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Devs I was wondering if we can get an update of the current server population numbers per nation like we have a few months ago. This might help folks that are still returning are even current players to decide if one nation is to full or not. Maybe do the numbers this weekend or or something unless you can go back and look at past days. Would be nice to see how much server pop has changed in some nations of active players. Oh and would like to say Congrates PvP Global we hit over 400 last night. That the highest I seen in ages and I think PvP EU has hit over the 1k mark but I could be wrong.

The problem is what folks can and can't buy. Many are broke, very broke and they sale every thing. I haven't sold one bit of fish meat cause it's good for making provisions for our clan so I keep them. I bet it's even worse on EU. We where just talking about this in clan the other night about how much rare to find anything in any of the shops on that server with the higher pop. Some times bigger pop isn't better.

Even before that them accusing folks of exploiting and cheating. This is against the rules, you have proof you bring it to Tribunal not Global chat. And the problem is they been going on for hours even though we haven't posted hardly anything and it's not the first day. This was over 4 hours ago...

It's at 2 cause the port is over stocked and is at 1. JUst stop saleing it there and take it some where else. Or turn it into food product.

I'll be adding screen shots of them accusing us of exploiting and than posting this stuff saying they learned it from us. Will update in a bit... Accusing some one of cheating or exploiting without proof is actually against the rules. It's starting to get old. You got proof post it and let the Devs sort it out.

It just takes for every, specially if it's a region that has hardly any big fleets.

It's the Yard....think it's what it translate from to RHEA.

Like HODO said you can't use the Basic Cutter Basic guns cause they are rank 10 and it's the only ship that can use them. Though Yah you can down grade guns. I run all 6 lbrs on my Teak Teak Renom which is 15 speed without cannons and 14.54 with repairs. Once I put copper plating (if I can get it to drop) or equal speed mod on her she will be 15 with repairs. Part of how I do this is the runing all 6 lbrs. It's mean to tag and run your sails down so others can catch up or just run the traders down. Oh and if you need cannons can make them for you. Though irons a pain right now cause I'm broke.....for a certain reason. I would need iron before i can make them at discount.

I never really noticed it until this patch so wonder if they changed something.

He just wants to prove he wasn't baby seal clubbing....though I'm like totally agree with this cause hate when you sink stuff and you can't prove you beat them when out number and out gunned.

@admin said many times you will get the item and than you have to get the mats from that region. Which to me would mean Pirates goods in pirates area, British in British and so forth. Do you not do your research? I mean do you buy a car blind folded or do you check out the millage, the maintenance, how well they last over time? I check out all type of things before I buy something. I don't just rush out there and blindly buy things. So far the only ones I have bout have been stuff I can find close to pirate regions. Now what I hate is the elite/master stuff takes special rare drops for each one your craft. Kinda pointless to get them now. Maybe later when you have a stock pile. Oh and cause this an we make mods stackable? The upgrade slot area does have a max number of mods that can be put in ti.

How are you not getting any PvP? Oh maybe cause you won't come out when we hit the area? I know not only Pirates, but French are raiding KPR almost daily. I have lost 2 trader brigs and a surprise so far and tons of basic cutters so not sure how your not getting any.

A red/yellow or orange out line would be good. That and make the stupid EPIC missions a diffrent color so you don't get all excited to find out it's just an epic event. THough not a big deal these days since you don't need them for hostility and such.

While in concept this works, but the problem than comes they will crush every one as they grow until there is no one left in any of the other nations or they are one ported. That or they will just sit there and never fight any one cause they have what they need while the little clans suffer. We do need an end game. Nation gets to so many regions own the map gets reset and we start back over. If you have stuff in regions that wasn't yours from start it's there unitl you recapture that region again. This will keep one nation from being to strong. Maybe give option to change nations ever time the map resets so players that might want to change nations to do more balance play can. Though you can never change to join the winning nation, only leave it.

I think the names is the problem, but POTBS kinda worked this around so that only time you see the ship name is if you capture it. It's not listed on the ow. Each ship was by class name instead. I would like if we named some ships by it's class more than just one ship of that class name.

Trainging. Lets take an example from a movie many of use prob have seen and is in @Liquicity sig there. They trained to get there reloading down to be so fast that they effectively where out gunning the other ship that had them way out gunned. British navy was know for it's training in such. Remember this is a game so there really doesn't have to be REAL reasons for anything. THough if you take well trained gunnery crew and than match them up with a bunch of rookies they are going to out gun the rookies any day. Yah it's one of the reason I like the new conquest stuff cause it means if you get to spread out and can't fleet your ships over to the area your getting attacked you will loose it. Big nation gets spread out to thin some smaller nations can hit it from different fronts and put a hurt to the bigger nation that is spread out to much. When I was a kid I use to play Axis & Allies all the time. I remember for some fun extra credit when we where talking about WWII in HS the teacher let us play the game and than did diffrent things that would change the history and out come of the war. Like if Germany didn't turn on Russia and fight a two front war. That was a big mistake for them. If Japan had never attacked Pearl Harbor and got the US into the war. Just cause in history one nation was the power house of the time doesn't mean we have to play like that. Honestly I don't know why spain isn't more popular. A nice size clan could stake claim to the gulf and prob keep most of it and become a nice power house in play. I keep joking on GLOBAL they are just being silent as they craft there SUPER IRON FLEET to wipe us all out soon.

Those that went to those port battles and did damge all ready got there rewards on the old system. The new one takes effect on any new port battles from the hotfix on. So you want to get conquest marks you need to attack or defend and win a port battle to start to receive them and it's only the players that where in that portbattle that get them. Have you seen how much it cost to make in mats for a first rate? Just the frams is a large number. The planking should be about the same number. I still don't know how PvP EU got that l'ocean built so fast, but hay if you pool stuff together anything is possible. I got a feeling we are going to see a lot of folks more trading them off cause they can't even get close to a 1st rate built yet. Than you will have folks so scared to loose them they won't bring them out http://www.navalactioncraft.com/craft-ship/locean

What we need is more incentive to join certain nations over others. I think making the refits for each nation a nation state when you play that nation would be nice way to do this. Not the refits in the current state. British: Get a buff to Reload French: Get a buff to accuracy Spanish: Get a Buff to turn rate? American: Not sure but the Conny is known for it's tuffness maybe a Armor Buff. Pirates: Buff to boarding Dutch: Blame @OneEyedSnake for this one, maybe a bonus to there hull cargo cause they where known for trading. Danes/Swedes: Not sure for these two, but they have Northern Carp that maybe the Dane/Dutch can share better repairs. You see each nation has something special about them so it's not just a carbon copy that starts in a different location. I think the full old refits with more than one state would work, but left the extra stuff off to not be OP (I mean Pirate Refit was a bit OP even in my book). You can make these refits a Nation perk or it only is on ships built in that nation so that other nations can get them, but only if they trade or capture a ship from one of the other nations. Though I would love to see the above as a Nation perk that is free at start and then have the current Sail Refits be Nation crafted only and aren't tradeable. That way if you want the Pirate Sail Refit you need to capture a pirate ship with one or trade with a pirate. The other thing is give nations a population bonus for small population. Your population is small you get a credit and xp bonus. You pick a big nation it actually makes less credits and xp than the middle nations. This way the big nation levels slower and the small nations can level faster.

They really should of wiped all server properly, Put Global on top bill, than EU and than PvE and had us come in and make new chars/clans and what not. Another issue is why do we have almost matching numbers during US prime time? that means a lot of US players and of course other areas of the world are over there cause it still has the biggest population and that was exactly why I joined PvP1 when I first started to play back at the start of EU.

Attacking us straight off the bat wasn't exactly fair either. Though I'm glad some of the clans in US GLOBAL agreed to not join that fight. If former PvP2 US or Brit clan's want to keep holding there grudge against us that is fine, but we aren't going to put up with being bullied either. And bringing up the super alliance is exactly that. Ya'll have way more folks in both the US and GB that you can combine the other nations and we will not be able to match your numbers. You have to remember it's only one clan of about 15-20 guys (edit and a bunch of small clans that aren't yet organize). Look at the port battle and tell me who else you saw in there other than a few extra. We didn't get the big bump in population like the other nations did. Though we aren't going to let ya'll bully us around either. As I said up there that wasn't something that the majority of BLACK knew about and I for one don't agree with such actions, but I'm only one member of the clan. Yah I'm all cool keeping to that way and hope so, though got to say attacking us straight tout off the bat was not cool. We all get that Spanish is pretty much dead and going to grab those ports. We actually talked with French before we started flipping Cap Frances. No one talked to us about the Keys. We want it for exactly the reason ya'll are seeing, to be able to raid over there and have OW PvP since nations are so far spread out. A lot of us are pushing for the Basic cutter BR to get changed so they can't PvP but you can still attack them so they can't be used to troll or exploit fights. That and the open mag thing that basically turns them into fireships is a bit to explioty too. No risk ships should not be part of any PvP in game. But we should be able to still attack them to keep from folks exploiting them like to move cargo safely.

And i don't want the stupid care bear alliance again just cause some folks can't get over there butt hurt pride of the past. And I"m betting you folks in your nations or others (non pirate)are sending their alts over to fill all these empty port battles so it's not a pirate problems it's a game problem, but if you don't want them to do it there are ways to prevent it. Take those steps to prevent and you won't have an issue. I heard brits PB this moring had over 50 players trying to get into it. That is just cazy. And how do you know they are pirate alts? They could be of the same nation cause some one has multi Brit alts and put all his alts into the port battle to get the slots. You want to prevent this than bring a screen fleet so you don't get pulled and can't enter. You want to keep the alts out than grind the agro and get in first cause I bet none of the alts will have points. There are in game means to prevent this and I'm going to bet every nation has guys doing this.

Hay take a bit of a chill break I'm actually agreeing with ya'll. That is why I asked for the a screen shot which @Christendom was kind enough to show me. Though I'm telling ya'll how to prevent this. If you think it's an exploit than post it as such. Shady as hell yah I agree, but still not against the rules per say. Though the rules allow us to do this cause say VCO hires BLACK to attack NPG ships before a port battle to make sure all there guys get into the port battle that is fully in the rules to do so and I bet your going to see that between clans and nations in the future. DISCLAIMER we have no agreement with any Nation to do this yet.

So looking at this.... https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/784037287455485118/7AA446E1F2C44EA50E6E0411A5AD2F67E824693F/ They entered at the end and took three slots. There was still two slots open. It wasn't like they jump in first and took all the slots. Thinks for posting the link. I will speak with our guys though and while they will still screen your battles, but I'll them know our point on this once I talk to the other officers. I do agree it's a bit shady, but they players your speaking of was prob working on his own.

I will talk to our guys, but remember Jobaset is not a member of BLACK and none of the officers I know was over there. The guys with him was just hunting and getting PvP on OW cause we knew you had a port battle at that time. So will find out if they knew about him doing it just to get his chars in. I do agree it's shady myself and I don't think it should be used to do something like this. Just telling the others though if they want to prevent things like this than they need to get a screening fleet and make sure they get the agro and not pulled into a battle and get sunk. They where afk for an hour before the Key West battle. If we had all got on an hour early we could of came out and crushed them before that battle even started. We did sink a suprsie and hurt a lot of them cause of this. It's there action that keep them out of that port battle more than anything. Cause I bet you if they didn't get pulled and sunk they would have top agro if they got it and get in before any one's alts could. I'll bet you there are some US players bringing more than one char there to get into those same fights and get as many marks as they want too. I would love to see a screen of that port battle and I bet you I can catch one alt on the US side that is prob US or Brit in there. Still 3 is not locking out all the slots and if there was only 23 in the port battle that means there was still 2 slots open. I wasn't there so I don't know what happen. I'm only going off what I been told on both sides. There is nothing against the rules of using alts to get into them unless it's a port battle you have alts on both sides. So that isn't an exploit per say. Shady yah I agree, but if there was only 23 in the port battle it wasn't locked out and it was only three chars so 20 others I bet you prob folks of your own nation have brought alts in to fill slots. How many US was there as a whole? Either way some folks are going to get in and others aren't. You want to make sure you get in get the most agro and have a screen fleet to stop from being tagged.

Actually it is not we get conquest marks from that port battle. We still have no clue why he left. Though I take a bet he wasn't expecting us to show and wanted the easy points.