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Nope It really doesn't take a genius to set up a somewhat reliable revenge fleet. Place your ships at the best point of escape for the guys in battle and maybe one or two a little bit upwind in case he tries to "squeeze through a gap" - It has been tested lively.

Isn't the last part a bit ironic? Without the speed boost, we're going back to where we were before - players in battle are just easy food to players waiting outside because THEY are the ones profiting from a super speed. IMHO Currently its fine. 3 minute join timer is plenty to let anything in range join. As Vernon said, get an escort when you're in a trader... this is a pvp server after all, not pve trading simulator, though sometimes it does feel like it -Maybe reduce max. tagging range to somewhat reduce defensive tagging- If we're ever going back to a mechanic which allows players to leave a battle where they are ALREADY outnumbering, to then meet up with mates which profited from the OW speed boost to set up a super gank, I'll be leaving this game for good. That's just poor gameplay design.

I doubt it.. players had millions worth of both assets and ships before wipe and even then didn't bother to fight in anything even-ish I just hope we can get rid off that when moving to NA Legends.. Personally I didn't play Sea Trials but Ive heard stories of players running even there, where you didn't loose anything..

Your suggestion of making battles open for half an hour or even longer will eventually kill off any pvp, as pvp can only be found in enemy waters - Don't kid yourself by saying you should sail in the middle of no nations waters and expect to find anything. There is no reason to be there for noone. But hey maybe that's just me - I'm waiting for Arena at this point anyway. Average player mindset of only engaging when 2-3x the numbers is really getting on my nerves. "Oh hey a surprise! I'm also in a surprise! I could engage him now and have a nice duel! Oooor cry for help in nation chat and wait til I've got a few frigate's backup!" Gameplay at the moment:

Hab meine 5 Slots auf der Surprise zu 90% PvP freigeschaltet Mach damit auch ganz gut Marken; Gestern 212 Die verkaufen sich dann auch relativ gut in unserer Hauptstadt - Normalerweise um die 4500 - 5000 Gold pro Marke. Und Schiffe sind ja jetzt sehr günstig zu bauen. Also auch wenn man mal eins verlieren sollte, ist es schnell wieder nachgebaut

Maybe tweak XP for knowledge slots for lineships a little bit, but other than that it's not really that much of a grind IMO... I don't have the mindset of "be as rich as possible" anymore - Before the Wipe I spent a ton of time gathering gold, had up to 850 mil in the end - What for? Nothing lol. I barely ever used any of it. Giant waste of time when looking back. Now I just make as much gold as I need. Usually sitting on about 500k - 1mil. That's more than enough for my privateering playstyle. Ships are cheap to craft now. I've lost three ships in the last few weeks but could replace them pretty easily. Also stopped bothering about getting all the good and rare speed upgrades which used to sell for millions - figured crafting a new ship whenever I lose one comes out cheaper. EDIT: Though I don't like the PvE RNG only upgrade / skillbook drops. For quite a few upgrades you need materials you can only get through grinding PvE. Dislike.

Agree but it should take some time, eg. 10-15 sec sails down in OW and not moving while your crew transfers the stuff, so you can't put valuable cargo on a fast traders lynx fleet while being chased in OW and then in battle send the traders lynx away

when you use Brace (H by default in the controls settings), it takes about 10 seconds for your crew to prepare. Once the 10 seconds are over, your crew is much more protected, the probability of them dying through a rake (or also explosions) or just crew damage in general is much lower. While your crew is bracing, you have no control over the rudder, nor can you manual sail or shoot the cannons, as your crew is hiding and not working on the tasks they are supposed to. When the danger is over, you can press the Brace button again, so your crew goes back to work. I believe Brace has a cooldown of 5 minutes, not too sure on that though. I dont really use it too often, mainly because I mostly sail small frigate ships anyway.

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Apparently capping AI ships up to 4th rates will come back this week, according to Naval Action on Twitter

It was suggested before to implement trading to battle instances - So you could have a chat with your opponent and try to make a deal, "if you pay 150k i'll let you go" or something

Isn't the main prize getting enjoyable battles?

lol pls there are far better peeps out there at demasting ^^ and yeah I think buffing HP is the way to go. stop messing with thickness please. I would had to do the math to figure out if it'd be worth it to get pen. modules, since Im mostly using a surprise. Think it wouldnt change much tbh, when only having 1-2 mods

Meh I dont really support the idea of telling the players what nation they MUST play.. Let them some freedom. But I think it would be good to have small DYNAMIC bonusses to smaller nations which make them more attractive to join.

I kinda agree with OP. Had several battles where I was (most likely) facing fir-fir ships, and as soon as it got hairy for them (because they're that weak of a build) they would just start running, as rigging can be repaired every 10 minutes.. You can even take off the midmast section of a ship with not that much of a meaning for the battle.. just use some special NA Glue and your masts will look fine again in no time.

nah not true, I was being too cocky, saw 4 brits coming at us 3, thought we could have a good fight, Didn't see the other guys on the horizon, which joined in late.

I was british indeed but since the wipe it doesnt fit my playstyle anymore, would have to afk sail 3h a day if i wanted to play as I used to before (being a brit doesnt automatically mean you're a greenzone camper ) . Danes just have way better outpost opportunities for OW pvp across the map. Oh and I dont really care what flag Im flying as long as I get good pvp and action.

You can already go and raid a nations waters and go for their players. Or do you want those raids versus AI described by admin some while ago? The game lets you play as a proper pirate IF YOU WANT TO already. Just need to actually play the game. PvE raids will become boring pretty fast, while raiding a nations waters still hasnt become boring to me after 4k+ hours of playing the game. Please dont allow teleport to freeport without limitations.

how is this a bad thing?

thx to @DreamMaker for accusing me of using alts because of this, maybe get some info next time first o7

I'm not too sure what I'm supposed to think about all this, but in general isnt more pvp better?

I don't think forts were shooting in PvE missions anymore anyway, because on testbed players started to use the forts to kinda do the work for them

You don't get BP drops by crafting ships anymore - Some BluePrints are unlocked by crafting level, some you have to buy in the admirality shop.