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I believe they said the ports will remain the same but the free ports will be turned into that nations ports. Any items in those ports that was owned by another nation will be changed to the PvE nation host and it would be as if your stuff was in a captured port. Depending on how they do the merger you prob will want to dump every thing out of the clan warehouse as it won't redeem onto any one if they make a serer and PvP1 and PvP2 is merge into that server. We don't know who is getting merged into who other than for sure that PvE is being merged flat out into the PvP servers you pick to redeem your stuff at. Why don't we wait until more info comes out. Devs said they where going to post more info today.

We been noticing a lot of server lag during fights that we didn't see before. I mean a little FPS drop and such is expected but we are talking about actually lag and we are seeing it in smaller OW battles to. Not sure what is up with that but it wasn't going on a while back a few months ago. Can't wait for one day for the to actually optimize this game for those with multi core CPUS and what not.

I spy some PvP1 players....lol I got a feeling we might see some more of them just popping in the check things out and such.

lol more like next week at this rate...

Still no exact word, but devs said they will be giving us some more updated info tomorrow. I'm hoping they doint' scrap them completely as i know some folks that have a lot of them.

How much you want to bet most of those danes are closer to your age than some teenagers. I'm 40 and most of my clan is around my age (we do have a 19 year old but he's mature). We all love PvP and some of the guys came from PvE first. May I ask what are you where in? Cause 7 ships prob means you where some where close to a hot zone and what nation where you? Prob one they are at war with. While I didn't start out on PvE I did start out on PvP1 and was ganked a lot when I was in the wrong places. I learned pretty fast that I should avoid those places. Not sure your location real life, but the PvP2 server is a bit more smaller pop so could get a more relaxing exploration. Though even there some areas will be more dangerous than others. Though I thank you for taking the leap to try it out and hay we might see you out in the OW in the hotzone later on. Good luck and happy sails. But they won't have all the empty server to explore. I bet you most of those complaining haven't even seen half the ports. I been to every port on the map and I have over 4K hours though. At least they are going to have an area. The Devs don't even have to give them that. To be exact PvPers are loosing 1/3 of our map and you don't see us complaining. Oh and I plan to keep the flag on while in the PvE area any time I go into in cause one of them gets frisky and want to try PvP. a PvE safe flag won't work.....cause it will be abused to avoid PvP and to move goods. It will kill trader hunter for those that do that. So any solo privateer or pirate will pretty much loose any game play with that cause now one would move there goods without the flag on. If this is the type of system your talking it's been used on other games with very bad results that is why they haven't tried it here. As for doing multi server levels there is not enough players and we should not be splitting this game by skill level. If I don't take that rookie under my wing he will never learn and get better. So he needs to sail at my side and learn. His limits is his crew size for what ships he can use not his skill level. What is the formula that tells if some one is a rookie or a vet. We still see folks come over from PvE that can't freaking even Manual sail and they are rear admirals. It's cause they never learned as you really don't need to fighting AI that are pretty stupid.

By what I read and understanding is anything ship related, Ships, Mods, Notes, Paints etc is going bye bye along with any none redeemable ships you might still have. As none of them are comparable with the new system.

We really don't know yet, but they said they will update us tomorrow. The smart thing is to merge 1 and 2 into the PvP global so we can do the new nation organization. Lets cross our fingers and hope they do this the most logical way. I'm kinda of waiting to see some of the names and if they are going to switch nations and to which ones.

I see it this way if it doesn't work than they can make it smaller and smaller liek drop the Brits zone and than the French and well if all else fails the Spain. Lets test it and see. That and I know a bunch of people that play on PvP servers but refuse to fight and run that will prob be hanging out in that area. So now we know where they are and don't have to worry about it if the rest of there nation gets rolled.

Yah they can't understand why our ships are so hard to destroy. We build LO/Stiffness/Hull Strength for most ships and we use double ball and double charge in the fight depedning on the distance of the engagement. That and we are 15-20 very organized players. If they stop complaining and actually listen to some of the new guys and stop doing what the old guys are doing than they would get organized and a force to reckon with (mainly cause of numbers). But they would prefer to run in fights, complain and attack small nations instead. I have no pitty for them at all when we beat them straight up out numbered. I think we will be the ones joining there ranks, but you have to remember they don't have the same problems we do over there. So many of them are going to fill the small nations to fill the gap of the EU guys that are leaving. BLACK will remain Pirates though might have to work on the name change cause it's used on both servers. We don't plan to change, but we would prefer a healthy nations that fight each other so we can just be the annoying thorns in the side. Lets just hope that they let us get redeemable from both servers and pick our new nations on the PvP Global server. I'm going to bet that the care bears will prob switch over to one of the three PvE aligned nations to hide in those zones. With CKA and NPG/IGG not being the big boys in the two main nation it will help all the little clans get there foot forward and do things. At least we hope that it works that way between the two servers.

Speaking of operation camel toe this was when we attacked the port. 19 pirates vs 25+ US/Brits (10-15 screeners out side). Now tell me where we had the advantage here? You had 6 more ships than us and are the defenders? Now here is Wilmington: 19 Pirates once again vs 25+ (you had tons of screeners out side). Tell me how this was unfair? In fact you still have 2 US guys and one Dutch in here that are now Pirates. It was this battle and the piss poor team work of the Nationals that drove them to leave the nation they where in. That is only three players you lost. You didn't loose your whole player base. If you look at the names on the pirates side they are almost all the exact same guys with one or two changed out. you look at the US/Brit/Dutch side you see a few of the same names, but the rest are other players. The majority of them are of rank to fully crew there ships and bring something like a 1st rate.

I'm all ready seeing the butt hurt of folks that don't do this and get caught on the edge of it by some one. Than again I'll prob keep the smuggler flag on if I enter the PvE zone which will allow them to attack me if any of them get frisky lol

and you stated it right there....come to believe. Show me where they promised you anything? Seems they have this grand image of what they think the game should be, but in reality it's all ways been up to the Devs image of what they want for the game. They are still giving you PvE content and you safe place while keeping a place for you to play. They could just as easy completely shut down PvE and gave ya'll nothing and still be keeping withing the EA part of this game until release. When they could open a PvE server.

Your mis reading that. The devs are talking about the only way for "YOU" the player to be attacked in the PvE zone is for you to have the smuggler flag turned on. It's been used on other games for folks that don't want the PvE safe zone so they flag them selves as PvP ok while in it. It basically means when I'm in the PvE zone and if "YOU" have the balls enough to attack me you can. There will still be AI in the open world for you to kill just like you have now. In fact with them merging the servers you have more chance of more PvE content cause now they can work on it for the game as a whole instead of for just one group. They all ready plan to make smarter AI and give us more content in the future when they get to that part of the development. Which you do remember this is an EA of a game that is still in Alpha Stage of Development.

Yah these patches keep getting push back more and more. We where suppose to have a patch by now and than a hotfix but it seem to all got put on the back burner cause this BIG NEW PATCH. Well than release some of the stuff that is done while we wait it's been freaking over 3 months since the last patch and now we are prob going have to wait another month or two....cause lets be honest with your track records Devs when you said 2-4 weeks that toe me was more like 4-8 weeks.

PS tomorrow I'm going to bring my Pirate Ironside Hack ship tomorrow for the port battle. So be ready and I'll put my killer damage mod on my ship to.......nah maybe I'll bring the fireship and mortar brig again since that worked so well the last time we captured that port.

I think folks are wondering if the some of the current stuff can be pushed out like the Pirate vs Pirate and maybe the new ship structure stuff. To give us something to do until the new stuff for this next patch comes.

I'm sure they can all ways just donate them? But honestly I think this is the biggest question and we want to send out some mails to try to get a lot of old players that stopped player back into the game and need this info also. To be honest the best way to do this is to make the PvP Global server and than let us merge PvP1/2 into it. That way we get our redeemables from both servers and well teh PvE server too. When we log into PvP Global we get to pick our Char names and nation. This might be the same one as before or it might be new ones for some folks.

It's funny how the guys that came over now understand when all this time I been saying back when they fought us and we took US to 11 ports and Brits to 1 it was just 15 to 20 guys when we start showing them screen shots and pointing out things and they see how many are in TS. We aren't joking when we say it's only 15 to 20 guys. You know when you take out the alts and other clan guys that is your still only fighting the same 15 to 20 pirates over and over.

Mahogany: US (2), Brits (3), Pirates (1) Bermuda Cedar: Brits Live Oak: US (2) Silver: US (2), Danes (1), Pirates (5), 4 of which we took in the last week and half you know Operation Lone Ranger and all...that we posted up for ya'll. So which that it looks like The US/BRTI/DUTCH still has every thing they need to produce ships and keep trucking. And we are tired of you complaining you don't have this or that. It was just 3 months ago that all these resources where owned by US/Brit/DUTCH (Danes did have one silver). It's a game of war and RvR. You can't keep your own ports when you have the three largest nations in one alliance isn't our fault. You look at all those screen shots and what they don't show that even the equal 25 vs 25 battles ya'll still had any where from 5-20 more ships out side. You do know not every one in game is on TS or in those clan TS. The game doesn't revolve around CKA and NPG/IGG after all. Just look at all the screen shots and notice the names how they aren't all ways the same guys. Not to mention the guys we fight in the OW. Also in the past month we have went over 200 players during port battles time on the servers twice. We haven't been over 200 players since the Treasure fleet events. Three months ago this was the port counts of the nations. Danish : 4 Regions So that is 2 they captured from the Brits. The Danes and Brits kinda just flip two ports back and forth and you don't see them on here complaining. Pirates: 2 Regions so 12 from GB/US/DUTCH Now we have helped Swede and French get 3 ports each by either being at there port battles or by taking the port and than giving it to them. I'm not getting your point here cause ya'll still have almost 2/3 of the regions. Just happens you lost some of the important ones recently. Sorry if you can't hold on to your regions than you got to spread out and to big for your britches and lost land. Not to mention all the inter clan fighting, the fact ya'll wouldn't fight any one so folks got bored and left (9 players came over to BLACK pirates). Ya'll sure forget back when we had 2 regions it was ok for ya'll to curb stomp us. ya'll still got over half the map. So what is the big problem? You alliance has fallen apart and you can't get guys organized even though ya'll have plenty numbers it's our fault? The funny thing is every time we take some of these ports we have been posting up operations and pretty much letting ya'll know what the hell we are about to do. Operation Camel Toe: Done with Operation Dutch Oven: Cease Fire Operation Lone Ranger: Still in effect as 2 silver ports in US hands. Not sure if we have a new name, but I'll give it a temp one, "BURN THE HOUSE DOWN." Yah something like that we going back to have some fun with the US.

maybe it to hard? To many folks these days want every thing easy and just handed to them. I'm old and cranky and I like to keep on fighting though to remind me I'm still alive...ok I"m not that old but felt like when I hit 40 lol

crap I have to mark the time too? hell I didn't even get the port battle time right yester day...lol

Break down of current things on PvP2 Danish : 6 Regions Dutch: 7 Regions GB: 18 Regions France: 4 Regions Pirates: 14 Regions Spanish: 2 region Swedes: 4 regions US: 20 Regions Which would mean the allainces would be. BRIT/US/DUTCH: 44 Dan/French/Swede/Spain: 16 Pirates: 14 So the Brit/US/DUTCH are not hurting on regions and resources other than what they allowed to get captured and lost. Maybe they shouldn't of got so big and so spread out if they can't keep control of there regions? We are hitting things like silver cause we can't take and hold a bunch of regions so we are hitting them where it hurts. To be honest I just want to get the servers merge and these allainces and nations reworked so it's no longer big nation vs small with the pirates in the middle of every thing. What they keep forgetting is pirates can't have allainces. Pirates can't have any national join there Port battles. Pirates can't have any nationals join our OW fights (though we can join nationals). Yes this is hard mode, but we aren't comlaining about that. We complain when they have numbers and run or they only show up when they have numbers or they only attack guys that can't field a full force against them or during times. Really the two largest nations Brits and US has not fought each other since Aug of last year. Pirates went from 2 regions at the start of this year to where they are now. We haven't zerg at all, we just been fighting the tooth and nail. As soon as we took to ports they flipped out and cried and stopped fighting....really 2? You have 20 something other regoins. They refuse to give any ports to the small nations to help them grow. Oh look Spain finally has a region congrats guys. Most these guys won't last a day on PvP1 and I"m goign to bet they will be hiding in PvE zone unless they have sure win Port battles...lol Now they do have some great players but they are far and few and most of the old timers treat them like crap until they leave and go to anther nation or server. Sounds familar? So yah PvP2 has kidna the same issues PvP1 is but it's more a big pop vs small pop thing instead of the east vs west. We honestly don't have a night/day flip problem it's just some folks ony pick on easy target but as soon as you give them a fight back they run and hide. So we will keep taking there important ports and keep sinking there ships until the server merge happens.

awww that is months, years from now who knows what that would be....

The small nations are still small, but the Danes allaince with the Swedse and French are helping them and the Spains kidna got into the fight too. The Danes are just fighting the brits so we been leaving the Brits alone. Dutch declared war on us and attacked our silver region so we took 3 ports from them (one we gave them in good faith to not be atacked by them) and than later we took there silver region and stopped since this put them down toe 5 regions. We shifted our fight to take all regions around Mort and we since have moved on to take all the silver regions. We had all but lost little habor last night so need to get that back. They had the small nations without silver for months and other resources so we are giving them a taste of there own medicine. You know the whole 15-20 of us pirates that they can't beat even when they show up with 30+. We did loose little habor cuase of the early battle time (5pm on a work day) but hay if they want to play that fight we plan to take more of the US major econ ports. It seems it was fair back when they had all the other nations down to 1 or 2 regions, but as soon as we start to take any of theres they cry foul play. Hell they all still got more regions than most of the small nations combined.