snowy2

SOB became KIN on PVP1, which then merged into ZERG. I recommend waiting until after the wipe, picking either the Global or EU server based on your preference, then asking around in national chat or ts to see how the new clans form up.

Right, so I think he means you send your alt in on the enemy side, so it's contested and you get the marks

Seems to be resolved now

It's a Steam error, the Steam Web API is offline. I'm having the same issue.

He's a new player trying to be helpful by giving his first impressions and suggestions, you don't have to be sarcastic with him.

I think you mean Alt + Enter ?

On the subject of marketing, there is currently an ad on Google for Naval Action, I've never seen it before. It says: "Captains wanted for ultimate age of sail experience! Enlist today! Capture Ports · Be A Pirate · Trade Goods"

Just regarding your comment that 200 ping is unplayable: Since the game was released on steam I have lived both on the east coast of the US and in Europe, and have played on both PVP1 and PVP2, so I've experienced pings from 50 to 900. I personally found that stern raking at 300 ping was manageable, once you got used to it, because it's fairly predictable when you have to fire. Lower pings were obviously easier, and at about 900 the game was basically unplayable in smaller ships (at my skill level anyway).

It's naive to think that this isn't spread evenly across the two alliances. Most players spend time chatting to the people they agree with from their own alliance, and only the most outspoken members of the other alliance, such is the nature of a forum. There has been plenty of name calling in the other direction. Insulting, trolling and exploiting is done by individual players, there's no reason why they wouldn't be evenly distributed across the nations.

Well, it wouldn't have mattered if we didn't split our force at the beginning since you all start in the middle circle. You could have just sent your entire fleet to wherever we were blobbed and still outnumber us. We came to have fun and to learn, many of us in that PB hadn't had the chance to participate in many, so we don't consider ourselves 'badly slapped in the face'.

"On average 40 captains join the game EVERY DAY for the last 1-2 months without any marketing. That is 1200 players per month. That’s enough to fill both PVP servers in 2 months. What did you personally do to make them feel at home, happy and willing to stay and fight alongside you? Remember that your negativity spreads and stops them from playing." I don't really understand why the question was answered in this way. You seem to have answered the question of 'What do you plan to do?' with 'No, what do YOU plan to do?' This doesn't sit well with those of us that keep an eye on the help chat, and sometimes donate ships and gold to new players. Edit: The admin clarified in the other thread that he meant only the negativity of the question writer, not the community as a whole. However, I feel that the question writer was only expressing his legitimate concerns about RVR and open world PVP (even though the question was a bit open ended). It shouldn't be implied that he is to blame for new players not sticking with the game, simply because he expressed those concerns, or that he doesn't do enough to help new players.

To answer only your first question, the reason you have to use your war vote before your alliance vote in the current system is that it makes it impossible for every nation to ally every other nation. I guess if you're trying to keep a nation neutral it makes sense if you can vote both ways. The current system is able to generate a neutral status, but for some reason this is essentially the same as war status. Another quirk of the current system is that some votes are pointless. E.g, we have a strange cycle where GB can vote about Sweden, but Sweden cannot vote about GB, making any GB votes for an alliance with Sweden pointless in that round.

Given that you are a dev team of a fixed size and we don't know the full list of features you plan to include in the game, how will you ensure that if the ship kickstarter is funded we will not end up with less content in other areas?

On a side note, is it definitely possible to, for example, switch GB's allies from the US to Sweden after they changed the cycles? We have a weird voting cycle where GB can vote on the relationship with Sweden, but Sweden can't vote on their relationship with GB.