3 circle system in PB = The kiting is back

[Hethwill, the Red Duke]

Maybe...if all ships leave the circle unattended the circle control meter starts dropping...

[Captain Reverse]

A small fix maybe needed. But the DLC ships are not a guarantee of victory.

use more imagination

PB for Turneffe

[Teutonic]

2 hours ago, Captain Reverse said:

A small fix maybe needed. But the DLC ships are not a guarantee of victory.

use more imagination

PB for Turneffe

a Port Battle of 5000BR or more? sure, you've got enough line-ships there and enough BR to render the DLC ships "less useful."

now try it in a port with 2,400-2,600 BR. the difference is crazy

[Sir Texas Sir]

1 hour ago, Teutonic said:

a Port Battle of 5000BR or more? sure, you've got enough line-ships there and enough BR to render the DLC ships "less useful."

now try it in a port with 2,400-2,600 BR. the difference is crazy

Honestly we have way to many deep water ports in that range.  There should be a few none important ports so small clans can claim and hold but not half the ports out there

[King of Crowns]

11 hours ago, admin said:

Players pick the best options for them (sometimes the best option is to not play).

Not in any serious fleet. they pick what the commanders tell them to bring. and in most fleets they are usually premade ships that are passed out or assigned before the battles. 

[vazco]

On 8/27/2018 at 1:00 AM, Christendom said:

Group with the most DLC ships wins.  This was a deep water PB mind you.  After last night however, it feels like justice.  

@admin are these the type of dynamic deep water PBs you wanted?

Meta which I predicted over a month ago is finally here.

 

16 hours ago, admin said:

Players pick the best options for them (sometimes the best option is to not play).
We will tune BRs based on the battle performance this august patch with 1-2 ships.
We will see if the things change

There is concern that they wont - and the issue might have more to do with convenience. 
These screens remind me the times when 3rd rates could be captured and all port battles were full of captured 3rd rates, despite the fact there were better alternatives  -generating a lot of comments here on the forums. We fixed it then but not sure if it was a good idea to fix as we dont know how many players lost desire to go to port battles at all by our removal of capture of 3rd rates. 

It's definitely not the reason of convenience to bring DLC ships to PB's. You can have only one DLC ship, which means you need to use a tow. In the same time every player from this list could craft himself, or have his clan craft, any PB ship without any problems. 

 

Those ships are cancer of the game. They already plague protected zones - players get killed by them next to forts and with reinforcements in battle. Now it's time of PB's to be ruined. Why sail 20 different types of ships, when everyone can sail DLC ones?

Edited August 28, 2018 by vazco