Charles Deluxe

C'est le cas. Remplaces le mot "nation" par "faction" si tu preferes. M'enfin... Moi qui pensais que sur NA les capitaines francais etaient des vrais de vrais, et n'hesitaient pas a se concerter entre eux pour defendre leur interets... Snif en fait ca prefere faire passer des villes en neutre via les devs, plutot que combattre j'imagine...

Si, si, toutes les nations sont confrontées au meme danger representé par les free towns et de la meme maniere. Mais a priori, chez les francais ca fait plus peur qu'ailleurs

Yep, agreed. Right now, I can tank with my stern an equal sized ship with no drawbacks at all. Last duel I had, I mostly tanked with my stern (I'm evil), no crew loss, no leaks, no water inside my hull, only one gun lost on each side (and probably not lost on the stern rakes). For sure, if I begin to loose guns, crew and let's say masts, for sure I'll immediatly stop trying to tank damage with my stern even if I don't sink from those stern rakes... Stern rakes should not sink a ship, sure, and I think we all mostly agree on this, but it should at least badly cripple that ship. Now let's see what the patch will do exactly and if it's enough to fix this.

Merci du conseil J'y ai pensé en fait, mais apres avoir commencé les premiers voyages. Mieux vaut tard que jamais cela dit Ca va que vous achetez vos ressources assez cher du coté francais, sinon j'aurais du ouvrir un autre outpost en free town coté pirate pour transferer mon butin. Disons que ma reaction est en partie due au fait que, concernant Camp-du-Roy: Aurait du etre ecrit: Puisque CDR passera francais j'imagine peu de temps apres son transfert a la neutralité. Mais sinon t'as raison, a condition de le savoir a l'avance, via capture et transfert, le déménagement peut etre ecourté.

Tous les joueurs francais IRL ou francophones ne jouent pas chez la nation France. L'avis est destiné aux capitaines de la nation France mais il est lisible par tous. Du coup ton annonce est bien, mais tu reveles les positions, certains objectifs et les horaires. Peut etre que ca, ca ne devrait etre communiquer que sur le TS mentionné. Tu peux meme pas sortir la carte de la désinformation pour semer le doute, puisque l'intox a cette etape du jeu ca serait un peu prématuré et surperflu. Regardes, je suis pirate et si j'etais vile et fourbe, j'irais donc sortir quelques navires avec mes freres de la côte du coté des free towns du nord (Camp-du-Roy, Plymouth et compagnie) pour attaquer des traders francais et des gens en missions, pendant que vos forces combattantes affluent vers le sud. Bon la c'est pas méchant, parce que en meme temps c'est un peu le meme programme que les dernieres semaines: PvP au sud avec les hollandais, donc c'est pas vraiment un secret, mais faudrait y faire gaffe dans le futur. Le meme message mais sans mentionner: alliances, objectifs, horaires et positions ca serait ptete plus sage, enfin a l'avenir surtout

Pas de problemes? Et quand ca va passer neutre, t'es vraiment sur que ca posera pas de problemes a mes navires pirates la bas? Donc je dois fermer Camp-du-Roy sous peine d'y voir mes navires "confisqués" faut d'acces au port. Et je dois les deplacer a travers les territoires ennemis jusqu'en eaux pirate (1 heure de navigation par navire si personne ne me pull sur la route), faute de savoir exactement quels sont les Free Town qui passeront neutral. Et attendre un TP entre chaque navire a deplacer. C'est fait, m'enfin le "pas de probleme" moi il m'a couté des dizaines d'heures hein!

Works for bow, you are forced to use the survival mode, doesn't work for stern, stern destroyed means nothing at ranges other than very close. Actually, I can tank an equal sized ship with my stern all day long if I stay out of grape range. I'll never sink with my stern destroyed. That's also freaking stupid. I shouldn't be able to soak up and tank all the damage from ball ammo by offering my stern...

The thing is, actually you can pretty much do stern tanking against ball ammo against average players. No more armor on stern, no major impact, you don't sink from it, no survival mode needed. No more armor on one flank, you just sink and can do nothing about it even on survival mode. Two or three days ago I was in a small battle, I was the last guy alive in my team against four enemies. All I had to do was to offer my stern to their fire and fire at their flanks to sink them all. Maybe they were not very good, and a pro player would have destroyed me and my crew. And sure it would have been another story if they were firing grape at my stern. It took me a lot of time to get their flank armor to zero on all of them, but their ball fire on my stern, never did anything, while getting them at zero on their flank, was an automatically sinking of a ship. Two days ago, i'm in a duel against some british captain, same level, same ship, same story... All I had to do was to offer him my stern to his ball shots and broadsides, stay out of grape range and fire at his flanks. Same results, as soon as he had no more armor on one of his flank, I just had to disengage and wait for him to sink. While I tanked his broadsides and volleys with my stern being at zero armor... I have countless other examples against average players. And it's not uncommon either for people in PB to tank towers with their bow, because bow being at zero armor is a problem you ll have to manage at some point but a flank at zero armor is a sure death, no matter what you do about it. I guess it could be exploited even in PvE, because you just simply cannot sink if you only get hit on your stern. So I understand rake is powerful with grape but with ball ammo, in the current build, it is not.Some of you experienced players can destroy a crew by firing ball shots through the stern, but most players do not. Bow/stern should be the weakness of the ships, not their best side for tanking ball shots forever just because you can't sink from a stern being at zero armor, no matter how many shots you land on it. And I guess that's why devs want to change that situation. Now let's hope the patch improve ball ammo rake damage and not the grape rake damage.