Patch 30: Combat and boarding feedback

[Angus MacDuff]

23 minutes ago, Vernon Merrill said:

I suppose the workaround is to try and find enough “PvP missions” to cover most targets.  

Power-gamers can ruin anything.

As I generally hunt players in 5th & 6th rates I always have those mission ongoing.  Plus, I have 8 search and destroy missions for the various 5th rates that I see the most.  Those can be accomplished as either PVE or PVP.  If the rewards are increased, I can certainly keep up on CM's.  I still don't see how the OP on the closed thread thought 5 was a high KD.  Pirate nation routinely shows KD's of over ten.  (mind you, my KD went from 18 last week to 1 this week and I've only died once.....not sure I understand it.)

[Serk]

At best, France as a nation is in hibernation right now. Most pvp oriented players are now gone to Russia until final release. That is if they ever come back to France. 

You don’t see large groups of French camping Jamaica or Charlestown. That would explain the low stats.

We can’t even gather 8 players regularly to fight Swedes camping in front of Fort Royal. 

Anyway, it seems he was right about the suspected alt farmer, as admin is taking action against it. You should thank him instead

 

Back on topic, I wasn’t aware those PvP mission implied sinking 10 different or unique captains. Sinking the same player twice can also happen via legitimate means, but whatever needs to be done to prevent the alt farming is fine with me. 

Edited April 23, 2019 by Serk

[Baptiste Gallouédec]

If taking a pvp combat mission for each ship-class become mandatory  to gain medals, make those not count in the 10 max missions we can pick please, cause this leave too few slots for delivery & group missions.

 

 

[Angus MacDuff]

3 minutes ago, Baptiste Gallouédec said:

If taking a pvp combat mission for each ship-class become mandatory  to gain medals, make those not count in the 10 max missions we can pick please, cause this leave too few slots for delivery & group missions.

 

 

There are too few slots already.  I could use another 10.

[Zlatkowar]

There's one thing about combat mechanism that is unrealistic AF. It's nothing new, it has been there for a while and I have just learned to live with it and be careful about it.

A friend of mine in an undercrewed USS (Post Captain) fought an AI USS. He did well, and at the end of the fight, while the enemy ship was sinking, he got closer to prepare for looting. And of course, AI boarded him, which in turn stopped the sinking mechanism until the boarding was over. Sad way to lose a purple ship, especially when you fought well.

I tend to think that first AI should not be boarding ready when it's sinking, and then if you manage to defend yourself long enough till it sinks you should be able to make it out alive...

What is the purpose of stopping the sinking mechanism when boarding starts?

[Sparkydog]

If you are a captain of a sinking ship-it seems like it would be a good idea to grapple a nearby enemy and lash yourself to him.  Ideally you would cap him and live vs going down with your ship? Then you cut away the sinking ship and sail off to the nearest port tavern and celebrate. 

[Farrago]

5 hours ago, Vernon Merrill said:

Well this is heartbreaking:

We tried to give this the chance once again but it seems that unique steam ID tracking in missions is the best way to close al potential loopholes. 
It is better to do it before release so we never have to come back to these issues ever again. Even one person farming can ruin the impression on the overall system, thus such loopholes must be closed. 

As a result

• Combat medals will no longer be provided for OW kills. They will only be granted for missions/orders and patrols completion. As missions require to sink unique captains (and track steam ID) it is impossible or very very hard to farm combat medals on alts
• Rewards for missions will be increased accordingly.  

I had not seen when @admin said that. It's such a big mistake to punish the huge percentage of players just doing PVP and now will be basically unrewarded if they don't have the right mission or just never see enough combat. All because of the few who might waste their time farming their alts.

Seriously, does anyone care if Captain Joe Blow gets a ship permit or mod he didn't deserve?!? Basically this is a message that since he doesn't deserve the reward, no one does. 

[angriff]

There is a big problem with this server in the instance.  Friendly players will warp towards other friendly entering about 200 yards.   Having a broadside loaded and aiming when other player suddenly entered.  The player being aimed at suddenly moves to the opposite side about 200 yards off.   

[James Thomson]

@Admin You wanted to reduce the last second action change. But it is still quite easy to predict what enemy is doing when you see the numbers and morale usage of your enemy. I can still bretty much do with same efficency than before, capture by rage boarding. You need to hide more of the indicators. Also AI is still using its routine commands, if one has learned the AIs skill predictment its quite easy to board and attack/brace/attack still.

Edited May 6, 2019 by James Thomson

[Zlatkowar]

It's a shame you closed down the general feedback thread. And it's also a shame you have increased buildings price in dubs tenfold. I know it's for testing purpose, I know there's nothing final, I know it is subject to change just as with rare woods price. But please. Communicate. It looks like we've reached the point where your smart changes are about to drive away the last RL friend I brought back to this game. Shipyard Level 2 at 25k dubs... Well done guys. Good job.

"Yes but we're so hardcore yknow" #thuglife. Wow. I am so impressed by your fictional badassness, I'm litterally shivering.

I give no importance to my small clan or myself. I am nothing. But consider this for a sec : Out of the 6 potential players that bought your game, we were down to 2 players, and finally, I'm again the only one left. Out of 6 people. Now imagine the same on a wider scale. Imagine if those complaints were heard, confirmed, taken care of... Imagine if you left some space for other play styles? Something tells me that the pop could be triple of what it currently is. But maybe that's not what you are looking for.

Either way. It would be great if you could get a competent community manager to drive this small community with, say, regular updates on heated topics.

[Zlatkowar]

20 hours ago, Vernon Merrill said:

The incessant whining grows tiresome....  

Crazy how things could be very easily contained or even solved with a bit of communication eh? Who would have thought.

[Vernon Merrill]

Crazy how every Tom, Dick and Harry believe they're entitled to have their ideas given any credence by game developers, eh?  Who would have thought.

[Capitalism]

2 hours ago, Vernon Merrill said:

Crazy how every Tom, Dick and Harry believe they're entitled to have their ideas given any credence by game developers, eh?  Who would have thought.

When they present good ideas that improve every way on what’s currently in the game... why wouldn’t they like them considered?  We paid for Early Access for a reason right?

[Slim McSauce]

ebin sAUce ple :DDD

[Guest]

5 hours ago, Vernon Merrill said:

Crazy how every Tom, Dick and Harry believe they're entitled to have their ideas given any credence by game developers, eh?  Who would have thought.

If you cant handle other players opinion vernon dont comment toxic stuff in return please. People are entitled to have their opinion, the devs can choose if they want to listen to it or not, but the way you speak to people doesent make it better. 

Thank you.. 

Edited May 17, 2019 by Guest

[Liq]

So now its possible to disable survival in boarding. I think that needs to get rolled back, for obvious reasons.

[van der Clam]

5 hours ago, Liq said:

So now its possible to disable survival in boarding. I think that needs to get rolled back, for obvious reasons.

To fire brackets during a boarding or not to. Personally, imo, we should have been able to turn off survival a long time ago. And imo, we should have a scuttle option.

[Nooop]

On 4/23/2019 at 6:07 AM, Zlatkowar said:

I tend to think that first AI should not be boarding ready when it's sinking

John Paul Jones