Jan van Santen

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Except for the "random wood" and the "no shipyard" part: Great idea My idea was (discusssed in chat with the am "well known Prussian": Note + permit + ingredients for normal ship = elite ship of the wood combo you choose and with random port boni. So the note as crafting ingredient similar to the coins of the past adding the "elite and port boni" part of ship quality Random meaning : including crew bonus and minus rig bonus which is useless on PvE. Right now converted notes never yield elites with crew bonus, but often have rig bonus, which no crafter would ever buy on PvE.

It is not a -legal- problem because sailing them is but one form of usage. Others include selling them to NPC, breaking them up, keeping them for later use...etc. One could argue: selling them to NPC helps you raising funds. I don't have the Rätt DLC, idk if that can be sold/broken, but you can still retrieve it every day and keep the best one for later use. So: while I do understand your PoV, -legally- its no valid argument. It's an argument from a PoV of good customer relations.

You really have no clue... And whats dangerous about giving surplus ships away ? I havent given an LO, but some smaller ships, books for the encyclopedias and crafting mats... I don't loose anything, some1 else wins (and might help me if ever im in need)...

You are contradicting yourself... PvE server is about cooperation, while all of you argue from a PvP confrontation position, which simply doesnt apply. On PvE vets support new players by giving them ships, books, upgrades crafting materials etc. Not just in a clan, but over all nations and the entire playerbase. Thats whats going on right now, and thats why PvE still has 120+ players online who try to fill up exp, knowledge, slots before wipe ....while PvP is almost dead and has but 50 playing. I bet, a lot of PvP players can confirm, because they are amongst those filling up on PvE right now Wipe PvE and vets will be busy to refill themselves, being less able to help. So if you want to support new players on PvE, forget the wipe completely. Leave all that is. Even if devs plan to change ships (upgrades, mods...) in a way that would make old ships op, it would hurt the ai only. And the old ships would gradually vanish anyway. Whats going on on PvE doesnt matter on PvP, so this entire "what applies to us must apply to them" is simply wrong.

He could do the "tutorial"..oh wait, the moment he reaches the first exam he will ask for STEAM refund

1 player has poods, the other doesn't.... As long as the AI can't use f11 or posts on forums, nobody on PvE server cares...how comes the PvP guys cant even imagine that we cooperate , not compete ? As to poods and gifted ships: Taking a gift away is (selfcensored )

Rare woods yes (at exaggerated doublon prices) other materials no.

You guys forget that we can't craft the way you can on pvp server, and thats why your comments just are ignorant. We can't just add port boni to the ships like you and we can't conjure whatever we want including life oak to grow in our own harbor. I've tried for 3 months now to craft a decent LO, no luck (not to mention that i can't craft 1 with port bonuses) I was lucky enough to catch a half decent LO via elite note, which even though it's halfarsed compared to what can be crafted on PvP server, is still far better than what we can craft on PvE. I'll loose it and will again depend on rng to get a new one ...or not. Wipe on PvE is nothing else but ridiculous, Vernon had that right.

So happy bookpileing is all we can do till release.... Unless you actually meant book knowledge and not knowledge books ???

Perhaps you missed the point that there are enough of less chaotic Early Access games around ? Maybe because NA is the only one you ever played ? Oh wait, PvP doesn't work either atm, so maybe you start understanding.... (Says a new client version is needed, but Restarting Steam or rebooting the PC does not load one)

That server exists, its called "Testbed" Hasn't seen use lately though... Not to mention that the solid parts of the feedback for its last use were neglected. Edit: and the next strange thing: Why does the status page say "update" for PvP server but "Maintenance" for PvE ?

(quote) "critical error in database" Is that even a server issue ? Or is it a code problem ? The later would be even more fatal. It is indeed very hard to understand (I would appreciate an explanation) why this happens repeatedly (iirc the 3rd rollback within weeks), on PvE server only, after patches that are supposed to fix bugs and so close to release.

The much I appreciate your prompt reactions and (possibly) redeemables, they are not even the second best answer. (best would be to give PvE server more attention and avoid these crashes) Current redeemables always aim at the average player, thus overdoing it for new players (last time eg a Christian which a new player cant even sail yet and can't sell since everybody has 1 already) And an average redeemable never makes good for what a veteran looses in 1 day. (for me eg this time 2 elite ships and an encyclopedia sold for dubs/medals and 1 elite ship kept for myself) Have you ever considered eg a rank depending redeemable ? Eg an elite note 6-7 for new players, 5-4 for intermediate rank, 1-3 for higher ranks ?

On PvE server all items (outposts, ships, money chest...) are lost. Only kept Reales and ships in auction. According to chat this is a serverwide issue !!!!

Gz, but imho you should get the tutorial somewhat more beginner oriented before release.

This. It would also help if we could see the name of the captain again, (on PvE server it doesnt matter anyway, since we cant attack them) would make players like the here accused killstealers pretty lonely.

That exactly was my point, bec it shows who tagged and who joined. I sail as pirate, so when a spanish player shows a pirate flag, its he who joined, got it ?

confirmed. Right after the incident described he and Maulwurf112 tried the same thing after I tagged an elite ai. To repeat: I tagged it, they joined later , I sail the pirate flag, they had a pirate flag as well) No word in chat, they just came to steal. Since Valheres is notorious for killsteals (did it 2 or 3 times in patrol w my targets before ) I just left the battle, didnt want to damage the elite just to get it stolen.

An interesting idea, but all plain vanilla ships wouldnt work on PvE. Having the best ship is part of endgame there.

groundhog day.... it's high time the PvE part is given more attention, would certainly help sales on release.

Everybody did.... 50 years after Cuba was colonialized by the Spanish, not a single of the native inhabitants was left alive. In Jamaica the average lifespan of a slave was 8 years, a grand total of 8 million african slaves was "imported" by the British to Jamaica alone. And still there is a controversial monument around like this: https://www.ft.com/content/032fe4a0-9a96-11e8-ab77-f854c65a4465 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Colston

Updated version June 18 2019 An attentive player in pve chat pointed me to the fact that it has to be + 0.xx with splinterresist !