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Oh I know that, but most casuals don't have ports all over the place and stay close to home ports. I got over 9K hours in this game with 5 alts. I get myself other ways, but I play me chars like a small clan and look at the game from how the average player would play it. Not how we would play it. So even you are admitting things aren't in the capitals. So how are you expecting some one that only plays a couple hours a day or week to run all over the place to get things that should be readily in the capital?

May I ask what nation you play in? Pirate maybe cause of your flag? You should take a look around other nations capitals. From pass experience I rarely saw PvP marks sold in CT for the US cause most the time they are being sunk not winning fights. When you loose all the time things like PvP marks become rare and every one doesn't share/sale the extras. Remember there are winners and looser in this game and not every one wins all the time. That is why I was trying to get @admin to show the stats of the folks that die the most when he was showing all those numbers. I'll bet you that we have some players that have died multi times and never gotten a PvP Kill. I know one of my clan mates I sunk many a times on GLOBAL when I was a pirate. He never got a PvP kill until he joined my clan and we did a shallow port battle (his first port battle that was a win) and got his first PvP kill and assist in over 2 years of game play. So no those are not flowing in every nations ports. While goofing around and fighiting yesterday I lost 5 ships supporting others in the nation. I didn't mind cause I have like over 100 ships and need to clean out the docks. Though if I was a new player or even a casuals that could of been all the ships I had and I wouldn't been able to replace them cause guess what? I actually got zero Combat Rewards cause all my assist wasn't enough damage (cause you share them in big fights and I was in smaller ships) so I got nothing but a few reals for the fights. What Doubloons I would of earned was on my ships when they went down and others we not able to collect it either. So I didn't even earn Doubloons for all that fight. I did earn VM for an empty port battle cause we had a screening fleet that did it's job with the Russians. I think when release comes and folks have to start from scratch it's going to be a big eye opener about how hard this game really has turned.

One issues about this isn't exactly true at this moment. You can not craft every thing cause some of the permits aren't currently in the store cause of rework or something. Like last night I lost a Reno, can't craft another cause there is no permits in the Admiralty for it. Even though I had every thing else needed for it. That is sloppy codding. What they should do until those ships are reworked they keep them in to craft normally. Than once the have them reworked you go to the permit system. Lucky for me I had one more in stock that I used else where that I could replace that ship with. Why would i not use another ship instead? Well I have all 5 slots open on that so why would i switch to a subpar ship to do a half ass job (It's good for running down trade ships) for what I want the ships for?

They still need to be limited, like have to do a special mission to get the PB and can only use them on certain ships. Other wise they would be all every one used.

As some one that has made a profit on cannons specially after wipes. I really like the #2 as we all ready have basic cannons for the basic cutter (it's now a 3lb and takes no other guns). I would say got with Used or Second hand Cannon are made by the Port and only supplied in the most common cannon size, anything else you need to buy from a player crafting them. #3 Poods should not be craftable unless they are restricted to only certain ships (like the 36 and 42 lbs cannons should be restricted to certain ships that used them only). If they where to also do this they need to bring in other cannons made by other nations through out history with there own perks. Some might have better accuracy others might have better pen, while others might do better at short range. Though they need to be limited in some way. The problem with Poods right now is they are supper cannons in there class and other than random drops or NYE gifts there is no other way to get them.

I always value a game in this means. every hour of game play for me is worth 1 dollar. If you can get 60 hours out of a 40 dollar game than you have made your money back. I have over 9K hours in this game. I for sure made my money back even with multi alts and DLC's. What always gets me is I was paying 40-60 dollars for games 20-25 years ago. With inflation honestly many of these games should be 100 or more, but they aren't. If you can get 40+ hours out of a game you pretty much got your moneys worth. We all know it takes a several hundred hours to even get into the game and it's mechanics.

I’m going to test it this weekend. Going to runn US Bermuda and than down to the Dan Swede area and back. If I get sunk I get sunk but I want to test this distance trading thing. I’ll clock the hours of the trip.

Before the recent econ stuff wipe I had over 200 VM's that I pretty much couldn't give away cause most folks in my nation had them too (not to that level). Unless you are in a nation that doesn't do well in RvR than you might have a problem, but there is always a way to get things. Put contracts up in freetowns or your capital for the permits you want or ask of some one is willing to trade. Though don't expect to be getting the ships straight off cause many clans will be worried about getting there own guys into those ships first, but after a while solos should be able to too. Fastest way for a solo/casual to get help is to try to hang out with clans and help them even if it's OW screening. I use to give out ships to new players and casuals just for showing up for fights. If server pop never goes up and we all end up in a stale map of only a few strong clans owning ports than the game is broken and devs will need to work on that or just go play on PvE or as most drop the game.

I know @Duncan McFail did the south route once and got all the way up along the coast. That was before the wipe though. I have before and since gone behind the map on the north US coast where you can just sail back up, but your stuck in that swampy looking mess until you do so. Last time I did so was right after the merge when I was switching from Russian to US and making mega hauls from Bermuda to US coast. I haven't F11 in a while, but you might do a unstuck command in the F11 that allows folks to notify ya'll when they are stuck so they don't have to come on here and tell ya'll they did something silly like AFK sail around the coast.

I was back about two months on drivers and it was doing it too with the 418.?? Driver I was on, though not all the ships, Connie and noticed the LQR started to do it when it didn't before. I'm not going to roll my drivers back for one game that shouldn't be having issues, when I need those drivers to play fully released games that have way better graphics and optimizations than this one. I got a feeling this has something to do with some of the new tech that comes with the RTX cards but you don't have options for us to turn these off if they are the problems. For now I'll just deal with the flicker, but it prob should be looked into and fix before release.

Yah not every one is rich or plays tons of hours. Some folks don't even put in 5 hours in a week. They log on do some econ, maybe a mission or two and than head to bed before work. Not every one is going to grind like crazy. Though I'm planing to do so tomorrow with trade runs tomorrow after work since I'll be off until sunday night (3rd shifter) and see what I can get with a LGV refit doing trade runs and killing other traders. Than I'm going to run another account with shallows ships doing delivery's. We should see how much I can get in that run. Last time I only got 8K for a few hours runs to get one of the PvP OW speed perk for a char. again as above most folks don't even play 5 hours in one week. We have to think of the other 80% of the game of casuals and normal players. I'm sure we have folks sitting on hundreds of thousands of doubloons all ready, but not every one is jobless or retired.

It's a good thing to scout, that was how BLACK had 4th rates in a week or two of the first wipe and SOL's shortly after that. We didn't rush to grab land all over the place on GLOBAL we just took what we needed the most for resources and built built built. We pooled every thing we could and this is the plan for a few of us when the release happens. I'm hoping they mix up all the ports so that they aren't the same as before release wipe so we have to all go looking to find which ports will have these resources and not. If a small clan is smart or even small nation they will rush to get one of these side ports with the resources over going over a major port that others might be fighting over. A smart clan would take those resources and after getting a good chunk for the clan they will set up contracts and sale them on the market to make even more profits. Remember if it's a clan owned port the tax's goes right back to the clan coffer. I think the clan control is the right path to keep the alts off certain resources and the clan in control of them if they own the port. Hopefully folks allow others to get the resources instead of trying to hog them all. My biggest worry is big powerful clans will bully smaller clans/nations and not allow them any resources at all.

Yall really need to revampt the crafting perks. Maybe make the Master perks tied to you rank now your perks. Like when you can craft Frigates you gain the Light ship Mastery ablitity and get a labor dsicounts on light ships. You get the SOL's discounts when you make rank 50. This way ranking up means something. In the past we ranked up cause we wanted to craft Master Craft items. Now there is really no reason to level up once you get the rank of the ships you want to build. A level 50 crafter should be crafting better ships than say a level 10 crafter.

yah I just removed them and added new ones and noticed. @admin Thought you said you where going to fix this? Some time soon?

I"m pretty sure they are broken up like that. Since it use to say 1st rates and such....now it says Rank 1, 2, 3 I assumed they just put 1 2 3 instead of linship, frigates and shallows for localization.

Maybe in the future allow clan owned ports to have a mini warehouse. Something like 5 slots you can put stuff in and others can take out. That way if you need to trade some goods with some one off line they can just pop into that port and get them. Or you can stack Doubloons in until the full amount is reached.

Why does it matter to you what others do? Your not being forced to play with them so why do they have to be forced to play with you. Some folks don't ahve all day to PvP and want to log in do some missions and level up some without being dragged into a fight they aren't ready for or have time for. Now your just going to run off more players than keep and your going to see a server even more dead than we have right now. Wouldn't you get better PvP when folks come out when they want to PvP? How if we don't want any PvE than lets remove all AI and have a PvP only server, cause that is what you will get and we all know how NA:L failed.....only a few folks want that and it's not enough to sustand a server. Those PvE guys are the ones that craft ships, pay tax's, fuels the econ. They are the ones that you hunt cause your to much a coward to fight other PvPers. When they all go and I'm sure it won't be to the PvE serve than what will you do?

No place for casuals and new players to level up and open ships lots. Well there just went most of your population. I 'm sure this will be just as successful as NA:L was when you went pure PvP. Why don't we just remove all AI too? Can we get a flag on PvE/Peace server so that if we want to PvP we can with each other? Cause I'm all ready going to see now one wanting to stick around when they can't level up cause they are getting jumped by vets at the capitals. I remember how it was without zones. I was killed in my basic cutter 22 times before I was able to make it to my missions.....22 FREAKING TIMES. Luckily I took a break and waited until the next patch and three months later moved to a less populated server cause getting gank trying to level up several times a day got old fast.

I just wish the rank rewards stacked with any so you might of gotten any before doing the exams.

Are you can actually hunt out side of them? They are suppose to be high risk.

Yah I noticed that the other day when I was getting a basic cutter to move around. It needs an all ship function @admin?

That exactly what was going on with me. I had him down to 50 and he keep out turning me. I was pretty beat up so couldn't go broad side to broad side evne with repairs. I did wait unit I snapped his mast with my stern gun and than I cored him out, but It seems taking him down to 50% sails with chain didn't slow him down and the accuracy was just insane from a good distance as I was staying long range from him as I repaired.

I'm doing the endurance right now and I'm about to run out of repair, but the AI which is at 50% sails is still out turning me if I close in. every one of his shots seems to find a crit on my rudder or pump. Every one of his shots hits and pins from a distance. It's like they don't have to time waves or anything in these boats. And if he's using double charge/ball than why can't i cause seems like his broad side is taking way more armor off than mine. Does the AI get better ships than we get? This is just the endurance part. Which is part of the tutorials.

They really should better word the exam and the final a bit so folks know it's not part of the main tutorial you do on the first section.

And with that doesn't it means you shouldn't have all the cookies, it's bad cause it will make you fat. Thus cookies should be spread out to every one to be fair? To be honest if it was up to me I would make the map historically correct and if you want to use Spanish ports you make a Spanish char or you go with a trade ship (contracts still open to all). This all ports neutral is just a lazy tropheys for all mentality and gives no one real purpose on the server. You can still have faction vs factions play without PvP. Many MMO's do it. That is what makes them stay popular is cause you have something to do a and goal in game.