Hethwill, the Red Duke

There is no such thing as UNIVERSAL FUN. Fun to us all, pain to us all, is nothing. So, patronizing or chastising has no place in mechanic discussion. 1. Subject 2. Agree or disagree 3. Why and what benefits.

We have more open EA time without teleports ( just the unstuck to capital on ) than with teleports. That is a fact.

The OP is questioning directly about the Open World post wipe. There's some keywords in his post that do not relay to a sterile face-off arena genre discussion. Individualism versus collective sense of game will always be a "battlezone". Many individuals abhor OW mechanics while others cannot stand symmetry of arenas so opinions will always try to shift attention - there's no doubt in the future. A product for each mindset. Post wipe the scenario is not clear, the stories are not a straight line and the events will be, again, fluid. It completely delegates a whole spectrum of responsibilities back to us, the players while freeing the game from redundant mechanics. Focus will turn more into Nation, social and planning. Totally worth to come back and start fresh. __________________________ In all cases and for the sake of completion and necessity, if you need to discuss anything related to arena and not OW do share in the following thread

Not you as an individual, of course not. Why does everything need to revolve about individuals ? We are brighter than that. It is about a whole game, a whole community. Welcome to it. Like a CEO I had in a company I worked for, fantastic guy, very friendly, knew every single person in a universe of hundreds, but when serious stuff came up he would always ask - "This is not about you... and by the way, who are you again?" - he really passed the message. - on subject - Regarding impaired players, there's a entire guild made of hearing impaired, most of them 100%, which braved ALL challenges a well known MMO could offer. I wonder how. But still, the chat with own companions from own nation is not going away. Any player, hearing impaired or not can communicate with fellow captains serving under the same flag. Continue discussion in the thread linked.

Post Wipe plan looks very solid. Former OW glory with all the novelties. Heat is back on.

It is our "job" to be respectful at all times. While I do want Global to say, I want it to stay because we know we can use it properly. And yeah, totally support the harsh measures. But then loud mouths will review the game saying "bans everywhere" without even being countered by the players that actually reported them... There's no half harsh measures and it works across all platforms, game, forum , steam, etc. What you gonna do ? Report and Pray ? Or actually report and make sure they don't lie ? Ah well... give me the cake, give me the knife and please...stay away from the damn table. I'm gona eat it.

Christendom... It doesn't. That's the part where i'm confused. Has to be always the same guys playing or can the rest of nation play too ? I appreciate a bit of organization though but there's a lot of way to let things run its course but hey it is a choice. Ah well, was just a sidenote let's carry on with the patch feedback.

Sorry, not sure what you mean. Maybe I am already thinking post wipe.

Any player with a filled RL can do RvR now and then.

Gorgon strikes fear.

Hence why don't really use it. It is seemingly way out of envelope. And it is not only upwind. Turns on the spot like a Brig, not even half length turn radius.

I do use cross nation chat to roleplay my characters a lot. The players that crossed me and my consorts know this quite well. ( also used it a couple times for less than honorable exchanges albeit never profanity ). Also did give a lot of welcomes to NA to new fellows, explained them a few things and overall have the feeling I did made a difference in the way they were welcomed - I will had I remember one of them that had been taught wrong things by his nation fellows. I do like to see Global like the Radio Station of sorts. Where there's nice content to have fun with and participate. I do wish chats to remain. But also can reason the why the chat/community has been pointed out by many as very bad, aggressive, toxic. It is true and we know this. I will tell you that many old vets and clans did take a break from the game until the RvR poopzilla attitude was resolved. All of them had excellent wars in the past. Somewhere in the near past some "groups" did rise and started giving the wrong impression of the community. Let chat remain but make sure we can act like we damn care about it

Been testing all kind of odd combat situations even if it is only against AI.

Could we rebel against our masters and carve a independent nation ?

Faugh a Ballagh !

That is a perfect idea of course. How many players would play on a new anglo-saxon nation though and diminish the natural orbiting towards Royal Navy is more of a exercise though.

We got pipes on boarding basically we go "scottish on them"

That's also true. Damn NA timeframe covers a LOT of possibilities and all of them can be true to history. ( atm reading how the tiny French force in Martinique, 2 ships iirc, beat the huge dutch fleet under De Ruyter )

Foundation of it was simply religion wars. Obviously the Spanish saw an opportunity to have the catholic scottish and irish rovers signed up as "guarda-costas", pretty much privateers. There was little distinction but both origins banded together. There was a expedition to bring populace and civilians to build the settlement, which they did.

A new Scotland-Irish nation. Capital at Dariena. In similar fashion to the brief Swedish foothold, under the blessings of the British, the brief Dariena foothold by the Scottish and Irish was under the patronage of the Spanish.

That will require people, en masse, to tell the bad apples to hide in a hole and at the same report them. And also requires people to be disciplined and avoid fighting trolls with trolling or poison with poison. But heh, easier to answer eye for an eye right ? You know exactly what I mean and that's exactly it. Behave or be silenced forever in Global and cross nation, be it right away or at the reports scrutiny phase.

"Leave the global chat as-is but be much tougher with chat rule offenders" ( thank you )

I think we can adjust and make Global work without any need for gimmicks. The largest part of the population is very friendly when they chat in Global. Suddenly out of the blue the exchange of names and shaming and offenses starts the wall of text. Many players do indeed close global and leave it to the foul mouths. So better is for the good language to take over and bring down the loud foul mouths on their own turf. The Global channel and the Game is for all of us, we simply allowed this "self anointed prophets of crap" to polute it at certain times, usually at the peak of Conquest. Good manners always prevail. One doesn't have to befriend anyone to use good manners at all time. So, report, tell them to stop being a nuisance to the rest of us, etc. People follow examples not the loudest hooligan unless they are hooligan themselves. I so wish global to stay, even if trading cross nation goes, but it build the game and cements the totally important social part. No toxicity please. Show the Devs we actually care.

Only cross nations is to be disabled. Same nation and team and squadron chat remains. Hence the hearing impaired can communicate normally with their Nation countrymen in all steps in game.