Everfalling

If anything, the grind needs to be LONGER not shorter. Short games die off FAST. Sure there should be more diversity in grinding but today on PVP2 a US player hit rear admiral. It took about a month. I think once more ships are added and sub levels of ships (i.e. Cerb is a weak 5th while Trinc is a stronger 5th). Ark Survival lost my interest because I was top level and bored in 2 weeks. Make the game more interesting but make it LONGER. I'm so tired of short games that end a week or a month after you get it.

I too have a hard time seeing the different colors of nations on the map. Luckily for me in PVP2, USA is warring with all of them lol.

After discussing it with a few different clans and people in game, I have a bit of an idea for pirates, ships, and for how maps could work that I think encompasses more of the real world application of both entities without making the game start to seem cartoonish. Pirates: Don't make the Pirates a nation. Let them take ports if they want or stay in free ports or neutral ports. Give them the ability to capture nation flags when in battle if they cap a US ship they can fly a US flag and show as US in OW and dock at US ports. Give them the ability to switch flags based on where they are if they so desire and they have the flag to do so. Make ship letters useful by "outing" named pirates. If a Pirate has a nation flag they can enter and trade at any of said nation's ports. If a pirate attacks a nation's ship, in battle he will be labeled pirate and fly a pirate flag and his name will be in ship letters. In OW he will still appear as whatever nation's flag he is flying but there is no penalty for attacking him. This makes pirates a real viable faction for people to choose because it is so different and actually act as pirates. It also makes ship letters a useful thing and makes open world sailing more dangerous because now I tab out for 90% of my sail as it isn't dangerous at all. Ships: Each nation can only sail a ship that is their own IRL nation's ship. Add the pennsylvania for US so they have a 1st rate but then don't worry so much about balance. Not all nations should have each other's ships. Give a general ship i.e. Brig, Frigate, to each nation plus their own national ship. If you capture another nation's ship, when you break it down you get 10% towards getting that ship's BP. This gives people an incentive to be in another nation besides where they live IRL because you may not get the chance to own a renommee if you are US unless you cap 10 of them and break them down. Gives more diversity to factions. People will whine about one ship being OP and they can't get it but this actually increases usefulness of clans so you sail as a team more. Make it more about tactics instead of just 3rd rate vs 3rd rate etc. Make it more historical and get more immersion. Last point about ships, make cargo space and cannons take a set unit of space. Then if I want to carry 3k weight of cargo I have 3 or less cannons per side. If I wanted to take 500 weight of cargo I could have 9 cannons per side. Something to that effect. Then we could customize how our traders are set up or how our hold is set up. Map: I have a couple different ideas here not sure which I like more. 1. Give people a map that has longitude and latitude give them a button that gives them their rough coordinates. Call it a Sextant. They get their rough coords then look at their map to find where they are and how to get to where they want to go. 2. Allow them to hire a navigator. Either a cheap, expensive, and everything in between. The player picks a port on the map they want to go to or sets a naval equivalent of a flight plan. In the OW there is a semi transparent line that shows them where they are going. The accuracy of this line depends on the quality of the navigator. Cheaper navigators aren't so accurate with their guide line.