Timber Feedback Thread - PINNED

[derekticus]

@admin Is there any chance the Exotic Woods will be an Item Players can Invest in at their Ports?  Meaning Investing to gain a Rangoon Forest at a certain Port, for example.

This way Players can gain control over access to the Exotic Woods in ways OTHER than a crazed, buy Contract bidding war.

PS -  Thanks for the fresh changes to the Woods.

[Sea Archer]

Imo all woods should be available to all players, so not connected to a few ports.

There is no need to have an easy access to them, still the chances should be the same.

Therefore I suggest to put them on traders or treasure fleets that will randomly sail across the map.

[Conte D. Catellani]

Why not make a sort of app for smartphone/browser to manage trade? 

I'm this was we could save time moving stuff from a port to an other, crafting woods, iron, coal and so on, placing contract, selling ships or cannons and so on. Little things that you can do when you are going to work on metro, before sleeping, in the toilet. 

[DDZ_Vasduten]

Seriously @admin 
Is there any chance wood prices and/or labor hours will get an adjustment?

I went to see what it would cost me to build a Rangoon Teak/Rangoon Teak Indefatigable and it was like 19.5kk.

For an Indefatigable. 
It's just too high all over. Nobody wants to sail trade for hours to build a ship that will probably get sunk anyway. It's just painful at this point.
I have a few T(s)/WO(s) or T(s)/T(s) that are 2/3 what they used to be for durability and speed, and the costs for the whole process are just prohibitive to the extreme.
 

If a player who has all but TWO DLCs can't manage to build ships more efficiently than now, how is a new player supposed to manage this? They go out after gaining enough rank to crew a 4th or 5th rate and they're going to come against tier three wood ships with premium mods and it's FrankenFrigate all over again. Not much has changed... the wealthy clans all have no trouble with building really nice ships out of tier three woods... but the rest of us are out here eating turds and still having to grind it out for hours to make that happen.

Any relief in sight at all?

I really do like the changes that have come so far aside from this, and I'm optimistic about the sail shadow and gunnery updates but MAN! The wood!!!

[DDZ_Vasduten]

Teak is 500 reals per log to harvest... even after it's level 3 and you've paid through the nose to get the farm upgraded.

Sabicu is cheaper... but why? It's a heavier wood... why should it cost less to harvest? 

Please... I'm begging... lower the cost of teak to 200/log, or at least the same cost as sabicu. 


The overall cost of this wood including harvesting AND transporting it all... labor and reals and just plain TIME sailing a couple thousand logs around is just too much.

 

Edited August 28, 2020 by DDZ_Vasduten