Niels Terkildsen
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Sure, I was just put off by the 'swashbuckling' pictures of a poorly maintained whatever-that-is. I actually think it would be interesting to link a slight weathering with the "days at sea" indicator, just don't exaggerate it.
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For pirates, perhaps. For ships of national navies, not really.
PS. though I'd agree if what you meant was that each ship should be more unique - perhaps they should look slightly different depending on the modules/upgrades installed.
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Spain vs 5 1st rate
Was looking at the radar when this happened: https://youtu.be/1aOXE5WnACM?t=412
"Look up.. look up.. Shit..."
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Open World clan tags would go a long way to solve some of the problems.
I quickly realized I could be flying the swedish flag and as a swedish citizen and former history student, I instantly selected Sweden. Now, I live in the very southern region of Sweden called Scania, and it's right next to Denmark. This ofcourse means that I, once again former history student, got a urge to sink danish ships.
A former "history student" you say? If you knew anything about history, and you come from Scania, you'd not be so enthusiastic about fighting Danes. I guess it's true that the Swedish educational system doesn't teach the Scanian students about their history before the 18th century, and I would've excused you if you didn't say you were a student of history.
Oh, and...
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Nice announcement. Good luck, have fun!
PS. I would tell you how to use the letter "s" when making historical pamphlets etc. with old font types but I fear it may be fruitless.
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Not sure if this is the right thread to post in, but it appears the British are indeed doomed:
How will they ever recover from this!?
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I think Corelli and Pergolesi fit right in along with Bach, Händel, Boccherini, Haydn, etc. Try these:
PS. Thank you for showing me those albums inspired by O'Brian! Unfortunately it seems they're not on YouTube anymore.
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Perhaps you'd support this suggestion? I really think we should have a new compass rose in the game that reflects the historical usage instead of the current arbitrary degree system.
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I'd like to see actual historically used compass points used in the compass instead of the arbitrary ones we have now.
The compass currently has N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW, and inbetween each there's two extra points. There should actually be three points between them so we end up having N, NbE, NNE, NEbN, NE, NEbE, etc. This way you can refer to all the points accurately instead of using only the degree system (eg. "North by East" instead of "North (0 degrees) and slightly left of first point (15 degrees)", "North-Northeast" instead of "between Northeast (45 degrees) and North (0 degrees)", and "Northeast" instead of "45 degrees".
See the compass rose:
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Good fight with the Swedes this evening in Danish waters. This is the lineup as I remember it (forgot to screen it).
Sweden: 5 DSB members in 1 Cherubim, 2 Surprise, 1 Cerberus, and a Snow
Denmark-Norway: A couple of Danish AI (Snows/Cutters?), as well as a mixed group of 2 Cherubim, 1 Surprise, and a Snow
Everyone stayed 'til the end and it was a good scrap, even though I believe a couple of the Swedes had not repaired before the battle. Unfortunately I lost my ship due to being too reckless, but the Swedes all sank. o7
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I have requested that this thread be locked since I am leaving the clan. A new thread may be posted by one of the remaining officers.
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And another one.
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One? Every other thread in this forum section is "dutchy-froggy"-arguing.
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I am truly glad to see that I'm not the only one violently opposing the treaty, I find myself most ashamed, even embarrassed on behalf of Denmark-Norway recently, two days ago some of the big clans began handing out our ports to the dutch, it breaks my heart to see dutch flags where the danish should fly- Of course, they claim such to be in order to set the defense timer, though honestly such just makes it all the worse in my eyes.
Oh yes, it's such a terrible thing; it might just be for the benefit of the Dano-Norwegian nation - or, God forbid, the whole community!
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New issue up!
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I think you spelled it wrong, it should be "Knugliga Flottan"
Good luck!
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That reminds me of the behaviour of two incessant cutters yesterday...
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Lol, I was sleeping so could not care less, you seem overly concerned with what I do with my gametime, voyeur much. Dutch nation win a few port battles due to the overwhelming attacks their allies the Danes inflict on the French and you come crowing on the forums like as if you personally organised it. Dutch were lucky last night and only having big brother Danes do most of the heavy lifting allowed your slim victories. Don't worry I am sure the French will gain due recompense on your ports soon. If it was not for the Brits turning their back on their allies, the French and Swedes you would be sitting bare-assed in Willemstad making clogs for your French overlords. Keep crowing like a cock-erel.
To be fair, I believe the Dutch did the heavy lifting, fighting organised French fleets, while we had more of a walk in the park.
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Bump in view of the recent events - I think the above post is even more relevant...
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The forum staff.
If I am unable to use advertisements and articles taken directly out of the historical newspaper (as I've done with the censored "labour"-trade advertisement), due to the consideration that they might offend people, I had to find a suitable way to express this in "role" so to speak. The effort to hide the fact that slave trade was huge in the West Indies reminds me a bit of the "trigger warnings"-debate of the US universities. While I understand that it's a sensitive subject, I think it's important to be able to accept the historical fact and not read into it that, just because I include such an advertisement (the subject of which is touched upon by at least half the notices and advertisements in the historical newspaper), I endorse the concept or anything of the sort.
Unless the staff tells me otherwise, I will from now on swap words such as slave and other racially derogative terms found in the historical newspaper with "labourers". If at some stage, the staff finds even that inappropriate, I'll just have to use the missing donkey notices and the like instead, though that might become a bit stale in the end, and not very representative of the time that the game is portraying.
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Thank you!
Take note: The newspaper has been censored and will from now on follow the rules as set forth by the censorship board.
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For all you none Danes:
- Oh no, look he fell!
- Yes well, damn him anyway.
- But they're kicking him...!
- Yes yes, so what? It's a Swede.
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It could be indicated by the use of volumes (Prater has Vol. 5, I have Vol. 15). I'm just a bit pedantic when it comes to being as accurate as possible with the formalities, so I made mine Vol. 15 since the paper was historically started in 1770/1771, and I tried to make the number of issues correspond to that (the historical newspaper published once or twice a week afaik). I'd love to use a year, personally, and if I had to choose now, I'd probably go with 1796, but I'd also love it if there was a consensus between the newspaper publishers.
EDIT: I edited the newspaper to use 1796 as the year (and adjusted the volume and issue numbers to fit).
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But what made you choose 1806? InfiniteAmount, wisely, chose not to include a year (other than assuming it's later than 1790).
Naval Acton looks too pristine!
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Posted · Edited by Niels Terkildsen
Quotes of a couple of passages from "The Far Side of the World" (the tenth book of the Aubrey-Maturin series which I just finished) that came to mind:
"Jack was not one of the modern spit-and-polish captains whose idea of a crack ships was one that could shift the topmasts five seconds quicker than the others in the harbour, in which great quantities of brass outshone the sun at all times and in all weathers, in which the young gentlemen wore tight white breeches, cocked hats and Hessian boots with gilt twist edging and a gold tassel, singularly well adapted for reefing topsails, and in which the round-shot in the racks and garlands was carefully blacked while the naturally black hoops of the mess-kids was sanded to a silvery whiteness. But he did like what little naked brass the Surprise possessed to gleam and her paintwork to look tolerably neat; his first lieutenant liked it even more, and curiously enough the men who had to do all the work thoroughly agreed with them. It was what they were used to, and they prized what they were used to, even if it called for starting the day with sand and holystones on the wet deck long before sunrise and even longer before breakfast, even if it called for painting exposed parts of the ship while she swooped and plunged, flanking across the Atlantic swell with four men at the wheel and most of the watch standing by to let all go with a run: not that this happened often, since in general the winds were no kinder to her than they had been in the early part of the voyage..."
"The rising sun proved that he was right: it showed a line of figures leaning along the stranger's rail in easy attitudes, some with moustaches, some smoking cigars. The United States Navy, though easy-going and even at times verging upon the democratic, never went to such extremes as this; and indeed the chase turned out to be the Estrella Polar, a Spanish merchantman from Lima for the River Plate and Old Spain..."