Don Alfonso

The way I see it is that they aren't crafting hours, they are labour hours. When you collect resources, you are attributing the labour hours of collection I would suppose... or you are 'paying' your workers for the amount they've gathered which you are taking... Regardless, it is there to create another labour hour sink, so that people don't become self-sufficient crafters.

As far as I've gathered from personal experience, the 'random' trim allows your ship to get two trims while choosing a 'specific' trim, like speed or whatever, will only give that one trim to the ship... but it will be the trim you want.

After re-installing the game, and maybe the newest update, I haven't had this issue yet. That said, it has only been 3 battles. UPDATE: Now has been enough battles to clearly say that the issue no longer occurs!

My friend plays Naval Action, every day, while torrenting and streaming videos. My other friend with the 10 times worse internet connection also plays Naval Action, and has never had this problem. Instead, he experiences ping issues... but that's something he can deal with. I'm still having issues after tuning QoS on the router. I repeat that it cannot be running a heavy traffic consuming program which is causing the issue - especially since I can play with the university's internet, I never have the problem, no matter how many hundreds are connected to it, no matter what I'm running on the computer.

Any updates on this issue?

I personally do not believe it is a matter of bandwidth, because I have a friend of mine with severely inferior internet bandwidth to my own... However, here are the results of the university wifi; And then, these are the results of my home ethernet; Here are results of a couple of my friends, both without my issue; or From these multiple speedtests, there doesn't seem to be any difference between my bandwidth and that of my friend - which shows that the speed of download or upload isn't causing my issue. This friend of mine is constantly downloading through torrents, and shares his place with another gamer (who is also playing and downloading simultaneously).

Okay, an update on the issue... When I'm at university, using wifi (their internet is overall better than mine as they are a government establishment), I have not had a single issue 'entering battle'. The connection report is the following: #NAS15800 When I'm at home (alone), using ethernet or wifi (regular internet speed, half that of university wifi), I have the occasional issue (more often when watching a video online or in a Skype call). The connection report is the following: #NAS158304 When I'm at home (with family using internet too), I always have the issue of 'entering battle'. The connection report is the following: #NAS158448 Hopefully with these reports you can figure out the problem better - or at least steps I may be able to take myself to over-ride the issue.

Oh I was planning to, and I have been on the US server today... problem is that the issue persists there as well. I don't feel it's a ping issue - I also tried after a restart of the computer, running only Steam and the game. That hasn't solved or helped at all. I have a friend in Australia with a worse internet speed and more connection issues in other games - he has never experienced this. Nor have my other Australian friends had the issue.

I have actually tried that before, closing all programs and trying to enter a battle - still fails to 'enter combat' as frequently.

Apologies for the double post; However, this is still an issue and I keep losing the occasional vessel in these battles I can't connect to. It is starting to become very impairing... Is there any update on fixing this or some work-around?

My very reaction when I logged in.

BungeeLemming, he is refering to this;

I keep seeing this 'exploitation of prices' argument... Some people exploit the grinding required to level up crafting and sell the goods needed for crafting at incredible prices. Maybe exploiting different prices wouldn't be necessary if oak log wasn't sold at 450 gold at the capital.

The thing is, the connection doesn't recover and I am forced to restart.

From what I have experienced, if I were to buy my resources at the unreasonable prices you say are 'how the market works'... I couldn't competitively sell the ship. The ships for sale are built by people with access to reasonably priced goods.