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I use to do a lot of travel for my work and when I was in Singapore for work the WoT Asia server was worse ping than playing on the west cost server until they got the server moved. That was why a lot of the Aussie players played on the NA server instead of the ASIA one. So some times the placement of servers isn't all ways good. When I was in the Cannary island I got better ping on the NA server than the EU server. Though I'll play on EU when I was in South Africa, Egyt, Norway or Ireland. So really it's all about the infrastructure of that country and where they have the best lines ran too. I couldn't play at all in a few other places but than again they where third world countrys and it was like having dial up. Most the folks I'm seeing posting that aren't having problems with PvP1 pings and are US base all seem to be East Coast. Some are very close to the PvP2 server too which is based on east coast. I think it would of been better if they had a west coast location since that would put it close to the ASIA/AUSSIE players and the US. I'm in central US now and my pings go from 50-60 on PvP2 to 130-160 on the PvP1 and I started on PvP1 and switched over when they mirror that server. To be honest they just need to allow transfers either way one time. The numbers are prob just low like it does every patch. Folks come on and play for a while and than get board cause of lack of content. We will see our numbers go up when the next patch comes out. Hell we say numbers go up for the events even after the first two and every one was complaining about them.

Yah I did a lot of clan hunting before I pcked UNKN when I was US and it was mainly cause one of my clan mates i played with in WoT. Since going pirtes UNKN kinda got inactive so I switchted to BLACK. There are going to be good clans and bad clans. Yah man that was a bad clan than. Any clan I have been in we give ships pretty much free to clan mates and if we ask for anything it's just to help with the mats and nots. I left EU server kinda cause there was some very rude clans in the US nation at the time and I didn't like that feel. So you will all ways have those types around. Just look for a better more laid back clan. Yah nothing wrong with solo play. I did it for a long time before I ever got into a clan and only did so cause I wanted to check out the PB mechanics and it was easier to get into the bigger ships and do so with a clan.

He's talkign about currently as they are working on National stuff and the pirate stuff is put on the back burner until that is done.

They said two ships and listed them, so I would assume the others are not in the plan. Bad wind is still bad wind. If you get pulled in the other circle with bad wind and even the enter your still not going to do good in the battle. Or it might take you a good long while to get into the action.

Save those redeemables for your officer when he dies and you get a new one. I just lost one and he was ranked up to rank 5 just from the redeemables I have collected from ships I sold and xp shared from them.

Yah most the time a quick type of what is need or targets is good, a lot of us seem to work well without even saying anything. We just know what needs to be done, but I think they are right it's some folks that just won't do it. Won't join or anything. Hell I wouldn't talk for every in my WoT coms. Than as soon as I started to talk I got ranked up and became a unit commander and they couldn't get me to shut up lol.....that and I own the TS server they are still using even though I don't play clan wars any more in that game. Though all the time I never spoke I still listened to the team and did what was needed.

How is that out numbered? I counted 7 more ships on the Brit/US side? Don't tell me your like the Dutch and don't count AI? If there is a ship in the battle it counts, but it might be just why you guys and them keep loosing PvP fights when you out number us. Cause hate to say it AI can be pretty stupid and some times hurt you in a fight when they go full retard mode. Having fought on the US side I know for fact NPG had admitted to showing up many times in basic ships with no mods. Let me tell you a little secret. OUR PORT BATTLE SHIPS ARE FITTED FOR JUST THAT TO FIGTH AND FIGHT HARD. Most of them are tanked out with good mod set ups and ready for a brawl. While we have other ships for PvP play. We aren't affraid to loose our ships and will fight to the last man if need be. That is why we win fights. Way to many of our victories have been when we are out number and as soon as we start to sink some one the other team runs and breaks down and every one starts escaping. Funny it's getting so common we actually know who to expect to pop and escape first in the battle.

As i posted in the suggestion Barricades should give crew defense from grapping. The problem we are seeing are folks are graping ships down broad side to broad side with little to no damage to the ship. Mercury in shallow water is a prime example of this. I have totaly decrewed on with my H. Rattler in about 4-5 broad sides. With little to no damage to his armor. That is to many crew just from passying at a distance. I have stopped using my Merc in shallow water port battles casue all folks do now is grape thm down to 40 crews. We seen this in bigger ships too. I can undestand rakes and such, but just passing doing a grape isn't going to kill that many crew when they have armor/stucture to hide behind. Braceing for fire like when your in boarding. Also some of the grapes should be blowing through and hitting the other ship if yourin a boarding if they aren't stern camping you. Yes the solution is to not get side by side and brawl any more, but that takes the fun out if it. We aren't saying graping shouldn't be usded, it just shouldn't take all the crew down when there is no armor damage. I mean most of the crew is prob below deck manning the guns any way.

Not really cause they have to know exactly where your going to exit and that 2 ports like you say might be to far away. Than you cut I diffrent path and they loose you. I done it many times when popping out the same place as we started. It's the guys that keep the same path that get caught all the time. Even with TS and coms you can't really judge where they would pop out in the OW even if your in the battle with them other than if there is land and ports to judge by. Last I checked I in the open sea there is very few land marks to go buy so your case would only work if your running the shore line. Also Cutters can't tag larger ships last I checked. IF it wasn't a trader than that one guy is down on guns and BR for a fight too. If they have that well of a gank squad your prob screwed any way and they should of caught you in the first battle or two.

I'm sorry you would have to be idiots to not do any fighting or port battles without team speak. You don't need it for 1 vs 1 but even back in those days they had signal flags and such for fleet movements. I just don't have time to type it in game, "Hay Doom go over here cause we got this guy." Though if we where in a fight I would have to do that with you, but if I was in one with clan mates we just oranize it by voice. Though I think he's meaning it's a disadvantage against the solo player cause we can call for help and get folks to show up even faster than say in National where there is spies that can tell when your doing things.

Why are we even talking about a 2 game when the first one hasn't even came out yet? I can see more what Expansions would you love to see for the current game, but not a NA 2.

Are even stop making LABOR shared across all three servers. I would love to play say a National on PvP1 and my pirate on PvP2 so I have a char I can go play when it's slow late at night, but I can't do anything with my PvP1 char craft wise cause my labor hours are locked across the board. Hell I even pop onto PvE once in a while just to test things but I can't do any crafting thre either or I'll burn my main crafting hours on my main char. I think if they do this it will give more folks freedom to play on both servers if they won't do the transfers. I'm Central US (TEXAS) and I get a pretty solid 50-60ms ping on PvP2. I started on PvP1 but switcehd over when they split it. When I do go over there I'm seeing around 130-140 ping on average with spikes up to 400-500ms. It's even worse on the PvE server for some reason. Was over there goofing around early this week and in a fleet I could fire and swewar I had about a 1-3 second delay on most my guns as it keep spiking to the 300-400 rang.

I have never done a EPIC event other than accidently being in one back in my basic cutter days as I thought it was my mission, but this is what I thought they would be more like. Some sprecial fleet you grind once in a while that gives you some great treasure. TREASURE FLEETS need to be added but we need to have a trade system in battle screen. That way you can have some one bring a trader ship in the group and you can defeat the escorts and than take the traders/treasure ships and transfer all the rewards to your own ship. This would be a good way to give out HE mods again. Make folks actuall earn them instead of some random drop. Yes I know PvP guys will complain, but that is why you put the same system into Port Battles or Big PvP fights where you get a better random drop of Mods other than grey/green and the rare blue. I have never gotten a Master Craft drop and all my Gold until the other day was from bottles....oh wait that was in a bottle too....yep I got a gold in a bottle for once that about suprised me. I have never got any from traders, but seems folks do a lot...I think RNG just hates me in that case. EPIC EVENTS FLEETS coupld of been a good way to do those events so even the PvE guys ccould have fun. Make it where you have to fight the fleets, but for us PvP guys we can join what side we want or even be on two diffrent sides. Say Brit and Pirates hit a EPIC EVENT FLEET and Brits are going to side with the FLEET cause it's a Brit fleet. They get a reward at the end of the battle for how many fleet ships they keep alive (maybe go by the treasure ships not the NPC's escorts). Well the Pirates get a reward for how many they sink. Both sides get the normal reward for combat on top of that too. Though this reward can be in a box like the deadman chest at the end of the battle for the winning team. Special Named ships.....wish there was a marker to let you know the diffrence from a player ship and an AI other than clan tags. You don't even want to know how prod I was to sink Blood in small battles thinking I sunk my first PC ever to only be told he was an AI. Though in some of the open world it would be coold if we had some random named ships out there. Make them Pirates wanted by your natiosn. Famous Pirate hunters teh Pirates hate. you take them on and if you beat his fleet you get a special reward (paints would be great here). They can be scaled for diffrent BR's so you can only go in to them with that BR or lower.

Every game I been on has done this. If anything you got to keep the open beta forwards stuff, but every thing before that tend to get wiped in every game I have tested. Cause some folks are sitting on millions and millions of credits and ships they got either through a lot of grinding or using the system that isn't flushed out to make it (flooding markets and setting contracts to buy stuff). You don't even want to know how many 1st rates we are sitting on in our clan right now. Most of them we have captured but many of them we are producing like crazy cause folks have so much stocked up resources. It gives way to much advantage to them over new players. I know it's a promis but I got to say one thing going back to a basic cutter as a Curse and grinding up ships is going to suck, it won't take long with a good clan though, but hay it's still going to suck. I assume all the BP's will be gone to so you will be limited on crafting only what you get for your crafting rank. I assume no more free officer changes so you won't be able to just gift perk your way to all the BP's again. It will be intrested none the less when the time comes, but I do think resources should be wiped clean as some folks have way to much stuff stocked piled up. I got a feeling we will prob get a redeemable ship or two upon release to make up for her help in testing. The guys with the Yachts will prob get those and it will prob be something like the EA where we got the Pickle BP, Rennon and Nigeria ships.

To be honest the best way to fix the gank squad out side reason folks sit in battle screens is when you exit a battle you should exit where you had run too. I been a battle in front of Sundry and we chased a guy almost all the way to CT before he was able to escape. We should exit in that area not all back at Sundry again. This way folks can't camp the cross swords out side and gives you that running start you had in battle to keep escaping. I'm also nice enough if it was a good battle to page one of the guys and let them know I"m going to take a break or head to bed/dinner so I won't be poping back out. I been in a few battles that lasted twice clock count down where folks where trying to get me after I sunk one of there budies. that is a long time to be just running from a gank squad after you finished a 1 vs 1 or even more funny when it was 2/3 vs 1 and you sunk all 2/3 and they are mad so bring out 5-10 ships (including there AI fleets) to hunt down one ship. Yep one time had 9 chasing me in a battle for 3 hours after I had sunk 2 and got away from the third.....by the 3rd hour I just sat in battle screen and went to take the trash out and than made dinner before I popped back out into the open sea.

Could be worse since this is a russian game we culd be in Russia. I have alpha/beta tested other russian games and played on Russian servers.....it wasn't fun so I was happy when they released the games and it was put on multi servers world wide. Hell I been in asia and had better ping on US servers than game servers made for asia/aus players. So the location isn't exactly the best thing all the time, it's the service of the provider. Who ever we have for PvP2 right now seems to be having a lot of lag issues. I notice the guys that are us and don't complain about PvP1 ping are all east coast players. Hell I'm bias I think the server should be central US (made my TS server there for another game clan I'm in). As you get further and further from the east cost our ping goes up. I'm sorry guys saying 300+ ping is playable must not do big Port Battles or a lot of PvP cause I can notice the performance of the game change big time from PvP1 and PvP2 when in such battles. I started on PvP1 cause of the bigger population but moved more to PvP2 cause of better battle times and well the players. To be honest I bet if they do a one time transfer either way (not just PvP2 to PvP1) it would prob help the numbers. I deleted my char on PvP1 to play around as a pirate before I went Pirate on PvP2. I have since deleted him again and made him a National again. So really with the game release wipe and such why can't folks just get it in there head your going to lose all that gold and ships any way when the game is released so let it go and move to the server that best suits your time zone and play.

Yah that is something I think is funny when you see folks complain about things like this. I actually want a complete wipe of even levels when the game goes live to be honest. That is what every beta/alpha game I ever played tested did before they went live.

Why are your materials so costly? Oh I know cause every one in the US nation jacks pries out the roof. 1.5 million is what I sold a Pavel the other day in Pirate nations. Than again I craft every thing myself including the notes so for me it's cheap to turn profit. If your spedning that much on meterial that you have to mark the ships up that much than there is a problem and you need to find another source of the products and well make them yourself.

I'm really wanting early like next week early. I need some new stuff to play with. Other wise I think I"ll just take a break until the patch comes out.

THis is why they give folks heads up. You have had plenty of time to move them and prob still do have plenty more time unless the patch is this Thursday when I hope they do it.

IF that is you location that than might be why. I live Central (TEXAS) and I started on PvP1 and I do get lag spikes a lot and my ping will go from 130 to 400 at times specially in big battles. So not every one has the nice close routed connection to across the sea. Even worse for the Asian and Aussie players.

And than I take there ship....I have took so many Bucc's and got so many mats from breaking down the undercrew reedeemable's folks undercrewed. Prob should be this way. To be honest it looks like we can still fight in the Bahamas, just shallow waters are going to have a ROE restriction on ships is all. It looks like a 150 dura limit on tagging if my math is right. Would be nice cause I'm sick of every one haveing AI's with there Mercs and not wanting to 1 vs 1, but than this will mean when our three players hit some one with 2 AI no one can join and help them. AI's are so easy to kill any way.

It wouldn't be a bad thing if they allowed transfer from a populated nation to a lower populated or even servers when the patch comes to kinda balance out the numbers.

To be honest if the US would of just left our lower bahamas alone and they wouldn't done this Alliance with GB and they just both fought each other. We would prob leave there ports alone and just screen out side there battles. We did this the other morning for Danes and it was a blast. Caught a bunch of brits and think we even got the flag before it got there. OW PvP to me is way funner than these empty battles with mortar brigs (and yes I have taken many ports this way myself) and all the QQing..... So I'm really hopeing this new patch gets here and hope it's this Thursday cause the wipe and new stuff looks like a lot of fun. We see AGRO we just go over there and have fun and pester the Nationals. I mean lets be honest does US really have to own half the map every time? Maybe maybe even french will get some more ports back and the other small natiosn will get some numbers back....though I still think poor Spain is just screwed. BUT UNTIL PIRATE MECHANICS come out folks need to just get over with it and see us as a Nation until than cause that is what we are for the most part other than a few players that don't get involved in the politics.

Man those numbers are way off like almost double for many of those groups. ZILCH is mainly in Bahamas and North Cuba though, but they do show up at our battles some times. As you said active PvPers.....you still have the second largest population along wiht US having the largest. It's not a problem you have so few PvPer's and the rest are just a bunch of Care Bears. Yep they came in BRIT chat I heard and made it very clear US and Brits still has the largest ACTIVE POPULATIONS. I'm kinda confused here unless it's just been the last few nights in Bahamas when exactly was the last time you been in a port battle Blackthorne to talk about numbers? Show some screen shots or stop going off what others tell you cause most the time we been way out number in the Bahamas even the times we won. I know for a fact I have done a lot of jumping out of one battle to jump over into another battle. Most those battle were not at the exact same times either that is why we where able to field even close to those numbers at each one. A lot of hopping around and sailing fast from one port to another. Sending lower level guys to defend ports while the others are in the bigger fights. You want to know what that is called? TEAM WORK. Would be nice if there was a port close we could just give you so you can say...."HAY EVEN WE GOT MORE PORTS THAN THE BRITS."