eriks

The port timers in the Bahamas are brutal for North American players.

What do you want? The devs to share their scrum board? This is a pretty big complex piece of software. My understanding is the dev team is quite small. I would also imagine there are ops issues that the players have very little visibility into unless things go horribly wrong. Some feature fixes are easy as tweaking parameters (penetration and such). Architectural features are much harder (revamping crafting) especially if you are trying to simultaneously support an active player base. Honestly I could not care less about the grey/blue port UI. That is the LAST thing they should be worrying about.

Your "borders"? Or the borders of your oppressive, imperial empire? I can't find Spain on the game map at all.

You make the traders AI, not the escorts. The player is sailing the escort. Trader AI is easy, run like hell and your best wind angle. Escape ASAP. I'm in my Trinco and I have two loaded Trader Snows controlled by AI.

I think you are missing the point. If you think the game will sell well in the US (outside of China the largest Video Game market in the world) if new users from the US log in for the first time and see their native land squished then you're in for a surprise. The game needs a self balancing mechanism that where the better a faction is doing the harder it gets for that faction.

Keep telling yourself that...

Back when we could bring Snows along (pre EA) they were the bane of all fights. They got in the way. They rammed you. They shot you.

The ability to do live fire training with basically zero risk or cost? The ability to teleport a half of a fleet to any outpost in seconds? When you join pirates you get to keep everything (with an ounce of planning)?

I suspect that battle instance limits being based on number of ships and not BR is about keeping control of the number of database accesses per second. A cutter sailing around and fighting is probably hitting the databases nearly as hard as a first rate sailing around and fighting.

Given the current state of things we need to play the pirate style now.

Pagan Pete is my favorite pirate. Whenever he slips away in that privateer of his I wish him well.

But SORRY is more important than the game.

If you couldn't get ship and port info while flying it would solve 90% of the problem but keep the pano views (which I agree are awesome)

Open world flying is stupid and should just go away. Basically every cutter has its own recce helo.

Why would we do that? How would that be good for the game? How is chasing players from the game a good thing? The game is bigger than any stupid clan.