Barbancourt

I thought people used to complain that it was the hitboxes being too large?

I think pretty much anyone will gladly cruise out looking for a battle if they actually have a posse to roll with, and a vibrant battle to look forward to.

Finished everything except the demasting exam on the first pass. I can't hit the masts enough with single shots, but I found that 2-3 broadside rakes brought both of them down every time. (The mast hitbox should be way smaller.) Maybe a tutorial on executing effective rakes? Things I think I remember... AI ships shoot their guns at bizarre angles. Please at least nerf them to normal firing angles during the n00b tutorial! Is the bowsprit indestructable during the tutorials? I tried to shear off the AI ship's bowsprit a few times in the tutorial and couldn't. The tutorial should explain clearly how your line of sight to the wreck has to line up exactly right to get the X key prompt to loot. When I was new I didn't know that for a month or more. The boarding tutorial should explain more exactly the conditions for the getting the G key prompt for boarding. The boarding tutorial should explain how to manage preparation points and use things like counter-attack and disengage. Use of rum during boarding should be explained. It should really reveal the flow chart to explain what actions/responses are effective and what aren't. There's a opportunity here to prevent lots of the usual confusion and frustration over how boarding works. Final exam almost got me, but I was able to kite the second ship down from full health, when my own ship was down to less than 30% after dispatching the first enemy. N00bs might need some prompting on how to kite and survive. I wonder if a damage counter per broadside for both player and AI might help them gauge how effectively they're shooting relative to the AI at different distances?

Most of the players that might have been interested in the "Legends" style setup right after the Sea Trials period were long gone by the time "Legends" arrived after a couple years of everything being Open World.

The angle depends on the thickness of your armor vs the penetration (type, size, and range) of their guns. You can just look at whether their balls are bouncing off you or not. (look for the splashes)

LOL, and I'm guessing that as soon as you see one sailing in open waters you gank them mercilessly so they don't leave port again for a while. ;D

Due to pathetic alt abuse there are probably a number of clans with spys/saboteurs high in the ranks.

Nobody's "afraid" of losing pixels. There just isn't much game incentive to pvp.

OW fights are usually getting curbstomped by much larger/stronger groups, so there isn't much learning opportunity in people treating your boat like a soccer ball. You usually need some newbies to get full PB "team" anyway, and it's a much more organized environment.

That stuff doesn't sound interesting at all. Give me fleets fighting over something that somehow matters.

You mean the serial workflips? I really don't think anybody would care that much.

Negative. It's annoying to have to sail things here there and everywhere. You already have to sail the upgrade components sometimes 1-2 hours just to get them together in the same port to craft the upgrade. Having to wasting a tow to put an upgrade on a ship would suck. Sailing an hour or two just to put an upgrade on a ship would suck. There's already enough hauling resources from multiple ports to your shipyard just to build the ships in the first place. But a shipyard outpost is full to the rafters with shipbuilding resources, so I have an entire outpost elsewhere just filled with all the different upgrades. The game might as well be called Caribbean Trucking Simulator 1800. Don't want to have to waste even more time hauling.

They got computers and communication arrays, LOL. (I'm strictly PVE space tourist in Elite, not interested in the combat there.)

Frankly I'd prefer names stay obscured until the end of the battle as well. I prefer the mystery, and fighting as flag vs flag. I don't load up the game to hang out.

LeL - well, I'm guaranteed to sink anyway. Fortunately I still have those free agamemnons from Global to throw away.

Unless you're in the biggest gank group you're guaranteed to sink.

Close, but not too close. Some of us gotta live out of the free ports. It would be good for it to move around the map quite a bit, scheduled in advance, so everyone has a good chance at it and nobody's regular game gets impacted too much/regularly. The PVP area should be marked on the map.

Anyone who wastes their time attacking a t-lynx with a warship when they could instead be fighting other warships is a noob.

I tried to get to the PVP zone to make an outpost to participate from, but after an hour plus of sailing a noob attacked my trader lynx, when there were other warships sitting around doing nothing. Can't even get there. :/

It's a suicide mission - who brings their Maserati to a suicide mission?

Goood...goooood....all is going according to plan!

On the other hand, the cost of entering that battle is a bit lower.

If it's the only way you're going to get PVP marks though...

The best thing for NA would be a solid game incentive to sail your good e.g. Belle Poule into harm's way on some hot part of the map, even when there's little hope of survival. Something that will make your inevitable sacrifice in time and ship meaningful. Not mere marks or money, but some movitivation/incentive vital to your clan or nation. Something that isn't just feeding the enemy a stream of easy profits with nothing to be gained. This gang bang mission sounds like it will just be crashing hordes of throw-away ships together for easy marks, which is ...something..., but not really the something I'm hoping for. I'm not jumping to conclusions, but just pointing out that there doesn't seem to be any underlying game meaning to it. I only keep posting here so much because it feels like there's great untapped potential in NA. Anyhow, carry on...

"Properly"?