Fletch

No one says you have to own that many ports, however if you do own lots then you pick the most important ones and pay for a timer in your prime time.

I would say those guys need to grow up and at least give the game a try.

Every Nation capital in this game is always being camped by some person or another.

Perhaps forged papers should only offer the chance of moving to a smaller nation than the current one. Or give the smaller nations an exp leveling boost. Either way something could be done to discourage everyone flocking to the team of the month or year as is the case with Swedes

The more tows you allow, the more you enable the big clans or nations to dominate the entire world. The strongest nation could then tow all,over the world and fight in port battles from one end to another everyone else might as well not turn up. The harder travel is the harder it is to dominate the entire map. They made the same mistake in EVE, had a massive universe to play in but made it so easy to travel that huge areas were controlled by a few powerful blocs. I would be happy to see no Tow at all but I can understand allowing one. Anymore than one and travel becomes too easy in my opinion. Why have a huge game world if you can cross it in seconds?

I agree

I have to say one of the best ever battles I ever had in NA was when we had that perk that kept the battle open. I think its exciting when you dont know the outcome of a battle because you dont know who can arrive. At the moment the timer closes most battles are a forgone conclusion, just a matter of time before the kill or being killed there is very little variable. The open battle i had sung one way then the other as each side pilled more ships in, it was insane one minute we were winning a short while later we were running a short time after that we got reinforced and they were trying to run. In short it was very fun and very exciting. I also know the cons of this system with people hiding in ports and battles ect, then jumping out and joining but I still feel this can be fixed by simply not allowing anyone who is leaving a battle or a port to join an already existing battle. rather than only being able to enter a battle that started while they are at sea.

I have tried a few nations out and every single capital safe zone is often camped by people like yourself waiting for some poor noob to make a mistake, to sail out a bit too far, or to attack an AI fleet so you can pile in and kill the hapless victim. It borders on pathetic. and the fact you ignore other people doing the same thing in favour of noob hunting is almost laughable. Looking for PVP? here is a tip, if you want pvp join one of nations with a green zone, sit in the green zone until someone like yourself comes along noob hunting and attack them. You wont do it though because there is a good chance you cant win the fight and people like you just have to be on the winning side.

Carrying contraband goods has become the norm every man and his dog are doing it because it simply has no drawbacks. I suggest make AI fleets of any nation attack anyone with contraband goods.

Trying to hit a post a few feet wide with cannon from 50 yards would be hard enough on dry land let alone from a moving ship. Even then it would have to hit dead centre otherwise it would glance off the round surface.. Perhaps a hit on a mast should only have a percentage chance of damaging it and the non damaging ones deemed to glance of the sides.

You need the safe zones to give new players half a chance. Most people who complain about a lack of pvp are really complaining about lack of a fresh suppply of noobs to slaughter without any risk to themselves. The game was almost fished clean a short while ago. A lot of skilled players also flock to the most skilled clans rather than trying to fight against each other, they would rather join together to fight less skilled players because they can post pictures on the forums and expand their already over inflated egos with pictures of one sided fights Its a game that gives you certain parameters what you do with your time is entirely your own choice just get on with it Right now the balance seems good between helping new players get started without idiots greifing them into quiting the game.

No you don't need anything other than the note.

I am enjoying my return to the game very much but I have noticed there seems to be a proliferation of Wasa and L Hermonies in the game. Both these ships are offered as rewards from mission marks, why not allow the player to choose the wood type as is the case at the moment, but make the ship reward a random 5th rate or in the case of the Wasa a random 4th rate. You could make the higher end ships of the class to be rare and the lower ones more common. This would mean more variety of good ships in the open world rather than so many of just one or two types. That's my suggestion for this great game thank you.

Clan not in existance

Thank you I have returned made a fresh start with one of the new nations. Game is much friendlier to lower levels now.

I left because I felt every rule change was skewed more and more against the casual player. The odds were being stacked in favour of people that simply wanted to cull new players around capitals. Port battles by the very nature of allowing only 25 ships in became very elitist, port battle could of been an open battle lasting many hours with anyone able to enter but restricting numbers means of course only the 25 best ships can take part. In short it lost a lot of the fun out of it.

I don't think port battle system ever reached the average player apart from screening. I think the old conquest flag system was more fun than the current system, it also made the world map a bit more tactical. It meant your empire could only spread an hours sailing at a time and you had to leap frog your way across the map.

2 servers, one for cry babies who want the devs to constantly spoon feed them everything they want, and one for the rest who can deal with whatever comes their way. One for those who have no imagination no innovation and must have access to every resource all the time and must have a totally balanced equal playing field to play on otherwise they throw their toys out the pram and cry for their mum or the Devs to come and do something, and one for those that can accept the ups and downs the good times and the bad times a nation can go through in a constantly evolving world.

And the people who work night shift jobs or others that live not in Europe or USA? its a stupid idea as if the population is not low enough as it is.

Why not have a server for every single player, that way everyone can have their way. Oh wait we already got those, there called single player games

Problem is a lot of people dont want risky pvp they would rather gank noobs near capitals, There is global chat channel you could always arrange a fight but that would mean a chance of fighting people that really know what they are doing. Another option you have is to go to a freeport like La Navasse there are no forts near freeports and always tons of players so go have alook im sure your find a fight.

The only problem being the world is round and it also rotates, so while it's dark on one side it's going to be light on the other side. So who exactly are the night flippers. Perhaps they should bring out an ofline version of the game for people like you so when you turn your PC off and come home from work the next day everything is just how you left.

I have over 1000 hours in this game, for the price of a round of drinks in an average London bar that would be consumed in 15 mins, I think I had my monies worth what ever happens. Looking through my steam library there is not much other than Everquest that has given me so many hours of entertainment.

Dam those Americans for living in America. Perhaps we should all ask Donald Trump if he could change their countries time to GMT because it makes life easier for online gamers .

Enjoyable for all? or enjoyable for those who play the same time as you? I have nothing to prove to you but I might say hello in game just so you can see who I sail with. No need to be nasty I am neither a liar or a prick, well at least 90 % of the time I would like to think so. Think about your words, you want an enjoyable game for all, but you wish to exclude anyone from outside your play time? you say its broken, I think things may need a tweak but its not broken. People leave because they get bored or other games come out they play for a while then they come back. You cant be sure why people quit neither can I there is no proof its anything to do with port battles, I would in fact blame it on there is simply not enough to do outside of port battles.