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Take a look at the St John Port batlte. DUTCH/BRIT/US has 25 with 10 of them being Dutch. VS what 4 during US prime time or was that the mid day weekend port battle? Can't remember the time for it. That the most DUTCH we seen show up in ages but than Danes/French/Swedes allaince is on cool down cause of a voting mistake on there part so ya'll been attacking the crap out of the swedes I see. Where was those numbers when the danes showed up to make it equal numbers or where was those US/BRits when we attacked you that didn't help? Seems your allaince only comes out when you will out number some one and or no one is able to show to fight. Why not instead of attacking the swedes you take your ports back from us pirates? Hell you didn't even attack the swede ports that they took from ya'll?

Man what do ya'll do over there? That would of been boring as hell even if I wasn't more into the PvP side of things I do grind fleets to test things out. I like the flag concept. I would keep mine on if I went into that zone just in case any of the PvE guys felt frisky. You never know they might just find out PvP isn't as bad as they think. Several of our clan members started out on PvE and than moved over when they got bored. Your not limited, you are free to leave it any time you want, just have to understand the risk if you do. No one is going to force you to stay in that zone. Yah I think it was only pirates as it was one of the things we complained about the Privateers not being able to capture, but we where able to tag folks out side of the PvP zones if they where flagged or something. Man it's been ages since I played that game. Was on Roberts and what ever the AU servers was for a long time as Spain. Your name sounds familiar so prob from the Forums their. yah a very bad concept doing something like which could be very easly abused.

You can do contracts in testbed, though I admit can't buy anything direct. Testbed isn't a good example cause well I have yet to see more than 20 folks logged on at one time. So there isn't much econ being tested there. Hell I got my crafting up to level 20 the first patch and than when they wiped the chars I gave up on that. I wanted to build a freaking ship MY WAY not how the redeemables where cause I would never sail ships of those builds for the most part. They realy should of gave us crafting levels on there and some resources to make some things to test them out.

Why would we have the same ship and same set up? You can still pick the wood type, trim and refit in the new system by what I'm understanding. They are just makeing it moer about the crafting and experience of your ship and crew than a bunch of rare mods.

How do you get your resources around now? I don't think anything is going to be changed much other than removal of free towns in PvE zone. So you would still be using traders and the free ports in game wouldn't you? Ships being one dura should be cheaper and faster to replace. My only issue is that of dock space. We should be able to craft ship notes and keep them in our warehouse until needed. They can be restricted to only be open in the port the ship was crafted at though. This will allow you to keep extra ships that the old 5 dura ships would fill before you need to replace them. Though I'm more just going to wait and see who the new system is. We can't say something is or isn't going to kill things until we try them.

You can't attack ships in the OW on PvE? If I'm corrent they are replacing the missions that we had for hostility (which I think ya'll lost) with fleets. Isn't there still epic missions? We hit the mega fleets all the time to flip a region cause they give you about 40-60% hostility. I'm pretty sure you have these same big fleets on PvE. I mean you did a while back when I popped on there to test something. So why wouldn't you have these now? by my understand you will still have AI fleets in your PvE ZONE.

We have a bunch of East coast guys that keep saying 6:20pm.....but I forgot that means 5:20 for me. Guess when I showed up? Right at the end of the port battle. Yah it would be way better if we had certain time blocks for certain ports like the old window, but hell I liked the fact you can arrange the fight any time and give 2 days notice. If you can't man the fight than just take it back at your proper time. Cause on the old system they can just put some crazy time to keep you from taking it again. They did that a lot on the old flag system and I spent a lot of crazy hours with Loco taking empty ports during those off times when no one showed up, but it was set to them to make it hard to flip it.

I'm down for either one cause that is what we are here for. I know a lot of folks will bitch and complain, but to be honest they weren't here to test the game in it's development if they don't understand that. There hasn't been a full wipe since EA started and that was over a year a go. I never been in an alpha game that went that long without several wipes of different levels. So hopefully we will see this soon and it will get to test server to play. We are all ready seeing numbers drop on the servers of folks that are just going to stop playing until the patch gets here. Could it be possible if what is being keep on the testbed now be put into game for us to give us something to play with until the next patch. Like the new ship structure stuff and the Pirate vs Pirate stuff? That would mean less to patch in later too.

Save one ship and a fireship fitting for the last night. I want to do a small battle or something and do a last man standing fight of every one on the server. Since small battles mix's us all up that would mean we have to fight with each other against each other. Something many of us have never done before. I would say 1st rates but might as well just say 1 ship any ship to go boom that last night.

That will come later, but right now we need the gold and resources to build ships to test the new crafting stuff. One step at a time. One step at a time. You know what hell it would be like if we all got wiped and had basic cutters and no gold/mats lol Than again I done it a few times on PvP1 when I flipped nations checking them each out. It wasn't long until I had several ships and couple mill in the banks. About 3-4 hours one Sunday morning.

I wasn't at this one so I don't have a screen shot and to be honest it should traditionally be the winner that post them. I would be more than happy to post if if some one gives me a screen shot. I honestly have no problem with the time and loosing. We win some and we loose some. I think the problem is more just that it's a Pirate port from start and we don't want ya'll to have it. That and the fact ya'll love to attack every one when they can't field 25, but as soon as we start showing up with full numbers yall stop showing up to port battles and hiding unless it's a major econ port. Hay if you had to strike early to get that is fine. Don't bitch when we just strike harder and take more of your econ ports. Hay if anything every one is getting PvP and that is what we want right? Not to mention we are getting to sink all these lovely ships we won't have by a months time from now? Lets bring it on and make the whole server burn. I mean it's prob going to get reset any way with the merger and all. Lets have a bit of fun while we wait on the testbed to be released and than the patch.

One of the biggest problem was back when they had folks rush from one server or another they never gave a true option for folks to leave a server or nation and start over properly. If they do this right and lets hope they do they will make the PvP Global server and merge every one from PvP1 and PvP2 into that server with redeemables of there stuff. That way you log into PvP Global, you make a new char of a new nation or your old one and than you redeem all your stuff. This will allow folks to move to other nations and hopefully make a better balance of AU/SEA/US/EU etc players. The problem is we where never gave this option first to help move things around instead it become one group against another. On PvP1 it was Eastern vs Western. On PvP2 it was the two big houses GB/US (with DUTCH) vs all the small nations with Pirates back them up. With the chance to change nations hopefully we can fix it and hopefully they fix the Port Battle lock out window that keeps about 1/3 of the US players out of port battles. Than we will see if the problem still is a problem or if the population balance worked it self out so that there is enough players in each of the time zones to fight each other.

As per Devs every thing will be turned into redeemables and than you can pick which server you want to play on: PvP Global or PvP EU. You will log in and make a new char, if you want to be a PvE char you make a French, Spanish, Brit and pick the PvE starting area. Than once the char is created you redeem all your goods (minus ships and paints cause of the wipe). Every one else is prob going to be doing the same when they merge the PvP1 and PvP2 servers together so it's not like they are picking on the PvE guys only. Your server was dead and not cost effective to keep running so the Devs made a call to shut it down. Servers cost money to run and right now during ALPHA TESTING it's not cost effective to keep them up and running if there is little to no player base.

I do kinda agree it's big, 1/3 of the map. I would of thought just Spain area would work, but you need to give them a few options. I think he nations picked where also some of the more easy mode (as game start says) nations for them too. Remember all the freetowns will be removed in those regions. They won't have any ship refits either. So they have to get that stuff from out side the zone. And I'm sure you can guess where folks will be hunting....I know this shark will be watching the edge of those zones. Though I see it as the best option at this time. The Devs could of just shut down the server and gave them nothing, but I think this is a good way to test it. It might work out great and stay in the game. It might be a total train wreck and removed and the PvE guys get there own server back....UPON RELEASE. I mean they should be happy the devs even came up with a solution. LEts all just try to give it a chance and see how it turns out. IF your not going to try than have fun with some other game, those that will try it I plan to while hunting those zones I will also run things in and make a killing of refits if I can. I like me shinny golds too....and it might help get some of the ship building down if you supply those players with the goods. I mean be honest it's not like the GoM wasn't all ready filled with most of the carebear PvE clans on our server any way? Hell intill we raided it recently they prob never had a fight in the gulf other than US taking those two French regions.....so it's not like they are really being used by many.

Pirates always been sold as a pure PvP nation. So you want to be a carebear pirate? Well butter cup you can't get every thing you want. Suck it up and play the game THE DEVS WANT. Sorry your not going to get your way throwing a little fit about it. I swear I never seen so many immature cry babies until now. I'm glad I never played on PvE server if ya'll are like that. Bye Felecia...Bye

Only Spain, French and Brit will have a PvE Zone so if you want that you need to roll one of those three nations.

Go back to the first page there is a map that shows the area that will be PvE. That is not 2 or 3 towns. That is 1/3 of the map. Which i think is good cause it pushes more of the fight over to the 2/3 that was mostly where all the action is any way. Remember you can only be attached if you have a smuggler flag on in that zone. No one knows if this is like the old flag used to get into ports or you can't get into ports without alliances. I'm going to take it just means you can be attacked. I plan to have mine on if I go into the PvE zone for any reason like dropping off refits for a good price. There will be no free towns to deliver stuff some one will have to make the runs in and out of the PvE Zones with the regional goods.

And the 150+ players will prob be replaced with the those from PvP2 when we merge so it's not like your loosing players. Your actually prob going to gain more players to fill the areas that need more players in them.

You know you where the last one to contact me after I made that post about how we kinda got brushed off when a couple of us came over asking if ya'll wanted help. Your message was sent three days after the others that asked. after the post. Which means you where the last one to even try. By than we all rolled Spain, but things picked back up on PvP2 so we droped the concept of coming over and helping. So your saying the "nightflipper" aren't a bunch of scrubbs is the real reason you couldn't beat them even with low numbers? Cause all it would of took was a few guys in there time zones here and there to make a full team. Didn't have to have screeners if it's a defense. Sounds like more excuses to not let others fight your fights. But hay have fun on your new server. We will see how things look 3-4 months from now any way.

We will be seeing each other at sea once more other than the Testbed I take it?

You mean like pirates do?

Was trying to find the recent one we had 19 pirates vs 25 US/Brits....but this one is 17 vs 20....Baby seal clubbing? Yah we feel that way when we slaughter them too and we are out number. You keep forgetting folks plan to move nations and make it more balanced. The reason why they didn't do it before is cause folks would not help them swtich or just flat out won't work with them or want there help. We offered help several time to PvP1 when it was slow and was brushed off by some nation simply cause we where US players. Sorry you didn't want the help so we said screw it. Bur since your going to the PvP EU sever I take it's something you don't have to worry abouth. Let the PvP Global folks worry about it than. We will see how PvP EU is in 3 or so months. Remember what happend the last time they split the EU server and gave yall your own place to play the Mirror server? Yah that didn't last long if I remember right. Remember there is going to be a merge of more players into the server. Some are crappy care bears that prob just be hanging out in the PvE Safe Zones. Some of us are die hard PvPers that are ready for the fight and more folks to fight with the larger server pop than we are use to. Hell with Pirate vs Pirate we might just never leave the pirate areas....just joking we don't plan to be killing any other pirates. Though why the hell are folks even talking about the global on there. I keep forgetting this is about the EU server so I'm going to drop out of this conversation. PS The Danes on our sever are SEA players and they roll about the same way and so that is another hard core clan that will be showing up in that time zone. EDIT found the 19 vs 25 when we took the port from them last week.

No one is making you get out of bed. It's a game stay a sleep and do normal stuff. When you get on a few days latter flip the port back. It's what the RvR is all about. Promote getting folks in multi time zones so they can defend when your not on. It's not that hard if folks just try. Hell we have the lowest server pop and we still get around with it on PvP2. We just flip the port back when we can. I mean it's PvP one way or the other, unless your not here to PvP?

But there is no such thing as night flips on a global server. If you don't like it suck it up and flip it on your prime time lol