Johny Reb

I don't like the aggressive npc's on the OS. We had that before years ago and it was annoying. The exception would be if you create legendary npc's that are more rare. You know, famous pirates and such.

This game definitely needs more. It still feels incomplete and unpolished. The need is for a tweak on the port battles to avoid the stagnant map and the second is to do as Aster suggests or something similar that will give people something to do once they reach max level. There needs to be a pvp endgame and a pve endgame. The pvp endgame is in place with needed adjustments but the pve endgame is non existent.

I wold love to help you guys but I'm not sure we are in the same timezone. My clan operates late at night during American time zones.

It feels like we are sailing the North Atlantic

I have seen this as well of course. Problem is you can't really take a screen shot of it can you?

With the number of chat bans KoC has already been rewarded with, I'm sure those post pics have been addressed. Either way I don't really see an accusation against Christendom. All he says is he wouldn't be surprised to see Christendom do this. This is a judgment of character and not a specific accusation.

That is a downside to this game. It is hard to find nice fights. It happens but not very often. Of course, for me, the time zones is an issue there as well. I go out late at night my time and the only ones up at that time our your traders that are getting up before work to do some quick runs. What I miss is the arranged battles in PotBS. It was quite common for us to do that in the red zones but here when you offer the same thing the opposite side is more likely gonna stick with the gank.

If 25 people showed with intentions of going in then I would agree. It is not a troll flip.

are you saying that their team got screened out or that only 4-6 Frenchies showed up? If only 4-6 guys showed up then I think its reasonable to see it as a troll flip, not that I care if it was or wasn't.

If I ever quit, it will not be be because of how other players play the game and how that may make my life hard in it. I will quit because of the management of the game by the devs who can't seem to set their alarm clocks to work on the game or are spending most their time on some other project meaning this game likely has no future. #setyouralarmclocksdevs

Respectfully, You must play a little closer attention to what has been said in the many arguments above. The US has not complained about day flips other than to point out the hypocrisy that has been shown over "night flips". We have been called abusers, exploiters etc because we schedule PBs at our time which is inconvenient to Euros while they schedule PBs at their time which is inconvenient to the US. Its just shear hypocrisy and that is what you find the US complaining about. Just remember that at one time there was only one server. There was no NA server. When multiple servers were built, those on the original, for good reason, wanted to stay on the original and we did and it was a good choice because pvp2 looks boring. The name EU was given to pvp1 at that point. I do understand your perception about EU server verse NA server but it is a misconception. The servers were created in different areas of the world for ping purposes but we don't have any issue with ping on the EU server. It was always meant to be a global server and even Ink's message said it would return to one. They specifically said in past posts that the server names had nothing to do with who the servers were for. I think the argument that you made that was fair was when you said that you can't change servers. This is true. Only one server has a player base that plays during your timezones and that is the EU server so I agree that you cannot move as you would find yourself in the same position. Well, I guess there is the Chinese you could fight. But why does people moving have to be the only option? Why can't one of the myriad of ideas that have been posted be used so that we truly can have a global server? Is it because you have become so convinced of your own ownership of this server that you expect others to change to suit your needs, or because you have lost faith in the devs to actually input a solution to the mechanics that would prevent night flips?

You have a point there in that when there was 2k players we had a lot more in the US nation but they were still not Euros other than two german clans and one Polish that never joined but talked about it. I don't think it was anything to do with what could be found there or not. I think it had everything to do with the nationalism we find in the game. Almost everyone wants to play their own nation except for pirates which are multinational. Even the Brits didn't have a truly multinational nation. Most of their players came from Britain or former British territories like the Aussies and the US, essentially English speakers. The dynamics of the game has also changed. Before, everything required long sails to get everywhere. With teleports in place and faster ship speeds/smaller world, getting around has been much easier. You now find the US in every point on the map. I guess that still doesn't mean that players won't be nationalistic but maybe what we will find is that the nationalistic players are the niche players that are here to stay and the one that join later will be the type that just want a good game. All any nation really needs in 1 1/2 port battle groups in each of the two time zone groups and one good ally. So Sweden only needs 25 westerners for the pb at night and 12 or so more to screen in order to compete. That doesn't sound like an impossible goal to reach if the game can attract another 1000 back into the game and give incentives to join certain nations. all that needs to be done is for the game to look at the location of the player and offer incentives for the stats in that timezone. So Euros would be encouraged to join the US during Euro hours and western players that log on at their time would be given incentives to join other nations like Sweden or France. agreed Tell me when its your turn to be kicked off a server, that you love, to be on while others get to stay and tell me if its game breaking to those that have invested the most time in this game. And common, You know what I will say to this. The problem here is the perceived notion that some players have "rights" to this server as Euros. I have never assumed I have "rights" against the devs. They have every right to do with their server and game as they please. I can react to that by not playing it or by writing scathing reviews if I am not pleased. That is my only right. But I will argue rights against other players who also assume certain rights of property to the server. This issue is not a game mechanic issue although it could be solved by one. It is an issue between two groups of people who exist on the game. One of which, thinks that only their time zones have priority and all must bow to those time zones. And we all know this is true. I also didn't say forced. I said coerced. Thats different. Nobody is banning my IP but I am being told that I will not be able to participate in half of the game unless I find a way to play at different hours. Now if I could do that, I'd be doing it already so I am essentially being pushed off the server if I actually want to participate in large scale content One of the irritating things is that, knowing the devs, it is likely that we won't be able to transfer our characters. We will have to go over there and start from scratch. That is very discriminating against one group of players. Would you, in order to get your split servers, be ok if the devs did a complete assest wipe of all players on both pvp1 and pvp2. Reset the rules of the servers and let players choose anew where they want to have their character? One last point. If you look at what Ink said, you will see that this is only temporary until release. He was quite clear on it. So what are we gaining by splitting the servers when we could actually test different ideas now. If they release without testing whatever ideas they have then it is bound to be a disaster. If we could just get the devs to set their alarm clocks every morning to wake up and do some work we wouldn't be in this mess.

That is an issue and an unfortunate one. Our clan originally waffled over which nation to join. We were afraid the US would be a zerg nation which it is on pvp2 but on pvp1 it has obviously not been the case. We struggled initially as well because we were surprised how little Euros wanted to play the US. The Germans and Aussies were the only ones that seemed to want to give it a go but not enough to make a difference during the day so we were required to wake up early in the morning. It was difficult but satisfying when it happened and we were able to take their port in during their timers. I wonder, and I think the devs think, that upon release the numbers will swell and solve that problem. A lot of our issues right now is player base but of course there is no guarantee that the right population spread would happen even then. During the meeting of the nations we all seemed to agree that if incentives were given to smaller nations to join then more diversity would be accomplished. Merging the servers could aid a little right now but I agree that it won't be a final fix. The brits and the US will get a boost from the western players coming over but looking at their population it won't change much between the nations. It would probably only make the US a team large enough to truly compete consistently. We still struggle with numbers. The pirates would get a sizable boost and everyone else will get some boost but probably not enough to change the dynamic. Release is really the deciding factor on what should be done with the servers imo. I understand that you have come to your conclusion that the server be split. We will probably not come to agreement on that and it is a difference of preference not logic. Talking about the timers is a way of dealing with the here and now without coercing certain players to move off of their server home. It sounds like you were using position 2 as a reason to split servers and there really isn't anything to argue there if your position is that setting alarms EVER is unacceptable but don't you think(in the name of compromise) that widening the port timer window could mitigate some of the pain?

I don't know about the Brits or the Dutch but the US NEVER set port timers outside of our prime time.