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Just recently had to go through two mother boards cause of this. Luckily it didn’t mess the cpu, but still wasn’t a cheap option to replace on a brand new top of the line system. Still cheaper than replacing the GPU I thought burnt out.

I did like the faction suggestion that @admin made a good while ago as a way to help nations work together and fight other stronger nations. The only big changes I would make is below. IMPOSSIBLE NATIONS: This is currently Russia, Poland, Prussia and China. They are just that, the hard core of the hard core. You get no capital, you have all your ports taken away, you are playing hard core mode and no one likes you. All factions are at war with you. These nations are more about PvP and just being a thorn in side of other nations. Maybe put a cap on the number of ports they can each own so there isn't a zerg like we have right now of them. I would say no more than 10 ports per nation (could be bumped up to say 20). This game was suppose to be about the core nations not these nations that honestly never had historical influence in this region during the time period. Other nations could be added in the future to this group. CORE NATIONS: This is French, Dutch, Dane, GB, US, Spain, Swede. You have 7 nations, but only three factions. The two strongest nations will randomly get one week nation as it's faction member. The three middle nations will be part of there own faction.. The way you can do this is take the top two nations lets say French and Dutch in that order. Than take the bottom two Spain and Swede. French number one will be paired up with Swede the lowest nation. Dutch would be Paired up with Spin. Dane, GB, US will be part of there own faction. This kinda balances nations to be some what equal and we can go off the ports owned (or points since some ports are better than others.) Main RvR should be about these nations not the others. I wouldn't do a map wipe, but have every 3-4 months have a winner. The winner nation gets some prize, I would make it a tier thing like how POTBS did, so winning got 3, middle got 2 and looser got 1 or something of what every it is. Than switch the nations around for the next 3-4 months. Maybe give weakest nations a bonus to XP or something. This will hopefully have nations rotating in and out of the middle group as some get more powerful and others weak. Pirates: Good old pirates. Lets make them actually like pirates. Bring back the way to become a pirate is by attacking your own nation. I would even go as far as removing them from chargen. If you get tired of being a pirate you can always delete your char or use forge papers (a pardon per say). every one (nations) hates pirates so they aren't allowed to join any factions. In fact bring back FFA battles as even other pirates hate each other. This is suppose to be a hard core faction of it's own mainly for PvPer's of the OW. I would even go as far as remove them from RvR totally and only give them a few spread out perm ports they can work out of. While they can still have Mort as a captial they have own not other ports in that area. The ports they have perm are mainly shallow ports are pirate havens, Rudy Cove, Morgans Bay, etc etc that was traditionally used as such. We have enough shallow ports spread out all over the map to give them a place all over. Pirate havens are like free towns but only pirates can set up out post there, do crafting (workshops and maybe forges) and they are limited to only level 2 shipyards (after all it's shallow ports so can always say even limit it to level 1's). I mean lets be honest lets make pirates what they truely are. I will jump at a heart beat to return being a pirate if they where changed to this. Pirates should not be easy, they should gain there goods from OW conflict for the most part. Yes I know folks will have alts, but who cares let them if they pay for them. I think over all a lot of us would like some form of Dev control factions so that there can be a balance made in the game which we do not have currently.

and what irks a lot of folks is they had given out notes of the ship so folks can redeem them and use them early on. Though this was suppose cause of bugs found or suggestions made, but it's funny it's all ways the same guys that get them early. While the rest of us where risking our good ships to get something half decent or nothing at all. IN fact one clan mate lost three ships trying to get notes and a half decent Reyuter which he never did. He didn't loose them to AI, he lost them to folks ganking AI's or returning to port low on repairs and crew after fighting elite ships that don't get elite rewards. I was jumped twice, but told the guys I just got off 12 hour shift, sailed a good 30 mins to get over here and just want to try to get a note or ship. Wasn't really in the mode for PvP and they where nice enough to let me go. In three days spending 2-3 hours I should of used for sleep I got one SC note and one Cag/Oak De Ruyter (no port bonus or perk). I started grinding AI in hopes the ship would get released soon and I have some slots open. Now I know it's going to be an even ship I'll prob never see it again much like the same with the SC. Funny thing was on the way back from the event treasure fleet popped and I got a deadmans chest.....it ended up giving me a SC note....didn't even need the event after all lol

Fixed it for you.

There some rich mothers on here.

Sorry to tell you it just doesn't work that way. Most folks don't want to leave a winning team to play on a loosing team and than continue to loose cause nothing was done to split up the winning team. Look at Sweden recently a lot of clans from other nations join to fight Russia, but it still wasn't enough to fight them. There is also the issue Russia has allies in other nations helping to make it even more zerg. Now lets look at other games, POTBS is mention a lot as it's the only other game that was like this and it died off a lot when they went F2P and did a lot of changes, but my point is they did map wipes every 3-4 months (can't remember which it was). They had a winner declared by who had the most points/ports and than all ports got reset back to original owners. We could actually do this and keep port bonus and such in those ports cause if they are neutral own than you can just flip them back, but it also gives others chance to flip them to if your not fast enough. POTBS also gave a bonus to the weakest nation every time, we always made sure when we won it was French so even when Spain or Pirates beat British we made sure they never came in last to get that bonus. Cuase they where the biggest nation zerg, just didn't have the best players as Spain and Pirates had (was on Roberts Server). As for rebuilding ports with investments? You tell me how many folks are sitting on mounds of resources that can't just rebuild most of that pretty quickly? The Devs can balance this by not allowing any impossible nation or Pirates in an alliance/faction. The other core nations can have alliances or dev appointed factions and team up again each other. When a new wipe comes the factions changes up so that it's not always the same nations teamed up with each other. I would honestly go with three factions not four and than have the impossible nations not allowed to be in along with pirates. You can do something like: Swede, Dane, Dutch GB, US Spain, French Than the next reset it's something like Swede, US, GB Dane French Dutch, Spain Maybe putting the three weakest nations together and than haveing the two strogest paired up with the two middle nations. This leaving all the pirates and impossible nations as the wild cards. While they can still screen OW battles and help that way, but only faction members can join each others battles and PB's.

The best solution was even brought up by Admin at one time. We just have to many nations and players spread out to far to do anything against a zerg power nations. So a solution would be to have DEV set Factions that can change to give the game a balance. Though I would say any of the Impossible Nations should never be in a faction. Them being the hard core nations to play after all...Pirates shouldn't be appart of any factions either. Four factions is a lot better than having 12 nations.

Well unless your at 900 crew level, but even than I been undercrewing a Santi, just never get close enough for AI to board me, but if it's any battles planned against players I bring the Christian instead.

We still need a means to deal with dead clans owning ports and traitor/Alt clans first.

You mean the events that where pretty much nothing more than a gank fest? Most of us stop going cause we where getting ganked trying to farm the ships to get something that wasn't fir/oak after having just fought an ELITE SHIP. ELITE BATTLES SHOULD HAVE ELITE REWARDS, not Fir/Oak, or Carg/Fir.....I mean at least if my Carg/Oak Ruyter I got (all the rest where grey ships or to soft woods to grind AI) was season wood it wouldn't been so bad, but not one of the ships I captured was season wood or good builds. I did get a San C note but no Diana (I have a gold on on PvE any way). The funny thing was on the way back to safer waters I got a ship wreck I think and it had a San C note in the chest. Better rewards fro the random event than the main on. All this while spending three hours to do one hour grind. Clan mate lost a half dozen ships and didn't get any good builds or notes at all. As for crafting? How the hell do we craft a ship that is a RANDOM RNG LOOT DROP? I love the LVG refit and the Reno but i have never gotten a note or permit for them in loot drops. I have to buy my Reno permits off others folks. Luckly ya'll fixed the issue with the LGV refit by allowed a note and than having it drop a permit you can craft. I like crafting my own ships the way I like them not how RNG random chance of a capture. Make the notes easier to gain and you will see more crafting. Right now it's easier to just redeem you DLC ship in Season wood than is it is to crafting. Making the game very boring for crafters and removing a large number of your player base that actually like trading and crafting. I been waithing for a ship for a long time that can carry 32's on both decks and I love the stats of the De Ruter, but I want to be able to build it for what purpose I want to use it for (I think it would make a great boarder/raider ship). But other than the event there has been no other way to get one and like I said the one I got was a crappy heavy build of poor wood choices even for grinding AI. As for reviews? I don't really care to stroke your ego with reviews....I mean I have spent well over 600 bucks on this game with 6 accounts and most of them having majority of the DLC's and would be willing to buy more if there was a reason to buy them and play the game for fun during what little off time I get these days working 10-12 hour shifts (Yes I'm one of the essentials during this virus thing). That I don't want to have to come home, rewright reviews over and over every time an event or such comes out cause the negative actions out way the positive. Like how your acting towards your player base lately with a very aggresive manor. It doens't encourage us to come and write good reviews and want to play. Most my clans left to play other games and don't really want to come back.

He sounds like the guys that logs on, bitches about the game and is still not leveled up. Never leaves port and than wonders why no one wants to play with him aftere all the negative bitching he did about the game. Than demands he's giving every thing full active clans have. PS: OP I been working 7/12's and I"m a US player in a nation mostly with EU players. I still have VM's and I can get XP any day I log in and actually leave port and do something. My nation has fallen recently and I'm not even bitching about the game for those reason. I still think we need 4 factions (with the nations all being in those factions) and let it change depending on who's in power or not. 11, I mean 12 nations is just way to many. That and I want my dank combat Indiaman dangit and why is the Wrecker not in the game, it's April not Feb.....

Really why does it matter? Why rush a release of a game? Let them work on it and when it's ready it will be ready.

It’s now April @admin any update?

They have it in UA:AoS and @admin has said in the past they have it coded just didn't like that there is no visual in game for it.

Just put a musket fire kill zone around ships and it will fix the small ship stern camping big ships.

Yep have to kill them all. Just did this the other night with two guys. It was a pain cause the stupid first rate keep hiding in fort rang before I could sink it. I was thinking this mission would be great for mortar brigs if they didn’t currently suck so bad. The fort would sink it before it got any damage done to it.

While not having a ping issue as it seems to be very steady but a little higher than normal. For me it seems the game is pretty laggy. Ping looks good when I checked that, but the tracert shows I loose most my speed at the Dusseldorf (thought that is where the server was located?) connection before Frankfurt. Though when I check game resources it seems to be running the GPU (I have a RTX 2080) very high. Than again I do run the game on high/ultra settings but this isn't a very high graphical game. Though I haven't updated my driver in a while so going to do that and see if it helps. Where it drags at the most is in dock when using menus moving things from ship to warehouse are back. Cause I'm trying to move clan stuff from Caracas late at night when I get home from work but it's taking for ever waiting on the menus to catch up and allow me to move stuff. This is also during the servers lowest server pop times (around 400+) so it's not the servers. Could there be some optimization issues since the last patch that might be causing this? And yes I know ever one and there mother is at home using the internet right now during this virus thing, but this been an on going issue that comes off and on for US players and I assume others in the SEA area or not on the EU. Menus dragging and other funtions in game. I play other games in EU servers and they don't have these issues, but than again they tend to be location in france or UK area on the coast line not dead center of EU and I get a ping of around 85 not 125-150.

That is the good thing about computer industries, if your machine can handle it and most folks that work in such have good computers at home, they can do a lot of work remotely and just save it to the companies cloud to share the work with others. As with the fellow players, all be safe until we are through all this mess which is going to take a while it seems.

No it doesn't mean we need more servers. It means we need lest nations and the best way to do that and control things is for the Devs to set up changing factions to keep the game balanced. 4 factions made up of those 12 nations would mean you have more players of diffrent time zones that can fill those battles and help each other out.

Just cause your nation doesn't have US players doesn't mean other nations don't. US, Russians, Pirates all have US players that fight and have had port battle in those timers. Dutch kinda did for a while, but I think we are pretty much the only US based clan members left and we are very small. If they can fill that port battle at that time than they aren' t avoiding fights. It's not there fault you can't field a crew to beat them at that time. It's part of the game. Now a solution has been said many times, we have to many nations. We need to break it down into smalller groups/Factions so that we can have more players spread out all times. 4 Factions fighting against each other is way better than 12 (going to add the Chinese) nations all spread out and not having the numbers to do much.

This and my lovely memory as is shot at times, is why it would be nice if the battle log didn't wipe every time you logged out. Some times it's nice to look back and see what you may or may not have done with that lady boy last night while in Bangcock ......

Apparently LOKI can join AI PB's as we had some join tonight at Marcobo. Thought they wouldn't be allowed since they can't join Hostliity. I actually don't mind LOKI if they fight, but guys that are trolling and just runnning to keep you from having a kill are making it not fun. I get the reason some have postead as I 9 times out of 10 I'm in a sinking ship and it's silly that I was even sent. Hell I been loki into a sinking ship while there was a fully health AI ship in the battle. Which might of been good as I would of destroyed that player as he was very wounded. I also thin k rewards should be something more if you kill a LOKI in battle. Maybe a special loot chest drop in the LOKI ship. Notice the three ships, three LOKIS in a PORT BATTLE and one escapes. What I'm told is the one that sunk actually fought, the other two ran.

So just had a battle that a LOKI popped in. After he disengaged from boarding while I was dealing with the other AI he ran and escaped. I heard that they been doing this a lot along with surrendering to deny a fight. Should this be allowed?

The Houston Mayor shut down the Houston Rodeo and Livestock show. A lot of kids are going to miss out on college money and a lot of folks depended on that show for income yearly. It's going to be a big hot mess when this all is over for a lot of folks are going to go broke. On other news in the Shop at work every one avoids me. I get allergies and got a cloggy sinus and been coughing for a few weeks now if I don't take something for it. Kinda nice they avoid me now thinking it's something else....lol We did sent home all the service hands that where home from jobs and helping us this weekend, but still doing 12 hour shifts. I was really hoping for them to shut down shop for a week or so.

@admin Was wondering what the status was on some of theses. 1/2 we got in game now. 3. Wrecker was Feburary and it's now March? 4/5 first half of 2020. Hoping to see Rotterdam more middle half than later half that, but any update would be nice. Glad to see the LGV Refit back, hope the permit drops for me (stupid RNG hates me). Thanks