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Its was the fact that 3 (4 if you count the dutch) nations went after 1 faction alone for content. OW PVP and RVR. Global died when you guys stopped attacking each other. Its funny how y'alls facts change over time.

Yet another reason to ditch nations in this game

Pirates would be the nation to go rogue in

Ya know @Iroquois Confederacy if you're going to maintain your own clan and own set of diplomatic rules, why don't you just go pirate? Rather than create incidents in game that your chosen nation now has to pay for. Would seem like the responsible move no?

and for the record @Louis Garneray, I do not accuse all of you of being bigots. Just king of crowns. Bigots say stuff like this. You do not.

I return personal vendettas with personal vendettas. Just as KoC waged a holy war against myself and the pirates, where he created an alliance of 4 nations, of which you participated in.....I now return the favor. I told him and others then that it was not good for the server and eventually killed it, you chose to do it anyway. You chose to vilify the pirates and myself back on global by participating in their alliance and the "removal of pirates from the game", as kingy stated on occasion. You did not seem to balk at that style of game play back then and doubled down by joining up with then a 2nd time here on Caribbean. Now it's our turn. Luckily we're not nearly as short sighted as the KoC alliance on global and we will of course still hunt each other in the OW and continue to RVR against each other. Only when attacking or defending against the french will we choose to buddy up. You reap what you sow mon amis

We have formed the Pax KoC Evening Alliance for RVR. Our agreement only stands against objectives owned or targeted by the dodger in chief, King of Crowns and his pet clan BLANC. Praise be to the alliance! PS - Any nations or clans wanting in on the anti-KoC show PM me.

Hey @admin. This is an opportunity to bring up an idea I've had brewing for a while and posted a piece of it on a thread yesterday. Basically a shift away from a nation based system and more towards a clan/alliance based system. 3 or 4 starter nations. Clan and Alliances for the RVR aspect of the game. We simply have too many nations and not enough players to fill them. The clan leader board is a pretty good idea, but there needs to be more clan based tools in the game. Ability to search for them, recruit in a looking for clan channel, Customized ensigns for ships, clan taxes....etc.

Thanks for cleaning out some dock space for us. We'll trade 3 fully equipped PB vics for oceans with elephant any day of the week. See ya next time bud

merely correcting you. Anyone listening to the stream could of said as much.

Actually that was Jags running the show. I think the US did more harm than good in that fight. Was fun guys

You've done enough of that outside shroud back on global :-)

PVP marks encourage ganking, not fair fights. People get tired of ganks quickly. Safe zones are fine, maybe need to be scaled back a bit. People have been bitching about PVP well before safe zones were introduced

Ok just a rough draft of an idea I've had brewing ~ 3 Starter / PVE Nations - GB, France, Spain. More or less historically accurate. EVERYONE starts out in these nations until the tutorial or a certain rank is hit. Players can grind, craft capital area ships (more on this in a sec), econ and farm to their hearts delight within the safe zone. Once you hit the certain rank you stay a loyal subject or branch out into a clan (company) and start the RVR aspect of the game. War companies get a letter of marque to kill the king's enemies, blah blah go out and do stuff. You can hunt your own faction, which is where the outlaw reputation thing comes in. Kill enough players of your faction and you're deemed an outlaw and you can no longer enter that nation's ports. Now you're a pirate. Capital area ships vs non-capital ships - capital ships have base stats and are something basic like oak. non-capital ships get regional traits and whatever wood type. Incentive to craft outside the safe zones. Ships also can't be towed into capitals, only sailed there. Creating a market and traffic. RVR basically works the same as it does now, but you have to be in a clan/company to do it and purchase that letter of marque thing (basically a license). National Events like the Trafalgar battle will randomly trigger to generate content for the 3 nations and their folks to participate in. Random port battles and stuff like that.

Custom ship ensigns yes.

Less nations. More clan based. Make pirates/outlaws be a reputation based system

indeed. It was nice being able to focus on the ships, positioning, angles etc and basically not have half your fleet sailing around with 2/3s of their masts.

Just some anecdotal experience from fighting yesterday - It was nice fighting in lineships and not having it become a demast fest. Smaller ships were demasted by the larger ones, as it should be.

sell it back to you

Also costs more if you make it a trading outpost and/or labor hours decrease

If you've played any real legit open world PVP type of game that is full loot (and yes this is a full loot pvp game) the reward is taking their items and either selling them or using them for yourself. Choosing to either sink the ship for a token of participation mark or keep the ship to sell basically boils down to a lazy mechanic that is masking over the fact that this game does not provide enough incentive to PVP without them. Aka something's fundamentally broken. The fact that the marks are worth more than the ships you're sinking is absurd. Marks are lazy and don't belong in full loot style games. The prize you get from killing another player is and should always be taking their stuff. If we must have participation marks, they are should just be for cosmetic dick measuring types of items.

A better method exists. Victory and combat marks. Adjust the values for the items that were once PVP marks. It's more difficult to farm PBs for victory marks that it is to kill alts for PVP marks. Unless you're lord vicious of course.

They are demoting people for first offense. No Marks = No Alt Farming. A better method needs to be found than constantly punishing the offenders.

No marks. No abuse.

Ya know Klooth, you don’t exactly do yourself any favors on the forums. I don’t either for that matter. You and I seem to enjoy being lighting rods for an all manner of things. The difference between us I suppose is I’m willing to take those lumps in game as well. I can’t even recall the last time I saw you in a PB. If you’re gonna be a top level troll, you need to take the good and the bad along with it. I’ve seen you accuse and abuse others on here. Now that you’re getting some flak you wanna run off to a new nation? Might need to change that name to Cornelis Trump. Hiding changes nothing. Wanna get back at Kingy? Go beat him in a battle. It’s very satisfying when he refuses to GG after a fight and uses every excuse in the book to justify his loss in global. Very satisfying Your nation needs you in game also. Not just the forums. We have enough part time captains