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We where talking about this last night in clan TS and I noticed something that fits in with what the devs said. I got a feeling the BR limit in that area will be 150. This will allow three Brigs or like ships. Or 5-6 smaller ships like a cutter or Lnyx. Brig, Snow and Rattler have 50 BR. Though it will allow for 2 Heavy Rattler, Mercs as they are 70 BR. You can get one Niagara in the fight with something smaller prob. If this is going to be how the system work it's going to be interesting.

PvP2 going to be interesting seeing every one grab land since they are one of the smallest nations. I think the swedes are the only ones with less ports and they only have one.

Well it seems a group of them are joining the Dutch against us. Looks like the hands off french just went out the door. Going to sink any one that I see now cause of that. We where going to leave them alone as long as they stay out of the fight.

Than ALPHA testing isn't for you man. I done tons of testing and most games do complete wipes before live. They are going to let us keep ur XP Ranka nd Crafting ranks. That is way more than any other game I been on that might of gave you a title or a skin for your help testing. This is why I level up so slow cause I would take break off until new content came out and only play like a week at a time between each patches until recently a month ago I gotten really active cause there is so much mroe to do and I'm into PvP and PB's now which I never did before. I think the content is looking really good right now, but for some it might be just to pop in and see what is going on every patch until release. People forget this is an EA ALPHA testing so we are testers here for them until the game comes out. They don't have to give us anything right now or even on release/live. All we did was pre-order a game they are letting us Test and help create better content for. Every game I been on that had a good player test group turned out good on release compared to those that had little to no player feed back before release. Even if they where closed testers. Also remember this game is a very small dev team and we are helping them out big time by doing this testing for them for free (well actually WE paid to test instead of getting paid). I would be just fine with a complete wipe at release to be honest and start on the same grounds as any other new player. Though I understand this is there way paying us back. Though I just hope we get more than just a basic cutter to start the grind at at Max rank. I done that as a Lt Com when I switched from EU to US server and grinding with a Basic Cutter blows at that rank until you get the credits or capture a bigger ship. And I did that switch back when you couldn't capture war ships.

Devs have said they plan to allow us to use the fleet's cargo's in the future so we can load up a trader and escort it our selves. We just have to wait as it's prob not something on the top of there list. Though I do think a SOL restriction from fleeting would be good for sure, but than I wouldn't have so many easy undercrew targets out there. To me when I have a Trader the AI is a hinderance cause you go on the OW the speed of your fleets slowest ship and if I'm tagged I can't just leave them behind and run or I loose my crew. Though for now if you want escorts get some clan buddies or just ask in chat. We have escorted a lot of traders simply cause it's a target and can get us PvP out of it protecting them.

Fixed that for you as Nyrtle wasn't part of UNKN but he was WATCH. There are still members in US that are in that clan. UNKN kinda has died out it seems and I switched to BLACK. Prob can say you got a good bit of catching up on things in the last month that have happen.

Would be nice to see more French that isn't the rare once in a blue moon sighting.

Man makes me even more happy I stopped playing after they went F2P. POTBS had some great concepts that just didn't have the means to make them great like we do now. It also had a lot of bad flaws too.

They didn't mini hot patch this morning so was wondering if it will be done this time and if they are going to have it this Sat? As far as I know we haven't gotten any notes yet.

What part of you are testing an ALPHA of a game do you not understand. If they fell like it they can wipe every thing you have and make us all start over fresh every other week if that is what they want to test.

I'm all cool with them running a ship down after a long time, bu some of these ships turn way to fast and keep there speed. Even worse turn through wind and do so with ease. Maybe running them down after getting full sails of wind, but I bet it wasn't in a turn base fight with every one doing zig zag criss cross patterns.

Yah I just checked the BR and noticed the BRIG, SNOW, and RATTLER all are 50. So wonder if that is the limit level or is it going to be one step lower? Man you just made me miss my Pickle days when I got the BP and made my first one ages ago. Those lands have saved my traders in shallows so many times and they are honestly fun to fight around islands as it brings in a new perspective you have to deal with in a battle and with tagging. You rarely see much of it in any other area of the OW.

Hell you might as well, what is the worse they can do to you. You know since they can't capture that one port. To be honest I can't wait until the new patch comes out so folks can stop this who has the most port BS and just play anew.

I really think this is the reason we keep hearing pirates are hackers and such when it's really just so call vets suck at the game and just can't admit it cause they never learned the basics. Instead all they learned was from fleeting AI and ganking in numbers.

You do know the new newbie ROE are for BRIG and below. So this guy with 2nd Lt I assume is his rank is 3rd rank and no longer a new player and since he's not in a Brig he doesn't follow by the same rules as the new players. To be honest I all ready plan to have me a Privater made for those type of folks that will be going after low ranking players in there on tripped out exceptional ships. Wait wasn't the Vengences Privateer only? How was every one in them? I left POTBS pretty much when it truend F2P cause it burned the players that had all ready built up ECONS ( I had 5 accounts there). I wasn't going to pay for new crafting and BP's and have most mine obsolete. Though I see what your talking about how it can be abused, but I believe this game has a little better BR system than POTBS did.

To be honest I think when they go live they should do this. Though way to many are going to cry other wise. I just don't think it's fair for any new players to have a bunch at that time with very well set levels and ranks. Hay but we get to prob start over with Basic Cutters and be Curse ranked...woot woot.

Kinda going to change with the new map. To be honest if you speak with certain folks I'm sure an arrangement can be made, but the problem is you need to get the majority of the rest of your nation on par with the agreement.

But what your missing is the system doesn't make it 1 vs 1. If your in a group than it will allow others to join the fight until you have equal numbers/br. So that means you can still have group play.

For some odd reason I prob laughed a little harder than I should when I read this part. Thanks DEVS for the good chuckle. Looks like we are going have to be the good guys to not pick on the little noobs. Than again some one is prob going to get greedy and want those zones any way. My clan was talking about this last night in TS. Pretty much what I'm guessing is they are going to get all the National stuff with alliance and what not done before they touch us. Though it would be nice if we got a little teaser of plans though. Until than we are just another nation that doesn't have the Alliance option like others do. We would just be happy if they bring back Pirate on Pirate so we can have some good inter-fighting too. That will keep us off you pesky Nationals.

Rookies should be able to play with others. I made a rank and half of one PvP battle and all I did was tag for the team and shot sails cause I couldn't pen anything else. That is a big XP jump for a new players. It's something we use to get new players into PB's and PvP is that they can level faster doing PvP than they do killing AI fleets. As for VETs going there in Brigs and below taging newbies. One easly solution is to go in there with your own ships and kill them. Isn't this how you stop folks that are out side seal clubing your newbies out side you capital right now? Oh wait some of you guys will sit on your butts and let them get killed instead of helping them. See the issue here isn't the zone, it's the fellow players. I know for sure I will have a port in that area to help them. I all ready do for shallow water battles wtih the US. Now it just gives every one one zone that we can all fight small ships in. Cause the ports are still there to do shallow water battles with.

You will get a redeemable of the cost for those ports and the upgrade.

The other thing is remember when I had the Little Taco alt and he would screen/tag for ya'll out side KPR (great way for him to get XP by the way and that goes for any lowbie). Some brits hit him and was doing some major smack talking. Well I escaped and one of our Pirates that wasn't in clan that didn't know I was helping ya'll tagged me. Well those same brits jumped in on my side to help me. I just turned my self way and sailed at a distance while the Pirates killed them. They cried that I didn't help them. Than next time don't call me names and smack talk. I didn't have to fire one shot at the Pirates and I didn't do any green on green. In the example that was put above Pirates can do the same. Say a Brit tags a US player and we have a group of two pirates out side. Group A can joined the Brit while Group B joins the US. Group A can kill the US player while Group B kills the Brit player. Leaving at the end only pirates on both sides. But since they are friends they won't shoot at each other. Leaving the only ones left alive and to share the spoils are the pirates. This is what we are talking about joining both sides. Pretty much how it would go down. Though to be honest we would like it to be able to join the others sides when it's pirates your attacking too cause to be honest there are a few pirates we wouldn't mind helping ya'll sink too. This is the great thing about Pirates is we aren't restricted by the alliance system so we can enter any side of battles. Unless it's a Pirate VS Nation fight.

There is a new post on the newbie area that will be in that area.

Wait until you see what we took tonight.

Yes please give us a draft soon. We are getting tired of being called OP cause we are more organized and have pretty much the same things Nats have minus the alliance system. Hurry up and make us diffrent so they can complain about something more real than just us kicking them around in fights. A lot of folks need to remember we are Alpha Testers and they can make changes all they want as much as they want. I kinda like these new changes though. A little diffrent and getting more and more close to the worked out finished product and image the Devs want for the game. Just want the Pirate stuff to come soon.