Sir Texas Sir

I don't think you get it, but it's so small and you have to actually go into a port. It's not the time your at sea it's the distance between the last port you entered to the next one that it pays you. So just sitting AFK out side a port won't get you nothing. I don't think so, but this would be nice thing for crafters if they got some xp back to help for those that spend all there time crafting and not fighting. I would also love if your fleet got a small percentage of xp or the xp it gains in battle to go towards that ship unlock. My biggest issue right now is the share PvP rewards are crap compared to PvE grind for xp and credits. Yah I want the PvP marks, but I get more for sinking an AI most the time cause I'll solo it. We got guys that won't let others join there missions to grind cause they want all the xp and gold from them. That should be how the game promotes group play, it's actually promoting every man for them selves right now.

Yesterday we weren't getting any thing and today some one said they got XP in one. Maybe something broke? We are getting a hotfix this update so maybe something is up, but ya'll F11 if it happens again so they can figure out what causing it.

Yah I was just not half wake and thought they cleaned that one up or something. This one really should be merged with the other.

Just be a pirate if you want to duel each other.....

Welcome to PvP2 US/GB....that how they been for ages. GB is a bit better on the organizations. There is so much inter clan fighting over there it's silly that the two largest nations had so much problems with one pirate small clan (in terms for there size). It's not something new, as they where doing that crap back last year this time when my clan UNKN switched from US to pirates cause we where so sick of the crap. Which you explain to 'T' why just about every good PvPer leaves US or GB to come over to pirates back on PvP2. While I'll admit we rushed to get organized for that port battle as most of us didn't have ships ready for such, but we got just about every one into the proper ships, told every one to not bring mortar brigs and stay together and follow orders. We only had one player not in TS and he was very active with in game chat asking what to do. We basically just had him stay with the main group. Two of the three we lost where none BLACK clan members and I watched them kinda get separated from teh main group. Both are new return players so still getting back into the use of the game. I believe the towers actually got credit for two of the US kills which means your guys got to much into there range too. The other thing is we don't have to reach 1K points, we just have to prevent the other team from when defending. Fastest way to do that is control the circles and SINK SINK SINK SINK ships. I'll not admit it, but we do some times go after certain members of the other team to kill them off fast cause we know that when you do that they fall apart pretty fast..... Oh and we where dealing with OUTLAW PIRATES of HELL clan (most are now in US nation as they where US stooges) tagging us out side before the port battle. First Pirate vs Pirate war has happen and was over in less than 48 hours. HELL has been disbanded and there bad seeds have switched over to US. Ex-Members are now safe that did not agree with the bad members. They found out that the whole pirate nation (not just BLACK) will combine together to get bad seeds out of the nation. Sadly other nations don't have this option. Pirate vs Pirate has it's perks after all. Never declare KOS war on the largest clan in your nation either....lol

Did some one delete stuff our West End port battle is missing? They need to combine this one with the other one. I was thinking it's the other one.

Keep your national grubby hands off our frigates......but with that you can get some one to trade you for the BP and Permits that are only in Pirate Den. It's the only trade off we got since Nationals got the Aggy and 7 SOL's in there (this been change where Pirates now get the 3rd Rate and Bellona BP and permits, but only the permit for the Aggy)

Nope keep them 1 dura, but would I would like is the slight boost in stats crafted ships had before over store bought ships, but than only store boughts are crewspace so crappy builds.

West End shallow water Port Battle - Defended by 25 Pirates vs 25 US. 3 Pirates where lost, we will make sure to give a bag of gold next of kin for the good fight. US lost 13 ships, all sunk as we didn't feel the need to keep any of them. (PvP points suck in pay outs in port battles by the way.) A few US ships where lost out side, but i don't have the full count on that as some are still being chased. And for your viewing pleasure. Good fight US, until next time we cross swords.

With all this build up some one record this battle please. You know for study reasons and all.

Well they never said how many each of those regions gave, we just assumed it's 3 cause some one posted it. Sant Lago is 3, Danes told me San Juan was 3 and I think it's the same for San Domingo. Since Morgan hasn't been attacked we have no clue what it produces yet. Maybe some one from US can pip in and let us know what NO gives since they recently captured that one. Would be nice if we can get a list of the other ports and see which ones give what, but I figured the dropped it cause of balance issues. I'm sure the will if they need to, but it looks more like they will balance CM's by raising the SHOP permit/BP prices in the future. I kinda like some regions are more important than others, but would of been nice if they keep the crafted refit thing to them or went with NATION REFITs only craftedable by that nation only. So only way to get them was to trader with that nation or capture a ship with ti.

I think one thing that is going to start being a problem hopefully once the rush for regions is that folks are going to learn being so spread out isn't good. The biggest problem is the CM system forces every one to do the rush and grab. If that wasn't put into place there is no real reason to one port Spain cause it has pretty much zero players. In the past we use to leave 5 ports or even 3 regions, but eventionally some one comes along and flips those ports any way and one team or the other will grab it up to stop the other from doing so. With the new system and lack of teleport and restrictions on dock space/cost for more we will find some areas undefended and easy to capture. These would be great spots for small nations or clans to get there little piece of land. Than again this all depends if certain nations don't become carebears alliances and not attack each other other than arranged flips of ports back and forth. If that happens the RvR part of the game is going to be very boring.

This is not correct, Admin even said it was an error and the next day I got my 3 CM's for ports that produce them.

I'm only speaking for me as a Pirate and well really I'm speaking cause want to know where he gets us Pirates are going to war with any one? We had nothing to do with the port flip that was all Danes. In fact we have lost many traders to a certain French clan of privateers, but they have moved on to Brit/US waters (think they are in US waters now). They might be back they might not, but we will deal with that when it comes. As for a Night attack? What exactly does that mean? If I'm correct the flip of this port was done this morning my time (I'm US) which would put it at SEA/AUS prime times for play. There is no such thing as night flips on GLOBAL SERVER. If you don't like it get a stronger SEA/AUS player base in your nation or don't pick a fight with a nation that is made up of players in the main clan of that nation during that time. If you notice the Pirates flip of these empty Spanish ports have been rotating around time a bit to allow players from all time zones to get some points. I believe Brits have done this with a few of there flips cause they have a big SEA/AUS presence too, but I haven't been paying to much attention as that is my normal sleep time. History has had many a nations that used strong acts of aggression to prove a point, but they weren't all acts of war. Danes are prob doing that at this point. If you want to keep friendly relationships with them than maybe it's wise to keep some of your own players in check. Though with the current game system that is very hard cause any rogue clan or player can go out and attack any other nation.

Yah FC came to us and asked, "How can we help." So we sent them over to finish the flip while we headed to the next one. That way some of there guys can join the PB and get CM so it's not just our clan. We have not problem working with another clan if they want to help, but if you don't want to help don't expect us to just give you things too. Specially right now while we are trying to get things in order our selves. Clan comes first than nation.

Not sure where he's getting we declared war on any one. I mean Spain kinda cause we be knocking out these ports of theirs but that is what pretty much every one is doing. Though I do know the Danes aren't happy right now after loosing several Indiaman and several Millions in mats to French Privateers.

I'm constantly hearing folks in Nation chat saying, "Why can't I go to port battles and why is it always just your clan." Well I never see you grinding for agro to flip the port and your never there to defend them. If you want the points and now the CM's and such get out there and help. We had a small clan go finish off Puerta Plata for us last night so we can go grind another region up . We can have 3 port battles at one time, one clan doesn't have to do it all and need to. If you want your own little pocket get the other small clans together and go flip your own region and get all the agro so you can enter first. And this goes for any nation not just my own. With no alliance system it's going to be more about the Clans of each nation and there politics not the nations them selves. If one clan doesn't like what another clan does in a nation they don't have to follow them. They can go do there own thing.

Closest Outpost would work better. I don't want to go to the closes Freeport if I have nothing there, but if I have an Outpost. So yah closes out post would be better. Cause some times your base of operation is no where close to your capital.

And if your part of one of those nations and don't agree than sink the other nations ships. The game is turning more to Clan based politics over national politics so you can actually have civil wards within Nations where one group doesn't agree with an Alliance. Say clan A in Spain makes agreement with Pirates to flip a port. Well Pirates come to grind than Spain clan B doesn't agree so they come to sink the Pirates ships. Hell they might even get pirate clan F that hates Pirate clan E and they come to sink every one.....Pirate or Spanish.

I still have folks that see me as disloyal or traitor for leaving the US nation over a year ago to become a pirate. The reason I left was exactly what they keep doing being very toxic players and a bunch of carebears. I'm glad they are letting some folks switch and think they should give folks another option at the end of a month or two. Though they need to post server pop vs Nation for folks to decide if they want to switch cause of either over pop nation or under pop.

This would be great if we had an update of the server population and national break down like what was done one weekend back before the patch was announced. And than do another at the end of the month so folks that don't want to be in an over populated nation can switch and maybe fill some of the smaller ones. Though it could back lash and have very small nations pop leave and go to a big one. This was great cause it shut the folks up in a certain two nations about how had the biggest population and it wasn't who they keep saying did. Though I would more like to have it to help folks pick a nation if they want to change. We where thinking it would prob be like 5 bucks in the steam shop upon release, but I like 10 bucks better cause it's just so easy to spend 5 bucks every other week to switch a nation around. Maybe when it gets to that point have cool down on use. Like no more than once a month.

They be evil I tell you......evil..... We all ways joked about switching our whole clan to one nation cause they all ways bitch about pirates being OP. Well that was back when we had the alliance system and we would prob had picked Dans on PvP2 which means they would have the SEA time zoine and we would have that and the US time zones. They thought we where bad as pirates, we would of been OP x 2 against the carebears. To be honest I have two of them forged papers now, I might just roll a Nation all and go sink other nationals cause there is no alliance. Than when I get tired I can roll it back to Pirate....lol Maybe make a GB char and go hunt Dutch or should I make Dutch and go hunt the GB's? I bet you I'll find others of either nation that don't like the alliance and will join in the hunt.... It wouldn't matter they will complain no matter what. Though the last part isn't exactly true. They just have to capture new ships from those they hunt from and get the repair kits off there ships. A good solo pirate could prob stay down in some random place for a very long time if his targets supply him with the goods.

Has any one tested break up of ships? Is it as bad as one testbed, though would be nice if we could break down a few items into goods just to save a bit one them.

Lets not forget they attacked Pirates just days before too. I'm pretty sure we where never contacted about that and that is why we didn't let them know if we where going to defend it or not. It's not like they couldn't just skip that zone and moved on with the empty ports. They even skipped one and went right towards NO. So far they are showing us they want to take the map and pick on only little nations. To say they can't fight the British is BS, the could of moved straight down and meet them instead of waiting until they wrap around the Gulf of Mexico to meet in the middle. Than to threaten to make a super alliance if any other nation helps each other out cause they are being threaten by the largest nation and maybe two of them. I actually have no problem with British and Dutch alliance. It makes since, what doesn't is the US and British making one straight out of the bat. I bet you in a month time we might see one or two port battles between them and I bet they will be arranged to activate there conquest points and it will be ok, cause they did it and no one else is allow to do such. And again they speak of fair fights?

And when exactly did we say we haven't talked. I thought I was very clear above that we did, by telling them we are taking Cap Frances but have no plans to take anything else.....AT THIS TIME. See your putting words out there that is very clearly proven in this post to be not correct. SECOND: When I stated US/GB/DUTCH was up there I said when they attacked Texas/LA and took them from the French on PvP2 that was the same excuse they used, "we talked to some one." Again you need to read every thing and not pick out what you want to see. Also why would French tell you they where planing to a defense for one of there ports when it's attacked? We where very hush hush about the Keys port battle cause we wanted NPG and any one else who rolled in on that one to be caught with their pants down. With them bring so many mortar brigs it seems that worked out very well for us, next time it won't cause you will expect us to be there instead. Hell we weren't even planing to defend it until the Conquest patch dropped and we changed out minds. Might be the same reason the French decided to defend that NO too, being a 3 conquest point a day, but hay I don't know, that is there business not mine. They might of had some SOL's but I still saw a very out number port battle. Meaning they prob don't have the numbers or folks just don't want to go across the map, but didn't want to seem weak and just roll over and let you take an important region. Maybe if ya'll where working together as a team instead of grabbing every port you can you might have a few SOL's too. Hell ya'll prob do all ready but just aren't bringing them out for the show. If you notice we haven't attacked any of the empty port battles in the gulf. One it's to far away and two we aren't working with a certain person that has his own agenda that abused certain things and did something shady. Now try to take something closer and we prob will go a hunting. That and we are trying to set up our own comfort zone....of course with poor spain empty ports. Hell has any one told them where we will draw the lines and leave ports for Spain if they even ever get a few players? Kinda feel bad about taking all there ports, but if we don't take some of them than one of the other nations will for sure. PS I'm trying to get Devs to get a count of nation population so ya'll can see exactly who is actively big and small. I'll promise you this much any blind fool can tell you who the two largest nations is and just by there selves you can prob combine most of the other nations and they still won't have the same number of players. So why wouldn't smaller nations look at each other for some help?