Hethwill, the Red Duke

You can join a clan just for a PB. Then you leave. Some solo guys do it. ( in truth they are social just don't want a clan tag )

Was off topic regarding a nit pick. I am very interested in it. Regarding AI, yeah, they are as silly as the AI we farm, same brains. Some players though got excellent at using them, really good. ^But they are dedicated fleet traders full time and had to learn how to best use the dedicated trader tools. Maybe distance from player until AI stops could be reduced ? That's a big issue for them to decide where to turn.

Apart from repurposed frigates and 64/74 into "indiamans" - which you can already do in game by using them as cargo haulers ( a 74 would be downgraded to 40 - 50 guns for hold space IRL) can you link some examples that represent exactly that ? A hardy and heavily armed purpose build indiaman ? Thanks a ton. Would be great to have hands on approach with plans and data.

Er... if you have 600 BR and the enemy only 300BR... means you will be raising control at half speed as would be 600 BR versus 0BR Or... does it work some other way ?

also the same episode as registered in Naval History of Great Britain - Vol III / 1800 / Light Squadrons and Single Ships p.56/57 Milbrook / Millbrook, 1797 Type: Experimental Schooner ; Armament 16 x 18-pdrs carronades Launched : 1797 BM: 148 tons On the 13th of November, early in the morning, the Milbrook, then lying becalmed off the bar of Oporto, descried a French ship, wearing a pendant, and, to all appearance, a frigate of 36 guns. Having under his protection two brigs of a Newfoundland convoy, and observing several other vessels in the offing, which, if as he conjectured English merchantmen, were equally an object of desire to the Frenchmen, Lieutenant Smith got out his sweeps, and pulled towards the enemy. At 8 A.M. the schooner received a broadside from the ship, which was the celebrated French privateer Bellone, of Bordeaux. Before the Bellone could bring her second broadside to bear, the Milbrook had fired three broadsides, and by the time the former had fired her third, the schooner had discharged eleven broadsides. Such was the rapidity of firing where no time was lost by running out the guns. The carronades of the Milbrook were seemingly fired with as much precision as quickness; for the Bellone, from broadsides fell to single guns, and showed, by her sails and rigging, how much she had been cut up by the schooner's shot. At about 10 A.M. the ship's colours came down; and Lieutenant Smith used immediate endeavours to take possession of her. Not having a rope left wherewith to hoist out a boat, he launched one over the gunwale; but, having been pierced with shot in various directions, the boat soon filled with water. At this time the Milbrook, having had 10 of her guns disabled, her masts, yards, sails, and rigging wounded and shot through, and all her sweeps cut to pieces, lay quite unmanageable, with her broadside to the Bellone's stern. In a little while a light breeze sprang up, and the Bellone, hoisting all the canvass she could set, sought safety in flight. Out of the 47 men of her crew, the Milbrook had eight seamen and one marine severely, and her master (Thomas Fletcher, but who would not quit the deck), surgeon's mate (I. Parster), and one seaman, slightly wounded. The loss sustained by the Bellone, as rumoured at Vigo, into which port she was compelled to put, amounted, out of a crew probably of 250 or 260 men, to 20 killed, her first and second captains and 45 men wounded. The guns of the Bellone, as already has been stated, consisted of 24 long French 8-pounders and six or eight brass 36-pounder carronades. The ship, therefore, was almost quadruple superior to the Milbrook ; and Lieutenant Smith, by his gallantry and seamanlike conduct, not only preserved from capture a valuable convoy, but added, in no slight degree, to the naval renown of his country. This became appreciated in the proper quarter, and Lieutenant Smith was promoted to the rank of commander. Also the English factory at Oporto, to evince their sense of the service performed by the Milbrook, voted Lieutenant Smith their thanks, accompanied by a piece of plate of 50£ value.

Humungous. I think the more odds you beat and win the bigger the reward. Like a captain that beats 3 ships on his own will get some hefty fat rewards. The guy that simply steam rolls the AI in missions... gets proportionate to the risk he has taken.

So... live off the loot you get ? Very survival. Very pyratey.

Why bonus ? Why not the opposite ? Why not Winner take the normal, and defeated wins a down share ? 🤑

#nafanboy Want all ships to feel credible, not magical.

Wipe at release: End of development. Game released. Day zero. ( rank and craft level secured )

Glad we agree. Any weak ship will be made quite strong due to other options. Any heavy build can be made lighter due to other options.

Music to my senses. Like Pirate Jesus said - Like delivered, so shall you receive. No mercy.

Then attack. Bracket the Xebec, close her best angles. And shoot her until she sinks. Disclaimer: might require teamwork.

You are wrong on the Privateer. Forget the curves. Wood for wood, mod for mod, she is faster. Same with the Lynx. Same with the Pickle. Same with the Prince. All these can evade the Xebec against the Xebec worst wind.

Early in the morning on the 13th of November, the Milbrooke schooner, of 16 guns, and 45 men, commanded by Lieutenant Matthew Smith, being off Oporto with two brigs of the Newfoundland convoy under his protection, fell in with a French privateer ship, of 36 guns; Lieutenant Smith at this time observed several other vessels in the offing, which he had reason to suppose was a part also of the above convoy. The vast superiority of the enemy's force did not operate on the gallant spirit of Lieutenant Smith, whose principal object was the preservation of his convoy; he therefore came to the resolution of giving the enemy battle, and in order to give his convoy a more favourable opportunity to escape, he made sail to close with her. It being nearly calm, it was eight or nine o'clock before the Milbrooke arrived within gun-shot of her antagonist, when a spirited action commenced, and was maintained with great bravery until near ten o'clock, when the enemy's colours appeared to be struck: but the Milbrooke at this time having ten of her guns disabled, the masts, yards, sails, and rigging, much wounded and cut to pieces, Lieutenant Smith could not prevent the enemy from taking advantage of a breeze springing up, and with the assistance of his sweeps to get off. In this unequal contest the Milbrooke had only ten wounded; amongst them were Mr. Thomas Fletcher, the master, and Mr. J. Parston, surgeon's mate. The enemy's vessel, which proved to be La Bellone, of 36 guns and 320 men, put into Vigo, with the loss, it was said, of 20 men killed, the first and second captains, and 45 wounded. ( literal source. The British Trident Vol. IV )

All ships overperform because of mods / books. Speed curves are flat against the envelope and even with rig damage they retain the excess promoted by the mods/books. What you say has nothing to do with Xebec, but all ships.

The ships "pop" into existence from the nether void. Hence the "earth is both flat and round".

Despite the "hidden agenda" there are enough cases reported with raiders overcrowding ships. Actually flushing the below deck thoroughly to accommodate more crew - even at the expense of some of the ship's original build solidity - was fairly common practice amongst sea rover types.

What rules you use to "mimic" navy/sea rover age of sail life - be it sloop captain, be it trade interdiction with frigate or even trade escort.

@Buba Smith Now (thousand clicks) : Resources ----> Materials -----> end product ( ship/cannons/etc ) Future ( hundred clicks ) : Resources--------> end product A backtrack conversion of the materials back to resources might happen, but for safe measure i'd suggest to spend the materials and transform them into end products already.

Point control by BR should be a thing.

The moon is also round.

You are right. 100% right. But our skill is average at best. But looking at where Xebecs are mostly used to rampage... is like unleashing a wolf in a sheep pen. The zones are nothing but a way to congregate all sheeps in one pen. Even sheeps in wolf skins feel like wolves in there.

The starring actors demanded the shooting of the movie to the be on site. So they had to go to the moon to shoot a fake movie about moon landing. I thought this was common knowledge by now...

Plenty of "rvr" games in games history never cared about timers and they were highly successful. Earth is round. Multinational communities FTW.