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Have you checked your settings? They might need to be turned down or something. No issue here during storms other than a few FPS drop but my machine isn't a potato either.

Yah so I'm taking it the Admins are okay with it, than we should have the tools to boot them or tag them as traitors (one way you can turn rat?). Though with that I think there should be a system a Pirate can become a privateer and go back to being that nations member too. That would be a cool way to have other options of how to turn Pirate in game. We will just have to wait. I really want to turn my US player on EU Pirate cause I don't play on there any more just to test the new mechanics out when they do come for Pirates.

Yah some of the folks I know only get on weekends or a little every other day when they can. Some of us have jobs, kids and other games we play. 168 hours? Are you smoking crack or something? Most folks have a 40-50 hour job. Which would mean 4 weeks even if your on every day for most of the day, but since most of us have jobs it's more like we might be own 2-4 hours a day at most. So lets say 2 hours. Just to be nice I'll say 6 days a week when it's prob more like 4-6. Than you figure that is about 12 hours a week. Which would put you around 14 weeks. That is 3-4 months of play before you can even vote. Most of the players haven't even been on that long. I do think they should be Captain or above as a marker as to when they can vote. Maybe a little lower, but not just every midshipman out there. I also think there shouldn't be alts from the same player in two different nations on the same server either.

I'm thining they will give the re-roll option when the new pirate mechanics come out. I just hate we have to share labor hours across the servers or I would of gone Pirate a long time ago on one of them just to play the national side on one server and the Pirate side on another. As is it's kinda forcing me to make an account just to run an alt in another nations unless I don't want to do any crafting at all with one char. Which would be my Pirate char as it should gain it's resources from capture ships and raids, which I hope they turn their PB's into raids not captures.

And this is exactly what I call cheating and why most games won't allow you to have alts of diffrent nation/factions on the same server. I don't mind some one having multi alts in the same server if they are of the same nation/faction. I play mainly US on the PvP2 server and thinking now that we can change our nations on other servers I was thinking of makeing my EU server char go Pirate since I rarely play on there. Though if the NATION of Rats have a policy to hunt down other rats that will attack rats than there is no point for me to do this. I only want to do it solo for the off hour PvP when the US server is a bit slow late at night. Which they should be, they are suppose to be HARD MODE not easy mode. Why can't you still do that? I mean Pirates are the only ones that can attack each other. This means you can still do this but there just won't be a game mechanic since it's on a clan level and not National. Oh and PvP 1 seems to not want this with the stupid attack a Pirate the rest of the Pirates will hunt you down and destroy you. Seems way to much like they are trying to be like a Nation than what Pirates are more like. Well that is how they prob should be, but when is the last time you actually seen pirates attacking other pirates? They really need to enforce the no multi accounts in different nations on the same server. I don't see an issue if they are all of the same nation helping you with your econ, but there is to much cheating with folks that have multi accounts in different nations on the same server. You basically can't make any comments in Nation Chat without spies using that info against your Nations.

Are you craft level 42 since that is the max for that level? Yah the Shipmaster ones do not work across servers as I checked them this morning. I wasn't going to try the wallet one yet cause I never can save up that much labor time lol

That is pretty much stuff they can do in the future with NA so why does it have to wait years and years for them to come out with the next one. Let them finish this one first before we even talk about a NA2 Yah I can see expansions way before they even think of a NA2.

I don't think it will be a whole one, just the ports prob. We all know they will do just that as they don't understand what EA/Alpha means in a game. I do think they will give every one EA free level ships since wee keep our Rank/Craft xp levels. I don't want to start over mid rank (or high rank by than) with just a stupid basic cutter again. I have all ready did that when I switched servers. They can still do that without a wipe, but I'm better ports will for sure get wiped when they bring in the politics, diplomat stuff. When the new Pirate mechanics come out and that is going to be even further down the road I wouldn't be suprised if they unlock transfers and such or allow you to switch nations for those that don't want to be a rat any more. Even with that promise I wouldn't be upset if the did a clean wipe of every one but we just got fit tanks for our hard work. EA is only a none invite only Alpha/Beta in my book. Just about every game I Alpha/Beta tested they did wipes and gave testers gifts for there work that wouldn't be OP to other players.

I know you can light some of the smaller ships on fire from deck hits. Though I do think stern shots have a better chance of doing so.

Which that would be 60 and I'm getting the exact same on all servers 60 an hour so I think it effects all servers. Makes me wonder what other crafting perks would effect all servers. I might have to check the ones that decrease your labor time for certain ship types next.

So I checked all three servers this morning and I had exactly 812 hours on all them since I last posted on this. So I waited for the hour to be up and my crafting was at 872. If I'm correct we get 40 labor hours every RL hour right? Well That is 60 per hour and it's the same on all three servers. Is it still 40 an hour or has it been raised up? Either way that isn't a 20% mark up it's more and either it's not working on the server I have it or it's working on all three servers.

Yah I'm going to compare them later today and if I got more hours on one than the others we know it doesn't effect the sync hours. If it does I'll make a report.

That and like tonight we where heading back to a port after a shallow water port battle and I wasn't paying attention and some one tagged me just as I was about to port in. Well he got a bad tag and I out ran him. I had been in two port battles for that last two hours and needed to get off to make dinner. I didn't have the time to sit there and get tagged again and play with this guy. So I left myself at the log out of battle screen and went to make some dinner. I came back hopped out and into port and than went on to play some other part of the map with a different ship. Some times we can't just keep fighting hours and hours and hours on.

Ok I was sitting here thinking about something and wonder if any one has tested this. We all know labor is shared across servers right? So if you got an officer on one server with this perk would it increase your labor out put on all servers? How about the other perks that deal with labor hours and cost? To me I was thinking some one can put certain perks like this on one char on a server they don't play on and than put more combat perks on the officer that they use on the main server they play on. Just wondering if any one has tested this out or not? I put it on my EU officer since I don't play on there any more and I'm going to check my hours and see if they have changed any from what I have on my US server char. That and do the math and see if it looks like I"m getting more labor per hour compared to my crafting level.

I was doing Wreck hunting early this week and it was coming down pretty hard and my little Trade Cutter felt like it was about to go under and just as I thought I was about to get to a Freetown to port in BOOM I end up face to face with a Rat and he tags me. I run like crazy and get back into the storm and just as I pull in port I can see anouther rat was trying to block the port but cause of the weather he never saw me fly in. Just as I was clicking on port there was some poor brit that shows up and he gets tagged instead. Yah I know what your talking about looming trouble out there in hostile waters.

Yes they half the speed of the master skills cause they where to OP apparently. Yah I was thinking this would be how they do it and put a number that you can have as you rank up. This way your 1st might be higher rank and older than some one else in your crew of officers. If he goes down to much you might have to advance some lower rank officer into his place and he starts over with his skill pools while another officer might be just half way up his ranking.

30 mins of rain in game was to much for you. Last week it pretty much stormed and rained all night when I was doing bottle/wreck hunting. You couldn't see your hand before your face. I'm going to take it many of you have never been at sea or worked offshore. It rains all the time when I'm out there for work.

Man are you on a potatoe? I would go mad if I had to play it on low and get only that FPS. Feel sorry for you man. I'm running GTX 980 through a alienware graphic amplifier (980M on board the laptop) and I still getting about 60 FPS average and it kinda bounces from 58-62 and that is on ULTRA/HIGH settings. While it wasn't my game but something else was acting up (teamspeak) and I had to reboot the whole laptop this morning when I got up. Something was causing my TS to be real choppy like a bad connection. Once I rebooted it was back to normal.

[uNKN] UnKnown We are up to 40 members and growing. That is twice what we had when I started. Just though I'll add that since you have about the number of members when I joined a few weeks ago. We are doing some heavy recruitment of newer and older players.

Don't think there is much you can do. Just don't make every one and there brother an officer.

Ok I know if you do a major crew shock by like killing half the crew it's pretty much an auto win in a boarding. Though I noticed lately that if you don't do this, but you still get the moral to "O" they fight to the last guy. This kinda doesn't make since. I mean you have no will to fight, your out number and you fight to the last man? Shouldn't they give up when there moral hit's "0" no matter what? It kinda makes "Press Gang" pointless unless you get the CREW SHOCK instant win for large crew kill and moral drop. Other wise if you have to fight to the last man there is no crew left and no one to press to replace the ones you loose. I keep noticing this when I hit Traders and don't do the crew shock/kill half them in one attack. With the new crew changes and such you think this would happen when Moral is at zero and there is pretty much no way for the Trader ship to win the fight. Again this is only AI ships not PvP.

This is why I like press gang perk. Many times you might just become part of there crew too. Some times it was a better deal than the ship you where on before that you might of got pressed gang in the first place in some port to join.

Clan mate has one so now we are going to make fun of her for having a special ship no one else in clan has lol

I mean how are ya'll to test them and see which ones need to be reworked and which ones are fine as they are if there aren't a lot of them out there to compare? At least that is the way I see it with the different drops and such. To many people forget that we are basically the testers of a game that isn't released fully yet.

How much has been sold in those ports? When it's at 1 gold it's been over sold and it has not used up enough of the product. Stop saturating the market and than you can sale items.