maturin

It's a supermoon low tide, don't ya know? I went walking on the mudflats last night.

So much can be said about camera perspectives. I view it as a core gameplay element that should have been finished years ago. Take a look at the Tides of War, the cheap NA-knockoff (they even use the Ontario). The alpha is basically unplayable but they already have immersive quarterdeck, masthead and foredeck views.

This is mostly good. But it throws a monkey wrench in the process of capturing AI traders, since the only time-effective way to cap a Lynx or Cutter is to grape the crew away entirely. Even with shredded sails, schooners and cutters tack too easily, making it almost impossible to board them. Maybe exempt Lynx and Cutter from this crew protection? After all, they have open decks with no fighting tops. No one will be in the rigging. PS: In battle no one needs to be on the yards. But in SoLs there will be dozens of men below the waterline, working in the shot lockers and magazines.

Rattlesnake doesn't take long. However, the Rattlesnake is only truly PvP-capable in the hands of a skilled captain who can take on bigger fish. For a relatively new player, they will spend a lot of time in their PvP-capable ship just watching unassailable enemy frigates and fleeted traders float past.

War supplies should never be the last stray IMHO. Maybe they should max out at providing 75% of REMAINING hostility. That makes them a costly shortcut, not the coup de grace.

Brace command is coming. At 400m you should have plenty of opportunity to avoid a rake by telling the crew to take cover. Grape is still useful before boarding or to punish an enemy who is tanking with a damaged broadside.

That refers to the color of the UI label.

What cases? It's hard to do without varying wind strength or some randomized gusts and squalls. Really bad heel and vertical dispersion of guns could be a substitute.

So the gun deck is 22 guns of frigate caliber. Sounds more like a smallish two-decker 5th Rate with extra light guns stuffed into the upper works.

Translation: You want easy victories against tiny fleets from small nations at odd hours. You're seriously going to complain about a feature that is finally working as intended?

The devs catastrophically miscalculated by supposing that the playerbase had a sense of humor.

The devs want you to bite the bullet and craft basic ships more often.* That said, the fine wood requirements are being softened. *For e-peen reduction purposes, they should probably replace the stigmatizes grey UI label with white or something.

Holy hell! 1000 hrs is more than I've played ArmA 2 or Arma 3. How did that happen?

You posted an image of a ship with a bow that is vertical except for right at the waterline. You would need a perfect shot on the nose to hit the curved beakhead. Look at a model. However, most ships of the line and some older frigates had a beakhead bulkhead that would be very poor at resisting shot at the level of the main battery.

I'm not going to critique your math, but Tommy Shelby has a 16-kt Endymion without either copper plating or fir/cedar. And it mounts 24-pounders. Meanwhile, the devs intended Endymion to go 15 knots without guns only.

12-pdrs are worth it for damaging frigates. (It's totally unbalance and unrealistic that Essex can even mount them there.) If you go with the carronades, you just turn them off unless it's point blank range.

Why do people keep saying this? The bow is as strong or stronger than the broadside. For obvious reasons. It has to go around smashing through hundreds of tons of water at fifteen knots, withstanding pressure that can tear the bowsprit off easily. Difficult to repair =/= weak

That's not the stiffness that's being referred to. It means low center of gravity and thus less heeling.

That's just because Stiffness was given silly buffs to compensate for being stacked up against Speed in the RNG. Those buffs should be removed now. The stiffer your vessel IRL, the more vulnerable your masts are, not less.

I don't know what 'shot and shell' means, and you're literally the only person complaining about lack of PvP. This is how serious feedback gets turned into a silly rant.

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That hull is like six inches thick, judging by the gun barrels.

I give it three weeks before people start putting copper plating and perks on these things in large numbers. Then it either all gets nerfed or I leave for the PvE server.

No one gives a crap, people. Let's get back on topic.

Date say 1865. Beard says it even more.