Drakedge

Coming back for the wipe on the 15th?

Yeah, I know, the Constitution, or the rank / crew system needs to be reworked as it does not fit any rank / crew capacity at the moment, that a larger ship (3rd rate) doesn't already fill. Captain in the USA gives you 78% crew, and the next rank gives you enough for the 3rd rate. I still feel, that that 80% crew marker is the marker to have. The new crew system for the next content patch kind of sounds like it will address the issue by in large, though it remains to be seen until that patch actually hits. As it is now you go from ~350 crew to ~650 crew, completely skipping the conny with your ranks.

I try to record all my interesting fights. I need to figure out how to not record my teamspeak anymore though. Which is why I did not record a good fight today unfortunately. Once I have that figured out though I will be recording more and more of these fights, as I think they are a great deal of fun. I love that we can joke around in open chat during the fight, and there's not a lot of name calling or childish things going on there. That has got to be my fave thing about fighting the Brits, they are FUN to fight, win or lose.

Yeah I concur, both sides have done it, and it erases the tactics based on the guns / armor. I was 80% crewed in the conny for this fight, and I feel like that is an acceptable number for the system. That way you dont have people with 150 crew sailing a 3rd rate that needs 650 haha. Cuyo was fun as it was intended to be an ambush on behalf of the USA, hopefully it felt that way. Just got done in Cazumil and it was a great fight also. I enjoy the good sports that the Brits field, there's always a friendly laughing conversation about the battle after the fight.

Yeah it would be fun to see the other side of things! I enjoyed this fight a lot.

Let there be peace between our nations! - USA and Spain can become unstoppable together!

Perhaps, but it is still going to have the armor to deal with.

I am not mad at the loss of the battle, you win some, you lose some. The mechanic works both ways, and yes they might not reload that quickly, and they might have trouble turning but in a fleet line battle that doesn't matter as much when the opposition is using properly crewed ships that don't have the fire power to knock down the armor of a 20% crewed 3rd rate. The penalties for undercrewing gets negated in a 25 vs 25 port battle.

Good job! Just to comment on the timer issue though, often times It is 2 - 4 AM my time when we have been doing these port battles and I live in Florida.

Oh fantastic! I am not upset that it happened haha, it resulted in a fantastic fight! Just that we didn't have the fire power to deal with that much armor lol, and it kinda defeats the purpose of the crew mechanics. I hope that the suggestion doesn't sound like a whine, it's really a balance issue in my opinion. These certainly have been the most fun fights yet, even if I lost my conny last night.

With the present mechanics of port battles people have been taking advantage of the present ability to undercrewing powerful ships in order to win the fight. My suggestion is to not entirely get rid of the ability to undercrew a ship but rather to limit the point of which you can. Instead of being able to sail a 3rd rate (or what ever ship) at any % of crew, I feel and suggest that you should only be able to sail a ship that you can crew to at least 80% This would eliminate the present problem of people farming large ships and crewing them at 20% in order to win a port battle simply by the size of their ships.

A great fight between the Brits and USA last night in Conttoy. As always it was a great pleasure to fight the Brits, and I look forward to future encounters. The US in this fight were out weighed in ship class, which brings me to make a suggestion to the game, I feel that you should not be able to sail a ship that you can not crew to at least 80% Still though it was a fun fight, and as the saying goes, you win some and you lose some. See you again soon Brits!

Tampa is a fantastic city for this, you could easily hop over to orlando for the tourist traps, and you could go to sea from here easily.

Yeah haha, sadly I stopped recording the fight before that explosion as I figured I wouldnt have gotten over to that side to join that part of the battle before it was over. I didn't think there would be much left in the way of interesting combat by that point and figured the rest would just be chasing down people that were trying to leave the fight. I was glad to have been wrong there! I will have to keep the recording going next time in case something cool like that happens again. When we were sandwiching that poor cerb, you, there at one point, a ren came in out of no where and was on fire and I was like oh crap oh crap! It was a lot of fun, and I look forward to future engagements with the British, thank you all for being good sports, and for the battle.

First of all thank you for the British attack on Cuyo last night at 2:30 AM EST USA time. It was fun, and I hope that you had fun as well and got lots of exp and gold for the fight as well. Well fought, and I look forward to seeing you in battle again in the near future. * Youtube can be slow in rendering videos of this size, the video is recorded at 1080 @60fps