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He obviously damaged you regarding sails and hull (only 8 guns on larboard side). Mechs allow disengaging so I don't see the griefing. Perhaps tag an NPC on your own and hope for enemies to join?

WHY?

The question is: is it valid tactics in RvR or is it simply what we swedes here claim it is. @Wolf74 as you could also clearly see/hear, one tower was shooting, so even if you could leave for a moment, you knew that not all of the opponents fleet could leave. How can you claim to have an intention to fight? Any solo prince wouldn't stand a chance against a 1st rate. And here you against a whole fleet? Anyways, it's not really about punishment but a request to clarify rules.

@Pit Pinsel sad that you don't have time to show this former clan leader of yours who rules the open sea. Last time we met, three PGP guys in Hercs did not dare fighting an Essex and a Herc and kept hiding in Salinas Point. That was pre Herc nerf. But keep killing the clueless. Like a true frenchman you will run from any enemy who could only be close to your skill level. I'm glad you found ships that suit your playstyle. I'm also happy to differ from you in this regard. Diversity is always something worth supporting. Happy clubbing o7

Aves is a must have oupost. The happy Antilles family is waiting for you

Ram is just a monster. Rest is seal clubbing ofc

Ist doch auch "green on green" oder? Bin da bei troody, einfach mit den Leuten sprechen, das hilft eigentlich immer.

Prince or Privateer or Snow... it's all the same in this case. The F11 coods are the actual problem methinks. In RvR isn't this common tactics to split the enemies' forces? And where does it start? You could tag, directly disengage, leave, retag. Think some details should be clarified. Btw. @Havelock didn't you want to report this frenchy? Don't see a tribunal yet.

You describe the same position with different terms. Well ofc from russian pov it's offered help while swedes forcefully suppress. @Lars Kjaer how much is the weekly payrate at the moment? Sry I forgot as we have bullied too many close to extinction and therefore extort them nowadays.

Best thread in a while I have to say No probs with merged servers, no issues with US (or non-euro) timezone players. If Euro players drop timers on important ports by mistake, well a flip is what they get. US faced the same issues if they dropped timers. They just don't. Perhaps they are smarter?

Why do you think we dragged the fight to the OW? Donner, Skmarsh, me and another flipped LH, the PB was lead by El Have Loco and asking him he just said, let's better not talk about it, the sailing was just horrible aka B minus team at max. Only Marsh was in of those who flipped btw. The Wind guys are not the prime team of Russia. Fight HAVOC now, as they have settled in the british nation. Please provide me with a screenshot of Cap-Francais, I don't remember that, perhaps @rediii recalls? I'm sure Ill find an excuse for that aswell Don't get me wrong Banished, you guys are good players. But seriously, the pirates only show halfways proper organizational levels when VCO and NSANE are around. But as you said, nothing serious so far. British-Spanish war, Franco-Swedish war or Russia vs Sweden: these are/were salty. For a reason. Long period of time with high casualties on both sides and tactics chosen to annoy the enemy. The indispensible salt is what keeps us going You don't need to like me, but please understand that this is about RvR and not OW pew pew. Agreed that everybody clubs on OW - I mean it's a sandbox?

Damn you're getting soft. *S P A N T A R D* is your formerly used expression. @Banished Privateer you took swedish ports which were rarely contested, a B-Team attacked LH vs a PvP player fleet in Requins and you talk of war? There wasn't even much salt. As long as I don't see screenies of pbs against russian, british, french or swedish prime teams I'll take the liberty of calling you guys a bunch of seal clubbers. Taking ports from pirates is like taking ports from the US: farming pvp marks and nothing more. We'll meet someday and I hope neither you or us will have excuses. Carry on.

Seulement pour toi ma chère: Pas de gg en chat. Triste

The problem I have with regional trims is, as @jodgi said, RvR elitism. Small nations won't stand a chance, and after a short period of nice RvR we will have a couple of nations to be winners and some to be unable for a long time to get competitive again or their players will switch nation or leave entirely. Yes there is alts and who suffers from the situation the most? Casuals. If we had more customization by adding special ingredients, which would be distributed over the map, what do we get? RvR elitism or tremendously time consuming trade runs = total superiority of alts. We have customization by choosing woods already, imo that's enough. I could live with @Liq's proposal of getting buffs on one parameter, while being nerfed on another one. Though only if no regional or ingredential requirements are necessary. And propper balancing is needed aswell ofc. I like RNG in combination with the customization of woods for the reason of loads of good ships - e.g. teak white oak frigates 3/5 plain or minor trim - are available for nearly no money (they get sold in sweden for ~400k, swedish crafters don't even find customers - therefore spread the ships over the caribbean) which also enables casuals to participate in daily action.

25 fir fir t-lynx to make a golden ocean? no way this is what people will do...

Crafted 50 ships in the last week. Two golden, 7 purple, 26 with trim, rest plain 3/5. Two different ports, none of them in RIZ. That's ~20% purple or better, sounds fine to me, perhaps even too much. Just don't make the mistake to not use them because they are rare. They sink like every other of our beloved pixels.

BS!!! GB is stronkest. Not because of HAVOC - they're trash! #itisknown Simply because you have Raxius and Hartzy. Everything they start becomes a story of success. But don't worry. Capt Hardy will return to restore balance to the british nation, which has recently shifted towards a (I nearly don't dare saying it) player vs player focused content. Regards from the calm and cosy eastern side of the carebearian sea o/

@admin What's the price for the insurance? As I understand you now, every crafted vessel is automatically covered = no costs. Principally I like the idea a lot - newbies, regrind, you explained it.. I would suggest to repay the special woody at the lowest market price. The more is paid back the more abusive behaviour gets. If I learned one thing in this game it's that ppl will find a way to abuse it. Via alt pvp marks farming + extra gold now e.g. Via full fireship 1st rate fleets for screening. I suggest a rate (or BR even)-coupled insurance. The higher the BR, the smaller the insurance premium. Make it a feature for new players mainly, as most of the features being invented to help newish players get abused by ppl who actually fully understand the game.

I vote NO. One day I'll beat him in a duel and proudly present it on the forums. He would just mod it away. I know it. Until this day, I have to remain your bitch though.

Imo what you describe here is RvR. RvR is of course also about fun, but it's about teamwork and subordination of the own style to a more group fitting style. Here the people aim for the win. No matter what, the win or losing with keeping low own casualties. A greater good. ("We could win too easily" - watch PB vids and you will see cirlces sometimes being given up on purpose to kill more enemies.) If you like that for your own style it's fine. If that's fun for you - it's your right. It's a valid tactics, valid style. Personally I just can't understand it though. Concerning demasting: there was a short phase when Mast Thickness was a bit higher. Shooting lower sections wasn't a big thing, middle and top sections were relatively easy to get though. I preferred that as it this wasn't so decisive.

Correct. But basics in boarding is what 80% of players lack. I know only basics but defensive boarding is really easy. How often get experienced players just quickly killed by rageboarding? How often did you hear on comms: OMG I'M PULLED with this tune of desperation. Basically it's the sound of surrender.

Players die to boarding because they refuse to learn the mechanics. If anything is simple in NA, it's trading, boarding and demasting HMS Surprise. The issue with boarding might be, that it's so fast and abrupt compared to the rest of NA's combat mechanics. To your proposals concerning AI boardng nerf and prolonged grapple time I agree. A question to those, who sail boarding fitted or specialized boarding vessels: do you honestly consider boarding fun or do you actually mostly like the possibility of quickly knocking out an enemy? If I imagined a boarding fight for ten minutes - that's not what NA is about for me, and it's for sure not fun imo. It's rock-scissors-paper game with a tiny degree of customization. If boarding was entirely reworked, it should have more of a place ingame. Atm it's a grotesquely boring feature imo. 3.5kn and DD at 0.001% is GOOD. Realistic or not, 8kn was game breaking for stated reasons, thx for removing it.

Btw. we were just discussing on comms about the crew mod/book/trim nerfs. We had a pretty good balance regarding these mods UNTIL the Requin made many people feel (and obviously - following @admins argumentation - numbers supported that) something had to be done. Now we have a system in which crew space "planking" doesn't make sense, the cool and pretty cheap upgrade of Light Ship Hammocks got heavily nerfed by 2/3rds. The nerf of Cramped/Very cramped I can understand regarding the other trims. Basically I want to say that these nerfs made a cut in variety. I dearly hope, that the coming rework of mods balances the overall mess that is created by the stacking. Perhaps a rebuff for the crew thingies could be done then.

? We had so many 1sts more. Have you been to sweden? Many carebears but some pvpers aswell. It was interesting and good that it was an unimportant battle to test the new mechanics. Honest thx to our foes.

You mean like that? Barricades and a basic knowledge of boarding prevents this though.