--Privateer--

Before the port wipe, most the pirate ports were owned by XXXXX and I had about 10mil in that warehouse and a bunch of port timers. After the port wipe I had only 5ish mil in the clan warehouse. I believe that 250k per port timer was taken out of XXXXXs clan warehouse BEFORE all the ports were made neutral. Could I get that back? I submitted a bug report with my alt, the current creator of XXXXX.

I'd like to see the capitals be capturable. Once a nation has lost all it's 'normal ports' the currently uncapturable ports should become capturable, and then after those are gone the capital should be capturable. Weren't prussia and russia added to test how a nation functions with out a capital? And it seems to work fine, so I see no reason why I shouldn't be able to capture Charleston.

Yeah, as long as you always remember to have active pvp missions for every rate, it doesn't seem much different.

Combat metals are the only currency in the game that rewards time spent in the OW, pvping and creating content, as well as putting your own ship at risk. Doubloons/reals/labor hours all reward farming and pve and are more time based rather than skill based. It makes sense to me that combat metals should be used to buy all the best things.

probably too far away. The trees stop loading in on the shore at a certain point, I wouldn't expect to see forts after that.

There's flags that can be unlocked from the admiralty?

There is a in game report button for chat, yet half the tribunals on here are still chat related. Adding a report button in game for other activities would probably create more work for the devs, people would be smashing it at the slightest inconvenience.

Well, I guess that marks the end of the good jokes. Since we no longer have to stay on topic, I'd like to encourage everyone to go to this post and give their opinion on the current rare wood situation, especially if you want it changed.

I'll admit, most my dueling ships are 5/5, however I often sail a 3/5 no perk christian around as one of my favorite ships. That being said, it is almost necessary to have the extra slots if you're going to duel a Requin with a pickle, especially considering the new damage model. 32lb carros vs a tiny ship like a pickle leaves little room for error. Also, 250 crew vs 55, you try it with a blue ship. 😛

I agree, these are definitely problems as well.

I think the devs would want a system that works not only at release, but years later with a possible 2500 people, in which case there will be alt clans. But even if we ignore that possibility, what about the more immediate problem of giving total control to a single clan?

These two things are mutually exclusive, the system can't give everyone access while at the same let the owner control who gets access. In the past, everyone with an alt could buy any resource they wanted, now it truly is monopolized by a single clan and who is on the friendly clan list. You might not realize the implications of this, but it reminds me of when pirates had outlaw battles. The largest clan has total control, small clans are forced to join them or forced out of the nation. (and now leaving the nation costs money, so they'd probably just quit) Back then it was "do as we say or we sink you in outlaw battles" and now it's "do as we say or we'll restrict your access to rare woods". Any clan who can fill a port battle on their own suddenly has no need for anyone else. What can the other small clans do? It's a 'friendly' port, they can't capture it. And how long will it be before a alt clan takes one of these rare wood ports? The US coast has some rare wood ports very close to their un-capturable ports. They could easily make an attempt to take one of these ports every other day. However, if it was owned by a clan of alts with no one on the friendly clan list, that suddenly makes it impossible to capture the port, and impossible to get the rare wood. Under the old system there is not this problem, because it is not restricted to who is on the friendly clan list.

It wasn't perfect, but the woods in-particular were better for new players, and small nations, and small clans, and crafting.

RexRapor jumped in a 1v1 battle and boarded my pickle even though he was told multiple times by me and Captain Smile that it was a 1v1. He also sunk the liveoak/whiteoak 5/5 pickle after boarding so now I am unable to do another 1v1 since it is nearly impossible to craft liveoak/whiteoak ships anymore, let alone enough get a 5/5 one. He's obviously a no good troll since any real player would keep a 5/5 pickle. I think RexRapor should be banned until I get a replacement pickle.

remove rare woods maybe ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Lets see how you're doing after the wipe when we no longer have ships left over from better times. And even if your small group is able to put in the hours per day necessary to claim the rare woods, many people can't. This is very obvious from the empty or nearly empty ports, it's even rare to find anything above a oak/fir 5th rate in la Tortue these days, how is that not a problem? The old system worked for hard core and casual players; the hard core players would put in the hours and craft multiple ships hoping for a purple or gold, and the blue standard ships went to the new or casual players. Now the hard core players have blue ships (which they are less happy with) and the casual players don't have ships or are forced to buy the DLC.

Well, you're not wrong about this part.

The Christian is my favorite ship at the moment, way better than a Buc or even a l'Ocean. I don't see why some people say it's not tanky, I think it's perfect. I don't think it should be a DLC, permit or otherwise; but I'm not a big fan of the RNG chests either. Yes, my Christian did sink in the last battle, it was about two 4th rates too many. Here's a link to my ideas on the RNG chests. https://forum.game-labs.net/topic/29017-rng-permits-pay-to-participate-rvr/?do=findComment&comment=638924

I had a nice battle in the patrol zone earlier.

A small thing that I would like to suggest is that total xp be displayed somewhere. When leveling up there's a little display under the rank in port that displays the total xp earned, however this goes away when max rank is reached. I'd be interested in the display remaining and counting up even after reaching max rank. I'm certainly interested in seeing how much I got and maybe screenshot it before it gets wiped.

I created the topic to inform players that this was happening, I posted it in the News section as a heads up. I didn't know it would turn into such a salt mine. The topic isn't about ALL the negative reviews, just these 8 or 9 which use the names of players who may disagree with what is being attributed to them. I have not reviewed the game yet myself, although I do appreciate the invite. I think I'll hold off the praise a bit longer though, since the game is subject to change greatly in the coming weeks. If rare woods become significantly more common I'll definitely leave a glowing review. 😁 The only person who seems to have an inflated sense of self importance is the person posting 8+ reviews where the rest of us only post one. They seem to believe their opinion is worth more than ours.

Ideally they would be balanced so we could see both, but if I had to choose, I'd rather see a mixture of the 50 craft-able ships than see the same 4 DLC ships over and over.

It seems like they did exactly that, considering the fake privateer has only 36 hours in game.

Yeah, that's the main reason for my post. Like I said, I wouldn't have known if someone hadn't pointed it out. I think Reverse, Teutonic, Marrius, Powderhorn, etc. might also appreciate the heads up.