Atreides

He was there when the Royal Navy came out to play... ah the French, devastating warriors to fishing boats and sleeping captains. The ensuing wound up with the loss of every frog ship, either being sunk or captured, to be honest I don't think a single one of the King's Man-Of-Wars was lost. I have a screen shot I will upload when I get home in the morning of the outcome

The other day, I was sailing my Le Grosse (unarmed I might add) up near Sunbury. I am a British Rear Admiral who was in friendly waters, although I heard there were frogs and rats slinking around. I came upon a Beucantuere being driven by a US Ensign who was too ripe of a treat for a Ne'er do well. I hailed him...nothing, I buzzed his ship and hailed again... he blithely turned a bit and trundled farther out to sea. I tagged him to talk to him and warn him about sailing such a high level ship with 12% crew, then called on global chat for some Americans to escort him safely back to a port. He never responded, after a few minutes I figured he did not have settings turned to even see what I wrote. We left the battle instance (I never took a shot, having no guns of course) and I was surrounded by 7 Americans who tagged me and the chase began. I called in global chat and a few US players responded and coming out of that battle instance I found myself facing a large group, some out to get the "evil one" and some there to help the young Ensign back to port. Some conversation happened between the various US players and I continued about my way. I think this whole fiasco happened due to the social setting on chat. They could not even see what I was typing to them and due to a quirk in the settings I was in danger of losing my trade ship and cargo in friendly waters to allies who percieved me as a threat, when I was engaging a new player to help protect his ship from frog and rat gankers trolling the area. I propose that social settings be such that after tagging, and especially in battle, you can see what your enemy says. Tagging should not be a silent terminator-like thing; it should be a challenge, a yelled threat, a battle cry that on the open water would have been heard by everyone, including the one your tagging. This is especailly true for the fightened Ensign who didnt have the crew to even raise his sails in battle, that I was trying to protect. tl,dr: Disable social settings where you see what enemy types at tagging, and during battle. What flags as enemy could be an ally, or gentlemen not looking to club a seal from another nation.

Guess when I get home from work will take an in defended port or two on pvp2. Will use this to test the mortar brig.

I personally am an American, I sail under the British flag as a member of AUS. Aussie prime time for me is 3-7 am (I live zulu-6) but work night shift. I have outposts scattered around the map and operate out of all of them for trade, smuggling, fishing, Rvr, Pvp (hello Plymouth). Spain had 4 ports SW of Bensalem on 20-22 timers that needed to be liberated from the Dons, A few friends and I rallied for this, for three days the battles raged. Some KIN guys helped (sadly I had to work yesterday and couldn't join) Placentia, Belize and turneffe are flying the British flag now that I know, when I get home later the first thing I will check is to see if ambergrease caye was taken back. This game is what you make of it, I roll with the punches, work around obstacles, outwit and out sail opponents, or have the same done to me... get sunk, get capped, lose a boatload of goods, commerce raid. It is an adventure, not a kindergarten where you cry to the teacher because the meanie set a port timer outside of your recess period, ADAPT.

AUS is based in Greatcorn, when we liberate a port in our areawe set the port timer to aussie prime time. That way we are online to defend and mix it up for some PVP. As far as Haiti, there are aussie players active up there as well. It's not hard to understand, but the whining is really getting boring.

Batavian spices

Still chuckling about your spinning rattlesnake

Rofl ...as heard on TeamSpeak a few days ago, before the bottle nerf "Help me, I'm being attacked!" "Shhhhhh you'll scare the fish."

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I was in the frigate, and was fighting poorly. If Dropbear had a stouter teammate that 2v2 could have well turned different as I was soundly out maneuvered until I sank (repair kits, didn't have any) and at one time one of the rat Trinc had no armour on one side and the other only had one notch. This massive pirate fleet you claimed was coming at the same time you complained you had to go to work was not there. Our motley fleet was all alone outside Great Corn, so after waiting around a few minutes we dispersed and went about other business. AUS clan was not even online during Sandy Bay, and I was too far away to get there in time, along with the rest of Britain. The Spanish/Pirate alliance seems to be in full swing though... for now

Welcome to the Port of Ill Repute Where the chests are bursting with loot where the rum flows freely and the lasses are pretty Just don't be a slovenly brute!

^^^ Make it cost like 5X repair kit price, and have both kits be craft-able, so that a player can keep a few in his hold to transfer to his prize ship after a capture. That gives the player the option (though expensive) to repair and crew his prize to sail back to port, as opposed to having two ships with 50% crew each hobble back. Player choice, either spend the money or take the greater risk. You could also add the feature of tying alongside a friendly ship to transfer crew/repair kit/provisions to a crippled ship, which is very historically accurate and adds an additional gameplay mechanic and options.

I see you got the Exceptional Outboard upgrade from a port battle... the rarest of them all. I have a green one I picked up in a Panamanian port at the shop, takes 15% more crew to sales but 20% speed boost. Sure love these new drops

I discovered this one day after a tease cutter surrendered and I spent an hour trying to catch it with it slowly outpacing me, gave up and surprise! I capped the cutter. Server maintenance time is 0700 GMT

Hint on trader cutters and lynxes... sail parrelel and grape the deck. Don't worry about sails, armour or boarding. Just grape grape grape the deck, get the crew to 1 and it surrenders. Exit battle and bingo, new ship as well as loot. Note: this method gives very little xp and gold, except selling the loot and capped ship in port. If you want to make xp bang away at armour until you sink him. Fair winds and tight lines

*Crossing fingers* Come on. In 6 hours have a day off. Must. Build. My Gros ventre

Every day and every night it seems the server population for the shards shows PVP1: High to Medium PVP2: Medium to Low PVP3: Low. In the past two weeks there has been a mass exodus of players from PVP2 to PVP1 due to the more aggressive RVR and better chance of various nations being under siege, whilst laying siege to their neighbours. You can read the forum posts in National News to see the imbalance that is growing steadily. Many clans have abandoned PVP2, or even worse, use it as a de facto PVE arena with the occasional PVP opportunity to grind ranks and crafting levels. At the same time many do not want to leave PVP2 for ping issues, friendships made or other reasons, which leaves PVP3 as a overflow server, and PVP2 a ghost town. I propose the the Devs to eliminate PVP3, this will force players to either go back to PVP1 while encouraging the American and Oceanic players to return to PVP2. We do have the player base to support two servers, but the cost of three seems to be higher than the benefit of having two mostly empty servers, with one being a vibrant area. Assets could be mirrored to make this switch less painful to the players, but the gameplay dynamics would benefit from the population cohort being more regional for prime time, as opposed to half the player base in a given server being asleep or at work as the other half are playing, which encourages more clan participation and better coordination of fleet actions. Thank you for your attention. British Post Captain Atreides, PVP2

I was the ship that wound up in the lead chasing you two out of His Majesty's waters. I drove the Surprise with the copper plating and the chain shots that caused you to pop a repair kit on your sails as you two ran and taunted and ran. The Fir Trinc Twins

Pledge my ships, my life and my sacred honour. To the last round, to the last plank, to the last sail, to the last durability!

Had a great time last night. Lost two duras on my puny verb but was a real treat watching the colonial barbecue on your ship! o7

Awesome, got in one small battle before work!