Souvlaki
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4 minutes ago, JobaSet said:
LOL one time but US and Britts do it every time now and we dont even Screen
It was more than just one time, as a matter of fact, almost from the get go pirates around PR would use this exploit to seal club of all things. They'd sit in an instance and just pop out when their alt spotted a target. Pretty sad. And the Brits and others can't do it unless they use alts somehow. Given that it seems like everyone in the game has an alt, I suppose that's a possibility, but I wouldn't know, haven't played in weeks. Anyway, the pirates have abused that mechanic since the server reset. It only makes it worse because every noob and their brother joins pirates so they have the largest pop. Put those too things together and yeah, it makes it pretty unfun for everyone else.
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13 hours ago, JobaSet said:
Name one. One advantage that is not made up. And one we didn't create for our selves
The ability to hide your fleets is game breaking and honestly when the pirates started using that exploit to take ports I lost interested in the game and shortly thereafter it started dying. I'm not really complaining, because I think this was a good test and I'm sure the devs noticed and will fix issue, but yeah.
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Why should anyone play a faction other than pirates when they enjoy significant advantages when it comes to game play mechanics? Everyone honestly should just pile into the pirate nation and have a free for all death match. It would be much more entertaining.
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So the Pirates finally realized that exploiting game mechanics to take ports might be bad for the game? LOLOLOLOL
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Just now, Loco Bandito said:
I'm not talking us vs them attitude. This is a mere nation A has small pop of say 20 - 30 players vs nation B with 150 players.
Would be good to see small nations be able to have a go at times.
Agreed, but small nations will have to fight other small nations, or ally to take on bigger nations, or hit bigger nations in outlying areas that may not draw as many defenders. They still have options.
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4 minutes ago, Loco Bandito said:
That's ok for a large nation but what about smaller nations who can just field 25 players. How do you propose they send out screeners? Vs a nation with a larger pop who can afford screeners.
The same way the Dutch will take all of your territory. Oh wait, they won't, because they don't have enough players.
Obviously every nation is going to be limited by the number of active and willing players they have. No mechanic will fix that.
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1 hour ago, Bach said:
It is the nature of large teams with no clear leader to in fight following an unexpected loss
Battle was 25v23 and each side was almost all Aggys. So the actual battle was pretty fair. What Britains are complaining about is not being able to employ their population advantage to create an unfair PB. It was a fair PB. Get over it.
Next time Brit just needs to put its screeners on site >1hr to the PB and they can keep their population advantage in play. This time GB just got outplayed, this time, because the expected something that didn't happen and were not prepared for it.
No, I don't think you're looking at this a tester. This game is in Alpha TESTING right now. So the mechanics are in flux and the way the players are going to be handled is in flux. I honestly don't care what nation is using scummy tactics like hiding in a battle for an hour, I think the subject should be addressed head-on by the devs and corrected. Having a group of players testing the game mechanics and showing areas that can easily be exploited to produce results that the devs do not wish, is a good thing. So hats off to the pirates for exposing this weakness in the game design. My only question is, will these loopholes be fixed and the topic addressed? Because if you take a big picture look at how this hurts the game, you'll see this kind of exploit removes the relevance of a lot of players (anyone who isn't directly in the PB) from having fun and participating. It's also an unfair advantage for the Pirate faction as constructed because they are the only faction who can use this exploit. Considering they are one of the bigger factions in the game, this is a pretty huge advantage and will only get worse on official release when you have a majority of players flocking to the pirates.
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9 minutes ago, Duncan McFail said:
I'm sorry. Do you think the game mechanics of screening are anything more than griefing. Meaning the biggest nation can always defend their ports because they have the numbers to keep out anyone who trys to take their ports. That system is bs to me. On global their would be no nation that could take a brit port unless all the nations combined to stop them. I'd rather see that decision made by who has more skill and tactics in the port battle rather than who can keep the enemy from getting to the port battle.
No I don't think having naval battles in the open world is griefing.
If I understand you correctly, what you're saying is the British population is too big, thus it's ok to cheat. Do I have the correct? I seem to remember participating in a port battle vs the pirates a few weeks ago where they clearly outnumbered my team and I didn't see them withdrawing any ships so it could be decided by skill.
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So am I to understand that hiding for one hour in a battle to avoid any screening force is 'par for the course' and not cheating or exploiting the game mechanics? I mean, is that all it takes, some nerds with so much time on their hands they can circumvent how the game is intended to be played because they must win by any means, even if it means cheating? And the Devs are OK with this?
If so, I'm ready to uninstall and stop wasting my time. Luckily I'm fairly new to the game, so no big loss. I'll do a nice little write-up on Steam about it and be done.
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On 5/30/2017 at 8:20 AM, Yar Matey said:
Your argument holds no weight when put into practice. A new player logs in does some missions in a cutter, finds out he needs to do some trading to get money and resources, gets an LGV, tries to do some trade runs, loses his ship and cargo to a small fleet of surprises, rinse and repeats this a few times, then quits the game after not making any progress in the game. Joke was on him the whole time, he never stood a chance, hes using a ship with no refits! HA!
Yeah, either that, or he could learn from his mistakes and avoid those hot zones and buy a couple of refits. I think that the game shouldn't be dumbed down to cater to people unwilling to come up with a strategy to 'win'.
Weak nations need to group together and consider abandoning the one they are in now.
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That's nonsense. If the battle stayed open they wouldn't be able to hide their fleets now would they?