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When exactly did the Swedes decide that they wanted to attack the British? It would be nice if somebody from the Swedish faction could comment on this. It had become obvious what their intention is for this weekend, but like you mentioned it seems that their first intention was to target the French, who are now getting ports gifted by the swedes. How did this shift in policy happen on their side?

This is not the forum for me to explain to you how evaluate a ships value and by extension the allocation of scarce resources. The main point I was making was that you do not speak for an entire nation, but simply for the coalition of clans. Your decisions do not bind anybody outside of your clans and if somebody decides to loot in the waters of an "ally" it is their right to do so. At the same time its also your right to suggest that they should not, because of certain agreements you have with other clans from that specific nation. Until there are mechanics introduced into the game, where such deals can be officially legitimized that is all that this so called alliance is. This is the thing that you do not seem to understand. It does not matter what the right strategy is for Britain or if it makes sense to attack the Pirates or the Swedes or the Spanish or the French, but that you cannot "decide" what others should and should not do. Posting messages like : "We are at war with so and so and allied with so and so" every 15 minutes in the National chat is very deceptive. You do not have the authority to speak on the behalf of a whole nation and yet you pretend you do. In addition to that here is no transparency in the way you conduct your diplomacy and given your tendency to lie and distort facts I have my doubts about how this "agreement" came into existence and how the conflict with the Swedes started. The questions that I ask are legitimate and you should not feel offended or assaulted by them. You defensive stance indicates to me that you have something to hide or you do not really understand what I am writing about.

Is it true that you the Swedes were interested in sailing across half the map just to fuck with us from the start like Edge claims? Or was it after our intervention and "alliance" with the Dutch?

I never claimed that you don’t take ports closer to Jamaica. I was questioning our “war” with the swedes. I would also like to add that most of the ports you mentioned in southern Haiti were taken after we had our “conversation”. The most recent Swedish expansion to the west came only after your intervention in the war between the Dutch and the Swedes. (The taking of Port Zoutman). I never called you a dictator, nor did I imply you were one. Dictating does not make you a dictator. I understand this can cause confusion for non-native speakers. If you were paying close attention I wrote that what you were doing was closer to an Oligarchy than to a Democracy. A dictator is a ruler with total power over a country, which you obviously do not have. It is a good thing that you are organising and defending against the Pirate threat that is so close to the British Jamaica and now Haiti. That was the exact thing that I was suggesting and it is great that you have realised the threat potential here. This of course ties in with the most recent conquests in Haiti, which again falls in line with my suggestions. The screen shot that you posted shows very clearly where your main focus is on the map, with all the positioning of your outposts (marked with a pink circle.) http://imgur.com/gallery/PodcXWx/new I want to end with something that I have not figured out yet. Are you misrepresenting the facts on purpose just to manipulate? Or is your lying habitual or do you simply have a bad memory? You claim in your posts that I insult and abuse you in chat, which is obviously not true. Then in your most recent post you claim I was trying to sell a “Snow” for 400k and by so trying to rip other british captains off. It was a live Oak Exceptional Surprise. It was the 3rd one I was selling after selling one for 380k and another one for 350k before that. The surprise and the renomme are ships where the BPs have to be discovered, making them therefore rarer than the Cerberus or the Frigate. At this moment there are a few captains that are reaching the Master and Commander rank, without the ability to craft such ships. So I offer my limited crafting hours and blueprint in addition the materials needed (resources and crafting time for the materials) and the crafting notes all together. In return I ask for a price that I consider fair. Selling a snow for 400k would indeed be a rip off, which I did not do.

I want to point out that your very long post is very inaccurate in many ways. You are distorting facts to try and make yourself out as being abused or trolled, none of which happened yesterday in the chat. If I knew that you would go and lie so blatantly on the forums I would have made screenshots of everything that was written. The way this whole discussion started was when a Dutch captain complained that he was being attacked by a British one. At which certain captains started writing in the British chat that he should know that we are "allied" with the dutch and that he is to leave the other captain alone. At that moment I pointed out that they cannot expect every British captain to follow this agreement, which is nothing more then a deal between a coalition of clans on both sides. The agreement has no legitimacy as clan politics cannot bind the will of other captains inside either Nations. They are free to do as they please. It is a suggestion at best. The Second part was that Edge claimed that a war against the Swedes and along side the Dutch was the only logical step for the Brits. To this I wrote that I was more worried about the Pirates that have been harassing the Brits lately. In addition to that that there were a lot of closer Ports that we could take closer to the Jamaican Island (where our capital is). After this he continued to point out that we also had ports in the south, which could be taken by the swedes shortly. Then I pointed out that the most important area was that around Jamaica. He continued to call me a retarded lowy that needs to look beyond port morant and that I have no clue and etc. The southern ports are crucial for getting the resources that we need to build ships, at which I responded that the only people that profit from the southern port are the clans that have outpost there are have the abusive buy contracts. I ended with a hypothesis that the only reason they were so keen on helping the Dutch were to protect their personal interests and contracts, where they get cheap materials that they sell at 2x or 3x the price in Kingston. That was the only time I claimed that they were exploiting newer players and smaller clans. I continued saying that the democratic process was some backroom deal that Edge could make with his clan buddies. (When a few elite ruled the government by making decisions in the best interests of all citizens, Aristotle considered that an aristocracy. However, when that group of people ruled for personal gain, it was considered a despotic oligarchy. From Aristotle's "Politics") I also never called anybody a Dictator. To sum things up everything that I wrote in chat and I do here is mainly for information purpose. I do not want to tell Edge what to do in regards to his internal clan politics of <ARSE>, but he should not spam the national chat dictating to all what we can and should do, when it is obvious that his main goal is the advancement of ARSE and to maximize their gain.

I voted yes, but I have a small amendment for this suggestion. You should only be able to buy the flags in your capital. In addition to that the 1 hour timer should be removed and instead the server maintenance should be used as the duration of the assault fleet. (The holder of the flag should then be marked on the map as long as he has the flag). Lastly a cost multiplier should be added for Ports that are "too far away" from existing national ports to represent the cost of supply for a more distant port.

What more information would you like except for "the servers are down and we don`t know how long it will take to bring them back up, because we have to work with people outside our company to fix them"? A play by play of the technical steps taken to resolve the issues? That seems a little absurd. It is obvious the people on these forums would like to play the game and are annoyed with not being able to do so. That shows that they really enjoy and cant wait to get back in it, but a little more patience would be nice.