Arconite

At this point, with the new update, there are a few things i'm curious as to what they'll do since they've made high tier vessels pointless outside a hand full of ports.

How does one deposit resources/modules into the clan warehouse?

i believe if it's on the sea, you can capture it, if you can capture it, you can break it down and learn how to make it. it's simple logic that even nations today use, it's called reverse engineering. break it down, figure out its parts then build it yourself with what you have available. short answer, yes i do. pirates should not be discluded from 1st rates or capturing ports. if pirates can't capture ports or defend them, what is stopping every faction from capturing every pirate port and flipping pirates the bird and telling em to deal with it?

Pirates shouldn't be excluded for any reason. if you are going to try that then allow faction specific ships. santisimas should only be for spain. victories should be for GB. until the devs come up with faction specific technology trees, this is a moot point and deserves to be revisited when there are a significant amount of ships in the game to make it viable. otherwise leave the pirate faction as-is. and for god's sake allow pirates to craft the pirate frigate. it's flipping frustrating that we can't.

In the simplest terms, this is early access. there won't be much in terms of spotlight on an early access game. when the game goes live, steam store will show it on the main board of launch titles. you want to have multiple servers that can handle high volumes of players in the off chance you end up having a Halo 3 or BF4 or any triple A title launch issue where the servers are completely flooded to a point where they crash. trust me being over prepared to start off is never a bad thing. Merging servers is not the issue here, it's the fact that naval action has literally no spotlight and isn't on the radar for anyone. start promoting the alpha more and there will be a higher population. I literally learned about this game through a youtuber. if youtube is the only method in which your game is spotlighted, there are some serious problems. yes this is a alpha. but if you get the player base now, rather than later, you'll be ahead of the curve and have much more sales before the game even launches. (I.E more money for you to develop with and pay for new programmers).