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THat is the other thing I was wondering where is the stern gun on that ship? I had a small ship on the rear of my ship this morning and I was chucnk 64 lbrs at him and it was very effective of getting him off my rear. I been seeing a lot of ships that should have them not have them when we capture ships.

You will get a redeemable of the cost for those ports and the upgrade.

If you get the 3 slots use that for barricades just encase you get boarded. I actually fit mine for defense boarding too and if I can't run I take the fight to them. This is more on the LVG and up level. The other traders are all fitted for speed and running. The big key as been said is try to get the best wind and them not so good. I gotten out of so many tags in my trader simply cause I know both ships winds and I'll turn to get the best wind at the start of the fight.

They really need to make a small zone around your ship that your marines or other crew can effectively shoot the other crew that might be on deck. I believe we had this in POTBS at one time. It doens't have to be a bunch, but it will keep small ships off your stern or some folks that like to camp/face huge your side to try to push you into the wind or hide under your cannons. I have been noticing folks are using a lot of grape lately. I know they are testing new crew damage in the test server but it's like they are doing more damge. Though I think it's prob cause a lot of those folks that are doing this are the ones we board and defect pretty fast even when we don't have marines.

The other thing is remember when I had the Little Taco alt and he would screen/tag for ya'll out side KPR (great way for him to get XP by the way and that goes for any lowbie). Some brits hit him and was doing some major smack talking. Well I escaped and one of our Pirates that wasn't in clan that didn't know I was helping ya'll tagged me. Well those same brits jumped in on my side to help me. I just turned my self way and sailed at a distance while the Pirates killed them. They cried that I didn't help them. Than next time don't call me names and smack talk. I didn't have to fire one shot at the Pirates and I didn't do any green on green. In the example that was put above Pirates can do the same. Say a Brit tags a US player and we have a group of two pirates out side. Group A can joined the Brit while Group B joins the US. Group A can kill the US player while Group B kills the Brit player. Leaving at the end only pirates on both sides. But since they are friends they won't shoot at each other. Leaving the only ones left alive and to share the spoils are the pirates. This is what we are talking about joining both sides. Pretty much how it would go down. Though to be honest we would like it to be able to join the others sides when it's pirates your attacking too cause to be honest there are a few pirates we wouldn't mind helping ya'll sink too. This is the great thing about Pirates is we aren't restricted by the alliance system so we can enter any side of battles. Unless it's a Pirate VS Nation fight.

There is a new post on the newbie area that will be in that area.

Wait until you see what we took tonight.

Yes please give us a draft soon. We are getting tired of being called OP cause we are more organized and have pretty much the same things Nats have minus the alliance system. Hurry up and make us diffrent so they can complain about something more real than just us kicking them around in fights. A lot of folks need to remember we are Alpha Testers and they can make changes all they want as much as they want. I kinda like these new changes though. A little diffrent and getting more and more close to the worked out finished product and image the Devs want for the game. Just want the Pirate stuff to come soon.

I really wish they up the ports to 10 instead of 8. This is what I thought on it. You get your capital (every one gets this one no matter what) Than you get your starting port free and one other of your choose. We get 2 right now so one more isn't going to really change much. Than you can't buy your fourth one until you have made rank and you get to buy a new one with each rank you make. This keeps folks from making a bunch of low level chars they have spread out all over the place, but by time you level to have all 10 you will be expierenced enough and involved in the game. As for the zone I been expecting something like this with the 1 vs 1 week that was coming up. I assume it's next week maybe? So they can test it for something like this. Though my only issue is that the Bahama's are a fun place to do shallow water battles, you will still have a lot of experienced players in these zones that will be limited on what they can attack it seems. I'll be honest I would prob make a brig or even cutter just to play with new guys in these zones. Though this is good for getting them into PB's and PvP early on as a lot of folks don't know they can get into them with a Brig or above.

What makes you think this? We would get a BP for pirate frigate before we get a pirate only ship What if those 24 lbrs are only Carros so it's not really big guns than.

15-25 days, grrrrr well I was expecting the patch to be more like the 22 next week. Looks like it's going to be more the end of the month or first of next month. Was really wanting some of these changes sooner.

I just want them to hurry up and get these in game and than get us the new pirate mechanics too.

They can also pull the support of the US/Brit alliance. I don't know about you but it sure seems US is takeing a lot of ports that use to be Brit ports. I'm pretty sure how these things tend to turn out in history. I mean sooner or later some one is going to stab some one in the back. Well until port reset.

For me I did the family thing which I normally do on Sundays and don't get on till late. I did show up for the Kidd Harbour Port Battles. You might see a decrease in numbers cause it's now football season too. To be honest I kinda got bored of the DEEP ports and been trying to help the guys out in the shallow water fights. Got to change it up every once in a while.

Just to let you know it's an ALPHA not a BETA . goes back to his popcorn and watching the fun post.

Even in just normal PvP battles you would just be blown away how many times we see some one pop as fast as they can instead of fighting and helping the other guys. Guys like that tend to get a reputation and than others won't show up to help them when it's there turn to be tagged by others. Many of our best fights have been from lower level guys coming out and fighting us to help others. I have sent links to the boarding info on wiki to help out these guys and hope they grow and become big grown players that will prob sink me some day. Hell I have even offered to make a ship for one guy that keep coming out getting sunk cause he had the balls to fight. Though that guy ended up going pirate any way.

What they need to do is like what they did with the MIRROR servers. Take all the stuff from one server and the other and allow folks to combine them on both servers and than pick which one they want to play. I keep hearing they talk about allowing PvP2 to PvP1 tranfers, but what about the guys that want to bring there stuff from PvP1 to PvP2? I am an old PvP1 player, but I deleted all my stuff there to try another nation/pirate (this was before I went Pirate on PvP2) so it wouldn't matter to me cause i have nothing there. But it would of been nice to have been able to switch all that stuff over to PvP2 when I came over and was a Lt Com with a basic cutter and nothing else. This might help equal out some of the numbers on both servers where folks aren't locked to what server has most of there stuff at. Not like all this is going to get removed when the game goes live any way.

And this isn't just a problem in one Nation or group. Drama is all over the server and will never go away, but the problem is a lot of it is fueled around certain people and a lot of it is based off false facts too. And if I remember right when they hit Corrientes it was while we where in a big battle with the US so we couldn't even defend it. It's a tatict that a lot of them like to use cause they know BLACK doesn't have the numbers alone to defend several ports. As for the OP sorry to hear about the DRAMA. We really don't need spies or such cause it seems the actions of certain players in the game are the best we had for recruitment of new pirates and pushing to break up other folks alliances. I'm starting to wonder when folks are going to think US having a good chunk of old Brit ports isn't exactly a good thing. We all know they like to have them dots all over the map, who to say they will stop at just keeping the GoM or any other place as there ports? Sooner or later some one is going to turn on another and there will be no more peace/alliance. You would actually think the two largest nations should be the ones at war with each other not in an alliance.

I actually do my family time on Sunday like most folks so yes Sat is my game time. NOt every one parties any more as a lot of us are grown ups these days. THouhg it being only in the morning US time cause I do like to sleep in my weekends and specialy if I been up late online playing games Friday nights. Though I do think they need to change the times up randomaly though for all the servers.

While not exactly the same I wish our officers where tied to the ship they are in. So say you have a Surprise, Vick, Connie and Rattler. Each of your ship would have it's own officer and there would be no officer reset for him cause he's tied to that ship and that ship only and it's Dura. You loose the ship you loose the officer. As you battle more and more with that ship he and the crew get more expierence to get better perks. This way some one can have two ships but each one has an officer of diffrent level so they won't have the exact same skills. The longer that ship stays a live and battles the more experienced the crew will become.

Doesn't matter the one they play, they should recruit mods for each server. Though I'll have admit time prob paid off on this event. PvP2 Pirates finaly got a few BP's it seem.

Gunboat BP's been sold? Who are you getting your info from? We actually got one BP from breaking them down and I know two more where dropped the last event,but I don't know any one sold either of them. As for the one Heavy Rattler BP it's not even a Pirate that has it, it's some one's alt so even if he's logged in we are still getting it through other means. WHich mean on PvP2 Pirates have none of the new BP's other than the Gunboat. Hell we even bought some L'Oceans off the US through side deals only to break them up. This was before the devs finally said that you can't get the BP this way. We have broken up a every one we captured cause of trying to get the BP's including a lot of heavy Rattlers. They can be beat if you guys will just show up and fight with your numebrs. BLACK can't do every thing for the Pirates on the server after all. I have lost two Heavy Rattler dura in fights trying to help ya'll in shallow waters. Stop being affraid of loosing your ships and you will find out you will win more fights. That is why BLACK wins a lot when out numbered and out gun. We don't back down. As for the BP's we are hopping this will be the 4th time a charm. We do have some other sources to get ships from the new BP's but it takes time and meterails to get to those folks to get the ships. It's part of the game makeing some wheeling and deallings. GOT TO LOVE THE BLACK MARKET.

Oh you mean only one one server since there is never any admin/mods on PvP2 or PvE? Just like they posted the hints 2 hours before on only that server and not on the other two? NO wonder so many PvP1 players got there before the PvP2 and PvE players and haven't been really back on since? Love how they just ignore the other two servers. IF these events are so random why can't they change the code for the other servers to be more prime time for them? Yah how hard is it to change the times to match prime times for the other servers? On PvP2 that is before noon in the morning and most of us are asleep or doing family things in the morning.

Maybe when we get a crafting officer this would be a good thing for him?

I was going to say it's not like we haven't just captured our picks of them. Hell I have yet to have one made cause we just keep capturing them. IF they are junk build we just break them up.