Henry d'Esterre Darby

Barry, if you'd actually like to fly the Stars and Stripes, take a look at Tattered Flags or the Decatur Armada. All three groups (SLRN, TF, and TDA) are very active groups, but you might find a higher level of activity in your time zone with a US Group. The choice, of course, is entirely up to you - as an Ex-Pat I would never, of course, advise you to betray King and Country.

Unless you're a pirate, and they'll likely be the ones most likely to have bounties. Otherwise, you find a willing accomplice, not too hard. Sorry, back to the topic of little things you'd like to see...

This replicates real world conditions on a ship getting hit with a massive broadside. In the lower ranks, it can feel like forever, especially due to the faster reload rates. Even in a Brig you can sometimes carefully exploit it with carronades if you're timing your shots right and not using double. Bear in mind, balls don't just hit ship armor and bounce off harmlessly. In general, at close quarters those balls are passing clean through the bulwarks, or hitting them hard enough to flex the wood, throwing splinters and debris at very high velocities throughout the crew's area, creating gaping bloody wounds, knocking people senseless, and causing other casualties. Dragging those disabled crew off the guns and out of the way takes a few moments. For a decent visual of this, if you haven't seen it, watch the opening battle in the movie Master and Commander. Now, there may very well need to be a reduced amount of time of shock based on the total amount of damage done. This means that two Cutters duking it out might only cause a 10 second reload shock, whereas two Bellonas might cause a full 30 second delay. That's what we need to test and give feedback on.

Start with 12lb carronades for your ship. Then go find a Trader Cutter or a Lynx or Cutter, close yardarm to yardarm and blast them to pieces. If you want to be able to do this faster, team up with another friendly.

You should have it by now. Please check spam folders.

That's very odd, but I'm glad it's working for now. Good hunting sir!

That's ok. Please follow the instructions at this link: http://www.enkivillage.com/how-to-find-out-your-graphics-card-windows-7.html I'd like to know the values for "Memory" and "Processor" on the System tab, and the "Name" (it'll likely be 4000, or 5000, 5500, something like that) "Manufacturer", and "Approx. Total Memory" values on the Display tab. Thanks. Let me know if you have problems getting this information.

Light forum PvP is ok in this forum - let's keep it easy, impersonal, and good-natured overall. Carry on gentlemen.

I've witnessed this as well. It's hard to F11 because you don't have a screenshot of the positioning when the battle kicked off. Maybe I'll try to screen the last moment of OW and screen again a battlestart. Can someone remind me where the screenshot button ran off to please?

Sir, people who purchase it now get better benefits over those who do so later - at the least, access to the Yacht. He may purchase it now if he likes. Please do not discourage people from pre-purchasing the game.

Bounties in online games do not work. You just rack up the bounty and then have your friend kill you for it so you can screw your victims twice.

Please post your computer specs Mr. Hamfrede.

This is usually a problem with Steam. Please try restarting your computer and if that doesn't work, let us know.

You can start playing today now that you have a key, see this topic here: http://forum.game-labs.net/index.php?/topic/2036-how-to-activate-download-the-game-on-steam/ There is no Beta, only Zuul Alpha. On Steam, it may say "Beta", but this is definitely an Alpha test. Look at the Guides section of the forums here. Admin has recently posted a thread with a number of good videos for you to watch. No real way to "practice", just get out there and blast something.

There are no games out there that are attempting this level of "realism" (yes, it's not a simulator, but great care is being taken to create a game that is as realistic as possible while still being playable and fun), so it is certainly unique in the space. No zombies, no magic, no magical "balancing" to try and make ships do things they could not do. There are probably 9,000 licenses (I'm estimating here) outstanding. Some people liked the "arena" mode that was Early Sea Trials a lot better, others decided the game just wasn't for them, some are waiting for the "final" wipe before they start playing again to avoid losing progress, and still others are waiting for a better level of polish and finish before they start playing. Like any test, the players online will cycle up and down as new content is added, things are fixed, etc. This is pretty normal for any title out there. World of Tanks has 500k plus accounts created, yet you only ever see a small fraction of those online and playing.

Mr. Jasper, please provide us with your operating system and video card make/model so we can determine compatibility. Thank you.

Admin has announced that they'll be sending keys every evening (Kiev Time) - you should have your keys today sometime.

Please see the link posted by Mr. SteelSandwich. I'm going to close this thread as a duplicate. Thanks.

'Cause he's a bad mutha.....

We have a lot of threads of this nature already. Closing as a duplicate thread. Good luck!

We used to have this ability but it was removed. Some players thought it funny to sail around with the J button mashed down the entire time, it was quite annoying.

Please add the contents of this post to the OP: http://forum.game-labs.net/index.php?/topic/7511-free-towns-regional-capitals-and-ranks-specifications/?p=141878 Thanks.

Not a guide, and it was answered, locking. Adding the link to the Ranks Guide post that is stickied in this forum.

I put on my robe and wizard hat...

Rank is NOT a false feature made to force everyone to play all the ships, nor was the previous advancement system. These both are real attempts at real features that may, with tweaks, find their way into the finished game. People - please stop saying that anything involving progression that was put in after the Sea Trials is an attempt to gather data - it is NOT. Thank you.