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It will prob be 48 hours but I think that model going off how long it takes to craft them is poor model. It should of been something like this. Yacht every 24/24 hours cause it's a 7th rate LRQ every 36/48 hours casuse it's a 6th rate L'Hermione/Hercules every 48/72 hours cause it's a 5th rate Should prob be no 4th rates or above DLC's unless they are trade ships. I think a Indiaman DLC would be better than some combat ship, or something bigger than it, but never a war ship. If they where allowed than make it something like 60/106 hours so they are more a once a week redeem. Other wise your going to have folks in nothing but DLC and just farming every one else with redeeming there ships every 24 hours. I honestly see now point in crafting now ships if all the best ships in each class is going to be pretty much the DLC ships. That could be another way to gift all EA players with the Pandora, ok so it has to be a DLC that any one can buy right? Well on day one give every one the BP that was EA in game....bang we can not only redeem it once every so many hours but we can craft it any time we want. I like running a crafting ships cause it's my ship with my name on it. DLC ships should never be more than 3/5 ships if they are not crafted by players also. No one should be able to redeem a ship and get a gold/purple ship that way.

So we are going to dumb down crafting even more? Well what little crafters you have left are now gone if you do that? I don't get the hate towards a large group of players that loved this game but pretty much have left cause you trying to please a few hard core PvP players that do nothing but farm newbs and casuals instead of fighting each other. How about making the crafting system something that folks can actually enjoy and have fun with instead of giving all the good ships in DLC's that can't be crafted and than hide the rest of the good ships behind PvP rewards to be able to craft them? That cause it's a freaking third rate no matter how you put it, a duck is still a duck. I agree Hermione is not a bad choice for a DLC, but this ship is bad for a 4th rate. How about we take the ingermanland and make that one a DLC and bring this in as the new AGGY of the 4th rates? DLC's should be the low end of the tier not the top dog. Look how games like WoT does there premium tanks. You might get more HP's but you always get lesser gear like guns, radio, view rang and such to make up for it. They are never top tier of the class. Yep they could pick a better lesser used ships like say the Ingermanland, hell even the Aggy would make a better DLC, but it should never be top of it it's tier ship. With the crew and guns this should be the new Aggy of the 4th rates to take over that tier. I can see having it's permits locked behind doing PvP/RvR, but not a pay to win. How about we can get the BLUE prints for any DLC ship (except maybe pandora that needs to stay kinda rare for the EA guys) in game so crafters can compete with notes. Remember we don't need woods to open a note, so they are instant ships. Totally killing any need for a crafter to build ships.

I know a way I would make a SOLO PvP Zone. Move the Pirates capital to Nassua or better yet make them one of the hard core nations like they should be any way. Turn Mortimer Town and the area around it Neutral ports like the old PItt's and other ports. Any one can use them any one can have outpost in them. Than make a zone around them that is SOLO PvP only. You can still run in there and do econ around the area, but you risk getting jumped but only by one ship. It would turn the area into a central melting pot of PvP. Cause even if you want to do group PvP you can meet and than go out side of the zone. Other wise it's just you and the other guy. I would say fleets are allowed though (so folks don't try to do the smuggle goods t hing). Added thought this zone could allow all to use admiralty shop too so that even if hard core nations get ported they can still come back here and use the shops. Maybe only in Mortimer Town. The other three ports could be a flipped as neutral or captured able, but Mort needs to be neutral to all but not a true free town. Since La Tort is close I would make that a captured port and move the Free town over to La Navasse as we kinda seem to have a shortage of free towns in that area.

0300 server time is 9pm cst for me. That is pretty much US prime time.

I call BS on the traders will pass, ,one of the RUS guys sunk my Indie last weekend when I was there to check out some econ, pick up cedar and see if it was a profitable run. Well the trade goods where mostly on the other two ships, but the cedar wasn't and now that run was useless. This was after I even let his trade ship go past me and didn't touch a russian AKF 3 ship trader too. So saying Traders can pass is BS some of you hunt traders too. Which is BAD FOR YOUR ECON. I made some one good money in there port buying up goods. Maybe need to police your own a bit too or folks won't make that run to help your econ.

But not every one has all those and with a wipe even less folks will have all those, it also means you have exactly zero combat perks on your ship most likely.

I been popping in setting stuff up. With the direction main server is going and so little time with work right now I might have more fun over there solo than on war.

I still think the poods should only be on Russian ships. The pavel needs 18 in place of the 9’s. Vick should only have 42lbs. The rest of the 2-1rates the 36 lb.. hell I just want a set up with two decks of 32’s to be honest. What we want isn’t always what we get. Are he was using his best wind which isn’t the princes. And he was prob fir/fir with loads. I drop stuff like crooked and other cheap speed mods on mine. You know all you have to do is go directly with the wind and you out run a prince. I done it fully loaded before.

They are two different models. The old Connie model which you prob used for a long time and had slots open (mine was completely opened) is now the ship USS United States. The paints work on it cause it is the old modely they had been design for. All current paints in game are for ships pre-wipe a year ago. Though they have some new ones in the API they haven't been put in game. I'm sure you will see new paints for other ships and the new model of the Connie in the future. Right now a lot of ships are going through stats update and permits can't be found. That and you can prob still get it from rare drops with some rewards.

I wouldn't want to have it changed at sea, going into port is fine, cause folks will other wise switch fast from a combat brawling to a boarding ship at sea depending who they ware fighting.

The other issue with switching your ships like that is it removes your ship knowledge for either ships until you get back into port and can set them for the main. It would be nice if you can actually set ship knowledge for your ships and fleet and it stays like that until reset.

I think I actually have a couple as I know that was one of the best looking one for a privateer/pirate like Trinc. Sadly most of the ones I got from the Test hand out was Cerberus, Essex and Bell Poule all ships I haven't touched since prob before the wipe.

I would prefer more to craft or allowed to craft also. @van der Decken I know they leave a lot of words off the tool tips cause of locilization of multi languages

I get they leave some things bland so they don't get struck if things need to be changed, but this would probe help is some better desc for some of the DLC's.

Some content should be locked behind PvP or PvE only content that you must do to get. Most games are like this and we can do some speciall missions and such or rare finds to get things that the DLC won't have. You don't have to buy the DLC you know. Hell all I been getting out of the chest are Esssex, Cerberus and Bell Poule paints, three ships I haven't used since I was a US player back on global 2+ years ago. NO YOU PAID for a set amount of common paints. Devs can leave some out and make them rare finds or only through certain actions. I'm all for certain paints being locked behind PvE or PvP content only.

I would have to wait for tomorrow, I redeem one to see if it was a note like before. I didn't trade it though so will test that out tomorrow if some one else doesn't.

Back on Global I used the pink for all my board fit ships lol

Santi, Vic, Bucc, Pavel, Bellona, US, Belle Pooule, Cerberus, Essex, Renno, Trinc, Niagara Those are the ships, I redeememed on and it is like the normal paints notes, but I didn't try to trade it. I'll have to test that later. Might toss it on another char.

You do know those zones have been said will be removed. That is why your seeing a larger number of players going to the PvE server. Folks don't want to PvP 24/7. They want places to do some econ and level up, but they like the excitement of doing PvP but more on there own terms and when they are free. Devs are slowly removing that more and more and not giveing a middle ground for both types of players. They are basicly saying you are either totaly PvP or you are PvE. Which means they should just remove all AI from PvP server. Christ Roberston said something about this a while back for SC. "The reason we are having 20% players and 80% AI is so that there is a balance and it's not just folks ganking others all the time. You won't know what is AI and Player either. The problem with PvP is there is always a winner and a looser. When your always the looser it's not fun any more and you stop playing the game. We don't want to make it not fun so we are offering a larger ratio of AI over players so that PvP will be more of a rare thing in certain zones." Something like this as they will have high sec and low sec areas in game so you can't just gank any one and do PvP every where. This is an issue we have with this game. We don't protect the majority of the players and they get killed, over and over until they stop playing or move over to the PvE server. All the while we give more and more to the few toxic PvP players that constantly complain about lack of fights but refuse to fight each other.....they go out of there way to make the life of the casual/nobs there sole goal to kill for the most part. That is not a healthy game and if they keep up with this we won't have a game no matter what all bells and whistles that the Devs will try to offer us. You loose 80% of your players base which is casuals and the new plaeyrs than you have pretty much worse than what we have now.....hardly any one playing.

Are you can learn it like most of us have and it wasn't by looking at drawings. It was from first hand experience of ships catching fire and blowing up....any one remember the good old SNOW days that you couldn't piss off the side of that ship without it blowing up? Remember bigger ships can and will have more than one Mag so it's not just one location.

I actually have a couple of them, finally get to us them. I remember one time in small battles/dual room I had an inger with firshop fitting. I would toggle surviva to fan the fire but never go into fireshock. It was funny cause every one on the other team was running from me the shore fight lol It’s historical location on each ship. Not all them had them in the same spot. I use to light up certain AI ships easly cause I knew where they are located on certain ships.

See your missing something here.....we will also be farming you with the Pandora too. Just wanted to make sure you correct that. Honestly though it will be a week and folks will be in 4th rates and some maybe SOL's. I think back when we had the last wipe we had guys grinding out in a weekend almost all the ranks to rank back up cause they didn't log in and make sure to keep there stuff up to date or only had played on one server and not the other.

It's all ready starting to be more popular. Them going extreme hardcore and removing things are going to turn off the casuals that are heading over there. They had more players on the other night in US prime time than PvP did, they have never had more players before so that is telling you something and I don't think it's the no wipe thing, cause wouldn't alot of people be starting pretty much fresh if they haven't been playing over there? I honestly think a PvP/Light server would get the most players where you have optional (flag only) PvP. NA:L failed so we know folks don't want just straight PvP. They want content and story and more content. Not gank fights by a buch of guys with no life that won't fight each other but think jumping casuals and newbs makes them the elite special players.

Ok we better get some good videos guys , I want to see that focus fire and "BOOMS"........lol and with my luck it will be me blowing up...lol

Same thing the last time I did it, wonder if it is tied to our graphics card. I'm running an RTX 2080 and I get some funky rigging glitching in battle and open world on the Connie and some other ships.