge Swede and Danes into this Nation. Keep the big 5 here and than give Pirates something that makes them actual pirates. We should be down size the nations list not making them bigger. You can always split and add more nations later after release. Pirates should be a mix of Privateers that can work for the other nations and fill in slots for the small ones and than you have the OUTLAW/PIRATES that do there own thing and attack every one. This should be done when you do a proper merge of servers and that includes the PvE server and make a zone in the gulf for those guys if they want a safe zone to play in. We really don't need 20 nations and 3 servers while we are doing testing for a game in development. They want more servers are special regional restriction times for RvR than they can do that after the game releases.

They are both bad, you want a positive on anything that has speed to increase how fast, but you want a negative on any thing with time to shorten how long it takes. I honestly have no clue the use of that mod would be. Maybe was thinking it was meant to go into another mod or something?

And this would fit n more with something that might be an expansion later of the game that covers the Napoleonic War and the European waters, not really fitting in Caribbean theme game. Now Legends I can see them doing it there to get more ships and such into that game to cover a wider player base of folks that want to sail and fight in ships of certain nations.

Yah NAL isn't really based in any location so you can pick the flags and Nations you want to join. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Sixth_Coalition So looking at this we can have the server split or something? Though isn't this out of time line? UK (GB), Kingdom of Sweden, Spanish Empire, Dutch vs French, Danes, US? This would be the split in game and that might not be good for one server or the other. If you did something like this than you got to make us pirates Privateers that can join any side we want with a proper Letter of Marque or just stay Pirates/Outlaws. Honesty before you even think of adding new nations other than maybe AI ships than we need something for Pirates to finaly be done so we aren't just a bastard nation.

This really really really needs to be added though. You already got a log system for purchase and other things in game. Why not add one for clans warehouse? As nice as a clan dock would be, but i would prefer to do something more simple like being able to make ships into notes to store in clan warehouse. We have a stack of Wasa notes in our sub clan for quick easy back up ships to give folks. I remember you comment recently ya'll will be prob bringing a few more ships to the note format to the shop and this would prob be a nice thing for clans. They don't have to build any special builds straight off. Just get the note and keep it in the clan warehouse. Now what I would love to see is these notes be stackable in player warehouses. Mods should be stackable too in player warehouses just like the clan one. Keep them unstackable in your chest but while in your warehouse you can stack them. That way if I want to purchase a few Wasa or H notes I can in certain ports and stack them. I have spare Niagara notes from the ship wreck events and one extra Heavy Rattlers as a note format. Keep them heavy as they are not so you an only move one at a time or something, but allow us to stack them.

So going off a comment where you made a while back saying you know more about what goes on in pirates than I think I just assume you had an alt. Sorry for making that assumption. So your saying all your info is from second hand sources or from folks that might tell you what ever you want to hear to believe them? So you haven't gotten both sides to a story than? Your so called honest folks and against his isn't all and I know not all of the ones that have left have told folks different stories. Hell they told my pirate alt not knowning it was me something totally different than what they where doing and why they where fighting BLACK. Remember how I mention there was word that some US/GB players where going to try to infiltrate Pirates and break them down form the inside? Well there was a bit more truth to to this than folks know but we got word of it and was expecting of it before they even started and they got crushed and ran off to there home nations. Nations they supported before the wipe. You know when you weren't very active also. Casue many of those guys become pirates when there nation was rolled or crushed in the past. I'm sorry I don't trust folks that jump ships every time they get smacked around. Those types tend to not last very long in game any way or they just come on to troll and cause trouble. Speaking of which why are you even posting on this? You don't even play the game any more right? Oh and by the way they fixed the manual sailing on the Prince, it's way better than on tesetbed now. Need to check to see if they fixed a few other small ships as you can properly manual sail the Cutter on NAL now.

Some of them where, but yes many of them weren't. The ones that had nothing to do with working with US left the clan at the moment that civil war started. In fact that was how GS6 was formed. Though your going to take the words of a bunch of trouble makers that couldn't get there way so they threw in with another nation and than ran off when the whole Pirate Nation was going after them for supporting US? Really you should get your info from a better source man. The guys that switched over to US where also trouble makers from back before the wipe happen. They where always stirring things up and supporting US and GB side on things. So again where is your proof that is one clan and there own actions caused the out come of every clan (for the most part) in pirates to go after them. That wasn't just a BLACK thing cause they attacked none clan traders and none BLACK ships so the majority of the clans all voted the Clan became KOS. Kinda like how Qiugley Ironshaft (AKA Mumbo Jumbo) is currently KOS by just about all pirates. That was also voted on by all the currently on at the time clans and BLACK keep out of that vote, we let the other clans take the vote just so what your claiming we do wouldn't be said. You have no clue what goes on in Pirates, Hell I don't think you even have a clue what goes on in the game any more. Again I still don't see any proofs of your claims. You said other clans....I admitted the treatment of HELL, but that was caused by the actions of a few, not the majority and many of it's clan members had no clue of the alts and screening for US and doing trade for US and outlaw attacks on other pirates. Those pirates not involved where let to go free once they dropped the clan tag and some of them even joined. You said it was other clans, which other clans and your proof? Kinda makes me wonder just who your Pirate alt is? Where you one of them HOBO and still butt-hurt you couldn't topple us over from the inside like we heard rumors some of the US and GB was going to make a clan and try to do? LOL you forget we have spy's of our own and no they aren't alts. Some folks just hate some clans and ware willing to pass info on for next to nothing. I get a lot of info from the these type of folks, some of it's BS and just rumor and hear say, others bits are very accurate info. Ya'll act like none of the other nation clans shit don't stink. I'm sure there been plenty of bully in other nations forcing small clans to do what big clans want. Just the old alliance system was an example of that cause it forced them to not fight folks they wanted to fight. Great thing about the new system is that any clan from a nation can attack any clan from another nation no matter what other clans from their own nations wants to do. If CKA and NPG want to stay buddies that is great, more power to them. If any US or GB clan doesn't like this they can attack those two clans respectfully if they are in the other nation. They are no longer forced into any alliances. Prime example of this is ARMED and VCO doesn't agree with this alliance so they are still attacking US ships. I'm sure there is a US clan or two that doesn't agree either and they will continue to fight US. Hell even pirates have some clans that only want to attack US or GB. It's funny how in most cases it's all ways the nation folks come from. While I don't hate the US, but other former US players want to do nothing but attack US. Same goes for former GB players. Funny how they do that.

Bad if there is no logs. You will have constantly folks pulling from the clan warehouse instead of getting out what they need. For big clans it's needed that you pull only what you need some times.

I know others have too, but I been trying to get Devs to give us an updated count of players with break down per nation like they did back in March. We honestly should be getting this info every time there is a big patch and they give out more forge papers. I'm sure they track this data and have the info on hand. So @Ink @admin is there any way we can get this info for all three servers? I'm starting to feel like you don't want to give us the proper info to help us better balance your game and keep server healthy in order.

I think some of the ships need to be rebalanced. Wasa I think is fine as is, but it needs it BR bumped up to the level of the 3rd Rate and Bellona. The only thing is maybe the speed needs to be reduced or give the Connie back it's better stats. It should be able to out run and turn this ship and it can't do that. The Aggy prob needs some of it's old stats back before it was nurfed too. I get the purpose for the ship, but the BR limit would bring it out of 4th rate port battles and keep it to OW. If some one can't afford to run proper Port Battle ships this is the good OW go between. I see it as the OW SOL hunter killer. Wasa does have one major flaw with having all those guns. CREW. Watch how fast those guns reload when you loose crew. Specially if the player is an idiot and didn't bring a bunch of rum.

As @Rebrall stated there is nothing wrong with Clans having alliances with other clans in other nations. It's like the BLACK/CCCP alliance. We had it so long it's been pretty much a perm thing, but we aren't going out of the way to tag team US or GB with them are we? No we let them do there thing and we do ours. In fact I'm hopping ARMED and the Danes will get some good fights in there main times coming up. US/GB doesn't have to unit, they can still have certain clans help each other out. While others can fight each other. That is the lovely thing about this new system of clan wars. Hell if a clan in US or GB doesn't like another clan they can actually come maybe talk any other nation clans into helping them take out that other clan and remove them from certain areas. This way the wars are more on clan base and not nations as a whole. If we weren't all worried about getting attacked by half the nations out there I would be more than sure BLACK would be happy to work as Privateers for some of the other clans. We have no plans to conquest the map at this time unless we are attacked. You don't poke and wake the sleeping bear now do you? You let it sleep and move on. You keep poking it wakes up and rips you to pieces that is your own fault. You should of left it alone.

And I'm going to call you right now a bold face liar. What clan has we ever said fight or die or attacked? The only clan we have ever attacked in my year and half of being Pirate (green on green was removed right before I switched over) was HELL clan. Known alts and folks causing trouble by attacking other pirates out side a port battle and spying for the US and than when they go crushed by the Pirate nation as it was every one joining in when they found out what they where doing they ran off to US and joined TF caln, well the guilty ones. So where is your proof? Hell for the longest time BLACK was the only clan in pirates left cause any others was crushed by the US when we where off fighting Brits or some one else. Now what we have said is if you don't come and help and you run off and do your own thing than your going to be on your own without support.

An all out war to crush one nation no matter how bad they kicked you into the dirt in the past is not good either. That is why we held back last map, we learned that one porting of GB was a bad thing and the server lost players on all side. This game has no end game to it so total conquest doesn't work other than stroking a few guys ego's (and this is in all Nations even my own) that just have to collect all the dots. Now if one nation (are two) zergs up and starts picking on any other nations than it's understandable if the others team up and try to stop them, but until there is a threat of getting rolled than there is no reason. We should keep ti to clan vs clan engagement over ports and the fun OW fights. I'll be bluntly honest we did this last map and doing it again. We are waiting to see what other nations do before we react and do things. Those actions will result in how we play out the map. You want to team up and crush the pirates from the start than we won't hold back and we will hit you hard with every thing we got and where it counts. Like I stated above, we now know exactly what ports belong to what clans and how important they are by income and resources used. You think we are going to go for the dead ports? HELL NO. You want to not loose every thing. Than don't attack us full out. Keep it to small boarder engagements and lets have fun.

We have a PvE server? I always thought that was PvP2/GLOBAL? Just joking but yah would like to know how they are doing. I been meaning to pop in and see how the patch messed up the map for ya'll. I heard a few post about it limiting things. I think they should let you attack ports and flip them against the AI. Maybe up the AI in the PB's for ya'll since your not fighting against players. 12 would be a good middle ground number of ships. Though best would be do a mix number depending on port an resources.

I really never seen a reason for an alliance between the big two cause they should be able to handle there own and say if PIRATES suddenly zerg the map than they make an alliance and help each other. I would like some one to tell me one time that pirates zerg the map, that wasn't after being pushed to one or two regions or ports and having Mort Camp for weeks by the other nations (normally right before or after a patch when it slow). Can some one tell me one time? And I"m not talking about anything that happen over a year a half ago when the servers first started up. I"m talking within the last year. YOU CAN'T. Every action has been cause of something the other big nations did to pirates first. A year and half ago when I was US the pirates went to war with US cause they one ported them and camp MORT for weeks killing anything that came out. Pirates got them down toe 11 ports before GB back stabbed us and we went after them. We one ported GB cause of that......tomorrow is the one year anniversary for that. Take a big look at who didn't loose ports in that fight. The US gobbled up all the ports it can and half the time didn't show up to any of the proper GB ports to help defend. In fact most of the GB big clans didn't even show up. They just let them die and let the small clans get crushed. This was very bad for the server and yes I admit BLACK was part of that, so was CKA and NPG and there super alliance. Remember Alliances came out August of last year. GB and US never had a port battle after that until this new 10 patch came out and we had the wipe. That was over a year two of the largest nations never fought once in RvR. That wasn't healthy for the game. Folks got bored, they left came to pirates (cause we actually fought). Number one reason I hear why folks came over is cause, "We had no one to fight other than Pirates and we couldn't wine cause ya'll are so organized." Well guess how you get so good and organized? You fight, you don't carebear up and hide. You actually go out and fight. You also fight some one more your level until your team gets more experience and can work with each other. You fight with the proper ships (no more store bought crap and low tier). You come with the attitude your going to win and your going to win by killing them all. I'll add that last patch we didn't attack any one until we where attacked. To be exact every time we flipped a US port it was after they had flipped two of ours and not just flipped but brought it to a port battle. Than we picked a target and not just any port and flipped that port. We left them alone until they flipped two more ports and we picked another target. We only took two US ports last map. We actually left the US alone cause they where the weeker nation out of the two and went after GB cause they weren't. We had some good fights until they just stop fighting and most of it was over stupid butthurt mechanics that did get fixed. Which by the way was abused by both sides, we just didn't run out and cry about it ever time we saw a US/GB battle log, hit an AI fleet to hide in or camp our capital. We fought back. We took targets we could hold and ment something. Targets that would hurt a nation way to spread out. Yes GB is way to spread out now. I was very kinda to talk to some of the US plaeyrs that being one clan MARS that wanted to make the server better, but it seems since the patch and they gotten this cocky attitude. You know what happens when nations get cocky attitude? They get crushed cause they pick on the wrong person. I can list off one clan that doesn't like cocky attitudes at all, it gives us a challenge. I'll be even more honest to tell you with the new clan mechanics it tells us exactly what ports we need to hit to hurt those clans instead of the nation as a whole. So think very very very hard before you start a war with some one that has beaten you time over and over into the ground. BLACK has now plan to ZERG the map and take all the ports, it's stupid. We might take some key ports and hope ya'll show up and fight for them. That is all we want is good fights back and forth. That can be done with a few key ports as many of us where trying two work on in the Key's and old french zone in the middle.. These spots are picked cause of there locations. Hell we are pretty much inviting ya'll into our back door and ya'll are bitching about the keys which are miles and miles away from your capitals. (Well except poor Spain). All I'm agoing to say now is 'HISTORY REPEATS IT SELF." If your doing something the same way over and over and it doesn't work, than change it and do something differently. We have always told our guys to stay off GLOBAL with the smack talk (yah some guys slip still) and just take screen shots. PICTURES ARE WORTH A 1K WORDS. That is all the proof you need. That and the lovely list on CombatNews of who is doing the sinking lol. Though I do think of our server more like this than the actual The Game of Thrones.....it's bad when I watch this I can actually pick out a few folks that would fit those roles perfectly...lol

I hear making Victory post over a fight works out real well. Make sure to use point point presentations and such to piss them off even more. Every time I see the smack in Global I tell them to take it to the CombatNews. So far it's been telling every one who can back up there talk. Well maybe not a whole pitcher.....lol .

*sits here eating his popcorn reading* Gee guys ya'll make us sound like the White Walkers and this is Game of Thrones. "BLACK IS COMING." Than again it is very much like Game of Thrones with how much the Nationals and clans all back stab each other and fight over who's King and what not....dang out of popcorn, better go back some more while I wait for us to get attack so we actually have a reason to fire up the Iron Fleets again.

Who said port battle, I was talking about Open world fights....lol

Could one time seed every one with the mats for the main mods to build one and only one. That would be more a far way to do it, cause if they seed the capitals than only those on after reset will grab them first.