Barbancourt

Busy with Cartagena. I'm sure they'll roll their Santisimas over here eventually.

now now, we were making progress

Yep, I gotcha o7

OK, CCCP role-played contempt for France. We role-played a nation under threat and occupation. IMO, there is no space for role-playing "alliance" there.

I don't recall becoming homeless. Everything is still cozy in the warehouse, and we actually have some game content to look forward to now. Doing fine, thanks.

Haven't heard. If someone makes truly vile comments they deserve a "name and shame" exposure, and they'll be soiling themselves by their own words.

Your obsession with Slamz is indeed creepy. I was hoping we had heard the last of it during your extensive tirade in nation chat as you used your Forged Papers to run away.

What fantasy world are you living in? There was NEVER an alliance between France and any of Pirates, Danes or Swedes. These were always enemies, whether there was some form of ceasefire in place between certain clans or not. (Though I should mention that we appreciated your attempt to provide screening assistance at PaP) We did NOT ask for alliance, and CCCP's fantasy of forcing us at gunpoint to submit to becoming their pet "ally" under occupation was their own delusion. Perhaps they should have ASKED France respectfully if we would like to collaborate in some way? Instead they always treated us with contempt and have invaded France THREE times now, which is no basis for "alliance". After the first invasion we were already enemies. When you guys started rolling across the map too casually France responded appropriately to try to help restore balance. We have no wish to help you expand your empire!

Hard to believe you bothered to ask that

mmmmm....saltyyyyy....

Can I hold one for a little bit?

War monger!

Condescending tone and refusal to communicate with anyone that wouldn't roll over and let them have their way == jerks. In the end they would only talk to a third party == jerks. We gave them a sweetheart deal in the end, and they sat in a corner and pouted == jerks. I work in a joint chinese-american project, so I didn't just fall off the haywagon in Kentucky. It works both ways. We ended up with stagnation. "Peace". People didn't really want to squeeze the Dutch after they stopped trying to fight us. Even without that they imploded on their own. We tried to play with the Brits for a while, but then it became apparent where the imbalance actually was and attention was redirected towards the pirates. Now we have the fight we should really have had all along, and the question is whether it can be waged within the structure of Naval Action or not. It is an experiment. I am trying not to take that tone. ICS made a deal with CCCP that was really intensely disliked by the rest of us. Leave it at that. The real crapstorm was the very personal bickering that erupted in nation chat, which is beyond the scale a noob like myself can understand. The inability of the clans to get a couple adults in a room to talk effectively boggles my mind. I stopped reading nation chat, just like I never read global chat. Anyhow, we exerted our control over our territories as we believed to be our right and forced a compromise which was very accomodating to everyone. Now CCCP is invading us for the third time since the Wipe, but fortunately it will provide the opportunity to create a natural resolution.

Well, there's sinking, burning, explosions, ramming, bloody hand-to-hand slaughter, salt on the forums...oh, and the sunsets are quite nice.

I'm thinking you don't understand the purpose of this game.

Those ebbs are one of the big problems. Smoothing the population out over 24 hours would help retain players that are mostly on the servers when the population is lower, and people would not quit as early if they didn't see the population dropping off so fast when does drop. We don't need more players at peak times - we need them in the non-peak times.

Cockeyed you guys wanted to sell all of us down the river to become a servant of CCCP for a few measly hand-outs. As far as I can tell PURGE doesn't want any deals at all, so they aren't going to be very interested in your critique. From the snippets I saw when we tried to communicate with CCCP for negotiation they were consistently just jerks. They wanted to dictate terms to their own pleasure, and had your man in their pocket and didn't want to hear from anyone else.

We're talking about eliminating the port battle night flips so we CAN have one server.

We have the URGE to MERGE!

There is no agreement with pirates, so why do you think this would happen? CCCP gets their titties in a twist about stuff like that, so we're going to return the favor 100%. Can we please stop rehashing the old ICS disputes, which frankly NOBODY came out of smelling like roses. That ship has sailed north and it's time to move on and focus on the future.

Welcome to understanding the reality Global Server has always had to live with. Time to move on from port battles to something very different.

There really isn't much choice. When people can do night flips and work flips on their enemy they naturally do. The whole point of war is to make it unfair for the enemy. That's why port battles are a failing mechanic and regional control should take be something that take a sustained campaign of several 24 hour cycles to change.

You aren't relevant to the agreement CCCP made. They were free to give notice, and we have always expected them to invade eventually, one way or another. (I actually wondered if they had stopped playing) The swedes had been telegraphing that for days. There has never been anything "cool" about the Danes. They have always made their intention to subjugate us very clear.

Not like I could do anything about it. Oh well. They can take dots where you get to look at primitive blue UI screens, but they can't take the sea.

You'll have to ask them about that. Not my problem.