DandeTheSlick

Hi, More then once I am running into the same problem when a friendly pirate ship comes in the middle of the battle and steals the trader you wore down because they are using small nimble ships to get close faster. I think as a pirate I should be able to sink a cutter who is stealing the trader from a fight i started especialy when I am sailing on a surprise or similar ship and i have to look at cutter stealing from me or face penalties or a ban if i decide to shoot at it. Suggestions are as follows: 1. Let us pirates flag friendly ship as enemy in the middle of the combat with say 30sec or 1 minute warning to that player before we turn hostile to each other. (which would make sense since pirates were never bound by laws to not kill other pirates) 2. Let the player who started a fight with a trader lay claim on that trader and if someone tries to board it they turn hostile to that player. There might be other ways to make it work, but now those players don't face any risks if they try to steal the trader from other players. Even after the combat in OW I still can't do anything to them due to BR difference. Best, Dande.

Hello Everyone, The upcoming systems seems reasonable since nation switching was happening at that historical period as well but I think these changes should come with some encouragement to switch to lower population nations and staying with your nation. Some system of rewards for representing a low population faction and reward system for loyalty to the faction. Say like 5% - 10% discount in markets if you are loyal to the faction for a long period of time or extra gold for doing faction related things or even weekly wages in gold for your long service. Something similar could be done for representing a small faction. Now these are but examples, tho I think you should stop people form abusing switching factions not by taking away something they have, but by taking away bonuses they get from a nation. Country factions could represent the role they had in that era via bonuses aswell. Pirates getting better prices for stolen goods and ships, British getting better gold for combat, nations that were more trading then fighting getting a bit more money for trading. IMO that should even out populations in factions even if just a little and encourage people to be loyal to the faction at the same time letting them switch if they truly want to do so. Best, Dande.