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Sounds like we got some wife agro in this post going on....lol

I'll add something I mention several times. Why don't we tie them to your ships. That way it reflects Crew and Officers. So as you get a new ship you basically have green crew and new officers. The more you play that ship the more perks it gets. When the ship sinks you loose all perks. Same with if you trade it to any one. If you trade it back (like one time use) the crew resets any way. So folks will have to keep there ship longer if they want max perk on that one ship. This rewards the guys that actually do a lot of PvP over the guys that don't do much anything. Though you can get the xp from PvE too. As for the crafting perk make that linked to one region/port. That will be the players base. While crafting in that base of operation you get the perks you earn. If you craft a ship out of your base of operation it's the normal cost in labor hours and such.

This just came up in a convo today. We use to use REDEEMABLE XP from ships we crafted and others used. Well this is great for leveling up but the only use for it after you max out it was great for getitng your officer levers back. I tend to have enough to get my officer any where from level 5-10 levels when I loose one. So what the hell are we going to use these redeemable XP's for after the officer thing goes away? Maybe we could have a new system that if you hit so much xp it gives you something. Like every 1K XP can be turned into for a PvE mark.

What about the last few months when it was like 35+ US/BRITS/DUTCH at every port battle and pirates where lucky to get 15-20 to show up. They have an alliance they can use, but we don't so we can't get others to join. Sounds like that alliance isn't helping much at all.

What is a Saboteurs? Are you saying you had a bunch of alts on your side? Or did you have a lot of low levels that took battle slots? I'm confused, is this like a pirate lover? One of the problem I seen with nations is they love to blame each other for something they did as a team. Most the time they blame the lower level guys that doesn't know better or can't bring bigger ships. I see a lot of guys that can be in 1st rates in 2nd rates instead. It's only a hip and all this time your telling me no one has been making a bunch of 1st rates cause I know ya'll didn't bring them to fights against us and you have haven't been fighting the US so where are all your 1st rates? Oh they are at what ever port you do your PvE fleet grinding. YOu have two rear admirals in mortar brigs that should of been in a SOL. Save that spot for your lower rank guys to fill for SOL port battles. I bring a mortar brig for the Danes with my baby Dane since he was only rank 2. That is 60 crew and I was in line ship battles. So they can do it too. Hay I can't post every thing. I been slacking this week cause I had some computer issues and well just wanted to take a break for a week. Funny how ya'll are crying and that isn't a big lopsided. I mean 16 vs 25 isn't as bad as say 30+ with three nations screening and in the port battles back when we could only bring 10-15 guys. You get it one time and (ok lets say twice now) and ya'll are crying like a bunch of kids. I swear we went months of this stuff and ya'll get two port battles. Ya'll are just as bad as the US when we just took two regions from them. They had 20 others. You still have 13 others right now. You still got Strong Hull and can use any US or Brit ports so really that means ya'll have over 40 other regions you can use with your little alliance. Ya'll keep acting like your down to your capital port after loosing just one or two. That and I'm slacking...needed a break and Conan Exile kinda sucked me in for a few days. I'll be around for the port battles for sure but until I get this computer issues done others can post the results too. Plus we aren't running around bragging about any thing. Seems more like they did DECLARE WAR ON US PIRATES didn't they? So we are just brining the war to there home front. They wanted it so they are getting it. Yah I pointed out the mortar brig thing above, they could of been man by lower rank guys. I was crewing one with 60 crew with my baby Dane. They have had months and months to craft stuff, there is no excuse for them not to have 1st rates or back up ships. Hell some of them haven't raised ranks in ages that aren't rear ardmiral and I think they only log in to vote and show up for port battles to get there free stuff. I think they rolled light cause they expected like 5-10 only at that port battle. We figure they didn't come help the Dutch cause they where going for the easy rewards up north. Boy where they wrong lol

I only seen the pirates offer and one person posted the whale gives you pump, wonder what the rattlesnake does. Yah I been F11 them since the test server started the numebs and BR just don't match up. Essex vs two Trincs to demast them. You can switch the guns though, that is good. I'll have to mess with it more later today when I'm free.

you can come in and take control of the AI ships.

Ok I was all like, "These DEV's hate us...12 lbrs?" Now I'll have to retry it lol Well me and my clan on PvP2 are the main PvPers so we are the ones doing all that. It's the other guys that keep loosing or not using there ships. You don't bring lower SOL to f line ship battle and don't bring 5th rates to a 4th rate and you wouldn't get sunk so much. That is the problem with some of the other nations, they bring crap to a battle (store bought ships with no mods) and than wonder why they loose even when they have us out numbered. Though a wipe would honestly solve a lot of issues we are having and let us properly test the econ.

You want to cut down on first rates? DO A WIPE OF ALL RESOURCES AND SHIPS. Right now a lot of players are sitting on millions or even billions gold. Many of us have so many 1st rates and other ships we have to destroy them. Not to mention we capture just our clan several a week. We break up the ones that aren't worth crap. Right now the econ is flooded with bad system from the past so that many guys aren't worries about Regions to get there supplies or what not cause they have stacks and stacks of mats. I have some clan mates that have so much stocked up they can pop out a 1st rate every day.

Speakign of which I tried the demaset missions since it was the Essex. I used the gifted one which we have no clue what it's made of. It was given 12 lb Carros? WHAT THE HELL WHO WOULD PUT THOSE ON IT? 32 lb Carros maybe but 12 lbs? Than to make it even worse I get put against two Trincs. So once again I'm being out gun and out BR and I'm suppose to demast the two ships? I didn't even get one stern rake by time they had my armor stripped and my structure gone. Though oddly seems they where shooting faster than me and dead accurate since they didn't have Carros. There is no way the casual or average player would win this missions. If you demast them by stern camping you got the other eating you up, if you try to demast it by mast shots you can't hit crap with the Carros. Who though of combo of putting a single ship against two ships a BR level higher than it? I rememeber when it was a snow it put it against two Rattlers and same resutls. That missions should be prob like the Kill one. Where you go 1 vs 1 and demast it you win and a new ship spawns.

One of the big problems with LOOT from Port battles and fleets and what not. If they give you more than your ship can hold you can't trade it to a group mate or others. If you could trade the extra goods it would give a reason for some oen to bring an Indiman to support the group. Hell would be nice if we had some of a SOL level merchant ship too. Maybe a ship with half the cargo space of the INdiaman, but more guns so it can actually fight. As for the raid syste...oh look more PvE content. As you take more and more PvP content away. What the point even going on the OW any more? Most of us thought the raids would be more like the old flag system but better managment and only vs ports. Maybe even 15 vs 15 so they are like small battles instead of the big port battles. To be honest I would prefer raid system like that for pirates to have a port for 3-5 days instead of doing the regional stuff.

Naval Action 2 that will come after this game some time in the future. Which I don't even understand why they are even talking about it since this one isn't even out yet.

They have never been able to count, remember it's Dutch math. Not to mention the Brits and US was bad about that. "It was a 5 vs 5." Look at the screen and it's actually a 15 vs 5 cause of all the AI. Yah they don't count AI. lol

That depends if it's a PvP server or PvE. Either way on there we would have common goal of killing every one and than making them our Thralls.... Depends the char: My one dude on one server I just was playing would club you over the head and than eat you later. The Archer chick on another would have your back. You know cause Archers are best keep IN THE BACK. The chick is level 32, the man eater I just started today and is around 15. Not that I can't just pop onto a new server. So far I only been playing on PvE servers cause it's still buggy as hell and don't want some maxed out guy trolling me every two seconds since I'm solo playing. NOW BACK TO NAVAL ACTION.....OH I"M GOING TO KILL YOU....tonight....lol

Keep it up guys, I took the last two days off that turned into three kinda cause I got stuck in Conan Exile. I'll update the main page alliance stuff tonight after the port battle.

Star Citizen...I'm expecting it to start sucking my life away some time after summer if they keep on track. Who said Dutch has one coming? I keep voting for Spain, you know to give them guys love. Sadly that would be a short event.

That is why I brought up a reputation system of being a privateer. If you break it mid contract you loose rep big time and if you attack ships from one nation you will prob not be able to get contracts from that one nation. Some one could prob play it with a balance to remain fairly good faith with each nation to keep contracts going, but this would be clan base too. While the Outlaws/Pirates are the Privateers without contracts or they got to the point there reputation will not allow them to work with any nation. While on contract you can use the Nation ports and enter there port battle, but you can't join alliances port battles or use there ports. Your deal is only with the one nation. They can do something like the vote system for clans to get contracts with that one nation. Though it needs to be locked out some how so you don't have every dang pirate going one nation to help them as privateers. That and make the contracts weekly. I kinda like the system MWO use for Mech Units. You get less loot from high pop house/factions if you join them over high loot/credts/xp from low pop. While your not on a contract you can do raids as a pirate though. Cause basically what is a Pirates? Just a Privateer without a job.

That actually what I been playing the last two days. It's rough right now with a lot of bugs, but kinda interesting and something a bit different. And I'm not trying to be completely negative, but I get a feeling this is going to be like another game that I have been EA part of for years now... that has pretty much gone no where after a while.

Many of us in Pirates have almost all the BPs and than some. Hell I think pirates are the only ones with the gunboat BP right now that is active. If I didn't have that BP on my Pirate Alt I would prob roll him back to Spain. Since there isn't going to be a wipe that we know of any time soon we aren't rushing to switch to any other nations. I think a lot of others feel this way too. Hell we keep a few of the rare BP's a side to give to guys after they switched over. You be suprised how many chest you get doing things like Events PvP/PvE and port battles. To much stuff to comment in above but I'll say this. Danes PvP, they just didn't want to get involved int he RvR stuff until a new patch/content came along. So no they aren't PvErs They just didn't want to be busy fighting as a nation every night against such like the Brits and was happy just showing up doing OW PvP. Got to remember many people have moved on to other games. Some have went back to older games (they for some reason like Euro Trucker I hear). Hell right now I been playing around with Conan Exile. It's another EA game and I'll promise you when SC comes out I'll prob be no where to be found (as will a lot of my clan members). The regions didn't matter, they freaked out every time we treid to take Cap Frans or Barcoas back. If we had been successful they would freaked out and cried we where zerging. Funny thing I don't think most of the guys in game have a clue about this post. They are going to be in shock at tonight Port Battle lol We should all come in Niagara's or something silly just for the hell of it.

Privateers is what I keep trying to sale as the national like. That way they can join and help other nations and if they aren't working for a natoin than they are outlaws/Pirates. They don't own any regions, but have freeports to craft out of and the regions ports they raid. The privateer system could be a in game way for some one to leave a nation and than go pirate/privateer and than join another nation after working with them. None of this delete and switch over crap. Keep it all in game. Though they would prob need a reputation system put into place for it to work properly. Can't really join a nation you been sinking ships of as a privateer or national of another nation. This will cute out fence jumpers that switch nations faster than most of us change our undies.

Oh and thanks for not warning us that your going to lock us out of a port battle in the name of testing.....you had some (well maybe not) pissed off pirates. We might of had plans to set another port battle that night if it wasn't for that flip. There had to get some salty out, but hope the Devs fix that soon. And we plan to do more operations to come, don't think you nation is going to be safe. Hell we might even do a mini one against the French Just kidding but we still don't like badbenny so Swedes could be on the table, but we don't want to crush a nation for one or two players, that just not healthy. I'm really hopeing ya'll can get some votes change and just try things out. Yah I'm prob going to have one Pirate and one National (other than my baby Dan) if and win they do the complete reset and it will prob be Danes. I love the pirate play, but they really need to make us more like pirates and not part of the conquest system. I think if they did that and we had only a raid system you would see more nations fighting each other and pirates will just be a thorn int the side.

I prob should let you know what I went to college for after the military and before i got into the oilfield. History for teaching and minor in Psychology, but I was about to switched the two when I decided I needed a break from school. Thought about being a HS concealer but teachers get paid crap. So the question is who is hello kittying with who's mind? LOL I'll admit a lot of my most in global and here is to get the pot stired up and get folks doing stuff. Guys ask me why I'm so pissed off and I'll laughe and tell them I'm far from it, but if I get others worked up than they get out and do things. Sounds like CKA has a trend of stabbing folks in the back. They did the same with Pirates when we where at war with US for taking us down to 1 port and camping Mort and killing every one that came out. It wasn't until right before we had US down to 11 ports they attacked us so we shifted our fight to the Brits instead. Remember our actions have always been against one target cause of our numbers. We can't handle a two or three front war cause we don't have the numbers. Specially with the alliance system. Look at right now the Danes where happy with just doing nothing, they only started to fight cause the Brits attacked there two main econ regions. If y'all would of left them alone and I bet if you stopped attacking them they would go back to being happy and to there selves. Pirates was down to two regions. We keep getting picked on by US and Brits, but US was the one that keep attacking Kidds. So we picked them as our main target and took it to there home regions. We where planning to take the two regions on each side of CT as a point to prove what it feels like to be picked on. Guess what they still had 20 other regions. Folks acted like we one ported them when it was only 2 regions. The third one we didn't even expect to get but it was on our operation plans to get 2-3 regions and than be over with the operation. See how fast the US, largest nation crumbled when they only lost in two weeks 3 regions out of there 22? Now I'm actually thinking Brits are stronger than the US when it use to not be that, that is cause clans like SMS and ELITE are rising up to take the lead over CKA. Keep up the good work. DD and a few others hopefully will be doing the same in US. I really think it's time for out with the old and in with the new. How do ya'll not know if breaking the alliance won't help the server pop unless you try it. Every time there is a cool down and some one shows any force ya'll jump right back into it instead of seeing what might happen. You be surprised just how much we want to help this server out and get it back to growing instead of it being dead. There is a new voting cycle coming up, lets test the waters and see what it might be like without the care bear alliance at full. No on is saying go to war, but pick a region or two and play over it. I bet your numbers start to go up if you do that. Shallow waters would be great for the new guys, but US/Brits currently own all the shallows. I'll have the alliance system and regions updated by end of the day on the other post. Since it's a new voting cycle. Remember folks change is good. Nations that stay in there old ways and don't change tend to die off. Just look at your own nations and think, "could change help?"

Remember they also did one on x-mas eve mid day and than on NY Day mid day too. I think most of the pirates just flat out didn't show to those other than a few that had been on. We where not going to get the numbers any way at that time. That was pretty much the last two regions we lost putting us down to Castries and Kidds only. Also why we gave up trying to get a buffer and keeping it. Might as well fight when you have no fear of loosing a region cause you actually don't have any (well two) left. *SNICKERS* we be raiding instead of keeping....you should see how many Strong Hull Aggy's and l'Oceans I have pumped out this week alone for folks.

Which means and I hate to be the negative one about this, US players will remain to be locked out from playing RvR and doing port battles during there prime time I take it? Glad to hear once more that it's known issue and being worked on, but this sounds more like it might happen next year type of thing at the rate things are going. Just like about the time we might get some sort of pirate mechanics and not just a stupid semi nation thing.

I got my new theme song ready....