Henry d'Esterre Darby

Good morning sir. I'm sorry you're having trouble with your key. The development staff is quite small, please recheck your spam folder and I'll bring this to Admin's attention the next time I see him online.

I suppose that means that a surrendered ship will have to have no flag flying in the battle instances. Which is more realistic anyhow.

haha, no.

Did it work?

To manage expectations initially, everyone started over in Open World, so you'll be starting out with nothing in a Basic Lynx. That's ok, group up with some friends and you'll be out of it in no time. Are you trying to use the Login form, or the Steam Login? You should choose Login Via Steam and you should pop straight in, assuming your client is updated.

I've not seen the captured ship getting stuck on you, but the teleport after battle issue is a known problem that has been stubbornly evading being fixed. F11 right when it happens to you, as you did, is the best thing to do. Thanks for the reports!

Entering ports has definitely gotten more challenging since Patch 4. I often have to wiggle about and wallow near the dock before I get a prompt. Maybe the docking range could be moved out just a little bit - maybe a shiplength.

Make a copy, change it, if it works well, make the same changes to the original. Done.

I'm moving this over to the "General Discussions" forum as it is not directly related to the current game build. Thanks!

Having thought about it, I will say I have noticed "odd" heeling behavior in Surprise as well. Even with yards turned or backed, depowered/battle, etc. there are times my aimpoint just won't come down. I'll have to pay more attention and try F11 the next time I notice it.

Need more input from other Bellona players please!

Does rotating the yards to luff the sails work? What about reducing to 20%? Bear in mind that ships at the time did not fight at 100% sails like we do in the game. If Battlesails + Depower isn't mainly reducing your heel, maybe there's a problem. And to be clear, Depower seems to halt your furling right now, so if you're punching battlesails then following with depower before they're fully set, you may be halting the furling to battlesails (if I understand that bug correctly and it's happening the way I think).

They were planning to push it to Thursday to allow a "fix" for being stuck in port with a damaged ship and not enough gold to fix it. We're waiting to hear if/when they'll be patching right now.

I believe Game Labs is trying to avoid the completely foul atmosphere that you see in most online games. Having someone releasing a stream of modern filthy language is offputting for a lot of people, especially the slightly older crowd that this game is targeting. I don't think it's too much to ask to either refrain from being abusive, or using the list of insults provided, which are creative, novel, and a little funny. We've lost a large part of the eloquence of our language, going from extremely creative phrases such as listed here (which still would have required one of the following: An apology, a sword through your ribs in a duel, or your being branded a coward for doing neither) to f*** you. It's sad really that we think that such simple, uncreative words are now the pinnacle of an insult. In the end, you're not being asked to roleplay, you're simply being asked to be respectful towards the other people playing this game. I don't think a little respect is too much to ask.

To clarify Admin's post: If you have a problem like this with another player's language in-game, please use the in-game report function, not the Tribunal. You can also ignore them.

Regardless of the circumstances, foul language and abusive behavior towards others will not be tolerated. Even if someone is breaking the rules towards you, two wrongs don't make a right.

Actually, I wrote that using Admins list and hosted it on my server to make it easier on folks.

Santa Cruz - Southeast coast of Cuba, is Neutral now.

The OP has nothing constructive to add, and has not returned to futher explain their points. As such, I'm going to lock this thread as trolling. OP - If you'd like to further explain why you're dissatisfied with the game, please utilize the feedback threads to provide specific complaints so that they can be taken into account by the Devs.

Signed (except for the Weds patch part - that's not enough time). This just makes sense.

There are new posts in the forums every day talking about what is in the works for the next patch. One can easily discern the status of development by perusing posts by user "Admin". As to hard dates, they won't announce those because they don't know themselves when the maturity of the game development will warrant taking the next step. Please keep an eye on the forums and have patience, they're still in very early Alpha here. This is a small team and keeping everything extremely up to date delays the game development because they have to task valuable programming resources to keeping the news up to date. I'm going to lock this for now, however I'll point it out to Admin to see if he has anything to add. Thanks.

I'm not American, but I can likely answer a few things. You'll need those 18lb Carronades later, hang on to them. I really liked 12lb carronades for my Lynx/Privateer/Cutter. First thing to do is get 12lb carronades, load grape, and go try to capture a 12 gun vessel - that'll put you a little farther up the food chain. Alternately, use your gold to buy a Cutter, that's a great choice too. Team up with other Yanks there at Honda. A group of you can take down far more than you can alone. Find someone else and team up! Bots are great at maneuvering and shooting, they can be very difficult until you get into a larger vessel. For now, feel free to just use this thread to ask all the questions you like. You can also ask in your nation chat, you'll get better Yank-centric news there.

I'd say definitely T. You won't be able to tell from the screen but the symptoms are perfect for that issue.

Santa Cruz (south coast of Cuba) doesn't exist in the position indicated. I sailed the coast from Sancti Spiritus to Santa Maria and didn't see evidence of any other town between those two.