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How know that might be asking to much.

I was thinking on this the other day when we had some one at 65% still out manoverinf and running folks with 80-100% sales. The 100% doesn’t seem to effect the speed like I would think. If your at 50% sails and in at 15 Knt ship you should go way slower than 7knts in best wind. I seen folks keep 8-9 knots with that much sail damage. The one thing I know they had in common was Spanish rig. Wonder if sail force is a flare rate off your top speed or it degrades as you loose sails. I still think you should only repair who’ll in battle sails. Still annoying folks going full sails while repairing. That would most likely damage your sails not allow you to repair them.

That is per cannon ball and it's the base damage so it can be a bit more or less per cannon ball and remember it's per ball that hits. You make that 25 cannons your now doing 125 more damage per broad side than the other cannons. Also there is such thing as over pen too where you can over pen and do damage to structure and even the other side which happens more in the larger calibers.

almost makes me want to go back to pirate, almost...lol I guess it was there fix for the FFA issues that was being abused by nationals using alts to pull pirates into FFA's (we had a problem with a certain french clan doing this on global).

Wait when did they allow pirates on both sides of battles? Just asking cause I noticed something like this the other day too. So while they don't have FFA any more they still can join either side? Well at least that is one good thing I guess. Could make some interesting battles than, though I still think they need FFA's back. Honestly any battles out side the C/R zones should be FFA's battles.

I honestly wouldn't be suprsied, but this is why I'm asking for a small update weekly like most every game I ever tested before does when patches are being worked on and taking time. We aren't asking for an exact date promised just let us know how it's going so we don't think things like this. Specially when folks are getting tired of waiting on something that they thought was suppose to drop a month or so ago but keeps getting pushed back over and over.....just like every patch they do that is big, but that doesn't mean they can't keep us informed. @admin any chance on an update on how the progress going for the next big patch?

A patch they started on like 6 months ago, or did they? Starting to honestly think they don't start on these patches until after they announce them. Makes you wonder what they are doing with all that DLC money they just got? Though instead of folks saying it will be this month or that, it's prob best if the Devs just give us actual little updates since it was suppose to be done months ago by the original post. I honestly wasn't to impressed with the OW UI as it seems more like they just rip it off of NA:L so than what the hell was they working on the last 6-7 months other than wind changes?

That new system has only been hinted at and that was like what 9 months to a year ago (when did the wipe happen?) There is no reason why we can't have paints in game until they change the system and do such wipe which would be prob on released any way. So your saying we will have to wait until release to get pints back into game?

@admin any weekly update of progress of the patch?

Really how can we get paints in game right now? Only paints I know of was NYE paints we got. Other than use we haven’t seen paints in over 9 months? Don’t know why they keep them out of loot drops when every thing gets wiped any way upon release.

Other than the very first time I went up against a herc they have lost compar e to our none DLC ships now that we know how to take them down. They aren’t win all ships. The only time I have lost against them in PVP zone is cause they had mor numbers on the other side not cause of the Hercs. yes I hey are going to seen op in a good players hands but let’s be honest 90% of the players and seal clubbers aren’t the best players out there and this is coming from some one that sees himself as a very average player.

Soon? Mayb?

Wonder if this will be the week?

And we even done it with a mix of 4th rates and 1st rates so all AGGY's or all L'Oceans isn't needed. Like @William Death said we rarely chained them. Most the time if you did it was to slow them down so you can sink them as they like to run at full sails away from you. Speaking of which why do AI not use Battle Sails now? It gets annoying when your fighting an AI in a tanked out ship and all it does is full SAILS. Though I haven't done them since they upped the loot last big patch. Wonder what they drop now. PS I'm normlly the guy that DC's right at the start or gets stuck in the bad spot so I sped the first 5 mins freaking out trying to stay afloat and than all is good after that...lol

So you want more PvE for folks to do boring grinding than before. Shallow waters take for ever to grind out if you do it with shallow water ships only....I mean for ever. Don't take ports you don't have deep water ships close to protect than? Worried about off hour flips? Put timers on (which I agree cost is broken with return cause of tax's). Other wise what is the point of owning a port you can't defend, than you deserve to loose the port.

Well since I"m off work I think this just got me to go see a movie. Time for Deadpool 2. Hopefully by time i get back the servers will be back up and going.

alts have nothing to do with grinding. It’s all about RNG and the RNG gods hate me but if you know a better method cause I tend to get nothing but basic mods in OW AI PVE. That char is only a Commodore so about to grind out a first rate on it, maybe I’ll get some better luck

You do t have to have a 15knt ship to solo pvp. I’m using a 13.5 not surprise with all 6 lbs with a clan mate in a Trinc on our Spain alts down in Belize and can escape just fine. If they are fast enough to keep up with us they get a good fight or split up and sunk. I also been using a purple P. Frigate that is 14.5 for solo hunting. What don’t see me doing is going to KPR and camping the green zones lol. hercs aren’t win all either we been sinking them in shallows with H Rattlers and Niagara since they dropped on the OW. Got a pretty good system to take them down now too. know I’ll admit the xebec is a bit more a pain if you don’t have any in your fleet to match them, but man one good broad side and they loose most ther sails and you just dog pill (not board) them and focus and they sink fast.

Easy solution, "STAY OUT OF THE CAPITAL WATERS."

And i have no clue who French Toast is either. Remember when they left US they got some of the old Glory guys to come back and most of them changed names. Just like the few of us that went Spain either sent an alt over or canged our name and left an alt in US. We where joking about maybe every 30 days change our names around so say one week you Kill me, but next week it's really Warlord using my name...that are making us all have the same names with slight varients.... Oh as for @Wind Do you see any of the LOCO, CSA, SANTI guys crying about this, we are taking it with good heart and hopefully some good fights. I have yet to run into any VCO guys but I have sunk a few Brits this week when I can make it out cause of my work hours. It's been nice to get back to into solo/small group OW hunting and not worrying about port battles and and pushing a nation to grow.

Yah I didn't mind it that day, but not every one has 4+ to play an on running fight. I always think it's silly when folks think 30 mins fight is to long. I have won a good share of fights running close to the clock. Bascily folks get frustrated and try stupid things and make mistakes when the clock starts to run out. I do wish we had a surrender option at start of fight can offer gold or cargo to escape with the ship like POTBS had.

Another annoying one is some one using Navy Loadsman for fast OW speed to tag, but than they aren't as fast to keep the ship in battle. Though they keep tagging some one until they either run out of repairs or get away. Seen this happen to a few guys. They get hit by chain at first but is able to repair and get away. Until about the 4-5th tag when they start to run out of repairs and can't escape. I remember one of my longest fights was over 3+ hours. We sunk a brit on the way back from something. He got out with another ship and some friends and tagged us just around the corner (heading back from KPR area to Mort). We had a running fight for an hour and half. GOt out and was tagged again. Same thing running fight for an hour and half. The other pirate had to go so I told him split when we escape. They followed me and got the tag. Well about half way into the fight his buddies left. That was when I turned on him and made it a 1 vs 1. My trinc was able to take out his trinc and I won the fight. That Saterday fight was was about 4.5 hours long just for one continues battle. They where never fast enough to catch us but was able to get hits to tag us in for the whole time.

Was his name Lionshaft? He was in a battle with us the other night (we where Spanish) and said, "Oh I don't have repairs." Got hurt and than left. Most the fight he was in our way preventing me from using my surprise to stern rake the Connie we where chasing. I still don't know who gives that guy ships lol

Combat perks should be tied to your Rank and Crafting perks should be tied to your crafting level not tied all to rank. I agree on the Fleet 1 and prepared being auto learned say when you level up so far you learn them.

You think he got sunk or was on the list or something. Hell I don't think I have every seen him in game since the merg either. Does he even play the game any more or just brings salt to the forums? You should list who's been sunk in order of top and who has done the most sinking. Oh on the side note since you mention buying DLC and such...yah I"m sure the Devs made a good chunk from this last week sales just off some of the DLC and steam sales, maybe we see more content soon cause of it. Oh and jokenly we thought about changing each of our names every 30 days in Spain (LOCO) so ya'll will never know which one is which, maybe even using some one else name later...lol You will always be "Willis" to all us former BLACK members....lol