BR549

Yes, Steam is up. However only the PvP One EU server is working. And its working poorly! It says 284 online when I tried it and yet I was 236 in the queue waiting to enter. Both PvE One and PvP Two USA are still suffer from the Steam Authentication Error issue. Looks like it might take some time to sort this problem out.

All stats do regardless of type, is promote chest beating the forums. "The look what I did" players will constantly feel the forums with meaningless screenshots. And "YES" it will also make the community and game play toxic in terms of in-game chat as well as forum posting. The game in its current state, remember its only in Alpha, far exceeds what you find in many released and final Beta games. In addition, I'm not certain the game designers want a large player base just yet.

Apparently you didn't read the post where I said the Clan BRAGGED at how they did it ... must have just scanned the post...

Yes .. reported through F11 near end of battle

Not sure about the name and shame policies here, so if naming is okay, I'll provide the Clan name on a later posting. On PvP 2 U.S. server players have been using mission battles to hide a larger force to attack players. What they are doing is creating a group of 5 to 6 players, and obtaining missions from a friendly port that is located near enemy ports. These missions can be the lowest ranked mission available, the quicker to finish the better. Hoping of course that their mission is located near an enemy port or along a major trade route. They all go into the mission battle and after the allowed time, the cross cutlass disappears and they complete the mission. Though once completed they remain in the battle area, I have never remained after the battle to see if there is a timer that kicks you out. So on this, I'm unsure as to how long they remain HIDDEN, because while they are in the battle and the cutlass is gone, they're location or number of ships are hidden from the OPEN WORLD. One player exits out of battle and becomes bait or hunts enemy ships, of course this is being done near their mission battle area. An enemy player sails up on the player who sits waiting, and of course, the player is now targeted or the exiting player targets them, either way a battle begins in 20 seconds. At first the battle appears to be a 1 vs. 1 battle. Once the battle starts, the remaining players still HIDDEN from view in the completed mission battle exit, waits for their invulnerable cool down and enter the battle. So they're using the in-game battle mechanics to stay hidden from view. Not sure if this is playing within the rules or not. But what good is scanning the horizon when sailing in the Open World if players can hide within the game and pounce on unsuspecting players. The Clan bragged about how they could remain hidden after doing this tactic. Being sunk 5 vs 1, even 10 vs 3 is not an issue and fairly common; we all get sunk from time to time. But being able to obtain these numbers by being hidden in open waters, is not a fair engagement. Its bad enough, this Clan is part of one largest populated nations as it is, but to hide their numbers, when they already have a large player base, goes a bit to far.

Yes, Zeuxis is my charcater. Thanks for the information. I do NOT remember an extra confirming click, might have been. Sorry for the delay in responding, just got out of the hospital. Thanks again for the info.

I submitted an in-game F11 report as well. So myself and 7 others were in 2 groups attacking enemy fleets in our nation's waters. The fleet targeted consisted of two 3rd Rates, 1 Constitution, 2 Renommee, 1 Frigate and a Cerberus. There were 3 other NPC groups within our attack circle as well as all 8 Clan mates in our 2 groups. The counter reaches 0 and the message pops up you're attacking a Cerberus. Only 1 problem, the Cerberus was a Clan Mate within the circle, yet at behind me and at a good distance when the Fleet was targeted. And yet I was still in the group. So it drops my Nation and Clan tags the very instant. Though I was still able to remain in group. I would like my Clan back and figure out why this happened?