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Political situation PVP 2 US (Inter Clan) Information is from players (Inter clan), updated weekly and daily if needed. This is the same sort of format as the EU political Situation thread. The Diplomacy part presents the attitude of the nation's major clans towards other nations. Verenigde Provinciën: Espana: Neutral France: War Great Britain: Alliance Verenigde-Provincien: Danmark-Norge: War Sverige: War United States: Alliance Major clans: DWIC1-6 - Dutch West Indische Compagnie NPV- Nederlandse Protectoraat Vloot SMS - Reichsflotte Danmark-Norge: Espana: Neutral France: Alliance Great Britain: War Verenigde-Provincien: War Danmark-Norge: Sverige: Alliance United States: War Major clans: CCCP - CN - SORT - Pirates: Espana: Neutral France: Neutral Great Britain: War Verenigde-Provincien: War Danmark-Norge: Neutral Sverige: Neutral United States: War Major clans: CBP - BLACK - Black Flag BLANC - French PvP1 players BLOOD - Blood of Black HYDRA - SOB - Sons of Black TFG - Great Britain: Espana: Neutral France: War Great Britain: Verenigde-Provincien: Alliance Danmark-Norge: War Sverige: War United States: Alliance Major Clans: AGW - CKA -Canadian Kicks Ass- Cordova BCS - British Commonwealth Sailors BRA - ELITE - ?- Norfolk nChance MINE - Sweden: Espana: Alliance France: Alliance Great Britain: War Verenigde-Provincien: War Danmark-Norge: Alliance Sverige: Neutral United States: War Major clans: RISE - ISN - SS - USA: Espana: Neutral France: War Great Britain: Alliance Verenigde-Provincien: Alliance Danmark-Norge: War Sverige: War United States: Major clans: ACDC - ASP - BSR - DD - Detroit Demolition IGG - NPG - No Pants Guys MARS - France: Espana: Alliance France: Great Britain: War Verenigde-Provincien: War Danmark-Norge: Alliance Sverige: Alliance United States: War Major clans: SD - SINK - Sink or Swim Spain: Espana: France: Alliance Great Britain: Neutral Verenigde-Provincien: Neutral Danmark-Norge: War Sverige: Alliance United States: War Major clans: note: If anything is wrong please reply or PM! Major clan= edit* no restrictions* *** Mods can we have this replace the current sticky post of the same topic. It's out dated and the old player that started it is no longer active so it's not getting updated. With that and I know Blackthorn/Decken had a clan one like this he was doing, if folks can post there clan info I'll go through this list and update the info. For clan info please send me a PM instead of posting it with your clan info that you want to post. Numbers can be optional but if you want to give current active numbers it might help with new players that want to join one clan over another. The main thing is to let folks know who the players and makers are for each nation.***

Mainly cause when out number you need the combat ships more than you need the mortar brig and if your in smaller ships they are hard to hit. I was suppose to bring one tonight to Savanna port battle but I was up all day moving stuff and fell a sleep before the port battle. That and well a lot of folks just don't have the gold hand books (I have an extra one) and know what all to set up or how to use them. bullet log? Is there a way to go back and look after a battle? I know you can control L to look at t log while in a fight. Danes have all ways held half of southern Haiti and with that being there Hull Strength region I don't think you will push them off. They going to fight for that one for sure. Remember they only have three regions So it's not like if they take a region or two it is going to hurt any one, just strength them a bit. They prob will be happy with doing a trade over of Cayes for PB's back and forth. Remember Pounce is the only source of Silver for the alliance over on that side so they will fight for that hard. It might be good if ya'll let them have a few regions that aren't important. We would of gave up San Juan eventually to them if we didn't take northern Haiti-. We just need more regions before we can give up any regions to the small nations. Hell I don't even know who the combat leader is. I only speak with a few of ya'll. Your just the most well known name of the Danes lol

Can't do that as there has to be some window that we can't fight cause of server maintenance but if they just make that window smaller I think it will improve things.

When will the US players get to do port battles during there prime time (which we have a PvP event during)? Will RvR regional conquest get a reset so that nations allainces don't fall into a stalemate and no one doing anything? When will the pirates mechanics start to be seen? We get to see a little in test, but i think it's time they get some more love. Why not make Pirates privateers instead of a nation (still do outlaws though)? When will new ship crafting mechanics come? are we going to have a wipe any time soon to test new econ mechanics that have came out and changed? We can't test an econ if every one is sitting on tons of stuff.

All they have to do is move the window of 0400 to 0900 UTC to something like 0800 to 1100 UTC I don't get why it's 5 hours long when even updates aren't more than 2 hours long. This will give you prime time port battles for US players and it will make sure no port battles will start before the server maintenance comes back up. With the 30 min restriction on log out for Port Battle join means we can't join when servers come back up if we flip any ports for right after maintenance cause we will all have to wait 30 mins unless we are defenders. Cause attackers have to log out close to the port before the servers go down.

The first battle and exit to OW all ways takes a bit longer to load than the rest, but it's getting where I some times don't even load in until the prep timer is almost over and battle starts. Was getting little stutters last night too.

Since we tend to leave the main Danes to do what they do best I asked the Swedes for support before the fight on the East side. I knew with wind it would be a place you send a few ships to cap it. I think if they had started on that side even if it was 1 or two ships with me it would of held ya'll off longer and I could of moved to the Forts. Towers are 50 points a piece and there was two of them before I even got to the forts. Though the second one was tucked way back into an enclave that I was going to just skip it and go for the forts which are worth 150 points. I can take down a tower in about 16 hits, so if it's perfect that is only 4 volleys from the mortar brig. In good hands they are very effective and I have a special build I use on them. The Forts take about 60 hits to destroy so they take a bit longer to take down. I thought it was a pretty good match up on both sides and it was more the cause of experience and team work on the Danes side that won the match. Ya'll keep it up that gape will close up more and more as ya'll fight more matches. I did get one hit on one of the ships, but forgot to check the report to see how much I did to him. I have taken out an l'Ocean before with the mortar brig. So in the right hand they can be a big pain, but they are easy to take out if not escorted and protected.

Les Cayes 4th Rate Deep Water Port Battle: 19 Danes vs 16 Brits Pretty good numbers and Pirates caught three ships out side that was on the Brits/US side that didn't make it in so it was close numbers. The cap circles where exchanged hands with Brits controlling them the first half of the battle. The battle was won by 1K points earned. 1 Dane sunk (my mortar brig) and 9 Brit/US sanked. I was only able to destroy one tower so prevented from getting extra points by taking out the forts. Screen shot by chailing (he was faster than me). http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/159151765539994996/34666A939549D1CDD413E198273D6092501D2388/

lol you got 'HELLO KITTY" I got it the other day in a group PM and I normally try not to cuse but figured since it was a PM between a few of us. but wait aren't you DUTCH?

I'm not going to point fingers on this, but I hear a lot of folks that just seem very paranoid about things like zerg, pirates, spy's and such. I mean I hear folks being accused of being spies all the time on Nationals chat and I laugh cause it's the guys that don't stir the pot or make you notice them that are prob the alts of players.

I feel that US vs Brits would be a very good close match up. I think Pirates and Dutch are pretty equal in numbers too. The Danes are an odd one cause they only really play in one time zone and they really aren't aggressive unless you keep pocking them. I think they are fine with the Dane vs Brit exchange. If you look at the port battles in the morning and eve, us still can fill more than pirates in both time zones. They are the largest nation, they shouldn't be aligned with other big nations, they should have a small nation under there wings. To be honest if Brits, US and Dutch picked up a small nation it would balance the servers out a lot more. Than there would be way better fights and balance. You hit on the nail with the fact folks don't want to change and try to make the server better. To be honest once Pirates is down to Mort, what is next. Danes to one port, Swedes to one port or france? Than who will fight who? I bet you the care bears of the US/Brit/Dutch will keep there alliance and just not fight any one other than a few little struggles here and there cause they seem to be happy with that. Pirates should be the thorn in folks side and yes if they get uppity and zerg (not just try to take a port or two back) than I see no problem with an alliance to stop that, but it's not happening and no one else really is fighting. More and more players are getting bored and either stop playing or switch to the more powerful nation cause they are tired of getting grindined on by way out number odds.

What you don't get is that is it.....there are no other players other than a few little Mort Rats/Random guys. The funny thing there was never 50 pirates killing ya'll. It was 15-20 guys which most of those aren't playing any more.

I was agreeing with you by adding my own view.

Specially when your not even trying to be the aggressors and the big three do nothing but fight small nations trying to just hold on to one or two regions. I been posting these Port Battles for a reason to let folks know how they went and to document exactly how many shows up on each side. There for a while folks keep saying we all ways had more ships. This was said over and over when we had numbers and if you saw every PB screen shot most the time we where out number but it was more like 20-25 vs 20-25 on each side. Not so lop sided it is now. And both nations we where fighting (US and Brits) had the player base larger than ours. It was not our fualt folks just didn't want to show to support there own ports and it wasn't the new players not showing it was the older players cause they had the mentality we can loose one port, but we can take 3 more back every night. As US took ports while Brits loosed them and they could just share ports. So truly when Brits was down to one port they really never was cause they could use all US ports. Well Pirates can't use any one regions and can't have allies join in there port battles. We been very clear about our intentions to keep just a few regions as buffers around Mort and that was it. Really if ya'll are so proud of your fighting and want to get better FIGHT EACH OTHER.

San Juan Line ship port battle - 11 Pirates vs 25 US/Brits/Dutch As stated before we can't support 25 every night and had to call in folks just to get that last night. So well when your 2 vs 1 odds you get rolled. Even if you just count the US that is 14 in the port battle. I have no clue what was out side. Even though some folks said they where late cause they got tagged by a few Danes/French out side. The point brought up above is it doesn't matter if any one gets tagged or not by screeners when we don't have other nations to fill our slots to keep it 25 no matter what. US/Brit/Dutch do. The sad thing is ya'll lost 6 ships vs our 7 with you having us out number that much. Well have fun with your your alliance. I'll prob be seeing ya'll at Kidd's soon.

We didn't have any issues with French, it was more the fact they didn't have a PB at the time and we wanted to jump in and help the other nations of the alliance. Prob would of all stayed french, but we had more interest and backing with clan mates to make a clan in Spain instead. We still plan to support the French and the Swedes. Though remember our main interest is still going to be PvP2 not PvP1. Though we have all ready been pestering the US up in the shallows. It's fun to pop on a different server and just not worry about politics and such and than log out and not worry. I would say some PvP1 guys should try it. I'm sure a lot of you don't get into Port Battles during your prime time and wouldn't mind fighting them. Could help on the other server and also can help recruit some new guys to help back. That is how we got the interest to help french cause one player got 4-5 of them to come during SEA/AUS prime time to help out in fights. I'm 40 years old and haven't been a baby in a long time. So I would prob take offence to being called a baby anything. That and maxed out level and rank so it's not like I'm new to the game. Started on PvP1 when EA came out. I mean just look at my steam. I got over 3K hours in game with this account and my second one has almost 2K. So yah what might not look like a joke or insult to you might be to others, but I'm not thin skin so I would just laugh it off and move on. I will have to say the members from Swede and Danes have since contacted me about offering help. The problem guys is first impression and it wasn't those that was the first impression I got and other players got from folks in your nation.

I started on PvP1, but when they mirrored it and it had a que to get in I went to PvP2 and have been here since. I have all ways keep an active char, but I can simply reroll it over there. This week I changed it from US to French and then to Spain cause some of us are thinking of going and playing during US prime time for there port battles when it's slow on PvP2. That and well hate to say it if we got rolled to one region most of us are so sick of the alliance we where just going to go play over there. Let them crush the other small nations and kill the server completely. Yep got to get the free stuff when they come out so I keep one active char on each of the servers. Not that I ever do anying thing one PvE but I have chars there and redeemable I have never redeemed.

Exactly to me 5-6 is get home, have dinner and do some family time for most folks That is why we use to do the flags around 8-10 CST so it was more rounded and better time for folks to be on. They really need to fix the port timer thing so we can have later fights. They know it and Ink has even addressed me they are WORKING on a solution.

It was like 178 logged on during the port battle so I'm going to bet a lot of folks came out that don't normally log on. I don't know who all was out side that the Danes tagged, but by our count there was about 10 or more in a fleet. It helped for us that a lot of guys us that port for Silver and I actually expected more of the Mort Rats to have shown up, but that just a sign the numbers aren't what they use to be or what every one thinks the Pirates have. I'm really getting tired of folks saying we have the numbers. They just can't get it in there head we aren't the same Pirates from back 3-4 months ago. Even back than we where way out number by US and Brits. Instead of attacking low pop nations though they need to attack each other (US/Brits) . Even better take those multi green dots and tell us which ones they don't care about and lets fight over those. Yah it was a nice turn out, but folks need to get it in there head that it won't happen every night and if you want that nice of a turn out the battles need to be during prime time for all US not just one time zones. US and Brits like to do theirs early EST eves when most players on PST aren't even home from work. Since we can't match there numbers at those times we do the SEA/AUS flips to get a better more even match up in PB's.

Captured ships should have what ever the ship had when captured. Though AI's should be random. Though why don't we wait for the new ship crafting stuff when ever they plan to release that cause it's suppose to drop mods down from like 5 to 3.

Last night at Castries we had some really bad lag spikes. I mean I honestly thought for a second we where on PvP1 lol. The ping didn't seem to move, but you would fire and never see a shot until like 2 secs later. I heard PvP1 been having some lag issues yesterday and I think PvP2 had some log in issues. Not sure what's going on with there servers and seems odd both are having issues at the same time.

The last few fights where pirates where attacking and we had close numbers we did fight them to get the circles as they had control of all or just two. Than there where folks sunk. The problem is the Dutch/US/Brits on PvP2 and there little alliances mostly PvEers that don't fight. So they won't go into a fight unless they out number you. They had 1-2 more than us, but if we start to sink any of them in a fight like that they all start to run. It's why they have to bring 35+ to a port battle when we can normally bring 15-19. This is the second time we almost had full on our side cause we don't have an alliance. They all ways have more than us with the alliance and we still beat them most port battles that are close in numbers. If it's not close in numbers we tend to loose cause the cap out circles gets to 1K, but we end up killing over twice the ships they do even though we are out numbered. That and we do study the ports, check the winds before the battle and come up with a plan of attack. I think they just haven't figured out how to do them yet cause most the time it's 12 vs 25 and we just fight it out in one circle or the last two we accidentally flipped killing them while they grinded down agro and flipped the ports so since we had no intention to show up we just waited out side until they got out and fought a few of them and well got there loot that way. There is more than one way to fight a fight after all. Oh on PvP1 we had some goes pop over after the port battle to goof around. We been killing a lot of US players around Sandy point. It's not diff rent then PvP1 there they come out with there silvers all expecting nothign and than tag. Even better now since we are at the Spain port instead of the pirate and we catch them going to shroud cay. Give us a week or two and you will start to see us more on the US prime time. Clan tag for [BLACK] on PvP1 is [LOCO] in spain. Kinda a joke in hopes of one of our players Loco Bandito comes back....we miss that crazy AUS.... That I have warned the guys that haven't gone over there to test it out we will have to start changing some battle plans. Really I like the longer time to kill for the simple fact ships do go down to fast some times, but the problems with the other folks on PvP2 is we noticed they bring Cedar speed built ships to a fight and wonder while they shoot our sails they are sinking cause the blow there broadside out. Than we repair our sails and run down the ones trying to run and escape. That and many a times we find out they bring crapppy store bought green ships aned than wonder why they loose even though they out number us. Most store ships are going to be made of sub par wood for a brawl fight.

I would love to see a few other expansions of around that time period. Like the revolution war too. I got to say it was very much worth the 25 I paid on steam sail and it's not even finished yet. I'm kinda hoping it might get some mod support too. So you can do special missions/battles and such that players can make.

While some one mentioned bad wind they could of enter on the north and south side more to get better wind. We been noticing that a lot in the port battles that folks bring very soft ships. We think it's cause of the meta to have fast speed ships to run folks down or more likely to run away. Or in this case to run to the cap circle first. They had a bunch of extra guys at "C" that weren't in the circle or trying to fight that could of stopped our cap of that circle. It was stopped for a bit when one of us got out of the circle, but we fixed it real fast. The waiting t hing killed them at Kids. Until the new stuff comes out that is on test server really to win an attack on equal numbers you have to be the aggreser as the defenders all ways going to have an edge starting with "A" and gaining cap points.

That is what happend to most of the BLACK clan members we use to have 15-20 on every night easly. Now we are lucky to get 5-10 unless we call folks up and bug the crap out of them. Than fill in the extra numbers with the Mort Rats and that is pretty much the same guys you see over and over. That and we stopped dual boxing too, for the most part.