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So what your saying is that US nation has only moved three regions from there home (wait two sorry) and that is all they have expanded. So that means if any one takes the GoM than it shouldn't effect any one else who does it? So what do you care? Oh and are the ones attacking our ports....so if any one should be pissed off it's pirates and they should be going to war with ya'll. We are just being nice for now and putting up with your little attacks. Just so we are all clear I updated the map.

You do know this is GLOBAL not EU right? We have like one or two Spanish on Global and that nation is pretty much dead. As for Pirates at this time there has not been any aggression between pirates or GB. Now in the future that might be a different story.

SO your saying no one has went and set up in the Gulf? Those are all empty ports and no clans have any interest in them? Than what the point of holding them. GB might as well take them from ya'll. It's called a front line for a reason. Move one port to where you want to make your stand and make it. If you loose that region move back and stand. Fight for it if you want to keep it, if not than well it was pretty much never yours in the first place. Go look on EU and tell me how many port battles happen a day and how many ports exchange hands? We had a few contested ports so far and that is it? We should be having at least one good fight every couple a days between nations. If US is stuck on the East coast only than no wonder why they will loose all those ports to GB. Maybe it would of been wise to not stay at your capital and expanded out?

Yah folks are all ready acting like ya'll plan to one port them. This why I put up the picture of where I expect the fighting to go on and that isn't any where neither home regions. If either nation can't keep those ports than they shouldn't have them any way and be so spread out. It's easy to take empty ports. Now we will see if they can keep them. As some one that played US over a year ago and came over to pirate for exactly the same reason ya'll are saw and left the US, that was a year ago. You think they would of learned to fight by now. Instead they just use a carebear alliance and only show up to battles they out number or pretty much will win. Any one notice the ones against this are former US/GB PvP2 guys? If it didn't work for the last 9 months than why would a peaceful super alliance work still?

GB has not attacked Pirates and we have not attacked them other than the regions around us that we assumed they didn't want to keep by the no show (did have one guy show last night at George Town). We just wanted our buffer, just as we did on PvP2, but it has been the US that has been attacking us, we have not took it to them yet, but that might change if they don't get there head our of their arse and think about what they are about to start. We have no plans at this time to spread our regions as we don't want to get to spread out and would prefer to keep things to OW PvP. Who knows what nation we might screen for in the future if we feel like it. I hear we like gold by the way and might even be able to hire out to work for one nation or another Than again why would any one trust a bloody pirate? As for the French I think they got there hands full with the little Dane/French skirmish going on. I think GB is big enough to handle a two front war with them. How do you know war won't be good? Maybe cause ya'll never tried it on PvP2, you only fought small nations that couldn't fill a full port battle team. Maybe it's time you start acting like a big nation and have a true war. Change is good, sitting around like a bunch of PvE carebears is not good. Just wondering why sink them? If your short on trade goods shouldn't you be capturing those ships and making a nice prize off them? Oh and you know there is other ways to make money than trade goods. I stopped running trade now cause I make more money doing other things like crafting and running missions to help level folks up. I sale dirt cheap to the other pirates so they can have cannons and ships that they can afford to replace.

They don't but I see PvP2 small clans in GB on that list. Some of the same guys that never wanted the SUPER CARE BEAR ALLIANCE on PvP2. Folks need to remember on PvP2 US/GB the two largest nations of the server have not fought a port battle with each other since Alliances came out back in August of last year. There is a PvE server for folks that want that type of game play. With no more forced alliances things are now going to be dealt with on a clan level. You don't want to be involved your clan doesn't have to show up and defend or attack regions. And what exactly has that to do with US and GB and if you look at the current map we don't exactly sit in the middle of those two nations waters. Here I'll add some visual aids for you where I expect the US and GB to clash. As for GB or any other nations getting into fight that is something yet to be seen. Now the only person I would say should be worried about the Pirates is the US right now. They been poking at use over and over and we might just bite back. Ya'll do have to go through us to get to your front in GoM. Maybe all the carebears in that region will finally have to fight to protect there ports for once. To be honest if the carebears of PvP2 want to be buddies with each other, than they prob should just join the same nation. Including folks from PvP2 that never wanted the super alliance, but was to small of a clan to do anything against it with the alliance system.

My aggy is up to 12.6 with a turn of 2.8 so they have close stats so you could get it up to around that. I have had fun in it in the past when I was at that level of crew. I just want my Niagara back and I'll be happy. Than again we got almost all the filthy Nats out of the shallows so prob wouldn't be much hunting in those waters. So maybe I"ll be able to get it later through these events and such.

I liked the 3rd as a poor mans SOL. She has been great for grinding fleets/missions to make money. Can take a licking and keep on ticking. She's basically a sluggish Aggy. I have two slots and about to have the third open on here though she's prob going to get retired to some new player in clan that hasn't leveled up all the way. Since I'm in one of them....BIG BOYS now.

You are correct going off my Agamemnon which is Teak/WO but this shows you the base is 6030. We tested and it is a 20% cap on HP and Armor thickness. So the max HP you can get for the ship is 7236 and the max thickness one can get depending on wood type of the build is 81.6. As you can see I"m close to that thickness max out for my ship.

Armor HP and Thickness both have a cap of 20%. This includes your wood types in your build along with any mods you have. You basicly over stacked your mods so that a lot of that HP is not being used. LO/WO is 15%, +Elephant +10%, + planking 15% = 40% so your double over the cap of 20%.

Two war declarations in one day. Man this should be interesting start of a weekend. Best of luck to all parties.

So ya'll returning the gulf to the Spanish? Good luck on the war, all I got to say is they better stop poking a certain other group or they going to be having us knocking at their front doors too. Until such time we will gladly help take some ships off either sides hands if we catch them in open water. You know us pirates we love the booty. No matter who we get it from. They do have to cross through our waters to get war supplies to those regions. They just might end up with a few less from time to time.

Just like folks need to leave the PvP1/2 stuff in the past no matter which server they are on now. Seems to many old grudges are being keepted and folks are butting heads cause of what server they where on before hand.

Back before the merge I had 2 pirates and a Dane, now it's 3 pirates, but I'm a firm believer if my Dane had got caught by anyone other than clan members it's his own dang fault for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I tell this to clan mates that bitch about. If you don't want your alt sanked by another nation than stop going to hot spots and get an escort. Simple solution to the problem. As for marking suspected traitors the problem is I see all the time folks accusing new players or clanless of being alts. If your smart and have an alt than your not going to be gaining tons of attention to your char. You hide in the back and remain silent. So you can see folks abusing the crap out of the flagging system marking any one they don't like as a traitor. Oh be warned the game is now on steam sale. So we are going to get some more alts and even more new players so don't be rude to the new players thinking every single one of them is an alt.

We don't have any formal stance with any of the nations, but pretty much we are not at war with any one at this moment. I think we will know when we change that stance in game. Just collecting up our buffer and building up like most of the other nations. I'm pretty sure we want to see how the other big nations act once they run out of poor Spainish empty ports and this big clan changes from US to Brits.

Shouldn't EU post stay on the EU side and GLOBAL on this side? I don't even click on that section.

Also there is ARMED and ELITE. I'm sure a bunch more small clans. Though to be honest right now on GLOBAL GB is prob the most populated Nation. With VCO and TF going over from the US side I would say a few other nations could prob use the numbers of players over the GB. Either way best of luck for the OP. We could use more players from the EU server either way. I'm sure we will start to see more folks come over cause they get tired of one thing or another.

15 knts is the cap for Speed mods. You an stack them all you want but you will never go faster than 15 in any wind direction.

I like Teak/Mahagony on my shallow water ships right now cause it gives bonus to crew resitance since they are so easy to kill in shallow ships. Not super tanky or fast but fun to play. The Agggy is Teak/White Oak and has maxed out thickness, but not a slow tub boat.

HP and Thickness have a cap o 20%. This is included with your wood bonus for what type of ship your craft. So effectively you just put what a mod on there that maxed out your HP without even taking into account the second mod or wood type. We where thinking the floating battery would prob be best used on a Fir or Cedar ships to tank something out that normally wouldn't be very paper thin. We really just couldn't find a use for the Floating Battery. It's an odd mod with it's stats and the in game caps that we found so far. With that we are suspecting that other things like Penetration and such might cap out at 20% too. It's kinda hard to test those stats out. We have some one about to do a reload build and we will be able to time it and see if it caps out at 20% too.

I just remember some one saying that is the yards as it never got changed over from Ukraine or Russian or something, but if you look at the light blocks and Ropes that is what it effects. Just means your sails will turn faster to new positions.

If you bought them recently you can look at your log, the same one that has your battle results and it tells you how much you bought them for. Just have to do the math to see what each piece cost out of the stack. I just be happy the slider would show proper cost of what your about to make total most the time.

Actually that is exactly what your doing, your sending it away for ever. Though I do agree they should prob add to that: Dismiss/Destroy ship. I mean where did you think it was being sent off to since the other options are Send to Dock and switch ships?

Than that might be just certain ships. Most of what I been building is White Oak Port battle ships and than Cedar speed/taggers. All the while I"m over here with my teak ships lol

Been there done that and I tossed the shirt in the trash. I am one of the pirates that came over on the old system by actually killing a National (AI for me) to become pirate over a year ago. It hasn't changed at all since than and prob won't unless some new blood gets in there and team up to push the old boys out of the way. Sad thing is it's been like that since i was US. Even more sad is they keep recruiting folks and leading them astray. That why I'm always for new clans and blood starting up over there. Maybe there is hope. 7grams posted a pick of a port battle I'm still US. 13 Pirates vs 17 US....15 of us sunk with two escaped, not one Pirate killed. So yah not much has changed. I believe that was my last US port battle as we had one more the next night with same result and my clan switched to pirates by time I got on a day later. We just got tired of the BS from a certain clan. Sorry to go off topic @sounthernrebel78. Again wish you best of luck. If I was to go National it would prob be Danes. The PvEer in me say's they got a killer looking flag. That are Spain as it was my nation on POTBS. LOL