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I have proposed something like this. Privateers would be your current pirates. Except no owning ports. They can join either side of fights as long as it's not a privateer first. They can join hostility missions and help out a nation. Maybe some how have it coded they can be aded as a friendly clan for a short time and work for a clan/nation. Than have the outlaws/PIrates are the ones with free for all and can't do RvR or own ports. Every one hates them and have no capitals (maybe one shallow port?) per say and can't capture any ports. The problem with the old system was there was no check and balance system to keep from teh two strongest nations from joining together (like GB and US did on global). Make it so that the top nations can't join each other, they can only do one alliance with a weak nation. Than have the other nations allowed to allied with up to so many nations. This will have top nations changing out if folks move. With forged papers the population that you have listed will go up and down.

How are you locked out of crafting? You can do divevery missions and get the doubloons to make a level 1 shipyard very easly just like any one else. It will take time but you can even save up and go all the way to level 3 but it will take time and cost you. You can do a lot of what any other players in clans can do but it just might take you way longer cause your doing it by yourself. Why should you get a participation trophy for the hard work of the clans and you didn't help? Want certain perks join an RvR clan or a clan that is friends with one or just take longer solo to do things. I keep telling folks in nation this, every thing we are doing this week is fast passed cause we have 1st rates and stock piles of real, doubloons, CM, and the VM's. It's not going to be anywhere this fast the first week or even month of the release. Thanks....good to know and I expected it when I saw the numbers in yesterdays hotfix. Solo players can still do mostly what any clan player can, but at a much slower pace. Why should a solo player that didn't help capture a port get all the perks as those that worked hard to capture and build the port. They can also buy things from those clans and if they ask nicely and part of a small clan they can maybe be added to the clan list. Level one even with the new prices can be gained after doing a few delivery missions. They make the traders you might want or you can just capture them. Level 2 you might need for indman as it isn't capturedable in OW. Other wise you can always just buy them off other players, they might even have the new port perks too. At least some one gets it. This game is a multiplayer MMO sandbox with RvR element. You can play the game how you want, but you might not be able to easily get some content without the help of others. It's like any raids in other games where you need 6-8 players to do them and they can't be done solo. I don't think they will be, by time we get ports up and going most of the big clans and nations will be pumping out ships, with the same stats. Eventually most of the nations will have a port that will have most of the perks unlocked. Some might get there faster than others. I think US is very close behind Russia cause we are polling all our nations resources into these ports in prep for the release. If folks don't work together than yes it's going to take some nations longer than others. That is going to prob be GB's issue cause they are so spread out all over the place. Why can't they? Also why can't they help the bigger clan and be added to it's friends list. I don't know what nation your in, but I'll tell you in US we got together and is pulling all our resources together big and small clans. Bigger clans took the capitals to support paying for timers, smaller clans took regional ports and will support the large clans. It's not our fault other nations aren't working together and helping each other. That sounds more like an organization problem not game mechanic. also if your in a small weak nation? Well you can always go join one of the bigger ones. You choose to play in the nation, clan and with who you play with. If your restricting your self by being in a weak nation or clan that is your own issues not the game mechanics. We already warned the small 1 man clans they better join other bigger clans or they will be left out of the friends list cause it's limited to only 15 clans.

On average I get about enough money that half of it goes to paying my repairs when I pop back into port. While I can run a little delivery mission and make 20-100k a trip and some Tim’s get 1k doubloons. I only been killing hostility and open world ships lately but feel the real reward is way to low compared to delivery missions.

For me it a not the cost of reals it’s the doubloons is kinda getting high all over the place. Pay outs for missions/AI kills isn’t very high in reals either. To remain profitable you have to run delivery missions. Killing a first rate should give me more than10k reals. I haven’t seen a good drop from a sol AI in ages they still reward basic mods and RNG haven’t dropped one doubloons in two weeks.

It’s my night off from work so see you to buttercup.

John needs to post the screen shot of all KoC boys getting sunk in 1st rates vs US tonight. Lol oh and REDS best of luck recruiting.

Have you looked at the shipyard yet? 3 million reals and 50k doubloons for a level 3 shipyard. they need to pump up the reals from battle or something. I hardly get enough to pay my repairs (which is normally half the cost of my mission rewards). Not every one wants to do delivery missions to make money.

You do know that you could simply make a ruling that it can not be used to gain a port from this point forward. Any ports so flipped in such means is reverted back to neutral. Right now folks are using it cause there has been no official word from devs if we can or not. If you say we can than folks will continue to use it and the front lines will be pointless..... Solution would be that only friendly clans can take missions from the capital but we understand that will take time to cold, but make an official post saying that the legacy system can't be used to skip capital ports is against rules would stop this for the most part. I'm pretty sure it's not to hard to tell who abuses this after you making such ruling. You still would have to go through them to get to the Florida coast, and them I mean SPAIN/BRITISH/RUSISAN or who ever is between pirates and France (who is on the other side of the map). Which will never be tested cause of the two ports that was taken using two different legacy features that wasn't meant to be in game.

Maybe give it a 48+ hour cool down between each level you destroy so you can't just click a button and totally destroy a level 4 building the day before a port battle.

I haven't looked at the upgrades, but I'm glad I made a level 2 shipyard the other day, but really wished I had made the level 3....just the level 1 is expensive. Two things we better be getting way more real drops cause this is extremely expensive. The other thing shouldn't a percentage of these doubloons be going to the port owner? Just like every thing else they get tax off of they should be getting a percentage of any doubloons spent in port.

As Decken stated you get them on Monday for what you did the week before. It goes into your money chest so check there. I got all mine from last week. Also remember once that port is defended/attack again you loose the status if you didn't show up to attack/defend it. If you want to check how many you should be getting go to the leaderboards and check the lord Protectors Leaderboard. Your prob going to be at the bottom of the list so scroll down.

I prefer to give the points to the nation that started the mission, not clan cause than an alt clan can still get a bunch of guys to jump in and help flip. So you still have to be the clan that gets the most points out of all that are grinding. Example: Group 1 has 5 US players of Clan A in it and are grinding hostility. Group 2 has ALT clan and 4 Pirates Group 3 has 5 US players but of 5 different clans. While they all do exactly 33% hostility it would break down like this. 33% Clan A 6.6% each will go to the 4 US players and the alt clan player for a total of 39.6 26.4 will go to the nation agro, but to no clan cause of the 4 pirates. Clan A has the most over all hostility so the port will go to theml, all the Pirates did was help them flip it faster. Admin posted two good options that would work together. The first one as I mention above the hostility goes to the nation of the player that started the mission. Option two which should also be implemented is only friendly clans of the owner of the region can pull missions. This will stop alt clan abuse.

Oh ya'll plan to exploit some more, cause that is the only way you can get there. Having to other wise go through half the map, since we all know the only ports ya'll have right now is through the exploit. Other wise if you plan to start from PR and or a freetown I wish you best of luck in testing out the frontier system and you fights.

A year? Hell most those guys been gone so long you sure they remember how to manual sale?

At that time I think there was still a port battle in the works, but since we seen they no show which was the right thing to do. Thank Morty for us the next time you see him, please. Again most of us aren’t looking for punishment, just the right thing done and a response back from Devs. I don’t think most of us US players knew it was a European holiday yesterday so we didn’t know why we where getting no response from Devs.

Didn’t mean for the second part to seem that way. It was just a general statement. We have helped out solo players I my clan many times. Mainly cause they showed up to OW fights and screening and wasn’t being cranky old hermits. I guess maybe the guys thinking they can’t get these ships are the ones that talk bad about big clans and puss off others in nation so they won’t help them. This game is an open sandbox that we can play all types of way. If there is a will there is always a way.

While the list is only limited to 15 clans something a small clan or solo player could do is ask to be put on the list temp. Say you come to me and I own a port that has a lot of good crafting upgrades. You tell me you plan to craft some ships this weekend and I trust your not an alt cause you come screen PB and help fight in the OW I set your clan on the list for the weekend so you can craft some ships. also if you choice to play solo that is your choice. Don’t complain that your not getting group perks for not playing that part of the content. I’m sorry you can’t just request a piece of the pie when you didn’t nothing to earn it.

UWU that flipped La Des in the shallows is a pirate clan. Might want to get informed before you go saying things. It’s the only pirate clan I mention using the alt thing. Than you could on day three tool ports in the regions pirates captured the day before. I do believe y’all have one close to Mort so no reason to keep St Mary a port you took with a reported exploit that we are all thankful was found and got fixed before released. I do believe there is still ports to capture in some regions pirates own and well you could attack the Spanish and brits now since y’all have region next to each other. Also Russians are right next to y’all too. You have multi options other than to exploit to get on US coast line behind lines.

As what Latron said, you can just buy a ship or capture one and get the good ships too. I'm sure we will in our own nations be willing to sale ships to solo and small clans. I done it in the past (more just gave the ships than sold) and prob will do it again. Ya'll keep acting like there isn't multi paths in game to get things. Show up and help in OW and I'm sure folks will want to help you get one of these new nifty ships.

Lets not also point out who exactly UWU is the alt of, only one player in that clan and it's some one you's alt that just posted in this thread/page. Makes you wonder why he would make such a post? Again I'm not asking for punishment, but the ports need to be set neutral and a hotfix deployed. If after Devs make a post and they keep doing it until hotfix is deployed than punish folks.

I knew about doing that but didn't even think of it. It was how we took the french ports back on Global, dans brought us missions and we jumped in them and flipped the ports. We may or may not of done it with Dutch ports too. We are happy they found the loop around and the first one with legacy missions was hotfixed. We are glad this one was found and Devs are planing to hotfix it by the end of the week. The thing we have problem with is the continue of doing the exploit and keeping the product of such exploits after they where found out and reported.

Than do like every one else and use freeports or capture some ports (legit wise). They are lazy and want to skip the rules to get PvP. Which isn't testing it's exploiting. You don't get a skip go and straight to boardwalk just cause you don't feel like doing the game. Other wise take the long sail out there. They can do the same PvP as every one else has to and capture ports or sail a long distance.

WO also did before the same thing with San Mateo. La Desconocida was flipped by UWU who has one member and that member is alt of a VCO clan member. This goes deeper than just one clan. I really don't care about a punishment, but the Devs need to make a call and roll these ports back to Neutral when the next hotfix is deployed. How many more ports will be flipped by exploiters that just want to be toxic to other players?

if you use the new import means to change things it's listed correctly, that is the old means to do it so it prob wasn't up dated.

was the fort created just now? Cause you might ahve to wait until after server reset.