All this fireship talk about basic cutters, I just want to know where is my dang GUNBOAT?

[Sir Texas Sir]

As the title says where is the gunboat in game.  They even had an API skin titled fireship in game.  When will we get these back into game?

@admin So what is up with the gunboats?

[Sir Lancelot Holland]

Undergoing refit to become fire ships?

 

[Hodo]

I do miss the gunboat, even though I only used mine to chase trader lynxes. 

[Sir Texas Sir]

Funny thing is pre-wipe I tested a blue fireship on one....it didn't work out to well.  I went into instant fireshock as all 40 crew went into survival and I had to keep them there or blow up.  I got the fire out and didn't blow, but didn't seem to effective.  

[Prater]

Just posted a "bring back gunboats" video yesterday.

 

Edited June 20, 2017 by Prater

[admin]

gun boat will return! i promise
 

[Sir Texas Sir]

Just now, admin said:

gun boat will return! i promise
 

Yah I was one of the only active players to have the BP on PvP2 so I miss the little fun bastard.  I prob sunk more in that ship  alone than all the other ships combine, but it was fun to just play with and take a break from other things.  Make it soon please.

[admin]

1 hour ago, Sir Texas Sir said:

As the title says where is the gunboat in game.  They even had an API skin titled fireship in game.  When will we get these back into game?

@admin So what is up with the gunboats?

We had to remove several ships. even those that were not supposed to even be premium ships due to unity engine limitations. Gunboat was one of them. 
They will be back once we port the game to unity 5 (as unity 4.6 does not allow us to add any ships at all anymore). In form of admiralty ships, or reward ships or quest line awards. 

[Sir Texas Sir]

That is good to know as I loved the Niagara and the Rattler and even the Heavy Rattler.  I know I'm prob one of the few that enjoyed the old Ingermanland too.  This will prob make a lot of folks happy when they return in the future.  

[TommyShelby]

1 hour ago, admin said:

We had to remove several ships. even those that were not supposed to even be premium ships due to unity engine limitations. Gunboat was one of them. 
They will be back once we port the game to unity 5 (as unity 4.6 does not allow us to add any ships at all anymore). In form of admiralty ships, or reward ships or quest line awards. 

Any idea when you'll port the game to Unity 5? 

The "new" version has some pretty handy features that i imagine you could take advantage of in NA. However most importantly the new has muuuuch better perfomance in certain cases. 
This could open so many doors!  

Perhaps we might see some of the long wanted details?! (Variable winds, Storms in battles, guns moving in and out of the ship when firing aka. "Recoil", more realistic sails)
- Or maybe you will wait till NA 2 with that (Which is fine, NA is the most beautiful Age of Sail game i've ever seen.) 

But we are allowed to dream  

[William Death]

2 hours ago, admin said:

We had to remove several ships. even those that were not supposed to even be premium ships due to unity engine limitations. Gunboat was one of them. 
They will be back once we port the game to unity 5 (as unity 4.6 does not allow us to add any ships at all anymore). In form of admiralty ships, or reward ships or quest line awards. 

@admin, is the Ingermanland also one of these ships you had to remove due to limitations? I really hope she will be back in game for players to craft. It is my favorite fourth rate. And what of Wapen von Hamburg? Will she return in the future?

[Lobster2.0]

When you port game, will Essex have bow guns ?)

[Daguse]

3 hours ago, admin said:

We had to remove several ships. even those that were not supposed to even be premium ships due to unity engine limitations. Gunboat was one of them. 
They will be back once we port the game to unity 5 (as unity 4.6 does not allow us to add any ships at all anymore). In form of admiralty ships, or reward ships or quest line awards. 

@adminOMG yes! Projected time line on this? 

If you can't say, just wink once for this quarter, or twice for this year... 3 times if longer .

Edited June 20, 2017 by Daguse

[surfimp]

Why do I have the horrible feeling the Rattlesnake is also affected by this.

Shucks.