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Then wait 2 minutes and log out, I mean if you are in the middle of the sea it is highly unlikely that an enemy will show up. When you sail around you should take the risk of not being safe. The way you want this afk flag to work is in no way abuse proof, especially if you can still sail with half sails. There is a reason for the 2 minutes log out timer, it is there to make sure players don´t just log out when a faster ship is near them just to avoid the battle. Your afk flag would render this useless. I would just turn on the flag and be safe as long as I wish.

And I didn´t say you wanted to do that. It was directed at the OP. I should have quoted him though.

And why should you sail with half sails while afk? If you want to go afk, just dock or log out. It would be abused by any trader for afk sailing. The worst thing what could happen to him would be to get stopped.

Good luck with the new Corporation.

Same here. PS: I like that idea.

1. very true 2. you wouldn´t be boxed-in or trapped in any nation, you would still be able to switch nations, the only difference would be that you would suffer the same consequences when turning pirate. I didn´t mean they should make it impossible to turn pirate, they should just remove the ability to turn pirate by attacking a friendly. Maybe the blueprints should be tied to our Steam Account too.

And this is the post of said dutch captain you answered to. I don´t see where this is only about the southern ports. It is about you being the defender.

Now I´m pretty sure you don´t read all the posts...

The ten ports we swedes took at one day all had timers set by you guys, but we couldn´t set timers after we took them (we even asked the devs to help setting the timers but they didn´t care about it). You guys did retake a few of this ports in the middle of the night, when they had no timers because of that bug. End of story?

And then getting stuck in contested ports when you want to repair your ship.

Still an advantage for pirates since they don´t have to activate smuggler flag for it. If a national activates smuggler flag before attacking a port he won´t be able to dock at the port to repair without getting stuck in there. Bold text: Not true, you will loose all your Blueprints... And this advantage is no gameplay advantage for the single pirate, but a huge advantage for the pirate nation, since they have the highest chance to constantly get new players who ragequit their nations for various reasons.

Did you even read my post? And the post of the guys before? That question wasn´t directed at you, and you tell me that I have to go to the suggestion thread, when I quote a guy in this thread and ask him to explain why he comes up with certain arguments? That´s what I did.

Yes it is a toggle.

I don´t think the pirates are broken... And I don´t see any argument of Grapeshot that leads to others thinking he might think they are broken too... So why do you come up with "pirates are broken" counter arguments?

Just ignore that guy, he can´t act in any other way obviously.

That´s exactly what the major annoyances for all players who wants to switch nation to anything else then pirates is, they will have to grind again for all the blueprints... No comment so far on this point from any devs. If you want to keep your BPs there is only one nation you can join...and devs simply ignore it (read: not commenting on that point at all). There would be an easy fix: Just turn of the ability to turn pirate in two clicks. As stated before several times.

Hmm I guess that´s why diplomacy is such fun. ^^

I don´t know why you bring real life into this. Please correct me if I am wrong, but you are basically saying that Brits and Frenchs can´t get along with eachother in real life, and therefore you can´t make peace with an Ingame Nation, that consists of players from a lot of different nations? What´s the next step, judging ingame Nation by religions?

I simply do not believe this. What exactly did you prove by that? That you can do the same as all the other players who switched to pirates? You guys were pissed about how things went in your nation and left to the only nation where you could carry over your BPs and stuff easily. And this is a well known flaw in this game on which I never saw a statement from devs. All they say is pirates will be overhauled, but we are not in need of an overhaul, we need to stop people from doing exactyl what you guys did, turning pirates in 2 clicks, because you want to keep stuff + BPs without too much hassle. Apparently they ignore this and don´t even comment on suggestions to turn the ability to turn pirate off (by attacking friendlies). It´s not the pirate nation mechanic which is broken... But well I´m getting tired of repeating it all over again. No point in arguing about all this stuff...it is not my game and I´m not a developer...it is their game so let them do whatever they think is good. I will simply concentrate on more enjoyable stuff and maybe some day, when the players all try to create a more balanced game and the devs care to even comment on suggestions that are deemed necessary by a lot of players, I might invest time again. Guess I cared too much about the game.

If chosing pirate would really offer a different playing style your statement might be true, but it simply doesn´t. Comparing different nations with diferent classes in MMOs is simply wrong. To my knowledge the devs intended Pirates to be the hard mode and/or a punishment for the outlaws. But instead it ended up as just another nation.

Gold Crew space gives +5% crew

Failing? I don´t see that as failing. If you were mainly looking for PVP you should have switched to another nation, and not chose the pirates who have a hugely overexpanded territory so that they have to rely on teleporting themselves and their ships to where the action is.

There is two warning messages afaik, I´m afraid the devs won´t help you with that.

Let me get this straight: -you do not participate in Conquest at all (except for farming upgrades) -you are not (never were?) a part of a nation that was down to one or a few ports only ...and yet you call national players that don´t feel the urge to go up against superior numbers pathetic? Maybe you should try a different nation to actually experience yourself how it is to be "them"?

I saw that but chat PVP should simply be ignored.