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scratch that im a doofus, the second surp is cramped aswell. for some reason i always assumed that a ship with a trim would be purple, so i thought blues were always non trim. lol

Ah right But my non cramped is also 270?

Crew hardcap seems 10%? My surprise with portbonus has 270 crew. Same as a surprise with port bonus aswell as cramped status.

bracing doesn't give you an extra repair, it just pauses it. the amount of repaired HP stays the same don't see an issue in it

there is the possibility he "paused" the repair by bracing, but that would explain only a "double" repair (where he doesn't actually repair twice, it just seems so because it gets paused)

That chinese wisdom is above my capabilities of understanding

im amazed by how even the poll is

throwback time

Personal preference i suppose Personally for me anything ranging from 1x1 to 5x5 is where the most fun is at - and we're still lacking content for those kind of battles. New raids should be nice to get 5x5s. Yet 1x1s are left out, they deserve their place

Browsing through the current discussions regarding Raids has lead me to the following idea: Have a blackboard - a list of players for every ship ingame, going by their sucess For example, Trincomalee blackboard would list Players from 1 to 15 (or more, not sure). Number 1 being the most successful captain. If you want to get up in the list, you need to challenge the captain above you. So if number 2 wants to become the ships champion, he needs to challenge nr. 1. the one challenged then gets a certain amount of time, say 48 hours, to react. If he doesnt, its a loss and they Swap positions on the blackboard. Important: in order to make it fair, both captains should be given the same ship to use by the game. No mods. No books. No ship loss. Perhaps perks. I would also suggest to make ir best of three since two out of three wins tell more about a captains capabilities. The battles would be held in the former small battle instances. Perhaps the champion of each ship would get access to a unique paint not accessible in any way - maybe a full Golden paintscheme. Or get an additional title, e.g. "trincomalee champion" which is displayable instead / in addition to the regular rank. This game is still lacking duel content imho. Issues I see: How can two captains agree on a date to have the duel? How does a captain get on the bottom of the list? I think these issues are managable though somehow. What do you think?

yesteray @ santa fe

btw notice how it says "standard" on Anolytics golden super modded l'ocean... yeh totally the norm now isn't it

I run most of my ships (frigates here) with the following Carpenter Combat Reports + 3.5% Repair Repairing + 3% Repair - 4% Repair time Rigging -15% Sailing Crew +20% Sail setting speed +10% yard turn speed Powder Monkeys -7% Reload Gunnery Encyclopedia -7% horizontal dispersion -5% Reload -6% Vertical dispersion +3.5% vertical gun range +5% horizontal gun range Now if you compare that to the list of port bonusses on page one, it should be pretty obvious it's nowhere near as imbalaned

so in summary -10% reload +6% vertical gun range -10% dispersion +10% penetration +5% speed +10% turn rate +15% acceleration +15% deceleration +10% HP +10% thickness -20% fire spread rate -10% splinter resistance -15% heel -10% sail damage +15% mast HP +10% mast thickness -12% repair time +10% repair +10% crew +5 crew transfer per sec. All together on one ship ?! And that's not even considering possible upgrades or rare trims. Yeah, that seems totally fine This needs some tweaking ASAP. A port should have to specialize on a trim, and NOT be able to have everything maxed out - Also IMHO this will require removing the bonusses from ports which are already maxed out, as I think this was not planned for the next patch. Else the balance will be totally gone.

I'm guessing and hoping the idea of agressive NPCs targeting players has been cancelled?

I just think the issue is that with other nations being allowed and able to help gain hostility in parts of the map where a nation would never be able to get to itself, kind of makes the whole frontline idea pointless. And it doesn't need to be an alliance, just needs to be one char.

Because we got asked for sant iago / pinar First 😅

Top team? I see a mix of experienced and newer captains in both screenshots, sure having one of the better commanders in our battle might have helped though

Basically on hiatus til release A few of us (2 😛 )were in the other pb, which was over too quickly due to spanish joining late

Dont have a vid myself but i do remember shooting the tower guns

Ahh yes this brings up memories After server merge

I'm kind of split on this topic I do like evenish battles, think of massively uneven battle as a pure timewaste - as the outcome in those is usually clear On the other hand I can also understand the players pleading for the NA OW Sandbox to not become a matchmaking ish style game - at least outside the patrol zones. After all it's your decision where you sail when with what ship(s). The current implementation of "can join weaker side" seems a little off / weird though. Some Battle Ratings of frigates are not really representing their true strength. To my understanding, it's also possible to join an ongoing battle, e.g. 250 BR vs 300 BR, with ANY ship (also 1st rates?) on the weaker side? IMHO it should only allow you to reach a certain threshold of BR, say 1.5x the BR of the other side, and NOT just allow entrance to any ship as long as the side has lower BR. Lastly I think the proposal made by Doran (linked above) should also be implemented. Tagging in a low br ship to let biggies catch up and thus warp gank isn't the idea of the whole thing, imho.

I think what he wants to know is how long it takes for the "allowed Clan" list in investing a port takes to update