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What do you define as "progress"? I did a 4th rate fleet mission in a wasa: 550k gold, ~2,5k exp (+ those from the mission for those who have to lvl up) and a high amount of combat marks. All this for 35 minutes of "work". Lets say an avarage player will be able to earn about 500k and 1800 xp in an hour of doing pve missions. For such an amount of money u can buy ressources for a 4th rate at least. For one hour doing missions? I agree progress for a new player means: lvling up, seeing new types of ships and so on. For a full ranked (or high ranked) player i would like to know what progress actually means? If u want to have the best ships with the best refits you should have to take risks OR pay those who take the risk. Not too many people (i wanted to say noone but thats probably a lie) want you to come out of your safe bubble. You can get everything there. But it's basic. If you only play the basics of the game you will also get only the basics to see OR pay for it. I don't want you to come out of the safezone. I just want those daring to go out being rewarded for it. And if u make a negative experience in the OW, you do some missions and get the next ship. And you will learn what to care for the next time and will get better. For sure: beeing ganked is a hello kitty-up. But just take some friends and sail out. All that can happen is u lose your ship. It's just a ship. I started and i did pve for two and a hlalf month (beeing ganked sometimes) and then i entered the pvp world. sank so often, cant count it. But the game is a completely different one. I hope i speak for others, saying: take a look above the horizon. Speak with the players you are playing agaist. Most of them are nice guys that can teach u something (although nearly everyone will sink you - its the games purpose). The next time you get out, you know more. You learn about the wind, get to know your ship and the enemys' ship, develop your own style to play. This game has so much more than only shooting npcs. This is my definition of progress. Getting to know all of the game.

Sorry but if u cant afford a new ship now, you will actually never be able to do so. You dont need much time to get combat marks for a Wasa or L'hermione, with the money u make in some missions u can buy the cannons. Take two friends and sail out in those ships. Not much about it actually.

+1 Sven Although i really dislike this sad fact, most people just do pve on this server. Correct me if I'm wrong here but there's basically two groups: newbies and players, who just like to enjoy a bit the sailing combined with a true desire for fighting AI in bigger ships as they have a lot of guns. These people can't and shouldn't be forced into pvp (though they play on the pvp server) as it are these people that provide the numbers on the server and therefore make people join the server for pvp (pvp players know they wont find much if theres only 150 guys online). The safezones are a good opportunity for those kind of players and should therefore be kept part of the game (make them smaller though PLEASE!!!). As these players (imho) aren't interested in the whole game, they should't be rewarded as those players who are. Safezone should preserve basics - nothing more, nothing less. At the moment, i dont have to leave my warm n cosy zone durnig the day (RvR in the evening, which is fine), as everybody else is in his/her own aswell having no reason to do so. And hunting traders isnt really PvP imho.

I can understand this attempt, though it decreases ow pvp (non rvr related) even more. Before you fixed it, every player could do missions safely. Now - at least in Sweden/Denmark - you can do nearly all of your game in your safe zone. I could arrange with the way it was before, now its even worse. What attempt does an avarage player have to leave this zone? Though i could imagine free ports could have a higher importance again.

Did u realize the reinforcement zones of sweden and denmark are 20 clicks apart from each other? We had a pvp hotspot in danish/swedish waters the last days. Good for hunters, a lot to do for those chasing them. Now its only big bubbles of safezones. I dont get why.

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07:50 server time: servers will be down in 30 minutes for 180 minutes! I think there could be a surprise for us afterwards ..