Cpt Blackthorne

# of ports visited friendly and enemy (as smuggler), split battles into PBs, PvP, and NPC. yes please

Iceland....no gov't oversight.

Bringing some more fun to PvP2, I thought I'd start a fishing tournament. Rules and process are located below the advert. Date: Sunday, July 3rd Time: 8pm EST Location: Charleston How to join: Meet Cpt Blackthorne in Charleston. The announcement to join the Fishing Group will be made at 8pm EST. The first 12 people to "F" up in Port Chat will get an invite to join the Tournament Group. How to compete: The group will leave port and sail out to sea. The countdown command will be given to Teleport to Capital. (This ensures no one will have pre-loaded cargo.) Do not enter port. Once we are all back sitting in OW touching the entrance to Charleston, the countdown will begin to race to Beaufort. How to win: The first 3 people to make it to Beaufort and "F" up in Port Chat, exit port to OW, and then again "F" up in Group Chat are the official qualifying competitors based on first one to make the second "F". (This ensures no one has teleported and are not sitting in Beaufort Port loading their cargo with fish they did not catch on the run.) One at a time, Cpt Blackthorne will enter port with a competitor to immediately trade the full cargo and tally their catch. Placement is based on the Fish Point System below. Fish Point System: Each fish has an assigned point value. 20 - Smooth Hammerhead Shark 18 - Giant Oceanic Manta Ray 15 - Eel 12 - Bull Shark 10 - Flying Fish 02 - All other fish DISQUALIFICATION: There will be absolutely no ganking. There will be absolutely no teleportation, except for the initial one done with all competitors to the capital. If you enter Charleston or Beaufort at any length of time, it is assumed you are stuffing your cargo. All fish traded with Cpt Blackthorne must fit in his Lynx. (If it does not fit, it is assumed you are stuffing your cargo during the trade.) You have 5 seconds maximum to load and offer your trade. (This should ensure no one is loading with extra fish not caught during run.) All fish traded is kept by Cpt Blackthorne used toward prize money. Suggestions: Build your own extremely fast Lynx, or buy the fastest one you can find. Possible Exploits: Please comment if you can find any possible exploits in this system.

I like this idea if the bottles appeared often and if the ship wrecks weren't half way across the world. As it is now, I have found only 1 bottle. Since the first night, nearly everyone I talk with has found only 1 bottle. Granted the first night people were finding 10 or so, but no longer. I have sailed for about 6 total hours since the first night and found only 1 bottle. Please give me my gold mods. heh.

There are reports of 1 dura lost in PBs. Which happened to me last week. Already made the report for that one last week. I will say that at the same time as the crash that nearly all websites I tested were experiencing the same issues. Even google was completely dead, like we has a massive inet attack or infrastructure failure somewhere in the US. Edit 2:24pm: now that im so far away from my starting point and in middle of hostile waters, i have to tele to capital. which means i had to destroy my treasure :/ meh. it happens.

I was sailing from Road Rocks to Little Isaac Rock and was experiencing massive lag spikes of 24k+. Got disconnected. Reconnected and had more lag spikes. During one of the lag spikes, I ended up right on Pedro Cay. Now I'm stuck there on the island. This was all within 2 minutes. I logged out. Logged back in and still sitting outside Pedro Cay. How??? Created F11 report.

If they do, I hope only for PvE. It does work in battle screen tho. I did like that I didnt have to sail so close to a port just to see what it was

In Porter's journal he wrote of rescuing sailors 3 different times from ships he wrecked. But kept them as prisoners. One battle he had the top mast broke off and the sailors up there were thrown into the ocean. He recovered only one of about 15, i think he said.

What is AGW? I know you are Brit. TY for posting.

There are 2-3 large well-organized USA clans on PvP1. On PvP2 we have about 5 well organized and very helpful USA clans. Multiple PBs per night (well except lots of ppl are shipwreck hunting atm), PvP all over the east coast. Consider PvP2; any of our clans will get you going in no time.

Yes please. Once should be enough. Yes please. The sounds seem to have improved to reflect a deck splash, yet the visual is lacking. YES PLEASE! I could just imagine being selected as a crew member on Porters Essex, or on the Constitution, or the HMS Victory. However, everyone owns these. and this would require the players ship to have a different model aspect (I think). I believe two things should happen here. 1) We should be able to name our ships, and 2) that the Legendary Status should be placed with our player profile. Our battle history should increase/decrease our status in the game. Meaning wins and number of battles should count for Legendary Status, and that our losses and length of inactivity should result in lowering our LS.

Because ppl were exploiting it, hiding in backwaters or behind small islands and scoping the passerby, and even worse they had friends hiding out in battles telling them to escape the battle in time to join against gankees. I liked it to view ports off in the distance and knowing where i was without having to sail close to it, but now we dont need that with the coords and grid.

Indeed...I mean all those who jumped the gun on this and hopped on the server jumping bandwagon are more than welcome to return to PvP2. Plenty of room and plenty of friendlies over here. I'm certain that your profiles still work on this server. So come on back!

Both USA servers crashed? 11:12pm EST until 11:17??? edit: crashed again at 11:20pm EST edit: 11:28pm EST it's thinking about coming back online....right in the middle of only 2 ppl trying to cap a port :/ heh FINAL EDIT: 11:39pm EST finally get back on at left me at end battle screen showing only 23xp after capping one tower, the Santi w me capped 3 towers, and we had plenty of time left to kill the last tower. Yet battle ended and I was sent to Blue Fields minus 1 dura for some reason. How did I die when no one else was in the battle and I wasn't boarding the tower? Making an F11 report.

57 x Ballast --11 114 x Blocks 68 x Cables And Howsers 23 x Canvas Rolls 46 x Cordage And Oakum 12 x Furnishings 77 x Iron Fittings --1 26 x Knees --2 58 x Large Carriage 30 x Medium Carriage --1 593 x Planks --98 23 x Rigging Parts 51 x Rudder Parts 15 x Tar --1 373 x Teak Frame Parts --72 184 x Wooden Fittings --17 2 x High Grade Note Well, I can see they seriously need to change the percentage of return on the 1st-3rd rates, cuz that's just crappy returns :/

1. As mentioned, your clan/nation mate can choose smuggler. 2. I like it as is for the rats, even tho I am not a rat. A non-rat can still keep all their ships if one does the long route to change nation. They just have to give everything to a friend and get it back when changed over. I would prefer something implemented like Letters of Marque for non-rats to be able to switch nations provided that nation approves the LoM. That way we could still keep our ships without the long route. Maybe to earn a LoM one would have to complete missions for that nation, ie attacking their enemies (players or NPC), capping enemy port, trade running for that nation, etc.

To the PvP2 players....make some action on this post. Look at all the action PvP1 is getting with bounties. Two bounties ramain at large. http://forum.game-labs.net/index.php?/topic/11076-marked-with-the-black-spot-pvp1-eu

A kind of neat side affect of posting in such era language is what happened in RL. The less educated could not read such sort of posts in newspapers and therefore those citizens/sailors did not always know what was going on when put to sea. Not to say you are less educated, but I find it rather neat that some people are like "WTF" (which I was also on some points), just as I'm sure back in the day people saw these and also said, scratching their heads, "What in tarnation?!" FYI, I just found out that tarnation was first used in this era of 1800s. heh. But maybe from now on RP posts might have a following post in plain and clear language...just a thought.

When you use the "My Media" tool to post a pic that you have uploaded to your profile gallery it posts as a thumbnail image, as you can see in the code when posting. This is the preferred method for forums, because it is a space saver and requires much less scrolling to get to the next post. If you wish to post a full sized image, then you need to use the "Image" tool button located second row about in the middle. This requires you to upload an image to a outside source like imgr.com or the like and then paste the link to that full image in the tool window that pops up.

RP is great for an era type game. I rather enjoy the effort people put into their posts in attempt to remain in the era's language and structure.

If this is on the PvP2 server, great get them back online! What does LBORK stand for? I've not seen your union in battle...yet. Looking forward to it!

Perhaps the port would just become deserted...even better, at the beginning of the game none of these ports would exist (save the capitals) until we players bring life to it, then it would appear on the map with a different sized dot indicating the port population/activity. If the port becomes neglected then the port fades off the map again like a deserted city.

I definitely could see this. Considering nearly all ships as they rate up are just improvements from lower rate ships, say you have to sail to a certain port to get the next blueprint for the current ship you have. Or say you are only a 6th rate crafter and want a 2nd rate BP, you'd have to sail around collecting the BP pieces, or you just have to keep craft grinding to get it. And I could certainly see this for modules and custom ships indeed! Like say you want marines with certain skills that only dutch marines have, then you goto a dutch port tavern to learn the dutch marine skills. If you want certain skills only usa marines have then you go to a usa port. Or say you want scarlet colored sails, you have to get the red dye from some port in the bahamas that has the particular scarlet rose. would be nice imho.

Yes please like 50 times. Please ppl, the only way devs know what players want is to read what admins forward to them. The only way admins know what we want is for us to make posts HOT/ACTIVE by clicking like and quoting them. Please help all players by clicking likes and such.

I'm not certain it will be bad but rather that it would be more RL. The current system makes the defender choose when they can defend, when in actuality in RL it was the attacker who chose when to attack. And usually, the attack would chose when it was best for them, not when it was best for their enemy to defend....just saying. I think once hostilities are up that we should then have the options to choose our attack window within those 48hrs...based on when is best for us, not best for our enemy.