Hethwill, the Red Duke

Couldn't keep up with a squadron consisting of Bellonas, Bucentaures and Christians. Was entertaining seeing them have to go half sail for me to catch up. Separation rate was just beyond ridiculous, but i bet on mods and all other janky stuff.

Quite a good approach. I like it.

Double edge one. From other EA products the answer is not clear and half don't mind while the other half goes nuts when they come the next day with full wipes or even specific areas wipes. All in all GL NA team doing nothing different from others.

Herc is now okay to sail. Feels proper and not a totally over-modelled envelope.

Not you for sure.

Players that do not want to bother with crafting always welcome "ships on demand" options, so no surprise they welcome more DLC options. BTW, rank 3 for game purposes is not the same as ship of the line 4th rate. I think everyone might be a bit confuses with the ranks at the present. Game rank =/= RN rank

No 2 minute timer, immediate close, keep 20 minutes of reinforcing back and forth.

Toxic salts are often of blue color crystals. Never green. Funny how nature works...

Centric, you are right... ... but game cannot enforce justice onto those. As simple as that. Gods know how much i'd love a thriving community loving and playing for credible values of age of sail, BUT alas that is reduced to oneself or at most to a "clan", and never a entire Nation in game. Is impossible. Not even on a "on rails" game let alone on a "sandbox".

Simple solution. No cross nation joining. Only factions involved would be able to join. e.g. Danes vs Swedes, only those two nations would be able to join during the "equal BR" period. ( and piss meta-alts even more )

Answer to your question - if there is a way of changing nation without DLC in PvE server - Delete character - Start new character in intended nation That's the non-DLC option. The Forged Papers were given for testing purposes leading ultimately to the DLC.

This has run its course, started as a mild rant, ended in Locked.

No disrespect meant sir, but you named your own thread in that fashion, with stereotypes, patronising, and veiled injury.

that's your reason and what you take out of the NA hobby. Your own experience. Your own. Not everyone's. It may be shared by others but is your own and you cannot say it is the same for absolutely every single one out there. And bringing the name of some game that many did never EVER play ( we have players that barely play PC games, so think about that for a second... guys and gals that barely played anything else on a PC other than NA... ) Thing is... and please stop and think for a second...you played some games where you really had fun. Others didn't. But still both sides are in Naval Action and none share the same views of "your game" nor you of "their game". Having you as a veteran of some fantasy realms MMO doesn't make you more right than a historical world war 2 air combat MMO or a sci fi die hard MMO guy. Why should it ? Accepting that NA shares some aspects with a lot of games is one thing. Wanting that NA is tailored, square and ruler, to what those games are is another thing. I'll show you one example: - players love to have their own collection of ships right ? Well man, i'm going to completely oppose that. Because you see, that's not the BEST in my opinion and I can come up with a lot of games where I know they had much better yadda yadda yadda and therefore - one player, one character, one ship, one career. Live and die by cannon and cutlass. ... Does this makes me right or wrong ? Well... neither. Is just my experience and point of view. But bringing some game ALL the time to serve as compass serves nothing and serves no one justice. It only suits that individual that makes such a post. IS NA great ? yes. Can it be better ? very much so. What would I do to make it better ? definitely a lot. some would like ti, some wouldn't. And these 3 questions fit to any single one of us NA testers/players of early access.

You missed the entire thread of posts then. I am not commenting on any game other than Naval Action. So i'm not commenting on them. But apparently the incessant commenting on EvE is a trademark of many. The incessant search of the "wowowo!!!!" nostalgia somewhere else than EvE... Well, glad we all have different paths that led us to NA, hence it would be a boring boring entertainment product.

Why Wow and Eve ? Why not Dark Age of Camelot ? Why not World War 2 Online ? Why not Elite Dangerous ? Why not Ultima Online or Anarchy Online ? Hell, why even only MMOs ? ... I know... That's the ones you like, the others may say nothing to you. That's great, we share common differences that brought us to Naval Action.

I'm not confused. I know exactly what NA is at the present. And while I look to many games in the past that did have a strong impact on my hobby time, and not only computer stuff - actually most are not computer related, I also know for certain they had their time and they are not coming again. What you love nowadays is the idea of the great experience you remember back in the past with whatever game. Happens to all of us and everyone has amazing stories about how fun this or that game was. That's what i was referring to. Hence we go through libraries and shelves of games to try to find that "wow!!" moments again while discovering new games all the same. ( that's how i discover new games ). You talk about "how the game felt to you back then" Looking to the present game objectively leaves no leeway to romanticized nostalgia of "oh that was the perfect game". Glad we can share our differences.

Because some want a age of sail eve and not naval action. Is really confusing for all the others that have no idea what they talking about. ( nostalgia factor is the most important - they want to feel the same as they did with that game in another game - and they cannot understand that will not happen. Given they refuse to accept that fact they keep ranting on and on and on... So, make peace with your past game experience and simply stick to what is and what will come and things become much better and simpler and save everyone a lot of posts )

Legends is indeed a different experience. I really liked it the time that was up. Not my prime go to ( same as with other non ow games i play, 3 rounds and i'm fulfilled ) but was good. Really liked the bathymetry testing included on it. Really like how GL tests stuff, but then gamelabs as a name should be a nice clue

Exactly. When EA steam release OW was a reality already and tested during closed ( before ea release ) .

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/02/26/elite-dangerous-player-stranded-for-three-months-has-been-rescued/

Very improbable given the open world was already going under very heavy development in closed testing. How the hell do you come up with such stuff ?... 🙄

Stop acting like you know it all. Naval Action is awesome. Glad we both like it.