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You have to reset it, you keep your knowledge as it's for that ship type not the ship. IF you can't than F11 that as it's prob a bug. Though isn't it something crazy like 5 slots on the brig to open the third on the Mortar Brig? Been meaning to make one and test it out. I know the perk is the same and there is a book for the knowledge wonder if they changed anything else about the actual ships though? I do think bring 4 prob hurt ya'll a bit for that port battle. Than again ya'll might of thought we weren't going to show with force. 4 or more I can see taking to empty spanish port battles though. As for the Fort/sTowers I kinda see why they don't so you can still fight without kiling them first. Just have to stay in the safe side of the circles. I know on some maps it does cover all of "A" Different ports are set up differently some have a lot of defense and some have very little.

3 Maybe ya'll need to stop sitting AFK in front of port battes? How many ships did we take before the Key West because of this. IF we had every one loggeed in an hour early we could of came out and crushed most of ya'll before the fight even started. A few guys in frigates tagged ya'll sanked ya'll and keep you out of a port battle that others entered in your place. SO your telling me 3 guys took up every slot. What about the 20 others that entered it too? They got there empty port battle and there marks.

Not my alts. I have no interest in anything in the Gulf of Mexico. Only reason I was over there was to protect the keys. Ya'll attacked us on that one after all. And it's a good trading place for US and Spain to use and us to raid from. I was told only 23 slots where full. 2 more ships could still get in so it wasn't locked out. What I think got ya'll out played is many of you got sunk, couldn't get a ship of 50 br and get into the battle so you got locked out. Maybe have a better screening fleet next time to protect you. Now if that port battle was a Pirate vs US and we put alts on the US side that is an exploit and needs to be reported. Though since this was a US vs Spanish why shouldn't some one or other chars get in there just like yours?

You forget we can sink those said pirates and unlike ya'll we make sure our clan gets agro so we are all in the fight before the 2 min timer. You know team work and all. Maybe if ya'll stop warring about alts and work on your team work you might actually get good at this game and stop loosing fights. Ya'll all ways want to blame others on things instead of just fixing the problem yourself. I said it before if you don't want them in there and there is nothing against the rules for them to send there alts into the port battles as long as they aren't fighting on the other side. Than get your agro up and be the first to enter the port battles.

lol I got more update of what happen since our pirates where there hunting you guys. Ya'll do know there is nothing wrong with Clan alliances with other nations. CLIFF NOTES; a large group of you where huddle together before the shallow warter port battle. They where in frigates, tagged your shallow ships. Sanked a bunch of them. So those that didn't get sunk or couldn't afford a ship in the shop didn't get in. I am told 23 guys made it into the port battle so they didn't get locked out there was still free slots. I'm sorry guys we have none aggression acts with certain clans of more than one nation. Hell we might even get hired out by certain clans of some nation to kill other clans of that nation. That is part of the game. Ya'll should of prob had some big ships around screening for you. You think we are going to let ya'll have an easy time taking these ports? Let me remind you US PvP2 guys. The first week of the new regional patch that came out when ya'll took Spanish ports on east coast we capture 17 1st rates that where on the way to those battles or grinding agro for them. This is all part of the game. Cause of ya'll get greedy and leave folks behind we snagged them up while the rest of you rushed off to your empty port battles. WE WILL CONTINUE TO SCREEN THESE EMPTY PORT BATTLES FOR THE PVP MARKS AN WILL CONTINUE TO SINK YOU IN THE OW. AND WE WILL GLADLY WORK WITH ANY CLAN TO STOP ANOTHER CLAN FROM GETTING INTO THESE IF THE PRICE IS RIGHT. If you see any one exploiting than I more than welcome you to us the Tribunal section of this forums. F11 is for game mechanic problems not for exploits. Sounds like ya'll got out played to me.

How do you know they are pirate alts? Hell they might be US alts. I have three pirates one this game. The 3rd one use to be Dane, but with econ I'm making it my only crafter and pirate. I know ya'll got tons of guys with alts too and the systme is encourageing most folks to just rush and grab. You want to stop this? Get agro and every one get it to lock out folks that don't have agro. It allows the top folks with agro in the first 2 mins. I would love to see a screen of that port battle to see who all showed. I bet you it's prob not pirate alt at all, but hay who knows.

Are you talking about a port battle? Cause we only had one for Key West other wise we can't join any of your port battles against Spain or what not. And one of the reasons I jump on these topics cause I'll be honest we have little birds in other nations that let us know things. Some of the crap we have heard after port battles gets a bit funny about us exploiting, hacking and other things. If it's true use the tribunals and report it. Other wise most of them are just spreading false info as an excuse for why they lost. Apparently I have special Iron Wood Aggy and Vict's before the merg, but it was just a build of LO/Stiffness/Strong hull As for folks sending there alts to join on a side of the port battles. If there is no one to fight and it's an empty port battle and some one enters than you should of had more agro to fill the port battle and than they couldn't of enter unless they had agro too. We have a port battle tomorrow and we expect every Mort Rat to show up to try to get in, but every one in our clan has been grinding it so we all have agro. We will fill the slots first and than any stragglers will fill the empty slots. You don't want these folks claim jumping in than get yourself some agro and get more than they might have. I heard GB PB this morning had over 50 folks trying to get in. With the current system your going to have every one and there mothers trying to get in and get these points. OH and stop accusing every noob as an alt. Hear it all the time that ya'll jump on any person not in your clan or new and that is why your having a bad problem with folks showing up in the past and recruitment. This is on both servers and jsut about every nation. We did it a good bit in Pirate too. The Community is kinda a bit harsh on new players.

There is a place for those, it's called tribunal. Though as for pirates sitting next to some one in battle than screen shot and report it. Not to mention it's not just pirates that have alts. We are very small compared to US or GB and they have way more alts. Last night we sankeed a french atl (pirate) that was spotting us as we grind up hostlility. He sat in front of the forts so we wouldn't tag him and told his alts in French exactly when we joined the battle to get them in at the end of the timer so no one else can join and help. We used Pirate vs Pirate mechanic to stop this. That char is now on our clans KOS list so if we see him we will sink him. Haven't seen him since though.

NO that Screeen shot is from my battle as i was in there. You didn't post those things, but we are hearing it from the US players. What I posted is proof to discredit that he wasn't one of our alts that joined and left to fill a slot. If we had alts wouldn't we have had 25 on our side first any way. We had one person play two pirates in that port battle cause we where low on numbers. I wasn't planing to pop my alt in there but we where short at the last moment I added him after he got out of a tag by the screeners. If you can't beat a bunch of guys dual boxing and you have 25 guys playign ships that is more the fault of your side not ours. You are making accusations without proof and I'm showing you there is mechanics in game that don't allow this. So again learn them....

You can't do this any more, devs fixed it. While the guy wasn't our alt as we are hearing. Demic is a long runing US player we know that is a certain Spanish player alt or I think he might be Brit now, but we have no proof so we can't make false accusations about what he does. He's been known in the old day to take a mortar brig and flip ports off hours and we are pretty sure most of the clan is just his alts as we caught them agro grinding and they couldn't sail for crap like some one multi tasking. Now lets get back to what your saying. He left at the very start of the battle. After the timer has went off. Now lets count the people in the fight. Pirates have 24 players in this port battle. You count the US side has 26 players. The devs changed it so that if some one leaves within a certain time of the start (can't remember how long it is) some one else can join. So you saying they locked some one out is not true. If that was so than they would not have 26 folks on the list? If any one should be complaning it should be us cause what if this was able to be exploited where they can get damage, leave and have some one else enter not damaged cause they have over 50 players out side and the other side had no screeners but enough to fill the port battle. Never got to test this, but I believe it's only for the first 5 mins of the battle or something. I do know that once you leave any battle you can't rejoin while others can still join until the 25 slots is filled. We couldn't fill the last slot cause almost all our screeners where new guys in ships like basic cutters and such or shallow water ships. @admin @Ink can we get a conformation about how the system works for when some one DC's or leaves a battle early now? How about instead of accusing folks or hacks and exploits you might want to learn the game mechanics first.

I'm not sure some one video it. I'll have to ask the guys that might of. Not sure I want to see how bad I was getting stuck in the wind at one part....I really do not like that Indefatigable

As winner of the fist full GLOBAL port battle I felt it's best for pirates to post the result of today port battle. Islamorada Port Battle 24 Pirates vs 25 US (they had one leave and than one more join in) Before the port battle we had a small fleet of cutters with light frigates running around. One Surprise was captured and many little basic cutters destroyed. The devs really need to check on those open mags it made the basically like fireships. The port battle started and I think one or two ships got tagged by a small screen fleet of US players. Pirates started in the A cap and waited to see what US was going to do. US split there fleet sending 8 ships to C. Pirates left two in A and beging to head for C. Hoping to engage the smaller fleet than there's. 2 of the 8 ships continued to C while 6 started to move to A. All the while the three mortar brigs worked on the south Tower and forts. Engagement was limited up in the North B circcle as US try to draw them out of the circle. Pirates lost A to the ships that entered. Pirates have sent back matching numbers of ships. Orders where given two the light frigates to go after the Mortar Brigs. Brawls continue in both A and B circle until the battle was won by reaching correct victory points mainly by sinking ships. US had gotten to around 650 points before the battle was turning to the pirates favor. Finally lost report: Pirates lost none of there 24 ships. US lost ships to being sunk and 4 captured by boarding. All 4 where scuttled on the battle field as they had been to badly danged to return for repairs. There was some skirmishing going on after the port battle but the numbers were lost and not sure how many might of been damaged or lost after the battle.

Well you should of got the Spain port next to ya'll before the brits silly willy....check some of the ports they seeded a few more I think.

Yah on Global that would be key, but right now we are just building and prob going to work on that little buffer around Mort. Though US go cocky and trying to take our Keys tonight so we will see how that goes. Though couldn't be happy with there empty Spain ports now could they? I think these new conquest marks is going to make nations get a little uppity fast. Though if it was me I would go for easy target cause being sunk can hurt some one bad and fast. I can't speak for the rest of the pirates but I think we wanted to more wait and see what nations draw what lines and see if the US and GB was going to actually fight each other this time or is it going to turn into another PvP2 where three large nations bane together to pick on the little nations and the pirates have to step in to help the little guys. I'm so glad alliances are gone. Though I would love to see it back for any nation that drops below 5 regions can ban with another below 5 regions in an alliance, but once they go over that limit they have to break it.

What for, cause they are getting out and getting PvP? Ya'll could to, if you left your little safe zone a bit. I hear there is a great big red nation right next to ya'll ripe for the picking.....oh yah ya'll are all buddy buddy and stuff? Could always attack say the French than? We have seen French, Brits, US, Pirates (FFA battles lol) and I heard some one even sunk a Spain and one dutch player too around our waters. I have raided KPR area myself with others. Caught some US traders in the shallow, if it's PvP you want you have to just get out there into others waters. So not really sure what your jelly about man. I had this happen on testbed and it was part of the reason they changed the only players to players and there fleets cause folks like me complained. Though it still didn't fix if your retarded Ai boards a ship and than switches crew and now your without either ship cause they are both marked NPC ships now or something to that. Had it happen twice since patch happen to clan mates they lost ships to AI that we couldn't get back. The instant pull by AI with every boarding mods whyen your trying to stay next to it while it sinks is getting old. They should be busy jumping ship not firing cannons and grappling you for a board at the last minute. Other thing that bugs me is how long AI continue to shoot while waiting to sink after you remove there structure. If it's a player we start to leak before our bar is even gone some times. For them it's a good while before they sink and our out of the fight and can continue to fire on you even with half there cannons under water. It's got to the point after I remove the center bar I just start grapeing the crew down until it sinks.

Yah we been buying them up like hot cake cause folks are dumping them. Got a good stash of refit books in clan now cause of it.

Cause this is Alpha. They aren't going to let us bring what we got playing the game into live when we will be way a head of every one. Hell I wouldn't be surprised we get a wipe when it moves to beta stage and we iron out the last details. They are still changing and developing the game so things that we might of earned and done now might not be in the final game.

What part of regionial refits did you not get? Devs said over and over you have to get the materials from that region that it's from. I would asssume that would be the same area that had the refit before patch. So far I only picked ones around pirates area. We haven't bought a few cause we know they are half way across the maps and well the elite version all want books or some rare drop. prob a drop.... Thanks for the data and yah most of the Master/Elite all want a handbook and that is each one you make. So they can be a bit costly.

Wouldn't right now while every one is starting over be the time to move and make a new clan and some new friends? Nothing wrong with change and that might be for the better. I really wished they had wiped all the clans so folks can't use this excuse. I mean it's only 100K to make a new clan. It doesn't take that long to pool your money and do it or you might just find a new one to join. If you want conquest than PvP Global has it and will more than welcome you.

Would love to have one too for the pirates and shallows. Though you know what ship I want in the Pirate Den for now....Give us the Heavy Rattler BP....or that SC. Nah just a few little more ships in the Pirate Dens since the other names have 8 and we only have one......guess no love for pirates and will just have to steal steal steal. Maybe start charging folks to attack there regions just to let them jump start there pension plans for that region. But really going to be interesting watching the folks fight over getting into port battles and some of the random stuff folks will bring for a while.

Yah and even was thinking it would be cool if the Ingermanland was like the poor mans 4th rate that didn't have to have a permit since it's an older out dated ship per say. Of course you know my view on the Rattler Heavy. Put it in the Pirate Den. I mean they gave us three heavy Frigate Permits, but would be nice if we got an actual BP. Not like they care about the bastards of the server any way lol

You all ready got your rewards on the old system. So this is starting from this point forward. No all you have to do is be attacked and defend. If you defend and win against the attack those that showed up will get the reward until next port battle. Yes once a region is attacked it will start generating the marks for who ever wins the port battle. If it's the attackers they start to receive it. If it's the defenders they will. It's only the folks that are present at the port battle. When the port is attacked again it changes to who was at this port battle. If you made it to the first and not the second you will stop receiving marks and who ever took your place will start receiving it.

Maybe after release you might be able, but I don't see them doing so until than. Though I bene wondering like the OP what is up with them and the Missing BP's that are suppose to return with some new stuff, but when? So we are short some of our fav ships until they bring that content back or what?

I'm explaing how the current system for agro works. That is hwo it is, you gain and gain until a port battle and than it reset no matter if your there or not.

The problem with this is when did you get that agro. When US attacked kids I had 16K agro on one char and over 30K agro on another cause I used it for leveling up other clan memebers and just fleet grinding and testing. If I didn't make it to the port battle your saying I should got 1 CM per char cause I had so much Agro on that port (counter version of it)? You can collect points for the port battles way before any one flips it. So folks that never PvP or RvR can have thousands of thousands of points. They will be the first to run when the fleet shows up to flip and not show up for the port battle so why should they get a rewards cause you or me stopped the attack and they ran and hid?