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Just stay clear of the forts then 😕

What really matters is the people you play with. I would probably hate it in Sweden if I didn't love the bros in my clan. So think more about what clan to join rather than what nation.

Outside of San Agustin during the PB. I'm mainly uploading because I had a lot of fun with it, and it's not so unbalanced as it appears since most of the US players who escaped did it early on.

To be fair, attackers do have a chance when groups join their hostility mission. My clan has had it happen to us but we won anyway. It was in the shallows, but we were mostly sailing Mercuries

I'm surprised that no one from the US has uploaded their battle with WO. It's truly a magical sight

I bet you'd like to stop the US. Why else would you take a port right by their capital? Also, exploiting isn't fair. You should probably know that.

VCO will be squeaky clean when they drop Saint Marys and let it go neutral.

There are several things wrong with this response: 1) They were neutral but were located in a county well out of the range of pirates or French. Capturing them should have been impossible without taking the capital first, so who owned them is irrelevant. 2) Hostility can only be gained through hostility missions now. 3) 'Using' doesn't not specifically mean 'killing'. If alts were involved to allow players an advantage that they can't otherwise obtain on their own, then I think that counts as alt abuse.

I wish this new conquest system can be explained in more detail. A certain smelly friend of mine is basing his strategy from an idea that I'm pretty sure isn't possible, but I don't know because I don't understand this enough. After the wipe I'd imagine there's going to be a mad grab for capitals so I'm hoping my small clan can get something from this since we'll probably be forced to leave areas that we enjoy playing in.

I would assume that we need to own the county capital to get hostility missions from them, right? That doesn't sound good for the Bahamas which only has Shroud as a freeport. I bet the capitals near there would be taken very quickly, so would me and my buddies in Sweden even have a chance of having our own ports there again?

I feel like the DLC ships we already have are destroying the meta. Sinking them doesn't even feel satisfying since they are so easily replaced. Even larger DLC ships are sure dominate the seas when so many players are chickens when it comes to losing something with actual value.

The first post is about outlaw battles for just pirates, so that's what I'm discussing.

It's not an option if the battle is anywhere near a port where pirates can have outposts. See how this works when the battle is open for an hour?

Who said it had to be a gank? It could be two Swedes chasing two Pirates and they could pull the same trick

I'm aware that outlaw battles were open to all, but depending on where it is, it can allow them to get reinforcements from miles away, and nationals might not be able to have the same response. Also why do you think pirates deserve an advantage in small battles? Seems unfair imo

If some pirates that I'm chasing start an outlaw battle somewhere west of MT then who do you think that benefits? Is it good for the pirates who always have players sitting at their capital and can sail to the battle in minutes, or is it better for my fellow swedes who would have to sail from a port farther away and are likely too busy to sail out immediately? Outlaw battles can let pirates dictate where the battle starts which is already enough to give them the victory over smaller nations since we aren't able to react as fast

The most common type of exploiting back in the day was pirates tagging each other while being chased by enemies. So the pirates could just sit in a battle where nations could not join and avoiding fighting entirely. Then they tried it so any player could join and there were no teams. It was a free for all. They had also made it so the battle would be open for an hour, but if this battle occurs anywhere near a port where pirates could have outposts, then they'll all join and gank the nation players.

Outlaw battles were added several times, and each time it was exploited to give pirates an advantage over other nations. I have yet to see a legit solution for the many instances I've seen where pirates abuse the mechanic because each solution that has been attempted so far always had a way around it. So no, I don't think outlaw battles can stay in the game, and I don't think the devs should waste their time on it because we know it'll end up being removed just like every other time.

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Pirates with the flag DLC:

Teamspeak is more useful for large groups using voice comms, but I still wish more people would use Discord. It's super annoying when I need to speak with an EU player, but I have no choice but to wait until they come online since that's the only time they get in the game or on teamspeak. With Discord I can just contact them anytime and they can respond on mobile. I always hear them telling me to hop on teamspeak. Well I would prefer not to have to pause whatever video or music I'm enjoying so I can browse through a long-ass list of channels trying to find a person and then wait several minutes for everyone else to stop talking so I can finally speak up. Sometimes teamspeak vs discord feels like calling vs texting. Texting is just cooler.

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