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Maybe option to randomly get some of the cannons too like with AI? I like the chance to get them or mods instead of having to capture the ship. Gives more reason to take the price whole and than see if it's worth keeping.

If your getting boarded without firing a shot sounds like that person is doing something wrong. We don't spawn in right on top of each other so there is still slight delay of engagements which gives you the time to fight back and try to avoid it. Normally when you see the instant rage board it's cause some one was being a noob and got stuck in iron from the very start of the battle. Though I do think they need to bring back leaks form Ramming as these ships were not made to ram and it could do a lot of damage to the ship.

Yes marines take from you sailing crew. A normal ship with say 200 crew are split in duties for what they can do: Sail, Gunner, Repair, Boarding actions. Well Marines are specialized so they only board. If you have 20% marines than you have 40 Marines on board your ship and that is all they do is Board combat. Which means you now only have 160 crew to man your sails and guns. Also need to remember when you loose crew this percentage stays off crew total. You get racked and loose 100 crew now you only have 100 crew on you ship. 20% of those crew are still marines so you effectively now have only 80 crew to main your sails and guns. This is why if you want to effectively hurt a board fit ship you hit the crew and take them down fast before they can board you. Get them to burn there rum and than rake them again so they can't get crew back and now they can't man guns or sails effectively and they end up being not very effective in combat.

Isn't this exactly what we are getting. You can pick how many marines by stacking the slots. If you want more marines it will cost you two slots. You can get up to 30% more mairnes. Folks remember they added some more marine options too. 1-3 rates now have the option of 10% or 20%. Which stacks to 30%.

That is a faction problem not a game, any faction/nation can go out and get what they want. They just need to get organized, recruit players and do it. I'm sorry I'm sick of todays attitude that every one should have the cake that some one else work really hard to bake. If you want the nice things you need to go out and get them yourself. If you want the top elite gear you need to go do the top elite content in games. That are pay some one out the arse that did it for the same gear. Every one has a means to get things in game, you can steal it, win it or make it. It's your choice how you plan to get it. Just about every thing is dropped through RNG PvE loot too, so it's not like your keep completely away from such things. Now with that with what 11 nations now it would of been nice if they had more than 2 ports. I would think 3-4 would of been better number and maybe a second port with something like Cart Tar, but as folks mention the reason they do this is to give some one to fight over things. Back when we had alliances folks didn't fight cause they could just use each other ports and there was no reason to captured them from other nations. Now there is a reason to fight. You want Copper than go capture a port. France has one by Spanish ports. The British has one in the shallows. Pick one or the other and go for it. Now my issue is that the owner of a port with rare goods still has to do the bid fight over the contracts. Owners of rare good ports should get a small number of the mats sent to clan warehouse each day for owning the port. This will encourage more players to fight over rare good ports if they get some without having to have a bid war with half the server.

Sounds more like lack of situational awareness. Just cause your in a safe zone doesn't mean your safe. If he was close enough to tag the AI and pull you than he was close enough to tag you. Specially since you didn't even try to run and just left the game. Why would he have more chance to catch you in a battle when he couldn't catch you in OW. Would be nice to have a screen shot to prove he tagged an AI to pull you into battle.

Remember there are other means to get these items. They are still part of random loot drop. AI some times carries the mates. Some noob could leave it in there hull. It's not all lost. Now my only issue is even if you own the port it's a pain to get the resources with every one and there mother bidding and out bidding every one. Great thing is the owner gets all those tax off those bids/contracts though even if they aren't filled. I still think rare resource should be limited on contracts of say 10 each (I seen folks put up 100-500 on the copper ports). I also think the owner of a region should get in there clan warehouse a private stock of the resources so they can choice to sale it or keep it for there own clan/nation. This would give people even more reason to fight over a port and it's resources. With some resent info about some broken trade/delivery misisons we all know there are a good number of players that have millions upon millions out there and they have no problem running a trade war which others can't compete with, this is what I think is more an issue.

Yes they do so if you actually do pen build with accuracy you can get more distance out of them.

Ok so I was crafting a few ships testing this out making ships for alts and other clan mates and well maybe it's not like 1 in 100 odds. Got a 4/5 ship...lol Though I did get a Teak/Teak Connie with no perk so there is a chance you get nothing.

1 in 100 odds doens't mean you will get it at 99. Either way if you want to build that many ships just to get one one super rare ship than more power to you. I'm sure folks will buy up a few of those other 99 ships.

Now that I think of it if 5/5 ships are super rare than I wouldn't mind it, but it needs to stay a super rare and maybe even limit it to folks with level 50 crafting as something you can get on a 1 in 100 chance when crafting a ship. Though I would prob stick with just one extra slots not two.

I like the perks for crafted ships as an added bonus over note ships and AI ships. Though not sure I like the extra slots though. Maybe once some testing see if that is over kill. I would just keep it to the random perks for player crafted ships and keep all ships 3/5. Though still think the refited LGV should be a 3/5 ship too. Maybe give the BP as a more expensive PvP reward and if you craft it you get a 3/5 one instead?

There was a patch or saying a patch coming?

I'm pretty sure he means he puts contracts up and folks sale to him to dump goods fast. That was my understanding. Hell I like it when folks put contracts up that never filled in ports we owned in the past, that tax helps pay for the port fee. So I assume would be the same for any one else that owns ports some one might put up contracts in.

This would be an actual cool achievement they could add to steam later on. Along with if you have visited every port and other things. We really need to have things like that in the game. Gives you something to do other than just kill each other. Remember there are all types of players out there that enjoy stuff. Even if you got a special paint or title as the reward it would give folks added content to do in game.

I think I had around 40 something on Dead In the Red pre wipe from patrolling the Gulf of Mexico with my Reno. I remember it was right before they brought in the first ship wreck treasure fleet event as he was all ready in that area when one popped and I didn't even go after ship wrecks just stayed out there hitting trade ships. Logged out and than back in and continue my patrol hunt along the Mexico/Texas coast. Use to catch AFK trade ships all the time over there on PvP2.

@Privateer isn’t this the guy you got a bounty on his Victory?

Right after the wipe when a few of us was making milliions in an hour or two. I popped on EU with my char that hadn't did anything, left it as a rookie pirate and had 4 ships and 4 million in less than 2 hours. @Ink contacted me and ask how exactly I did it. I explianed step by step about caputering a Trade brig, doing trade runs in that until I could pay for something bigger to capture a LGV and than doing more trade runs until I was able to buy a Trinc. I couldn't even crew it yet but next plan was to grind out the xp for that since I had the money. Like I said 4 ships and 4 million in less than 2-3 hours, but I also knew exactly what to trade and where and such compared to some new players. After that weekend they put in the first of a few econ hotfix cause we where making money way to fast. IF some one is dedicated and I asume @FRAN is they can easly make several millions a day with a few trade runs. Oh and right before the merge I bought a lot of goods on GLOBAL to trade over here. I have yet to cash them in but I bet you I'll make a nice big chunk of change and I don't even have to deliever them, just show up in the port and if it's friendly redeem them or redeem in a close friendly port. We are testers, if there is a problem with the game system they need to know, its a simple question. Other wise yes some folks can just trade all day long and make milliions upon milions. THe problem is when they control the market of contracts and no one else can afford to out bid them. I really wish we could pick which contracts we want to fill. Cause I know of some alts I would never fill there contracts even though they are the highest bidders on something. I have reported a lot of exploits and never got a warning. Devs have stated if you report them you can use them until they are fixed.....not that I used exploits either....just might of bent and twisted some very bad game mechanics....lol

Not to get off topic, but what I always said about guys like him if it's so great than why don't they test it in there state first. Most countries that have it are about that small...lol Now back on topic so any one want to start giving out some of those money's they have? help a poor brother out...lol

Hate to bust your bubble but folks been doing all those things since I started on this game and I started on day one of OW.

I see no reason that the rewards can't be cosmetic or version of other rewards you can get from PvE. That or make them BP's of ships you can get normal version of in game. Like the Pirate frigae and LVG can be rewards, but have a normal version any one can get with CM, but a black paint version in the PvP shop. The only way to get the BLACK pain version is to buy, trade or capture. Since there is a normal version (the blue P Frigate for example) in the CM shop any one can get those and have the same stats. Though I'm all for stronger punishments to be honest. You puhish these guys main account you will find they will stop playing and go play something else. Though other than bans maybe reduction in levels the first few times and than perm ban. Cause what is one week off from the game or do a combo. 1st Offence 2 levels removed and 1 week Ban 2nd Offence Half levels removed and 1 month Ban 3rd offence all levels are removed and perm ban until game is released. This punishment should be for all chars involved not one or the other.

I know one of our former clan members from BLACK back on GLOBAL would do what I call day trading and I'm pretty sure he has a lot of gold stocked up. Must be nice to sit in your office or home all day and do trade runs. When I wasn't working most of the last year or so I tried it a few times. Got bored as hell and didn't get to far....lol But hay some folks actually love that part of the game. They just need to share the wealth a bit more...

I don't get what that has to do with the once a day tow to port. I can prob make half a dozen ships in a day too but I still got to move them to the ports I need them at? Well I only get one free tow a day to do that no matter how many ships I build or buy with CM/PvP Marks.

He's got a point, one of the things that made BLACK great on GLOBAL wasn't just the fact we showed up with the best we can bring. We showed up expecting to fight to the last ships and have back up. If you come to fight and win and not run you tend to win more. When you win more you get more marks. When you get more marks you get better ships. If you show up expecting to loose your ship so you bring crap you will get crap. That is part of the problem is a lot of players are so worried about loosing pixel ships they avoid fights. Well don't bring what you can't afford to loose. There is nothing wrong with a fleet of 5tth rates, just got to pick and choose your battles is all. If you get into enough fights and gain enough PvP Marks those VM's really don't mean crap. That is why we stop going for the number one spot on Global, we didn't have the man power to hold a billion ports just for one VM a week. It's like Russia now it got it's spot for a week or two and than back out cause it couldn't afford to keep taking ports and trying to defend them to keep the spot so we handed ports off to a friendly nation that could hold them better. By what I'm told most the guys make tons of PvP marks so the VM's don't really mean much right now cause they are still out there fighting and fighting in the OW is where you gain the marks at.

As in Battle mode do you mean maybe Naval Action Legend? That is a separate game if that is what you mean. Your gold will go into a bank that you can use in port to do repairs and buy other things.