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I made my extra Pirate Spain when I started him just to try out a low pop nation, there was only 5 Spanish at that time. Got bored and when every one took them down to less than 5 ports I just rolled him over to pirate cause it was more simple that way. If he didn't have the gunboat BP (hint hint who my pirate alt is as ;). I would prob re-roll him back Prob if they ever got number and if they did a whipe. I plan to have one National Char any way when the game release, but was going to do Pirate on one server and National on the other. I did recently make a baby Dane since I figure that would be a better nation to fight with and not have to worry about BP's and such or being called a Pirate alt in a nation. I even made it very openly clear it's my Dane alt. I still think I should of just named him Lil Texas lol. Oh and let me know when your on what your Pirate name is. I can drag you into the the BLACK clan. We could use the extra help of a few more good players that aren't afraid to fly the BLACK FLAG. That is cause when you have a three way alliance (or even two) with the largest nations and no one fights each other. Folks get bored, so your PvPers re-roll into a nation that fights folks. That is why Pirates tend to have the better PvPers and not a bunch of cry baby care bears PvEres who refuse to fight each other. Do you honestly want us to roll into a nation? If we did and it was a small nation we have exactly every thing we have right now that we had as pirates plus we can have alliances with other nations. So say we rolled Spain. The whole black clan. Than we do an alliance with Danes. We fight at eve and they fight at morning and we roll the map. We both can pull in say swede and France to help the little guys so now you have the 4 smallest nations with the best PvPers rolling the three largest care bear nations with a bunch of PvEers. You see how this won't solve anything?

Most providers have some one on 24/7 call if not at the location for there servers. Got a buddy he even has one of the servers located in his home for his company. So if it goes down he just reboots it locally. I'm still wondering who there provider is cause it seems to have a lot of issues and I'm going to guess it's prob not a main company that does games. When I do a search for providers in that region I get a lot of company that do it for corporations like restaurants and such. I did finally got the IP I think for it. The servers are located in Piscataway, New Jersey area so who knows might be storming there right now. Yah prob help if you used your in game name.

And this is why the game or anything will never work. Some folks have so much hate that they can't get it out of there head we are a NATION. DEVS have said it a hundred times and we are pretty much the third/forth largest nation. Actual player base we are third, but active players we are more like fourth right now and growing back into the third slot. This mentality is why nothing will never get resolved specially when you have folks like Decken. Sorry glad I wasn't invited to your little circle jerk. In fact aren't you an ex US player that jumped ship to DUTCH? Sounds like the only yellow belly traitors turncoats around here is you? When UNKN left US we had Pirates in the Bahama pushed all the way back to Mayigunaa and Pitts so US wasn't hurting at the time. We jumped cause of the Players and politics in US not cause Pirates was winning at the time. In fact they very much wasn't at that time. They could of pushed us back to 11 ports even with out a few guys from unknown. Many others that flipped did so after the Pirate/Brit war started and did so again not to get on the wining team but on the team that fights. Ever wonder why it's mainly PvPers that switch over to pirates and not the PvEr's? It cause fighting no one gets boring as fuck. And we don't want stupid care bear alliances so we can't fight the other large nations. So what do you do? you switch to the side that every one is fighting. Than next thing they find out they lost half there hard core PvPers and they begin to get rolled.....history repeats it self. Just how many Dutch have ya'll lost that are hard core PvPers lately? How many US Brits? If I was you I would be very careful about what ya'll do soon. Cause history does tend to repeat it self and if the PvPers keep coming over to Pirates we all know how that ended up last time. Oh and some of the pirates like 7grams, Ducan, Loco and a few others where Pirates from day ones, so they never turned on any nations. I just see myself more as a privateer than some one tied to one nation. Think if they change the name to privateer it would prob have a lot less hate than it does now. Cause the third largest nation per say every one hates. I bet if we all re rolled they would leave that nation out too cause there are just some players that have such hate for one CLAN/NATION from the past and it's not even legit hate as it was all ways things down as a reaction to something they did first. You don't see PvP1 leaving Pirates out in there little talks coming up. It's invited 3 people from each nation..... Hell I didn't even get an invite and I'm one of the officers. Problem with only inviting Duncan and Koltes is one is a GM of his company and very busy and doesn't get on till late most the time and he's not even very big into politics. He's more just the attack and kill type player. The other is a NZ player so he's on SEA time and doesn't get on until very late unless he's on at work. Hell I haven't even seen when the time this so called meeting is going to take place. I'm going to bet 99% this is prob all they are going to end up doing and nothign will get resolved with the smaller nations any way. Hell other than two smaller clans Brits only ahve two guys talking on here and not a single use player has spoken up other than Decken....ops sorry forget he's Dutch....pretty much the same thing since they are mostly all ex-US players.

The port battle lock out during US prime time is there fault. So we can't even do game stuff during our prime time. That is what I'm talking. Servers go down, but it's a problem with who they picked as a provider and seems to happen a lot. I get it's a test server and you don't need the best provider right now, but if this ever goes live and gets the numbers back up they won't be able to handle it with the current provider. That was very much seen with the EU server back when they had to mirror that one. You have 5 post since March.....alt account? Might want to get a little more involved with things. Some of us aren't exactly happy with how they are taking things in the game specially vs it's US player base.

Go figure....hay at least it wasn't a merger without telling us or something. Guess I'll just go back to playing the other game. Not like we can do things during our prime time any way. You know like Port battles and other stuff.

I been playing on easy for the first run and it seems I hit a wall. On the Conf side I just took way to many lost and couldn't get troops to replace them. Than on the Union side I'm loosing troops but all ways have enough to replace, it's the officers and money I keep runing out. Just about every fight I get most my officers wounded or killed. I can't stay back and let the cannons beat down as there is a timer I have to finish by and I had it run down to fast several times before I even get to the goal and start a fight. If Confs are entrenched I'm sure to loose half my min even though I bring almost twice the cannons they have and use them to either kill other cannons of troops, but right now I'm doing Battery Fort side mission with three iron sides and 3 units of 24 cannons and we aren't putting dent in the fort cannons or men. I got now 1 hour left on the clock (out of two that all ready past and I have over 40% causality and only about 1 Confed killed for ever 2 of mine. They are all level three troops and hallf the size of mine. Most mine are level 1 and 2 (left the level 3's in main Corp). It seems they are curb stomping me even when it's 500 to 2000 troops. Even if I try to get close to melee them I get routed and they run half way across the map. Leaving other units now out number and they get routed and run off. For easy level I'm having hell of a time. Just wanted to do every thing slow and easy to learn the game and the different battles and it seems to me this is more like a normal or hard level with how the AI act. I know at one point the Conf should have more vets than me in some battles, but it seems every unit is a 3 and they are 500-800 and they kill half my 2000 man units easly. The only time they don't is Cav charge but I tend to loose most those by battle ends. Just getting a bit frustrated at this point. I got to Fredricksberg on Conf side and just stop playing so I tried union and not about to do the same if the AI scales like this on easy mode.

gets popcorn and waits for the watergate tapes....and who ever gets caught with the intern under the desk.

3 rep from each nation? Who picks the three and why do they get to speak for the rest of the nation and clans? I seen this happen before and the ones that actually show aren't the ones with the power in the nations and well the others just say screw them cause they weren't invited or was plans made that has nothing to do with them or there clans. Have fun with this.

Would be nice if there was some more variety in the officers. Kinda like some of the things said. There is no reason to really have a captian in your units if you can buy something higher. Though I noticed I used them a lot early on Confed side cause I was broke. Right now I doing some Union play and I have way to many troops and pretty much every officer is lt Col and above and I'm not even that far in. Though I sure get a lot of wounded officers, but than I do push a bit more than I should, but that is cause of the clock in batttles. I'm still figuring out which ones I have to beat the clock to the objective or I can keep fighting until I reach it. There was one mission I never even got close to the objective and time ran out and the mission was over. Sorry back to topic. Would be nice if you had some true die hard officers that made rank through combat and it showed over some politician that never fired a shot in there skills. Like the one that rosed in ranks has a few extra perks for his fighting men, the ones that are politicians have perks for there gear/money. Maybe that unit can get cheaper guns to replace it while a unit with a battle hero gets bonus to moral. Not to mention some officers where really good at lower rank and dealing with small units, but where terrible when dealing with a whole brigade.

I do agree the screen needs to be edited abit, but it needs to remain general cause both servers aren't the same. The EU/US is only the server location not that it's only for those folks. Which many folks forget to understand these are both world wide servers just location is so you can get a better ping for your own location. Maybe with UI improvements in the future they will fix some of this stuff.

That would never work cause than bit care bear nations will just sit on the last port and not take it so the server won't reset and they will have all the pretty dots. What it needs to be is a set time. Every 2-3 months the server regions resets and we start all over again. That way you can't just sit on ports and not win. Do like PORTBS did and the winner gets like 3 points/credits towards an admiral shop thing. The loosers get 1 and the guys in the middle get 2. That way every one gets paid out and it forces the folks to fight over things.. They also need to give incentive to join those low pop nations. I would say do like POTBS lock out the top nation during that cycle to join. Than give say a xp/credit boost to the low pop nations to help them grow. POTBS didn't go off the pop but it went off the nations with less ports/points. We would go out of our way to let certain nations be the bottom loosers and not others so they wouldn't get the boost, it was always Spain vs Brtits for the most part so we tried to give France the boost since they where the low pop nation so we would never take Brits down below France ports. Capitals need to stay the way they are so they aren't the only place folks do stuff at, but I d o agree every one shoudl have one special regional zone, but it doesn't need to be the capital. Like Pirates have kidds. It needs to kinda be there second home. Maybe make the newbie capiital actually produce a regional bonus would work. Personnnely I think all the regions in the Newbie zone should not be woned. I think they would been better netrual with each nation having one or two extra ports so the newbies can craft stuff there. Yah something small might work but shouldn't be anything big. Startign gold should be something every one had, enough for your officer and a few other thigngs. 5K gold would of made a diffrence for new players but even makeing that 50K for small nations isn't going to game kill. I can make that with one mission in my sleep.

So instead of bring a bunch of 2000 units bring even more 1000? So you can even combine them if need be? I been trying to find that majic number for size so that the AI doesn't make super units against me.

Content can wait, right now they need to get game mechanics done first. We don't even have Pirate Mechanics and I'm not realy like the split Nation/Outlaw thing. It should be more Privateer/Outlaw(pirate) isntead so you can help other nations if your a Privateer with contracts to work for them. PvE/PvP content needs to come, but we still have a hostlity system that needs a lot of tweeking. The RvR has a lot of issues. US players still can't have port battles in there prime time and if there is an update port battles will start while the update is going on if they are set during maintance times. This prob could be fixed with a simple hot fix with a move of the window to how it use to be on the flag system or so that it doesn't fall exactly like it does now. You have PvP events during US time but you can't do port battles? That tells you they know it's our prime time. Yes I agree PvE/PvP content would be nice and would love to see some of the concepts folks have brought up for simple things like treasure fleets done right (not the events in the past) and other things. Though it is not the main thing needed at this stage of game.

Any one got word on the Pounce battle? I heard Dans/Swedes got about 20 in there but US/Brits had 25 with a bunch of US/Brits and Dutch out side screening along with Pirates and a French out side. Though wouldn't mind if some one could post the actually screen of the numbers and results. Prob going to be worse tomorrow for SD cause that is not Dane prime time. Well there goes one more small nation being pushed to one region. I'm sure they will flip the last one next. US/Brtis are just killing this server with there actions. They are the only ones zerging folks and they keep thinking it's every one else. Well since the ship wipe prob aren't going to happen any time soon and the Danes said they prob going to sat low until the next patch or wipe this means they are now out of the game. Good job prob killing the server more. Just when some of the fights between Danes and Dutch was actually getting decent in the none important zones.3

Yah and they didn't like us flipping one here and there after reset for the SEA/AUS guys. Just think if it's more than one nation doing it and they have to split forces at those hours? The problem though is US has the numbers to do hit either one of us with Brits/Dutch in the US time and they hit before most of us get home from work so it's not even US prime time since they are mostly Eastern time it seems. But either Dane are going to go all out on them or they are just going to stop playing until the next wipe/patch. If more and more players stop playing than we will get a merger and they willl not like playing to EU style of the game. But hay the good thing is we can fill there off hour port battles better?

Yah just saw that too as some one pointed it out, but why haven't they updated this page than with that content. This is the stuff that pisses folks off. So I'll let folks know there won't be a wipe some time soon or until further notice. They have been really bad about there updates and giving us some feed back. And that was posted in last years, not the 2017. So folks haven't been checking that one as it was also locked so you can't add feed back to it. I didn't even noticed they updated.

Yah it's been Brits now and that was another reason we didn't want Brits to have that region either. France was a very good option and it put a buffer between us and you. But like I said just get your guys to show up and beat him. I'm sure RISE will agree to stay out of those battles along with the Danes so it's only those two players and there alts. Remember it's free ships/paints for those that show. If by chance they flip it than flip it back at prime time for ya'll. Got to be better than doing nothing right? Cause we all know that if no one helps them than they will never be able to hold those regions even if they captured them. One way to support this is not show up to those port battles. Just like these ones against Danes right now. US and Brits are going for the kill and we don't want that for the server. Since they aren't attacking any home nations regions. They for sure haven't been attacking US or Brits. If you don't agree with it than tell your guys not to go to those port battles. We plan to screen the crap out of those two battles if we can, but we won't be able to help them inside the actual port battles. The port timer restrictions where good that helped little nations, but the flag system had many flaws. They should not completely dump the current system. They just need to work on the way agro works and maybe have the flag system with raids to help counter the grind. That and having restricted port timers for battles would help little nations. That and allow us to freaking actually fight in US prime times. We can't even do that so I bet a lot more Port Battles would happen if we can actually do them in prime time for US players.

That is fine, but give us an update of what the time frame might be. I know a lot of players that flat out stopped playing and won't return until the patch comes out. I know many others that just stop making ships to stock up on goods to make new ones. This killed the server pop the last big patch cause they said it will be out this and that month and than it didn't come out until a month later and we had 3 months of pretty much very low pop action cause every one was waiting.

This would be a nice thing cause I noticed it too. Though with they way I manage it unless it's a big long battle the other side tends to run out of supplies before I do. The problem is when it's more than a day or two engagement than I'm out of supplies and have to steal from the other side to get back.

If you can get your guys to grind Windward we will see if we can get the rogue pirates that keep putting agro on it to back off and give ya'll safe passage for doing it. As long as the brits can agree upon this. Cause I'll be honest with you US is never going to give you Texas and LA back. Any one notice there is never any one from US in here talking and they are the largest nation.

Yah but as soon as badbenny attacks you you take them back. That isn't helping any one. Ya'll have the numbers to fight off two rogue swedes don't ya'll? Your showing your true intentions as soon as you take something back that you gave some one. How about ya'll keep below windward and out of others affairs and worry about your own regonis? You mean the dutch? We flipped it cause the Dutch started to run agro up on it and we don't want the dutch right next to castries when they have a few rogue players that wants to take Castries from us. You know like Swedes have a few rogue players. We ignore them and counter grind the agro down and hunt them down. We don't go to war with the rest of Dutch cause we know it's not them doing the grind. The word we heard wasn't that you where going to give it to the France but instead the Brit/Dutch wanted it to flip back and forth for PvP. Well you want that go do it where your other side meets. Fight over that region. For now we don't feel safe having Dutch right on the back door of our silver production when many have made it very clear they want castries for them selves. We will give it back to France once we are given our silver port back or one that is equal to it. But US will never give us back Little Harbor cause they get Pirate refit out of it. Just like they prob won't give Texas or La back to the french. They don't give ports back they have never done so and I expect they will never do so. One level 3 alt that I'm letting every one know is my alt cause every one think all the Dans are pirate alt. In each of those battles you might seen one or two Pirates alts on either Dan or Swede side. We have most our alts in other nations cause of Econ. My only other alt use to be Spain and now he's Pirate. He's my shallow water Pirate while I keep Sir Texas to deep water activity. You just don't get it. Those are all the Dans in the whole nation pretty much. Right now Dans and Dutch I would say are pretty well balanced the only problem is Dans are SEA time zones and Dutch are more US time zone. Just think what an alliance between those would do to say US or Brits, but it will never happen unless you get your little fingers out of that region and let Swedes and France get some ports/regions. Than an alliance will happen and it will never happen as long as you keep riding and running back to US coat tails. And speaking of alts we know many others have alts and while they might not use them in fights we know for sure you use them for votes. This isn't a pirate only thing, every nation has them. Like the Devs said, every nation had it's spy's and traitors just like in real life.

Until next week? Sadly not all brits think this as it looks like it will be back next week. Just by the grid votes so far the super alliance will be back. Both Pounce and now San Domingo are going to be in US/Brit prime time not Dans. Not sure how many they will pull, but it won't be what they will pull with there alliance and that means US/Brits are jumping into a fight that doesn't involved them and going to once more take more regions and not help any of the small nations. I include Danes as a small nation and think the little skirm between them and Dutch help. It's ports that can just be handed back and forth and not truly needed. Dans aren't pushing south to conquer any of the Dutch regions. This is why we didn't see them show to the port that Badbenny guys flipped down there. Just helping Swede and prob France if they flip one of the local regions. It would be Nice if the US and Brits fight each other since they have so many players that would be a nice looking equal size port battles. Though even Brits would be hard press against US alone cause it can and has fielded 25 players in most time zones while no one else could do that. If you can't fight off 4 players than something wrong. All you need is to have some guys for both the main time zones. Dan won't show up to any of the battles down south that Benny and his buddies flip. Pirates have pretty much said we won't screen those either. Pretty much anything south of Castries we aren't getting involved with other than maybe Windward. If some one will let France have it. What folks can't get in there head is you will never get every one to agree on the same thing. Even in Pirates BLACK does not speak for all Pirates and we can only make agreements for our clan. So you have a few bad apples out therein Swedes that bug you. Just keep showing up with decent numbers and get your free ship/paint chest and some PvP in. If you can't handle that than you would never make it on a high pop server which hopefully will happen after release or just think if we merged with PvP1? Your little ports will not be yours any more. They will constantly be attacked and on all fronts and all hours. Instead of picking up US or even brits every time go pick up Spain and help them out. They will never get any regions if no one helps them them or tries to give them a region. We really need to shack this server up again and make some changes. To many of the old timers are set in there way and that makes for a boreing game. Honestly think they should reset resources when they do the ship update and maybe even the regions. Gives folks a reason to fight over certian resources if they don't have stacks and stacks of them saved up from the last year of game play. Let them flip Windward and not show up. That was exactly what we where going to do with them when we took it. They just needed the time for the cool down to come over and flip it, but brits rushed over and flipped it instead. If ya'll stop freaking out you will find out when we do take some regions that we don't want we are doing it to give to the little guys. The problem is US/BRits won't give ports to any of the little guys. Some one should give the Spanish hunter region next to spain back to them and maybe the old pirate shallows south. We didn't want to keep those and was trying to let spain know to take them until brit took them. To many folks just want to take dots and not help the status and health of this server. So ya'll take Dans Pounce and San Damingo? What will be next you take there last region? Danes made it very clear they aren't trying to take any regiosn so US and Brits are safe even dutch. Do you keep pushing and take the rest of the Swede and French. Once they are done who you turn on next. The Dutch? They will be the only ones with ports/Regions. I bet you if it goes long each one of you will turn on them?

The bigger ones that are closer in numbers I found have been getting down to the last 5-20 before won. I think they should be about 2 hours long. The PB maps are way bigger than they use to be and some times depending the ships and fleets it takes a while just to get to circles or across the map. The problem is they figured the distance traveled with a frigate that prob can go up wind better than any SOL. You throw them in and it's a very long time to get to the other circles unless you have good wind. So I'm guessing 2 hours would be a better mark. IF you can't get Cap points by than than your doing it wrong or you didn't bring enough. We actually been wining most of them with the sinks more than the cap circle now that numbers are getting more closer. It's when the numbers our not close we run out of time trying to sink more and they either out cap us cause they know we can't sink them in enough time for the clock to run out.

Basse-Terre Line Ship Port Battle - 11 Dutch vs 22 Swedes (5 Swedes 17 Danes). All but one fort was taken out by the three mortar brigs. There was several ships on the Dutch side that took hits from them too. Dutch took control of A from start. B had a small group of Swede/Dane (3 including one fire ship) that held the Dutch off until they had to escape. There was a good amount of fighting between C and A. I'm not sure how many fire ships was brought on either side, but there was a lot of 1st rates with little to no mast by the end of the fight. Swede/Danes won with 15-20 mins left on clock with 1000 cap points from control of two circles, but most of them where from sinking Dutch ships. Even with the out number Dutch put on a good fight until the end. Liked the good sports man at the end. We need to keep fights more like this. Keep it up guys and yes I'll stop bringing green ships and I did make a ranks off that port battle. Though my last part as you can see in the screen shot is the comments on the Dane side. "Vive La France."

Again US gains while others loose. And that is a US/Brit Alliance port battle. Sure the Dutch can screen but it's not your PB. I see it the same as when US attacked France. They attack a weaker nation and than they don't return nothing. They just get bigger and bigger. Sooner or later they are going to run out of things to take and turn on the alliance.