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I would say that would be more like a 5 dollar one, but that is not a lot of repairs, though some one could just redeem every day until they have a big stack of them.

I have a gold Fir/Fir Very fast with port bonus sail 4 that does 14.87 with no cannons on it, so it wouldn't be very hard to get it to the 15.5 mark.

Thought of a way to do this too. You always get a 3/5 ship no matter what with chance for the trait. What you are also chancing is instead of 4/5 or 5/5 ships those two slots have a chance to get a random port bounce or two and the level is random too. That would be the only way I think it would be fair to have notes get port bonus too. Other wise the ship needs to be crafted.

Yah war was completely wiped and every one started over. Peace got to keep there rank and craftinng level but all else was lost (think they got one redeemable ship). For your time playing during EA you should have a DLC ship called the Pandora. It's a light frigate 5th rate, but it's good for raiding trade ships and such, not much a brawler.

Seems most of the chat tends to be folks looking for the rare mods right now, so yah would be a good place to have a global chat for trade.

any where, but there are some ports listed with resource "Extra Labor" and I haven't figured out what those do.

It's best not to add more things to the page, you get exactly what they tell you that you will get. By adding more info it makes it harder for them to balance things cause folks will cry, "YOU CHANGED IT." Why would you get port bonus for something you didn't build? Lets just put it this way, it's crafted in your capital and than shipped to where you want it.....there no port bonus since it's from the Admiralty.

I would just be happy if that XP went towards the ship your in.....this would allow trade ships to gain a little xp instead of having to fight.

If your making your Hercs Lo/Wo than your doing it wrong. For shallow water PB you only want WO/WO or Teak/WO.....it's all about HP's not armor as every thing pens under 250m. You don't want tanked out Herc cause than yoru loosing what makes it good as a raider. You want speed and agility. I'm pretty sure not a single Herc raiding traders is LO/Wo....nor are the Pandora's or LRQ's. These ships aren't the brawlers of there class. They are raider ships.

I don't know any one that puts 18's on them, most folks I know puts all 32's on them.

@Liq You can add us to DUTCH [MCC] Middelburgsche Commercie Compagnie - A Dutch Trading Company / North American based / English speaking / PvP/PvE and RVR with trading and crafting / Applicants must be mature, but any age is allowed if you can stand a bunch of grumpy old Vets.

Leave the DLC with 24 hour cool down, but allow those with the DLC to have the BP's for the ships so that if we want to craft them we can do so. Maybe as @AeRoTR mentions below give two options to redeem. SHIP NOTE with 24 cool down that can be redeem any where at any time or a permit for crafting a ship, but the permit is something like a 48 hour cool down. If you pick one you can't do the other until the cool down is done. This will still limit the crafted ones to every few days. Hell I'll be fine with a once a week cool down on getting a permit to craft one. As above do it with a permit to craft (you get the BP with buying the DLC). Instant note every 24 hours, permit every 48+ hours an you can't do either until the last cool down expires.

I would go with maybe an Indman Refit (like the LVG has a refit...hell just put the LVG Refit as a DLC). That way it might have a few more guns, but say 3K or 2.5K cargo space instead of 4K for an Indianman Refit. Yah we don't want to hit into the market of trader brigs and such. The only other thing is maybe a trader version of the LRQ. Very low crew but holds 1K cargo and doesn't have the extra guns on. (Remove the 2lbs chasers and maybe have smaller guns on the gundeck).......just would like to see something other than war ships.

This was something I never understood with epics, why don't we pay out every one in a redeemable a epic chest like we use to get chest at the end of port battles. Raids could be the same. When the raid is done or even port battles you get rewarded a chest. It's up to you to open it in the closes port. If you don't make it home than some one else could capture that reward for them self. I bring up the epic missions cause it's for 6 players but you get 9 silver chest and an epic (I heard recently some folks getting more than one). All that loot has to be split between 6 players so some one always gets the short end of the stick. I still like the chest and getting them home, but every one should get one reward chest themselves for completing the epic, raid or other such content when the battle is over. Since the mechanic was there for port battles we know they have it and could implement it.

I know your mostly a solo player, but the point is if you don't have enough crew or don't have enough ship slots then you should just level up until you have the crew and slots to fill your fleet with escorts. It seems OP wants to do this at lower level or more than likely he wants 4 trade ships and than buy more escorts. Now he has a fleet of 7 ships (say you can buy 2-3 escorts) and that is a big fleet for some one to fight and he can just do that all the time. Instead you have in game mechanics to limit that and it's perks and crew count. He can bring one Indman or two and than two Escort ships if he has enough crew, if not than well don't bring all the extra ships or just as we have said ask if any one else is making the run. We done it all the time in US and other nation so don't give me that crap....this is no a solo game so there shouldn't special rules to make a solo players life more easy. You want an escort you pay by perks/crew or you pay other players to escort you. Both features very much in the game at this moment.

It's not like every one doing these runs....LOL my alt in a trader brig with one in fleet got tagged the other day. I have since done my runs with the level up main that does it with two combat Indy's with a few slots open and the alt just stays with him now.....This could be easily done with clan mates. I think we once had 20 players moving 2-3 trade ships all at once to move a bunch of war supplies (so something like 40-60 trade ships). It's a mulit player game just ask folks to make the runs with you.

Uh your views are actually very wrong. 1. He put his sails down (the OP) cause he's being tagged by the other player and he's not fighting. He's using the LRQ to keep out reach of his ship. That is why he stopped in place with is Trinc, it's pointless trying to chase a LRQ all over the place that doesn't want to fight. Yes it is 15 mins into battle and there is no damage, but he can't leave cause the LRQ keeps tagging him. Notice no repairs have been done either on the Trinc so all the LRQ is doing is tagging to keep the clock going. 2. You don't have to do damage, you just have to hit them and it resets the timer. 16 Seconds but ass we see the poof of smoke from the LRQ he is firing to retage him and keep him in the battle. From the front guns? He's T in front of the Trinc and firing his broad sides one at a time (hint the single smoke poof) to try to hit him and reset the timer. 3, Where are you getting that OP stated he was at sea trying to log out, that isn't listed any where in this thread? Sound like once again your just assuming and making things up. In fact there is very little details about who is in who's waters or where they are. As @Privateer state it's very hard to prove things when you don't have video proof, but Devs can check the log and all he's doing is firing every time the timer gets close to running out just to reset it and doing nothing else that is griefing and is against the rules.

He also first brought up the fact that they could limit sub region ports can't be flipped unless clan is on the Capitals friends list. Other wise they can't pull missions. This would keep from alt or annoying clans from just flip ports real fast to claim one. Though I do think an economic sabotage means that a nation can do so would be good too. I think it needs to be a multi clan vote thing so to not just have big clans pushing little clans around. Unless it's a trade ship, I would love to see a DLC trade ship.

I pulled out this key words cause the fact they are still profitable. You might not make the same as the delivery missions that are at no lost to you unless you get sunk. I always pick up goods when I have space in my ships and I almost always make 50% profits and to me that is profitable. This is only short runs too. No one should be easly making a million with one tabaco run like the old days, it takes money to make money. I'm sure if you get the right goods you will make way more money than some of the delivery runs. Running around with two indmans I make pretty good money with delivery misisons true, but I also make money with trade goods. PS I lost a Trader Brig the other day when a british tagged my alt doing a delivery mission. Lost a ship so there is still risk, but hay trader brigs are a dime a dozen. Yes if that was trade goods I would of lost more as I would of had my backing money in the goods.

No it's called griefing if he is only firing to tag and keep you in a fight and not engage you. Griefing is against the rules. Going off the OP's desc of what is going on he wasn't trying to engage or get better wind of fight. Your jsut assuming things that could be going on. Since we only have one side of the story we don't know and a picture here isn't going to tell the whole story like a video would, but there is no sail damge, the guy is firing only to keep him tagged in and not to fight him and that by definition is griefing and against the rules.

You can see the smoke from his ship. He's keeping the poster in and not engaging by staying a range.

And i have no problem with the flags being able to be bought in game for Doubloons, or found in loot drops. Just as we can find the paints in loot drop. Fixed it for you.

If your getting sunk it's not cause of the port bonus, DLC ships aren't meant to be the best of the best. Your getting what you paid for: Instant ships you can redeem every 24 hours for free.

You did the endurance exam so you will have that rank perm no matter how many times you delete your char. If you do the final exam it will be the same. You apparently made some xp on top of that and lost the extra xp when you deleted the char. When you do the final exam you will get one time pay out of the rank and gifts. So make sure you are where you want to be or have some one to trade the goods over if you change nations again. Other wise to keep your full rank you would have to buy the Forge Paper DLC and use that.

@admin this and what about the Paints we where suppose to get 30 days after the DLC came out, it's been what over 4 months now? Any word on the ships that we voted on are they being model/done, where is the DLC money going towards if not new paints/flags/Ships? Can the people that paid for the flags get the in game 50K flags since they paid for flags, they should have these too? I mean what was the point of paying money for flags if we are getting restricted on some of the best ones in game? When will this patch come and as above what happen to the road map that was suppose to be posted in a few days and not it's a week later?