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No Joy with Steamlink, but as an RD client it works amazingly well as I was logging in with my smartphone.

I'll check out SteamLink and keep you posted. Thanks for the suggestions. I agree. Simply binding some keys for camera movement would be helpful.

I occasionally travel for work, as I was yesterday and I thought I'd remote in to my PC and run a few trade/cargo missions over the hotel wifi. I've discovered that I can't right click and pan my mouse in the open world when I'm connected remotely. I've observed this using Teamviewer, Remote Desktop, VNC, and even Google Remote Desktop. I can however pan to change my camera in port, and right-click drag the mouse in the Open World map, but not when sitting in my ship on the seas. Thinking there was an issue with my laptop, I used a colleague's laptop with the same result. Has anyone else experienced this or have a solution? Seems a weird bug or maybe something intentional? Thanks in advance for all your help.

I never really understood that mentality either. But then again, 2 years later after getting mapped twice in EA here I am taking another spin. I'm not sure how the devs intend to promote new players and power changes once the map is "set." Maybe seasons?

I've missed you all. Full Release treating everyone well?

What?! You actually want a community of players to make THEIR community better?!?! That's insane. How dare you print such radical notions. I bet you expect players to hold themselves accountable and be respectful to their peers also . . . Games are only fun when players: undermine eachother, trash talk everyone, gloat about their combat prowess, are generally condescending, are racially insensitive, and encouraging of their mates to leave their nation as a solution to conflict. Everyone knows toxicity and flagrant egoes keeps games going, indefinitely.

<eats popcorn> What a great thread!

Erm, what?

Well, as most of the ships were purchased from port when we heard there were French nearby, it wasn't that big a deal. Gloat all you want, you earned the right to it, but it was still a good opportunity to give some players who've otherwise never seen PVP their first glimpses of it. Not having anything big enough to crack the armor on those Bellonas kept the engagement French favourable from the get go, nevermind the bad tags and pursuits. Oddly enough, my Rattlesnake made it home which was glorious.

You speak for 'most' EU server players?

They would have the same problems everywhere, doing everything with the internet. Moreover, a server merge likely doesn't require a relocation of the server farm. But as I said, London to Sydney seems pretty quick for other games.

Most? Where are the numbers to support such bedtime stories?

Fiber optic lines can be really really long.

And the secret is out . . . well done. Now the drama monkeys will begin their campaign.

Maybe they're Goons?

You make a good point, but to be contrarian, 3 or more servers could potentially allow for more testing than 1 or 2 servers would; despite the anorexic population density our devs enjoy us testing within. Or maybe not, if slimmed populations slows testing . . . I'd hate to be a dev for this thing. On a side note, allowing reviews of Alpha games seems silly to me. We've already seen angry players tank reviews in retaliation to disciplinary action.

Then how does CCP do it? I would guess 500-1500 ping is the exception, not the norm. Maybe move the hive to London with a merge? Seems to me Aussies and Pacific players play EVE just fine.

Planned attacks by good thinking captains should always choose an engagement where they set the advantage, preferably before the battle starts. The old phrase 'there is safety in numbers' rings loudly true in this game and others like it. If you're not getting 'ganked' when you have an escort, get an escort more often. Some smart traders, assuming that's the soul target of ganks, share trade profits for potential escorts. Hell, some of us will escort traders just for the sake of possible action without fee. AND some of us who like PVP will intentionally bait enemies by sailing trade vessels with our mates in tow or nearby in waiting. Looking at your recent 'Surprise Video' I would argue if you were targeted, while being outnumbered and if your opponents were successful, I could see that being considered a gank. So what is it when you counter a gank with better tactics and sailing? Counter-Gank seems simple, but let's brainstorm a little. But, these tactics are present in most EVERY PVP game, especially open world sandbox ones. Legends will be instant action and likely have a far less risk vs. reward model. For some reason I imagine tall sailing meets world of warships. Doesn't take a lot of coordination to queue up in any instant action environment, and for me personally can get boring. I guess I like conquest and roleplaying socio-economic political stuffs a little more than that. Add needing a trendy name for counter-ganking to the list.

I totally agree. I wonder what that would take? It's hard to conduct naval actions with a server that seems to have about 100-200 players online most of the time. As it is, with the 10.0 patch, there were basically empty nations out of the box. Please forgive me Dave as I'm talking about Spain. I know Chuck Norris is afraid of you so I'll tread lightly for concern of reprisal.

The 'new' system makes PBs pretty worthless as nothing more than trade/sales hubs and places for tactical deployment. Although if PBs were deathmatches . . . think of the marks possibilities.

No not at all. My comment was more directed at Simon who suggested I wasn't at any fight of relevance.

Yeah I know, when you were trading I was defending France from the Danish incursion the 1st time around.

I'm not throwing insults. I was a diplo and had access to multiple conversations in diplomatic and leadership capacities where on more than one occasion different members from French clans straight insisted/asked ICS to leave France. So either you're ill-informed or grandstanding here for the sake of blind defense. I'll reserve comment about your ability to read forums for 18 months.

LOL, then you should probably catch up on your reading or scroll some history back on the French National Discord.

French Strategy: Agitate your neighbors, their neighbors, and your nationals so they become your neighbors so you can attack them/everyone at the same time while pushing players from your country; then be proud to sink traders far away from home, and denounce PBs which require coordination and 25 players as opposed to swarming, hit, and flee tactics. I'm fairly certain most the server gets your 'strategy.' I think it's great.