[Player experience share between servers]

21 hours ago, admin said:

Yes, its no longer a thing. It was only needed during early testing, was buggy and was causing problems.

 

Thanks for answer. I thought that If I had character on each server that experience wouldn't be gone and it is safe all the time.

 

11 hours ago, BallsOfSteel said:

More the reason to have zones within the one server. That would let some have a pve break and allow pve the chance to try pvp without starting over again

 

 

That's a shame it isn't a thing. Wasn't there like a safe zone around friendly lands? With very low numbers on both servers, such merge and that easy addition to game mechanics would improve overall experience.

Friends and myself would like to casually play together without being attacked all the time by others, better equipped players, so I could show them the basics. That really stops them from buying the game.

[Player experience share between servers]

Hello!

It's been a long time of break for me from Naval Action. I'd like to return back to game and try PvE. Before, I played mostly on PvP server, put hundrets hours into it and a bit on PvE server.

I got all my lvl and crafting experience back, altogether with some redeemable on PvP server, but my PvE character is fresh. Nothing to redeem and collect. Is shared experience no longer a thing?

I was looking forward in getting back to NA, and play on PvE server and perhaps bring some friends that were interested in buying NA. Now I kinda feel let confused by the game.

[Gun-Powder smoke should stay longer and cannons should roll back while firing (like it was in RL)]

answer no

 

smoke = FPS heavy

rolling guns were in game and were disabled = FPS heavy

same with ports = FPS heavy

 

It is impossible in 25v25 

battle sizes will have to be cut to small engagements to make it happen

or we have to wait 10 years for next GPU/CPU cycle and engine improvements

 

 

Also in real life the average Captain never seen any combat and his main enemy was hernia (90% cause of casualties in the British navy in the age of sail). 

 

 

Have you considered then upgrading to Unity 5 engine? It worked miracles for Kerbal Space Program in regard of fps boost. Naval Action would benefit even more:

- better physics

- PBR textures

- better multiplayer optimization

- better FPS for all types of machines

[19 mln vs 60 thousand - the cost of crew - moderated]

Crew needs to be paid - Great addition, but please make it one one payment (no monthly/daily fee).

Crew can be killed during combat - Yes please!
 

My proposal on how to replenish crew:

- passive recruitment, ship docket at friendly port (not free port) will replenish its crew with time automatically, even when player is not logged in. The higher players rank and in bigger port he is docket at, crew will replenish faster.

- active recruitment, player can pay to get his crew immediately when docket at friendly port.

[War and Port battles rework - moderated]

It's highly welcome to see rework on war/politics and port battle system.

 

What I'd like to see to improve general gameplay in this area and make things more exciting:

 

Casus belli basics: War starts with a reason and goal(s). Can be completed within certain time.

For example a nation that struggles with a silver can start a war over a port that produces silver or enforce payment from other nation in form of that resource. Nation has X days to complete that war. Afterward becomes peace for X week(s).

Nation that started a war has a specific goal to achieve. Defender knows what ports are threatened and where to send forces.

 

Core system: Nation with time and cost can create a core over captured ports. Cored ports are seen as part of empire of specific nation - will generate more resources and grand more privileges to owner. If lost to other nation, previous owner has re-conquest CB over the port for a week. Then core will degrade.

 

Raids: ports can be not only captured, but raided/plundered by other nation (attacker picks one) to get one-time resource/money loot. Harbour stays looted for a week with penalties to owner (less resource generation, etc).

 

Port improvements: Cored ports open for investments - economical and military. One can boost its resource production, other can build forts and hire AI fleet to defend nearby waters.

 

Trade routes: These can be crated between friendly harbours and free towns. Players can hire AI merchant fleets+escort to send resources to other places. These will be represented by AI trade ships sailing around the map (similar to what we have now). Free towns will be used to trade between friendly nations - no war ships allowed in FTs.

[Repair Kits should not fully repair all damages. It's unrealistic.]

There is much easier way to implement attrition system into the game without much effort: Limit number of available repair kits on a ship further.

 

Captains would need to be more careful with their ships. Time spent on open seas would matter. You don't need to come back to friendly port that often if you had a good run.

[Close Free Towns for battleships]

At the moment any fleet can sail deep into enemy territory or even hang out outside other nations main capital without consequences anyway.

 

If Free Ports will be there to only buy/sell goods, enemy nations will need to capture enemy ports to have bases for combat operations closer to faction that they want to fight, which is a good change. I also hope to see that after introduction of politics into the game, nation AI fleets will chase and engage players ships that are at war.

[Treasure fleets as PvE/PvP missions]

Hello captains,

 

idea is to have government orders, generated by game, to ship certain goods to Europe. Luxury resources located in Western part of the map (Central America, Gulf of Mexico) would need to be obtained, captured from Natives, crafted put on ships and escorted to Eastern border of the map. Once completed, all participant of escort would be rewarded.

 

Mechanics:

- cargo has to be shipped by players within specified time limit;

- we're talking big here, 6+ cargo ships would be required as minimum + escort ships

- part of the cargo can be lost to complete quest but for lower reward (you get 100000 tons of cargo, you can lose 35% of that on your way to Eastern border)

- goods are only available in Western part of map, that would encourage all the nations to expand, fight for these lands or make alliances;

- goods cannot be send in free ports, have to be shipped by player ships

- such large convoys of ships can be spotted by other nations or Pirates and captured by organized parties;

- large enough payment in gold or in form of high quality modules/ships to encourage large shipments of good at such long distances;

- missions can be done only every few days;

- goods captured by other nations cannot be sold on local market or traded to other nations, but shipped to Europe ir required by that nations capitol;

- only pirates can sell captured goods on black market;

- pirates cannot run these missions, but see point above;

 

What are your thoughts?

[Development priorities 2]

 

Definitely these 2

 

-Overhaul of War & Peace mechanics and national relations, pirate role and national alliances

 

-Open world PVE: epic events, more variety of fleets, more missions (incl delivery missions) 

 

Here is why:

 

Open World PVE - Over time game becomes extremely boring for PVE people. Constant fleet grinding and lack of variety and fun. Because of this, Players leave or take break until more content will be available. This in my opinion must be N1 priority. Otherwise player numbers will be decreasing with every day if there is nothing to do.

 

-Add more content, missions, treasure hunts, epic missions and loot and you should be good in that field for quite a bit. 

 

Overhaul of War & Peace - This would be my second important choice that needs fixing. Creating clear and fun conquest system will introduce more players to fighting and defending ports. In general it will result in better cooperation and pvp. Don't forget about reward system. Make sure players get something in the end.

 

-Add War Map with contention zones. Show players where is the action. Introduce points system with rewards and monthly leader boards with stats. Just by adding these simple tools you will boost player base and hours spent in game. 

 

Good luck.

 

 

Fully agree on that. Most of friends of mine stopped playing due lack of content and uncertain future of content development for Naval Action. I'm glad that I made to high enough level to join Port Battles and PvP, but people who are still stuck in brigs easily get bored and leave the game to play something else. On average after 20 hours of gameplay player don't find anything new to do except mission grind.

 

For PvE update I'd like to see:

- scalable group missions, the more friends you bring the more enemies there will be and higher reward all the contestents get

- other missions and go to 'A' and sink enemies

 

edit:

To support my posts about players dropping numbers, here are some graphs:

https://steamdb.info/app/311310/graphs/

 

It went from 5.2k to 2.6k and it's going down. 

 

There is also other issue with availability of NA game in other places than Steam. I'm certain that NA would find more customers if game would be available at more markets, in more regions at fair price. That's something that publisher should look at.