Sir Henry de Montfort

All you got out of my post is verbal abuse report and if you can't take it report and ignore??? You missed the point. Players are tired of the abuse of game mechanics. The appearance of devs doing nothing about it. It has reached the point on many of these topics such as this one, that players are wasting their precious 2-4 hours playing or posting on forums about it and they are leaving. I am in no way trying to rage or pick on anyone or anything. But.... I hear what British players say to me " I can't take this anymore, maybe I'll come back in a couple months". Also keeping track of players online numbers at peek times and noticing it going down 100 a week. I don't want closed alpha numbers of 230 at PEAK time. Players know the games problems, we play the game. We see it daily and most feel the devs don't listen or care. If they don't agree with you, most fear the dreaded 7 days forum/chat ban. Please lock the thread. This isn't gonna help the players or devs. Let's move on to the wipe and major patches and go from there.

What happens if you are the most decorated PvP player in your nation...interdicting enemy ships boarding and capping 4-8 ships a day and causing grief for your nations enemy's traders. What happens if you are your nations level 50 ship builders, spending hours making ship parts and sailing for materials and pumping out the ships needed for Port Battles. Why should they vote? A nation's influencial people are more than just a bunch of people running around doing undefended port battles. They are actually individuals or groups of individuals doing important deeds and tedious tasks rather than a couple of people going to an uncontested port battle. The fleet leaders gathering up the players and ships to do the battle? The Fleet leaders making arrangements between fleets to gather and organize port attack forces and screening fleets. It just comes down to who shows up and damages the most towers? I disagree. I think the whole system is going to go very wrong. I can also see a very large window for exploiting. Very concerned ..... I must say. Do I have a better solution no, but I would rather see it stay in the current format than go to this system.

Lol here is political situation. British vs. Everyone, excluding Americans & Dutch

I understand your point Eishen and I agree that the pirates need to have some special needs attached to removing captured 3rd rates, we need to keep the pirates competetive in the game. With that said it will make people now craft a little more. I am level 50 and I did it all on my own. I was a member of SLRN and i did so outside the guild crafters. I grinded on my own, I saved credits on my own. I found my own resources and did all my parts for the most part on my own and I reached 50 on my own. So it can be done. I didn't want to be at the mercy of other crafters or guild crafters who would make me pay a arm & leg to have a ship crafted or wait on a crafting guild list 20 people long. People need to stop depending on others and if you want something bad enough work for it. I also do not charge people an arm and a leg to build a ship or sometimes nothing at all if they have mats. I give away free bp's and I give ships and money away to help people coming from PvP2 or PvE servers. Everyone should be helping other in nations to get ahead. I also didn't use the cheat mechanic spawning 25 3rd rates like Stars/ss/sorry did in the gulf of mexico. I simply attacked A.I fleet after A.I. fleet by myself or with 4 or 5 other random players. I also have to say that sailing a 1st rate all the time is boring. Taking that speed trinc or remi out and patrolling in teams of 3-6 players is the most fun i have in game. People that get to the 1st rates know this. Once we get more ships in game ... large number of 6th rates to 4th rates. You will see the number of 1st-3rd rates go down. The spanish and french fighting against us british spam 50 frigates infront of our 1st rates and although they may lose most of those frigates..they give those 1st rates a hell of a fight and even sink a few. So as you get high up you start to realize that 1st rates aren't the end game, its actually the BEGINNING of the game and you start to understand each ship has its place tactically and strategically.

Its very obvious that the Capped 3rd Rates are a problem that needs to be eliminated or fixed in some way. I would like to see EVERY SHIP IN GAME, crafted. I don't even believe in capped 1 dura A.I. ships of any type. If you do missions and attack A.I. Fleets you make money and it makes you work towards saving for that nice crafted ship you want to advance to your next rank with. Capped ships should be broken up for parts, BP drops or money to admiralty. That simple. I am a level 50 crafter and I have almost every ship i could want, due to stock piling resources and good trade routes. Sant, Vic, Pavel, Bellona, 3rd Rate (yes its crafted, love my mods), trinc..etc. I do not drag my 1st rates into EVERY port battle. Why becuase of the tons of frigates and screening ships. I do bring my crafted 3rd rate. I don't believe in capped 3rds at all and I am tempted to leave the game for a time period in the hope that when I come back..things will be fixed. Everyone wants there everything, but unfortunatly to make the game better we need to sacrifice the 3rds and easy capping and saving our good ships..so the game can grow and become a better game. Will people be upset if it happens, yes. Will some people be happy yes. But in the end it will make it a much better game and to be honest, i don't want to sale a easy ship. I want a sense of accomplishment, I want a goal in game and a sense of danger. I really hope if everyone was to sit back...they should look not at what makes them happy, or the next guy happy. What makes this game seem in all aspects...REALISITIC? The end goal of the game should be realism and make you feel like you are back in 1785 and your fighting for your nation and trying to climb the naval ladder to glory. I think we all have said all our points on this thread, but i have not seen one Admin or Mod make a statement on this topic and it seems to being ignored or its being followed. I just hope it is being monitored and being taken into consideration. Booty

And you know what Herminator...This has nothing to do about us being brits! We are losing ports fighting 5 nations...big deal we know we can't win and we are gonna lose ports...>WHO CARES....we will fall back to 10 ports and fight and we are fine with that. What WE ARE FED UP WITH .... is the numerous people using alts, alts tagging fleets illegally, buying blocking port attack flags. WE are completedly TIRED of it. I don't care what nation they are....british, spanish, danish, pirate, american. IF you do it and ruin peoples hours playing and cause people to leave the game or quit out of frustration.... It doesn't matter..... who you are or what your reasoning. IF YOU CHEAT OR DO SOMETHING in knowing violation of game rules...YOU GET THE NERF HAMMER..... there is no middle ground. you did it or you didn't. We are all adults here and we know right from wrong. It's not subject to what nation you are, or what ever your petty reasoning. Its wrong or its right. that simple. No matter what banter is being thrown around. The subjects in question were WRONG...and they need to be punished. If a british captain did this...I would be the first person saying the exact same thing i am now. I hate cheaters and have no patience for them.

This is nothing more than smearing the topic at hand! This is a tribunal Post referring to Zombie Pirate and plotting associates and there Blantant VIOLATION of the Flag Rules. It has been stated that this should and would be punished by the Dev's and it is clear and convicting. PERIOD. We need an example made of this. It just so happens that said individuals were so happy with themselves that they needed to brag about it to others and in the process incriminate themselves. I don't care what your reasons were, what your excuses are. All i care is what you did!!!! You broke the rules...you need to pay the price. That simple.

No, we actually like fighting pirates. ACTUAL PIRATES...its what british captains LIVE FOR!! But listening to Danes/dressing up as pretend pirates...or pretend pirates trying to tear down other pirates.....RUINS THE GAME. We are not defending pirates..we are defending the GAME. The game that your trying to ruin with your kindergarden childish rants. Grow up and be a pirate or go back to the danes.

I think this is a clear case of flag purchase mechanics. The spanish had an alt purchase a flag as a british midshipman, given money from another british midshipmen...who were both conveniantly deleted. This denied us from attacking the port of Misteriosa last week. This is completely convicting evidence of the same thing being done but within one's own nation. Buying a flag to deny an enemy throught cheating or by malicious means is completely wrong, it wrecks the game for players. Pirates who came on and spent hours moving ships into place, getting up early, planning and starting attacks taking ports making money. Just becuase you don't agree with another fleet doesn't mean you have right to mess with thier plans. I move for punishment and the evidence is very incriminating.

LOL, I think this is hilarious. All the people complaining are acting like your a nation. Big Valco is acting like a pirate!!! He doesn't work for the british, the danes, the spanish..... He does what he wants...attacks for who he wants, when he wants. He has no agreement with any british fleet, he attempt to ransom ports. He threatens us, He haggles with us. But he is no british puppet. All of the above...is what a pirate is noun 1.a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shoresof the sea. 2.a ship used by such persons. 3.any plunderer, predator, etc That is the def. of a pirate. All of you complaining & whining in the pirate nation...you are a nation. NOT PIRATES. Too hilarious...pirates complaining and trying to prevent pirates from taking opposing ports LOL

Well, I'm a level 50 crafter. I have every bp but a pavel. I gained the Trinc, Constitution and 3rd rate bp's by doing just this. Currently if you are a high enough crafter you have a very good chance of getting a bp drop. So I'm not talking out my arse per say, I'm talking by experience and if it is a 5x dura, 3x dura or a 1 dura for each class and is full health this also buffs your chances....so yes it actually is a fact and i did this before THEY BUFFED the bp drop.....so form your own opinion. I have mine.

The tribunal has zero power, the devs won't take the time and effort into doing a thorough investigation. It's not just this obvious case, with an abundant amount of I'm formation provided. It's all other cases as well. This case has abundant information and is very clear cut. If nothing is done here then the less clear cases are gonna be viewed a joke. You either take this serious devs or dont. We take it serious, so if your not then stop wasting our time, becuase what the point of taking, names screen shots or gathering info and you do nothing. I'm not raging here, I'm stating cold facts and reasoning. We as players can deal with this either way. But sitting in middle ground saying you will but can't and humming and hawking but doing nothing is frustrating more than anything. Take a position please

The accusation against pirates and danish misconduct is due to it always happening right at or before a port attack and screening fleets are conviently, dragged into battle and reinforcements are called by single players preventing them from escaping. And it only occurs during these circumstances. It is always a day or 2 old player in a cutter with no fleet and they tend to be deleted with 24hrs. Developers will not track down ip address, so this is a pointless conversation. Tribunal cannot do a thing to punish this conduct due to this exact reason. If the ip is not traced to primary player ip, then no punishment is given.

Lol, I've done that more than once in hurry to get that important port defense

Anytime you do something, in real life or in game you learn. How to do something more efficient or new ways to do it a different way that is more innovating. Mining building should give you some crafting exp. It does have to be a large amount but something exp wise should be giving much like making planks out of oak.