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theres a difference between 'hey lets come fight and have fun' and 'come here in weak ships so we can sink you for marks'

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Before this patch it was dynamic. Now it's just who can get his 9pdrs to hit first. 1-3 shots need to connect, that's all. Not shooting at the topmasts in a small frigate engagement doesn't make any sense right now, and it shouldn't be like that IMO Each bottle of rum recovers one crew member, both in battle and OW afaik. I think that's a temporary problem. Ships sold by port are not that great after all, they're all set for crew space, and don't get the planking bonus from any woods. In a week or two when people got their buildings and shipyards running and start pumping out crafted ships with the wood planking bonus, I dont think ships sold by port will be that attractive anymore. Also I think the cannon issue will be a lot better in a week or two when people start PvP ing and therefore can cap each others cannons But maybe make it so you can loot the cannons after capping a ship in the cargo screen. But in general I agree with your statements

aye It's impossible for us to see this game from the eyes of a newb because we know the game and know how everything works, battle mechanics, map, trading, etc.. So we know what we want ot achieve and want to do so as fast as possible But a new player doesn't know anything. He doesn't know how to shoot, sail properly, how the market works, nothing. He will learn this over time, by first doing missions. In parallel he's getting gold, and over time he may join a group which can help him.

I take it you havent played much since the patch A surps topmast now literally takes about 2 to 4 6 or 9 pdr hits. Its silly. Not much even an experienced captain can do vs a Cutter swarm.

In an early access alpha you shouldnt grind for months and get as much stuff as possible which you will never use anyway because wipes and changes are what define an EA alpha. Test the stuff, give feedback and enjoy it

from my experience you only get it for pvp battles

Signaling (if the one attacked or attacking has it) lets the weaker side join until the BR is evened out. For about 10 min afaik. So if you tag a surp in your surp it will be 140 v 140 BR and it will say BR reached for both sides so its basically closed

You can avoid the 5 min timer with the signaling perk (signaling rules apply)

Aye especially now with those weird mast / demasting changes, a group of 5 ish cutters can take on a surprise and demast it, as silly as it sounds. The cutters won't lose anything, they can only win. 1) Please adress demasting, it's really a good bit off right now. 2) I also agree cutters shouldn't be allowed to use for PvP. Give them a BR of 0

I was kinda surprised at first too, but then a clanmate pointed out that the LGV has way more surviving capabilities. Way better Upwind performance, any frigate chasing it will have problems. And for dealing with schooners, the LGV is armed with a few cannons 10 per side I believe.

Q: Is it coding-wise possible to make it so after capturing a player ship, you can loot his cannons too? So you could loot his cannons and then sink it for marks

as far as i know you can only stay in battle instance after the battle is over for 15 minutes. After that you will get kicked out to open world. In open world you'll have 1 minute invisibility timer. If you log off in battle, I think you will automatically get kicked out to open world after the 15 minutes. Logging out in Battle doesn't work. You may not have caught him due to the invisibility timer.

Sounds good to me -------------------------- 25 min timer? For how long have you been playing this game?

As the topic was locked, I couldnt reply there but had to start a new one. The current default battle entry timer still is set to 5 minutes from before the patch, to, I quote, promote PvP. So is this the new default for ever? I thought that 5 min timer was just so the last few remaining people before the wipe could use up their big SoLs etc. I'm fine with making it something like a 1 or 2 minute timer AND signaling by default.. but 5 min, the distance you can cover in OW is just overkill. Pls reconsider

I agree first few steps are tough, but once you can afford cannons for the indefatig (I used 12s and 9s meds), you can solo 400 xp fleet missions, 20 minutes per, 50-65k each. do a bunch of those, will have enough gold for buildings. Also, ships being sold by npc in shops may be cheap but they're also mosty crap. Crafting a decent surp will take about 50-75k in mats cost, thats not too bad.

8 hours and still in a cutter; I think you're doing something wrong

I still think tp to free port op has to stay, but with heavy adjustments Make it so you have to announce a tp to free port a few hours ahead.. Or maybe even a day.

ctrl + L in battle

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NA war nie und wird nie ein instant-reward spiel sein

yup, 2.23m XP here i think thats the total amount of xp you made

I agree, there should be some way of teleporting to a freeport, but at the same time make gank-on-command impossible, so maybe if you set your teleport for the next 2 hours, you could teleport then..

Release wipe has been confirmed before, cant find it atm (on my phone) But that release will probably take at least half a year from now. Edit:

As far as I know yes And there is Another failsafe feature (Forged Papers) to save your xp and change nation