Of the very small ships, I love the red of the privateer.
Comparing the snow, brig, navy brig, and Mercury, I love the Mercury for her gold trim and sails
The larger ships I haven't sailed them all to compare them
Add me to the noob of the year, lol. When battling enemies, I like to do a little trash talking, nothing very bad. I just found out last night that anything blue is our side only. So my apologies to any pirates I've insulted over the past 4 months lol.
I know people in my clan will probably hate me for saying this but
Let the pirate nation be a nation but create a new pirate faction that
Can only build outposts in free towns
Can only raid ports for resources
And with only outposts in free towns, can have shipyards but without conquest and with only raiding, doesn't have much need for large ships.
Pirates switch to this faction by attacking other pirates.
Then also add letters of marquee so players who wish can switch to other nations
I do believe there are many pirates that play like just another nation but this is not the answer.
The part about hiding in open seas, anyone can do by hitting npcs.
XP and Gold farming by hitting eachother I really don't believe happens. It would be faster to just fleet with a group.
Checking the forum regularly, I have the New Content, By time period set to Content I have not read but sometimes included in the list is content that I have already read (that has not been edited at all). Has anyone else experienced this? It's no big deal but I thought I should bring it to the moderators attention. To view the forums, I use Safari on my iPad Air.
I may be wrong, but I don't think a screening fleet, unless it contains SoLs itself, will have the BR to attack 25 SoLs all sailing hunched up together.
Please remove the battle timers from the small battles. When getting beat, you run and you end up getting stuck running for 10 minutes because you cannot leave the battle. Once you can leave (after not being hit for 2 min or whatever) you should be able to.
Although arranged pvp would be cool, I voted for what IMO is needed most, open pve. Adding epic battles, larger trade ships, more missions (including hopefully exploration missions) would maybe keep more of the player base since there seems to be a lot of complaints about grinding & lack of different things to do.
I think adding war & peace mechanics and national alliances is going to get more people dissatisfied with their nation and end up turning pirate.
I guess I don't get it, this game has been out 2 months, why does everyone feel they have to be the highest rank?
Sinking PVE fleets with friends for an hour here and there is fun
PvP is better
Do what you like to do & eventually you will level up.
I can understand that for conquest reasons your nation needs players to sail SoLs but if grinding isn't for you, don't do it.
My last word, and yes I've backread
If you want hardcore pirate, set it as your play style.
Don't complain about pirate mechanics if you play nat, you have no voice here.
Realize the devs needs to satisfy masses, which unfortunately include pirates who for some unknown reason play like nats.