Rouleur

Using the word "guaranteed" in the statements about xp is the issue. It is not like saying "we hope" or "we intend" where circumstances might change. Guarantee has transactional meaning - short of a company going into liquidation or receivership it means we will honour our commitment. Well that's a first - my last post seems to have disappeared.

It is dishonest - you did not say for "3 years" - it was clear to everyone it was protected post general release. My purchases have been significant and were done on the basis that the statements made by the developer were meaningful. So misrepresentation has occurred and money exchanged based on this - that is not a good place for any company to go and having run a few I know that reputation matters.

On reflection - I am furious - the dishonesty is unbelievable. It was stated over and over that xp (rank and crafting) were protected.

I started in Sea Trials and ever since the last xp reset we have been told we would not have too do it again for rank or crafting. I also bought DLC on this basis. Its more than annoying, its misrepresentation.

interested as well

Done a few of the shallow ship patrol mission battles yesterday. I joined the side which was outnumbered on every occasion apart from one when the game would only let me join the larger group - not sure why. Generally, joiners nearly always join the side with the advantage in numbers and most of the fights resulted in being massively outnumbered. Given, the propensity for ganking the rewards should award damage on the basis of the BR difference. If you join and the balance of power is 2 to 1 you get 100% of value of the damage for ganking (shared between more people) and 200% for being ganked. If it's even, 100% each. If the odds change, change the ratio of the rewards. This will encourage joining the weaker side and improve the fun. A multiplier for the outnumbered, reflects the reality that whilst you can do damage quite quickly whilst outnumbered, you generally do not last very long, so it seems fair to get more for being disadvantaged whilst it lasts.

All the rewards of the game should be available in some form to all players. Some people just want to play solo and don't want to use ts (usually a clan requirement) and I think that is fine. You should be able to trade or craft your way to all the books, ships and modules, PVE, PVP or RVR for the same. No haves and have nots. The path maybe different but the gain should be the same.

I think the safe zones are generally fine and it does not stop the constant farming at KPR. AI fleet tagging is a bit of a pain though. However, they could vary in size based on the prevailing visibility - out of sight = out of safe zone. Night and rain storms etc. After all if your signal for reinforcements can't be seen from the shore they can't help!

I sailed into Little Cayman earlier and noticed a Russian frigate "Anatoly" with " recently killed" tag entering port having just killed a British player in combat news in the same area. Nick Gonchin killed a Russian player in same location shortly before. Now the recently killed tag has expired about an hour later, Anatoly killed another Brit in Cayman Brac according to combat news and Nick Gonchin killed another Russian in same area. Pretty clear what is going on I think.

Just total frustrating crap - crafted 5 ships and nothing so far. Estimated odds 1 in 5 but who knows - just unlucky or is none in 5 normal? Just like crafting for blueprints over and over.

The use of AI tagging within green zones is just an exploit as the AI does not call reinforcements but a player could. Solution is simple allow the player to call reinforcements if caught by a tag circle with AI in the green zone Also I think some indication that the nearby AI or another player has been tagged and that you are in the tag circle together with the timer would be nice, plus any battle within a green zone initiated by an offensive player should stay open for for the duration of the battle.

I was one of the very first 50 level crafters after steam release. Very proud of the first Santi launched out of Little Issac Rocks!. The random number of permanent and changeable upgrade slots was bad enough, what we have now is worse again. No choice between speed or crew space then, but now all sorts of random upgrades and random extra upgrade slots. Plus we spend CMs for the privilege on 1st rates and woods we have to spend ages collecting up. Do we know the odds for these special rolls yet - 100 wasted ship builds to get one worth keeping again? Crafted one Vic and got nothing - bad luck or not? The elite dangerous engineers analogy is good - most of us gave up because the RNG was so stupid and wasteful of time and resource. Require special build materials like we have for modules and no random extra upgrade slots.

In reply to OP - I don't know. But, it should have a chance to go either way, with a probability bias to go the same way until the wind has moved between 90 and 135/180 degrees from the original direction at which point the probability bias should probably shift the other way. Time of day could impact the odds as well, with a higher chance of the wind to move towards a shoreward direction in the afternoon and the reverse in the early morning. In general, modest change or no smaller change should be more likely than extreme change and in general wind should be more likely to shift in the same direction. Also when it does change, the speed of change feels a bit too fast.

Tagging does not work for players/OW AI or combat missions

General leeway: Overall its pretty good. The sliding on ice effect is too extreme - when it happens it also feels like the ship has stalled very fast (like a plane would) so a small change would be good. Wind change - the odds should be mostly for small changes 5- 25 degree, lower odds for 15-40 degree change with a small chance of 45-90 degree plus and complete reversal rare. When wind does change the speed of change probably needs some thought - also odds based - mostly modest change speeds but occassionally violent. Graphics tweaks may help to make reduce the feel of leeway (sliding on ice) as well. Wrecks don't drift at all - they should be impacted by leeway as well although at lower speed due to lack of canvass and weight of water - reducing the drift the lower the wreck goes. Slowing down the time between a ship being sunk and disappearing below the waves will help the looting - again some variability in the submerging rate should occur - maybe overall damage related. Ship sailing profile: Victory should be the best sailing first rate and better upwind than the others. Ship BR: There is no reason that ships in same class need to have the same BR at all. Wasa is OP - needs higher BR than Aggy:, 3rd Rate - lower BR than Bellona etc. Will help with PB variance. Marines: All warships should have some marines related to total crew count which don't impact on sailing and gun loading performance etc. The mod should be extra marines and these should reduce performance as now - trying to avoid a smaller ship vastly outnumbering the marines count of a large one and overwhelming a much larger crew too easily. Can't see why lower tier ships get higher percentages of marines for the mod - should be 10% across the board. Grape should disproportionately kill more marines as they are by definition more exposed on the deck and ball at deck height/slightly above should do the same. Repairs: The cool down needs to be longer and maybe the time spent in repars longer as well. Rum is massively OP - restoring the entire crew is sureal.

Does that mean that the ship limit of 25 in pbs went with the introduction of the BR limit and does it mean there is no longer an open world limit on ship numbers in an instance?

I think the graphics make it seem a bit like sliding on ice rather than water - hence the need to tweek the graphical effects.

I like the new sailing mechanic despite the frustration or time looting now involves - it does add depth. What is most frustrating is the rapid wind movement during instances which at low speeds, especially close hauled, can counteract the adjustments we now have to make for leaway. Moving forward: 1. Some tweaking of the impact of leaway at varying speeds and some improvement to the graphics to better reflect the impact on waves/wake would be nice. 2. Increase time a wreck is available to loot or allow looting of some items - books for example for longer - can't fish the cannons but can get some flotsome. Stuff like copper bottoms should be craftable again and refit based anyway. 3. Tweak the rapidity of wind change in instances so it moves a little slower and the variance in direction is less extreme most of the time with the odds of large swings in direction reduced, but still possible. 4.An anchor option and possibly option to deploy boats - reducing crew for guns etc - a floating battery static defence needs an anchor. 5.An option to throw cargo and cannons overboard if beached on shallows! Enjoy ps A way of fixing rudder between neutral and full would be really good as well!

Charles is still in retirement but we would welcome him back at any time. The SLRN has fought in hundreds of port battles often 2 or 3 per day. Our victories in fully contested battles far outnumber defeats by a large margin. Every nation learns from it defeats and indeed the Danes became our best opponents, many good battles were had and their Aves win had followed a long list of previous Aves and other British victories. I have the medal! The SLRN remains a nationally focussed British clan and we possess more line ships relative to our player base than any current Brit clan. We build and provide port battle ships for all our players if that is what they want to do. We also participate in hostility raising, screening and other national operations and we also provide ships appropriate for the task. If you want to help the nation - PvP patrols, commerce raiding, hostility, screening operations, crafting or trading please join. If you want to sail Line Ships and Agamemnon's and use them in port battles in the British nation we welcome your application for membership. There is and never will be any chance the SLRN will not be a British clan! FAdm

Yes they reported the problem - but they did receive the CMs

I did use F11 but its fixed itself now

I know - relogged and rebooted and it arrived

Recently finished a port battle at Cartagena on 9th July - I was not kicked during the battle as 6 others were but have received no Conquest Mark reward. I have screen shot of attendance.

I don't think alts should be used to flip ports, however, this just exposes the underlying problem - the current conquest mark system. If you can't get them your game experience is compromised by game design. Some of the consequential impacts have also been perverse and the scramble for port battle spots unedifying. You should not have to attend a port battle or join a clan to be able to experience all the ships the game has to offer, although I would suggest clan membership adds a dimension to game play that many of us really enjoy.

We do enjoy a long sail, lots of port battles under our belts, (now building first rates) and PvP