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lol more like next week at this rate...

Still no exact word, but devs said they will be giving us some more updated info tomorrow. I'm hoping they doint' scrap them completely as i know some folks that have a lot of them.

By what I read and understanding is anything ship related, Ships, Mods, Notes, Paints etc is going bye bye along with any none redeemable ships you might still have. As none of them are comparable with the new system.

We really don't know yet, but they said they will update us tomorrow. The smart thing is to merge 1 and 2 into the PvP global so we can do the new nation organization. Lets cross our fingers and hope they do this the most logical way. I'm kinda of waiting to see some of the names and if they are going to switch nations and to which ones.

I see it this way if it doesn't work than they can make it smaller and smaller liek drop the Brits zone and than the French and well if all else fails the Spain. Lets test it and see. That and I know a bunch of people that play on PvP servers but refuse to fight and run that will prob be hanging out in that area. So now we know where they are and don't have to worry about it if the rest of there nation gets rolled.

Yah they can't understand why our ships are so hard to destroy. We build LO/Stiffness/Hull Strength for most ships and we use double ball and double charge in the fight depedning on the distance of the engagement. That and we are 15-20 very organized players. If they stop complaining and actually listen to some of the new guys and stop doing what the old guys are doing than they would get organized and a force to reckon with (mainly cause of numbers). But they would prefer to run in fights, complain and attack small nations instead. I have no pitty for them at all when we beat them straight up out numbered. I think we will be the ones joining there ranks, but you have to remember they don't have the same problems we do over there. So many of them are going to fill the small nations to fill the gap of the EU guys that are leaving. BLACK will remain Pirates though might have to work on the name change cause it's used on both servers. We don't plan to change, but we would prefer a healthy nations that fight each other so we can just be the annoying thorns in the side. Lets just hope that they let us get redeemable from both servers and pick our new nations on the PvP Global server. I'm going to bet that the care bears will prob switch over to one of the three PvE aligned nations to hide in those zones. With CKA and NPG/IGG not being the big boys in the two main nation it will help all the little clans get there foot forward and do things. At least we hope that it works that way between the two servers.

Speaking of operation camel toe this was when we attacked the port. 19 pirates vs 25+ US/Brits (10-15 screeners out side). Now tell me where we had the advantage here? You had 6 more ships than us and are the defenders? Now here is Wilmington: 19 Pirates once again vs 25+ (you had tons of screeners out side). Tell me how this was unfair? In fact you still have 2 US guys and one Dutch in here that are now Pirates. It was this battle and the piss poor team work of the Nationals that drove them to leave the nation they where in. That is only three players you lost. You didn't loose your whole player base. If you look at the names on the pirates side they are almost all the exact same guys with one or two changed out. you look at the US/Brit/Dutch side you see a few of the same names, but the rest are other players. The majority of them are of rank to fully crew there ships and bring something like a 1st rate.

I'm all ready seeing the butt hurt of folks that don't do this and get caught on the edge of it by some one. Than again I'll prob keep the smuggler flag on if I enter the PvE zone which will allow them to attack me if any of them get frisky lol

PS tomorrow I'm going to bring my Pirate Ironside Hack ship tomorrow for the port battle. So be ready and I'll put my killer damage mod on my ship to.......nah maybe I'll bring the fireship and mortar brig again since that worked so well the last time we captured that port.

I'm sure they can all ways just donate them? But honestly I think this is the biggest question and we want to send out some mails to try to get a lot of old players that stopped player back into the game and need this info also. To be honest the best way to do this is to make the PvP Global server and than let us merge PvP1/2 into it. That way we get our redeemables from both servers and well teh PvE server too. When we log into PvP Global we get to pick our Char names and nation. This might be the same one as before or it might be new ones for some folks.

It's funny how the guys that came over now understand when all this time I been saying back when they fought us and we took US to 11 ports and Brits to 1 it was just 15 to 20 guys when we start showing them screen shots and pointing out things and they see how many are in TS. We aren't joking when we say it's only 15 to 20 guys. You know when you take out the alts and other clan guys that is your still only fighting the same 15 to 20 pirates over and over.

Mahogany: US (2), Brits (3), Pirates (1) Bermuda Cedar: Brits Live Oak: US (2) Silver: US (2), Danes (1), Pirates (5), 4 of which we took in the last week and half you know Operation Lone Ranger and all...that we posted up for ya'll. So which that it looks like The US/BRTI/DUTCH still has every thing they need to produce ships and keep trucking. And we are tired of you complaining you don't have this or that. It was just 3 months ago that all these resources where owned by US/Brit/DUTCH (Danes did have one silver). It's a game of war and RvR. You can't keep your own ports when you have the three largest nations in one alliance isn't our fault. You look at all those screen shots and what they don't show that even the equal 25 vs 25 battles ya'll still had any where from 5-20 more ships out side. You do know not every one in game is on TS or in those clan TS. The game doesn't revolve around CKA and NPG/IGG after all. Just look at all the screen shots and notice the names how they aren't all ways the same guys. Not to mention the guys we fight in the OW. Also in the past month we have went over 200 players during port battles time on the servers twice. We haven't been over 200 players since the Treasure fleet events. Three months ago this was the port counts of the nations. Danish : 4 Regions So that is 2 they captured from the Brits. The Danes and Brits kinda just flip two ports back and forth and you don't see them on here complaining. Pirates: 2 Regions so 12 from GB/US/DUTCH Now we have helped Swede and French get 3 ports each by either being at there port battles or by taking the port and than giving it to them. I'm not getting your point here cause ya'll still have almost 2/3 of the regions. Just happens you lost some of the important ones recently. Sorry if you can't hold on to your regions than you got to spread out and to big for your britches and lost land. Not to mention all the inter clan fighting, the fact ya'll wouldn't fight any one so folks got bored and left (9 players came over to BLACK pirates). Ya'll sure forget back when we had 2 regions it was ok for ya'll to curb stomp us. ya'll still got over half the map. So what is the big problem? You alliance has fallen apart and you can't get guys organized even though ya'll have plenty numbers it's our fault? The funny thing is every time we take some of these ports we have been posting up operations and pretty much letting ya'll know what the hell we are about to do. Operation Camel Toe: Done with Operation Dutch Oven: Cease Fire Operation Lone Ranger: Still in effect as 2 silver ports in US hands. Not sure if we have a new name, but I'll give it a temp one, "BURN THE HOUSE DOWN." Yah something like that we going back to have some fun with the US.

maybe it to hard? To many folks these days want every thing easy and just handed to them. I'm old and cranky and I like to keep on fighting though to remind me I'm still alive...ok I"m not that old but felt like when I hit 40 lol

crap I have to mark the time too? hell I didn't even get the port battle time right yester day...lol

Break down of current things on PvP2 Danish : 6 Regions Dutch: 7 Regions GB: 18 Regions France: 4 Regions Pirates: 14 Regions Spanish: 2 region Swedes: 4 regions US: 20 Regions Which would mean the allainces would be. BRIT/US/DUTCH: 44 Dan/French/Swede/Spain: 16 Pirates: 14 So the Brit/US/DUTCH are not hurting on regions and resources other than what they allowed to get captured and lost. Maybe they shouldn't of got so big and so spread out if they can't keep control of there regions? We are hitting things like silver cause we can't take and hold a bunch of regions so we are hitting them where it hurts. To be honest I just want to get the servers merge and these allainces and nations reworked so it's no longer big nation vs small with the pirates in the middle of every thing. What they keep forgetting is pirates can't have allainces. Pirates can't have any national join there Port battles. Pirates can't have any nationals join our OW fights (though we can join nationals). Yes this is hard mode, but we aren't comlaining about that. We complain when they have numbers and run or they only show up when they have numbers or they only attack guys that can't field a full force against them or during times. Really the two largest nations Brits and US has not fought each other since Aug of last year. Pirates went from 2 regions at the start of this year to where they are now. We haven't zerg at all, we just been fighting the tooth and nail. As soon as we took to ports they flipped out and cried and stopped fighting....really 2? You have 20 something other regoins. They refuse to give any ports to the small nations to help them grow. Oh look Spain finally has a region congrats guys. Most these guys won't last a day on PvP1 and I"m goign to bet they will be hiding in PvE zone unless they have sure win Port battles...lol Now they do have some great players but they are far and few and most of the old timers treat them like crap until they leave and go to anther nation or server. Sounds familar? So yah PvP2 has kidna the same issues PvP1 is but it's more a big pop vs small pop thing instead of the east vs west. We honestly don't have a night/day flip problem it's just some folks ony pick on easy target but as soon as you give them a fight back they run and hide. So we will keep taking there important ports and keep sinking there ships until the server merge happens.

The small nations are still small, but the Danes allaince with the Swedse and French are helping them and the Spains kidna got into the fight too. The Danes are just fighting the brits so we been leaving the Brits alone. Dutch declared war on us and attacked our silver region so we took 3 ports from them (one we gave them in good faith to not be atacked by them) and than later we took there silver region and stopped since this put them down toe 5 regions. We shifted our fight to take all regions around Mort and we since have moved on to take all the silver regions. We had all but lost little habor last night so need to get that back. They had the small nations without silver for months and other resources so we are giving them a taste of there own medicine. You know the whole 15-20 of us pirates that they can't beat even when they show up with 30+. We did loose little habor cuase of the early battle time (5pm on a work day) but hay if they want to play that fight we plan to take more of the US major econ ports. It seems it was fair back when they had all the other nations down to 1 or 2 regions, but as soon as we start to take any of theres they cry foul play. Hell they all still got more regions than most of the small nations combined.

Take a look at the St John Port batlte. DUTCH/BRIT/US has 25 with 10 of them being Dutch. VS what 4 during US prime time or was that the mid day weekend port battle? Can't remember the time for it. That the most DUTCH we seen show up in ages but than Danes/French/Swedes allaince is on cool down cause of a voting mistake on there part so ya'll been attacking the crap out of the swedes I see. Where was those numbers when the danes showed up to make it equal numbers or where was those US/BRits when we attacked you that didn't help? Seems your allaince only comes out when you will out number some one and or no one is able to show to fight. Why not instead of attacking the swedes you take your ports back from us pirates? Hell you didn't even attack the swede ports that they took from ya'll?

Man what do ya'll do over there? That would of been boring as hell even if I wasn't more into the PvP side of things I do grind fleets to test things out. I like the flag concept. I would keep mine on if I went into that zone just in case any of the PvE guys felt frisky. You never know they might just find out PvP isn't as bad as they think. Several of our clan members started out on PvE and than moved over when they got bored. Your not limited, you are free to leave it any time you want, just have to understand the risk if you do. No one is going to force you to stay in that zone. Yah I think it was only pirates as it was one of the things we complained about the Privateers not being able to capture, but we where able to tag folks out side of the PvP zones if they where flagged or something. Man it's been ages since I played that game. Was on Roberts and what ever the AU servers was for a long time as Spain. Your name sounds familiar so prob from the Forums their. yah a very bad concept doing something like which could be very easly abused.

You can do contracts in testbed, though I admit can't buy anything direct. Testbed isn't a good example cause well I have yet to see more than 20 folks logged on at one time. So there isn't much econ being tested there. Hell I got my crafting up to level 20 the first patch and than when they wiped the chars I gave up on that. I wanted to build a freaking ship MY WAY not how the redeemables where cause I would never sail ships of those builds for the most part. They realy should of gave us crafting levels on there and some resources to make some things to test them out.

How do you get your resources around now? I don't think anything is going to be changed much other than removal of free towns in PvE zone. So you would still be using traders and the free ports in game wouldn't you? Ships being one dura should be cheaper and faster to replace. My only issue is that of dock space. We should be able to craft ship notes and keep them in our warehouse until needed. They can be restricted to only be open in the port the ship was crafted at though. This will allow you to keep extra ships that the old 5 dura ships would fill before you need to replace them. Though I'm more just going to wait and see who the new system is. We can't say something is or isn't going to kill things until we try them.

You can't attack ships in the OW on PvE? If I'm corrent they are replacing the missions that we had for hostility (which I think ya'll lost) with fleets. Isn't there still epic missions? We hit the mega fleets all the time to flip a region cause they give you about 40-60% hostility. I'm pretty sure you have these same big fleets on PvE. I mean you did a while back when I popped on there to test something. So why wouldn't you have these now? by my understand you will still have AI fleets in your PvE ZONE.

We have a bunch of East coast guys that keep saying 6:20pm.....but I forgot that means 5:20 for me. Guess when I showed up? Right at the end of the port battle. Yah it would be way better if we had certain time blocks for certain ports like the old window, but hell I liked the fact you can arrange the fight any time and give 2 days notice. If you can't man the fight than just take it back at your proper time. Cause on the old system they can just put some crazy time to keep you from taking it again. They did that a lot on the old flag system and I spent a lot of crazy hours with Loco taking empty ports during those off times when no one showed up, but it was set to them to make it hard to flip it.

I'm down for either one cause that is what we are here for. I know a lot of folks will bitch and complain, but to be honest they weren't here to test the game in it's development if they don't understand that. There hasn't been a full wipe since EA started and that was over a year a go. I never been in an alpha game that went that long without several wipes of different levels. So hopefully we will see this soon and it will get to test server to play. We are all ready seeing numbers drop on the servers of folks that are just going to stop playing until the patch gets here. Could it be possible if what is being keep on the testbed now be put into game for us to give us something to play with until the next patch. Like the new ship structure stuff and the Pirate vs Pirate stuff? That would mean less to patch in later too.

Save one ship and a fireship fitting for the last night. I want to do a small battle or something and do a last man standing fight of every one on the server. Since small battles mix's us all up that would mean we have to fight with each other against each other. Something many of us have never done before. I would say 1st rates but might as well just say 1 ship any ship to go boom that last night.