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They could always reset the map every 3 months. 3 months is a long time to get things gather up in a port and invested. Also gives chance of a new clan to take over certain ports. But guys remember it's been said many times they really aren't going to be looking at PvE until after release than they will fine tune it once the main server is going well. So don't expect anything now fast. I personnely like the concept of doing PvE Port Battles, temp control and map resets on a perm server that is more PvE based. You can still have kinda Faction wars just no direct PvP fighting against other players.

I think all tax's should go to port owners. Telport tax send to the owner of the port. Doubloons spent on things in that port, 10% sent to owner. Another thing since we really don't need timers on Sub ports why don't they pay a tax to who owns the capital port. Which would means all regional ports pay 5% tax to the Owner of the Capital Port to help pay for it's timer. This would be how it would been back than. They would pay a tax to the crown and governor of that region and than he will send the crowns portion off to the crown or next leader above him.

Maybe he's making this suggestion for the PvE server?

I could see like the lead ship in fleets might be built better than the other ships, which should be balanced off oak/oak or oak/crew space. The lead ship might be built a bit tougher than the others, but keep the main balance mid tier. Not every one is going to be running around in LO/WO or WO/WO ships.

As stated from Admin. I just put it in order from biggest to smallest to make it easier to read.

Yah I remember when they lowered the % for mods and such they capped it, but I still think 10% is way low concedering they lower all the mods. I'll have to test this on something to see.

The problem is not every ones skill level is the same. I can be very honest in saying I remember back when I was pirates and we where doing hostility saying, "These AI are fighting harder than the US does." Some of the US players have been playing years and they still suck or below average but they enjoy the game so keep playing. These same players struggle against AI but they constantly get slaughtered going against skilled players in PvP, but they keep coming back to play. Many would just give up with AI like it is right now. Though I didn't notice this problem in shallows for some reason. I could easly get up next to a shallow ship or two and out DPS and sink them. It seems the problem gets into the larger caliber ships than the smaller. Try that with a 5th rate and I bet you won't last very long unless you string them out the whole battle and try to fight them one by one. When we where getting the 25 kills on testbed i would just take the victory out with all 12's and that bow/stern mod and hit 5-6th rate fleets of 10-15 size. Did it with all 5 chars without any issues, only repaired once. Again we are talking about skilled players not the average player. I seen normal players get sunk since patch doing hostility getting out DPS by an AI ship they went broad side broad side with in LO/WO ships.

Current populations put in order. Great Britain 26.86% Pirates 14.52% France 10.21% Russian Empire 9.33% United States 9.15% Spain 8.83% Sverige 8.76% Dutch 4.88% Prussia 3.61% Denmark 2.87% Polish Commonwealth 0.97 They are about the same size as Swede and US and most nations (1% isn't much) it's just Spain is very heavy on the Spanish speaking players. Folks have to remember big isn't always good too. GB has always been the biggest nation, but it's so spread out and unorganized that not much goes on. You think with it being twice almost three times bigger than most other nations that it would be doing the most RvR and owning the most ports (it does own the most, but through AI grab). Like I said before when folks ask this, it depends a lot of when they will be on line and playing what nations they could get the most out of. For all around I would go with GB, Pirates, Russians right now, but we seen Russian crumble to almost nothing before when things gotten slow.

The problem is we have to go in LO/WO ships to fight against AI which should be balanced vs Oak/Oak ships not the strongest ships. I had a legency LO/WO with floating battery and maxed out reload getting out DPS by an AI I'm broad side to broad side with. It seems lack of crew, sinking or other factors don't effect there reload and they reload double ball just as fast and can do so unnumber amount of time. Again AI should be balanced against the middle not the best ships. I actually found it was faster to just go in and rage board the SOL's with an equal ship and be done with it instead of going broad side to broad side. Not to mention the rewards are so bad half your reals are gone for repairs, but Admin did state they plan to boost these up next patch.

It was posted two pages in and that was like the 5 post about the same topic. Like I said above if they just made an official post and said it and be over with it we would have post number 10000011111111 still about the same topic. They are being very very quite this last week so somethings up. Lets hope it's a decent patch or announcement of the wipe and release.

Where the official post?

The biggest problem is honestly the Devs have been silent about all this. They should of made an official post with the official call of what was done and how it should be handled and than every one move on. They made like one post in a big thread and maybe some private messages but others wise they been very very very very very silent this last week. Normally when they get this silent it means a big big big big big patch is about to drop. Than again we all know how #SOON works with these guys, might be a day, a week, a month or well 9 months. Though I'll admit I'm getting tired of these topics over and over. Best if it's just dropped until release.....

Big thing is look at what time you play and who is active during that time. Some nations are more active than others. Sadly you picked Poland the smallest nation pop in game so can see where you weren't having fun over there.

There is a trend that majority of the PvE players are solo and want it all easy. That is why they bitch when we bring up things that would be more clan/group related but bring content (like Port Battles against AI/buetral ports that get reset every couple months). So Devs being awfull silent again? Does that mean a hotfix soon or maybe even another patch? Would be nice to know what's up cause a wipe/release #soon can mean a few weeks or a few months and some of us would like to just hurry and get to it.

Well I take that silence as maybe next week than?

Maybe if you stop screening for WO and actually attack them (that would give you the fight your always saying your looking for) than people would stop saying your nothing but WO's screeners. You where at San Aug screening for the PB. Could of gotten a nice fight with there wounded fleet on the way back but ya'll ran off to flip San Fe as they than went to flip PaP. So to every one else that very much looks like ya'll jump the gun and was trying to split Brits forces. Remember it's all about your actions and how people perceive them. Maybe for the change stop doing the same thing over and over and do something different. Also you can do port battles on weekends and attack EU clans like the rest of us, doesn't have to always be late night weekdays when most of us are sleeping for our jobs. Well I'm out of here for work and than out of town for Mothers Day. Try not to burn the place down and have some fun. I'll be checking results of port battles tomorrow.

It was XXXXX that owned St Mary's and dropped it. I assume to flip it over to VCO's control as most of XXXX guys are in VCO now. Either way once the exploit was found it should of been reported and stopped. Than let the devs call what to do. The right thing would of been to drop the port or just not show up to the Port battle and than move on to do more testing other places. As for WO's cause wee owned the port...that is a BS reason. A wipe is a wipe, and you no longer own it. That is why I can't wait until the release where you can't have a bunch of 1st rates shaked up read in a port so far away from ya'lls starting port. You have to start from Capital and from scratch like the rest of us. As for the US bitching. We where actually hoping to have a few weeks peace to build up fleets, do some training and not worry about constant attacks by large French/Pirate fleets. Nothing wrong with a few random OW hunters, but having two strong enemy's in your backyard where the most important ports for this new system is doesn't help moral and doesn't help folks want to test things if they can just loose it in a blink of an eye. Again if your clans are so good than drop the ports and come get them properly, but your taking the cowards way out and hiding behind bad legacy game mechanics that are being fixed by devs currently. Cause two wrongs don't make a right.... what with today folks thinking it's right to do exploits and things just cause they can? Just about any other game i been on as soon as it was found a posted would of been made to not use it and if you did you will get in trouble. This Dev team does thing back arse wards half the time and wonder why they have so much bad reviews and low player retention. Again I'll use the example, just cause you leave your keys in your car doesn't give me the right to take it and use it. Or if you leave your door open for me to just walk into your house. It's the same with games and bad code/exploits. Once your report it doesn't give you the right to use them. Also I'm seing a lot of folks saying Devs said this or that and not any post. My actual mails with Admin he said they where exploits just not critical exploits they are to worried about cause of the #soon wipe. They also stated it might of been a mistake to have let St Mary be keeped too. Which I do agree as it just encouraged for more folks to use the exploits found casue nothing was done by those that keep using them. Luckly the legacy missions wwas fixed with a hotfix, not we just have to wait on the hotfix for the other missions taken. Which was suppose to come some time this week and hasn't'. Dev team been awfull silent lately and that means they are working on stuff.

Last week I sold a bunch of old ships. Guess what three of those ships was bought by pirates french that came in with trade ships and left with a war ship. It's a fact not Paranoia. I didn't mind cause they where really old build ships that I had in storage. Others believe it's not to feed ships to our enemy....and I agree you can't do contracts in enemy ports so why should you be able to buy a war ship? I do agree we need contracts for ships, but the problem is folks want exact builds and perks so unless the bonus perk was left off cause it's RNG it's hard to get the exact build most want and that is not a standard blue 3/5 ship.

at the capitals I agree, but a lot of them get bought up and with new port perks we aren't posting ships for other nations to come in and buy and take. I honestly think Enemy nations should not be able to buy ships in a port unless it's neutral or open up to all. You would see prob a lot more ships being posted for sale if this was the case. I hear all the time to not post good ships so alts or the enemy won't buy them.

Should reported you for your unsportsman language if anything. We can work with other nations if needed. You where in french capital waters so may be I said to the Russians. "We will tag this guy if you sink him." This would of been a different story if you where french and he let them tag him or he tagged them so you got pulled in, but it's not.

It also will be interesting cause you will have to big EU based Nations and than US has a very big US prime time. Cause i'll be honest WO/BLANC prob won't stay if they can't farm US players. They prob will go GB or Pirates. Which will still keep 2-3 US Prime time nations and the rest are all EU mix. Would allow for some more balance play for certain nations/coalition around the clock. Nothern might still be a little weak on the US prime time, but both Swedes and Dutch has players in that window, by helping each other they could fill more port battles. Even the Holy Alliance has players in all time zone and having them help each other means they can field bigger fleets. For guys like me that have mulit alts. While I keep most of them in one nation (3 out of 5) I would prob put the extra guys in the coalition nations to have some one close that can fight and not have travel across the map all the time.

I kinda like that one member is spread out a bit. It gives you reason to fight in those areas to help defend and gain ports. There is nothing stopping france to use a free port instead of taking ports around them. Than jump closer, but why would you when you can use the other nations ports too. In that Group I can see US and Spain closing off certain areas and than going to help France do something. ARe maybe franc just piss ever one off and US and spain will just ignore them. Who knows but it would be interesting to see how such an alliance along with the other colalitions would work out.

By my understanding of what Admin posted yes you will be able to use each other ports. Spain/US/French would be able to use each other ports. Since they all ready have that system in place it should be hard to convert. The Port battles would prob just be extended friendly clan list. Though I would have to say if they do this they need to make the list bigger than just 15 clans. Please lets not add any more nations to the list, at least not until after release than maybe they can add more nations to each faction/coalition if needed. That way if you want to fly a certain flag you just got to join that coalition and the sub nation with that flag. Pretty much the only way to down size the nations is to make them coalitiion, giving us 5 teams to play/fight against each other instead of 11. I feel they will need to increase the size of the friends list, 15 won't work when you put three nations together. That are make two list. Friendly clans for battle and friendly clans for ports or have each port has it's on clan list that you can allow to use the investments. Using french/US/Spain again as an example. YOu can start at the capital of each of those nation dependent upon the sub nation you pick in the coalition. Spain and US are next to each other so should be strong protecting each other. They have to send ships across the map though to help France out. Other groups/coalition might be split up too. NOrther poland might be off Cuba while the rest of the coalition is on the east and south east of the map.

I all ways jokenly said the best way to beat BLACK would be to show up late when we are sitting in the circles demasting each other. You be surprise the things folks do in empty port battles while bored.

I'm going to talk REAL SLOW AND LOUD FOR YOU.....I WORK NIGHTS FROM 10PM-6AM. I LEAVE FOR WORK AT 9PM. Those are my normal hours when I work a 12 hour shift covering half of 2nd shift it's 6pm-6am. Which means I'm either going to have to leave in the middle of the port battle or it happens after I have all ready left for work. I been working 3rd shift for over a year and half so far. What part of that do you not get? And a few OW fights is not fighting them. When are you going to have RvR or true big fights. Privateer actually likes to fight folks any one, so I'm not surprised he fought WO, or was this in the PvP zone? That would make since too cause it's pretty much a FFA in there. Again what does this have to do with the topic of this thread and the battle posted? Once more going off topic and personnel attacks. Seems like repeated pattern here with a certain person.