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HOW does the game remind you of POTBS and WHY is this a bad thing? Your post has zero content, which makes it just a whine.

You can poke holes in the realism of the mechanic, but IMHO the level of abstraction and gamification is no greater than with any other game feature. I mean, on balance, the unpopularity of quarterdeck carronades is a more significant inaccuracy than the properties assigned to barrel lengths.

In a storm, yeah. But in moderate weather there's nothing inherently dangerous about having sails aback. Could happen for hours if you are hove to, or for many minutes if you are slow in stays. It's just really embarrassing when it happens accidentally, and probably a sign of other dangers.

Were those all Vics and Santis? It's sort of a warning sign for the OW if the Bellona's speed doesn't make her lower firepower worth it.

Should probably rename 'Depower' as 'Douse Staysails.'

Eh, I'll take retardation over a similar mental condition that confuses 'honor' with treason and terrorism. Seriously, if my family had an ancient coat of arms that included a swastika, I wouldn't be ashamed of that symbol because it would have a positive meaning for me personally... but I wouldn't fucking wave it from my truck in front of a synagogue either. Is that political correctness or just being a decent human being?

On the other hand, if you a Lynx that's trying to escape by running downwind, you might as well tag him and teach him how to run away properly. The newbs need to learn about the Stay Alive button on that thing.

Why are you guys even scared of SoLs? Unless they are accompanied by a frigate they won't be able to catch you anyhow, not unless it's a speed-modded Bellona.

It would be a good idea to move that topic here.

Just post this request on Reddit while mentioning the confederate flag incident and you will get thousands of perfect scores.

You know, I really hate people who lamely respond to the rebuttal of an argument by repeating the same assertion that was just demolished. There weren't any SJWs anywhere demanding the removal of historical flags from media like this game. It was not on the radar until Apple's irrational overreaction brought it into the spotlight. (Again, Apple is not a social activist company, and was motivated by preemptive, apolitical PR damage control.) None of the so-called SJWs were thinking about games or history books. They were focused on the symbols of terrorism that are/were flying above state government buildings, celebrating the murder of their fellow citizens. More recently they have been thinking about the fact that four different black churches have burned down under mysterious circumstances in the South since the day of the attack (as quite a few mosques do every year). Shit, given the degree to which Apple's action derailed a reasonable debate with all this absurdity, a paranoid person would wonder if it wasn't some sort of 'false flag attack.' And by a paranoid person, I mean someone as paranoid as all the yahoos in this thread who instantly and baselessly assumed that Apple was being bullied by a shadowy cabal of homofascist thought police libtards. You all need to start thinking about how your biases affect your common sense.

Oof, no wonder my Merc was being overhauled by a Bellona. Speed trim and copper for him, extra planks for me.

Fantastic! Stupidity will not pass! Are other Civil War games being restored as well? Looks like Apple wasn't too scared by the supposed swarming legion of SJWs after all, I look forward to all the retractions of statements in this thread.

An offensive to exploit and exacerbate racial and cultural divisions? Really? Silly me, I thought it was people like THIS GUY who were exploiting and exacerbating racial divisions. Gee whiz, somehow I had it all wrong and thought that the enormously popular white supremacist movement was the one who wanted to cause racial strife. You know, those folks who have carried out more terrorist attacks on American soil than jihadists in this century. Thanks for reminding us of the true culprits. People who have used ad hominem attacks shouldn't tell the targets of those attacks to calm down. I think you'd be kind of embarrassed to do so.

Please read my posts before posting nonsense. I explicitly responded to all those asinine points before you even raised them. Except the bit about the dark history of most flags. That's worth considering, and I would view it in poor taste to have a US flag parade at Wounded Knee of My Lai, a Japanese flag in Nanking, etc. If this were a decent country, the same circumspection would be exercised here. (And you'd think that people would feel ashamed about violent treason, but ya know, baby steps.) Most importantly, the national flags that I mentioned belong to actual existing countries. With actual citizens and actual accomplishments. It's almost always obvious that they signify the country itself, no matter how many atrocities that particular state has on record. There is always a reason to fly a national flag, no questions asked. But the CSA isn't and wasn't a country. It was demolished like the hypocritical oligarchic abortion that it was, and consigned to the dustheap of history. So the whole flag dynamic works a bit differently there. The bullshit in this thread is too thick to keep up with. Removing good or service from sale =/= ban. No one is banning a flag. Practically no one is even proposing a ban. Rather, companies are taking a privileged stance by REFUSING TO PROFIT from the sale of a symbol of hate. This has nothing to do with banning. Everyone knows that the Stars and Bars will continue to be sold. Certain companies just don't want to be the ones doing it. Likewise, removing a flag from a statehouse, canceling a Confederate holiday or removing a statue to a Klansman has nothing to do with banning these symbols. You have to have a foot-thick skull not to realize that these shameful symbols are being actively promoted by the power of the state, with the force of law behind it, at taxpayer expense. It's downright criminal that governments across the country use public resources to glorify atrocities carried out against their own citizens. Really? I have to explain that? An SS or Red Army reenactor didn't murder nine people in cold blood recently. But I apologize for bringing that ancient history up and distracting from the real tragedy of Gettysburg: Ultimate General, lol. Also, I just checked and I'm pretty sure you can't buy that Swastika flags on Amazon, so you're sort of stretching here. Propaganda posters are historical documents or at least a kitsch item, and I'll remind you that Amazon is a different country that makes allowances for historical context. (For the reading comprehension-impaired, I will add the usual disclaimer that I disdain Apple's removal of the flag in proper historical context, but I support companies' general removal of flags from sale.) The obliviousness of people in this thread is just devastating. How numb can you be? How can you write the words "handful of extremist activists... in every Western nation" and not be talking about Dylann Roof? Or Dzokhar Tsarnaev for that matter? Reading this thread is a real headtrip. It's pretty clear that the fact of a deadly terrorist attack on American soil gave none of you pause. No, it takes the banning of an app to really have you up in arms.

Yeah, he can suck it, 'renown' or no. After the 'crime' of emancipation, freed slaves didn't "drift" into peonage. They were put there with the gun, by domestic terrorists flying the very same stars and bars we're discussing here. (In the meantime they were actually taking part in the governance of the South, with policies that started to reverse its backwardness, but 150 years of propaganda have erased and libeled this period irretrievably.) The battle flag was simply not a popular or cherished symbol before its use by the wildly popular KKK, no matter how much certain people stick their fingers in their ears and pretend otherwise. There never was a noble meaning of any significance that was lost because of the 'yahoos.' The yahoos are the only reason the flag is around today. It was popularized by the men in white hoods, until it crept into usage by polite (and non-Southern) society. Because the KKK was polite society. They were just as mainstream as ISIS is in Mosul today. If certain people wanted to honor their ancestors, they missed the boat. Forgetting is precisely what the flag worshipers want everyone they do. Forget everything the flag has meant, forget everything negative about it and the cause it represents, and only remember the insulting sugarcoated interpretation that was concocted in later decades. No one is asking that this symbol be suppressed or hidden. There is however an outrageous excess that needs to be corrected. Which is to say, the flag should take its rightful place along with other symbols of our history. In museums and on the covers of history books (or videogames). NOT flown on the lawns of government building as a disgusting affront to everyone who has suffered from white supremacy and the domestic terrorism that defended it. And there is nothing craven or anti-free speech about private companies deciding not to profit from the sale of flags that symbolize hatred and treason. That's a laudable stance to take. Apple aside, of course. History must never be sanitized. I applaud Game Labs for their refusal to bowdlerize their game, and if I had been in charge of writing their statement I would have been a lot less conciliatory.

Yup, especially as ships like Trinc and Renommee pitch into the troughs of waves. And then all the spray streams backwards onto the deck when you're going to windward.

Definitely. They're not thinking about this in any terms of logic or politics. It's just spur-of-the-moment ass covering. There's probably someone in the middle of the hierarchy who has the authority to take action by preemptively going after confederate flags. But crafting a fair and common sense response in a big company takes action from higher up. It's a bad hotfix, not a patch. Dude, your post is still in this thread. You said "this social justice bullcrap." There is nothing there to specify that you are talking about kneejerk internet crazies, and I see no reason to give you the benefit of the doubt at a time like this. If that's what you meant, then the correction is noted. And your apology for being careless with your terms would be accepted, if offered. If you can't say what you mean and mean what you say, I suggest steering clear of political discussion in the wake of mass murder. Strawman. Apple isn't a SJW. And there is zero indication that Apple was motivated by protests against flags in videogames. And if so, it is obvious that almost no one takes such protests (if we can find any evidence that they exist) seriously. So you understand why I find your rush to judgment and strawman construction troubling.

'Feasible at the time' means no lower mast repairs. Now, I would be in favor of a system where lower masts are impossible to repair and very difficult to destroy. However, that runs up against the current reality where people can rarely aim high enough to hit topmasts, and lower masts account for most losses. Spar damage would make everything better, but that's a major new feature.

Maybe they're actually scared of Taylor Swift, lol. But seriously, it always astounds me that companies do this sort of thing without even releasing a statement. Do these people who run a multi-million dollar online business not understand how the internet works?

Again, I'm calling out any of this bullshit in the thread. You might want to fantasize that Apple is acting like a manic liberal, but it isn't. Apple is acting like every other corporation with a PR department, and this kind of stupidity is bipartisan. You must not be familiar with Apple Store's track record. They love applying tortured and inconsistent interpretations of their ToS in order to remove apps for no good reason. Especially when it comes to apps with some tiny amount of sexual content, Apple's most-publicized app removals tend to evoke groans and eye-rolling from the liberal side of the aisle. Of course, it may be that Apple unleashed some sort of flag-hunting bot on their store, and any confederate symbol that didn't meet whitelist criteria was removed automatically. After all, the store is massive, and there are probably a few extremist apps that slip past the net at any given time. So it would be rational of them to choose this moment to catch everything up in a dragnet, because the discovery of a KKK app at this juncture would indeed be news, and not just for Social Justice Warrior types. Of course, this would only be acceptable on Apple's part if Ultimate General is speedily restored, with an apology.

No it wasn't. That is just a paranoid fantasy shared by you and craven corporations like Apple. No one is offended by depictions of historical symbols in historical context. No one is campaigning against swastikas and battle flags on the covers of games and history books. A few posts on Tumblr do not constitute a political debate or a force worth fearing. Apple is behaving as corporations always have when it comes to the perceived threat of litigation and negative publicity: overwhelming overreaction. This is 100% Apple's fault for behaving like fools. But let's talk about you instead. You're choosing the days following a hate crime and terrorist attack to complain about people who speak out against racism and terrorism. That's pretty troubling, and certainly puts you in some interesting company. Especially since you are really just voicing some bullshit complaint about a tiny (mostly imaginary) minority on the internet, that has pretty much nothing to do with the actual social and political movements at work here. I'll remind you that you just labeled social justice "bullcrap." As a whole. So I'll ask: are you a white supremacist? Or do you just not understand the words you are using? You are using the classical tactic to discredit social movements everywhere: conjuring up an imaginary laughably extreme position that is supposedly indicative of the movement as a whole. And again, you're doing this in the wake of a national tragedy that proves how badly these "idiots" are needed. You're being a provocateur and so far as I'm concerned, a bigger idiot than anyone at Apple. And as we all know, Apple's store has an extraordinarily rich history of removing apps that supposedly have sexual or political content. There are dozens of cases more bizarre and ridiculous than this one, and in most of them it is impossible to imagine how a fear of Tumblr users could have provoked the removal.

Those waves, though. Another case of, 'this game could actually not be terrible, if we felt like it.'

What. The Fuck. This is teachable moment, actually. So-called political correctness is just decent people showing each other respect... until the idea gets taken up by large controversy-averse corporations with more cowardice than brains. Yeah, we don't need that social justice bullcrap. Not like a bunch of people were just murdered for their skin color or anything... Here's your gif right back at you:

Absolutely. The lack of heading is an artificial hindrance that seriously complicates navigation and ship testing. Compasses back in the day were rather too sluggish to steer by, but were perfectly accurate nonetheless.