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Doesn't really matter the nation I just wish the stupid AI would stop shooting our ships while in boarding. I get out with a good win and low crew lost (I have press gang) to only find out once i put crew on it to command retreat it starts to freaking sink. I would take a nasty rat stealing any day over that. At least that means some one go the ship lol

I finally started to get this down in turns into the irons and I'm like.....HOLLY COW THAT WAS SO EASY. I would say more think of them like this \/ or /\ pattern when you turn into the wind and it will help you get out a lot faster.

That next nation has to now beat prob the two combined nations. So this will make one nation more and more stronger as they beat one nation and they end up being teamed up with each other cause of it.

To be honest it doesn't reduce anything cause the players that are going to have more than one char to spy have more than one account to do so. This is why many games won't allow you to have more than one account and if you do it's only on the one team for that server or you can get ban from the game.

I have press gange and no issues with mine.

Just read the other one and prob laughed a little more than I should have.

The salty tears part or the contracts? I'm kinda hoping they do Privateer Contracts for PvP players that aren't all about econ at some day and this could be a good way for Pirates to get back into a Nation. We can still offer up contracts without a mechanic. I know a certain US Captain I wouldn't mind paying for some one to sink right now lol

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 actually like this as a way to fill out those ranks that needed a spot. It's like current day ranks where you get pay more for more time in service. A one year LT would not have the same responsibility as a Lt that has been around and served active for a few years before making his next rank or command.

The first Colonial Navy only used the rank of Lt and Captain. They are using ranks close to the time of the game is based on, not modern time. Some of the spots also had to be fill up as not all nations had that many ranks around that time. As a former Navy personnel I would prefer them to keep it this way as it's more realistic than using modern day ranks.

No cause those are modern day ranks, that ranking system didn't come around for some time. I believe there is another post some where that addresses the ranks of different nations. Even during the civil war they where diffrent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Navy In the war of 1812 which is more closer to in game time they used Commandant. http://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/organization-and-administration/historical-leadership/naval-officers-of-the-war-of-1812.html

There are a few out there but you can't really make one that is exact as cost changes all the time with supply and demand.

I'm the same way as I live in the US. I get around 130-140 (US is 40-60) but never notice it. Unlike other games, though it's still new and low pop. I'll prob end up later switching to the US server if it ever gets as populated or when the game goes more full live. As for the OP. Really it's going to depend where your router service goes through. I remember World of Tanks when they had there server before they movied it I got better ping playing the US server than the SEA server when I was in Singapore for work and the serve was in that area. They moved it and it got way better service. I use to play POTBS on the Aussie server cause at that time I worked nights and my hours and later travels all ways works better with over seas times. Hopefully some one in your area can post up there experience.