Sir Texas Sir

Swedes: 6 Prussians: 2 Pirates: 3+ but they are on the edge and most are deep water ports not in the proper shallow regions. French: 2 US: 1 GB: 14 ports......that is more than all the others combine pretty much and you wonder why your getting attacked? I would like to add all 14 are also owned by one clan. When you look at the other nations they have mix clans that own the ports. I'm pretty sure that is what makes you a prime target in that region.

might want to list what your computer specks or (win/mac) and browser cause that might be part of the problem.

I don't think it's that many Ausies, but I did notice a lot of ports have that timer set as I was looking for targets...I mean just admiring the great map work in game. Did a bit more looking and notice CKA which is a US/Canadian clan with mainly East Coast players. They always attacked us early in the day when they get home but most of the other US is at work still. Wonder why they didn't pick a US prime time window instead?

We really need to archieve a bunch of these threads.....why is any one posting in ad PVP EU thread? There isn't a EU server any more we have one server;)

NO it's use upon click only. Remember most of this stuff they gave us to test things, if we don't need to test them any more than there is no reason for us to still have them. So folks redeem your ships or loose them. Are do what I plan to do, go down in blaze of glory and prob get most of my older redeem ships sunk lol

While funny I have heard many version of this in other locations, but in 1997 she would of been in port on the west coast of the US and no where near this location. I was on the USS Independence around this time getting ready to get out of the military.

The ammo has nothing to do with your boarding. Though I'm going to assume but some one might have better info the firepower is effective by the number of guns you have on the ship. Seems if one ship has more guns than the other it's more effective. I never have noticed any difference using the Boarding cannon mod either. I do know the gundeck is effective even if you loose crew as your number of guns seems to never change so when you start to loose crew you can us it in place of muskets and such. I'll let one of the number guys pop in to better answer, I just know for sure your ammo has no effect in boarding.

Name calling folks names doesn't make your point any better. You do know I solo EU server with no clan for 2 years? Oh that cause you don't know anything about me. So nice try buddy. I still have that same Pirate char too and I make plenty or marks and gets common ships with no help of a clan or other CLUMPERS as you like to call them. It wasn't until the merge that I had a clan on the server (as I mainly played on GLOBAL). Unlike you I have actually played the game as both the solo and the clan/RvR so I have seen both sides. Instead of calling folks names I pointed out you can make the same stuff as any one else. No your prob not going to make 50 PvP marks in one night, but you could and the VM is paid out weekly and not every one gets that, only the folks in the top three nations, guess what Russia isn't one of the top three so I don't get free VM's weekly. I also build all mys hips myself without my clans help. I actually build ships for clan mates on he side too. So try again buddy about saying what I do or not know. I'll repeat again you have alternate routes and I very clearly stated what they are. It just might take you longer to collect your marks to make a 1st rate. VM's and PvP marks are not locked behind RvR only. You can gain them by earning them through OW PvP. Oh and the comment about set up battles and farm marks just shows your bias view of clan folks. Seems you think we all cheat or do things like that. Not every one does and most of the time the guys getting busted for alt/mark farmers aren't even the RvR players, most of them have been random casual or no names that are to lazy to get them the hard way of actually playing the game.

Are you really this blind, you just totally mention how you can get that first rate without RvR. You OW PVP right? You gain PvP Marks Right? You prob get way more PvP marks solo hunting or small group than RvR guys cause they have to split their marks between 1-25 guys depending who all shared damage with a kill/assist. That one VM a week is equal to 50 PvP marks. Which if your active you can easily gain in one night or over the week easily. BOOM you just earned the exact same as a winning nation RvR team and can craft your first rate. It only takes one VM to make a first rate. If you can earn 50 PvP marks you can get a first rate.....so stop this BS that the content is hidden behind the Elites or RvR only folks. If you do any OW PvP than you can earn and make your own 1st rates too. And I know you can do this cause I mainly Solo hunt these days cause of my hours as I haven't been able to catch many port battles and the few I have I gotten only a few PvP marks cause you have to share the rewards. Oh and I play Russia, we aren't the top three nations so I'm not even getting Victory Marks for free. Though when I do go out to screen, PvP or what ever I earn PvP marks which I could trade in for VM (I have about a dozen and tons of permits from past rewards so need to right now). So yah prove to me now that a solo player can't get VM's and 1st rates? Sounds more like you just want every thing open to you and not have to do the special content that is needed to get certain things? I take it you don't play other MMO's do you? A lot of content is locked behind elite dungeons and missions and PvP/RvR that the normal casual can't get, some of it they can buy for a lot of money, but a lot of that content is also locked to the player/account that did it so the only way to get those nifty elite items is to actually do the content your self or as I said before....PAY OUT THE ARSE FOR IT IN GAME. PS: I played Pirates up till the merge for many of the reasons you mention, but they aren't true pirates if your wanting 1st rates and such. Do like my one Pirate account I still have left and run in only 5th rates and below, mostly shallow ships than you are free of anything and more of a true pirate...other wise your just another nation with a black flag.

And I totally disagree, most of the content is hidden behind PvE grind, so why not have PvP only content too? You can still get any of these items in game without doing the actual content if your willing to pay some one else that did them. So nothing is truelly hidden behind a wall that no one can get. Hell many games lock content to your char or account, so be glad we don't have that feature in game and can trade. We do have alternate path, it's called paying some one else. You just might pay a lot more but you can get just about anything in game this way.

@William Death Willis is this what it was like back when you had that potato of a graphic card?

Do you open world PvP? than you get more than one victory mark a week or month just off that. I don't know why folks are so set about 1 mark a week that one nation gets over others. You get off your arse and PvP in OW you will get more marks than that easly. So no you are not locked out of playing a 1st rate cause you don't get into Port battles. You still have options to get them and if your active enough than you prob get more marks than the RvR guys that only do port battles cause they have to share there PvP marks with the rest of the fleet. There is also option three for the trade/crafters that make tons of gold, just buy them. So there is always way to get things in game. End game content shouldn't be just given to players that just log in and do nothing. You want the content than do something to earn them. Proper screeners that don't just YOLO prob get more PvP marks than the actual Port battle fleets most the time. Than again that is why I mention the if your going to give them to the guys that do nothing in winning nations, than you might as well give 1 to every one so every one gets one no matter what. Just means it takes you longer if you need say 10 for a 1st rate when say the guy that does port battles in a nation that owns enough ports to get 5 marks every week can craft his 1st rate a lot faster. Saying that the permit cost 10 marks. He can do it in two weeks when joe blow casual can do it in 10. Just take a bit longer.

I can get the mission experience but why do we not get the OW sailing XP? Mainly I ask as it's so hard to open slots on the Trade ships now so they should be getting OW sailing xp since that is what you do mainly with a trade ships and it is an example of how a ship gets better. The more time men and a ship are at sea the better they get to know each other. So OW xp what little it is should go towards knowledge slots for that ship too. As for Mission XP is there any way we can get maybe a free XP slot for our maxed out chars to use this xp for other things. Really it's useless for me and my maxed out chars as I only get the xp for the actions in battle for my ships. Once your maxed out there is nothing for this extra xp. We had xp from crafting ships so why not bring that back as something like free xp you can redeem and put towards a ship knowledge or something? That and I think we should bring back crafting xp for ships used by others. Since you get so little xp other than crafting xp for your crafting Rank would be nice for the dedicated crafters can have more ways to level up than grinding missions.

I believe @admin mention that in his post that they cost would go up since the marks rewards are going to go up per number of ports owned by clan/nation. I never was a big fan of paying every one out the same rewards as the folks doing all the hard work. If your going to pay out than every one on the whole server should get one VM per turn and the top guys than get there bonus rewards on top of that per placement and number or ports. POTBS did this, last place still got one Conquest mark. While I think first place got 3, 2nd 2 and 3rd 1 extra on top of the 1 every one got.

Prepared is anouther you should have as you level up. If you see a ship on the horizen your going to load up your guns not wait until your at point blank range lol

They should wipe the status at start of the patch so only way to get it is a new battle. neutral ports should not count only only nation vs nation ports.

When we where running those numbers the server was more active and it had around 250-300 during prime time. So no it's not difffrent. When it dropped below 200 we dropped down to about 10 players on average with folks only returning for port battles. This was another thing the big guys couldn't get in there head. When we stopped fighting and taking ports it was mainly cause our guys got bored and went and played other games. Hell last night was kinda the first time I been on since November other than just popping in and out. I been playing other games but keeping in touch from our guys nightly and poping in each patch to check changes. This whole getting a job and working 3rd shift kinda blows on my RvR play. Ya'll prob won't see me in to many port battles other than on weekends or EU mornings. Good thing is I'm no longer asked to command every battle...lol When asked what I think I just tell them my battle plan, "YOLO and see what happens." I just don't have the heart to command in me at the moment lol

Nations trade ports all the time, so might want to stop looking like an idiot with your comments of thinking just cause ports exchange hands doesn't mean folks are at war. We have reasons to have ports in certain areas. Spainish has reason to own more ports than us. It's all part of the politics of the game. Something you prob have no clue about. So your saying your exactly like BLACK on global than, which would mean your a zerg since you keep saying we where pirate zerg and we where only about 15-20 active players doing RvR. So in effect he's right your the new zerg. I honestly think folks use the word zerg way to much wrongly. Now if one of the largest nation or alliance (US/GB/Duth super carebare allaince) joins together and rolls the whole map, that is a freaking zerg. Some one taking a few ports here or there is not a zerg. Though for US/GB/Dutch they never could do it properly on GLOBAL cause they had terrible leadership and organization skills. A small clan of 20-25 active players that do the same is not a zerg, it's a called organization. Normally when we did it we took key ports and the other nations would than just give up so we would just keep taking empty ports to win a map cause they stopped fighting so why not? Which is what WO/BLANC is pretty much doing in the US Time zone of play. One thing that is there weakness and I'm sure they know this is they where to get hit by say any combine organization of US Time zone nations at once they would crumble. Now lets see if we can get them organization kills and team work together guys. I just told you how to beat them....lol

People want PvP and your the big dog in that time zone. Think of it this way, you are now the BLACK of server during this time zone. You have the biggest strongest RvR Fleet in US time zone and numbers to back them (something BLACK didn't have as we rarely had screeners). The more agrressive you are the more you will see folks doing this. Not to mention last I checked you been attacking US ports to so why wouldn't two nations your attacking work together. The enemy of my enemy is my friend per say. Yah we where originally looking at joining French when the merger was announced because we had played with some of the EU french clans and players over the past. Some of them even came over to Global and fought during our early (SEA) times for a while and some of us came over and helped them too. When we found out a lot of US/GB/French players where going French we picked another nation to try to balance it out some more. Aww you have that dutch math don't you....thinking us former GLOBAL pirates have great numbers. How many times I have to repeat myself it was the same 15-20 guys that fought you on GLOBAL with even less now on this server.....we don't have tons of players like ya'll got from former US and GB players. Just look at your port battles. You have a large screening fleet out side most of them. We don't. If you drop the screeners we would not mind fighting you straight up, but it's hard to do attacks when you can't bring a screening fleet to match the other nations numbers. That is why we are on the defense for the most part. Same with the US though I think they have the numbers just not the active players involved in PvP/RvR.

I think it's suppose to be GOLD not yellow and gold is worth more lol Though I have to say in the old days I actually liked the Purple mods better than most the gold ones. Purple Marines where a better balance than having a gold marine ship that wasn't very combat effective cause you had half marines. Though I have gotten two purple ships: 4/3 Trader Brig with Very Sturdy...I was just testing on a junk build to see if trade ships get the extra perk 4/5 Pirate Frigate Teak/Teak with Very Fast....going to keep this one for a special build I also got a 4/5 mercury but it's blue cause it didn't get an extra perk. So seems the color is more to do with the total number of perks/slots. Now has any one gotten the 5/5 ships as I havne't seen a screen of them yet. I do have to admit that purple stands out in the ship shop as I put the Trader up for sale cause I figure some other guy can use a Trader brig for cheap.

When they half the requirements for the perk points I though it would of been better to instead of getting 2 points ever level to have some perks auto learned each level. 1 fleet perk would of been one of them, along with area control which I think should be effective for all ships as there is no reason for some one to escape you when they are that close (just like that stupid coward perk.) I also think crafting perks should be tied into your crafting rank not your combat level. This way you can have a char that is Rear Admiral but has zero crafting rank so he has no crafting perks. Than you can have a 2nd Lt that never fights, but he's a Master crafter (rank 50). He has 10 points that go towards crafting perks and a few combat perks only. Than you have your maxed out chars like most of us. Rear Admirals with Master Crafers (Level 10 chars with Rank 50 crafting). You get 10 combat points for being level 10 and you get 10 crafting points for being Rank 50. This way one char can do both (no need for alts for the casual player). Other wise you have to do what I do I have one char that has all crafting perks and that is all he does, he sits in port and makes my ships. Lil Texas will prob never see any combat unless it's just too goof around. SO yah I think we can do something like have a few perks you earn as you level up auto. Than maybe have them be able to buy a few perks to fill out there char as they level up.

I didn't even know we had any deals with US other than the free trade runs between the two nations for woods. Other wise we are free to attack each other for PvP, though I did get a chuckle the other day when some one said, "Lionshaft and some of his guys are going to come screen for us." It was one battle and it was in the La Tort area which almost every one has a port. I think it was more they wanted PvP than they have any deal with us. That is why you didn't see them last night. Really right now WO/BLANC is the top RvR for the US time zone cause of numbers. Ya'll got pretty much all the good RvR players from GB/US/France global into one group and that made ya'll the power house while the rest of us (mostly pirates) went Russia (some still stayed pirates) and as our numbers where small before the merge it's even smaller now. I mean just look at some of the battles where you can bring a big screening fleet along with your PB fleet. Your the big dogs cause of numbers mainly. That and experience cause man we made a crap load of mistakes last night, that was my first PB since the Merge and evne than I haven't been in a port battle in months cause I stepped away from the game. As for any thing just have fun and keep it up, I really don't see any one one porting any one unless they are just dicks. Well maybe the US right now cause they pretty much are down to just a few ports. Prob a good reason for folks to stop rolling on them and pick a bigger nation. If I can make a guess that is why we are helping each other. Us has been getting hit pretty hard by France and Prussia lately (well hard for them that is). I kinda would love to see them take some ports back or even take a few gulf ports. Which would mean they have to understand GB is not helping them so they need to stop being carebear buddies with them. PS be warned I might ly get a green on green report if I ever end up on the same side in a fight with Lionshaft, you know old habits see a name and shoot....lol Exaclty, we make our own content and it should be that way. Only time I ever had problems with others is the guys that can't move on and hold old grudges or that won't change to make there nations better. Until than Rolplay on and enjoy the good fights. I sadly sunk twice yesterday and my mind set was....oh look I can clean out dock space to make some of these new ships....now loosing the mods sucked, but hay they can be replaced. I'll get them evil French next time...lol

Just be glad we can't see who votes a post.....cause if it was FB or some other social media it looks pretty pathetic when you self like/vote up your own post lol

Well it's not out fault you have all them kangroo's and drop bears stealing your internet....lol Yah I feel for you guys or any of the other SEA players. Oh dear and lets not even talk about the Chinese players pings....I"m use to an 85 ping on most EU located servers so not sure why I get so high for me (140ish ping) on this game other than it's in Germany, most other games i play are located in UK or France server wise.

I do admit the ping/lag some times sucks when you need it the most. I get about 140 ping lately but it's been between 120-160 most the time. I do notice a slight delay more in boarding than I did on global where I had around 40-60 ping. Last night i was in a boarding that I was all ready prob going to loose Reno vs a Trinc but I said screw it I couldn't get away from him (which sucks cause I'm a whole knot faster than him and just couldn't pull from him cause new speed balance). Well straight off the bat he had no prep when I pulled him, about 100 more crew but I was like screw it I'll do this. I get a great first action and bust his crew down some and mainly his moral. I go to do my second and at the last moment he was able to change the action....I feel since it was under the clock time to do so it was a slight delay in the game from his action to my actions that caused me to miss the change and counter wrong (I push the button at the last second when his action changed too). Than from there it all went down hill as I lost the moral and prep.......but hay you win some and you loose some,. Now I have a Teak Teak Sturdy Reno to replace the one I lost, just the Elite French Mod lost sucks...... The point is and I have said this over and over I don't care what you say PING does matter, wither it's aiming at water lines or mast or boarding. It can mean a miss or hit at times. Yes it doesn't make as big a thing as a twitch shooter where one shot could mean your dead, but it can make a difference of turning a battle into ones favor. Have ya'll even thought about looking at moving to a server either West Coast EU or East Coast US to give the majority of the players the best over all ping?