Big patch coming during next 1,5 week

[Salty Sails]

Hello captains, yesterday during the twitch stream, gamelabstv gave us some infos about the new upcoming patch during the next 1,5 weeks!

Don‘t know what is coming from the following points they talked about.

-new patrolzone only for frigates

-second patrolzone for shallows

-item for change the name ingame( maybe dlc) or maybe something like the perk reset

- something about a clanlog, I think for clanwarehouse

something about a new ship called: Hercules?! 

What should they change too, or what could change... feel free to discuss...

 

 

[VirtuallyIdiotic]

 

Would also be nice to see a change to what you can get for victory marks.

Edited April 3, 2018 by Davos Trashworth

[Atreides]

9 minutes ago, Salty Sails said:

-new patrolzone only for frigates   Excellent, would be nice to see

-second patrolzone for shallows   Awesome, curious to know exactly where

-item for change the name ingame( maybe dlc) or maybe something like the perk reset  May be a good thing, allow someone to fix their name.  Have seen guys with names that are just annoying.  Names such as  ex. Slapahobigdick, hello kittyenstein etc

- something about a clanlog, I think for clanwarehouse  Very good, and about time, this is a tool that is sorely needed for any clan larger than 3 people

something about a new ship called: Hercules?!   Yes, another ship!  Always enjoy sailing new ships

What should they change too, or what could change... feel free to discuss...

 

 

 

[Salty Sails]

13 minutes ago, Intrepido said:

The Hercules may be the french ship of the line of the temerarie class.

I really hope they invest some time in making RvR a bit more appealing. NA must be the only game in which end game (PB) gives almost no rewards.

Sure that it is a SoL???

If i remember right, it was called frigate in the stream, but maybe i m wrong, don’t know...

[Urchin]

32 minutes ago, Salty Sails said:

-new patrolzone only for frigates

-second patrolzone for shallows

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Potential here to completely kill off open world hunting.

[Salty Sails]

6 minutes ago, William Wade said:

Potential here to completely kill off open world hunting.

You will always find some solo players in frigates or SoL, who are sailing in this area. 

But if you are only looking for trader hunting, you should know the important ports( rare woods for shipbuilding, expensive tradingresources, high daily taxes), then you have to find the trading route and you need luck to be in right time and place to find players with a full loaded indiaman or lgv! 

But, it’s not impossible to find enemies on open seas.

[seanjo]

Does that mean that perks reset will have to be paid for?

[Salty Sails]

2 minutes ago, seanjo said:

Does that mean that perks reset will have to be paid for?

No, I just said, that I m not sure, if the name change ingame will be available with combat marks like the perk reset or the name change will be part of a dlc....

[Jim Beamreach]

2 minutes ago, seanjo said:

Does that mean that perks reset will have to be paid for?

I hope not. But when then fleetcontrol 1 shoud be standart plus 5 perks to select. 

[BallsOfSteel]

PB Defence of shallows limited to shallow water ships. sick of going to a shallow pb to get ganked on the way by the usual suspects in endys at best.

[Corona Lisa]

1 hour ago, William Wade said:

Potential here to completely kill off open world hunting.

Its one small zone per day man. If thats enough to kill OW hunting then maybe OW hunting just sucks?

[Sven Silberbart]

On 3.4.2018 at 7:36 AM, William Wade said:

Potential here to completely kill off open world hunting.

 

On 3.4.2018 at 9:23 AM, Jon Snow lets go said:

Its one small zone per day man. If thats enough to kill OW hunting then maybe OW hunting just sucks?

 

Hmmm. open world hunting and pirate life has already been killed. But there are more reasons..

- huge open world with low population

- big reinforcement zones, without no need to go out

- forts and towers everywhere

- patrol zones are just another reason on the top

Edited April 5, 2018 by Sven Silberbart

[Sir Texas Sir]

5 hours ago, Salty Sails said:

Hello captains, yesterday during the twitch stream, gamelabstv gave us some infos about the new upcoming patch during the next 1,5 weeks!

Don‘t know what is coming from the following points they talked about.

-new patrolzone only for frigates It's needed cause bring in SOL's kinda defeats the purpose of it being a zone you can bring in cheap ships and fight folks over and over with.  SOL's aren't affordable for most folks to risk in smaller groups so they don't bring them.

-second patrolzone for shallows Second zone would be interesting.  I was thinking that would suck to have in the Bahamas, but than I thought about those shallows over in the Gulf of Mexico maybe?  Give more reason for folks to use that area.

-item for change the name ingame( maybe dlc) or maybe something like the perk reset Ithink DLC so to discourage folks from changing there names all the time to troll folks. Maybe buy once and just like the nation change can change name once a month.  I would more just prefer a one shot item where if I change nations I can change the name too if I want something more for that nations I'm new to.

- something about a clanlog, I think for clanwarehouse It was hinted in a post that it will be a log of the mats coming and going and the deposited money, but we told them it needs to be both ways on the money too.  That will be very helpfull as just last night we had some one take 1.2 million out our banks and not say something.  We had plenty of money but if every one took a million here and there soon we would have nothing.  

something about a new ship called: Hercules?! Under the API info it has the same BR as the Cerberus.  They mention you got a premium Cerberus when you grade from the tutorial, maybe this ship would be that spot instead as a way to introduce a new ship?

What should they change too, or what could change... feel free to discuss...

 

 

 

Edited April 3, 2018 by Sir Texas Sir

[Salty Sails]

19 minutes ago, Sir Texas Sir said:

 

 Under the API info it has the same BR as the Cerberus.  They mention you got a premium Cerberus when you grade from the tutorial, maybe this ship would be that spot instead as a way to introduce a new ship?

I think, this could be the misterious ship! 

Something like an 32 cannon frigate! Sounds for me like the BR of the Cerberus.

[victor]

Some words by devs would be highly apreciated

[Nelsons Barrel]

33 minutes ago, Salty Sails said:

 Under the API info it has the same BR as the Cerberus.  They mention you got a premium Cerberus when you grade from the tutorial, maybe this ship would be that spot instead as a way to introduce a new ship?

I think, this could be the misterious ship! 

Something like an 32 cannon frigate! Sounds for me like the BR of the Cerberus.

I guess it would be this one here: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hércules_(1814)

[fox2run]

1 hour ago, Sven Silberbart said:

 

 

Hmmm. open world hunting and pirate life has already been killed. But there are more reasons..

- huge open world with low population

- big reinforcement zones, without a need to go out

- forts and towers everywhere

- patrol zones are just another reason on the top

Hmmm.  Even though some consider my posts as trolling, I will still argue that many things worked better when we had:

 

1) Cheaper multi dura ships and capturable AI ships of all levels

2) Open battles without limitations 

3) Nation based gameplay instead of clanbased. 

Minor adjustments could be made to this model. Now it's like every patch is medicine rescuing a dying patient.

The best ROE would have been placing the reinforcement further away as time progresses. Land in battles makes this impossible however. 

Consider the importance of land in battles over a good ROE. 

Traders and economical players didn't like cheap ships. PvP guys like that however. Instead of making ships expensive something else should matter for the trading guys. Paints, upgrades etc.

Clans are good for tactical reasons but I doubt they will be sustainable as a backbone for a game. Nations is a better frame as they involve casual players more.

 

[victor]

1 hour ago, Salty Sails said:

 Under the API info it has the same BR as the Cerberus.  They mention you got a premium Cerberus when you grade from the tutorial, maybe this ship would be that spot instead as a way to introduce a new ship?

I think, this could be the misterious ship! 

Something like an 32 cannon frigate! Sounds for me like the BR of the Cerberus.

Since  cerberus is one of the least used ship ingame, a new cerberus-like ship (if it has not some nice tweak) is not such a great addition to the roster.

Edited April 3, 2018 by victor

[Sir Texas Sir]

1 hour ago, Nelsons Barrel said:

I guess it would be this one here: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hércules_(1814)

That so far looks like the best option for  the ship since all the HMS Hercules where 74 gun ships.   It's stated as being US or Russian built but doesn't seem there would be plans for it if they don't know who built it.  Maybe it's just a test ship they never finished.  Though having something like an Argentina ship would be interesting or even a proteges.  I can see them doing the main in game ships of the main nations, but have some premium ships from other nations or variants of the main ships sailed by other nations with there own set paints.

58 minutes ago, RKY said:

spoiler alert.

 

probably will be nerfed to 5th rate

Armament	4 guns of 24 pounds  8 guns of 18 pounds  12 guns of 8 lbs  6 guns of 6 lbs  6 guns stone

The 24 lbs and 18 are carros, while I assume the 12 8's would be our in game 9 lbs.   Would be intrested if they did the split deck thing like the prince on this ship.  While it might have 4 decks on papper you put the cannons on, but the model has it spread out so it's two types of cannons per deck.   

Remember the Cerberus is a 26 gun frigate and the Reno is a 30 gun so this would prob sit right between those two ships. Looking at the stats it seems like a more heavy gun (though lighter) Cerburas but that is more nimble and about the same HP.   If that crew stays the same it would be like the Wasa with a lot of guns but not all the crew needed to man them.   Whic would be it's weak point.  Light ship version of a H.  Rattler than.

45 minutes ago, victor said:

Since  cerberus is one of the least used ship ingame, a new cerberus-like ship (if it has not some nice tweak) is not such a great addition to the roster.

Says how?  I seen tons of folks still use this ship for PvP and other things.  Maybe not for the PvE guys, but there are ueses for the smaller ships and it's getting more and more seen with the BR limits of RvR battles where you can squeeze just one more ship in if it's smaller.

[Gregory Rainsborough]

I had so much fun in the deep water PB in my snow though

[Sir Texas Sir]

2 minutes ago, rediii said:

I just throw my thought into that thread

 

Shallow ship that will be new pb meta 

I would love to have more reason to have mix fleets.  Like some ports have the third circle in a shallow area that only light frigates or shallow ships can get into.   With Unity 5 they honestly have no excuse as they can extend the land under certain parts of the battle maps to rep shallows in game battle.

[Sir Texas Sir]

1 minute ago, Gregory Rainsborough said:

I had so much fun in the deep water PB in my snow though

 I think one of the battles that got screened out or didn't show we had plans to bring something like 6-8 Princes for one reason.  To circle jerk the crap out of the big ships that can hardly hit them.  Yah one good broad side and they prob be sunk but as long as you have more Princes in the circle than they have ships your owning that circle....we might still try it again on a fun port battle for a deep water that doesn't matter.  Just like we joke about bring all mortar brigs on both side and last man wins.  Only rule is after we get in place and first shot fired you can't move other than to get in target range again.

[Thonys]

23 minutes ago, Sir Texas Sir said:

That so far looks like the best option for  the ship since all the HMS Hercules where 74 gun ships.   It's stated as being US or Russian built but doesn't seem there would be plans for it if they don't know who built it.  Maybe it's just a test ship they never finished.  Though having something like an Argentina ship would be interesting or even a proteges.  I can see them doing the main in game ships of the main nations, but have some premium ships from other nations or variants of the main ships sailed by other nations with there own set paints.

Armament	4 guns of 24 pounds  8 guns of 18 pounds  12 guns of 8 lbs  6 guns of 6 lbs  6 guns stone

The 24 lbs and 18 are carros, while I assume the 12 8's would be our in game 9 lbs.   Would be intrested if they did the split deck thing like the prince on this ship.  While it might have 4 decks on papper you put the cannons on, but the model has it spread out so it's two types of cannons per deck.   

Remember the Cerberus is a 26 gun frigate and the Reno is a 30 gun so this would prob sit right between those two ships. Looking at the stats it seems like a more heavy gun (though lighter) Cerburas but that is more nimble and about the same HP.   If that crew stays the same it would be like the Wasa with a lot of guns but not all the crew needed to man them.   Whic would be it's weak point.  Light ship version of a H.  Rattler than.

Says how?  I seen tons of folks still use this ship for PvP and other things.  Maybe not for the PvE guys, but there are ueses for the smaller ships and it's getting more and more seen with the BR limits of RvR battles where you can squeeze just one more ship in if it's smaller.

sound more like some sort of  the heavy rattle we have already

find it strange it is the 6 rate first instead of the promised (yes promised ) dutch ship first

very very odd..

Edited April 3, 2018 by Thonys

[victor]

19 minutes ago, Sir Texas Sir said:

Says how?  I seen tons of folks still use this ship for PvP and other things.  Maybe not for the PvE guys, but there are ueses for the smaller ships and it's getting more and more seen with the BR limits of RvR battles where you can squeeze just one more ship in if it's smaller.

We play different games, it seems.

I NEVER saw a Cerberus nor in OS  PVP neither in screening or port battles. I just saw newbies grinding low level missions in it.

Besides the fact that any decent captain in a carro Niagara (lower battle rating and shallow water ship) will make a quick work of a cerberus.

Edited April 3, 2018 by victor

[victor]

7 minutes ago, Gregory Rainsborough said:

I had so much fun in the deep water PB in my snow though

now it's all clear

you tried to build an empire on snow(s) .... that melted as soon as spring came