Henry d'Esterre Darby

Ugh, ok, definitely F11 with as much information as possible to help prevent it from happening to anyone else!

Great, thank you! You shouldn't have changed nationalities, and you shouldn't have lost your physical "stuff" so far as I know. Are you sure you don't have a sibling or friend that didn't wreck your account while you were away?

Guane Del Notre on the west coast of Cuba no longer exists.

As posted, everyone is now in Open World. Have fun! I'm going to lock this thread as being unnecessary due to the numerous announcements on the forum. Have a great day!

First of all, gold was reduced to 10% of your total during the last major patch. This was originally to test new economy, but then that idea was reversed (without refunding the gold) to test Fleets. So if you have 80k someodd, you should now have 8k. With regards to your progress, ships, nationality, I'm not sure what happened there. Please F11 that issue. Do be aware, however, as was stated, this is an Alpha Test. Your progress can and might be reset at any time. We're not playing the game, we're providing test data for the developers. If the idea of bugs and progress wipes/resets is something you are unable to accommodate, you may not want to test the game until a much later phase of testing, or perhaps release.

Meh, taking your ship out of open world without putting it into combat would be a little exploitative I think.

Agreed with Paul and Arvenski. Removing the Confederate Flag from a historical game is revisionist and completely unnecessary. Removing it from a modern game that was using it in a racially charged manner I could understand.

You were sitting outside of a harbor, in the open, and you were attacked. This is quite normal and expected. If you need to type messages, please do so while in the harbor screen, not sitting in the water in open world.

Yes please.

This is Open World, which means there is no "quick" battle with NPCs. You need to sail out into the world and look for an enemy to battle. Sail around, avoiding larger enemies, until you find a good area to hunt. The best areas to hunt will depend on which Nation you decided to join.

The Sea Trials are no longer available I believe. Welcome to Open World!

That card should run the game. Are your video card drivers updated? Also, try to have Steam reinstall, you might have had a bad installation.

http://forum.game-labs.net/index.php?/topic/5805-devs-please-do-a-little-basic-marketing-this-time-around/#entry111067 This has already been discussed. There are many more things to do before mass advertising. Locking as a duplicate.

We're passing out of my realm of ability here. The next time it times out, please make sure to select "Send Crash Report" and hit "Play" when restarting the game. That will send any collected data to the Developers for review. It sounds to me like your communication is being disrupted by something though. I'd carefully look through your machine to see if there are any programs running that might affect network traffic.

No dropped packets? In that case, I might suspect an anti-virus or internet security software. Do you have any of those running?

That all depends on what is causing the issue. If it's part of the route to the servers themselves, a different route, such as taken by TeamSpeak, may be going through just fine. It could be a local antivirus/internet security software (this has hit a few users), it could be the router you're using to connect to the internet. In the end, if your friends aren't also losing connection at the same time you are, the problem points more towards something with your local setup, or the pathway you're taking to get to the game servers, not the game servers themselves.

Good afternoon! This sounds to me like it might be related to a network issue - either your local network or somewhere between you and the game servers. You may be dropping packets / losing connection to the game server. Try running a program like PingPlotter to see if you are getting poor connection somewhere.

Let's not create a new topic please. The Developers will create a poll if they need one.

This is the wrong post and forum for this. The original intent of this post revolved around antisocial behavior such as cursing or being rude. There is an entire thread for discussing the AI Fleet mechanic in the Open World Forum, please continue this discussion there. I'm going to lock this thread as it had run its course months ago. Thanks!

Good morning sir. I'm very sorry you're having trouble. Please post your system specifications here. Most importantly your video card make/model. Thanks!

I know the thread title is "Major Annoyances", but let's please try to keep everything in one place. Please use the annoyances thread for your issues - the Devs actively watch that one for the featurelist. http://forum.game-labs.net/index.php?/topic/5269-please-post-your-major-annoyances/

Good afternoon Mr. Grimjar. I'm going to move this to the Support Forum where it might receive more attention from the people who are in the know. Thanks!

PvE only mode will likely come at or just after the game fully launches. That's just a guess based on my own logic though, there have been no official announcements.

Sorry, in this case, National Forums is meant for in-game nations. A place where clans and national players can snipe back and forth at each other without cluttering up the threads that developers need to use to develop the game. National Forums is not meant for different real life nations and languages.

We already have the "Clippers" that are applicable to the game's time period - Lynx and her ilk. If you mean the larger Clipper Ships of the mid-1800's, they don't make any sense for pirates - they're huge cargo carrying vessels that came after the game's cutoff point. With regards to shallows, I'd recommend the pirates take over the Bahamas. Plenty of shoals with narrow channels, and once procedurally generated instance terrain is instituted, you could have a really good time in there with shallow-draft vessels. The Xebec Corsair can not take a hit from a cannon. It must run from anything with decent armament. They were cheaply built and not designed to slug it out with a warship. El Gamo was an exception, most Xebecs were flimsy and not designed for anything but boarding.