Salty Dog.

Right, If you use half your hours on one server then switch server (not create a new character) , the other half of your labor hours is available on the other server.

People were farming crafting XP by using starting Labor hours to level up crafting. They would do this by creating new characters, using the labor hours, deleting the character, then repeating the process. This worked because XP is bound to the steam account but labor hours were bound to the character..... easy fix: simply start the characters with no labor hours. WARNING: if you want to explore PVE, or a different PVP server, you labor hours will be reset across all servers. Kudos to the Dev team for quickly fixing the exploit.

because the picture you took is NOT the surprise. It's a movie prop.

Relax sunshine.... The data we can access is NOT live data.

I've been playing well over a year and thousands of hours and I have never seen that happen

so two ships traveling at 8 knots, 0 difference in speed of the two. You grapple and one ship turns....guess what happens. the current rules are fine. At three knots the momentum of the ship is low enough that one ship could pull in the other.

a snow is a sail rigging type, it has absolutely nothing to do with guns or decks. a "snow" has two masts like a Brig, but instead of the spanker sail being attached to the main mast, it is attached to a trysail mast behind the main mast. So technically a snow is the first three masted ship in the game.

If you actually want PVP and be in the middle of the action....you really only have two choices. Join Tattered Flags.

We've been discussing funding a trip from Ukraine to Florida so you can see what the REAL weather is like here.

In addition to what resources are produced and consumed I'd like it to also show the prices of resources when you visited last.

It really is a bit of a mix isn't it. We have "3rd rates" named Bellona We have 2 snows, one called "snow" one called "Niagra" we have several kinds of Frigates only one is called Frigate Really need to come up with a standard. I'd suggest that when your in open world looking at a fleet it should say that TYPE of ships "2 third rate, 4 frigate" once your in battle, you find out exactly which frigates and which third rates you face.

you do understand that his articles are just for fun, right. Nobody should take them as the honest truth. It's just a bit of roleplay newspaper article, written from a biased point of view. It's referred to a yellow journalism and fitting with the timeframe of the game. https://history.state.gov/milestones/1866-1898/yellow-journalism

when you do a sell contract, you are not selling them at that moment. You are offering them for sale. If nobody buy them they don't get sold. Think of it as Amazon. You use amazon to sell your product at a price you set. Amazon holds your product until it sells then gives you the money. when you have a sell contract, the item is then buyable from the materials list. When you do a buy contract your are not buying them at that moment. You are offering to buy any resources or crafted items players sell to the port at YOUR buy price. your contract is filled by either the port filling the contract from the items the port produces OR by players selling resources they have. Materials are only sellable if a player has listed a Buy Contract. I think the UI needs to be changed to only show materials that have buy contracts. I've sold several crafted items like planking and crafting notes but it's a little difficult to tell what your actually able to sell.

Devil to pay: or fully "the devil to pay and no pitch hot" or sometimes "“there’s the devil to pay and only half a bucket of pitch” is a naval term referring to a difficult job with limited resource. The "Devil" was the longest seam which was difficult to reach,

would someone list out what beats what during boarding.

bottom of the screen where you select your server

I don't think any navigation aid should be in game. Open world sailing is a acquired skill, like tacking or manual sail turning and experience and skill are part of being "good". I remember getting lost but it is something you learn from. Now I have no fear making long open ocean transits, its just comes from experience. If people are getting "lost" they should stay in areas they know until they build up the skills to navigate over open water, it's not hard..

I am getting the same errors.

Trading prices should be kept as a secret. Picture this, you find a very profitable route and post the prices. Next thing you know, your seeing 10 ships trading the same route you discovered. Suddenly your profits are gone.

well to tell the truth, its not the first time I ended up on the far side of forever. One day I needed to go do some shopping so hit the "teleport to capital" button and left. I was quite surprised when I got home later to realise my ship had been sailing south/west for four hours. After about an hour sailing west I made landfall in about the same area. Being "Alpha" just gota laugh, report it and carry on.

So two bugs/problems occurred this morning. Sailing my Naval Brig, off the coast of Florida near Mosquito I and another payer sailing a Basic Lynx engage a cutter. During the encounter another enemy cutter joins. The lynx attempts to board one of the lynx and ends up loosing the fight with the enemy lynx keeping 12 crew. I close with the newly joined Cutter, board and destroy the crew. Now the bug occurs. after leaving the defeated cutter the crewless cutter starts following me almost like it was under tow or intentionally following me. I close with the cutter that only has 12 crew figuring I would board the undermanned cutter but the crewless cutter ends up crashing into me and pinning me against the cutter with 12 crew. I end up sinking. Problem two. When I respawn, I have been transported a few thousand miles to Terre-de-Bas a island south of Guadalupe. Pretty much the furthest port from where I was. No big deal, it's alpha, I can either Teleport of spend all night working my way back to home waters (U.S.). I did report both bugs. Anyone else see either of these two buggs?

Where are the invites for open world showing up? I've had my Santi for several months and keep checking my email and this forum. Are the invites showing up ingame?

Four French ships of the line were captured (including the flagship) as well as one destroyed. The defeat of the French prevented the French and the Spanish from their planned Invasion of Jamaica. The battle lasted 4 days. The british used a tactic of "Breaking the line" as pictured in the center diagram, More info and list of ships,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Saintes

one thing I'm not seeing is what shot is loaded on each deck. Maybe something like 14C, 14B, 14D or 14G to indicate chain, ball, double, or grape.