Sickerthansars

are USA players still trying to say the pirates have more players/unbalanced? really this is still their go to excuse? You dont do much damage when you fail to hit your target 3/4ths of the time, or give your enemy below the water line shots all day which i see nats do time after time after time on pvp2

The USA still has the vast majority of the players on the server, please stop channeling your inner yanky and trying to make excuses for the 10+ flag captains or higher who have been screencapped multiple times doing missions and fishing out of ctown while you guys lost ports to groups of 2-3 pirates

that would actually require effort on their part much easier to just complain about the same issues over and over and over again while the devs say they are going to fix it...but keep fussing about it anyway till the devs actually patch it then they will all say "wow finally the devs fixed X its about time" etc etc

Litterally everything you said there is a barrier to, there isnt ...have multiple 1v1 fights daily, probably even hourly most days. you can show up to any PB you want so long as your boat is in the required range...no one can stop you from doing so unless the enemy does. Ports on our server have changed hands multiple times usually daily Bottles are w/e they at least give a reason to explore, there is some cool stuff out there..if you dont want bottles just buy the upgrades from people...gold is insanely easy to make in this game even if you work as I do. Its almost as if you dont actually play the game at all judging by your list of "issues"

People getting attached to things and then getting upset when they get wipes in any early access game are bringing it on themselves. People are not going to 100% quit playing just because of wipes. Those that actually like the game come back anyways regardless, this has been the case in every EA game. That said it would be nice for the devs to clarify anyway even though it doesn't really matter at all.

If you cant see how limiting ships is a bad idea well then the shoe fits perfectly.

I didnt know you needed to be higher in ranks than rear admiral, commodore, and flag captain to do PBs..because thats all thats sitting outside ctown and tumbado doing missions during PBs. You should check my screenshots I posted elsewhere a bunch of SOLs, trincs, and the like outfront of ctown doing missions and fishin instead of PBs. The thing is you DO have enough players, you just choose not to defend. People have been leaving the USA for months long before the pirates had the majority of ports on the map. Also why the personal attacks, and insults you need to chill out man. Goos-fra-ba and all that stuff. The way you talk to others is probably why so many nations are more than willing to help squash the USA btw.

you cant hold it because you choose not to, ive seen plenty of players online for USA, they choose to fish and do missions, and your largest clan refuses to work with the nation as a whole. USA brought this on themselves and thankfully its not done yet.

"We dont show up to port battles sometimes" Out of 20 PBs i have done in the past weeks USA showed up to a whopping 3. I have taken multiple screenshots, and linked them in chat of USA en masses of 10+ players doing missions/fishing outside of tumbado/Ctown and in the surrounding areas instead of going to defend PBs that are taken by groups of 3 pirates sometimes..oh and those same USA players..they're in 1st rates, bellonas, trincs, connies, so spare me on the "we dont have ships" you have plenty you're just afraid of losing a few pixels so you dont bring them to battle. Also sure Baloney, keep telling yourself that, thats why multiple people who have been switching for months, myself included have all been saying the exact same things about USA on pvp2 in what i listed in my previous post as the reasons they left...they must be just all collectively making it up..right right...That includes people leaving when USA had 130+ ports like it did a couple of months ago while pirates had ~30-40 ports...but they just wanted to join the winners...so totally makes sense to leave for the smaller faction(s)...riiiight Like I said USA brought everything on themselves and has been decaying for months now. If calling people cowards etc instead of trying to fix whats wrong with your faction is how the remaining USA players want to be to make themselves feel good about the awful state they're in, then go ahead like they say ignorance is bliss.

He doesnt care but does enough to respond to tell you he doesnt care, and claims to like the drama as its funny and a laugh. Someone must be new to the internet.

Its funny how you USA nationals try and say everyone left because they were losing, when the people leaving both those that left months ago like myself and newer people have all said the same things #1 No cooperation, I remember being in TS when lionshaft told us his clan (which if the politics thread is to be believed is by far the largest on the entire server) said that his clan was going to do the opposite of whatever the other USA clans were going to do. Point blank from the get go USA doesnt want to work with USA. #2. Insufferable players like JP johns, baron, elmo JP and Baron regularly telling people to die/get cancer and elmo blatantly doing green on green over and over again in PBs. Numbah 3. A pisspoor attitude towards newbies and each other in general. On USA side, the sentiment is/was "if youre not in my clan im not helping you out that much" just go look at the ship prices in Ctown they're so outrageous its laughable. Meanwhile having played for both the brits and now pirates, there are people almost virtually lined up to help you, tell you where to get mats, and where to sell em to make money quickly, offering you boats/offering to do missions with you, offering you some gold so you can get your own econ up and running more quickly Number 4 A total aversion to PVP. I cant even count how many times it would come up that an enemy was going to attack a US port, and instead of people trying to rally to go defend people would just excuse it. Basically if it wasnt near their clans "home" it didnt matter/they didnt care. Meanwhile playing on other teams, there are people asking in national chat where they need to go, what the TS info is etc etc. There's just an entirely different atmosphere if you will about protecting whats "ours" while the USA is just apathetic "we have the most ports" "well just get it back later" etc etc. people would rather go fish or jump AI boats than PVP. Yesterday I saw a group of pirates jump a USA guy outside tumbado..he had 10 clanmates online most of them sitting in port, not 1 of them even bothered trying to help him. Ontop of all this, a total arrogance about the faction..so many times USA wouldnt even show up for a PB or two, or three..but would then flood global about how "we own the most ports so who cares we're still winning". When the server made an agreement to try and allow every nation at least 5 ports so that people could come and play whatever faction they wanted..the USA went about conquering spain to a single port. So go ahead and keep saying only cowards left the USA faction etc, you're just ignoring the fact that the USA on pvp2 has been driving players from its ranks all on its own for a very long time now. The reason USA is getting smashed is all its own doing. I left EU to come to pvp2 because EU has all the problems of pvp2 but amplified Also im still waiting for an explantion as to how pirates are OP... they have the same wood types to build ships out of...the same cannons...the same mods to put on ships...the same ships...the same amount of crew per rank..the same perks for their officers (although I would gladly take the nationals 10% faster reload over the pirate 1knot faster perk)..the only difference between the two is...skill.

Im still skeptical but this might be the first poll ive seen on these fourms where common sense prevails over nonsense

limiting ships/giving special ships is a bad idea because then you're just going to have to deal with near constant balancing issues, people already complain enough about pirates being OP...despite them having the exact same ships...the exact same mods...the exact same perks..the exact same wood types to build ships out of...the exact same guns to put on their ships (hopefully you can see where this is going) Just no. Limiting ships etc is just flatout dumb.

its not really an imbalance when it boils down to being a minor inconvenience, with the added perks and planning you can recoup your BPs in the same day you switch nats its not hard..just tedious. I dont really care either way though.

The problem is you're forgetting its a game, and not RL...there wouldn't be juicy politics/intrigue cloak and dagger stuff etc to make it interesting at all. Large clans/players would just find the quickest/easiest way to game the system and elections would be more like appointments...it would be exactly like how the EVE interstellar council was for a long time no thank you ill pass on that nonsense all day.