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i had no problem witrh thold system also hade no problem with even older system with just live oak , oak , fir etc... i like it simple and i'm in NA for the action (that's why i do like the dlc ships) but i do think it's cool for the crafters and i know there are a lot of ppl who like that portion of the game so thumbs up from me 👍
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15 hours ago, Cetric de Cornusiac said:
I mean the system with intermediate parts, which created sub-industries with the players and production chains.
Like players who specialized in making light/heavy carriages, knees or whatever and delivered them to the shipcrafters who put all together.
And all of them gained experience.
I think it was in autumn 2018 when that was exchanged for current system.
butt wasn't that the one where you blueprints were rng ? i loved that system but i know a lot of ppl hated it.
Plus there werde a lot of ppl on the forums yelling that crafting was too much clicking and complex
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Very sad
RIP Seeferkel
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1 hour ago, Swedish Berserker said:
To be honest there is nothing wrong with the system now I never heard anyone complain about Dibloon system lol! To be honest for me it seems like you try to kill the game so u don't have to spend more resorces into development!
No offense, just saying
First u kill the de reuyter and demant good reviews for it! Then the Flag system and the new wood types even though majority even wants Seasoned woods out of the game!
No it's not fake news there was a poll for it!
The last announcements had all negative feedback but you don't care!
Playerbase has dropped dramatically you don't care!
Even after the Patch Playerbase was still low but sure why not drop the next bomb!
As I stayed no offense! Just worried about the future of the game!
oh there was complaining about the dub system when it was first put in to the game. To have more than one currency is not really needed.
the killing of the de reuyter and the following demand for good reviews was communication which was unfortunate BUT i gotta say i like the direct way admin communcates , i'd rather have someone saying what he thinks instead of hideing it behind empty phrases. i know i am alone with that.
to be honest , all changes have mostely been discussed in the past and it didnt work. we all , me included , wine about changes , in the past that lead to things not being implamented which would've really done the game good. so basically i say good job admin , go on
the game is a niche game . expensive as it is and time consuming. i don't think the player base just dropped because of the patch .
one other thing . they're going to release a cheaper version of the game . all for that , i had my 300 $ of fun over 3-4 years , game , alts , dlc's , most likely spent much more. all they're doing now is simplifying the game , which is not bad and rigging it for a broader spectrum of players . also not bad. the game has come a far way , crafting , open world , eco , was not plan at the beginnign , if i remeber the forums right. it's a battle game , with a little eco and crafting which is cool. i know everyone likes complex stuff but lets face it , no eco can be perfect in a game.
just my opinion and no offense to Swedish Berserker
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good move man 👍
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you know guys we've been talking about player numbers since years now. i've been here for a few years for sure and i am pretty sure Liq and a few ohters who have been here even longer can tell the same story. I've seen only 30 players in the open world and i've seen queues of over an hour to even get on the server (and yeah the server was runing just the max of 2500 players was reached). there have been way worse ganks and way worse game mechanics. there were times were ganks were a lot easier and player numbers were sky high and times were money and ships were easy to get and player numbers were down.
Na taught me 2 things.
1. no matter how good a change is , you always will have ppl yelling on the forums , that it was a bad change. crying rollback. admin and gamelabs had some great ideas , which just got trashed cause most of us including myself , didn't want to try something new. democracy definately doesn't work in game design and i am really not to sure if you really should listen to customers.
2. player numbers will always go up and go down , no matter what players do and no matter what devs do . there can be multiple reasons , a nishe game, priceing , too many dlc , a percentage of the player base is burned out etc. it's just a game and playing is suppose to be fun , not a job. sometimes i thin kthat is forgotten
i know passion sweeps high when it comes to NA. why? because we all like and love the game . Hell i know , i quit a few times always came back cause basically Na is rare gem. there is no game out there like this. plus the devs are on the forums and just tell you the truth from their point of view.
playercount will always go up and down in NA , it's just that kind of game. not a game everyone will like in the long run . Just chill and enjoy aslong as it lasts.
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it's pretty quiet so far in germany where i am atm . tense but quiet. they are shutting down the schools , universities , kindergartens on monday. ppl are quiet but it feels like a silence before a storm. seems kinda weird. my job i can't do from home , so that's not an option which isn't too bad cause i'm not too scared anyway , so that's not a big thing but my collegues do have a family so i understand if they want to stay home atm . the company i work for is going a little crazy though because like evey minute there's a new mail with new info , work issues etc. which is not helpful for a lot of ppl just scareing them .
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awesome read man . thanks for posting the link . 🤣👍
was a very fun read
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well tbh not too sure if the hardcore sim part is for me but to say it openly @admin , if you're in the team , i'll sign up . I like your open style man , if something is shitty , you say it's shitty. I respect the work you have done and i sure as hell will keep doing that .
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would everyone just stop pulling the god damn "i am a paying " customer card. we're all god damn cutsomers. and the game is gamelabs baby . i've been here a while seen good thing taken out because of crying without giving the god damn chnages any time . so just suck it up . if admin says there is a way , there is . i have never seen the dude lyeing so far , ni all the years i've been here but i keep seeing ppl calling bs and then being all stuck up if the guy defends himself.
if the dude says there is a way to beat it , there is . we'll find it eventually and then it'll be easy .
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24 minutes ago, admin said:
overall bonus balance is under review
accel/decel bonuses are ok even at 15% as the base accel/decel will decrease significantly on one of the next small patches with upgrade rebalanceand we agree with vernon - most bonuses should come from shipbuilding
don't get me wrong i know pvp server has priority and the pve server is a nice thing to have but i'm guessig here . if you change books bonus on the pve server , you can't customize your ship that much , which means a little less fun for us on pve . as stated in the other thread port improvements will take a while to get to pve server , if at all .
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Hey guys ,
I fell asleep again last night and sailed off of the map. the game didn't log off that was my fault. I've done it before but that was before EA and i know someone sailed around south america into the pacific (sorry forgot the name who did it ) . I don't need a reset , i'll just sail back.Might take me a few days but that's no problem . But since it still can happen might be cool to have that old nifty tp back.
Keep up the good work
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1 hour ago, Howell Davis said:
Actually there are. 30 ships on an alt account, let's make it an endymion, it yields approx 10k if you sell it to the AI shop so in total 300k. I've got 5 alts with SoLs made specifically for that purpose on 3 of them, the remaining 60 ships are ships I actually want to keep - I'll have approx 1.5 million after the wipe, not withstanding the 500k from the clan warehouses, and 250k from the accounts.
If they really wanted to test the economy they'd wipe it all. As it is it's not going to show anything other than I'll be the richest man on the server again right after the wipe..
yep i'm all for it , wipe it all . lets have a clean fresh eco restart. pretty sure it'll show if the new eco system is working correctly or not. BUT i've learned one thing . The normal NA Player is a mad ugly ...uhm dedicated player
with hundreds of playing hours. so change might slow the pack down a little but it won't take long and the change will be mastered .
and while i am at it. i think you should use the pve server to test eco and ai stuff. why? because there are a lot of hardcore traders on there . it'll show ya if a system can work or not plus most ppl on there won't care too much if you change things . my perosnal opinion and experience. it's jolly small bunch of ppl , who just play the game , helping each other and laughing at each other if u get sunk against the ai cause ya thought it's JUST the ai .
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3 minutes ago, Sir Texas Sir said:
On PvE I thought I got 130, but than logged in another char and got 30 on that one. I normally check over there when new redeemables come out so if i mess up on PvP it won't be so bad. 30 is plenty enough for every one and some of us have more than one account.
nope i had wrong info , i got 30 too . more than enough
But funny how all hell brakes lose cause everyone wants to buy poods
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3 minutes ago, Sir Texas Sir said:
And it's only 30 Poods this time so really only enough to man one ship. Kinda like it staying a christmas thing and random drop in some ports.
We do get 2 of the mast though.
Kinda wish the Christian was a note you could use later cause of fact is I got to many ships in docks right now lol
think it's a bug , check again , think there are more
thanks for the gift and merry xmas
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2 minutes ago, Angus MacDuff said:
To be fair, I think all new players should start out on the PVE server and complete a variety of tasks before they transition to PVP. (Quoting myself from another thread here). War & Peace is a pretty good suggestion.
i enjoy both servers , although i decided to stick to the pve , had to make a decision , limited time atm . war&peace are great names for the servers
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update hier hat ohne probleme funktioniert. vielleicht sind server bei steam noch etwas durch den summer sale überlastetet?
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pve server should only allow you to join the player side , everything else would b a broke mechanic
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1 hour ago, admin said:
Advise them to spend some time in lower level missions and upgrade a ship. Once upgraded they will take on those ships with ease. Or skip that level mission completely.
we are not yet fully decided on missions (they might not exist in their current form in the future).currently missions are just - extra NPCs instead of open world. We want players to hunt in the open world.
i stil lthink we need more npc on ow for that . but since i just deleted my char and made a new one a few days ago , i might just test that. see how far i get without doing missions , eventhough i am just on the pve server.
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I don't think i'd want this. I play a lot on the pve server these days . i just enjoy the game and the ppl and i actually like the rng drops. keeps u playing and hopeing. was a good addition to the pve server , even though i was against it at the beginning.
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1 minute ago, Hodo said:
The queues were long due to poor login code management. Simple as that.
When you look at the fact the ADMIN stated that over 50% of the game sales were to North American customers. That when compared to the fact that there are less than 40% of the current playerbase being from North America... you have to ask, why did you lose over 10% of your playerbase from one region? What was the cause of this? How can I change it to improve my retention in that region?
If your answer is, "Nothing! I will add more EU based nations and restrict those North Americans to one crappy server" Well then you are doomed to fail.
It is a good thing Gamelabs is a EU based company because if they were American they would have been sued till they shutdown by now.
ok i had no idea , my info was a different one. but to be honest i don't think it makes a big difference cause if you look at the forums , you have north american players as well as european players discussing the same stuff and often having the same opinion. so i really don't think there is a difference here and i don't think gamelabs treats any group of player better than the other. the old timers can correct me if i am wrong but isn't that y ,they put the US in the game ? I read up a lot on the forums back then but didn't play actively , POTBS had me hooked back then.
concerning server queues , i am no programming expert but i think if they could've done it other wise , they would have. as far as i remember the max server pop was 2500 , yeah we didn't have kicks do to inactivity back then but the server was full.
The player base will not split too much with new nations. i mean the north americans didnt all join the US and i don't think all german players will join preussen. I sure won't , i'll stick with the US.
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44 minutes ago, Sir Texas Sir said:
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They should never had three servers from the start. They should of had only one server and that is it (well maybe the testbed to roll out pre-patches to test). I never been in a game that was alpha stage and had a bunch of servers. They almost all had two servers if just one. A pre-test server and the one they rolled out for ever one to test (main). It's a waist of resources to have 4-5 servers going until release.
Tex there was way too much players for one server . The queues were large. Took me over an hour to enter the game. The plan was to have more than one pvp server on EA release. All players ware against it , so devs left it with one , and boom total break down. After that they opened more severs , i think we had 3 pvp servers, correct me if i am wrong and we ended up with 2.
Just for the record , i don't think the devs are EU-bias. Hell you have a lot of germans , british ppl in the game also but it really doesn't matter. It didn't work , we all kept bitching at each other cause of pb-window. The only thing they could do is split it . Now i do think they should've done a total wipe so everyone could just start out from the beginning. But they chose differently. That's the only thing i think they could've done better.
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4 minutes ago, Lord Gud said:
There is no thrill of PvP doing PVE when you have a safe zone to sit inside all day...
but you dont sit in the safe zone all day. you'll have to venture out eventually , if you want to or not. the safe zone will let oyu recove your losses though and get back into the fight.
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i don't agree , leave the safe zones. they may be too big but here's something i am seeing a lot more of , since i changed back from pve to pvp server , i see a few ppl doing the same , which shows me that the game is going in to the right direction. yeah i am a crebare and i like the pve aspect of the game but also the like the thrill of pvp from time to time and there are a lot of pve'rs that think the same way.
with hundreds of playing hours. so change might slow the pack down a little but it won't take long and the change will be mastered .
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wow man , excellent work . nice video , really gets you into the grove and mood to play the game.
2 things to the alt discussion
1. all the same nation is cool and no harm done
2. if those are all alts then sir , i got to bow and tip my hat to you sir for supporting NA in a generous way.
and again awesome video man 👍