Sir Texas Sir

You don't own any ports do you? If there is any problems and this doesn't go down in a day or two of warning than that can add up real fast. My clans ports currently pay for them self cause one makes money others that could be a very big chunk of change. Specially if it doesn't work a day or two later and or the patch gets dragged out. This patch was suppose to be ready months ago but look where we are now, it's pretty much November and we still don't have full UI patch (it was brought up last year and mention 30-40 days from April......This sure as hell is not April any more).

@admin he's got a point that it will cost a lot of clans money. Maybe suspend port cost for that time and I would even say suspend RvR. Make a good post to let every know know what the expect for the patch and allow them the day or two to do last minute stuff before the hotfix drops and than the day or two for the patch. A lot of folks aren't checking in every day cause they to put it pretty bluntly, "Gave up on this patch coming any time soon." So don't screw over the ones that are still around and playing.

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Yep done it a few times myself. Hell as you know BLACK was known for doing it all the time on GLOBAL (well PvP2 at that time). When I would constantly tell folks you fought 15-20 guys when we had 25 on our team they just couldn't get it in their head we honestly had 15-20 guys with a few dual boxing. Or worse later it become more like 10-15 with as we had to make up for more and more numbers we lacked over the US/GB/DUTCH Alliance pre wipe. I think the most I had at one time was 3 PB's at the same time (good old flag days). One was empty, but two of the battles was not. So I had to actually fight in two of them at the same time. Global/PvP2 guys when ever you saw S0B (zero not O) that was Son's of Black and was our alts in a battle with our main half the time. That whole clan was nothing but alts. I won't fight with more than one screen right now cause my poor laptop CPU can't handle it, but it's not hard against certain folks. If you can't beat 5 guys using 2 accounts and you got 10 guys using single accounts than you have a problem with organization and team work. Cause your not doing double the work as those multi boxing in a battle. When I played POTBS I had 5 accounts cause our clan was small and I used 3 for econ while I fought with 2 of them. I have 5 accounts here. ALl have been leveled up to max through combat and have level 50 crafting. I use 2 for main combat, one is a crafter and another is a haller/mortar brig. The last is in another nation when I don't want to deal with clan or big nation politics. The 4 in US nation is like a mini clan in side the main clan and that is how I play them. Really no reason to use them for spying cause folks tend to not know when to keep there mounths shut in nations.

Why hold back content that was taken out of the game but not replaced? No you keep old content in game until it's replaced. I have no problem with the new system coming upon release and after a wipe so that it's tied to ships and ship knowledge style, but there is absoletely no reason to remove the old paints. We know they work cause I still got a hand full of Bellona Whit'es and the Endy paints in my ware house. Why not release the others. Those are the only paints we had since the last wipe and that was over a year ago. Why can't they be returned to loot table? When the right time? When the patch goes live, next year when the game goes live and they have a new system any way?

Yah I know there are future plans for it but for now why can’t yall toss it into the loot tables so we don’t all have exact same looking ships of those that had paints. People love bling bling even if it’s just temp. He’ll toss the paint chest into the admiralty shop for now. Some of the paints where so nice it’s a shame they pretty much haven’t been used in almost a year. Hell would give me something to spend my victory marks on. As I’m not going through enough 1st rates as you rarely see big SOL battles any more.

and never fireship it, it catches on fire and cuase it doesn't have enough crew it instant fireshocks.....lol I do want one for the fun of it, but RNG hates me and others.

Did you get it from an epic? I noticed when we did an epic 1st rate the other day we only got the gold chest and no epic chest. It use to drop on the 7 ship you sank. If we are back to only getting the gold/silver chest I"m not to impressed with the loot once again. Splitting 9 chest between 6 players isn't exactly fair.

Yah I think that is the problem, we see the prices on test, know it's infalted and high rewards and than wonder what it's going to be like live. That is why I even suggested closing it to only folks that want to test and give feed back and make us use a NDA and test it. I'll shut my mouth and only give feed back to divs if they did this, but right now and they done this a lot in the past they give a teaser but not all the info and it tends to do more harm than good if they just had gave us the whole picture. Oh look it's almost end of OCTOBER....when was this patch suppose to go to live? LIke a month ago or was it longer than that? We might just see it by the end of the year.........

The only folks that would want it turned off are bad players that constantly shoot there own team mates, ram into and other things. if it was turned off it would be so abused.

You just can't tow a ship to those ports. I believe you can tow out of them though, just not into them.

I saw it as a means to insult Spain by saying they are nothing but Mexicans......you know when you have wars, battles, games with others teams you try to gaud them by insulting them and stuff. We gave up that silly gentleman war line fighting stuff ages ago. Or maybe like some folks actually have jobs and/or a family life and can't be staying up into the wee hours of the morning. I thought every one left Spain or something, good to see some of them still got a little fire to them......oh and if you don't want off hours flips....put timers on your port.

Never said I was a geniues, the point is some folks advance faster than others. We have a Tutorial for a reason. If folks are forced to play only one a PvE only server the first few ranks than they won't be happy. Yes many games have systems like that but they are games that are also 90% PvE and 10% PvP for the most part in the MMO's that have "New folks zones" for level up. Those zones can also be bypassed in an hour or two of play most the time just the first hour and your out of it. Again which is why we have a Tutorial now.

I got one of my first assisted PvP kills when I was only 2nd Lt, I tagged a Bucc and keep it in the fight until other folks caught up with it. They gave me his ship when we got done and I made almsot a rank and half off that fight cause of the damage I did stern camping and shooting his sales. So saying I have to PvE for the first few ranks is retarded. I seen guys low rank that would do circles against most of the RA"s in this game.

I didn't even notice the Russian flags, but man those Danish ones look nice. So does the Dutch....maybe I'll start switching one alt to a new nation every month just to have the different flags.

If we where to test only the UI, why do we have to make a rank and 10 crafting levels? That is testing other things than just the UI (which no one complains about the missions great improvement by the way). By doing the crafting we are seeing issues along with the teleportation. We know the prices and rewards are very inflated which makes us even more concern about when this goes live. Hell I'll be willing to go to a closed test and sign an NDA and give them proper testing and feed back if they just let us instead of taking a year to do the UI in this game (counting both OW and in port). Yes we got a few other things, most of which was trinkets to shut us up (DLCS) but I'm starting to wonder where the hello kitty my 250 dollars from the DLC went if there is still only two programers still and I know I wasn't the only one to buy DLC's or new ALTS (a lot of folks that didn't have alts I know bought one). I got prob over 500 bucks myself into this game so I would like to see it actually make it to release some days, if not oh well I got prob that much out of it in play time (over 9K hours game play including AFK time) so I didn't really loose much if it tanks tomorrow. AND WHERE THE HELL ARE PAINTS? WHY CAN WE NEVER GET AN ANSWER ABOUT THIS STRAIGHT UP?

1700-1820 if I remember right unless it has changed but @admin could correct this so you would be way out of time line. I would of loved the CSA Jack or the Naval Jack (both very close) but that is about the same time as the flag you posted 1860's. You mean we can see it on AI right cause as far as I know there aren't flags for players on testbed yet. Would be nice if they gifted a few just to test and see how they work.

Dang you am I going have to roll her back to pirate now? I actually have the name in game Jacquotte Delahaye....lol I was just about to rename her too.

I'm with @Intrepido with this one as most the folks I know think the PvE serve is nothing but a joke and would stop playing before they go over there and start over with no PvP or RvR. I'll even admit on most games I play on mainly PvE servers cause I hate the gankers on those games that just kill newbes and casuals. This is why I argue so much about getting proper safe zones made for folks around capitals. Unliked those other games though you can go to another part of the map and never have to deal with any PvP or RvR in game and enjoy the game. Just get away from capitals. The only bad thing about this patch is the teleport fee's being Doubloons and not gold. The rest for the most part has been getting positive responce other than a few tweeks here and there. I still think they over dumb up crafting and need to do something with it or they will loose those casuals that just want to trade and craft, but even though goes like to fight once in a while....just don't wen to be the loosing end all the time. Remember the main server is PvP/PvE so it has both elements of the game, but if you wish you can actually avoid the PvP part until you want to do that, just got to pick an area far off on the map. So no folks won't go to a PvE only server, if they wanted PvE only they would be over there all ready.

I asked this many a times and I know that there was plans to make paints like shipknowledge but that will take a wipe of all ships, but why don’t we have other paints than Bellona White and Endy winter mosh paint we got last NYE? they would make great rewards to put in chest right now cause let’s be frank. Love the ships but most of them look very blandishments and the same. Can we add them to the loot pool until a new system comes out?

We need paints back, still don't understand why we don't cause we have the White Ballona and the Enymion one from NYE/Day so that means they still work. I know they talked about makeing them like shipknowledge but that would mean a ship wipe. So why not bring them back until they do that upon release so we can have some ship color variation.

Ol one of my biggest complaints about the missions is you can only take 5. With the kill multi targets you might run into something that falls under anouther mission. The list should be capped at 10.

I actually kinda agree with the instant jump, but that is why we have timers put on locking fights. You can't jump across the map and just join a battle, revenge fleet out side yes, but not join a battle. Honestly unless some one is jumping missions in front of the "SAFE GANK ZONES" I rarely jump over to help some one quickly. It's mainly the protection of clan owned ports that I do it. Even than most the time I'm in the area any way as to why we set windows to certain ports. Well testbed is going down for maintenance so I'll get off my soap box and go play something else.

It was actually a compliment, but the point is your not the average player either so while that life style is great for you it's not for casual players and others that don't do that.

Your still not getting it and that is why I keep saying, "DO YOU PLAY YOUR GAME?" You might do certain things like PvP or RvR but do you play all parts of it? I'm going to take a bet since this is part of your job you don't. You don't interact with clan members every day and new players like some of us do. Being in US Nation it's something I do a lot of or others in my clan has. Since I actually took all last week off to play another game and didn't once log into this one which I haven't done in 2 years pretty much, not even logged in for econ. With that let me tell you my average day on line in game. Log on game with my chars (some times main only some times all 5). I check TS and see what is up with clan/nation. I get told some one needs something so I have to hope over to Wilimgton where our clan warehouse is. I get what they need and if I remember I do my econ in that port. Than I hope over to Marsh (clan owned port) and do econ there and if need be have my crafter on to craft stuff. I go to each port I have econ in and do that if it's almost maxed out. I keep about 3-4 econ ports while the other half are important PvP/RvR ports. So that is 4 jumps and if i have to go back that would be more than 4 if I have to go to clan warehouse any time. Than I might go out and do some missions or PvP. I port over to what ports might have action. Which aren't always the same port and some times no where close to home ports. If some one calls out on the coast they are in trouble I'll jump back over to the coast line. Some times this might mean I have to jump between CT and Wilmington depending where the trouble is. (That 3-4 more ports jumped too). If at any time I have to go back to the clan warehouse that is more. So say lets add two more.....oh now we have a port battle. Jump in port and teleport to where my ship is ready. Get done with PB and than go back to PvP......two more......what am at now 10-12 jumps between ports at 10 Doubloons each that is 100-120 Doubloons a day. What if i got no PvP kills or did no Missions (or got the missions completed)....start adding that up over the week, I'll say that is 2 days and the other 5 days we will cut it in half as I work odd hours. So now I'm at 450-500 doubloons a week to just actively play this game. Now you can say I can save money by saling to these ports.....again a reason I believe you don't play your game. Have you ever Sailed from say Charleston to Marsh Habrour? Or Burmuda to KPR, or Kidds to Mort? Tell me how long it takes? I bet you can't cause you don't do that regullar. Your looking at sales that take up over an hour if not two hours if you don't use the tow to port to shorten the trip. So some one that has those or any long distance ports has to spend Doubloons every day to do there econ if they have them there or sail that trip. No one is going to want to do that. The only folks this won't effect are players like @Hethwill the Harmless that do play out of one or two ports, don't do econ and hunt pretty much with one ship. I love that is his play style, but that is not every ones. Hell I done it a few times when I wanted to get away from Global I had a Pirate on EU (every one wonder who had the original ROVER clan tag?) on sunday mornings to just have fun, but I love all parts of this game so I craft, trade, RvR, PvP, help noobs out. Yah I can be a bit of a pain but I love this game and I want to see it work, but for it to work we need to figure out why we aren't retaining players and we need the casuals to stick around and not be run off or we will have what we have now. A very dead game with a bunch of pricks farming the crap out of capitals cause they won't fight any one else other than easy targets. As I player with over 9K hours (about 1K is falling asleep at the keyboard late nights) I want to see the game make it. Hell lets not even add in the other 2-4K hours I have on each of my alts as I actually have level them up and fight with them or do other things like trade or craft as they all have there own names and storys/backgrounds in game as if they are each there own chars. Well Except Lil Texas, I just abuse the crap out of that account for crafting.