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Pretty much Now remember when the wipe happens if you want to test the grounds of a few nations just don't us your redeemable. You delete your char and remake him as many times you want. You can only use the redeemable once. So if you want to switch back and forth to check things out I would not use any of my redeemables until you find the nation you like. The Nation Change Token is more for later when we get a more better feel of the population and nation balance so folks can change nations once for free to help do that.

There is a section called Developer news and announcements so that isn't all over the place, just like there is a section called Patch notes so you don't have to look all over the place. Try again. Now I do think they need to separate some of there announcements so that you can't comment and that is all it is and than have a separate thread/post for the discussion of some of the topics. Some of it does get spammy and buried several pages deep.

Fireship fittings? Oh you said fireworks....same thing.

But that would mean there needs to be a pirate mechanic to support that and there isn't one right now. I think the majority of us want that, but we don't went to have a half ass bastard system the kinda makes us still have to follow the national rules and kinda don't. Again it's called game balance. Nothing wrong being in hard mode cause your limited on your production of ships or cause every one is at war with you, but there needs to be a system in place that backs and supports that like proper raids. Proper ports that they can all ways use as save havens (free towns) etc etc. Right now we don't have that, but we are getting restrictions over and over added to pirates.

But with that same mind set wouldn't that mean pirates can capture what ever ship (meaning AI and Player) they want since they don't have to listen to an A government that tells them they have to sink every ship they encounter? I honestly don't think the issue is folks don't mind mind that we don't have them readily at hand to get, but the problem is why do they get 8 ships and the pirates only get one? If the Aggy was included and maybe the Heavy Rattler as part of the pirates pool and the Nationals got the SOL's that would prob seem like a more fair trade off. I keep through the Santa Cecilla in there (or a ship like it) to give them another 5th rate ship that is more special for the pirate style of hunting in 5th rates mainly. I have no problem with pirates being kinda a hard mode cause pretty much every one is at war with them, but there still needs to be some sort of balance between the factions. If keep taking things away from pirates even if it's only restricted by say how they have to get the permits and BP's (through an alt or bribe a national) than it's not very well balanced. Who in there right mind is going to give an enemy of there nation a rated ship BP or Permit unless it's through your alts? And I would like to know is there a goal/plan to make pirates more pirate like. Cause in the past the Q&A early this year you stated very clearly that you had no plan to anything other than maybe the pirate vs pirate stuff. Would be nice if we got an update on this. Do you plan to make pirates unique are will we all ways be a bastard of a nation with a bunch of penalties and nothing positive about playing a pirate?

Well for one the Devs have said it many many many times. I take it you never been one ported and had every nation attack you at once? Been through that many a times. It's hard to stay in ships when you only have one port to work out of. Yah the new regions makes it a bit easier, but still if we are to be treated as a nation than we need to be treated like the rest. If we are not to be treated as a nation than we need to have our own mechanics and be removed from the RvR conquest system.

A little hard when your in a basic cutter, every thing has more crew than you, specialy after that first broad side drops yo to 30 something crew.

Yah but since I'm in a basic cutter and we are fighting bigger ships. Navy Brig, Rattler, Mercury's I'm keeping my distance and just doing enough damage to get an assist and not et sunk, but by time it starts to sink I have to rush over and try to get the cargo. Some times it just sinks way to fast. Figure I'll unlock it while I'm being board, but that is even if I can get any of these drops in shallows. I'm trying to hunt around the brits waters since I get free repairs with the basic cutter.

Yah I was wondering about this also cause than what is the point of owning regions now? All they have to do is go in with a snuggler flag and buy those goods. And shouldn't the nation that the refit is from be auto learned by that nation? I mean pirates should auto know the pirate refits. British the british ones, french the french ones and so on. Though with the drops it seems only folks that sink pirate ships will get the pirate refit not the pirates that should have it any way and so one for each nation? I have yet to get a drop myself. Been having issues finding ships to be honest in some of the regions. Not every trying to get hostility, but I see mostly trade ships in a lot of regions. I'm starting to think some regions are seeded very light compared to others, but the problem is I have to stay close to a freindly port to do repairs cause no one has repairs on the server. Can we have some seeeded with us when the game goes live so we aren't all cuddle around the capital grinding the few ships there cause we have to pop into port ever freaking time to repair? I haven't even found enough to repair my Aggy or Connie in battle yet other than maybe once depending which ship I'm in. Now over in the shallows on my Pirate I been in a basic cutter with two mercs and I found hardly any on it too, but than I'm having issues with ships sinking faster than I can get to them and check the cargo. Feels like the sink speed was boosted or I'm just having some bad luck. Can't keep the cutter close to the fight cause any of the 6th rates we been fighting decimate me in a broad side or two.

Are I can just give my PvP/Conquest to my alt and he can buy the permits/BP's for me. Why would I abuse the system which is against the rules and attack my own alt when I can just trade them. And yes you can cause we have one clan mate with almost all the SOl's BP's. He pretty much bought them with his National alt and put them on his pirate char for crafting.

And again if we are a nation that has to have 1st rate SOL Port Battles we need to have the same options as the other 7 nations. Sorry 1 5th vs 7 SOL's and one 4th rates is not equal comparison. You effectively took pirates out of 1/3 if not 2/3rds of the RvR. That is why I said give Pirates the Rattlesnake Heavy. Make them the king of the small ships and the Nationals can be the kinds of the SOL's. They also need prob one more 4th/5th rate of there own refit style to match up for the 4th rate battles. It's prob way easy for the devs to make a refit (use the same skins for t a ship) and just tweek the states a little. Though a ship like the Santa Cecilia would be a great ship to add to the pirates ranks that can be rare for any one else to get there hands one it. Remember the Pirate frigate is still part of the low end (more mid tier) 5th rates so it's not a complete match against all the other 4/5th rates. I bet you play national don't you? No one is saying we want to craft them, what we are saying as long as we are part of RvR conquest system and have to fight in Line Ship port battles to we need the same options as other Nations cause we are suppose to be a Nation too.

Every one will get it part of there redeemable no matter what nation they are part of. It been tested and works great. First I want to say congrats and second remember you don't have to be there right when the patch hits the ground. Maybe it's good you come in after the storm settles and every one stops freaking out about the changes when it hits live. Release isn't going to be some time till end of year or afterwards. There might be another half dozen wipes before than. We have never been promised anything other than to keep our XP/Rank until release so they can wipe every other day if they wanted too. Hell I'm surprised we haven't had half a dozen wipes in the last year and half and prob why this patch going to be so big cause we hadn't had them when we prob should of had a couple. See comment above, final wipe is for the release of the game. Currently the last time table said maybe release by the end of the year. Though I'm more thinking early 2018 is more real, but we never know. That will come along when the game moves more into beta and gets ready for final release as we iron out the little details.

I think at one time you had the Rattlesnake figure head in the pirate shop. That another way to balance things have certain items pirate only. I all ways thought it would be cool if we could take a ship we captured like say the Frigate and turn it in to get a refit. Pirates would have several ships they could make rfits of that are Pirate only ships (yah I know kinda like POTBS did).

That fine, but what do we get in return? NOTHING. We have to work with the same RvR rules as every one else while limited. We all ready can't have any one join our side in fights. We can't have alliance (not a bigy cause no one else can currently). We can kill each other, but we get no rewards from it. I mean all I'm seeing is penalties over and over and nothing in return. If you want pirates to be more like pirates than lets drop the national stuff. Give us permanent ports as Pirate Havens (we can use the Free ports and teleport to them). Give us false flags to fly under so you don't know if it's a friendly or a pirate until your pulled into a fight. Give us capture any ship. Nationals should not be able to capture ships, they all go back to the Admiralty....like you said the government gives the the permits so wouldn't they want the prize they are fighting for to? I mean there is so much that can be done to make Pirates more Pirate like but it seems we are never going to see them. Pirate refits should be pirate only, pirate ships. Pirate Frigate is the only one vs 8 nationals ships should be a pirate only ship. Any national caught in one should be flagged as pirate able to be attacked by any one. See these are called trade offs. You know you need to balance it if your going to take one thing away you need to have something in it's place to balance things. And if you plan to some day do some pirate mechanic you need to let us know it's in the plans, but as we all have last heard from the Q&A early this year it seems you don't want to do that, you want to keep Pirates kinda sorta a nation with some outlaw elements to it.

Which other than balance reason they don't even have to make new ships. Just make refits of certain ships and use there same skin/models. I'm really surprised we haven't seen the Santa Cecilia as the Hermione (not La Hermione) as the player version and the SC as the special reward with the special skin paint. Things like this would give folks more content and some unique ships. The other thing Pirate ships can be is just a refit that is pirate only. By the looks at all these refits you pretty much just have to luck find the BP in a fight and than take a trader into those ports to get the goods to make them. I can see having them known by that nation and only drop for others, but why do I have to get a drop for a pirate refit when I'm a pirate?

Actually let me change that throw the Rattlesnake Heavy and Santa Cecilia in the Pirate den shop with the Pirate Frigate and lets call it fair. Pirates are suppose to be the master of the 5th rates and below and Nationals I guess you can say 4th Rates and above. Waits for all the Nationals to come storming in here having a fit when that is done....lol

Well the most common means is going to be, "USE AN ALT." Though I think they expect us to beg and bribe some national to get them. Since conquest marks are going to be hard to get unless your winning port battles it's not going to be to easy to get them when you can't easily craft the ships you need to get them.

So can the other 7 Nations, but why do they get all the BOP's and permits and pirates only get one 5th rate. That is 8 ships vs 1? That doesn't exactly sound fair. Specially when all those ships are mainly used in RvR for Port battles of anything 4th rate or above. Throw the Heavy Rattler in there on the pirate side and I bet you see the other Nationals have a fit cause we will have the advantage in shallow fights (which pirates prob should any way). It would be a different story if there was like 5-6 pirate refits but we have one ship and it's not even special cause they can do the same thing and craft it, but it's dirt cheap PvP point wise to get the BP and permits. Again the question is why does pirates get one ship in there shop while the other 7 nations get 8 ships that are very key ships that will be needed for RvR and conquest?

Yah I was going to say I bet that is HP for the Armor. Cause any time it says something about the thickness it says thickness. Remember we have Armor HP, Structure HP and than Thickness.

Yah I thought we where trying to get away from the rare drops of mods and such that only the lucky get like the old Marines and other none craftables. Yah you get the BP but what is the point of having the region now? As I said up above than what is the point of owning the region and than what ships will drop it when another nation owns that region or not? Would be nice if we had some more details on this.

And what the hell is wrong with the forums, it's what we used before Tumbler and all these other things where around and we can still use them today. I don't want a game that i have to have a tumbler account, twitter, FB, pinster and half a dozen other things to get info off. I want one place and only one place. Right not a few games I'm on gives you the info in several different places (The Division liked to put it on Twitter instead of the Forum and FB page). I should no have to have to look in half a dozen places to get info. It should be one place and that is it.

We had the same problem before that a bunch of folks will sit there and kill low level pirates and solo players instead of going out and hunting other Nationals and there was a group that did it on testbed a while back. Though I expect the majority of us will be policing those type of guys, but your all ways going to have a few of them around that attack only low level guys and solo's cause they can.

You do know you get nothing in a Pirate vs Pirate fight right no rewards just the fun of the fight of the dickheadness of picking on some one solo in a group, we seen it happing folks camping newbes and lowbies and solo players and just killing them. That all fine if pirates aren't aparte of the Conquest RvR system than I'm all fine with that, but until they have there own mechanics and not treated as a nation they need to have the same ships as any of the other 7 nations. Yes if you trader the BP and Permits to a pirate char they can learn it and use them. We tested it as one of our clan mates can build first rates and most of the other SOL's. So they basicly want us to buy them with our alts and trade them. Though it would be nice to get an anwser why the pirates only get one 5th rate while all the 7 other Nations get 1 4th rate and all the SOL's so effectively they will have an advantage over the pirates in any of the main RvR Port Battles. Now if they gave the Pirats the Heavy Rattler too I might not be so upset about this, but either way we should get an answer of somethign that keeps being asked.

I mean what are the going need a warning for? Every THING GETS WIPED LOL But but but but I need a proper 48 hour notice and it needs to be multi forms of warnings just encase I didn't see the other ones......please give me many many many more warnings <INSERTS SARCASTIC VOICE> All I got to say is see every one on LIVE when the patch drops....it's going to be an interesting first week or so.

Yah we had problems getting folks to grind out hostility on Live and this is even worse cause we don't have the missions per say to do them. It should not take a group 5 hours to get 50% unless it's like a couple of guys. A group of 6-12 should be able to flip a region in less than 2 hours. We use to hit the mega fleets (25 SOL's) and we know they giver over 50% to make an instant flip form what we had put on with a few curse missions we do real fast to get it to 40-50%. We never used war supplies cause they where to much of a pain, but it would be nice to know how many ships where they using and what ships. Just think how bad it will be to do a shallow water port if that is 4th rate region they are grinding on. Oh and the we expect PvP to make up the difference thing isn't going to work when some nations aren't beg (Spain at first) or if it's a region on the edge and not many folks play that area. If it was like 1-3 guys doing the grinding than that makes since why it was only 5 hours for 50%. I can see not allowing a small group to easily flip a region.