Sir Texas Sir
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It was happening to me too. But yesterday I got to rank 4 and my officer immediately got to rank 4 as well, again with 0 exp. it must be resettign exp but somehow the game still keeps track and counts it in.
That low of a level it's not hard to level up with your officer.
Yes when you reset it, it resets to the start of that level. Which means you loose any earned xp. So if your wise you only do it right after you rank the officer up or while you have very little xp on him. That or once you get him to level 10. Geee guys you don't have to pay 3 perk levels any more stop complaining and that is what they talk about it's free now. It use to cost you three levels every time you reset the officer.
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What are you even talking about? These are Game Labs private forums, not a US government controlled/funded property. There are no free speech rights on private property - these forums. The owner of the property can ask that you stop or be removed at any time.
If you want to use the forums, you have to agree to follow the rules.
People never read forum rules and EULA of things. Oh and last I check the 1st Admid doesn't mean crap when it's dealing with a company from another country and well this is like many have said a private forum with there own rules.
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I think this event would of been better if they did more than one big wreck spread out over the day at diffrent times and in diffrent areas. Many folks didn't even make it half way there and it seem it was more for those that had ports in that area or even just lucked out. I can't have ports every where. Would be nice if we had 10 ports instead of 8 cause I'll tell you I would now have a port over there if I could do it and keep a decent area of influence for PB"s and PvP along with my econ. 2 more ports would really help out. Even folks that left from Key's didn't make it in time to get any loot.
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Would be nice if the MODS/DEVS respond about anything. We got people on the US server confused. We didn't get a heads up by the mods as the EU server got. and folks are asking if it's a one time thing or will they respawn through out the day casue they think the devs said it will be an all weekend thing.
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So my thoughts on the event :
1) The event itself was good and having it pop up randomly in the future will also be good
2) Player expectations were perhaps a bit high
3) 1000+ online...only 256 boxes...of those most had rubbish (purple mods) in them
4) Perhaps put a paint job in them all ? I am against welfare epics and actually think you should look at making some $ in micro transactions for cosmetics (paint, figureheads, sail patterns etc)....but given we had PAINT as a mystery in game....and then you get purlple sights....
5) No matter where you put the 'wreck' half the server were going to be in the wrong half...I setup early, got there second...but I put several hours aside to do this, maybe given the test, two events, east and west would be great.
6) Consider 1 chest per person....or max 2 .... not like 8 !!
7) It was a great event
and i look forward to the next...6 ports should of been 6 different spots all over the map. So with the 6 ships was that it? Is there no more? To me it seems the guys with ports in there are the only ones that got it. Most of us haven't even made it half way across the map and oh yah that part of the GOM is not the West Indies.
I do agree it should of been something and than the added rare chance for the BP or paint. I have only seen one paint on the US server so far. Every one else got mods and most weren't even golden. Though now the fighting has started, but it's from all the folks pissed off they wasted all that time to get there to empty chest. \
OH AND NO MODS COMMITTED OR SENT THE LINK ON THE US SERVER. So one with two accounts had to sit on both servers and relay the info for us. To be exact when was the last time a mod has even been on the US server?
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Its a ship bunch of ship wrecks that get emptied out, most of the if not all are already empty.
Yah all the guys that had ports over there are the only ones that are getting them. any one on the other side of map is pretty much getting screwed.
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I just pulled a port out of there and some of us have never even been in the GOM. Our notes have said West Indies and that isn't the West Indies.
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we pay for this accounts so we can use it, u never can chek if any play with 2 account or has only kids the play tp Naval action ..... haha
But some games do limit you to having those accounts on one faction per server. I played many that if I wanted to play a diffrent faction I had to play them on a diffrent servers than my other chars. Even if I owned two accounts. Though normally it's hardly ever known unless you do something completly stupid.
I mean i had 5 accounts on POTBS and all of them but one was in Spain. The one was French and he was low level and I only logged him in to make wine cause it was a production you could only really get in french ports.
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Tagging for whatever reason is not cheating.
If you don't like how a certain mechanic works, bring it up for discussion. Then we can analyze and see what tool might be needed and request it.
Actually hasn't the devs said if you pull flags so your nation can't attack your alt nations is cheat? That type of tagging and doing things I do believe is cheating. Taggin your alt to pull a team in to a fight to stop a PB I would say would be cheating too. Many games allow alts as long as they don't effect there counter part in play.
I get the Sabotaging and spying stuff, but some things are prob crossing the line in play.
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Remember in real life there is spies and sabators that happen in every nation. If you don't want them to know stuff keep it private and to TS or clan chat. As long as your not using that char to cheat like tagging to keep out of fights or other things like that than there shouldn't be any issues with multi accounts.
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(Playing with my GB character on PvP 2) I survived that port battle, only to be ganked in a 7 vs 1 this morning as I was sailing south rounding the corner at Port Morant.
Well coordinated gank sqiuad consisting of pirates, US and Spanish.
Enjoy my Teak Bucentaure.
I am off to the lowest of taverns and hovels in KPR to press gang a replacement crew.
PS: some awesome screenshots to the original poster.
I loved the view through the stern cabin windows.
If that little Spanish player didn't show up we prob would of never caught you either. He wasn't even part of our group that was running around after the battle. We got BigMO's Buc's just after yours.
It was a fun battle.
I was quite surprised that my "little" Essex did as well as it did without getting sunk. I even imagined to even get in a few hundred hits and 2 assists!
Aside from the one obvious alt on our side (which I believe was reported), it was a good battle, close too.
Got to say that was my first time in a SOL in a port battle and it was the free ship they gave us. I still like Frigates and below, but it was a good fun and WAY TO CLOSE battle. Talk about in the nick of time.
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One of the spainsh has some screenshots of his great adventures with the gunship. We so going to need to do a big battle with a bunch of these little guys.
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And remember we didn't just take one port, we took two of theirs for the one they took. Not just any two. We took two of them right in there front yard.
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Not enough players to allow for such that is why the EU Mirror got shut down and the PvE got moved to EU. They need to just merge it with the PvP1/2 servers and be done with it.
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As much as I liked the fact we could get ships moved around a lot faster, but to be honest this will make planning attacks and defense more important a head of time and folks can't just port there combat ships over fast to an area. You actually need to keep ships spread out to the are's you need to fight in or patrol.
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Ive been to Charleston when they still had 150 ports and their ship prices were still in the millions for even common quaility ships i havent been there since then and also before they started losing all the ports they had and still holding strong on 150-170 they STILL refused to bring 1ST RATES! and whenever they brought constitutions to fight and we capped them or got them from blowing them up in battle they were ALWAYS STORE BOUGHT BASICS. so i just scraped them for parts. Bringing just basics to a big battle and you got the numbers and going against a nation with fewer numbers and that nation is bringing exceptionals with the best mods they got as well as best quality of ships your going to sink faster if your in a basic ship that you can only put a couple of mods on that cannot stay afloat.
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Also, the usa players that switched to pirate when they STILL HAD 150-170 ports AND PLENTY of SHIPS, they said they left because of people like oldcrankyman, elmo, baron, JP Johns, JP shots, and yankyeager because of the insults and ranting and raging. yankyeager and oldcrankyman need to LEARN TO CONTROL THEIR TEMPER! I for one have the worst anger issues and it took my whole life to learn how to control it and refine that control and THIS IS JUST A GAME! NO NEED TO GET ANGRY OVER LOSING IT IS GOING AND WILL HAPPEN WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT! You win some, you lose some.
I rest my case.
Even worse is some one tries to post a ship at a good decent price and some players will buy it and than post it up again at a much more jacked up price than before. This was hurting new players big time. It blew our mind when we saw how low the prices was in MT compared to CT. Oh and speaking of good prices I was doing some port hopping in a trader last night and popped into the Spanish capital and they are doing the same, hell I think they have the lowest prices I seen in any of the capitals. This helps support there new players and those that might want to make new chars in that nation but have the Rank. Though it's not a lot of ships, but it's a good thing for helping there nation out.
Good JOB SPAIN.
The last part is pretty much why most of us left. In fact many of the Pirates pulled us a side and asked us why we left when we first switched over. Pretty much they keep getting the same answer over and over about how Toxic some US players (not all as there is some great players still in the US Nation). Before we switched we would give good fights at end of battles we even lost to the Pirates for just that, it was a good battle. Cause of that we got called traitors and we where to friendly with them. Guess what when you fight the same guys over and over you get to know each other and there is no reason you can't be on different teams and still be civil and respect each other. It's normally the sore loosers that get nastie.
my dislike of the server and the few people that participate in it, USA may have driven players to pirates, but they also did a good job of driving people to other servers.
and as much as I would love to join in, it's far more interesting fighting people who are polite and show good sportsmanship.
I will take a lost over and over to some one with good sportsmanship after battles any day. Hell I was joking about one of the guys that keeps showing up for shallow water battles and being sunk by us making him a new ship and giving it to him for free for the good spirit of the battle.
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Just buy another copy of the game... I my opinion this is an issue that needs to be addressed in the future big time.. sure right now in ALpha get your money, but in the future multiple accounts will hurt a lot of issues and the biggest will be the economy.
Like other games I think you should only be able to have alts in the same nation on the same server.
2 copies of a game just to cast a vote... hmmm....no
For most of those it's for extra econ hours and nothing more, but hay some folks might have more. I had like 5 in POTBS cause I was a ship builder and it helped on my econ that I didn't need any one else. All of them Spain nation exept one French that I used for wine production.
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The other day I was in a shallow water PB and I was boarded doing 5.2 KNOTS and when in the boarding screen my ship was almost a full length a head of the other guys. I did an F11 for it cause I knew he would get me, but he shouldn't of got that second board at that speed and it was really fast after the first board so felt like the reset timer hadn't even warn off either. That and seems a like the AI has been very heavy geared with board modes cause they are doing almost twice the damage on there attacks as I am even though I have more marines and muskets and crew in the fight.
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Almost year ago, the idea of whale hunting and slave trading made on forum big discussion and if I remember correctly admins stated that those things will never end in game cause of ethic/political reasons.
But it's ok to have ranks like DEMONS and DEVILS instead? We where just talking about this today. I don't care but I think it's funny how some folks will flip out about just about anything not PC. I would be all for freeing some slaves and killing evil slavers and even doing the same to whalers.
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just inquiring... by the OP, you still have Unknown clan listed as US. All but ~2 of them went pirate (that's 38 players!)
Cheers,
-Yank
addn: also, the CBR [chum Bucket Raiders] roster has 16 on it, but only ~6 active, it seems.
Why don't you keep your mouth shut about stuff you don't know. We plan to update when we got more stable. In fact it was only 8 players that switched over, the rest (about 10 that was active and 10 not active) have stayed in US. Some even joined other clans by tags I seen. So UNKN is currently Pirate and it's members is about 11 at this exact time with all member active and growing. Hell some of those players that aren't as active might still switch over so the number isn't final as it's only been a week and half since we switched over.
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I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Privateer is a private ship owner who acts under a letter of marque to attack shipping of HIS NATIONS ENEMIES. Historical example would be Sir Francis Drake.
Privateers were often paid based on the prize they took. This meant it could be VERY profitable but also VERY dangerous as most privateers didn't sail anything much larger than a brig.
As for Pirates, pirates should be much like privateers in function just they don't have a nation to hide under for protection, but they can make more profit per prize. As they are not taxed on their earnings.
But if you want to go completely historical, pirate captains would have to be elected to their position. And seeing as most pirates life span was only about a year, yes one year, people wouldn't want that.
Most Privateers where called Pirates by the nation they attacked for there sponsored Nation. IE if he was a French Privateer and he took a spanish ship. Spain would call him a Pirate. So would maybe British if he took some of there merchant ships too. They tend to slide off the letters of there powers a bit and that what makes them pretty much Pirates to any one else.
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I like the poll, voted for raiding only.
I will only vote on restricting ships of the line for pirates if there is another mechanic that "buffs" them or somehow compensates for that limitation.
As a Britain player, I've found pirates to be some of the most organized and would hate to hurt their ability to give us good fights.
I would like to see more ships like Pirate Frigate and they can even keep them only basic ships so folks won't jump on the "THEY ARE OP" Wagon. They can do some combo's like Take a deck of guns off and add a bigger cargo hold (not trader level but more than the warships have). Stay wiith the ligher armor, but more gun and/or crew on some ships. It's not like we can't capture any of the SOL any way, but if we do I think there should be a big bounty on your head to have that ship sunk or returned.
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@Sir texas ... you suck major camel dung! eat it slowly... it does you better than your integrity. You were given free items and a start up by CBR, and then you stabbed us. If your picture is a shot of you -- I completely understand your worth in life! Or was that spoken too fast for you?
Guess I missed the pre-edited version of this. You want to know something CBR DIDN"T GIVE ME CRAP. The only thing that I got from that clan was Speedfreak on his own offered to craft a Surprise for me if I brought him all the mats and the labor contracts. Which I brought to him plus a little extra. All items I built myself and gather after solo playing for a long time since EA started and than starting over when I switch to the US server after making 1st Lt. Was half way to Master Com when I asked to get the ship made. He made the ship like most good crafters do to get the XP from making the ship to rank up. I have no issues with him and still think he's an ok player. All the other crafters I talked to wanted me to do all the mats, bring the labor contracts and than they wanted me to pay pretty much full price for the ship. This is a thing we see a lot in US with crafters. It wasn't the clan that did this, it was one player that was helping out a player that switched over from EU and had to grind all the way up in ships to a Cerberus to get to his level and wanted to get his next ship crafted and I did. No one else has helped me from day one on either server as I was a very solo player. I didn't even get into my first PB until I joined UNKN. So before you start saying things you might want to actually learn the facts. The players I still respect aren't the ones on here name calling or doing so in chat in game. Hell most these guys like your self I have never dealt with in game before I turned Pirate. Apparently I was pretty popular if I effected ya'll that much to piss you off?
I now build ships for my clan and I have never asked for anything from the players in my clan. Most of them give me a little this or that to help out but I do it to help the clan.
Such hate in this young man, wow someone show him the outside and get him away from the computer...tis not good for his health
Yah he just keeps raging and raging and I don't even know why he has so much hate for me.
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There is a lot of misinformation going on. By the last decade on the height of pyracy, western world, prizes were even put ablaze with horrific consequences. Was the age of the war with the world, sadly.
Earlier buccaneer and even after the split of crews between Jamaica and Haiti were way more soft.
Not to mentioned most pirates where just Privaters for one country and was listed as Pirates for others. Yah the only time you really saw a prize come back was in the Navy as they will ransom or refit them for service.
This is why I think Nationals should have a send to Admiralty that only sends it to be sold. you never see it and you get your prize crew back when you get back in port. As for others they need to take that ship back to there home port to refit it, scrap it or sale it. It shouldn't be a click button and it's sent back home and you keep saling like nothing happen. I would love a surrender option that you can ransom off a payment to keep some of your cargo and crew after a battle instead of loosing every thing. Since the winner would have to haul the ship back himself or as an AI that would mean they would be more willing to let you go after such ransom and pickings of your cargo.
and i look forward to the next...
Dumping cargo, giving cargo, destroying cargo?
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Remember if you surrender you don't loose your crew or officer lives.
Though I agree it would be nice to have an option to surrender and give a ransom to keep part of your cargo and ship and go on your marry way. It's not like the warships can carry every thing. This would be great to imploment if they forced you to sale your prize ships back instead of magically telporting them back to a port.
Unless it's a small trader most cargo is in a hold and would be hard to actually just dump over board. The things that get dumped are smaller contraband not the full cargo hold.
Fireship is kinda this option but hay who is going to put that mod on all there traders, specially when most the times I get away cause I'm speed fitted to run on most my shallow water traders. The LVG on the other hand are made to be slow and full of MARINES for counter boarding lol