While it is a cool idea ( Tow cables, Arma style ) ain't needed, honestly. You see what a 74 guns can do to a frigate atm in the testbed, imagine a line of ships of the line and trying to be a frigate setting up a tow while all the "total war" captains out there training the guns at the poor thing ...
And do wipes everytime an update is released ?! That's the whole issue. Proper wipe with the large deployment of all changes.
Plus it is being delayed due to a safe net, nation papers, so to give a one chance IF anyone is displeased with the nation he chose and can change once.
After all there's no more "keeping the rank and all that jazz" if you erase your character after you redeemed everything.
Okay. Let's make it ALWAYS at 20:00 then. no interval of time whatsoever at least a third of the population might be able to play one day out of three... *sigh*
It will be a exercise on planning our guerre de corse venture and hoping the Navy can do their job as good as the privateers do
Conquest will change for sure. Having a region where it can be a thorn on the side of your enemy, that provides fast deployment is a must.
14:00 - 23:59 UTC
else you simply cut the legs to both the East and the West shares of EU community. East plays earliest timers, West plays until later.
As I see it the point is not to nurture the we, the brave, the few, that can have everything. Plus knowledge is power, great that he discovered something that can't be done, I mean before proper release wipe , now he knows he can't do that.
There is no alliance system. It is handled by the player-diplomats. Certainly some pirate clans will forge their own friends with nations.
Inter clan warfare in pirates will be a reality.
True. Servers keep persistence, same as minecraft, etc. But in essence they are simply... "player" hosted ... so to say
But hey, tech changes at a fast rhythm, I'd be very pleased with UI mods indeed.
Captains and their officers kept books and ledgers with a lot of information, including "word of the street" information. Guess google docs or a simple pen and paper notepad are assumed ? ( no gps air combat sim knee pads ftw ! )