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Oh and I saw a third Spaniard this morning in the shallows and no I didn't kill him.....maybe Spain is finally growing. I told ya'll if you find me a gunboat BP I'll roll my other Pirate back to Spain after all.

That is why I say Dutch and Pirates have about the same. We have more prob over all, but we have close to the same active PvPers up till this week. We prob now have more if we can keep them interested. Stop the PvP and we will loose there interest again. Dutch could use a good alliance with one other nation, but I would say only one not the two largest. They would of been great if they paired up with the Brits. Even so I think just them and the US would be fine for most folks to fill out numbers. Brits did awesome this morning in the fight against Danes even out number they pretty much fought to the last man. They had a few stragglers and prob could of fought it a bit more defensively and held off the Danes.... If they keep it up and get structure I think they can be a force to fight. They just need to get out from under US shirt tail and do things for there selves. US has the numbers but the problem is no one wants to work with each other. If they ever got organized they could pretty much wipe all the other nations off the map. I really think they gotten to big for there britches and need to be knocked down a bit and that would force some of the clans to work together and become more unified, but they seem to use Brits and Dutch as there cannon fodder to fill battles that they bring pretty much 20+ any way and over match any one else they fight. BRIT vs US would be very healthy for the server to be honest and I think would get a lot more players back that want to PvP on both sides. We get to many defectors when it gets like this and it's not healthy for the server pop. Many of them will only last a short time and than hope back to one nation or another when they tend to win over others. US can afford to loose a few good regions. Kinda think it's good they lost one major region close to home and well maybe a second tonight (we will see). If we take Wellington tonight we will stop what we are doing and move on to one of two other nations. I think you can prob guess who is going to be next. I mean they did declare war on us and attacked our main resources of silver and copper after all lol....hint hint....but than again who knows what Pirates might do next. Well BLACK that is as we haven't gotten that far, but every one can be assured we are not planing to zerg the map. That didn't help our clan or the nation or other nations one bit. Hell when green on green comes out for Pirates I think we are going to be to busy killing each other for fun to worry about National stuff ya'll will need to find your own entertainment lol Does any one know if there is any regional maps that tell the counts for the nations like we use to have with the flag systems? I'm going to just pull the map up and count in a bit, but just wondering what the make out of the nation region counts per nation is for Elric's numbers up there.

Yah I kinda like the rep system on POTB but something more tweeked like that. So you have a PLAYER rep of your over all actions. So we can look up and see that one bad mother that kills every one and than than steals there daughters. Or we can see he just hates the Spanish and never has sunk a Brit, even though he's Danish and they are at war or something. Maybe some one that kills a lot of traders of a certain nation can't use that nations ports with a traders, but some nations might welcome him cause he kills pirates too. Even works for Pirates as some nations might have certain pirates they hate (instead of all pirates) and they hunt him down or his clan cause of there actions which might be they only fight Swedes and hunt in there waters. or you have the all out pirate that steals from every one. Rep gets to a high enough level you can get special paints and flags from those nations so it can be tied into admriality rewarsd spoken of.

I think this is more a reputation system than how to level up. I do think we need a reputation system. Maybe an over all one and than each player has rep for each nation.

First of that is not ganking it's call baby seal clubbing and if they are using like ships it's not even that. Baby Seal clubbing would be more they camp the newbies capital and killed all the basic cutters that come out. For the most part if I see a low level in a basic cutter I ignore them uless they attack me. I see a Rear Admiral in a basic cutter I'm going to capture his ship cause he prob running notes or something. A 2 vs 3 or 1 vs 2 is not a gank either. Yes your out number by 1 ship. I have been in a fight where it was 2 vs 6 ships and I sanked all 6 ships. Was I ganked? Yah since they had over twice the numbers. Do I complain? No cause skilled beat over lack of it and numbers. Hell I thought I was a gonner at the start of the fight, but I soon found that many folks that hunt in packs tend to lack skill or even will to fight. You start to sink them they run like cockroaches when the light is turned on. You don't back down they back off. As some have said it's a risk you take in this game. You don't want to be ganked than go play on PvE.

I kinda want to see how the new ships are going to be as they are planned to not have perm slots as you build that into the ship when you craft it and you only get 3 temp slots. I think that will fix a lot of these issues, but I have all ways wonder why can I cap a 1 dura 1st rate and I don't get to keep the mods on that ship. I can kinda get the multi dura ships, but give the mods dura so if you loos the ship you loose the dura. This way folks will use all there dura on the ships until the last one. Many people wil just break up there one dura ship instead of using it any more. I take my mods off mine and put them into fleet ships when I use them or I just break them up for the mats.

That Vict was the same one I lost in Cap Frances when Brits took it back from us. I have lost only two other first rates and only in recent port battles. Both them where captured first rates. I have yet to loose one I have actually crafted for myself. I still have my first Santi I ever crafted sitting in Mort just for old memories. I'm kinda glad Loco posted that link. Something been bothering me when I look at some of the names in recent port battles. The ranks of some of the players I see. Some of the older player aren't even Rear Admiral yet. It's like they don't even grind and it's not really that hard to level up all but that last rank. Well it's not hard if you do a bunch of PvP along with your fleet grindings. I might post the findings after I look through a few recent port battles just for shits and giggles. Ok I looked through my screen shots and there are some of the guys back than that still haven't made rear admiral out of those listed. A few have, but I thought was funny the ones that haven't are some of the biggest smack talkers for there nations and you never see them PvP on the OW. They only show up for port battles and are most the time the first to sink or run.

Sopped completely many guys stopped as soon as we got Brits down to one region and the patch was coming. It's funny they think they beat us but we told them we where finish and taking a break until they drop the patch at the end of the month (this was back in Oct). I mean we let them take every thing even kidds without a fight so you think some nation that took US to 11 prots and Brit 1 would just give up Kidds with no fight? Well Black clan didn't show for the fights. Than the patch killed it for many guys cause of the grind and to get PvP/Port battles and such. It was really bad at one time we where averaging 3-5 guys online a night there until recently and even some nights it was 1-2 guys logging in. Lack of PvP drives players away. PS that battle was my first in a first rate and I officially had changed from UNKN to BLACK clan in Pirates. I was so freaked out to loose that ship in that fight...lol

Yah but port battles right now are only 1.5 long so that means if you schedual it at midnight CST you will be done with the port battle 30 mins before servers go down at 2am CST. So that means the cut off would be 2am when the servers shut down, but even than they should drop the stupid 46 hour thing and make it 48 hours from when you hit 100% and maybe make the cut off at 12am CST (0600 to 1000 UTC) That will give the 4 hours window to keep them out of maintenance time. Any updates that take more than 2 hours any way would fall into abnormal down time.

Les Cayes 4th Rate Port battle: 11 Dans/French vs 23 Brit/US/Dutch http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/91598393268443349/24CC04023E3F126F92ABF115D28015E5917B24A0/ Pirates had 12 out side screening and we killed around 5-6 out side and we did hold off a lot of them as it was 11 vs 15 and right at the end we had a bunch in battles that made it in at the last minute. I mean battle was about to close. Sorry guys we couldn't have helped more. Good fight for those we got into fights with.

Unless it was a Mort Rat pirates sent zero to San Augustine. They had 25 inside the port battle and about another 10-20 out side screening. By reports it was mainly US/Brits, but there was even a one or two Dutch. Again this is second hand info so take it with a grain of salt. I know we had 1 guy that couldn't make it into Castries, but that was cause of the none BLACK clan members that joined. I believe we had 21 in that battle up and ready in our TS and some of them weren't BLACK clan members. Most I think we had on since the patch. We didn't even have that many at Kidds in TS, but that cause some of the Mort Rats won't get into TS. They filled the rest of that port battle up. I'll be honest I was expecting more to show up at Castries cause so many use that for silver. I mean really we been lucky to get 10 online most nights and there for a while you would only see 3-5 guys log on in a night. So yah the fights are bringing out the old players, still many haven't logged in or they only log in for the Port Battles. It's only been a week so I wouldn't count your chickens just yet about us bring back or not. Though we even notice a few none BLACK pirates have been showing up lately too. I still don't think the alliance is healthy cause as Elric shows with his numbers the alliance is still 3-4 times the numbers others have. I don't count pirates as part of the Dane/French/Swedes alliance cause we can't join there port battles and well no one can join ours. So that still leaves the majority of the player base that was on still US/Brit/Dutch and I bet ya'll could of fielded enough for both those port battles and fight. While pirates or the DFS alliance can only field one prot battle. I have also seen US field 20+ during both prime times for both US and SEA play times. They aren't hurting on players, they are hurting on folks willing to fight or even just lead. We been patrolling up the US coast line with groups of 2-6 players so it would be easy for them to get a group up and bring the fight to us. They constantly hit 152 (6th-5th rate mission) with 4th rates. While we are hitting 200 mission (curse SOL missions) with our SOL's. That is why our 6 players can grind the crap out of a region when your 10-20 players aren't putting dent into it. Hell Joba been streaming the whole thing so it's not like we are even hiding what we are doing.

LOL I know we butt heads a lot on things, but I'll have to agree on this one.

Yah today is day to update the alliance info so will do so. UPDATED

loo you better watch it...lol That was a lot of Hello Kitty.

Oh don't give me that excuse the server had over 70 folks on at that hour and that i more than we have had on when we had port battle. I seen the US/Brit/Dutch field in there alliance well over 20 at that hour. There where folks caught in first rates on the way or leaving so ya'll had folks there. We saw a lot of folks popping in and out so ya'll just waited to see the numbers. Sorry we have fought many times out number and won. Ya'll refuse to fight unless you out number some one. Castries ya'll could of field a good 20+ and ya'll didn't. I mean if ya'll did the whole flip to stop us from taking the US port than ya'll knew we would show up to that one and could of fielded a full port battle. There was well over 40 players over at Augustine. That is fine as it's a tatci, but it's a cheesy one that is used by cowards that don't want to fight against a smaller nation. Wow this starting to sound like the EU on PvP1. These are world wide servers and I seen well over 20+ remembers at the port battles at this time. The US/Brit/Dutch do have there own SEA/AUS players too. You just want to kill the game even more by splitting it up into a third SEA/AU server? You truly are just a care bear lol, I don't think you know what that word means. He listed facts as to why they are attacking at that time. It's there prime time and the US/Brit/Dutch attack during there prime time which is early morning for the Danes players. It seems your the one that is doing the ad hominem not him. He brought facts. He wasn't attacking you or dutch personally. ad ho·mi·nem ˌad ˈhämənəm/ adverb & adjective 1. (of an argument or reaction) directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining. "vicious ad hominem attacks" 2. relating to or associated with a particular person. "the office was created ad hominem for Fenton" We acutally wanted to push the after server flips to more this time, but that 46 hour thing makes it hard to stay up and help the SEA/AU players get a prime time slot as it's way to late for the rest of us. Same with the US prime time you ahve to start grinding before your main prime time players are on to get that last port battle time. Well we know know ways to do it without grinding for hours. We posted the mega fleet we hit that gave us over 40% agro with one fleet. We can flip ports in 1-2 hours with no war supplies. We have not used one war supplies since I think that last time we flipped Cap Frances in a prime time slot. We actually go out with 1st rates and do curse missions. ya'll go out with 4th rates and do small 152 missions. SOLS gives you more points. 10 SOLS give you alot of points (we have about 6-9 guys in the fleets doing the agro). We are using our small numbers to the max. US/Brits/Dutch can even see what we are doing on Joba's stream. We aren't hiding a thing. We are doing this cause we are sick of folks saying we are exploiting or hacking. NO WE ARE PLAYING THE GAME. I really thought the numbers of active fighting players for the Dutch/Brits would of made a good match up for them to fight each other or if they joined each other they would of been more stronger than the US. US needs to step back and take in some small nations....LIKE SPAIN. They can field just them self 20+ in all these battles in both time slots. I been posting these battles for one main goal. To show folks exactly how many folks been showing up to these port battles. I noticed all the comments about pirates numbers have gone down until recently. Cause we are showing we really only field 12-15 up till last week. Yes folks we are getting 20+ in battles cause a lot of folks are coming back to play cause of all the fights. Fights bring players back. People do want to fight. I hear daily from US and Brit players that want to fight others than just the pirates. They want to fight others with there skill levels as well lets be honest the Pirates are some of the elite PvPers. We dont' want to be the only one folks fight. We would be happy with just scheduling fights here and there, but until folks stop attacking our 2 econ ports (use to be 3) we will continue to strick at the heart of those nations. We will not sit back and just take it. A raid system as a means that isn't the PvE grind would really help the game I think. If they just take what they knew was abused by the flag system and tweek it it would make a great side way to have battles and another way to grow agro.

San Jaun Line Ship Deep water Port Battle: 0 US vs 24 Dans/Swedes/French http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/83717093918266895/982B6402EF9BD2CAA795C2BE26A8FCB52B441565/ Well there was some that keep peeking out of the port but no one entered the battle. Pirates screened and caught a Santi out side so they had come and brought some ships. Thanks the Santi will be put to good yes soon. Danes I think got some one after the fight. Is this going to be the norm now? Cause I think it's very funny that when it was Pirates they would set there alarms and show up cause they would out number us, but as soon as some one that can field equal numbers shows up there is no one to be found.

Get to the port early and set up. Real Life if a fleet was coming from some where else it didn't just magically show up. It's part of the game so get on early and get your ship to the port before hand

But the problem is we shouldn't be the only ones Nations fight. They shoudl be fighting each other too. We have no problem with fighting every one, just not the fact that no one else fights each other. I'll bring it up again. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME US AND BRITS FOUGHT EACH OTHER? AUGUST of last year. yes over 6 months ago was the last time the two largest nations on the PvP2 server have fought each other. There is something wrong with a game where one faction is the only one that is keeping the game alive. Cause I'm going to be honest with you if we didn't fight back and keep the PvP going this server would be very dead. I mean unless your into PvE and such. Just look how much the pop has gone up now that we are getting numbers to actually fight back. This should give the nations enough players to also fight back. Instead what do ya'll do? BRITS run and make an alliance with the DUTCH instead of fighting them or US. We haven't even really attacked ya'll other than run some agro up in a region that should be main hot red zones. You know since that is where the DEEP water PvP zone is at. Since we didn't want the ports we didn't even show up for the port battles and made it very clear we where not planing to.

See that is the problem. "YOU HEARD." Show me the screen shots of those numbers you keep coming up with. Folks blow things our of proportion all the time. I seen in chat folks say there was 10 pirates that attacked them all in first rates and it was only 4 of us in 4th rates and a Bucc. They just didn't want to admit they got sunk when they had us out number. This is why we take screen shots as proof cause you guys got really crappy math skills.

Yep they are a pair deal. Though he had to get more things moved around. We aren't even trying to get them, but we need numbers too and well like folks keep addressing this alliance thing and no one fighting each other is boring players and they want action. It was the same the last time we had low pop on the Pirates side and every one fought them. And folks might think keeping us out of a port battle is a victory, but they forget that we have killed over 100 ships over the last week. With a good chunk of those are 1st rates. To us we count our kills on the OW over all not what goes on in port battles and in there we have killed more ships than the other side too. Not to mention we are just feed up with being constantly attacked and being on the defense so we figure it's time to take the fight to there shores. And remember we said we will attack an allied each time we are attacked by some one in the alliance. Dutch keeps attacking us we will keep attacking US and soon Brits since they are now in an alliance with each other after reset. Remember folks we have made it very clear the regions we want for our buffer econ and every thing else is just for fun. It's not like you can't just flip it back after we take it. We where actually expecting US to get Savanana flipped tonight for a port battle, but I think capping and sinking a good number of ships after the port battles and our quick flip of N. Carolina gave us free time to go hunting for PvP.

30 Screeners? Maybe at most 10 if you add them together. You guys like to blow your numbers way out of the book. I only counted like a couple Danes and french myself. We actually spotted a lot more of you but you didn't enter the fight. 40 Pirates? Where the hell you getting your numbers from? We had 25 in the battle with one person that couldn't get in. That is a first for us. It's taken a lot of getting old players back and if you look at that list there are a few names that are recent recruits from other nations. Just cause some one brings 25 one time doesn't mean we had it all along. You have to remember the server pop is going up lately. In fact as of the 1st of this month since we stired the pot with these operations. The reason players have stopped playing is cause they got bored and nothing was happening. We are making things happen. Many of the players you see logged on in the last few days haven't been on in weeks or months.

San Augistine Line Ship Deep Water port battle: 25+ US/Brits vs 0 pirates Good turn out but one has to pick there fights and since it wasn't a home econ region we don't care about the attack. Got our PvP in the OW any way. Castries Line Ship Deep water port battle. 25 Pirates vs 7 Dutch/US We had a port battle for San Augustine for tonight, but since we only flipped it for the PvP agro fun out side we where going to pick our defense over a port we don't need or want. As soon as we logged in the Dutch escaped once there timer was up. I'm going to guess this is going to go back to the same way it was before. Can't beat us on straight up fights so they will pull 5 flags. That ok we only have 2 regions so while one is on cool down we can defend the other. Until than we will continue the fun of our operations along the US coast line. Than again we took 3 first rates today, sanked a ton of ships, saved Catries, flipped a port, stopped a port. Well I think it was a good day. I noticed some others where a little busy today too. Well it seems like a very interesting week. Oh and during the port battles the server pop was up to 206. Highest it' been since the patch and those crappy treasure events. Maybe a little war and fighting will spark the population back up......hmmmmm maybe that is why we keep saying thee care bear alliances aren't healthy. I think more fights means more players. Oh and ya'll want to know how we flipped North Carolina o fast? http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/172663186560291689/3724EDDC3104EB170F2867A4E6196AFC21BEDD70/ Yes that was an AI fleet we sunked in front of Willington. It gave us almost 50% of the agro (it was at 61% when we got out of the battle I was in).

I would say leave that server to crash and burn if they want to keep that way. If they where to think of a merger instead make PvP2 the test server with per-patches before PvP1 gets them. Let every one transfer all there stuff over to PvP1 and than do a wipe and let us start fresh. Maybe that will get more folks to maybe come back to play on it too as it won't be the same as PvP1 since it's the beta/patch test server of the two. As some games call them the Experimental patch servers.

We didn't mean to flip Port Prince it was all the guys getting killed that flipped that. Same with Cayes. We even made it clear we weren't even going to try show up. We build agro to get folks to come out of there holes and fight. It seems it's the only way to do it. Why you think we are taking the fight to US main regions. Funny thing is we only see the small guys come out and fight. Where are all this big clans that talk so much crap? NPG/CKA and such? We are giving the smaller newer guys credit for coming out and fighting. Well Danes fliped Port Prince this morning so it won't be us, but we might see if they want to trade Castries if they take it. Way better spot for us. Yah ya'll have another silver down south and you can use one of US three silver ports too. Well the Dutches. As for Dutch being to far, they been along the US coast so it's not to far, the truth is that is just a none important region. Though I just noticed that the allaince doesn't fall through until tomorrow. Hell I though it would, that good news for the PB's tonight. I'm kinda disappointed in Brits and Dutch jumping right back into that allaince. To be honest the allaince is nothing but a crutch cause as large as ya'll nations are ya'll should be fighting for your self not using each other. That and ya'll need to stop using each others regions and work on your own. Would be great if Dutch/Brit keep an alliance and gave US a little bit of a fight. The big boy on the block been sitting up there way to long and they only keep that spot of owning half the map cause no one else fights them. We honestly had been trying to make the morning battles a little later so it wasn't right when servers come up, but this stupid 46 hours later thing keeps making it a pain and the actual windows we can battle in. The where on, they just refuse to fight when they are going to be beaten. They only fight when they out number the other side.