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That is what they said before last weeks event. Haven't heard anything new about this time around.

When have they said you can't? The problem is the DEVS don't say much of anything. So we assume that like any other BP you can break them up and maybe get a drop of the BP from them. Though now they have came out and told us you can't so we aren't breaking them up any more. It's not like we have a shortage of ships, we just capture more 1st rates and craft them. We have lost very few compared to what the US and Brits have lost over the last few weeks. They really need a cool down on false/defended ports that don't get captured, just like there is a cool down on the captured ones and this will stop the flag grabbing zerg. Well until the new port batttle stuff comes out. The other thing is two largest nations should never be able to become allied with one another. At least not over and over.

Been to all three and I won't be returning for this forth one. Just not worth the wasted time setting up for the crappy reward. That is even if your lucky to get any chest.

Yah there should be a cool down on successful defense and false flags. It's getting old folks are pulling 5 flags in a night and only showing up to the ones you don't go to defend cause of your numbers when you know they sure as hell has the numbers to fight, they just want the easy win cause they can't fight and win other wise.

Port Battles are set by the person that pulled the flag and they can be set for just about any time except around server resets. If you want a battle in your prime time than you need to capture a port and change the timer. Most timers are set to main prime times for that server. Not every one is going to have the exact same play time as others. We set some of ours on PvP2 for Aussie players so they have something to do and that is after servers come back up. That is for most of us US players when we are in bed or getting up to go to work. So not every one is going to have the same time. You want to get to Port Battles get off work early or get on early on your day off to make them. Because of real life not every one is going to make Port battles all the time.

Any word on what got changed on today patch?

Yep what Bach said. We had people in both ships and our traders where all board fit pretty much so that they could board the other traders if they where empty and take the chest off them and remain in there ships. We had it all planed out. I was involved in taking a LVG with my Rattler with a Buc, the Buc player took command of the LVG and we called to our clan mates and had them escort him back to port. My rarttler went back to searching. We got 20+ chest from just picking up, and I know we got 3-5 chest from attacking other traders. Every one was solo with no escorts other than maybe AI ships.

I think that is the plan, but the DEVS are being so tight lip about what the actual pirates mechanics are going to be. I really hope they put them in place soon cause most of us don't want to be a Nation but more like pirates. They stopped the Pirates vs Pirates cause the mechanics could be abused and they need to work on it better. I think it's prob going to be like clan vs clan or something later.

Can we get some more info on these OUTLAWs and when this will be put into play? We got a few players right now on every one's black list we would love to sink on sight. I swear we got one guy that some are about ready to take a ban from the game just to sink him and keep him out of port battles and other actions.

If it takes you the same amount of time to board some one as it does to sink them than they are either extremely soft built ship or your taking way to long to kill them in boarding. Though I agree on the multi ship boarding for things like towers and bigger ships. This would allow say a pack of smaller ships to take on a larger ship and be able to win against them by there numbers. Same goes with towers. To be honest they need to tweek the surrender option that will allow you to keep your ship and crew if you surrender to some one, but you offer say half or even 1/3 or 1/4 of your cargo to them or even a slight ransom of credits. This way you keep your cargo and your ship dura. You would prob see more people surrendering this way. This will also let you give the little guys a chance to live if they get caught in a trader in the wrong waters.

The DEVS really need to work on there skills of how they give us correct info or not. If this is so than a lot of folks might be pissed cause it's not just us that have been breaking them apart to try to get the BP's .

We won't fleet them until we can make them. Like Loco said they ones captured go to trying to get the BP.

We pulled one flag tonight so ya'll know what port we are attacking. This is the result once they saw our fleet. http://imgur.com/NghIdFF We had more out side so not all 1st rates made it out. Though they pulled a bunch of flags and took the other ports. None of them showed up at the St Nicolas again that we showed up to before pulling the Antonio flags. I'm sorry you want fights but only when you have the largest odds.

And I believe the old ships with thickness (ones not crafted with a name tag of who crafted) don't have this added thickness so you might need to compare two new ships. As for the question why the thickness of the Vick and Santi are different? Well it's cause they aren't the same ship. Some ships of same class have different pro and cons. Think I saw a post that said the UI is on an older version and that data wasn't added to it yet so it's not showing but they plan to add the fix soon. Remember the UI is a place holder for the games actuall UI when released so it is a bit crude per say.

Still sounds like you have no clue what is going on and just guessing. Ok Spain as far as I know this is what I seen happen in the last week or so. One watch guy hit Baja and Swedes (think the ex-Spain players) and Pirates showed up to screen it but the guy had all ready planted the flag. He didn't finish the towers and wasn't able to capture the port. He has since gone over from US to Pirate and when asked why he did it, "Cause he had nothing better to do that hour of night." It was main Aussie prime time. Since than Spain had a agreement with a few US players to flip there ports from Aussie timer (the main time of the ex spian players that are now Swedes) to US prime time. We warned them we won't be able to protect them cause this will be our main battle time. It seem it was going good and there was a port flipped ever other night for three days. Than suddenly one of those ports gets hit by a WTF guy. Since we been busy with the main battles//PVP we haven't been able to screen who was hitting them other than a clan tag, but it seems a very small number of players. Have you ever think that it could just be one Rogue clan or something? We have never had dealings with WTF clan either. As per your claim they might of been alts of the ex Spain players, who are not Pirates, but are Swedes now. Just cause they use to be Pirates before that doesn't make them Pirates still. So now your saying you didn't care about pulling the flag for St Nick, well you said pick a port and show up and we did. Ya'll don't show up when we bring numbers. You only show up when it's one small clan or you have 3 vs 1 odds and even than you run half the time once one or two of your guys gets sunk. Well the reason we picked St Nick is cause we went to Guibara first with our fleet to protect it and waited. One US guy with the flag showed up and turned and ran when he say we had numbers. You know it's only about 15-20 Rats that show up for these port battles so if we are at one port we won't make it to other ports. The Bahamas are only protected by a small clan trying to train new guys and US keeps showing up in numbers to curb stomp them and take multi ports while BLACK is other places fighting Brits. That isn 't healthy for the game and they can't field the numbers to protect several ports so even if they win the battle they still loose 2 other ports. Many of them in the last few days have stopped showing up cause they see no point in defending ports when it's 3 vs 1 odds. So what do we do when you attacked Watling with 9 vs 3 odds? We start to show up. You almost had the tower down when numbers showed and it became 9 vs 7 and what did you do? YOU RAN. LIKE YOU ALL WAYS DO. You had 2 more ships than we did and you ran even though it took us time to get to the tower and help the 3 guys fighting for there life. You want to know the out come of that fight? ZERO PIRATES SUNK. Half of the US players SUNK (sorry don't have screen shots to show on that one) and the other half does what US does best. You tuck your tail between your legs and run. We been noticing a trends with the flag pullers and leaders of these fights. They sit on the out side of the fight and only join if it looks like ya'll are wining. Than if they aren't they run. MOst the time they have full health and not a scratch when they pop from the fight (escaped). Maybe if they would get into the fight you would win more of them even when you so clearly all ways out number us. No we aren't cheating, it's the simple fact ya'll can't beat us on equal terms cause we have better skilled players and better team play. BLACK has a rule we live by and it's prob cause most of us are ex military, "NEVER LEAVE A GUY BEHIND." Something US and Brits are famous for, leavening guys behind as they run away. This is bad for moral for your new players and even some of your older players. Some of the lower level players that switched from US/BRIT to Pirates said this was one of the main reason. The older more experience players leave them up to dry and don't help them in fights. They instead run to save there own skins. To be honest I'm so sick of the only part of a US and Brit ship I see most the time is the stern while they run away I'm starting to fit my ships for Port battles for speed instead of brawling like I normally do just to run you guys down so you can't escape.

The one flag at a time isn't good for larger servers or even nations fighting each other. Though I do agree there should be a cool down after a port been attacked before it can be hit again. What I really would like to know how the new port battle stuff is going to effect pirates. Devs seem to be keeping any pirate changes on the hush hush. They also keep taking more and more things from Pirates and not giving any feed back.

Oh get over the spy thing man... People have alts in every nation out there so all you have to do is just keep your trap shut on nation chat and you can plan stuff. To be frank with you I really don't know any one that has an US alt. Some of us have them in our own nation and some have put them in the smaller ones to help them grow. What YOU AND THE BRTIS needs to do is stop all these empty port battles. You pop one port and we go to defend it you pull 4-5 more. While we wait you take those ports. We really only do have about 15-20 members in BLACK kicking two Nations butts in battles cause we are all ways on and work as a team. All you guys do is making excuses why you keep loosing (and we don't count you taking an empty port battle a win). There is a reason we show up at Regionals with 1st rates cause we can and aren't affraid to loose them. We show up with the ships for the battles we are going to fight, but we aren't going to spread our self to 5 diffrent battles when we can make one stand and hopefully Brit/US shows up to the flags they pulled. I heard tonight the Brits didn't want to show cause we brought "THE FIRST RATES" to a regional port. In fact we brought them to the US flagged port too but no one showed (I think he ran when he spotted us as he was going to solo the port). US and Brits are the two largest nations and even working together they can't beat 15-20 guys. To be honest ya'll should be at war with each others and we should just be the thorn in every ones side. Oh and now what's up with getting a few other natiosn to attack us on another fronts? Again does it take 5 nations to beat 15-20 active players? As Loco said if you want to the help the server stop pulling multi ports when folks are stuck in a port battle. We have a bunch of new guys wanting to play in shallow water, but they don't want to get jumped showing up to random battles with 3 vs 1 odds so the one small clan that was trying to play and do PB's stopped doing them. It's US and Brits toxic nature with smaller nations that is hurting this server. OH AND STOP RUNNING When you have the other team out number. Just cause one person sinks doesn't mean your going to loose. I'm sick of seeing nothing but the sterns of US and British ships in most battles. Stop fitting your ships to run and learn to fight. Take away those speed mods and you will be forced to fight and maybe just maybe win with those larger odds ya'll tend to get.

We been wondering this too cause we have captured a good number of ships and every one goes to get broke up when we do it.

I still want Pirate on Pirate back cause we still getting morons coming over from other Nations. So can't wait for OUTCAST to come out for Pirates.

That really isn't a lot of game time to be honest. They need to fix the surrender/Moral issues with bording though. Makes press gang useless and you pretty much have to kill all crew. Well I agree cause you can count there crew and if this is true than they have way more crew on those ships than what it can hold by players or that every one of these ships has gold hammocks and marines it seems. I'm sorry if that is the way it's suppose to work it's not working correctly.

Yah you shouldn't have any issues running. I have a 980 and I can run it on ultra settings and keep 60+ fps execpt in big battles like port battles, but I think that is cause the current state of the game doesn't us multi core yet as far as I know.

Yes there is no way to turn pirate other than the delete your char and make a new one just as every one else has to do. Ya'll cried so much they took away the option.

He's one of those that thinks every one should get a trophy and not not every one. I do think every one that was in the event should get like a special paint just for playing it or something, but not every one on the server. You should not get rewarded cause others did the hard work. The real world doesn't work like that even though people keep trying to make it that way, it just doesn't work that way. Than again he got one of the rare BP's so what does he have to complain about. I got two purple mods I can craft myself and two paints from the one chest i got. Really after all the time waiting it was not worth the time spent so I won't be staying up for the next one. With the current rewareds they might as well have this pop several times in a week. I'm going to bet we get the BP's any way in a few weeks with one of the new patches. Well atleast the french should be getting the 1st rate BP.

Oh we demasted him with a Rattler and Bucc and got his chest. Wasn't going to let him go. Still got crap mods and a bunch of paint.

Third trip and we had a our clan out there and with every one else we talked to no one had any BP's just the paints and the mods. It's not worth it after sitting there for 5 hours getting into place and than fighting. I took one french LVG down that had a chest so there is some PvP going on.