Kedge

Secretly I just want to mess with everyone and write bogus filler content on the forums in an effort to look smart in front of internet people. I'm glad you're here Gumby, you must be working closely with the devs I suspect? You seem very factual with everyone you say, obviously you have inside knowledge that we don't.

The idea behind neutrals is good, unaligned players doing their own thing. What will really happen is people will abuse the neutrality to circumvent restrictions on the nationals. Especially if you can have more than one character. The whole "people will buy new accounts anyway so let them have more characters" argument is a load of rubbish. Don't make it easier for them if it's going to be a problem. One character, and if people really want more they can buy them. Like people keep saying, they're going to do it anyway.

I hate these players who want high reward for no risk. If Frank and his mate want to play together they'd probably be in the same clan, located in the same general sort of area, if they had any kind of sense. A game recreating the age of sail with any kind of realism sounds like the sort of game a casual gamer like Frank should avoid. Join a clan, make some friends. Get them to escort you. This game improves drastically when played in a group. Why shouldn't you get ambushed by pirates if you're alone?

I'm all for the total removal of teleportation as a whole. This gives clans and nations strong points, weak points and will naturally develop trading hubs and trading routes, as well as risky and lawless areas. Having the ability to be wherever you want at a moment's notice defeats these desirable possibilities..

The issue with making the pirate faction unique is making them play differently without restricting them so much that it isn't fun or effective.

I think this would be a good addition. Sporadic musket fire at closer ranges, slowly wittling at your crew numbers. Although this does raise the concern that carronades, as powerful as they are, plus musketfire would be the effectice meta. Rendering medium and long cannon obsolete?

Not to be confused with the royal fleet of the americans. The well known fleet owned by the united states monarchy.