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I think a lot of folks need to step back and take a break and than go back to read it. This is exactly what most clans should do if they want folks show. IF they don't help out the screeners they will just stop showing and how does that help you in your war efforts? It doesn't so you need to trade and help other clans in your nation. Yes my clan will fit out our clan members first, but as soon as we do that we will reward other folks that help us. We ue to give out 1st rates cause we would capture so many to none clan members just for showing even if they didn't make it in. I'm starting to think a lot of these players complaining about not getting anything grew up getting these. If you want the rewards you need to play and win....simple as that. Yah that was very clear to me. Each port battle it updates. The new 25 is the guys that where actuall in the fight defending or attacking. Which won't always be the same guys more than likely. Not to mention you can hit more than one port at the same time and get it spread out. Good way to distract another nation to is to make it pick which port it wants to defend or have screeners even at if they don't have the numbers. You can always take them back on your time too. I think a lot of the confusion in that post was to many jump and just assumed stuff instead of reading all the details. It was very clear to me that it was who ever showed each time was the new lord. That was why I was behind it from the start.

The only wipe we know for sure will be when the game is released. So if the devs think we need more than that one before than we will prob get more wipes. If not than that is the only one we know for sure. The only thing promised is that we will get to keep our rank and crafting level

It is the only place to get Bermuda Cedar after all. I think it's 71-2 with the Capitals but even though some one would have to have no life to make 30-40 and not to mention roll all the other nations. With no alliance and another nation see this going on they can team up with others and tag team that one nation before the get to strong. Unless they do like PvP2 did and the two strongest nations got into an alliance and never fought each other and only attacked weak nations when they out number them and run when the numbers where close. Tells you a lot about those type of players. It hurt the good ones that I hope will get help with PvP1 guys on GLOBAL to make a better balanced server.

But remember it takes a while to get that agro up so it's a team effort. I think the days of flipping a port in an hour (we done it without war supplies) are over. So folks should be able to see it and get out there to stop them. The problem is getting them out there to do so. So far the issue seems something EU would see more than us, but they have port timer restrictions so they don't have to worry about it. I think we will get the numbers for the SEA and US prime time, but if we can get more EU players over that time can be filled to and I don't expect all nations to be able to do so in all time zones. You win some and you loose some. If you loose some off prime time than just take it back in your prime time. It takes a lot of effort now to flip ports so I just can't see folks doing this over and over a lot. Maybe over on EU, but hay you never know. The solo player is always going to have a harder time than the clans and such. And folks can still trade for the marks. If I get a big stock pile than I'll prob use it for permits and making big ships and sale then to none RvR folks.

I think national players need to just shut up and leave it be. Until we have our own mechanics and aren't treated like Nationals than we are still Nationals. How about Nationals act like Nationals and actually fight each other and stop worrying about what pirates do or don't do until we attack you and than you can slap us around and put us in place. Until than why don't you worry about your own play. It's getting old with the "Well your not a nation." Well according to Devs we are and last I checked they make the rules not you. Oh and most of us pirates want to be more like pirates and have our own mechanics so we can be, but until we get that and we aren't treated like some bastard nation than we will continue to act like them.

Why would we make the map bigger? Have you even been out? I got 16 small carriages from one and the PvE for the kill and such. It's a bit more exciting having to fight off an escort while keeping the trader tagged. Once the escort is dead you go to town on the trader. Are do as I have in the shallows. I have an escort fleet of my own. I put it on demast and let it chase the trader. By time I sink the escort the trader is down to almost 50% sails and I just go demast it, board and take the loot. Cause the AI fleet was on demast he did very little actual damage and i get the most out of the kills. @admin We really need the Rattlesnake and Niagara back into game. I don't get why they where taken out when new content for them hasn't been put into place. You should have left them in some how and than patched it when you get that content ready. Those are prob two of the most used shallow ships and now we don't even have a good shallow port battle ships. The best way you could of balanced the Heavy Rattler was to let Niagara's into port battles. They are easy to kill with grape these days. Though I destroy H Rattlers by keeping my distance and demasting them. Something you don't really do in port battles so much. Those big guns don't mean crap if I'm running around with 20 crew lol

Yah people forget you can have three port battles at a time and they are 22 hours from each other. So you see a big nation getting attacked. Hit them in the kidney while there pants are down. If your in a big nation and ELITE SUPER CLAN attacks a port. Get the little clans together and hit a port at the same time. No one says you have to stick around and do nothing. If your not doing the RvR than why should you get rewarded other than the use of that region. I personally wish the highest Agro person got toe be lord protector and got to set taxes for regions and got a part of that tax. Though would be better if that was more a clan base thing. You have to be in the port battle and win to be one to get the points. Than you get the points until the next port battle for that region. Only the folks to show up to attack or defend will get the points after that port battle depending on the out come of it. Pirates or other small nations too. You can hit a region and than pay them to hit another at the same time as you did or later. YOu guys are acting like there aren't players to fill those slots. I'm going to bet with these new rules you will see a lot more players and with the merge in those time slots showing up than before. If you don't like it than go to the EU server I hear they have restricted PB time slot for folks that don't want off there prime time attacks. Get more players involved in that time and you won't have a problem. This will help with nations that get to big for them selves too. You just have to raid those nations regions and it will stop there marks if they can't make it. If it was truelly important they would be able to show up and defend it. It's a global server, when your at work others are off. If your want a restricted server I hear the EU has that. I like it, I'm sick of being one of the big clans in a nation doing all the work and than having folks bitch cause something was lost that they had econ in. If it was so important they would be on more to defend it. If they can't than it wasn't important enough. Why should the casual guy get rewarded for my hard work? Though I'll bet once I stock up on marks I'll be more than willing to help that casual guy get up and going in a nice big ship if he got the cash for it.

Why would I defend only one? You do know how many marks it takes to get the SOL's BP"s and permits. You only gain 30 a month and that is what it takes for one of those ships. Say I loose one in a battle defending a port. Now I have to wait a month or I can go and with my clan mates hit another region and gain more. IF I'm fighting odds are I'm going to be loosing ships and want to replace them.

@admin can we get a coment on this the reason why we got three permits but no BP's? Is there something in the plans? Can we maybe get a shallow water ship to make up for them having the SOL. I mean you have several ship pulled from the game for FUTURE CONTENT which who knows will come along. This could be a good way to make a step forward on makeing pirates more pirates like giving us another 5th or 6th rate in our shop that we can get the BP for. Even if they don't bring back press gang Doctor should be part of every player where they auto get back a little bit of crew at the end of every battle. Even just 20% is better than nothing.

Yah and with the fact we can have three port battles and the timers only 22 hours until the battle instead of 46 it means we can have more port battles than ever. You prob won't know unless your clan was the one that took it even if there was an inactive player or not. If you want marks than get some guys together and flip a port. You don't have to follow the elite big clans and only do what they tell you. You want rewards than go out there and get them. Though I do think Agro needs to be changed a bit. Mainly cause I'm still not seeing a lot of fleets around certain areas that when we get ready to try to flip are going to be hard. Namely Crooks and Grand Turk I seen very Little British fleets around there. Would be nice if we could sit in front of a port and blockaide it to drive up agro even if it's very very very slow. And yes I very much like this concept and I hope to see how it plays out. Though still think we need the Heavy Rattler in the pirate shop since we should be the masters of the shallow/light frigates while the Nations are the SOL's master...hint hint...or something like that ship.

Hay why are we attacking me? I did want to take Texas before the wipe just to say, "I OWN TEXAS." But this is what I'm seeing more is it gives a reason to show up and get involved. On PvP we had the hardest time to get a full port battle. My clan will fill 15-20 slots on the pirate side against higher numbers on the Nats side. Most the time 5 of those slot was filled by other clans. A lot of times we knew many folks where on and could fill them but they would prefer to do other things. This would give them a reason to show up and fill those slots specially if it's during an off time from the main prime server time.

If he was an active player and didn't share them you wouldn't have them any way. So what would be the difference? Same with if it was more than one clan in the port battle and they don't share it. What about those 24 other guys that where int he port battle. Just one guy isn't going to make a difference not having his marks used.

You think these guys have played other games before. You don't get the big prize if you weren't the winner. If your in a clan and you do raids who gets the rewards? The ones that went on the raid or the guys that weren't logged in that day? To be honest I loved the land title concept they brought out a few months back for port battles. I really think they should just tell them to suck it up and bring it back out lol If me and my clan are going to bust our butts and get stuff down we should be rewarded for it and the lazy shouldn't rep our treasures per say. Nothing erk me more in game when we lost a region and some one says after being logged off for a while, "HOW DID WE LOOSE ALL THESE PORTS. I HAVE SHIPS AND ECON IN THERE." Well maybe you should of logged in and protected it a bit better.

Maybe cause they don't know how to recruit out of there time zone. Most of our clan is US and SEA prime time and we cross over a lot. That the spirit, I think to most of those that are against this are the folks that for the most part prob don't even RvR. Sounds like some of these guys what one of these. See above for reward, this isn't that type of game, we don't give out participation rewards to every one. You want to get rewarded than play the game and play the content. I never seen a game give out epic loot to the whole server just cause one group beats the epic boss. No only that group gets the epic loot. One person 4am is another person 4pm. Got a time slot that your not sure can be filled recruit more players during that time slot that can fill the battles.

We should also be able to continue to get points for the port battle up until the port battle. POTBS was like this so after a port was flipped you could get points to make sure you get into the battle and than the invites went out to the most points first, but this could just be the lock on the Port battle. The first 2 mins are the top 25 guys that did hostility (maybe make it more) than the next 25 will get in after that. Than after than it's any one that doesn't have points or not in the top 50.

New system new start, ya'll got your rewards for those port battles. So this is effective as soon as the next port battles start. Sounds like we better get to flipping a few ports our selves lol

You got it right in the fist one. If you show up and win the attack or defense you get a payment of one mark a day until the next port battle. If some one else shows up in your place you stop getting it and they get it instead. It only rewards those that shows up and fight and win. It is not activated until a region gets attacked and is either captured or defended and you where on the winning team. Remember if you want to get into a port battle your nation has three slots now to have active. Just flip your own dang region and have your own port battle and let them have theirs and than you will get your points too if you win.

We pretty much put a stop to that so far. When most the clans say we will KOS any pirate that kills other pirates it becomes a very hard place to live. Though I could see some one getting all butt hurt and doing this any way.

Didn't Admin say the price of the the BP's and permits might change as in they will be more costly? That is one way to control such. My only worry for us pirates is we don't have any of the BP's. We did get the Aggy, 3rd Rate and Bellona Permits added to the store. So if we get a stack of them what will we use them on, trade them with Nats for the BP's we don't have I guess or for the ships merts we can't get I guess? Would be nice if we had some more ships (hint the Heavy Rattler) in our shop too.

Not to mention I broke up so many ships we captured from the Nats that they bought off the store to fight us. They keep loosing cause they where using crappy store bought ships and I never needed to use an alt to get cedar from there.

are we just sink them every time we see them...oh wait that only works for us pirates lol But we have black balled folks before where no one would trade with them and other things. It can hurt when you want mods or a ship and the only folks that can produce them won't sale to you. Get sunk a few times and you will either leave or shape up.

First you have to have the top agro points to get in the first 2 mins. If you where one of the folks that helped grind it up wouldn't you have the points to get in first. Second the port battles are restricted to BR limits so not just any one can jump into any of them. If you did your work you will have your agro set and will get in before that 2 mins is up. How much different was this system than folks just joining to get ship/paint chest? Did ya'll see folks just randomly joining those battles out of the blew to get these? See above. You have a 2 min window that those with the most Agro get to join first and than you have BR limits for different port battles. A basic cutter can't even get into shallow water port battles. Might want to learn the mechanics about port battles first. If you have less than two hours a day you prob not going to make it on for that port battle any more so how does this effect you? And your point is? That is how it is in the real world. Why shouldn't those that are active and involved in the RvR part of this game get the rewards. Why should the guys that do nothing but sit around and not fight or defend get rewarded? I see this as more a way to get more folks involved in RvR cause they want to get the rewards they will start getting involved. Or they will pay for the conquest marks if they want something that uses them.

I don't get why folks can't get this in there head. You want in a port battle get more agro points any the other guys and help flip the port. IF you didn't help flip it than you shouldn't be top of the list. Even if it's filled with a clan they don't have all the points than they weren't top. Though I wouldn't be a dick and if some one brought a 1st rate and I have a 3rd let that 1st in there instead. Yah folks are going to find those big ships are only going to really be used for these big battles as you prob won't see many of them out and about in the OW for a while.. By what I understand is any one that is at the port battle who wins it gets the points until the next port battle depending if it is the Attacker or defender. Unless you weren't the ones that defended it the first time. Than it's any one that show up and defends. So that if some one doesn't make it to the next defense he looses his pension and it's replaced by those that did make it. 1. See above about port slots, get your agro and you will have the top slots. Though still if your there for your nation you will let the best ships in before you. You want a port battle but super elite clan won't let you in, get some other small clans together and hit another port/region at the same time as them and have your own port battle. We can have up to 3 port battles at a time each nation. 2. This allows the reward to rotate for those active and not just the same folks. Not every one is going to make it to every port battle after all, but those that do should be rewarded more than those that don't. 3. If your making me ships and I'm doing the war fighting I'll be giving you my marks for ships I need and I can pay you in extra marks or cash depending on what yo want. Same with the screeners we can pay them with our rewards. Exactly how I under stand it. So who ever shows are the new folks to get the reward so it can be rotated out and not all ways the same folks. OH and if you want screeners as some one said pay them. Even if it's evil pirates, we like to work for shiny things after all. Remember we don't get the BP's in our Den (though we did get Aggy, 3rd and Bellona permits added to Pirate Den). So we will need them too.

Why should I not be rewarded for my hard work? I always hated the fact I did hard work to defend a port and take one only to have some random guy use it and than complain when we loose it but I never seen him at a port battle or counter agro or making it. The rewards go to those that do the RvR not the folks that use it afterwards. You want the pension than you need to show up to defend the port or help take it. Each nation can do up to 3 port battles so that means if some elite clan does one you can flip one your self and have more than one port battle and your own region you get pension from.

I think this is good all around cause some folks picked perks not knowing they couldn't change them or that there was a change in them even before you removed signaling. Will give every one one time chance to change them if they want.