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Yah I got over 20 the first time it came out and than gave up. WOuld be nice if they gave us the XP and some BP's to test the crafting part out.

Cuase your not pirate and we can kill you any way when we catch you. Though I don't agree with this post as we should keep this type of stuff in clan not aired out for every one to see. I'm waiting on Pirate on Pirate too, but really leave the alts out of it and if you get sunk move on folks. Not every one is going to see the same as others about protecting alts and such. If you got tagged and killed than you where doing something you shouldn't. End of story.

Ok since we don't have craft levels I was wondering what is the new mats needed to build the 3 dura 1st rate ships and such? Has any one even seen what it takes to make anything of the new stuff.

I have made many comments on this an d F11 every time I try one. I have yet to see any one finish any other than I think one time some one scored on the kills one with the Exxes they got one kill. That and we have no clue what the stats of the free ship is and they seem to just get melted. As for the Demast one I can see doing it like the kills. One ship at a time, but not two higher BR ships. Essex vs two trincs we know who's going to win that one. Just like the cutter vs 2 snows you spend most your time in reload shock so you never get a fire off as they melt your ship like butter. That and ships like the Trinc and a few other have extremely strong mast that can't be pen by most guns of it's tier unless your point blank. They should be a bit of a challenge, but they should not be geared to a level that only the 1% elite can do and it seems even they can't get on the score boards. I'm about an average player in my book when it's 1 vs 1 so I figure i can get some score, but I haven't even been able to finish any of them before I'm sunk using the NPC given ships. If no one else is on the score baord I should be able to make it up there, even if it's a crappy score, but if your being completely sunk every time there is no point to do them.

LOL just cause I'm an evil pirate in game doesn't mean I'm a total arse all the time. Only half the time. We all pick our factions to play. I want a better game for all. That includes the Nationals too since i prefer to play pirate side. Though on a side note any ETA when we getting this next patch. There was a mention this month in the French interview with a Dev. I'm hoping sooner than later. We kinda looking for a bit of a change and some new stuff.

Nuevitas 4th Rate Port Battle: 23 US/Brits vs 25 Pirates There was a good tag on the US side that got a few of us in so we started a little scattered on the pirates side. We came in and did a dual line to meet the US in the middle circle. Than we proceed to turn it into a big brawl in that circle that spilled over into the "A" circle.

The problem is y'all give the time was during a time we couldn't sit around and do nothing. Every time we did something we got treated like we where zerging the map even though we only had two regions. We had to do something for our own nation to get our own population up. I keep hearing over and over, "Y'all should of waited." Well when your down to 3-5 guys showing up in your team speak and your about to loose your last region you need to do something. So we did and look how much we have grown over the last two months. This wasn't an over night thing. We been working to get these members back since the first of the year. Things don't happen over night and we understand that, but we aren't going to stand a side and wait on others to take action. Specially when we see those folks at that time have little to no power to get things change and as soon as you ask them about it they state, "We don't want to cause waves." Which means they aren't going to be willing to fight and change things. Which hate to say it. Seeing all SMS leave (well some) means ya'll really didn't care to fight for Brits. Maybe you can get better changes in Dutch with the smaller Population and we wish the best of luck for ya'll in those adventures, but you can make all the meetings until your face is blue, but if you don't do them properly and the proper folks with power show up than they don't mean crap. With that I stated we where down to 2-3 guys logging in a night and now we have 15-20 guys in team speak every night and even a good number still on after server reset. Mainly cause our clan is made up of US/SEA/AUS/UK players. Most of our players are old players that stopped playing a good bit ago. We have only recruited 9 players from other nations. That isn't the whole nations, it's just a few players from the three power house. That should not effect the actually numbers you have in the three nations. And stop letting the one clan members guys of your nation speak for your nations.

Richbeard is there leader. I haven't talked to him, but I been keeping an open window with a few of there other members. The last two fights we PB's we had they had some guys show up (to brits and dane ports) and we sent a small fleet to fight them and not every one. We will continue to encourage them to go against the old fart carebear guys that don't want fights. This is how there clans will grow and get better. I'm glad they have finally venture out of the shallows. They where just coming to life when I was still US and have pretty much been a shallow water clan cause of there lower rank memembers, but they are getting up there in level with these OW fights. They where the guys that fought us along the coast of US during that operation. Give them big props for coming out many times way out number or under gunned. Than again that is how you get to be a better player. You mean like Brits and DUTCH wanted to do with Windward until we took it and they flipped out. We only took it so we could give it to France. Dutch wanted it to suppose do PB back and forth with the brits. Though I think half that is BS cause they have never broke that alliance other than the cool down week. To be honest I don't expect them to. Brit/Dutch alliance would be good. US should pick up Spain. That would make a great three way alliance with Pirates in the middle. If every one has the min of 5 regions that is only 40 of the 71 regions on the server. Leaving 31 regions to fight over, so why can't we pick a none important regions and fight over it? That stimulates PvP and fights. Remember many of these guys are left out side screening for the 4th and line ship battles so they don't get to enjoy the port battles cause the older guys won't let them in without giving them the third degree. So nothing wrong with setting up a few arranged fights. Unlike some folks we are trying to get this server to grow. DD has been the ones pushing to give Spain regions of the US. So they are helping out a small nation. We even offered to capture regions and let them take them if they wish, but they don't want to be spread to thin. Look how long it too them to grind up one region with the small number of under a dozen players. They can't get to spread out or the rogue clans of US not on board (every nation including pirates has one or two of those clans). And no one is saying perfect match ups. All we are saying is hay does any one even use Santa Fe (south Cuba shallow that was Pirate at start)? Ok lets flip that and you bring your guys and we bring ours and fight. Who ever wins wins. Than the other flips it back over next week and we do another fight. It's not a regions that has a regional crafting bonus and I think it's just basic mats you can get there so it can be a buffer/DMZ region between two nations to just fight over. This stimulates game play for player sand give them something to do other than sit in a port and count there gold coins and mats....this game needs things for folks to do instead of being bored. Up there for a while there was zero port battles on all sides until the Danes got woken up (the sleeping dragon) and the Pirates started to get numbers back. When was the last time you seen 200 players We seen that twice in the last few weeks. The last time we had numbers that high was the silly treasure fleet events when they first came out the first two had over 200 players on. So something must be going on that is right if our numbers are up. Though as soon as folks stopped showing up and fighting the numbers started to dip back down. So guess who's not showing up and causing the numbers to go down. Cause it's not our numbers that are going down? It's the other side cause folks got on cause there was something to do. This works for all sides. If you stop doing stuff they stop showing up and logging out. Which means this whole ignoring us is only hurting the Nationals cause we are still getting tons of OW PvP right now. We have even started to talk about doing some arranged Small Battles on nights that no Port battles are arranged to get more folks out and playing. I been planing the small ship one for ever and just need to pick a day and weekend and do it. Notice who's doing this stuff? It's the Pirate players trying to get the server growth up. Look at Joba's March Madness post. We all ready have folks donating rewards from other nations. Though most of them are donated by BLACK Clan members as we are coming up with player content to give folks something to do. Please pass this on to your guys and encourage them to get involved.

The thing is him and Decken don't lead any one. I'm pretty sure they are the only ones in the clans they are in....

Well I did make a Baby Dane to play over there. Figure if we didn't get our numbers up it would be fun to have a national to play on the side without having to go to PvP1. By picking Dane it means I'm not picking a conflicting nation with the fights with Pirates.

Even more we even stream exactly what we are doing when we are doing it....lol

I'll add we did not want to hit Brits after the US cause they where knee deep with fights with Danes. We didn't want to push a two front war on them. When we make an operation we set a goal. A number of weeks or ports we will take and than it will end. I'm the one that picked the three Ports for the Dutch operation. We are not done with it cause it's basicly a cease fire cause you declared war on us. US didn't so we could stop and move on any time we wanted. We took the three ports as part of the operation and it is now on pause. Since you are not trying to take them back we are moving on to something we been wanting to do for a while That is get the Mort Buffer. I think we are down to the last few ports for that to be done. Other than one or two more ports on our list any thing else we put agro on will be to stir up PvP and won't be regions we plan to keep. Unless we decide to do some other operations in the future. As for saying Dutch should be one ported I haven't realy said that other than in one means. "If they are going to just ignore us than we should just drive them down to one regions." If ya'll aren't going to fight for them than why should ya'll have them. I'm sure Spain, French, Swede would love to have them if your not going to use them. I know ya'll made mention 3 regions in your little meeting. I been saying 5 to spur better health for the server. Most of the Pirates I talk to agree with this, but we do have some that don't care and just went to destroy every one. Every group is going to have 'Those guys' the difference is we have given them reason not to act upon that for now....but sooner or later.... If some of you put so much effort into your actual game play and fighting you would be way better set in game than you spend all this energy on the forums.

Port-au-Prince 4th Rate Port Battle: Zero Danes vs 19 Pirates This was a swap of regions through our alliance with the Danes. We asked for it to help get our stable zone around Mort. We did get a little fight right out side with some of the DD guys from US. I give the guys credit as they came out number. I forgot to screen shot that but it was a good 2 or 3 vs 1 match up. Yustapir, SKyHG and the third guy thanks for showing and PvPing with us. Sorry about the slight communication issue about your computer issues. Yustapir remember to buy some batteries for that mouse.

Also how do we test ships we would use. Every redeemable I have gotten have been pretty much a combo I would never us in a ship I would man that wasn't some random freebie. That and we can't even test the PvE missions cause they are all broken with very bad BR combos. I have yet to see any one actually score on any of them. I kinda stopped logging in cause it's hard to test things when we aren't given the tools to test them out. Been trying to get some other clan mates on to test some things too.

France has all ready been told they can take Trinidad if they want. It's up to them to grind it and flip it. It's not on the top of there list right now. It takes time after all. So before you speak about what we do or don't do shut up.....you have no clue what we have worked out with other nations. As for you resources you lost Mahog...which your alliance still has three more regions of. You didn't loose anything else you can't get from another regions around your others. Again isn't that the whole point of having an alliance?

Pitt's 4th Rate Port Battle: ZERO BRTIS, but 7 US did show vs 21 Pirates. We capped both B&C while the US took control of A at start. We had a few guys showing up late and was going to do some 1 vs 1 cause it was only 2 US players in the start. When more showed up we moved our B circle forward and had a little fun brawl. We almost had Lionshaft...I think there was a little bit of a gang bang going on him and he laughed about it. Maybe the next one we can get a few more US to show up. We pretty much gave up on seeing any Brits or Dutchs. They would prefer to go pick on small empty ports battles instead of fighting it seems. We figure most of them would go to Cayes and not show up for Pitts.

Good to have goals even if they are big. Though I think maybe settle with half of it for now until ya'll grow some. We don't plan to push pass a certain point our selves so Spain is more than welcome to own the east and south side of Cuba until they get stronger. Any help Pirates can give by screening and such we will give. Good luck and safe winds.

And remember we never said you had to break your alliance. We are only trying to get GB and US to so that folks can fight each other on there level since we have so many mid level players right now that need to get experience and level up. Dutch can stay with GB or US for all we care, but they should pick on and let the other pick up a small nation. Would be cool if US picked up Spain and GB/DUTCH fought as one team than you have the DFS alliance on the side. Than pirates can be happy with our current regions and get our PvP screen the OW. Maybe do a PB here in there in none important regions. Remember my match of 71 regions with every nation having 5 regions (counting capital) that leaves 31 regions for every one to fight over and we will have a more healthy server and numbers will go up.

I'm going to be bluntly honest with you since i been holding my tongue about this since we talked on TS that one night and I didn't even want to try to do that. Cause I knew what the results would be. You and your clan if you keep that attitude up will be nothing but a bunch of scrubs and prob will loose a lot of players. I know you all ready lost one member to the move and I'm sure you lost more than just that. UNKN lost over 3/4 of members (44 players with 11 going rat) with half those being active when we moved from US to Pirates. Unlike many folks that thought our whole clan moved which we didn't, just the very active PvPers that was sick and tired of the political BS in US. Kinda part of the reason you left Brits. Just we picked a different flag. If you just give up as fast as you seem to be doing over and over than your clan will never get any where. We want to see SMS grow and become a power in the DUTCH. That means we have more folks to fight in the OW PvP or the once in a while Port battle. Though we now gave ya'll the option to attack us instead of us pushing on ya'll. Some guys came out and we got some PvP last night which was fun. Though it is going to take more than a few guys to do that. But if every one else hides and does nothing the active PvPers are going to get bored and either leave the game or switch sides. If you want to keep them you need to keep the fights up. We are doing nothing other than giving folks content to play and keep busy, we are even telling them exactly how we do things and how to get there members back. It's not our job to hold there hands and walk them through. To be honest many of our clan members do want to just roll the map, but many of us remember how that didn't work and was counter productive to the whole server. So for now the majority wins on trying to make the server better, but we need the other nations to do there part too. Running and hiding and picking on the smaller nations is not you do it. I'm going to add one thing, I wish SMS the best of luck and hope they grow and become a good power house clan in the DUTCH nation. As I do for any other small clans of any nations. We need change an it's up to you guys since the older clans don't want to make those changes.

We been noticing that a lot even before they just stopped showing. There would be several others that could join we know was there just popping in and out. Looks like a good turn out, I wasn't expecting that many Danes showing up that far south. I almost showed with mine cause of that, but I needed a good night/morning sleep for once. I didn't even stay up past server maintenance last night like i normally do. Well lets hope we get a decent turn out at Pitt's tonight. It's 4th rates and we are welcoming any of the small clans to come have fun. If the numbers are way off and we are going to win it any way I'm sure we could arrange some equal fights in one of the cap circles so it's not just a curb stomp slaughter. So if any one is wanting the fights show up on the GB/Dutch/US to have some fun. Even if the big clans are telling you not to show.

Maybe that should be the next one: PvP2 Killboard: MARCH MADNESS

This really sucks cause I was really liking your news. Though I agree. Them just doing the hide and ignore is going to kill the server like it did back in November. Seems we are trying to do things to help the server, but they are doing every thing to kill it. Maybe it's time for the devs to just do a server merge. Cause we know they will do so much better over there lol.....

But the thing is ya'll aren't ever going to rank up and get better unless ya'll fight. Hiding gets you no where. We are giving ya'll the options and tools to get better. It seems the old timers don't want to help. We been very upfront about what we did to get our numbers back up and how come we are such good players. WE PVP ALOT, that is how you get good. Not by doing fleet grinds, that helps you learn the basic but it's not going to get you better compared to some one that does only PvP for the most part. We want ya'll to get organized and grow clan wise. We are all for the new clans to get into power and take over cause the nations need a change to get players back and growth in the server. Right now doing the same thing over and over isn't working. We aren't crushing ya'll so Dutch doesn't have to fear that. We took our three regions and stop after declaring we are done with our response to the war. You can kinda say we are currently at a Ceasefire with the Dutch. Where the only fighting will be OW and protecting those ports. We had a little PvP last night with some dutch that came out and tried to grind up one of the regions. That was fun and while it was only a few guys, that is how you get PvP. That is how you get better. Hell we even found the problem with trying to go into a battle when your past the end of the map....could of swore we went into the twilight zone or something. I would love to see more shallow water fights for the new guys. The problem is US/Brits own all the shallows right now so no one can fight over them. This is part of the reason we keep saying they need to break the Alliance between those two nations. If they do that than ya'll can fight each other in the shallows and get better and even pick a few 4th rate regions. Throw in the DFSS and let them get one region up there and ya'll can do shallow fights back and forth. Pick a region that you can do this with 4th rates too. Than ya'll can get more experience and get better and grow. You need to make content for your players or they get bored. Having an alliance and no one fighting means that folks get bored and stop logging in. Cause I'll be honest with you if ya'll keep the ignore the Pirates thing up. We are going to get bored and won't be able to hold back the very few that jsut want to roll the three biggest nations and that is what we will do. It won't help the server or any one and they will get bored and leave and so will folks that get tired or getting sunk cause of the big boys won't come out and fight the pirates and than we will be back to how it was back in November where every one lost players and the server pop was at it's all time low. But are all the GB/US/DUTCH now not even showing up to prime time battles cause they don't want to loose there first rates. They pretty much completely avoiding us. Yah we keep giving them the resources of how to fix there nations and they won't listen to us and try.

NO....I don't want my crew just to give up cause you hit me with a shock that breaks my moral bar jsut like a one shot moral kill in boarding. I should be able to pick when to sink and how far to push my fight if I want to. Though I do think this should be a feature of NPC ships. They seem to stay a float way to long after stripping there side armor that would sink any normal player. Than again this is prob cause they pretty much get all the mods in game. I wouldn't mind seeing the mag hits explosions once in a blue moon though. Now what we do need is a better surrender options. Like for traders to give up part of there cargo/fee/ransom and still keep there crew and ship. I would prob let a lot more ships go if there was an option like this. Why do you need to put them up for sale? Just do like most of my clan does. Donate them to new players or put them in our fleets until they loose the last dura or even just break them up. I would prefer to just give them to a new player than try to re-sale a half used up ship. While this is not a PvP2 problem I think one way to fix the guys that buy store made NPC ships and than jack them up in price and resale them, is to make them not able to be resold on the market. Now the Pirate Frig was one ship a lot of Nats liked to buy off us pirates and we would do this, and resale them in free ports, but other ships we left alone. Now that the P Frigate can be crafted by some there really is no need for this. Even though I think this should be a Pirate only blue print.

Very good gaming computer on my part and many other clan members. You do take a performance hit but it is a price to pay when your getting pounded on by three nations at once. Though I have to admit I see some very crazy talk in nations about folks being spies and mistrust on our server. Some of the stuff I hear they are blaming the wrong folks and running off good players. It's the spy's/alts that don't speak up and stir the pot you need to worry about. Most the time if they guy sin't being very noticeable an alt and he speaks utp, he prob not an alt and just wants to try something differently than the norm. I think we have a group of very toxic players that are doing way more harm than any alts or night flipping we hear the most complaints about. They are the ones running off players not what they keep saying is doing it.