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Now the big question is, when will it be pushed to test server and is the current build on test server going to be release as a patch (maybe minus the 3 dura 1st rate stuff) any time soon or we going have to wait 2-8 weeks for every thing to be in one patch?

I'm sorry I think ya'll shut this one down way to fast. We didn't even get a chance to test it. Since there was other options for folks to get land grants it wasn't limiting economics. I'm sorry if your going to sit around and do nothing you shouldn't get the same perks as all the players that are doing the hard work. One of the biggest thing that pisses me off when I see guys say, "Such and such is running agro up and that is my such and such port." Funny I don't see you out there counter grinding and I sure as hell didn't see you at the port battle when we captured it so it's NOT YOUR PORT. Once again I think you jumped the gun cause of a bunch of cry baby care bears. I would say could we have at least waited until it actually got onto test server or was it not even coded yet?

You give the PvE char all the goodies. He transfers them around and can't be tagged by any one. We use to do this on on another game with kinda the same system. Though instead it was lowbie that couldn't be attacked cause of level difference.. Had certain chars transfer certain things in certain ships cause either they couldn't be tagged. Got to a point we had to keep one lowbie char around just to hunt the guys we know was running the high priced goods.

and people keep forgetting the 2 port battle limit per nation is going out the window. Say your part of A Nation. Well Clan A decides they want to attack this port. They can go do it and if there clan fills the port battle they pretty much have control of that port unless you want to buy your land grant to use it. Well Can B was left out but they said screw it and hit another port at the same time but they let all the scrubs in to help them fill the numbers. Now they control a port that Clan A does. All along we have Clan C that is a bunch of crafters that hate RvR but love to build ships. Folks from both A and B clan can sale some of there land notes cause they don't need them all and that clan now has stakes in both those ports to do the crafting they want. They might even trade some of A's with what they got from B as part of the deal so now you have all three clans that can use two ports that was only taken by 2/3 of the players involved. Just remember that you have to defend that port too so if Clan B pisses off Clan A and they get attacked and they don't have all the scrubs helping them they would need the help of other players to fill there defense. So they might not want to piss off Clan A. Which might think hell we will just let the other nation take the port and than take it back afterwards for our own. I think some of the RvR is going to start to get very intersting and I for one know I won't be keeping all my land grants so would be passing it on to others if I get more than I need. Though prob for a price of course.

Don't know what your talking about but we get tons of PvP in that area. Love killing all the silly US players running around and some of the Brits. And we aren't killing noobs cause most of them are higher ranks trying to do there econ on the easy runs. We like the ROE there cause it keeps fights more close and fair instead of swarm of players and AI's ganking folks. Though the big problem there for a while was one alliance owned all the regions there so ya'll couldn't fight each other. It needed to have more than one nation in there controlling zones. Which now we have as pirates took back there Pirate Refit from the evil US players. Well on PvP2 that is.

I would love to know those exact three port battles you talk about? Cause I'm going to bet you there was no alts used, but I'll promise you it was very pore battle coms and not working with one another is why so many where captured and lost. We have noticed some of the same folks will run as fast as they can, normally after the first ship gets sunked. Than your team falls apart once we do that and it's just slim pickings. If there is true abuse than you need to screen shot it, report it and let the devs check the files. We call our shots and focus fire and let every one knows the guys that are weak and we use our experience from fighting some of ya'll on the OW to know your weakness. And yes ya'll have some very crappy players in each of your nations, but you want to know something? Has any of ya'll tried to get a hold of that player and see if they need help? We meet folks all the time that can't even manual sail and they are RA rank. Than we find out they came from PvE or they just done nothing but grind on PvE. Though we also see ya'll blame every person that you don't know or isn't in your clan as spies when in fact they are just some solo player. When I was still US the fist time I asked about Port battles I was Lt Com and was told I must be a spy since I didn't know how to even look up a port battle on the map (old flag system). We seen ya'll still do this to new and even old players. You go and blame every for why ya'll lost a fight instead of looking at how to do better next time. Here's a question from the last few port battles I looked at that I saw you where in against Pirates or Danes. WHY ARE YOU A REAR ADMIRAL IN A MORTAR BRIG AND NOT A 1st RATE? Let some low level bring the mortar brig that can't be in a first rate and you bring a ship that can help the fight. Every thing I heard from you in this thread seems your trying to make excuses for things your nation is doing wrong on spy's when they aren't the problem. Again if some one is cheating or abusing the system get screen shots, video and report them. The devs will look at the logs and see if they are in fact cheating. Believe me it works I have reported some one and got them warned for something they did that was against the rule. The system is there for a reason. PS....we have wonder if some times ya'll have folks dual boxing in the fights cause yes we noticed the running into each other, getting beached and other things. Though to be honest we just think some of the players are honestly just that bad, but guess what, they showed up to fight and that should count. Now get out there and help them learn and train them.

I think guys are forgetting there will be no more 2 port battle limits either. If you got enough say Redii and his guys take one PORT (not region as the Devs keep saying ports) and Say I'm of the same alliance or even nation and me my clan hits the same region at the same time or hell we hit it in our prime time. Since we will be merging with PvP1 and PvP2 we are going to be bringing a lot of players that will prob switch nations on both servers to start new groups and nations. I played US. I don't plan to play US again. I will prob be Pirate for sure, but my second fav nations is Danes and Spain. So not every player that is US time zone is going to run off and pick US and GB. You have a chance to get a better balanced server now with folks willing to play other nations. Since a clan can take a port for there own resources that means other clans can take other ports for theirs. I'm going to bet you we see way more port battles like on the old flag system, but now with a lot of the old problems worked out. Though we are going have to wait and see what the new systems are going to be like. I'm pretty sure the players will have limits of buildings they have so if I'm at port battles all the time I won't get to use all my land grants so I'll pass them on to other players.

Remember a PvE server was never promised while in EA. They can all ways open a server just for those players later when the game goes live. Though right now with a lower player base they should have every one in one server testing the mechanics of the game. And that focus isn't on PvE side of the game for the most part. At least this way they can venture out if they feel like it and get risky or they can stay in there safe zones. The flag thing has been brought up and can be abused way to much. But aren't we pirates? I'm looking for hunting at the edge of these zones.....going to be some fat traders lol

Though one thing just came up....can you steal them? Like if some one left them in there cargo and you capture there ships. Than sale that grant to some one else since I assume you can only build there if your nation owns that port. Other wise I would assume the grants go into the slots like the marks and upgrades that can't be lost.

See below, seems they aren't the only way to get the land grant just one way and I agree it gets folks involved and those that aren't shouldn't have control over things like econ and such.

Yah I'm kinda excited and the fact some of us will finaly get to play on the same server it will be interesting having a bigger mix of players. Folks Admin said that folks can still buy and pay a tax/fee to keep the building there. It's only the 25 that are promised grants for free to build there. So you can still build and there won't be any limits as to how many buildings can be in one port. It's just those 25 that was in the port battle get the land grants for free. Than they can use them or trade them if need be. I think this sounds like one of many interesting ways to get the econ going in this game in the future. That and I hate to say it why should some one that does nothing at all get the same perks as I when I was the one that fought hard for that port? Sorry you don't want to fight why should you get the same prize as me? You have to pay for what I fought hard for.

I think this is an important question many of us would liked answer. You will be able to pick a new nation by the looks of it, but I think you will have to pick a new one if you want to remain in the PvE zone. We got a couple of weeks prob, but I'm going to bet folks will have to move stuff cause with the sounds of it they might have to reset the server and alliance system as folks are going to have to pick new nations with the server. Cause folks like me aren't the same nation on both servers.

Will wait for more info, but I think this would be a better location for a global cause of the location for SEA/AUS/US/EU players centralized location. Thanks. Understand things can change but with all the other big post made today it was something brought up cause server mergers where mention in each of the post.

Than why are some of us seeing the info about PvP1 and PvP2 merging into PvP Global and the PvP EU getting there own server thing? Many us would like more info on that info. Cause if PvP2 is being merged into PvP1 and it's location we should get a heads up as it effects a large player base and might cause you to loose players as I don't want to play on crappy ping. We have lately been seeing some very poor performance that wasn't there before in the game during port battles and it will get worse with higher pings.

Thanks for making it a bit more clear. Can we get the info on server mergers updated and posted from what has been leaked from the french section please?

If they are going to merge the PvP1 and PvP2 servers they need to cause that gives every one a chance to start over, but if they don't what they need to do is set up the server. Give every one on each sever redeemeables of those server and let them log into PvP Global and pick there new or old nation and redeem there resources. This will allow folks to choise there new nations and hopefully give a better balance server. "I have a bunch of these trade notes man, can you make me this or that and I'll give them to you?" See how that worked I do the fighting and some small crafting and you do the major trade and crafting and we all happy. Hopefully this will spur some more player trade in game than we have right now. Where folks will actually trade for things. I'm hoping the notes work any where you have land not just the port you take. Though to be honest if you want a share than put in and take the port. Sorry why should you get a share of our hard work when your not involved in the fight?

Well with all these updates today are wee going to get an update on the test any day soon. Two weeks+ before the patch is going ot get a lot closer so the sooner we test things the faster we can get the patch out.

It's dead for one so a waste of resources. They aren't going to build content for PvE only players. It's better to have every one on one server for better testing. You do know they are talking of merging PvP1 and PvP2 Together and then making a PvP EU only server (limited PB time slots) so it's not just the PvE guys getting merged. I bet the PvE limited server will prob end up getting merged back into the main server any way soon so it will be all one server.

and buildings in capital regions for free.

You do know where the Gulf of Mexico is right? Mesquito is not part of the Gulf of Mexico. Though question would they have 3 spawn spots? Cause what about newbie zone ports for those nations? Will they still get to pick that one or will these new zones become there version of the newbie zones. Is there any map yet of what zones will be in the PvE zone. There is a lot of ports in between these three ports that would be cut out by doing this. And why three, just make Spain the PvE option and have a zone of ports for those players to be in safe if they want but they can come out and play with the big boys. I'm going to hate to loose LA as a french option for normal players, and that prob means Texas too as those are my home states.

I just finished breaking up all my ships and sold all my mods on PvP1 and PvE so lets see how bad the devs trolled us. If they make the Global Server in EU I'm out. Sorry having both servers over there is going to kill the game. I won't play with crappy ping if the only two servers I can pick are EU. I got other games that I can spend my time on. And with all these notice they are going to have dead servers for the next month and watch they take 2-3 months for the patches to actually drop so it will be a repeat of 3-4 months ago again.

That is going to be some good hunting grounds is watching for folks to make that hual into those zones. We all ready do it at major trade hubs ports so this just makes it more easy for us. Are more leave zones open to be big hot spots to hunt traders bringing things in from PvP zone to the PvE. As long as they have to ship those goods in from PvP zones to the PvE zone I'm fine with it. Though if they can just do a magic teliport to friendly or something to get to the PvE zone with goods than it's going to abused and exploited. Than again this is limited to only three nations too.

Yah this was a problem we had on POTBS and Governors going inactive for a port. The best way to flip the issue was to let it get captured and than recaptured it back to make it fresh. I think that would be way to many land grants. Remember they said ports. So folks that don't want to build in that port will be able to give/sale there grants to others. As long as there is a means for folks to do so and there is no true cap on production in port. I would prefer to see those grants work in any port that your nation owns. Though I see this as a way to reward those that do the hard work. I also assume that there will be some ports that others can produce in with no limitations.

You didn't catch the part all free ports will be removed? So they will have to sail more than two ports to ship stuff to there PvP side. Though I think I would prob take the risk and do so depending on what resources are in the PvE zones. I asssume regions are going to be rebalanced now too. Though sucks cause LA was one of my fav regions when I had a French player.....mainly for the refit.

My problem with PvE zones is that folks will hide there and do all there crafting for the PvP guys. Is there going to be some restriction on resources for them that say they can only make certain ships in those zones? I get the freetown restrictions kinda keep them into that zone, but some one can still ship some goods the old long way into there and be safe once they hit the PvE zone. I'm all for the FFA for any one that has the flag basicly makes them class as a pirate while they have the flag on. I think the limit is time to travel, as there will be no freeports in the PvE zones.