CJFlint

I have not loged into POTBS in over a year, what it like now? I noticed there forums and sight are still down. Saw there was some new patches.....its been a while....kind of miss it sometimes.. Infact I havn't even been on this forum in a while I noticed there forums and sight are still down. Hows naval action been going? I gotta get back on and test. Any of you guys play assassins black flag? I been playing that one lately for my pirate fix. For sand box instant grad game its really pretty good. Worth playing.

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I also played post portalus era if you will. I had to switch over all my CHRs, it was fairly simple. I also learned how to duel box with there new clients. But I only played for a week or so, then quit. So I know my alts are there. Just before 2.11 I sort of dispanded my SOC and asked all members to take what was there's out of the warehouses. I kept my soc name intact, and soc influence. I sold off a anything I didn't need, and then took all dbls off of my alts and put it on my primary account, I also transfered any thing of value to my main CHR. I then buried my gold LOL. My reasoning behind it, was I knew POTBS was probably not going to recover, but if they did and if there was some sort of turn around with the game. I would still have my CHRs, my in game money, influence, ships and econ ready to go. Other wise I would just move on. I would love to see it a miracle recovery, but I know that it is far off.

Forum Trolling...I never would have guessed that went on.....cough cough

It is a great mod and complete, epic battles, period matching music and the list goes on. I still have not played the napoleon version yet. Empires was probably my fav total war, because I enjoy that period of history. I played many hours of it a few years ago right when it was released then put it until just recently when I saw your super mod. DarthMod reminds a little of GWX for for Silent Hunter 3, it was a vary complete over-hall for the game, that added a ton of new content.

I really am enjoying that mod, didn't even realize when I down loaded that the person who made works for Game Labs til today. That's some cool stuff!

I know:) Made empires into a new game. The music is a prefect choice for that game, and the new battles are just epic. Kind of wondering if hes got anything planed for Rome 2 lol I played IL-2, and my all time fav combat sim rise of flight. They got some good talent! I have a funny feeling when naval action is complete it will be epic.

Did any of the makers of "Darthmod" work on naval action currently? I saw on the Gamelabs sight it was one of the titles was Empires "Darthmod". I just downloaded darthmod for empires TTW over the weekend and must say I'm quite impressed. Its breathed a ton of new life into empires.

I think the reason for that is its using the M&B engine which was pretty much a melee and shooting 3rd/1st person game. So they probably had to design the ship com completely from scratch. So its probably going to be great avcom with sub par ship com. Were POTBS was good ship com with sub par avcom. Well I must confess there was parts of POTBS avcom I found fun, like epics, skirms and dueling. I hated boarding though, always felt that was just broken and really exploitable. Carribean is an indi early alpha so Its really any ones guess on how good the final release will be. Based on the fun I had playing M&B, and the low price of Carribean, I think It might be worth me playing. I'm going to go into it not expecting much out of ship com, but expecting land and boarding/land battles to have that same fun M&B had. In other news lol I also have revisited over the weekend TTW Empires recently, with the "DARTHMOD", which is a complete over hall to the game. The battles are both land an sea are much more epic, and there are quite a few new units and nations to chose from. That mod is well worth getting for anyone who wants to revisit Empires. EDIT: I think some of the people from gamelabs worked on Darthmod....holy crap....interesting! Greatwork!

Hey Pnakotic, your 100% right if POTBS had something like the M&B avcom system it would have been incredible. Carribean caught my eye too, its an early alpha. Its using the beloved mount and blade engine, with ship com and ship boarding. So 1st & 3rd person AVCOM both and land & sea. Mount and Blade melee and shooting avcom is just addictive fun and honestly had a blast playing M&B. Its an asome system. Boarding combat looks really fun. It should be cool. It more then likely will not be MMO but will have multi player battles. The only cons I saw is the ship com combat looked pretty crude, same with thee old M&B turn base strategy map.It's early maybe so you never know. But it will make up for it in stupid fun avcom! Regardless I may pick it up to hold me over til Mount & Blade Banner lord comes out or Naval Action gets finished. Its also cool its on steam! The link: http://snowbirdgames.com/?cat=11〈=en As far as POTBS it has BEEN dead to me, its been over for some time now. I moved on a while ago and found better games. Their web site even, hasn't been one in a really really long time, which tells me they dont even care anymore. Its going to fizzel out, if it hasn't already. Put a fork in it!

Age of Pirates 2 was a really neat single player age of sail game. The one thing I will say about it is you really should apply one of the super mods to it before playing it, like GOF. I got allot of game play out of it and feel (moded) it is probably had the true to life feel to it I have seen out of any age of sail game. Although it is pretty dated. There is rumors floating around they maybe working on a 3rd installment....maybe. Pirates Ahoy also showed a "Hearts of Oak" indi game in the works. Don't expect a speedy development on that one, its pretty much unpaid modders making it, so it will get done when it gets done. But I was pretty impressed with the screen shots and concept videos. POTBS of course in its prime was the best MMORPG age of sail game out and really didn't have too much comp. Due to the fact there really is only 3 other age of sail mmo games that I know of ever and they pretty much sucked. POTBS is dead now though due to crappy management and piss poor patches which was down right shameful considering how successful it was for a while. I never really was that into AC so I will not comment. I did not play "Age of Sail" either. We forgot TTW Empires and Napoleonic which was not as good as empires. It has age of sail ships and a really good combat system, although it is a Turn base with RTS battles. Empires I thought did a really good job showing the 1700s and really early 1800s. There is Wind of Luck which is a MMORPG, I saw some of the screen shots, and kind of looked crude and cartoonish, not something I want to play. But its not done. Recently NA is probably the most promising thing I have seen for a decent age of sail game in developent. The team seems to be on the right track, and honestly I don't really have any complaints about anything thing they have stated. Whats weird is everything they have stated is exactly how I would like an age of sail game. So I'm being patient and think they should take as much time as the need, not get caught up to much in deadlines and just do it right:)

One example that set potbs apart and would love to see again is the player ran economy that potbs had. Advanced economy I dove into after playing a while, and I really enjoyed it. It was much slower paced then say Shipcom and AVCOM pvp. But it took allot of strategy, and was almost a passive form of pvp. It worked for me it made me pretty much self contained. So I hope to see a player ran economy in NA. I think because of potbs's economy system and conquest system, it almost gave the game a living breathing world feel to it. That is something they did right and really well. Edited

I'll have to check out that 2017. Lately I have been diving back in the ARMA engine based games. I'm yet to check out any of the "Life mods" yet, I heard those are Role Play, and even have in game currency. What is the Armoured Assasins into? I'm currently in becks privateers, but wouldn't mind checking out some of the other clans. The one I belong to now is really a little too big for DayZ SA current buggy state on high pop servers. I honestly think its better to be in smaller groups these days. Also I noticed Rome 2 came out with a new unit patch recently. Me Too Naval Action is one game I am really still vary optimistic about. I'm pretty sure its going to be what many of us Age of Sail gamer's have been waiting for a long while. Currently there really isn't a decent period age of sail game out at all other then AC. If anyone of you guys have been playing DayZ SA, use team speak or have your own channel, find me on steam my ID is: CJFlint in game: [bP]CJFlint. I love looting, collecting items, surviving and pvp. Feel free to hit me up. I don't mind just running around collecting items with random encounters, or if your interested in bigger pvp scale on loaded servers I belong to clan for that, although dayz sa is rather buggy on high pop servers as of late. Onrionz my CHR got wiped the other day, the game crashed and I lost everything, so I know how you feel. I gotta run around recollecting soon lol. Thats the worst when that happens. DayZ is kinda unstable in larger "loaded" servers, so sometimes there game crashes and character wipes, something to be mindful of..There has been allot of server memory leaks, that are causing problems.

I honestly don't have an answer:) 1700s to the 1800s or classical to the romantic period produced some of the most epic music ever created. The best composers ever lived in that period. Seemed like it most have been a pretty colorful yet harsh time to live through. There's so much music from that period I love that I don't know if I could decide.

I saw a preview for it, looks really cool I check it out!

I had something like that happen to me. I got set up over the weekend. A player came up to me and said he was friendly, and we started trading items back and forth. He had stuff I needed and vs versa. Then shortly after I was ambushed unarmed. The did not kidnap, pretty much I was shot on the spot. I'm pretty sure that other player was being followed or it was a set up. But I was fairly freshly spawned. But yeah there are some real nasty players in DayZ and used to think that about potbs. After doing some research I think I'm getting the gist of how things work in the world of day z. For starters I have learned to trust no one while in world..period. If I see someone and they dont say anything, I either attack them if I can or more often get far away from them in a hurry. Unless I know them. Also I'm learning that you pretty much have to take every precaution to survive, and take advantage of every single exploit. I have learned to always hide using cover, and when Im out in the open to run really fast and zig zag to make it hard for them to aim in on me. Also at 1st I try to run to the places I can get the most loot, and grab enough stuff to make it to one of the airstrips. If I end up starving or get attacked by zombies early on before I get anything, I pretty much try to die quickly so I can re-spawn. In order to do this I use the DayZ TV map and plan every move. Last night was my best night so far, for the 1st time ever for me.....I became armed. I made it to the airstrip and scored 2 pistols and filled my back pack to the brim he he. So that DayZ tv map has been really helpful for me since I found it. My steam ID is CJFlint

I will say this to my POTBS alum. Although NA still a while out. I'm pretty confident it is going to be vary cool when it is complete. I'm going to be honest, I don't think it will be the same as potbs based of the vibe I get here on the NA forums though in many respects that are all good. It probably will be more based more on ship type, ship config and captaining skill and not on how good your build is. More based on realism less on fiction fantasy age of pirate style. I'm pretty sure it will be in its own league. But that's all speculation on my part. It is still early. I really like the staff on NA. They seem to have a really good grass roots system, and interact with future players.Hopefully they keep that going. I think its the coolest concept I have seen for a Age Sail Game in a long time. I'm exited yet patient to see who it turns out.

Arma 2 is really pretty stable, I heard DayZ mod is too. Stanalone kind of sucks for me sometime because I get DCed allot. CHR reset is a pain too. Its alpha though. I'm good at arma 2 and iron front....DayZ I'm still a Nooblet, mainly because I don't know my way around the map yet. I have starved, died of thirst and been killed by zoombies LOL. But I'm getting better he he. I found the map! I hate that too at night I have been losing my flashlight too The last couple of nights the servers are hived and most are night time...some days. With out a light you cant loot.....QQ QQ I know in Arma and Dayz (MOD) you can build bases and store, that is a cool feature. I would like to see more hunting living off the land ect ect So I don't have to run strait to the new spawn killing fields just to get enough stuff (if Im lucky) to find weapons. But looking at the map. I think taking a detour is better....maybe. Yes Arma and OFP have been used by some military units to train in tactics. Its about as close to combat as you can get on a cpu. But, the reality is being an infantry men, you have to be in tip top shape. Be able to take on serous hardships. So its still missing allot. Also its a bit watered down on weapons realism. You cant just pick up a rifle and start using it with out setting the sights(BZO). ect ect ect. Tactics though are spot on. Google DayZ TV....its ASOME! They got really good maps, info, and live streams of pvp action lol. Really cool! http://www.dayztv.com/live/ Check it out if you haven't already its vary helpful I think when Naval Action gets all set up, they should get something like that set up. Live feeds, info and maps. New players can learn by watching the vets pvp. ...Live Up until now how thought the most smack talking, worst ganking, worst QQing and hard core pvpers were on POTBS. I'm going to have to say DayZ does now LOL They crap talking is the most funny and epic I have seen in a long time!

Yes this is true. DayZ to me is vary much like all the other games made with that engine Arma, OFP and Iron Front. Its a really nice engine for realism, in fact military units around the world use that engine for a training sim. I was just playing iron front before dayz it is vary similar in the game mechanics. But DayZ I think is more challenging, because you have to eat, drink and you start off with nothing at all. Last night when I played I had really bad luck lol. They just patched it and they reset every thing:( Lost all my crap I found. Then it kept spawning a me at night, and my game kept freezing up when I tried to switch servers. So I decided to play something else. But its alpha so their will be issues. I think they should add hunting and real life survival stuff while in the forests. So if players feel dont feel like having to loot citys to survive they can go to the forests. Now that would be neat, they sound like they may lean that way too. I guess players can collect berrys now lol War Thunder I saw and looks cool. I may try that one down the road, same with Civ. But.......I still have an Age of Sail Bug. I'm pretty sure NA is going to be really cool when its complete. I think if it ends up having an open world, crafting, exploration, combat, ect ect. I play it as my primary game. This is just me, and its early.

Cool I will. I started last night. I was using a call sign "PIG" tonight Im going to switch to CJFlint for my call sign so people who know me, will see me. Keep an eye out. The CHR management screen still seems about crude, so I have to change my steam name. My set up I just have my gaming pc hdmi ed directly to my TV. I ran 1920x1080, and just ran with the default settings. It seemed to run pretty decent. But I'll look into the your tips. I found it easier to pick up then I expected. I think if people played arma 2 it maybe much easier for them to pick up. It took a little bit to figure out the whole eating and drinking thing. I played for 6 hours total. 1st time I lasted 3 hours then was knocked out by a zombie, I should have left him alone lol Then I managed to re-spawn play for a few hours and collect some stuff. I only saw 4 other players, one of them tried to shot me. I'm going to the air strip tonight to try to get some guns he he Ya know In Day Z I think its kind of similar to old school potbs were there is "Seal Clubing", but its more toward new spawns or fresh spawns. I ran across someone who just spawned like me who was captured by bandits. He was saying they cuffed him, cursed at him and drained his blood.......I was like, "Really???", I guess you can do that in day z. Reminded me of the traumatized potbs low level noobs that would get clubbed back in the day.

Yeah, I'm thinking of getting it off of steam. I have a funny feeling I will get hooked lol. I love post apoc genre and always liked the arma and ofp engines. I can see it being crazy fun. Zombies.....well never got in to the whole zombie craze, I think I'll like Day Z though. I played Iron Front multi player, and found it shockingly fun. To me was up there with mount and blade crazy fun pvp maybe even better. Same engine as Day Z, just WW2 eastern front. Awwww.......screw it! DayZ Im down loading it today. If you see "SAPPERKING"...that's me please don't shot me right away. I have a feeling this will be a blast.

Well LOL a month or so has gone by time for an up date haha Well Rome 2 has had some updates, so I started a new game playing the Rome Faction. Its getting better with every patch and there is now an exp pack. Also I picked back up Arma 2 and Iron Front (Arma 2 engine). Been doing some multi - player and mission editing. Even though I'm not that into Zombies, I have been considering trying out Day Z (ARMA 2 Mod) to see what it is like. The Arma 2 engine is great lots mods and content. Multi player is about the most unforgiving, yet fun pvp I have ever seen. One shot and your a goner! he he Real deal. I'm finding being sneaky pays haha Played a little evochron mercenary too. That's a fun one. http://www.starwraith.com/evochronmercenary/ GTA 5......well I really want to play it, I'm waiting to see if it will come out on the PC. GTA 4 was really much better on the PC. Almost gave in and bought it for the X-box...but there is lots of rumors floating around that it will come out on the pc. Hey I need something to hold me over til Naval Action is done!

Ya know...I never made an account on Piratesahoy, only down loaded content for Age of Pirates 2 from there lol But I could

Well right now I think there is Naval Action and WOL that are the next multi player age of sail game. That I know of anyhow. With that said, other then Naval Action being a age of sail multi player game in development. I do not think it will follow the same style and template as potbs by any means by the sounds of it here on the forums. Its more the likely going to be more realistic, with not to much of the Disney style fantasy pirate sort of some what fiction somewhat none fiction we saw with POTBS. But who knows its all speculation, seeing its still early on. Hearts of Oak I'm havn't read enough to see if it is going to be multi player. Maybe it will. Im pretty sure it is being made by modders unpaided with the Cry engine. The thing to consider is a multi player game I'm pretty sure requires some pretty big servers, which costs serous money. So if it is they will need to fund it some how. Maybe I'm wrong and there's easier way now days. But If you take a look at Day Z, and look at the success they had taking a Arma 2 super mod and making a stand alone. I would not think it would be impossible to make Hearts of Oak multi player. So who knows! So this day and age I think more and more is becoming a reality in gaming, which is really cool!

Bungee thanks for finding that. Looks like some neat concepts. I watched the sail animation one and the cannon video.....Pretty cool. Looks like it will have allot of detail We have seen modders pull off some amazing stuff in shyrim, arma, silent hunter ect ect. Then there's the Day Z story which started off as a super mod for arma, then stand alone. Would not surprise me if they pulled it off, these days ya never know. Hope fully it will be free....ha ha. Knowing my luck 60 bucks with 10 dollar a pop DLCs a cough cough