Searching hours for PVP

[admin]

1 hour ago, Aegir said:

Examples being twitch streamers who usually play 5-8 hour non-stop sessions, and then recommending that people go hunting around capitals after completely wrecking capital PvP.

 

If pirate player hunts around British capital, you can sink him around British capital. Reinforcement zones do not affect pirate players near the british capital. So yes you can hunt the hunters there. 

[admin]

1 hour ago, DustyA said:

Say, chief, you got data on how many pvp marks are generated per day? Or which ships are killed most? Which ship kills most? perhaps data by rating? which region see the most actions? which isn't?

Happy new year

you can judge current activity by combat news, as they give the time and position of the kill. It means they are almost certainly in that area.

[DustyTrashenborough]

Just now, admin said:

you can judge current activity by combat news, as they give the time and position of the kill. It means they are almost certainly in that area.

But chief, I'm not on the entire day for it. Besides, your data would be more "official"

[Guest]

20 minutes ago, admin said:

If pirate player hunts around British capital, you can sink him around British capital. Reinforcement zones do not affect pirate players near the british capital. So yes you can hunt the hunters there. 

If.

Why would a pirate ever be hunting around the British capital in the first place when 90% of the Jamaican coastline is protected? It's a logical fallacy.

[IndianaGeoff]

Things were so much better when gank squads were killing anything bigger than a brig inside Charleston Harbor.  Then after a while they were killing Brigs too while telling the US to get better and help the newbs.

[Slim McSauce]

10 hours ago, Sunleader said:

Just do me a Favor and dont go hunting New Players in a Ganking Squad or actually in General....

You might Earn PvP Marks when you use your Indefatigable to kill some Noob in a Surprise.

But if you tell me that you consider that PvP I would rather you found no PvP in this Game....

I actively avoid attacking new players and much smaller ships. But this is kind of where my problem lies, I'm expected to get my PVP around capitals but I thought that's what the introduction of safezones was trying to prevent. I could assemble a large fleet and sail to KPR and ruin the brits day like in the russian stream.

I thought we were trying to move PVP away from capitals and new players, hence a PVP style mission where the two sides who face each other are always PVPers looking for a fight. Like Freeports without the port and only 2 nations. A focal point for PVP that's not a capital.

[vazco]

16 hours ago, admin said:

If you are not a hunter and dont know how to sniff (feel) for targets,  find a fleet and sail to enemy capitals. To hunt players hunting players around capitals. There is always someone hunting dutch waters polish waters british waters and around la tortue

 If a streamer streaming live can get 55 marks for him and 50 for his clanmates LIVE on TV.. you are definitely doing it wrong.

This is true in prime hours, however often finding PvP is an issue. When you stream and you're popular, you're actually getting more PvP. Not everyone can be popular though.

It would be great to at least have some information that in a region you're fighting in there are no enemies... I lost multiple hours hunting around eg. Mortimer or Fort Royal, not being able to find anyone for eg. 2 hours.

To those that search for PvP: join Commonwealth  At least we have PvP coming for us, not the other way around. Still, it's mostly in prime hours.

[vazco]

Btw, some player-launched PvP events would be a great improvement. Eg. a bounty mission close to an open harbour, which you can launch as a player, which creates a zone you can fight in to get some more rewards than usual. This would allow for PvP'ers to be able to find each other easily.

Events created on certain hours had issues, as not everyone could use them.

[Slim McSauce]

9 minutes ago, vazco said:

Btw, some player-launched PvP events would be a great improvement. Eg. a bounty mission close to an open harbour, which you can launch as a player, which creates a zone you can fight in to get some more rewards than usual. This would allow for PvP'ers to be able to find each other easily.

Events created on certain hours had issues, as not everyone could use them.

One idea I like is the ability to broadcast your fleet position, so say you have 25 guys in a group if you want you can put your fleet position on the map like "hey, come and get some"

[Hethwill, the Red Duke]

Use the Bahamas. You will have pvp very fast. RvR very fast. Resources under control. Non stop combat.

Do not fear the roving around less popular coastlines. There's a lot of shipping out of the mainstream areas.

Big squadrons scare the populace back to port. Fairly small squadrons get into fights faster.

[Liq]

Dunno, yesterday evening after the christmas mess with my family etc i decided to log in and see myself. 300 players on when I started at about 1.30 AM. For whatever  bizarre reason I got fight after fight, stayed up til 5.30 AM. Even when there were 180 ish on, I still found fights. Kept looting repairs, kept going. Was a bizarre and fun "evening". Probably just luck tho

[Odol]

Last time I sailed around the Bahamas I sailed from Nassau around Crown, down to Georges Town, back up to Isla Florida, and back to Nassau... I saw a grand total of 3 players... 2 of them in basic cutters, and 1 in a trader brig that immediately went right back to port.  I was in a Snow.

 

 

[Vernon Merrill]

7 hours ago, admin said:

If pirate player hunts around British capital, you can sink him around British capital. Reinforcement zones do not affect pirate players near the british capital. So yes you can hunt the hunters there. 

I cant remember the last Brit I fought near KPR, but I can usually find (too many) players from other nations there looking as well....  Even a smuggler now and then trying to make a run into KPR.

[vazco]

2 hours ago, Hethwill said:

Use the Bahamas. You will have pvp very fast. RvR very fast. Resources under control. Non stop combat.

Do not fear the roving around less popular coastlines. There's a lot of shipping out of the mainstream areas.

Big squadrons scare the populace back to port. Fairly small squadrons get into fights faster.

Whenever I try Bahamas are empty. Not to mention you get less PvP marks there. 

The only reliable place apart from our waters are for me KPR (due to break in projected zone) and FR (as it seems that for some reason French guys sometimes think they're in protected area when they're not) 

[Hethwill, the Red Duke]

Forcing a PB in there will surely attract attention  

[Barbancourt]

2 hours ago, Hethwill said:

Forcing a PB in there will surely attract attention  

That would depend on whether the defenders think they can successfully defend. Otherwise, welcome to yet another empty PB. 

[Hethwill, the Red Duke]

4 hours ago, Barbancourt (rownd) said:

That would depend on whether the defenders think they can successfully defend. Otherwise, welcome to yet another empty PB. 

Er... hostility missions are open for 90 minutes... the defenders can invade the missions and then pvp happens. Maybe I was not clear with "forcing a PB", was more like "raising hostility alarm".

[Capn Rocko]

Definitely no PvP...

[Macjimm]

This thread is reassuring.  It is comforting to know that players can find PvP if they know where to look and at the same time there are areas in the OW that are quiet.  Sounds like NA is a more balanced game than one with PVP everywhere,  all of the time.

Edited December 27, 2017 by Macjimm

[Urchin]

On 12/26/2017 at 12:24 PM, admin said:

you are doing it wrong

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/212420058

watch this guy - non stop pvp + epic event today (with couple of rarest books farmed in it + permits). He is in top 10 in pvp almost every day. Today He ended up with 55 PVP marks (all streamed live) and his clanmates got another 50

Almost eight hours!  Not surprising the player is Top Ten in PVP almost every day from such a small player base.

Obviously no wife and kids to struggle against daily for free time when you want to play NA for just an hour uninterrupted let alone eight.  

 

[Hethwill, the Red Duke]

It is a game, a leisure time activity. Comparatives about real life choices is moot as each one is free to make own choices about what to do with leisure time.

None of us players has the slightest idea of what other players do in leisure time unless they are playing NA.

If you are playing NA, grab your ships and engage the enemy or do whatever you like to do.

[Urchin]

6 hours ago, Hethwill said:

If you are playing NA, grab your ships and engage the enemy or do whatever you like to do.

Hmmm.. Unfortunately that often sees some of the players from the PVP leaderboard (or those trying to get on it) frequently camped at capital ports in super ships with near impunity clubbing new players and traders to keep their names in lights at the top.  

A positive for the game would be to abolish the arcade score board. 

[Seraphic Radiance]

1 guy posts pictures of pvp marks and everyone else is dancing around him even chief is there. Can't be better than this. I sailed from Georges Town to Aves along the coast all I could find was 1  player cutter , 1 trader lynx. Same boring NPC fleets, no variety. Empty long boring sail. There is no visible change to OS speeds, npc content, events, or player activity. Whatever devs doing is not bringing life to NA. 

Edited December 27, 2017 by Seraphic Radiance

[Slim McSauce]

7 minutes ago, Seraphic Radiance said:

1 guy posts pictures of pvp marks and everyone else is dancing around him even chief is there. Can't be better than this. I sailed from Georges Town to Aves along the coast all I could find was 1  player cutter , 1 trader lynx. Same boring NPC fleets, no variety. Empty long boring sail. There is no visible change to OS speeds, npc content, events, or player activity. Whatever devs doing is not bringing life to NA. 

There's only a very select few places where you can find PVP consistently.

[Odol]

32 minutes ago, Slim Jimmerson said:

There's only a very select few places where you can find PVP consistently.

Then why have an OW sailing game if there is ONLY a couple of places to fight at?