DLC Issue: Paint shop

[Donjuan Dimarco]

Dear Admin,

I bought your DLC Naval Action Paint. And I have to realize that some of the ships are not craftable anymore because there are no permits to buy for in admiralty store (for ex. Bellona). But there are still paints available due to the DLC which I cannot use by these circumstances. I hope that you will bring in the permits into the admiralty store back asap.

Greetings Don

[Marquês do Bonfim]

Right now permits usually drops from Gold Chests, you can get them from missions and epic events, it's RNG though so it's not really 100% guarantee that you'll get one. Other methods to get a Bellona right now is buying one from the ship auction in ports.

[z4ys]

So while you bought the paint dlc any ship that is included has to be spawn with the paint as well ?

[Marquês do Bonfim]

It's a paint DLC, not a ship DLC. You're paying for the paint schemes, not the ships. If you don't wanna grind to get a ship, you can simply grind money and buy them in ports, specially capitals and county capitals where there's always ships for sale.

If you don't want that, you can simply craft ships, but for that you need the permits + resources, which makes your grind even bigger. If not, whenever you get the ship you want, you can always have a paint scheme for it. Nothing is handle to you, you gotta grind to get things.

[Marquês do Bonfim]

Also ship notes that used to be available at the admiralty are also being tweaked and shall return to the game in the future, right now you can't get them as you could before, but I'm pretty sure the devs will bring this back once it's tweaked.

[Donjuan Dimarco]

Would be nice getting a statement from devs team

[Sir Lancelot Holland]

There is of course always the option of contracting for a ship to be crafted, there are players who enjoy crafting ships around who I am certain would be happy devoting some of their time to crafting bespoke ships for other players.  

It may well be that crafting may have to be looked at again to create a better environment for Crafter's, almost certainly the eco would have to be reviewed as well.

In real life Harland and Wolfe built some of the most famous ships in maritime history, for the White Star Line they even built at cost price + 10% which was in  the early 1900's a very good deal without which the somewhat ill-fated Olympic class passenger liners would never have been built, so with a little integrity even 1st rates would not be prohibitively expensive, but, still conceivably, rare enough to maintain a good ratio between ships of the line and  lower rated ships, yet, permit discretion by owners of the most powerful ships in their usage. The greatest advantage of course to cost+ building is that the crafter is guaranteed some profit for his/her labour, and, the consumer gets what he/she wants at an affordable price known in advance.

There is, I think always a risk that some items will not be used, and, that is true of both the flag and paint DLC's , due to personal preferences, and justification for purchase, or not, is very much individual choice, in that regard neither choice is wrong.