Zalzany

Privateering is already in, it has nothing to do with pirates. hate pirates trying milk it. Privateering means you work for that nation not allied as in when I fly US flag and raid a french trade ship take his shit while at war that is privatering, hiring a pirate to do it is not privateering unless you join the US nation, even with you being a merc you have to fly the US flag, otherwise its under the table unofficial which we can do with out voting. Already seen GB players work with pirates to attack US. Pirates are not suppose to ally, they are pirates all nations don't like pirates privateers yes, but yet again you are carring US flag and under EMPLOYEE of that nation not an ally. No nation would officially ally with a pirate minus a privateer contract which is doesn't make you an ally it makes you an employee of that government. Also privateering means you give that nation a cut, you an offical employee, I don't think pirates want to pay nations a 40% cut or something like that of their hauls Pirates way too much power as is on US pvp server, they got the most players, are forcing US to rage quite or convert, and they pvp before sunrise in the US to take critical ports that would normally be defended to the last man. I mean every day I wake up at 6am I see more key ports near capitals got seiged when the player pop was less then 60 players at that time, meaning when it got seiged there was like 40 over 20 pirates who took the port with extreme ease. Pirates are exploiting the hell out of the system right now, they do not need alliances when they make up over half the active population, and already use every single trick they can get, and work out unofficial deals with other nations all the time. I can't wait to see this system with any luck we can see people actually getting more organized pirates were never this powerful and their reign was very very short lived, in reality they not liked by any nation, and the days of Privateering contracts was rather short part of their history, in fact it predates them the best pirates tended to be privateers that got fired or turned on their own contracted nation. I don't think pirates realize this its not Pirates of the Caribbean while were some great pirates only one ship of the line was ever stolen and kept and the ran it aground and lost it. They couldn't afford to take a big ship out because they were hunted so bad it was worthless since they couldn't run in it and would have been out gunned and crewed if they chose to fight a nation with it. Now if we could try and balance the pop let pirates rejoin real nations some how make them grind for it put like a one month timer on faction swapping and maybe we can fix pvp one with out doing a soft wipe...

Timer needs to be increased or removed, and made so anyone can join a pvp. Or do it so the weaker side can get reinforcements then lock it once they do. I hate getting jumping by a high end rat who is bored. I won't even have cargo I just picked wrong day to want to try and get some exp and coin, and fight a ship I literally fired 3 salvos at, and all but one cannon ball bounced off as he laughed at me. Yeah in that kind of battle I say leave it open so any one who wants help the little guy out can. They will just camp outside and chase you. What this is really about isn't 4 hour battles its about doing one sided fight and then having turn against you. I mean people are camping capitals now they should have to worry that any second 2 victories could come in to aid the snow they freaking jumped just outside of the capital protection, I mean right now there is no real fear at all because of the timers all you can do is camp the battle site and hope you get them when they get out, and they got run if its bad, meanwhile they raped some poor guy and if did it right will run away laughing about it, and come back in a few hours. Oh and this supports it because you can just sit outside watch the timer to scare off others or distract then join last second to the battle. You giving them a visual icon that lets them know how long they can wait while still clicking every ship they see to see if its a player or a npc, and lets them still hop in if its clear and dog pile some one. Already saw some one doing that today a pirate in a basic cutter was playing scout for a big monster fleet that had a first rate at c-town camp. He ran around mostly getting ignored, just reporting any US player he saw and their rank and ship, plus you know direction they left in case they wanted to kill that one next. But that was its job report if any one was coming to camp the battle till it was over, and were they were, or play bait if attacked buy time for them to escape if it was bad if not die or surrender fast come back out in free cutter from sunbury as fast as they could. And other end lets say I am fighting a traders brig, well there is circle over my battle telling people how long they got to come in and piss me off. It is way more tempting to them now, it could bring in moths like it was a flame. Not only that a passing pirate could see this from a good distance away and know with out even clicking it how much time he had to get there to show up and defend the contraband ship and ruin my day.

With all the defectors to Pirate now they shouldn't be able to make any thing above 3rd rate at all. Third rate is iffy as they wouldn't have these ships in fact they should just be banned from a shipyard higher then rank 2. They can steal anything bigger easy. But right now I saw guys who were well established rank and shipbuilding wise pick up and move mass amounts of goods to a free city then go pirate able to make some impressive ships for their now pirate clan. Day after they did that there was first rate and many other high end ships camping there formal capital. They don't even need the mats you just do well in your first nation stock pile then move them and bam they got the coin and mats to make high end ships on demand for their fleet to camp capitals and do deep water port battles. It's crazy I get the idea of them owning shallow it make sense, but deep water shouldn't even be attack-able by pirates. And those patrols should attack them so they actually back off they can drive right into capital regions and wave to the patrols as they pass them. Their needs to be some kind of penalty because right now you high rank and bored you can just take a day off on the weekdays and move all your goods to a neutral port, defect then set up your business in pirate territory if you even need to get resources anymore at all. Mean while I am not mid level can barely use a cerb as of last night, and I can't even run missions now, I could try to move away from the capital but it use to be heavy traffic hub and suicide to camp because there was a lot of big clans moving around it, now its just lowbies hanging out there ever one else moved away, or defected. I invested all my coin into what I thought would be a safe area so I could save up then move out, but now ctown is the mos unsafe place on the map. And they don't lose nothing really I spend all my coin and labor building one ship and get sunk 2 times in a single day make almost no money, and its just aggravating by time I make more coin I have to build a new ship, and I can't even haul goods to build a new one, not because they will steal it they don't need it at all, at least that is what they boasted few times i was attacked and they tried to sink not board me. Its just aggravating I got dismantle every thing and move or go pirate, because pirate defectors got huge thing for camping their former nation and non high levels. I mean come people compared this to eve and what not, but in even I can retreat back to high sec till I am ready for the no holds bar pvp, but in this I just roll the dice and see if the pirates are bored enough to camp today, then do another roll see if the people in my own nation will come out to defend their capital with out being payed to..

Fleets need to stay, they are only problem to bottom feeders. Like pirates who hunt players who can't even run a cerb. AI fleets are the only way a low level can leave a camped capital port, and these bored as hell pirates are constantly camping capitals now to the point were people who can fight them stop caring or say screw it and pack up and go pirate. Its getting old fast there was a first rate, and few renmees camping today, so unless you had a rattle snake you couldn't leave the safety of the capital to try level up, and make money so you could actually run a ship to fight them. I mean come on an entire US clan packed and went pirate high end one, its just stupid game is getting so bad for any one who isn't high rank or in a clan the population is dying. I mean ctown camp today probably caused at least 20 low levels to rage quit, or go to the PVE server. I love pvp, but this is not it, its just one sided shit fest, pirates don't even need the cargo any more I had one bragging about how he was rich over 12 million gold coins he attacked low levels just because he thought it was fun, and there was nothing else left for him to do, any any high levels show up they just scatter like roaches then come back out when they think its safe to camp again. Its making people just give up and go pirate, I mean come on about half the server is going pirate now on pvp two and they keep acting like they are underdogs, when there 7 of them today camping c-town last time I saw a group form to chase them off it was 4 guys, the numbers are getting so bad soon you just won't be able to play near a capital with out flying the jolly rogger. What we need is to limit pirates they should be a threat, but not the most powerful group in the seas. They should be the under dogs you don't take lightly that scatter to the winds like they use to be when they chaotic, back before US started defecting to it in mass. I mean they use to complain they were like a bag of angry cats more likely to fight each other then other nations now they are taking some of the most organized clans from the other factions and becoming a super power just because they wanted to swap factions but keep their mountains of gold, and ships. What we need is like old planet side and what not. Limit the amount of active people in the factions, we should have 1/3 or more the server pop playing one faction. And enable some kind perks to the under dog nations and nerf pirates, it should be hard not the easiest thing in the game to do. I mean I almost went pirate when 2/3 the server was US with me, but damn I do not regret not taking that way out now. We need a wipe for factions and the map at some point, when we get a new system in play to balance this. I would love to try and tell people to play this but its so niche right now if your not in a big clan or a pirate your basically better off playing World of Warships and forget this part of the navy genre entirely. I mean come on population is dying because of this use to be a huge game and now I haven't seen it 200 yet, pirates pull one of these camp capital stunts to screw over low levels and you just see the population stagnant even more as any one who can't run renmee or better is forced off. Or worse I saw guys in nation chat too bored of chasing pirates to be bothered offering protection form pirates for money. So you got pay a clan to let you leave c-town when its under siege now that it is in your own faction or roll the dice they attack some one else and you can sneak out. I mean I welcome pvp when this was new and server thriving before the US migration, I was chasing pirate cutters with my cutter away form ctown that was attacking people doing missions, it was great fun, even had a swede show up to a battle against npc trade ship, and defend it, annoyed me at the time but it was capable challenge I sunk him and got the trade ship still. But now its me driving out of the port in a snow and finding a surpise attacking me, or today logging in to hear how 7 pirates including a 1st rate were camping capital. I got make money some how to pack all my buildings and move away from c-town but I can't leave port with out rolling the dice I am gonna get killed. And they don't even want my cargo they just want ruin my day, its like 4chan for them they just want troll and piss people off. Its why I can't recommend this game anymore, I got one friend who still plays but its so aggravating when we are doing good, and we can handle one or two pirates out in the area, but when I see 7, each one in a ship that can make mine into swiss cheese, able to demast me if I try to run yeah I suddenly want pack it in and wait for the weekdays to play again.

Surrender really shouldn't be that nerfed it has a count down timer as is, that is good enough. I mean we already got officers that flat out say if you don't lose their lives hit surrender. Plus only time I surrendered in pvp it was because it was taking way way too long, and I had stuff to do in real life, guy was toying with me with a ship I could damage with my guns, so after 20 mins of cat and mouse I had to bail because it was time to get the little ones ready to go to the store. The population is already lowere then ever before, because of these people. The hardcore are the minority, I mean I remember seeing the server so full I had to wait in a que to log in. Now thanks to fact community is so unbalanced especially when it comes to pvp its really hard sell. I mean after they allowed people to swap factions it turned into a mass exodus to the US, and it was so bad I couldn't do anything with out new people to the faction trying to steal my kills or captures because they were all thirsty mats and coins, and just not enough to go around. I took a break because of that, now I come back pirates are super power and I am seeing people in nation chat boasting about their entire clan converting to pirate. I go outside the capital on the weekend there is 1st rates, and renomees waiting to hunt low level players, who use to be from that nation, but are so bored they went pirate and are attacking low levels trying force them to rage quit. I mean that is real problem with pvp right now I am in a cerb and I can't leave ctown late at night or weekends because there are guys who defected at max rank bored out of their mind so rich they don't need the cargo or ship hulls to sell they just want a one sided fight, then rage when the guy in a privateer surrenders after they rape their sails and play with them with full intent in just ruining their day to feel good about theirs. Its getting old I had a guy in a high frigate play with my snow, trash talking me trying flame bait me because he claimed he had over 12 million coins and was bored, so only attacked people in weak ships.

This moderator approved limit is interesting forgot to mention in game name is Zalzany I try to keep it simple

I just started looking for a fleet finally, and think this may be the one for me to try out.