Dear Developers,
I do not write much on the forum, my English is very bad, but I have accumulated 1600 hours on your / our game and I consider myself sufficiently in the right to challenge some of your recent choices.
The game has enormous potential, this is a fact, but sometimes it seems that you will do everything to convince your testers to abandon it! What to say about the game mechanics that you do not make clear, making it difficult to test! But this is the minimum, and might even be acceptable. What is not acceptable is your total inability to "repay" the NA players testing work!
With the latest patch we have had to move all of our outposts (boring and long time), we have all turned into traders (from pvpers) in search of rare materials to have the possibility to craft gold ships! Practically activities for me uninteresting but necessary to be able to sustain a decent pvp! Now you announced again that all the crafting will be again changed! So what I've tested so far? Unnecessary work? Hours spent watching the sea for nothing? But that's okay, we have to test ... and then I would start all over again? Add to this that in any case before the release there will be a total wipe! You will say that you have always said that, it's true, but let me ask you: I paid to support you in the development, I spent hours "unnecessary" and "boring" to test and help make the game better (although it is true that I had also a lot of fun on many occasions), and all this to see canceled all my progress? Do you think that for me and many other fans, it will be fun to play again in a cutter? I do not think so! And how do you plan to start from nothing a game with only players in cutter and without resources? How do we will face port battle in the first few days? So my request is that you would like to consider the possibility of rewarding the most loyal players in NA, to repay their "patience" and their "job" of testers, for once granting them some "reward" when the game is released. Otherwise I think you'll have to give up a large portion of players who will not be available to start all over again.
In order, therefore, for once try to "give" something (even if only in the future), and not just to "take."
I'm sure you will want to consider what I say and that is what a lot of experienced players feel as well, players who would like to continue playing even after the official release.
Good work!