Anne Wildcat

I live in the US. All schools are closed in my state. My boss is keeping the tutoring center where I work open. You think parents would want to keep their kids home. But nope, today we were crazy busy. People have been buying out all necessities at the stores. I had to actually buy toilet paper through Amazon bc there is none at any stores.

I don’t do RVR so ignore me. But Should Combat News drop a message as soon as a hostility mission started, instead of the current "... has reached 25%"? This sounds like a lazy mans way. Patrol your waters. If you don’t have enough people to patrol, maybe you own too many ports.

No to ow speed increase, try hunting in a sixth rate, you already need to be down to battle sails in good wind to not miss anything.

Upgrades: books, mods, seasoned woods

Or perhaps, in the shallow water make goods that are reduced weight.

Wednesday, I believe, I capped an AI trader snow. It was so overloaded I could not move in the open world. Had to destroy everything. I forgot what was in the snow but it was 13 of one type of thing and 12 of another but the snow could only carry 1 at most. Would it be possible to reduce the weight of some goods or make sure the AI traders are not overloaded?

Personally, I’d prefer none or reverting back to the original few. That includes getting rid of port bonuses. Make port bonuses econ related only.

Not happy about more upgrades and books.

Still hit AI for nothing else but not get points for the damage. Personally, I prefer to hunt but thought to give patrol zones a try.

One thing I found out this weekend is that damage done on AI in patrol zones count towards the patrol zone event. In my opinion, this should not be the case as the patrol zone is meant for Player vs Player. During the Nassau patrol, I took a basic cutter out, hit an AI snow and all the damage I did counted towards the event. In AI battles, I got enough damage to get three of those marks, whatever they are called. If a player attacks an AI in the patrol zone, it should not start a patrol zone battle. On another topic, I’d love to see the ability to flee patrol zone battles as well.

Getting off topic here. Can you bring the grind discussion to a different forum topic please. Personally, I’m still hitting AI in a basic cutter and patrolling neighboring waters in a privateer. Although I don’t have the gusto that Rainsborough has.

Would like to see Raiding, Pirate mechanics, Exploration missions or collections to trade in for paint jobs (such as a rare fish collection or a trade good collection) 7th rate AI traders brought back to the open world. Reduced weight on trade goods. Of course I’d love to get rid of books/upgrades/bonuses and bring back the wysiwyg roe but that’s not going to happen. Increase in the drop of sealed bottles (has anyone found one since release?) Small battle room with no loss and no reward, good for training. The moon at night ...

The purpose of these deliveries was to help people get back on their feet if they lose. Maybe the deliveries that offer reals only should be locked if a person has 100k reals which would then require them to do trading to earn more?

Yacht fights anyone?

I’m just hoping somehow they rebalance all the ship bonuses from mods, port bonuses, etc. I really enjoy the possibility of sinking another player with a captured or store bought ship. But all the bonuses makes that seem very very unlikely.