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And it still blows my mind they just can't get it that is was only 15-20 guys with a good number of us Dual boxing in more than one port battle/fight or to fill the numbers to make it look like we where all ways 25 strong (do the math if we where actually only 15-20 guys). With the merge I so hope the higher population means that more nations will fight each other and we all get to have some new magic moments on GLOBAL. Just be warned we might try to do a raid run on the Dutch some day...not any time soon lol

That pretty much sums the same for me when I played on the other side of the world. That little delay can mean hitting the water or over the top of the deck, specially if your in small ships. Boarding you can't wait for the last moment, you have to give that 1-2 second delay. I lost a few boards on EU cause the other guy was about to ATTACK spike me at the last moment or counter my DEFEND cause he had the better ping. I'm still not a believer that ping doesn't matter. I'm hoping for release they upgrade the servers or something cause I play other games and cause of my hours I play on EU and SEA servers some times and I don't get those spikes like I do in this game. Though I get them using lesser servers for now cause this is only testing and development of a game.

The game is still in development so a tutorial would be ever changing. Though I would like to say we have some great players that done some great videos and walk throughs on youtube and on steam. Some of them are a bit out dated, but they still teach the basic folks need to start off.

How many folks are you taking to do the fleet missions. What we found is they seem geared for about 4-6 players. YOu tend to allways have 2-3 more enemy ships but the more you get over that it tends to equal out with mostly allways 1-2 more ships. If you have less than that it doesn't lower the number of ships. So the fleet mission truely want us to be in groups of 4 or more to do them and not have to struggle or bring tons of repairs. The other thing many of us are putting way low class guns in our ships just to get the hell out of the cutter and we don't want to even try to go up the tree to fill the slots. FOLKS JUST DON"T WANT ALL THIS GRIND. It's insane I have to open 3-5 slots on every ship below the one i want to be in. That is what 4 ships for just the suprise not counting the basic cutter. That is a lot of grinding and most folks don't want to be in those low level ships for long after they have been maxed rank for a long time. Why do you even need the cutter, the Privater and Pickle go off the basic cutter now, the cutter isn't in any tree. Since @admin stil hasn't posted the Ship Knowledge Tree I'll share something our clan did on testbed. This might not be exactly accurate as it's info from before they did a few of the changes and wipes on testbed. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PHxx0WQIGShFK8z6dfGe0CsjoKg32YtpeS8GuvTFaDs/edit?usp=sharing

@admin We really need a copy of the ship knowledge tree. I'm wondering about the refits. If you get say the British refits from British ships than how can a British player get the refit cause they can't sink there own ships. Same for Pirates and other nations. We need a little more explanation of these instead of going out there and grinding and guessing how things work and hope on RNG. I thought we where removing the RNG factor of a lot of things99, but we are even worse off than the rare GOLD MARINE DROPS. Now it's every thing has to drop.

What is you ping by the way? I get around 40-60 in the Global (central US) and I get around 140-160 on EU. I would still argue ping matters even though folks say it doesn't, but even those pings was very playable, for me it was the lag spikes of 400-600 I would get on EU randomly that was killing me. They really should of looked into servers in a better central location. Hell just think of the SEA players they have sucky ping on both servers and they still play. We have some SEA players playing from behind the china firewall and they average about 600 ping if lucky and they still play. SO if your getting 120 ping (think I remember you posting that at one time) on the Global server that honestly isn't that bad.

I know about 25+ asian players from mostly SEA that only maybe one or two of them even get on the Forums and well lets be honest only 1% of the actual player base gets on here any way so these aren't exactly accurate. Not to mention only the English section of the player base will see this.

Yah it could of been broken down a bit better. I'm central US (TEXAS) so I really wouldn't pick East or West US. I think North, Central, and South America would been a good way to ask. SEA covers a lot of the South East Asia area, but it's not all China and other countries and than you have our Australian folks and any one that is in that region. Didn't even put Africa on there either.

You sure you weren't AFK sailing? F11 it any way but we sat there watching you and you where acting more like some one that was AFK sailing nose first into the land and than you didn't even put your sails up until after a good bit of the fight started. I gave your trader brig to a clan mate that lost his recently. Like I said if it's a bug F11 it and see what the devs can check in the logs, but if you just teleported into that sport on log in than why where you nose first into the land with your sails up when we tagged you?

Still hasn't been posted any chance we can get a copy of this? I'm sure it would be helpful for the wiki too.

DO the swap in battle would be better ow would be to much exploited. Though if you can move to the side of a clan mate and trade goods/repairs at the end of the battle before you leave would work best.

Oak and Fir is insanely to expensive for what they produce. I can only produce half my stock at a time and I'm not even maxxing out. That is like 50-80K a pop I been spending for 500 logs which doesn't really make much when your trying to do cannons for your self and clan mates. None of us really got to ship production mats yet to help with that. Even though we got one guy with the LVG BP now after pooling our PvE marks. Though really with the block out of trade goods that run out to fast (the problem wasn't how much some one could buy and take it was the amount there in the first place). We are now giving our extra redeemable ships to folks that have lost there trader brigs or other ships to PvP fights. We have yet to produce a ship just been using our redeemables cause all our money is going into replacing cannons lost and trying to get repair kits to do the grind to get the money to get products out of our buildings. And this is a bunch of guys that are putting in 5-10 hours if not more a day since patch dropped. That is not a casual player and we are struggling all the while dealing with PvP cause being in the center of the map and easy target for folks that don't have other nations close to them so they could build up there econ. Not to mention all the money they been making off the tradres they been capping trying to get starting money. Which they can't do any more cause they lost there one trade ship, since there is no replacement in OW cap or the shops.

Pirates get the big shaft on their store. We get the Pirate frigage and that is it, the other 7 nations (we have 8 in game remember) get 8 ships, Aggy and all the SOL's. I brought up that it would be good if the H. Rattler or hell now even the Rattler where put in the shop with maybe a ship like the Santa Cecilias into the shop. This will make pirates the masters of the 5th rates and below and all the other nations 4th rates and above. It's not like they can't trade for the BP's like the pirates will have to, but it balances it out a bit more having them have more than one 5th rate in there shop. Hell even put the Niagara like ship in the Pirates Den and I'll be happy. You can use the same ship model and just give it some tweeked stats and make it a pirate raid ship or something. It's my prefered shallow water raider any way. Though apparently you can still buy it in some shops. PS these drops for things is nothing more like the old GOLD MOD MARINE drops we had before, they are rare and only some folks will have them at this rate. Just like the refits. Each nation should have there refit free. How am I to get a Pirate refit if it prob only drops from sinking pirate ships?

We need @admin to post that ship knowledge tree would really help that many are asking for. We have a spread sheet we did with most of the xp for the ranks in clan so that might help for this. Though the numbers need to be confirmed incase anything changed.

Ok than give us the BP and Permits for all the SOL and the Aggy. We dont' have that in our shop. WE have the Pirate Frigate and that is it.......so want to speak about Balance now we are handicaped from 1/2 the port battles compared to Nationals. Next?

Suck it up butter cup and cap that region if you want coal. Man what the hell does any of this has to do with the Map coords and navigation. You got some hate just cause you picked your nation. Yah you picked it not me. Oh and one of those coals is at Kidd's Island Rum Cove, not an easy place to navigate to since we don't have Coords and can't see it on the map. Pluss you don't HAVE TO HAVE COAL for most things to play. Learn to trade and good luck. Yes They had eyes, but if you had a SNOW with all it's guns drawn in except maybe the three that you would see on the Trader Snow and it's playing a Merchants flag (most ships and companies had it's own flags) and is named after a merchant ships (cause it was one when captured by pirates). Than that ship gets close or you plan to take it cause it's not from your nation and suddenly....All hands and the gun ports open and it's a fully loaded Snow and not a Trader Snow that is called deception. Both my examples above where Trader Brig and Trader Snow that have none Trader version. The LVG actually could maybe be crossed with the Bell Poule as they where designed by the same guy but I don't think they look very simular so this would be something you can only do with the Brig, Snow, Cutter, Lynx.

I can see LGV cause I used one as a trade hunter, but that a little hard as majority can't make ships yet. You can't really trader hunt in the snow or brig cause of there guns. Snow maybe kinda, but it will take for ever, done it before though took a Trader Brig with a Trader Snow, but most likely it will escape before you ever got it slowed enough to do such. Now the bait thing I would love to see. *HINT HINT PIRATES* Where it says I'm in a trader snow in OW but when I tag you or you tag me than it changes to the proper ship in battle.

@admin Any word on the Ship Knowledge Tree? Folks have been asking about it in game.

I would like to say thank you. I will stop my rant about the map. That exactly what I mean when something to replace it to help us.

I'm like YESSSSSS ok now I can stop bugging them about that rant....lol

Did this ever get posted folks where asking about it in game and in clan TS. Wanted to be able to point them to some link with the info. I only have a spread sheet we did for our clan with info and we don't know if it is actually right as some was guess work.

It's prob the best time for them that all servers have the lowest player base and like Admin said it gives them time to do things before they put patches into the game. Remember we aren't a final release, this game is in development and they need to make changes as needed. Maybe when it goes to release it will get moved to a different time, which might be back to the mid night/early morning one for majority of the players. No matter what time they pick some one is going to be left out. Not to mention mid day shouldn't most EU be at work? Just like most of us In US are either still asleep or heading off to work right now.

I just did produce on 3 Oak Farms with not even a days worth of Oak. Almost 80K to do 1100 oak logs. I still had 2 fir farms to do and now don't have the money. I think a lot of folks are going to get an eye opener when they start actually producing products. All the while I'm expected to fight in PvP and open world fights and do other things to support my econ production so I can be a trader on the side too. NO one has money to buy things too, so I can't even put any of this up once I get a night over stock to make back money and a profit to keep production going. Again I think the big problem is you have brought us all back to zero without a little starting money to open or shops and to keep our ships ready to fight or grind. While a few minority 10% of the players are doing killer and having a blast staying in small ships, what about the other 90% struggling as soon as they loose there trader (no way to buy or make one yet until folks get shipyards up and going). Bang now they can't make any money......but the PvP guys can just go to the shop and buy a new ship slap some cannons on and keep going after they sale the cargo off the traders they raided and still have change left over.

The problem is that is assumeing there is an established system in place. There isn't right now so many playres are to broke to higher an escort. Every one is pretty much for themselves with the small trade goods to make money with cause no one has money to do buy contracts yet. Than you loose a ship, two or more and it hits you hard cause you have no gotten a bank or insurance as you put it. That is in a more established world. I use to all ways keep over 2 mill on all my chars a back up safety. Than the fine woods came out and it turned into more 10-20 millinon each char. Right now once I do econ most my money is gone. I haven't been doing a lot of trade runs, but I been doing some missions and a mix of trade runs. Wait until they actually try to produce off those buidings? I think the cost is a bit high as that is what is sucking up most my money along with the cost of cannons. The cannos wouldn't been a big hit if we got a little seeded money to start with.

Also if you want to split stacks you can bring it on your ship, than take the other half off and put it back on the ship. If it's not sinking a group mate can than take that extra if ya'll don't want to be over loaded.