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Thnaks for the clear explanation. Maybe You can comment on the rest of my suggestion?

Right now we have the Groups and Battle Groups that allow players to take action as a group. To be honest, I'm not quite sure what the difference between both are and if we really need both in their actual form. However here is what I suggest: - When inviting players to a battle group, the captain creating this group can decide what color the flag will be (currently it's a red flag). Say, green, orange, blue, red, white, black, yellow, etc... - A Player can then greate a group and invite all the created battle groups to join. All playes in the group will be able to see the color of different flags of all battle groups other players. If two groups have the same color, well it might create confusion but can also be done deliberatly. RESULT: We have a full armada with an armada leader (the one who created the GROUP ) and a series of squadrons/divisions with their individual leaders (Battle Groups) with each one being identified by a different color of flag. This would allow for a more visual recognition of squadron members and better coordination. Thanks

Sorry but I like the current system. You can surrender as long as your ship isn't sinking, meaning is taking on water.

There should be some compensation for the clan that shows up, that I agree. What about extending the invulnerability timer for that port by 1 week instead of the 72 hours. But I imagine this could lead to exploits quite easily. Difficult one to crack for sure. Hopefully the BR limit should alleviate some of these pains.

Let me also make clear that adding a BR limit to PBs requires having a roster feature for organizing who participates in the battle. Owner of the roster? Selected by player grade(s) in clan attacking or defending. Mechanics? Plenty of options here, I can imagine a waiting list where players register the ship they want to play (Ship characteristics show up when hovering mouse over), PB leader then validates the players with their ships and can request those in waiitng room to change ship if he/she (haven't come across any girls playing this game which is a shame really) doesn't have the compo they are looking for. List is locked as soon as battle timer starts so this would also force clan members to be disciplined and show up in advance Not rocket science really but essential to avoid players screwing up the PB by entering in wrong ship.

Played around with the BR spreadsheet and came up with pretty similiar values. This should really introduce some nice new strategies!

I've been asking for this for the last 18 months so yes, you have my full support on this. Next step will be giving ships modulated XP depending on role they play in PBs: - SOLs: Damage dealers and damage soakers -> higher XP coefficient linked to damage dealt and damage received - Frigates (5-4): Ships that play a role in hampering crew and sails -> higher XP coefficient linked to rigging damage and crew damage dealt - All others: Would love to see a scouting role here were smaller ships are sent as reconnaissance ships to spot ennemy fleet. Not applicable yet however. Rigging damage and tagging XP for now

There should be a limit to the amount of crew restored and certainly it should be a lot slower when boarding then when in battle. What about Marines, Rum brings them back to life to? Sounds like Rum = Lazurus upgrade for all

All working now, thank you all

HI, After downloading the update, I was eager to check out the changes and unfortunately I can no longer login to PVP EU. Authentification Error. Strange as I can login to PVE. Any ideas?

Hi, I find it pretty ennoying and unatural that a ship can go through 5 or more repairs while in battle with very little penalty. Actually this really applies to the rigging repairs. I would like a ship to be able to launch repairs only when sails are lowered to 40% (battle sails) or less. Damn it, taking down broken masts, cutting out the old rigging, putting in place new sails all while the ship is going full sails seams unbalanced and unrealistic. This would also solve the issue of capped 15kts ships pursuing each other for ever.

OK, ready to be flogged on deck for this: WOWS (World of Warships) have implemented a nice PVE/PVP solution. You can progress in the game by doing only PVE missions but your rewards will be much lower than if you participate in PVP battles. Want to progress faster and earn more money? Well the answer is PVP. So in a nutshell, if the balance is right and PVP really get's rewarded correctly (get gold and combat marks based on damage done and not purely on the sinking of the ship) than I believe this will turn out to be a very good solution

If you added a duel like mechanism for setting up fair fights of 1vs 1, 5 vs 5 and say 15 vs. 15, then you'd get instant PVP gratification ingame. I do believe that is a project you're working on but as a completely seperate game. Why not add the feature to the existing one instead? Winning ship or team get's rewarded based on battle damage done and that would work pretty well I'd think

For PBs, I would like to see a a max BR limit based on the level of PB. This will force defenders and attackers to carefully choose the mix and match of boats they bring to battle and enforce some variety. Finished the 4th rate PB with 25vs25 Agamennons! You could come with 17 Agas and that's all or choose 9 Agas, 5 Constis, 10 Frigates and 1 mortar brig as example (I did no BR calculation here but this is the idea ). This would require a PB master that controls the roster and defines what enters. The who will still be decided on earned hostility points. The PB attack master is the captain that has earned the highest hostility rank when aggression reaches 100% and PB is set. The PB defend master is the same but on defense % earned. Just add the possibility for that person to nominate a substitute if they don't feel they are the right person and bingo!

I'm not sure this is achievable as I've never seen it happen but shouldn't a strong nation be able to flip a weaker nation? Let's for the case of argument say that Sweden decides to attack Fort-Royal, this would be the ultimate fight for the french. If they lose their capital, they become Swedes. Of course still possible to become a pirate but France would officially be obliterated. Oh and all french ports become Swedish. A great advantage would be to eliminate the smaller nations and just leave 3 or maybe two nations to fight it out for ultimate domination. Get to 1 nation (if that is even possible) and you reach reset time. And no, I'm not trolling, I think this would help consolidation beyond slippery and tricky diplomatic negotiations that a handful of clans impose on the player base. Guns speak!

The latest update brings a lot of fixes but also makes the nature of this game even clearer: Requires 100% investment. Almost like a job Yes, before we had Santissima, Victory, Ocean, you name it, galore. When you see a screening fleet with more than 25 first rates, you know something is broken. And what about the broken economy with people easily hording in 30 million plus gold? Things are now very different. Only the largest clans will be able to craft 2nd rate up. Ships with 1 dura? Limited trade (available resources, cargo hold, profit), PVP marks etc... make this harder than ever. My 2 biggest griefs is that the ship crafting has been made accessible only to a few. Well crafting 4th and 3rd rates, not even dreaming of anything higher. And that was a part of the game that I used to enjoy, so RIP. And mostly port battles have become useless. It's now a RvR thing where due to broken mechanics with conquest marks (CM), port battles are done without any attacker so that the defending nation can get their 25 CM. This is sad because PBs where one of the most enjoyable parts of naval action. Boats are gorgeous, the battle mechanics awesome but the rest of the game is far, very far, from being polished. And sorry if I'm offending NA lovers but this is my personal opinion.

Wow, 7 pages dedicated to the fall of Castries! Has there ever been a more heated debate following a PB than this one? Travelling right now with no access to the game but hope to be there for the come back of LV and his team when they attack back.

Just a suggestion on timers and PBs. What makes this frustrating is fake PBs. Indeed no issue at all having the US pull a flag for 2am if.... they show up. And we can expand this to all nations. So why not make the conditions for a PB being validated, a minimum amount of BR present? Imagine Nation A attacking Nation B, PB is set for day x/ time y. Nation A shows up with 4 frigates hoping Nation B isn't defending. Well 4 frigates doesn't sum up to the minimum threshold allowing a PB to be validated. They can cap, and do what they want, the PB doesn't flip because the initial BR to trigger a valid PB isn't obtained. Now they can still harass Nation B by making them show up but if they didn't really plan a valid PB, then Nation B can show up with the minimum threshold for defense and hope that Nation A is taunting. If Nation A doesn't show up with the minimum BR, they can go straight to bed or do something else as the PB is officially unvalidated. Not a perfect solution but removes some pressure.

Thank You! Great news

Are you planning to keep switching the type of ship needed for the PVE event? Yesterday you needed a Cerberus, today it's a RattleSnake, tomorrow ???? Suggestion: The PVE event should supply the player with the same ship for all. In other words, let's compare Apples to Apples and not the Exceptional crafted with full upgrades against the basic 1 upgrade slot bought in the shop.Officers on the other hand can choose their Perks accordingly.

The point made about the Agammenon is valid. That ship is either too tanky or too fast. Kudoos to the Brits/Dutch never the less for the great coordination

My biggest grief at present with this game is that I can no longer be connected a minimum of 5h / day and follow were the hotspots and action zones are moving on the map. In fact I'm often travelling for work so mostly connected on WE only right now. And when I see that I need to close down an outpost up north because action is now down south, and that moving ships, goods and getting there is going to take me hours, I get discouraged and switch to another game. A simple solution would be to add at least another 2 outposts to the current limit so that crafters (thank you the Fine Wood introduction!) can have their crafting outposts and their PVP outposts. My 2 doublons....

Bug? Trying to craft a Bellona in Teak with 4 HGN. Have the fine Teak Wood in sufficient numbers but missing other fine woods so noticed there's a Random option still available that doesn't require you have Fine Fir/Fine Oak/etc... Makes sense says me, you can craft cheaply an exceptional boat if you accept a random drop. So I try my luck and the process keeps stopping with messages such as I don't have the Fine Fir or I am missing Fine Teak and so on. Yet I have all the ingredients needed in the crafting tool when I press the craft button. Can someone explain what I'm doing wrong? Should the random option be removed from the game?

British Refit: R: Central America, C: Belize. ["CANNON_DISPERSION_PER100M","CANNON_DISPERSION_VERTICAL_PER100M"],"Absolute":0,"Percentage":-5} ["CANNON_RELOAD_TIME"],"Absolute":0,"Percentage":-10}] French Refit: R: Gulf, C: Louisiane. ["CANNON_DISPERSION_PER100M","CANNON_DISPERSION_VERTICAL_PER100M"],"Absolute":0,"Percentage":-5} ["CANNON_RELOAD_TIME"],"Absolute":0,"Percentage":-5} Well what can I say... Time to join the British and help them increase their poor community number to better rule the world?