Ooooh, a necro-thread. Dialing the Wayback Machine to 2 years ago...
Looking at the server list with no information about the choices...hmmm, select one at random I guess?
Character creation - looking at nation list with no information provided about the choices...hmm, will there be a language problem if I choose some of these? I guess I better choose USA to be safe.
Load into port interface...oh dear, what does this all mean? Why can't I move things around this mostly empty space? Do I buy repairs? What do I do? How do I enter the big battles I've been watching on youTube? Hello??? Check some more youTubes quickly to try to figure it out. OK, screw it, start clicking things...
Click "sail"...lovely Charleston(?) harbor...hmm, should I be worried about these ships around me? Click, click, click. Sails up, try to go somewhere. (It's a good thing Basic Cutter came with cannons pre-installed or I wouldn't have had any)
Woah! That big ship says it's "France". RUN AWAY...RUN AWAY...RUN AWAY!!!
This coastline is a little boring, and the ports are empty. Since nothing has happened so far and the swords seem to allow me to join some kind of a battle I guess I'll do that. Will it be like the battles I've watched on the youTubes?
Entering battle....OK I see 5 players gangraping a "pirate" ship quite far away. Spend a few minutes sailing...very slowly...clearly I'm not going to get there any time soon, and it's a mob scene anyway. Guess I'm in gun range...lets try this...lob some shots towards the "pirate", miss, miss, miss, start to hit occasionally with no obvious effect. Don't want to fire a broadside from far away and hit the other USA players that are piling on. Fiddle with the guns for a while. ..."Battle over", "pirate" sinks without my input. Everyone leaves, so I guess I do as well.
Sail back to Sudbury(?). Log out, still very confused.