Mrdoomed

I always enjoy reading you weekly updates. I wish you had a team of writers so you could give a weekly news feed of all the weeks actions like i know you want to do. Keep up the narrative r2.

Well at least you are honest. I dont see this as a single player game i see it as a,artificial world created for us to play in and each of us have a role to fill. If everyone did everything then there would be no need for anything. There would be no economy, no shops, no resources to buy or sell. WE would all be playing a single player game. This way we have a artificial economy, resources, men, labor etc and we depend on each other to make the world go round. Now as you are doing it CAN all be done by just you but takes time and effort. SMALL price to pay for being a god no?

I see things as to what makes sense and not taking them on a literal meaning. When we build ships i most certainly dont see each port having hundreds of separate ship yards one for each captain but rather we are buying the labor of the shipyard who is following our blueprints. FOr a video game its just easier to build a shipyard. When it comes to warships being built i do understand what you mean and have long been sn advocate of limited numbers of sols since ow started. As far as frigate and brigs etc go, again i choose to use my imagination. I dont think there are literally 5000 ships with the name suprise or 10000 USS Constitutions. What i picture is the captain puts in a order for his merchantman on a frigate hull and adds his guns etc later in harbor or whatever. For national players they are in the navy so the navy let's them use a ship. And lastly we knew blackbeard and morgan and calico kidd but we dont know any of the other thousands of pirates so to say a pirate would be picked from a crowd seems far fetched plus if you were a pirate in Jamaica and behaved in florida or Virginia why would anyone know who you are? Plus as a VERY well known pirate in my server let me tell you , i can go nowhere without alarms being raised once spotted.

I think you and i have been the only two people to understand this. ITs happened on both pvp servers too. The best solution to pirates is to kill the Pirates. A dozen factions vs one. I can think of tons of ways to basically eliminate pirates if I was a national. The only thing stopping players from wiping out pirates is the players.

!!!!!!!score one for realism! !!!

This would be nice . things from do you surrender or good fight and remove the ability for factions to speak outside of common ports.

I wont get involved with most of your suggestions exept the last one. Now while i completely agree with you on how nice chating would be i also think of all the death threats, rape threats, and other completely unhinged things many guys have typed to me so im nt sure it would work out. I will say that i used to play aces high that had open chat within a range ( or used to way back when) and let me say there is not many things worse than hearing 4 or 5 mad 11 year olds all screaming at each other about what they are gonna do to each other. Just wasnt for me so i would want an option for this to nt be able to be used unless the player ask for it to be enabled.

Well since it was said with love .

It seems that you are wanting to do everything by yourself. From producing everything needed to make everything to manufacturing to distribution. Will you need other players for anything? WEll anything other than to buy all your stuff.

Hmm. Since you can already blockade freeports ( happens to my clan all the time) now im guess what you are really asking for is a game mechanic to keep you safe with zero to little effort.

Ive been asking to try a port management tab that allows you to do everything from where your ship is located including sea (to fight off bordom) and allow ONE teleport of the physical captain ever 2 or 3 hours. The only thing it would really hurt, nw that everyone know the where and when of a port battle, is gankers and revenge fleets and the few players that dont think ahead or have a strategy but hopefully that would help them learn.

All of that can be done with trade and chat bars. You are simply wating to gank pirates or maybe lone trade ships.Oddly when i sail into port i dont see the security cams and closed circuit tvs available to everyone to use to use the tracking device implanted in every captain who docks. Why didnt they use these tools to capture pirates and outlaws in real history too?!?

While i agree fleets ruin pvp im afraid we are in a minority. Its seem that rather than be good or learn to be good or sail with others or near the million ai ships all you need to do is cry and moan " its not fair" and the game changes to suit you. Now instead of ever getting better people just upgrade the ai ships with them. Last week there was a low level in a cutter with TWO ai victory in his feet. Obviously way undercrewed but still they only need to hit you once plus nobody could attack him.

My idea was the most realistic one so far. You are right that people dont vote for war but in a republic they often to cast votes based on fear of or acual war. There needs to be a hostility level that raises and lowers based on pvp and pvp and missions of one faction vs another. If people in france keep sinking english players then war breaks out and ports can be captured , once hostility fall under a number peace breaks out. Allies could happen naturally then instead of 1 large clan making the choices for everyone. Now that we know that hostility can be put in a game a dont know why we dont do it this way

Im not a gaming elitist but i use all different upgrades depending on ship quality, durability and how high of a negitive i want that comes with the bonus.

There is nothing this would accomplish exept for letting the ever mad national stalk pirates . It solves nothing else that a chat bar dont already cover.

I agree, all teleports should be removed and outpost should be managed through management tab.

Whats the issue with them ?

Mostly its better . This last patch has some thigs that need tweaked but tomorrow is patch which could be a start.

Yep, same people from pvp1 trolling threads ment for pvp2 and needing to put in in thier people place. ?

"You Americans " ? WOw nationalism much lol. The hubris of " you people" never fail to amaze me.Maybe if all my money didnt have togo to keep people incartagena from starving to death and dying of malaria i could afford your internet.

15 years ago this sytem off allies would have worked because players back then would havev wanted to crush thier competition not become bffs with. You see the only thing that drives the modern gamer more than messuruing his epeen is the fear that some day he will have to use it. They are purely motivated by the shortcut and unlike old gamers who wanted to be the best , gamers today just strive to be "just good enough " so you will have to create a,system to fit the slacker brain. By allowing anyone to become allies you are just guaranteeing that the biggest cowards will team up forever and feed on the weak. You need to change it so that if the two biigest amount of ports teamul they get a penalty. Either make it harder for them to raise hostility or limite the ports capturable per day or put caps on what the can build etc. You need to make being cowards more painful than being enemies. You cant give any bonuses to allingning with small factions because you will just create the new meta. Yes they may unofficially team up but that still lets rogues fight and its better than nothing.

What would really save time waa if i didnt have to wait for 400 ai ships to get out of my way before attacking. Another time saver would be a button to just take me to loaded player trade ships rather than me haveing to look for them. ALso if i could just see all the players currently in missions so i could select what one to attack, then after battle let me teleport to.port to save time. Please dont tell me how how sailing is just a waste of time because all the things i mentioned are a waste of time too keeping me ,point A from my target point B.

Anyone who takes a lineship out alone gets what comes his way.

Great recruiting speech. Come join the server where lag spikes will cause you lost battles UI frustrations and glitchy movement abd if thats not enough to make you change we have language barriers and huge time zone disparity that keeps you from rvr and to top it off you cant even hold florida! People will flock.