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That why they really need a reputation system to allow you to privateer for other nations and rejoin them.

I prefer them to be called Pirate Havens, but I think this should remain for all nations. To many folks will complain, but they should keep Free Towns not telporting to and that will make it where most folks won't want to make them all over the place. Just means you can pick where the trade hubs are and set it up. @admin This is a very good question. Could be a good time to make some changes to pirates. I'll be honest what they should do is make Kidds Island the capital and than lock it from no new chars can make pirates from the log in/start screen and bring back the In game means to become pirate by attacking your own nation. It's suppose to be hard mode so new players shouldn't start out as pirates.

The only issue is how do you prove some one doesn't have mods/ship knowledge set up? I wish we had the gunboat BP cause I want dang GUNBOAT WARS.

Why would my clan want the clan members in our charter that we just beat unless we recruit them in. It's like in game right now our clan just doesn't take any fence jumpers. Now if we been trying to recruit you for some time is different, but if you jump ship cause your nation just lost one port out of many we don't want you either. I'm sure they will be created and disband and created and some will stick around for a while. I think I all ready know the name of the one I want our clan to make. Don't expect any changes to pirate mechanics any time soon unless Devs say so. We are prob going to stay the same for a very long time even though I would love some true pirate mechanics to make us not a true nation like the others.

I'll just make me a new char that is low level and kill all these PvE carebears Rear Admirals that suck in just about anything. Just think of the glory of a low level in a Privateer murdering them. Even @Hodo would prob get into this action. It needs to stay the BR of the ship difference to be honest for that reason. Skill should never be judged one chars actual rank. I seen new players that can play 100 times better than so call vets.

Hay @Slim Jimmerson you know it's cool to post your battle screen shots, but maybe you should make a thread that deals with US and not post in the post about Dane and French. I know we keep going off topic but prob should be best if you make your own thread for great battles and stuff. Though I have to say GS3 is a good mid level clan for the US to have been fighting and they been giving as much as they been taking too. Best way to learn to fight is you got to sink a few times.

And what is your point? I see tons of US and other nationals in Pirate frigates. Your going to tell me ya'll got them all by capturing them? My pirate crafter has every BP in game so don't tell me I can't craft ships. I do have to get the permits from a National, but guess what I don't have to use an alt for that. I meet some one in the middle. Give him all my CM and he gives me Permits back. I hand him a few ships or mods he wants for his nation and than we are both happy. None of that is against the rules and I'm not even using an alt. Just a long running alliance with another nation. While yes the same can be done with alts. When you get out of your head that Pirates isn't a nation you will stop getting beat by us. We aren't the only nations out there. There is 8 nations in this game and some of them should be worried about more than pirates. Over and over we told ya'll and warned ya'll that will happen. We could of one ported ya'll after Savanna and we didn't. When I was still US we one poted the Pirates and they still fought back. They only had a few regions when my clan switched from US to Pirates. They weren't even winning port battles. Though they where killing half the US ships but the clock keep them from capturing the last tower most the time. So I didn't even jump ship while the pirates was winning. What I left was the poor communication and very toxic player base in the US. Exact same reason I left the EU server when they split it and came to be active on PvP2. Seem that was the one thing both servers hard in common with the US nation. None of this is going to change the fact that the US is nothing but British Colonist until they prove the rest of us otherwise. Maybe if you stop licking there boots you might actually get some ports back and get experience and get better at the PvP and RvR parts of this game. Hell take some Brits ports and you might even get a certain port back if you actually come talk to us. Though this has exactly nothing to do with Danish and France politics so not sure why we are talking about it here.

DING DING DING WE HAVE A WHINNER......I knew a British Colonist would show up sooner or later.

I left US over a year ago, and I left it for the same reason just about every other clan leaves it. The funny thing that reason is one of the guys that are still there and still running the nation into the ground. When are ya'll going to figure out doing the same thing over and over isn't working and try something new? Than again I don't expect much from the British Colonist. I'm sure they will save you like they did at Savanna. Wait how many ports did you give up for them to come help ya'll and they didn't even do the job right. Last I checked if some one didn't do there job they don't get the reward. Maybe they should of just took the rest of your ports too. Ya'll have such a grudge against the pirates, but we have only took two of your ports. British took what 5? You think you would be made at the guys that left you nation to go to a bigger nation and than roll half you ports from you, but than again your nothing but a bunch of British Colonist. I wonder how many more clans are going to start leaving the congress and go do there own thing? PS Who are mine? I have not had a US player in over a year since that is the guy I rolled the old way over to Pirate. As in I still have my original born on date from my first day on this server. How many others can say that? My other two chars are both Pirates. I don't need alts in other nations. You can get every thing you need right at your capital and with a smuggler flag. The french out side isn't effecting me cause I stored up so much resources just as my clan did we can pop out ships for weeks and not run dry. Maybe while every one was grabbing empty ports at the start they should of been doing like Pirates and a few others and building there stores up.

Just a little and don't stroke it to much, it's fragile. I think they make them out of US tears.....waits for some one stop in and post from the US.

You know this might be good for big nations that push around little clans too. In the past we seen this done on PvP2/Global in the US and GB. Small clans want to fight between the nations but the big clans don't. They ruled the votes so couldn't pre-patch. Now they do the same with the congress or what ever GB has. We seen a few small clans try to do what they want, but with this system a group of small clans can ban together and take over there part of the nation and control it without the other national clans effecting them. Well as along as they can hold there ground. I'm going to bet some of them lazy PvE clans are going to tax the crap out of there controlled ports too. Specially if it gets blockadied or something by others. The good thing is clans that help the Nation like BLACK can take over a port and run very low tax's to fund there war machine if need be. While other clans that don't have the econ means will prob have to jack up the prices to make means meet. It will be interesting but even I'm not sure I like the direction they are looking at going. Are even more making side war clans from the main. They can set up war clans in other nations that can take control of key ports/regions along with there main nation clans.

Love it even the french have french jokes. lol

Lets be honest how much is it used on EU? If you confine the map to a smaller area you will have nations closer together and fighting over areas of control next to there borders. Right now nations can get about anything any where and go off and hide in the Gulf or on Bermuda/Kidds and ignore the rest of there nations and basically have a PvE game. I just looked at the EU server map and looks like the only region that has changed hands in the GoM was NO that the brits own and I bet that is only cause it's a 3 point region. Hell the is the only reason the pirates took it on Global.

I posted many times about turning them into Privateers and doing a proper reputation system. Pirates/Privateers shouldn't even be a starting option. It should be something you become in game and used to switch nations to or as a Privateer work for other nations and help small nations fill port battle slots. Think of Merc Units in MWO how they get +/- for working with certain factions towards there credit and xp. You get a LoM from Spain on our server you get a big bust to credits and xp. You work for GB which is one of the bit you take a hit to xp/credits earned. You will only be a Privateer while you have a LoM, any other time you will be classified as an Outlaw/Pirate or you can just stay one. This will allow a British Player to become a Privateer for say Spain in game. Pirates/Privateers/Outlaws would only have Freetown and Pirate haven ports to work out of. They don't have conquest. Only allowed to have level 2 shipyards, but can use SOL if captured or bought. While they hold a LoM for a nation they can enter those ports, but can only put an outpost, but no buildings. Reputation system can be tied into trading too. Why would a nation trade with you if you sink there traders all the time. This will remove the need for the smuggler flag to use other nations ports. I think it would help to bring it to 5 nations instead of the 8 we currently have. Prob shut off the Gulf of Mexico to as the map just is way to big.

Actually the defender doesn't need the 1000 points to win, they have to prevent the attacked from getting 1000 points only. That is why I wonder if the old system where if no one shows and the defenders leave after a set time it's an auto win. Pre-Patch you could do this, but that was before we got the current Port battles system. It would save time for defenders that get ports flipped that no one shows up to. I just like to test different aspects of the game and see if certain things still work or not. It would save the defenders time instead of having to wait out the full 20 mins (30 total) to cap out and win the points if no one is in the battle.

French, Spain, GB, US, DUTCH/DANE/SWEDE(combine these) would give you 5 nations. Than make Pirates a Privateer faction where if they have a LoM they can work for a nation, if they don't they are pirate/outlaws. Only work out of free ports/pirate havens and no conquest.

Why wouldn't we bring a 1st rate fleet to a Line Ship port battle? You did't want the DEATH STAR FLEET than don't flip a Line Ship Port battle. We where going to get 25 in there no matter what with every one close from Mort. As for those they killed out side I told every one including the guys that escorted us over to get into the port if your not in a large group and want to fight out side. Some folks instead turned and head back to Mort and got tagged. It's not our fault they couldn't wait for the battle to be over in 20-30 mins and go back with the fleet in safety. I said it in GLOBAL they aren't destroying our Capital, they re making us stronger and cleaning out the weak for us. Most of us old school pirates have been one ported/region many times in the past and lived. One good weekend of kills isn't making them run us off when we where on the other side of the map. Not to mention any one notice KOC hasn't even been in the top of the PvP leader board since the weekend? If they care killing so many and yes they do kill, than why aren't they getting points? Oh cause traders only give you 1 or two points. You have to kill a lot of them to get more points than say some one that kills a proper ship in PvP and not have to share the points with the rest of your group if you did a gank. I also notice that if KoC is denied something in game he gets very toxic in Global and than even over here. So honestly who you think is really winning? The guy that can't stand it when you avoid him or the guys that he still hasn't sunk taking all his nations ports while he cries for back up. Notice there is being less and less ships showing up around Mort since the Danes hit those ports and well now us Pirates. When we wage wars it's not over a day or two or even a week. We plan for things how they will play out a week or month from now. Come back and ask us how his little war is by the end of the month. Hopefully they have our house clean and we have a bunch of good hard core pvp out of it to fight back by than along with us vets. The open world part of this is going to come soon enough.

Wait you said TEXAS? I still want to own Texas once before they mess this map all up, was going to do it before the patch but never got around to it, "Cause TEXAS HAS TO OWN TEXAS ONCE." lol

To be honest the game really needs a reputation system for the players. IF you get bad reputation you can't use the other nations ports for trade and than limit entry to those ports only with a trader. So the reputation system replaces the smuggler flag pretty much. Why would some one trade with some one that sinks traders all the time? The only way for other players to use that port would be for the War company to take control. Say my clan/company takes the Spanish port that I could never enter cause my bad rep for sinking Spanish ships. While it stays a Spanish port normal Spanish players can enter, every one in my company can enter and use it too. Other Pirates would have to have good reputation with Spanish to use it though.

We actually thought ya'll weren't going to show even though some your fleet was spotted when we where heading over and was ready to send most of our guys to SLM and just keep a skeleton crew in PB. That reminds me we really need to test the empty battle thing. Use to if the attacker didn't enter in 5 mins and the defenders all escape it's an auto win, but not sure with these new cap zones and such if you can still do that.

Also you ever been hit by one, they make great clubs when needed and a bit more sturdy than a fancy rifle.....well that is my reasoning.

Savanna La Mar Line Ship Port battle. 25 Pirates (some where from GT battle) vs 18 GB (10 of which where Mortar Brigs Not sure what Brit was thinking with 10 MB's, other than to hurt 1st rates. We called out for guys that had 4th rates to bring them instead of the 1st rates they had positioned in SLM ready. We honestly wasn't expecting the fight to be at GT, we where going to just leave a few there and have the fleet head to SLM to fill the rest of the PB, but hay Brits pulled one on us and we are lucky to have had a plan for both of them. Good fight guys and was glad to have made the GT one and get a few cannon balls off.

George Towns 4th Rate Port battle. 24 Pirates vs 25 GB We had our 1st rate fleet escort us into the port and than they went to SLM for the second port battle set. I wasn't in that one so will have to wait for some one else screen shot. Brits brought two Mortar brigs that took care of the forts and 22 Agamemnon's and one Wapen. We left two guys in A to cop it and the rest of the fleet went between B/C to meet up and the brawl was mainly in the B circle. Battle was won by both combo of control of all circles and sinking ships. 2 Pirate ship lost *correction we lost two ships, but the Frigate Willis lost was replaced by the Aggy we captured* 8 British ships sunked with one Agememnon Capture and was used to replace the frigate lost Start of the port battle to show the ships on both sides. End of the port battle.

The problem with treaty in a mulit clan national game is that not every one is going to follow them. Pirates and Danes have had a long standing alliance between BLACK and CCCP/CN that has never been broken and it doesn't involve any ow other agreements. It's flat out no fighting each other and protect each others back from the other nations. I think when you make it to complicated is where these other nations are having problems.

Hell even one US clan ran up some Agro in the Gulf on a Brit port. Maybe some one got tired of the congress doing nothing at all. I think it's going to be an interesting month to come.