Anne Wildcat

I think, but could be wrong, that the book just makes you learn the upgrade. So if you already have the upgrade known you don't need the book. Again I could be wrong on this.

Maybe a br limit of 3000 on deep water ports? That would be 5 Victorys or about 20 Surprises. Just a suggestion.

There have been posts on this. I think for system performance reasons it's not possible. But I may be wrong.

Stay on topic, please!

Why don't you just go back to port owners selecting a time window? There are no flags anymore and are limits on amount of PBs so I don't think it can get exploited like with the flags. Let's say a port gains full hostility at 2AM but the timer is set for 8-10 PM. Then the port battle will be 8 PM the next day, or however long the wait is.

May I suggest only tow to national ports. I always envisioned fighting RVR on fronts, not jumping around the map capturing anything.

God no, then I can see a SOL using match speed to go the speed of a Snow.

Why pirate? If you are into conquest why not choose another ==NATION== like, let's say, DK?

My suggestion (stolen from MR Doomed I think) is 1 PVE serve as now 1 server PVE + port conquest (no OW PVP), and 1 PVP server as now (maybe remove safe zones).

Yes please, maybe add a buy option for a name change. Would love to change my Global characters name back to Anne Wildcat.

Blueprints used to be not know but dropped, from crafting, like you suggest. People hated it. Personally, I did not mind it.

Amen!

Maybe those of us that like ow PVP should, after the next patch, group up and split up between two nations? (Maybe GB and Pirates, Pirates and Spanish, or France and DN)? I know WO and even some Purge went to EU. I was thinking of playing my EU pirate more (but really don't want to start over again with no gold or resources) just so I can fight against my Global French buddies.

Those French that did 'give a crap' switched nations already and are probably happier. The rest of us left, don't care about ports I believe. Personally, I'd be happy with only having the capital island.

Are any capitols being moved?

If anyone wants me on a team, I'll join for the tourney. However my surprise only has 2 slots and as I don't PVE, I only have the basic skill books.

@Sir Texas Sir This is totally off topic, my apologies to mods, so please reply in a pm but I am sincerely, very curious. If you want to play like a national (capture ports near enemies so you don't need free towns, have a 1st rate dread fleet, etc) why chose pirate?

Personally I'd love if they got rid of mods and skill books completely. Let the ship, wood type, and cannons you chose and your skill determine your outcome. Edit: although it's just me. I have a friend who plays this game who prefers POTBS combat bc the skills make it more unpredictable whereas I hate all the buffs/debuffs, etc of POTBS

Please, please, please bring back NPC selling of repairs, maybe at high costs so crafters don't complain. On Global my home nation is France. The last few weeks our clan has been up at the US coast wanting to help the US fight pirates around there. We took our time, sailed the distance, which I don't mind. Yesterday I ran out of rig repairs after actually getting into a 1v1. No one else from my clan was on. I was able to find canvas rolls but could not find fir logs to make repairs. I did hear that someone from the US was going to give us some repairs but again there were none when I was around. So I had to quit playing. I'm a very casual player, play only on weekends. And not being able to find repairs hurts me when I'm trying to provide PVP by actually taking time and sailing into enemy territory.

For more PVP, I suggest going back to the old repair system, at least where they can be bought from NPCs. It is impossible to continue to privateer when you run out of repairs. The future reduction in ship costs should help too. Edit I think 1 dura may have reduced PVP but everyone seems to like it Edit again, if you think the changes to reduce revenge fleets reduced PVP, (which I don't think is entirely the case) then remove the speed boost but please keep invisibility.

" We can set mission distance from the port so nations expand their territory gradually (not jumping directly into the backyards of their enemies). " I like that, always thought wars should be fought on fronts.

For one thing I wish repairs were for sale by the NPC, for higher than craft cost. Got into two PVP fights today on Global off the US coast (I'm French) and now I'm out of rig repairs. I need to now sail around looking for resources to make repairs or spend time hitting NPCs (🤢) And hope to get repairs. Sorry for being off topic.

Yes, the pirates should have internal struggles. I'm for pirate vs pirate battles. It is fun to not be safe anywhere and have to always watch your back.

Also have 1 nation, I don't care whether pirates or some other, that is not RVR centric. I like how POTBS handled pirates, played as a pirate there for at least 3 years. They could take ports but after a few days it would return to the nation so there was no purpose to pirate RVR, although some did it. Other than ow fights and eco warfare (selling your trade goods) I personally don't care on how many dots my nation has as RVR isn't my thing (yes, I'm weird), the fewer the better. If outlaw mechanics ever come in to play, that's who I'll be.

I would love to be in the tournament and don't mind sinking and losing. However I don't know what team will want me. Having only time to play on weekends, I spend what little time I have either looking for PVP or making money trading so I can replace ships, not grinding stupid slots on a ship. I think my surprise only has 2 slots open and I'm perfectly fine with it. I can PVP with that. I'll admit, I love love love open world PvP but am also somewhat of a noob at it compared to others I hang with.