Hi guys.
I'm not the type to brag, but when i play a game, i intend to have good fun. i had an excellent time, until today.
Here's the situation. I log in, and sail from Fort Royal (french capital) in my Basic Lynx (i wanted to explore new corners of the map, so i let my brigs in port)
in the help chat, a french player is complaining that a Swedish Trinc pursued and sunk him near Fort Royal. So i start opening my eyes. All i see are a bunch of french ships, namely snows, brigs, trader's snows, an IA controlled Bellona, etc, etc...
Suddenly a wild Swedish trinc appears and targets me. Right, why not. I manage to escape this ruthless attack by MrDoran (post captain, swedish) by crossing paths with him and fleeing upwind where he can't follow with his square sails, and start to go back to port to repairs. Before i got there, the same trinc attacked me again. And again, until finally i succeeded to enter port and quit the game.
Again i can only stress the number of french ships available for the taking, all worth a lot more in gold and XP than my Lynx. But no, he targeted me only. It was the first time that such unsportsmanlike conduct happened to me. Each time i met in battle an opponent much heavier armed than me, they almost always let me flee with messages of good luck and whatnot.
I know nothing can be done to prevent nasty behaviour like this, experienced players hunting down newbies to feast on their tears, but i'd still like to file a complain against this swedish player, who harassed me in such a manner. Believe me there's nothing more unpleasant than having one hour to play and spend all that time running from a much heavier ship, in a straight line, repairing sails every 5 minuts to keep the speed up. Not my definition of fun at all.
Hope my text is clear, my english is a little rusty nowadays.
Thibaud
P.S.: For some reason the forum thread concerning bad behaviour in OW is closed, so i file my complain here.