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I don't know I had 5 accounts when I played POTBS. So lets say I have 5 account s here and since the game is what? 40 bucks a pop would be 200 dollars. The only reason I haven't gotten a second account for the game is cause it's in ALPHA right now, but I'm pretty sure if I'm still into the game when it goes live I'll prob get me at least one more account. Though I never play different nations on the same server. To me I don't think this is fair and is a form of cheating. That is why most games won't allow you to do it. Hell some won't even allow you to have multi accounts.

So let me get this right the OP demasted a ship. He didn't have his boarding prep ready but I assume the other ship was something at like 50% sails as I always around there or lower when I get demasted. In all that time while it slowly repairs you COULDN'T SHOOT IT AGAIN AND KEEP IT IN THE FIGHT? Sounds kinda fishy or the OP just sucks. We watch exactly for this when we take sails down and than we pound on them while he's repairing so they don't go up hardly at all. Never seen a demasted sail go back to fully 100% either. So what exactly was OP doing from the time he popped the repair to when he escaped that is a good long timer to be doing nothing and not hitting him. I use longs on my Surprise and can keep just about any ships sails down when the big boys are beating on the hulls. If done right those guns can be like machine guns (shut off the other side so your not using all the crew on guns your not shooting).

Sounds like some one can't fight AI ships and got sunk. It's easy to take out some one with AI fleets if your in a team of equal number of players. So it really doesn't matter if you get ganked by 3 players or 1 player with 2 ships in his fleet. Your still out number. Just think of this every ship you sink or crew you kill cost them money. I love to take down the AI fleet of a player while my team mates are keeping him in the fight and wearing his ship down. I tend to board and kill his AI and than move in on him cause I'm the boarder of the group most of the time. You know how costly that can get when you use all your crew on ships and loose them a lot?

To me it works exactly like I expected it to. My LVG tags a trader and I get him slow enough to board. My LVG is fit to board with extra crew and marines and a few other things dealing with only boarding. I can pretty much win a board on a Brig or Snow trader with two moves. I might of lost say 5-10 crew. Well I tend to kill about 30-40 crew when I attack so that leaves 20-30 crew to be pressed into mine and since I only lost 5-10 that is all I get. The rest are sent to Davy Jones locker or part of the ransom when I sale the ship back in port (or break it down). This is the same when I board ships in fleet battles with my Trinc. I Get all my crew lost back most the time and able to continue onto the next ship that I"ll beat down and board. When I leave the battle I try to make my last ship a board to get all my crew back from the fight. Than we can keep going to the next mission and grinding. The perk was never meant as a way to get back lost crew you didn't have on your ship in the first place. I would say stop trying to board unless your rigged up to board too. That is prob why your not getting many crew back if any. Also you want to get many as possible you go for MORAL BREAK not kills. The faster you get the moral to 0 the faster they will surrender and the more crew you get to press into your lost crew that fight. I have tested the multi board and capture in a battle where i put 20 crew on the Trinc my Trinc boarded in a Fleet mission and capture. I than went to another ship (think it was Surprise) and I boarded it and won. I got back my 20 crew I put on the Trinc and all that I lost in the fight. So at the end of the battle i had full crew and the two ships. Though I sent them back to port to be scrapped sold. When I did this I got back the crew that I put on them cause I was just a few short (think 5) at the end of the battle from what I started from and what was left on each ship when I beat them.

But if no one was sunk than there shouldn't be a report and I hate to tell you guys this is like the big "GPS" argument with the in game map many didn't want. Your basically saying every one go here cause I just fought some one. When last i checked none of these ships are rigged with radio's and radar. You don't want to know how many times I gotten out of fights cause of the timer ran out cause folks didn't want to give up on trying to capture my trader until the battle timer was over. That is a lot of time wasted for some one that can only get one shot every min on me to keep me in a fight but not really do any damage. The reason they are doing this is cause they called their buddies and have them all sitting out side waiting to tag me with speed fitted boats. So what do I do. I sit in the battle screen and go to the bathroom (been holding it for an hour any way) or make me a snack and than I pop out. If they can't get the hint that I"m not going to sit running for another 2 hours than they are the ones that need to get a new life and move on. So with a system like this I would just log the game off and go play something else as it's pointless to try to just pop out and be on your merry way. So my vote is NO TO GPS RADAR REPORTS.

But not every one is a fighter. Some folks might want to be the explore or trader and not the fighter. There should be a system for them and things to do. I just don't like it when you make it full on care-bear (PVE server). They still have to face the risk of the seas and getting hit as they explore and trade though. I like fighting just as much as I like exploring. Though I don't like spending 10 days at sea to pick up a bottle and come back to my nearest national port. It's getting where I only pick up a wreck every 3-4 bottles. I'll just open new ones if I don't like the location until I get one that is reasonable distance to go to.

Yah it's not meant to replace crew you didn't have on the ship at start of battle. It's to replace up to what you came into the battle with. This is to prevent exactly what the OP is trying to do is get free crew with boards to replace the ones you lost in another battle. Think of it this way. Why would more crew want to join you cause you can't keep your crew alive? You want to know a fast cheap way to get your crew back? Make med kits and use though instead. If you make them you can actually get the crew back fairly cheap.

Should of used F11 to send in a report but other than that you prob need to contact support about it. It gives you a warning about the dismiss/Delete or send to docks. Remember this game is still in alpha stage as they are working on more important things than tutorials and such. For those you need to look for player version on line that have been made. You need to click on the fleet ship to add it to your fleet. There is a box for each ship you have to click. Than go to crew management to add crew to hat ship. I'm going to take it your new to the game and wouldn't of been able to crew the Bucentare any way. I will highly advise you to do a bunch of youtube video searching for some walk though of the game.

How about folks just stop trying to fight over and over. If some one escapes and you don't see them pop back out than the fights over and move on. Hell I was in an almost 2 hour fight and had to make dinner late and such cause I was expecting a short run but the guy keep hitting me over and over even though I keep out running him in my trader. I was so freaking hungry I was pissed at the end and almost just hit the surrender button. Instead i logged off the game and came back later. Though I shouldn't be getting stuck in 2 hours of running with some one. I shoul be able to escape and be gone on my way to the port I was trying to get to. I think folks stay in the screen so long cause it's to easy to tag hit some one right after getting out of the battle screeen. Hell if I can escape and show up where I escaeped from in relationship to where I was hit that would solve thtis cause folks can't just sit out side waiting to gank you when you leave the fight.

I'm sure it will be found out in due time....oh and they where talking about like a short 15 min race around an island points. That is just boring...do one that is about an hour long course that you can go around islands deep and shallow water and there can be more than one route. Now that is a race. You might as well just go play this on the carebear server to be honest. Ships should be regulated to make it more fair. Like only Lynx and Cutters. Prefer the trader versions so any player can race no matter what the rank is of the char. Entry fee is kinda high for new players too so this is going to be only for the elite fee. One week sign up is going to limit this too as not every one can plan things a week ahead cause some of us have actual jobs and families. These guys can't fight so no reason for them to tag any one else in the race, but this isn't going to stop any one not involved in the race from tagging them.

I kinda like that, have the pacific coast just be trade only with on worry of attacks so they care bears can have there little zones. I'm sorry the PvE server is so borrow and there is no real trade action there either since ports don't change. I mean you can run around every where with a smuggler flag, but what's the point? To be honest on PvP2 I only been hit a few times in my trader and the one time they got me I was being stupid, the other times I got away. I'm hoping they make the PvE NPC"s aggressive if anything other wise to me it's a wasted server resource other than maybe to find bugs we all ready find on the PvP servers.

If they are going to have long distance it would be nice if you got a little more cargo with them. Keep the Gold item and chance of labor contracts, but give me more cargo to find after the long haul. It's been about 150-170 space and most folks don't even use a trader to get them some times. Though I don't waist my time when I go pick them up. I stop at ports and make trades as I go to get them and I make money that way so the time isn't wasted.

After a long haul to get two bottles: One in Demark Land and the other down by the Holland ports I have decided if I get a wild hair and want to explore I'll go play on EU server. Which I went and deleted my US char and made me a Pirate there.....lol You know to play when things are slow and I want to explore.

The only issue is wish there was an option of surrender or let them keep there ship/stuff if I don't want to take it all from them. Like I take so much cargo and a prize money from the player, but he keeps the rest of his ship/cargo and crew/offier lives. This along with cargo/ship sharing at the end of battle would be nice. Every shallow port battle we been in we had to drump most of our rewards cause no one has a cargo to hold it.

Doesn't really matter the nation I just wish the stupid AI would stop shooting our ships while in boarding. I get out with a good win and low crew lost (I have press gang) to only find out once i put crew on it to command retreat it starts to freaking sink. I would take a nasty rat stealing any day over that. At least that means some one go the ship lol

I finally started to get this down in turns into the irons and I'm like.....HOLLY COW THAT WAS SO EASY. I would say more think of them like this \/ or /\ pattern when you turn into the wind and it will help you get out a lot faster.

That next nation has to now beat prob the two combined nations. So this will make one nation more and more stronger as they beat one nation and they end up being teamed up with each other cause of it.

I'm fine with the current fleet commands for now, what I would like is the idiot AI ships that aren't your fleet to stop fireing on your and the ship while YOU ARE IN A BOARD. You don't want to know how many times they killed my crew and to many of the AI's when I was wining the Moral kill of a board and than get out to find that the crew I put on it are gone cause of the ship sinking or I wasted more crew than I should of cause every one and there mother was shooting at us. Also AI tends to sit there like retards some times at start of fleets even if you didn't bring any of your own ships in there.

I keep trying to bribe her with a Connie if she will give it to me, our other ship crafter that made it was suppose to make me one too but they pulled the BP before he got the hours back up....grrrrrrr

Don't know how you went 24 hours without the need to spend any hours....lol Thanks for the feed back one of my clan mates was asking about that one as they are more a casual player and only gets on every couple of days.

Would be nice if there was some post for these min patch/hotfix's to so we have a heads up.

To be honest it doesn't reduce anything cause the players that are going to have more than one char to spy have more than one account to do so. This is why many games won't allow you to have more than one account and if you do it's only on the one team for that server or you can get ban from the game.

I have press gange and no issues with mine.

Just read the other one and prob laughed a little more than I should have.

The salty tears part or the contracts? I'm kinda hoping they do Privateer Contracts for PvP players that aren't all about econ at some day and this could be a good way for Pirates to get back into a Nation. We can still offer up contracts without a mechanic. I know a certain US Captain I wouldn't mind paying for some one to sink right now lol