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Good day Captains.. 

 

Welcome to the sea trials.

 

Goals

The goal of this event is to test ships in combat, the battle mechanics, to understand what is fun or not. Feel free to experiment with mechanics - this will help to find bugs and improve the game for everyone in the future.

 

We need every ship to receive equal attention - that is why the progression is locked and damage based. You are rewarded for active combat, you progress even if you lose battles. Don't be afraid to run straight to the enemy. 

 

How to play

For useful short cuts, commands and mechanics refer to the following topic

http://forum.game-labs.net/index.php?/topic/1964-quick-keyboard-short-cuts-list-keybind-suggestions/

 

We deliberately are not supplying the guides, tutorials and manuals at this stage to find areas where the game needs improvement to be intuitive on the first try. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on forums or in game chat.

 

Two important things for the new player are wind polars and using yards

How to tack properly

 

How to use manual sails

 

Light ships vs The rest

We found that light ships are harder to sail. Wait for the brig and your experience will improve a lot. For best results get close and use double shot. 

 

There are 4 battle rooms in the game. You can fight against bots (somewhat dumb at this stage) in the PVE rooms. You can also combat against other Captains in PVP.  PvP is more fun though. 

 

Some battles last longer and if you sink you don't need to wait for the end of the battle. You can just exit and start new.

 

Exploits

If you find something unusual test it and post about it. The goal of the Sea Trials is to also find potential loopholes and close them. 

 

Behaviour

For the sea trials we want to build a nice and friendly community - a place where you will feel comfortable and welcome. Negativity, flame is destructive because our goals are to improve the game. We actively discourage profanity personal attacks, flaming and trolling at this stage of the game.

 

You can refer to the Royal Navy Articles of War to understand what kind of behavior is acceptable. 

http://forum.game-labs.net/index.php?/topic/2214-royal-navy-articles-of-war-1757/

 

Feedback

We have created several topics where you can provide feedback on various aspects of ships. You can find them in the Sea Trials forum section http://forum.game-labs.net/index.php?/forum/33-sea-trials/

 

Technical issues

If you encounter bugs, or just anything strange or weird use F11 bug reporter tool. It works in combat and in lobby. 

Alt Tab has issues for some users - alt tabbing in full screen mode might crash your game and maybe a system. You can reconnect to a battle after you restart (in most cases you will still be alive). 

If you crash - please use NavalActionCrashSender.exe program located in the game folder. (game is located in Steam folders).

 

 

Enjoy

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