Hotfix 5 for testbed patch 9.99

[admin]

Hello Captains.

Hotfix is being deployed to test bed

Rumors

Rumors of National government takeovers of special woods production started circulating in the Caribbean trading circles including live oak and some other trims. Some captains with the connections to the West Indies company and Casa de Contratacion reported that several new woods are being research for use in the ship building. Use of new woods in planking and frame construction is also being considered. Shipyard masters are hesitant to allow making ships with old trims until more information is unveiled . (details)

Fixes

• Important: It now takes some time to destroy stacks of resources in your cargo (current time is 10 sec per stack - it will be increased in the next patch)
• Important: Cargo will now affect speed in the open world (properly) - bugs causing slowdowns eliminated. 
• Alliances tab disabled temporarily until alliance rework
• Victorious port battle defenders now properly receive conquest marks. To receive conquest marks you have to damage any enemy ship (any ship even one ship) above a certain threshold. Empty port battles will not give conquest marks. Conquest mark distribution. 3 for lineship ports, 2 for frigate ports, 1 for shallow ports.
• Several instance crashes bugs fixed
• Repair cool down increased from 10 mins to 15 mins
• Minimal crew requirement lowered on all traders
• Several minor bugs fixed

 

[Hethwill, the Red Duke]

4 minutes ago, Grundgemunkey said:

bermuda planking ....that is a trim ...think you would be better using a wood chip wallpaper in your cabin

layout of planks is a fine art. there's a lot of different arrangements for different purposes. Do not dismiss the idea especially on the Bermuda Sloop types

[Zoky]

First

good patch btw nope

Edited May 4, 2017 by Zoky

[Hethwill, the Red Duke]

5 minutes ago, admin said:

Use of new woods in planking and frame construction is also being considered.

... could be that the planks and the "ribcage" could be made of different wood types in the future... !? Makes 100% sense.

[Jeheil]

?? Repairs timer increased ??

[katerholzig]

only able to do oak planks atm

pls fix it to do more testing ;P

[Tyrdael]

4 minutes ago, Jeheil said:

?? Repairs timer increased ??

Probably because 1(!) guy complained that he needs 50 minutes for a battle? I dont know. I barely make it to the cooldown before the battle is done.

 

Nevertheless, I like the hotfix.

Edited May 4, 2017 by Tyrdael

[Jeheil]

OK so now there are only 2 types of trims...crew space or planking...but there are lots of different types of planking

Bermuda Planking, Mahogany, Teak, Oak, Sabicu (Japanese Suicide Planking I assume) and White Oak.

However in ship crafting you can't make anything other than Oak Planking. The rest don't even click in and arent listed in the Ship Building tab, where only Planks exist and this uses Oak..

[fremen]

Great, another "tocada de huevos" with the wood. What's next? 

[admin]

Just now, fremen said:

Great, another "tocada de huevos" with the wood. What's next? 

are you going to provide feedback in the required form - like whats wrong, why and how would you improve it? Or you going to continue posting useless posts in feedback topics?

[Tyrdael]

Yeah, complaining instead of working with what you have got. I second the wood thing, and I third Red Dukes mentioning of using different materials for structure, planking and maybe even masts to squeeze more individualisation (read: minmaxing :P) out of your ship. 

Edited May 4, 2017 by Tyrdael

[Jeheil]

How does the wood work @admin is it partly implemented yet ?

I have also had some (3) cases where when looting a 'book' from a ship it is rubber banding back to the ships hold I have sunk (and am now looting), this happens several times then of course its interupted as the ship sinks...am I doing something wrong ?

[fremen]

8 minutes ago, admin said:

are you going to provide feedback in the required form - like whats wrong, why and how would you improve it? Or you going to continue posting useless posts in feedback topics?

May be you right and the post is useless. However i spent a lot of time in test bed last weeks so...IMHO can complaining a little eventually. Besides posted some "whats wrong, why and how you improve it" and normally, the silence or the totally ignore was the answer, if any.

[admin]

9 minutes ago, Jeheil said:

 

I have also had some (3) cases where when looting a 'book' from a ship it is rubber banding back to the ships hold I have sunk (and am now looting), this happens several times then of course its interupted as the ship sinks...am I doing something wrong ?

it just sinks too fast.. the sinking time is random right now and maybe too short.. If the ship has already sank on the server you cannot loot it (but you still can see it)

we are increasing sinking time as it is indeed too short to be somewhat useful 

[Sir Texas Sir]

1 minute ago, admin said:

it just sinks too fast.. the sinking time is random right now and maybe too short.. If the ship has already sank on the server you cannot loot it (but you still can see it)

This might be a case of his ping/connection if that is so....being way over in the other side of the world...lol

 

Well since we still don't have the full ship building stuff in game yet I'm just going to keep taking my break.   Really no reason to test ship building when there it isn't all in testbed.   
 

How are ya'll going to make May 15th and still have a descent proper test and bug run in testbed?

 

Can Player AI ships be captured yet?  Was that atleast fixed so I don't loose another full LVG of goods when I recap it back from some one?

[Hethwill, the Red Duke]

18 minutes ago, Jeheil said:

How does the wood work @admin is it partly implemented yet ?

 

Please refer to http://forum.game-labs.net/index.php?/topic/20047-shipbuilding-woods/

 

[Jeheil]

Can we have the altered ship AND cannon stats visible...so if I have a Lion Figure Head and lets say Powder Minkeys (feeling a bit French today) then on the cannon stats page for say a 18pd long it would say Reload Time 58 seconds (-5.8) 52.2 seconds, coz J baby you gone made a machine gun ?

[Tyrdael]

30 minutes ago, admin said:

it just sinks too fast.. the sinking time is random right now and maybe too short.. If the ship has already sank on the server you cannot loot it (but you still can see it)

we are increasing sinking time as it is indeed too short to be somewhat useful 

Maybe extend the sinking time to the end of battle? I cant say if it is too much of server load, though. 

 

Fast edit: The ship counts as sunk after you left/were kicked out of the battle.

 

Fast edit 2: this would also simulate "drifting cargo" as it were.

Edited May 4, 2017 by Tyrdael

[Guest]

1 hour ago, fremen said:

May be you right and the post is useless. However i spent a lot of time in test bed last weeks so...IMHO can complaining a little eventually. Besides posted some "whats wrong, why and how you improve it" and normally, the silence or the totally ignore was the answer, if any.

Now.... That was a lot more helpfull..

[jodgi]

1 hour ago, admin said:

Shipyard masters are hesitant to allow making ships with old trims until more information is unveiled .

You may not be able to provide more info or hipshot ETAs.

People are already throwing fits in global chat and I expect a metric tonne of questions here about the new woods (When, where, how, NAOW!!!!)

[Ratline]

2 minutes ago, jodgi said:

You may not be able to provide more info or hipshot ETAs.

People are already throwing fits in global chat and I expect a metric tonne of questions here about the new woods (When, where, how, NAOW!!!!)

A sound piece of advice would be to not put things in patch notes until they are actually patched... even 'rumours'... maybe I'm just old fashioned.

[Sir Texas Sir]

3 minutes ago, Ratline said:

A sound piece of advice would be to not put things in patch notes until they are actually patched... even 'rumours'... maybe I'm just old fashioned.

Yah it just makes folks assume the worse and than more crap gets spread and more folks get pissed off.   Right now form what I seen in the other ports about the wood types this is very much looking like Fine Woods 2.0.  I'm going to be spending all my time crafting and trading instead of doing any PvP to keep folks in ships like I was back that.   Screw that crap....though we where suppose to make shift crafting easier with the 1 dura so folks can get right back into ships and back into the fight when they get sunk.

[Liq]

2 hours ago, admin said:

Repair cool down increased from 10 mins to 15 mins

yay

[Duncan McFail]

Build strength and elephant figurehead still not adding armor yet. Thank you Farrago for clarification on the speed bug where it shows all ship speeds with the negative of the current ship you are in. I understand it more now.

[Jean Pual Vilvenue]

When will you implement and fix performance issues and optimization in the game ??? You devs scream about asking us what we think, yet you silence them, like me.

I want better CPU optimization for this terribly optimized game what is wrong with that ???