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Wait there is a "T" command for certain sails? I just learned something new. Oh and I got a gold set of these the other day from a wreck and asked this same question and no one could really tell me what they do lol

I think they comp you for the less fish as I tend to catch bigger fish (sharks and such) in the open sea deeper waters. Oh I been bitching cause I have yet to get a bottle and I got one tonight after a battle. I open it and just as I did I got another bottle. Time to do some speed runs all over the map.

I noticed I was getting some pretty bad PING/LAG issues on the US server and logged out and back in and notice a few times the EU was down. This was all before the server maintance so I just took it that there was some issues. It's expected with the stage the game is in right now. Hell I just came back cause I was wanting to check out the new update and been loving the new stuff. I take breaks between patches so not to get burned out. Now to figure what to do with this big ship i can't even crew yet. If we don't redeem them right away will it stay on the redeem tab? Other wise I think I need to move some ships around to make room for it and just use it for a storage ship until I level up.

Than I'm screwed cause since I switched from playing on EU to US I have yet to get a BP from crafting or breaking a ship apart. I pretty much gave up trying to craft on this server cause of it. Wish your BP's carried over with your crafting level.

I'm Master Com and my crew max is 250 but I use a Surprise and it has a crew of 240. That is 10 extras, but if I have a bad battle or even boarding it cost me what 1K per crew to get my crew back. That is 30K if I loose 30 crew. At this time I'm not in a clan and I'm just not making the money some of the big guys can make fleeting or even doing crafting. Basicly the credits I earn every mission I been doing to level up is going towards buying new crew. I love to board since I play more like a privateer than a Naval Officer and like to capture ships to make money too, but when you make me spend all my earnings on crew it's pretty much wasted for the pay out. I might as well just sink the ships (I capture a lot of traders not so much normal ships). I agree the cost for crew should scale a bit with your ranks not be the same across the board or it needs to be lowered a bit to be more manageable for the players still trying to level up. It be different if I had a big pool to work with or something, but I don't if I loose crew I loose ship handling.

While I'm only Master Com right now and recently got my Surprise. I'll be honest even when I level up I'll prob stay in the Frigates as it's more style of play as a Privateer. BIG SLOW SHIPS are a bore to me.

Are do like some other games and have a server reset once a month or something. That way if you want to keep using those ports as your home base your clan has to retake it and keep it every month instead of just sitting on it cause the other nation isn't strong enough to take it back. As for the low population nations, give them an XP/Credit boost like other games do to lower populated groups. I hate the concept of giving the more populated nation a penalty cause I'm a slow player in the US PvP2 and only Master Com so that would hinder my casual slow play. How about you guys in other nations actually listen to us when we try to help you and set up truces so you can grow. Instead you join with alts and pirates and try to make alliance with the wrong folks. To be honest NO ONE SHOULD BE MAKING ALLIANCES with the Pirates. They should be the hard mode not the easy catch 22 mode. If they are allowed alliance than make it a contract like privater for that one pirate and it's tagged that he's working under that nations flag. I know this is going to piss folks off, but why is there even a PvE server for the US? I mean I only been hit twice since the game came out and both times kinda was my fault they where even able to tag me. It's not like your getting ganked every two seconds unless you are hauling your trade goods in a very active areas.

For a solo player I wouldn't mind having the fleets for help. Some times it's hard to get a team together when you just want to grind. I solo lower rank fleet/missions for that reason. I don't even mind them keeping it to only cutters. Cause I would more use it for my trader protection when making runs or low level fleet grinding. The issue I have is that you rarely see any higher level ships out there solo unless they are just traders. That and like the OP I went from playing on PvP1 to PvP2 and had to start my grind all over with a higher rank but only basic cutter, but I couldn't buy the fleet ships to help with that grind. Wouldn't been to bad if my crafting BP's got shared too as than I could of made some decent ships early to help with that grind.

Yah I played around a little on the PvE server and got bored. I keep to PvP2 for a good while until I moved over to PvP1 since I live in the US. To be honest I have only been attacked two or three times with two of those being gank in a trader ship and I just gave up the fight as there was no way to run from them. Would be nice if they had a ransom option to let the ships go after you attack them taking there ransom and maybe a little cargo. The third fight I was 9 vs 1 and out number them all. They even hit me twice and I out ran them a second time. So really I don't see a reason for PvE server. It's like the easy/noob mode.

And don't be stupid. The bigiest thing that has been keeping some of the nations down is when told stay out of our newbie area's and traders in a certain zone they still come and attack them. Yes I know that you can't get to all the players and not all of them will agree with cease fires or off limit zones, but hay it helps. I do think there should be some sort of ticker of influence or active governor for none starting ports. This is ports we all started with for each nation. Those ports should be able to easly capture back or revert back to the Nation they started with. Even have a set time they revert back. Like POTBS had an end of conflict and ports reverted back to original owners. If it was a port you used ECON out of it was the first ports we captured when the map reset. I'm pretty sure we will see something like this later on.

For me it really doesn't matter at this point. I started on PVP1 cause it had the better population, but I switched over to the PvP2 server cause it has better ping and I'm a US player and it has a better US population. The only thing I would like is to combine my dang ships and BP's. I have had the worse luck getting BP's on PvP2 compared to when I was on PvP1...and I only got my freebie ships on that server. I know things will get wipe when the time comes, but still would be nice to put both server work together. I say leave them alone, it's not like the PvE server is over populated too and needs to be combined with one of the other servers.

The problem with that is some of those will all ways be the same folks that have multi accounts or the strongest nations clans out there that will have them over and over again. Though with that I can see maybe the tittle going to the clan leader that takes a port or holds more than a few ports. That way the strongest are the ones that have the 1st rates and keep up the good protection of the fleet and it's strength. I personally don't care to ever make such a high rank cause I like to play more the privateer style than some Navy Admiral in a slow moving 1st rate.

They really should make surrendering a better option for folks like traders. Where the one attacking can be nice and just take what they want or give you a ransom option to keep your ship and cargo. A prime example of this is I got jumped the other night in a Snow Trader and some guy in a rattle snake and two cutters started to demast me and I knew he was going to board me. There was going to be no way I was going to beat him with so much out number crew and it was only a captured trader with about 10K supplies in it. So I just put up the white flag and logged out of the battle to go on my way. It's kinda a A-hole move cause he won't get any more XP/Gold for his damage and boarding from that point on, but what was the point of me fighting cause I was going to loose the ship and cargo any way. I could of used the rest of that battle time for something else productive in game. This isn't a good habit to have and i feel folks do it when they don't have a chance to even win or get part of there cargo or even ship back. I would of been happy to let him take what cargo he could carry and pay a ransom to keep the rest of my cargo and be on my way.

Yah I done a tons of searching on here and youtube and other sources, but since I wasn't in a clan and I haven't even gotten into the PvP of the game other than small battles I had no clue about the conquest and PB stuff. I'm prob about to join a clan and get more into such. I get it's EA and that might come later on, but the ELITE players need to understand not every one knows every thing they do and that there actions are doing more harm to the game than good when they push away new players like that. New players mean more money for the game. If a bunch of folks give up and give the game bad reviews cause of the way they are treated in game you will have less and less players when the game comes out fully. That and content coming out so slow sooner or later some one else is going to come out with a better game with more features and your game will be out dated cause you took so long. This is how I been feeling about the DayZ Standalone game which is EA also. There is all ready other games like it coming out with more materiel faster that are catching players interest. OH and stop calling this a simulator. It is not a simulator. It might have some characteristics of one, but it is no where close to being a true simulator folks.

As a fairly causal solo player I agree with these for the most part. 1. I would love to see more missions that are for the guys that don't want to fleet big ships. I like that we get XP now for distance sailed. I don't do battles much and just been doing trade stuff. I found that as you level up they expect you pretty much to be a in a fleet and fight more and more in groups. This hurts the little guys. I don't want an easy mode, but be nice to have some better solo missions that isn't just a grind. 2. I'm just about to turn Master Commandant and I don't think the grind is that bad. I mean I could rush faster, but since I only play a little here and there it's been nice to work up to each next ship slowly. I got some one making my my Surprise this week even though I'm not rank to make it yet, but I'll have every thing for him. It's to get ready for when I do get about 1.5K more xp knocked out. Which if I did more mission or fleet grinding prob wouldn't take me long at all to do. 3. This age of sailing they had navigation charts and means to get a rough figure of there location while not exact. It would be nice to have some more in game means to chart your path. Even if it could be off cause of skill, storms or other things. Maybe a hidden stat that if you haven't explored the area than your charts are going to be even more off when you plot something and than you will have to go for the old school find a port and than go from there. The movie Master and Commander was a very good example of use of charts during this time period and a lot of that area they haven't been to and very few have explored. 4. I think some of the econ should be mainly set for certain areas and that is why you have the port battles, but some nations do need work. Sorry Pirates should be limited on there ship builds and size they can have without capturing a prized ship. Even than most of them ransom off the ship as it was to big/bulky to keep and maintain. Make hunting said pirates more rewarding for those that wish to play more like privateers than royal navies or traders. This can go back to missions for different play style. Give missions for the Navy guys, Trade Missions for the Traders, and prize hunts for those that want to solo hunt. Pirates can get a bigger reward cause of there ransoms. How about making surrender option where you can still keep your ship but the attacker can take part of your cargo, but you have to pay a big ransom to do so if they choose to not just sink you. 5. Don't like this for the higher levels. What would happen if an Admiral switched sides? He would be cast as a traitor and than hanged when caught if not shot on the spot. I can see more the option at lower ranks or taking say privateer contracts from one nation to fight another. This might come into play with the future diplomatic stuff they talk about.

Isn't it like something 1-5% for any BP to drop and by the crafting web charts it says it's 1% to get it to drop from the Frig BP

That is how most of us had to get our info. The problem is a lot of the ELITE players are very rude in game when you ask for help. Than you have some really nice guys/clans that will help you. Had this happen to me today. Had some one call me a spy cause I didn't know the answer about how to find out what port are being attacked or defended and I missed the actually answer from some one else. I been a solo player and I have left for a few months cause I got bored. I just recently came back cause of the new patch and I'm sure I'll get bored again cause of how little content there is in game. I love the mid level play and would love more privater options in game.

10% have not done a PB? That doesn't surprise me one bit. I asked how you found out and was pissed a comment where some one called me a spy for not knowing that with how long I been in the game and my rank. NO I HAVE NOT DONE A PB. I only been in PvP twice and both times was ganks by mulit players in much better higher tier ships. Many of the players are very rude so I just do my own thing. Hate to say this prob has chased off a lot of new players. I only pop back on when a new patch comes out and for a short time. I'm only Lt Commador and level 18 crafting cause of it. That and having to go from EU server I played on because of the larger population from start to the US server when it got more popular and with only a basic trader sucked. As for the ganking, why not make surrender give you a chance to not loose your ship, but they can take your cargo. This was how it happend many a times in the age of saling. They couldn't take all the cargo so they would just take what they can. Give them an option to grab the best loot and keep going. I did have a clan come out today and ask if I would like to stop by the TS and meet the players and join them to get help. After all this time solo playing I'm thinking of doing so. I think they should up the buildings allowed to 10 instead of just 5. This will help keep folks from having to resort to mulit accounts. Hell POTBS had more building options and I was running 5 accounts on that game cause of the crafting. I agree with the travel time needs to be speed up a bit. It is a big turn off on a game after spending an hour or so to get something and than be ganked and loose it all. Oh and on that note why did I get sent to a far away port when I had two outpost close to where I got sunk at?

Was popping on to check on the update. Get well soon cause man I hate the flu.

Yah I'm switching over to the US server from the EU now that it's getting more busy and trying to grind up gold with only small battles and random fights in a basic cutter when your way higher rank than that kinda sucks. Oh and you don't get your BP you learned across servers, just your rank in crafting. So that sucks too.

I done number 2 myself and lost about 10K of stuff. Yah I wasn't very happy camper with myself.

Which I don't get cause your adding crew not taking away from the current crew. When you attack or even I think the musket round it gives you more damage than if you didn't have them or something. I have to relook up boarding again.

You know you could of turned a bit at the last moment and he might of missed you and not reset your counter. Now for me getting ganked by 9 brits and out running them all the other day. I didn't get crap for doing so. They should have some type of reward even if it's XP only for out running a way out matched fight. Though what pissed me off is when I came out of the first stage of invisibility suddenly two of the snow showed up right next to me also on the OW. They stayed on me and tagged me and where able to catch and kill me. I did the same and let myself sink so they didn't get the price of the ship. Though it was bad odds that they just happen to pop out on the OW exactly the same way I was going. Maybe the after battle counter should be a bit longer? To me I have caught and sunk guys I ran on for a good 30 mins just slightly gaining on them until I was able to get there sales down. You prob would of out run them sooner and later and shouldn't had turned.

I'm a US player that lives in the US. Has been playing on the EU server cause it was more active. With them unlocking crafting levels along with rank I'm going to start playing more on the PVP2 server. With the new patches and such coming out I started to grind on the PVP2 server to get gold and into a better ship. I'm looking for a clan to help out too.

I know there going to allow us to change our chars and go other nations on other servers some time soon. I was just wondering thoough currently if I have US on all the servers and had been playing on EU PVP1 cause my crafting xp wasn't on US PVP2. Well with the EU split and such I was wondering if I made my US char a Pirate until the next patch will it make all my chars go Pirate or just that one on the that server? I was planing when they allow to make diffrent chars for diffrent nations on diffrent servers just to have a change once in a while, but wanted to test the pirate thing out for a bit if it didn't effect my other chars on other servers.