Sir Texas Sir

I think if more fights where even numbers more folks will have fun and it will get more folks into doing them and not just crushing one side. To me that fighting a small odds would get boring fast. That and I think a lot of the new players would enjoy it and get better experience in fights if we keep some of them more even and small.

Yep and it doesn't help the same two nations won't break there allegiance. It's sad when the two largest nations haven't fought each other since AUG on the old system. Not a single port battle has been done between US and Brits and they have the largest population and number of regions and all they do is attack the small nations or well gang up against what pirates are left. Which is pretty much the only force strong enough to keep them at bay and even we lost almost all our regions to them at the start when we weren't even being aggressive this time around. Really think it's time every one just gangs up on them. Hell I know some Brits and US players that want to fight each other too, but can't cause the old timer care bear players won't break the alliance. They seem to want to play PvE on a PvP server.

I guess the Americans didn't get the memo? Well that and a few Brits. Good work glad to see ya'll got a crafting region now. Sorry it took that long though as we would of gave it to ya'll sooner.

Personally I hate the -2 hour part cause it means you port battle is two hours before you reach the 100%. It should all ways be when you reach that point not two hours before. This way you can control it more easily and well of the US players we can't get port battles half the time cause the cute off is 10pm CST for 8PM port battle. That is 6 PM for PST and most of them aren't even home yet.

re·sur·gence rəˈsərjəns/ noun an increase or revival after a period of little activity, popularity, or occurrence. "a resurgence of interest in religion" synonyms: renewal, revival, recovery, comeback, reawakening, resurrection, reappearance, reemergence, regeneration; More Really? So your saying we are getting a bunch of recruits or something cause I don't see our numbers going up any time fast other than in ya'll little imaginary world. Than again folks are getting bored and leaving there nations or thinking about it so it might just happen. Keep up the good work guys the Tri-Alliance is really working...lol

I think we can all agree on that part, but we won't go out of our way to kill a nation just cause of one or two players. On to the morning news. Les Cayes Port Battle Deep Water: 1 Pirate vs ? US/BRITS The one pirate wasn't even suppose to pop in but you can call it scouting if you like. We waited until after the battle and ambushed a group on the way back to La Navas. 10 Pirates vs 11 US/Brits counting AI on both sides. Our side lost 2 ships. Myself in and Endy (the gift one) and one AI. The Brits/US we fought had one ship sanked, 7 captured and three escapes. Thanks for the three chest we go guys. I think it was one each of the Notes, but sorry no BP's and we did get some nifty paints. It was a good fight though and I found I hate that gift Endy now cause it turns worse than a Trinc. Figure I bring it out and test it but yah I think that thing is getting broke up lol

I think some of us are waiting on update to fix the crash bug. I haven't been able to finish a fight cause i keep crashing.

Regions need to reset along with alliance after a set time to start the map over again. The will still prob fall back into the same alliances, but than it wouldn't be so stale as they have to regroup over and over.

While I need to test it, but Duncan noticed on the test server we can attack each other. I'll have to see if my Dan can' attack another dan, but if pirates can do green on green again on the test server that might mean those mechanics might be coming back.

Since we weren't allowed to go this is my two cents about the meeting and comments on. Hope some things got moved forward though. It takes baby steps and don't give up on getting changes and making things better.

I don't know what your reading, but we are welcoming them. As per the post of the first nights numbers killed in defense of Castries. Hell we had a blast getting the PvP and that is the whole point of us doing agro all over the place to get these guys out of there little home ports and to fight. Though we aren't trying to take any regions so don't want all out RvR war, we just want some OW fights. Those are very much welcome. The only thing we have a problem with is the tri care bear alliance that won't fight each other so instead you have every one against the Pirates and no one else fighting each other. Many others don't want this, they want to fight each other too. We are all for that, but we aren't for a tri care bear alliance. Dutch can bring it. We can handle just a fight against them, but when you throw in Brit/US crushing on us at the same time than we loose players, they loose players and the server becomes dead and it prob gets merged. I really think that is what some of them want. They will be in for a rude awaken as PvP1 is no where like PvP2 and you won't have all them safe little dots in US/BRIT over there as they have any where from 5-10 port battles a day at times. Pirates should never be the only goal for all nations. Yes if we get to ZERGIng the map than they can do there little tri alliance. That should be with any nation if they own the majority of the regions the other nations should be fighting against them. Remember British and US has not fought each other in a port battle since August last year and they are the two largest nations. Since the Devs like to use this link and they have stated we are a Nation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Pirates Until such time as a mechanics come out that we don't need regions to build stuff and to have ships than we will continue to want to have regions and will continue to act as a nation. Once outlaw comes out than we rill prob be all going OUTLAW in the BLACK clan. Until than we will continue to protect our Regions. and try to get our little buffer. But if we are talking historically most pirates where Privateers for one nation or another. It wasn't until the wars where over and there was nothing to do that many of them turned to full blown pirates. So peace means more pirates. So the nations not fighting each other is the cause for the pirates. Ya'll start to fight each other you will prob have privateers to help you and a lot less pirates. So peace is the problem....every one SHOULD BE AT WAR. There your pirate problem solved.

Good write up, but it more explains how we fought before the patch when we had numbers. I'll be honest to you it was mainly one clan with 15-20 active players that brought US to 11 ports and Brit to 1 port. Now we are about 5-10 guys if we are lucky to get that. Yes we have what we call the Mort rats (all the other guys doing there own thing). Remember before patch there was COM and ZILCH in the Pirate nation. One went to PvP1 and the other faded away. Since we can't field 20 first rates any more with he Iron fleet we switched our ways of fighting. That and well it's more fun to keep it to OW and PvP than some big port battle where it's 35+ against like 15 guys. We have been averaging 12-19 at port battles with Kidds the only time we have hit 25 since the Patch came out. While all the other nations are rolling 15-25+ every port battle with only one alliance and 35+ with all three nations. It seems we show up with more than 5-8 guys we are apparently back to our old ways and zerging the server.

Crap this was suppose to have been postd in the other one....lol Just was checking to see what norfolk poasted and noticed this was in the wrong thread. Sorry to have posted off topic.

Pounce 4th Rate Deep Water port battle: 25 Dans (4 Swedes) vs 25 US (With a mix of Brits and Dutch.) Wasn't there but chailang posted this. Looks like they did a good job of getting there port back. All ways good to see when it's more a brawl than just some folks capping out the circles. http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/159151301105575485/97B1795D4900F82AE71CBA39A39920DDF78EB03D/

For Pirates the run from Mort with anything Pirate related to La Tort to sale (find out what the free ports demands is) than buy anything except pirate goods and bring them back to Mort. You can easy make a couple millions in a couple of hours. This is a risky run, but prob the most profitable in the game as the two ports are so close and other Capitals don't have free ports so close.Though it might be safer to just go from one capital to another in the newbie zone if your of a nation that controls most of the shallows. As for produced goods ask in your nation chat or even global what folks might want. I'm trying to spur some econ for the newer guys by putting up buy orders for coal in Atwood and other places so I don't have to buy or produce it. Things like this other folks might need. Compass wood is a big demand right now. Make some Fir and Oak buildings and produce them both. Fir can be turned into tar and used for speed builds and ships. Oak is used for many things so it's prob the most useful one. Get compass wood as a by product and if your not building ships yourself other might buy it off you for a good price. Raid AI traders or even players is another way to make money and get goods. And remember ask folks. I might be a bloody pirate in game and will steal your trader in a heart beat if I catch yo in the OW, but in global (I never remember to turn on Help) or nation chat I try the best to help players out even if they are from other nations. We where all noobs at one time or another.

You ever been around my crew? They be a bunch of drunks...lol

It was a 3 vs 4 fight with one more out side so that is 5 Pirates in that area. I had been grinding fleets when we hit the Sanit, just came out of it up north. We had 1 or 2 doing the agro south. I think maybe one more was doing missions too. That would mean we had like 8 max. We counted 8 Dutch out side Castries. That sounds more like equal numbers to me. I have all ways said the Pirates and Dutch are about equal since the patch. Never said we had more or less. Been very clear about this as ya'll keep thinking we are the strongest nation. There is a big difference when you have a small organized group and then play well. Compared to large numbers with no clue how to work with each other. Now lets say it was 8 vs 8 the big difference is almost all our 8 are veterans players. When you take that into account that is like having 12 vs 8 in a fight. That is why when we are out number something like 10 vs 15 we have won with little to no lost. Experience means a lot. We also have our ports spread out for a reason to respond to things quickly.

The Desc on the perk says when you are out number. I think it's not exactly BR based. I think it's up to close numbers as I remember the devs saying it's not exact it's up to or close. So when it went from 4 vs 1 to 4 vs 3 that kinda even it out compared to what was it at first. I was actually expecting at least one more Dutch to have gotten into that. Though it would of been something smaller than a first rate as that would put the BR over the attackers. As stated before it's up to or close. As for being out number. I can show you tons of screens where Pirates are out number and out BR and still won with little to no lost.

And stil the three largest nations are a bunch of care bears that won't fight each other. So who you going to crush next since Spain has no more regions. Going to take the Danes, French, Swedes to one region too? Really you do know how you get folks out to do PvP? You put agro on a region and get folks to come out and PvP in OW. IF you don't put agro on a region than they won't come out. We haven't flipped any of your ports and you even said OW was free for PvP. QQ

Pretty much that went out the window the moment there was US in that port battle and they showed up to every US/Brit port battle to either screen or join. So them so call declearing any war with us is funny. They been going against there own words since that deal was even talked about. Sounds like they are afraid of a little agro and PvP. None of there ports have been flipped and well we can't control every pirate out there. Might be some rogue pirates. Oh you better take away all our War Supplies ports or what ever those are. Which by the way I won't denie we have built ships for folks with no regions to build them, but we have not given any one war supplies. They can us smuggler flags and go into any port and get that there selves. None of the port battles we screened you out of was your home ports. It was zones you said you wehre going to give back to the Swede/French any way. So we helped them out since they don't have numbers and small nations. It's not like we care, every one is at war with us, that will never change. Hell I bet that is exactly what will be talked about tomorrow in there little secret meeting. So go ahead and go on your little war path and see what happens to your ports than. PS: I guess it's ok for ya'll to all ways screen US/Brit battles for them too, but we can't screen for others? I mean like they really need 35+ to beat our 10-15 players that might show up....ya'll just crack me up. A bunch of sorry cowards that can't even fight your own fights unless you out number some one twice as many.

I can't remember which one it was but it split my army putting my arty and cav south in one area that was attacked first and the rest north. I couldn't pick how goes in ether group. I think I will have to do more mixed up divisions. I kinda like having an all arty unit or a all cav to make it easier to control them all at once. So in other worse my Arty will all ways need a support Inf unit with them or something.

You safe I'm going to make me some lunch;)

People really don't understand how wars of attritions work. We don't have to show for the big battle if we are doing more harm with the skirms before and up to that battle. Just look at many other wars it was done with. French and Indian, Revolution, Civil, Nam.....it wasn't all ways the bigger better supplied Army that won things and you didn't really have to make it a big fight to do the harm. Take out supplies and resources where it hurts. Though for us it's more just the fact to get folks out to PVP and that isn't some event is why we drive agro up. 99% of the fight is won in the head and not on the battle field. And since there is no thing as total victory in this game so that even if we where pushed back to one region just like other nations we can still fight. We just fight a different way. Can't bring numbers to port battles cause of the alliance than we just keep the fights to OW and pick the ones we want to be in. And well we are pirates so what the hell you expect us to do, fight like Nations? Ya'll complained about our Iron Fleets in the past so well we don' thave the numbers to roll 20 strong in 1st rates so we are going to fight like pirates do. Hit and run, hit and run.

It even tells you to cut them off and work them down before they get to the fort. The more you kill on the way the easier the fight should be. I guess the other thing was to just rush and beat them to the fort. Many a battles have been won over time by just who got there first.

PORT BATTLE Port-au-Prince 4th rates Deep Water: 0 Pirates vs Who knows how many Brits and friends. Sorry guys we all sleeped in. We never even plan to do a port battle here but when we where grinding it up to get folks to come out and PvP we sanked a bunch of players and it flipped it. While we don't plan to do any port battles any time soon so you can just figure out if you want to show to any flips or not. Maybe we will show maybe we won't. We won't be loosing any sleep over it. Now it's up to you to see if we show or not, maybe we will show at one time or not. It's not like you can't just flip the port back later during your prime time. Of the 4 port battles that are scheduled I will be honest to say that Pirates only plan to maybe show up to screen them and no intentions to show up other wise. Even Cayes don't expect us to show for that one. WE figure if you want to wake up and get your free Paint and Ships than that is your right to do so. Thanks J14 Para for this screen shot. http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/155773601381331779/7CC2CFF9AAEE539227B444473FC2A77CD2D52189/