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No, seconds before game freezed and enemy teleported i had that "normal" fire and those 6 crew went to put it down,like often happens in game. Then came teleporting enemies, unable to use any button and almost instant fireshock. Even that enemy stopped and asked "wtf" 😁

Today i was at sea with my ship (l`ocean) moving it from port to port, saw 2 ai 5 rates and decided to see if they got dubs. Then one xebec joins in, no biggie, we fight, everything is fine.I shoot him ,he shoots me tailing me with xebec. Then, fellow players join in game, in that moment xebec was raking me from behind and gave me fire, ok, normal thing, crew went to put it out. But, and big but, as soon as these 2 other players joined in enemy xebec teleported 150 meters from my behind to my right side, i had full crew and no dmg except that small fire and my ship went to fireshock...same time my game freezed, couldnt use any buttons for like a minute,couldnt move crew all i could do was watch my burning ship :) (net was good, ping was normal and otherwise everything was like normal.) That fireshock came like in seconds, instant fireshock.I have never seen this kind of thing happening.Anyone else had this kind of freezing happened? Those teleporting ships i have seen before, several times,it happen always when someone joins and it happen to other players too, not just me.And again , i have 1000/100 fiber so net stability neither my PC specs wont do that.

Any reason to come back to NA? Reading forum in weekly bases and seems that player amount have dropped down hard... Still miss the "old" NA were game just worked, now i just have a bad feeling and im scared even to try out again :/ https://i.imgur.com/JNU7RnH.png

No, sveno made the free hunt order as we realized we just dont have enough time to sink dutch...thanks to huge difference between inge/connie vs. agamemnons .(the hull of agamemnon + 24 pnders make almost no penetration shots on those distances we had like half of the battle) 90 minutes in port battle, which we "lost" 20 minutes or so by destroying towers...well, we got towers, after that we still need the br, and its very hard to do if enemy decides to avoid you.And with these "op" ships which everyone sails, time is just not enough to do so. Yes, you finally got into battle after we were totally displaced in order to catch at least few dutches.And no , even if inge has bigger cannons its just useless to say that "why didnt you use inges then with 32 pnders", no ingermanland is no option, the french vs. brits showed that, even if french didnt have "best" fleet the brits just wiped french ingermans out with agamemnons...inge and connie are just paper ships IF enemy decides to attack. Dont get me wrong, the mechanincs of port battles combined to new "tanky" agamemnos just give too much edge on defenders side.it was really frustrating to be there ´cause we swedes realized that we are not gonna catch you guys, and even with destroying all the towers we were bout to lose...all you have to do is look at timer and stay alive.Keeping distance so that our agamemnons 24 pnders wont do any harm... Im not blaming or shaming, tactic is tactic, but i really hope that devs change port battle mechanins as soon as possible. You allready have make huge effort in order to arrange the port battle, then you have to get your ships on battle area, then you just realize that winning port battle is no longer actually fighting, instead we sail behind enemies 80% of battle.That was the reality, without any crying or so. For me this was 5th port battle since big patch, before patch i always had 1-3 battles EVERY NIGHT, i played this game just for battles, and im just so frustrated to see that even the actual port battles are now porked.Well, not porked, but in my yes port battles should be decivive battles where the choice of avoiding fight in order to get timer down just isnt a choice. When battles were more common players actually took more risks.we made bad decicions in this battle, but this wasnt the first battle where the opponents try to just spend time instead fighting...We all know that kiting is becoming the problem, even if indeed, with this battle you werent "kiting" all the time.

That wasnt a NICE port battle... Now when agamemnons are op as hell all you guys did was shameless kiting...for whole port battle you just basicly run away... The time we now have is not enough to chase chickens who try to evade contact, yes we got all towers pretty quickly, yes we did huge dmg against you, all you did you run like babies shooting back once in a while. That wasnt a battle. Yes, you sunk few swedes, those who were at first place chasing you, but in reality with this kind of system and with new ship like agamemnons its IMPOSSIBLE to get br in that time port battle lasts if enemy decides to flee whole round like you did...and yes its a vslid tactic thanx to devs. Agamemnons can take too much dmg compared to ingers/connies, and by fleeing and sometimes turning and shooting swedish sail you just made us slower...its easy tactic for chickens, but in game wise spending 1.5 hours seeing this kind of "playing" i only hope that port battle mechanics will change and quick.Its just too easy for defender to spend time and avoid actual battle. At this state of this game even port battles are not "battles" instead we wasted huge amount of hours arranging port battle just to see "great tactical retreat" on defenders... No more this bs for me.port battles with ingers and connies were much more faster and demanding.now everyone sails with agas which are way too tanky to fight in time we have.with agas you really dont have any danger for penetrating shots if you keep distance, you guys demonstrated this very well.Same time seeing this as a somewhat trend now(kiting) game is becoming just too stupid for even play.

Patch wont fix pirate problem. It will make it actually worse. Childish pirate clans with leaders with napoleon complex can abuse game even more than before...we'll gonna see same 1st rate ganking fleets and facehugging(broken as hell)belle poules after patch, only thing that changes is that now pirates can harrass even more easily smaller nations with very small PvP player amount, specially outside nations prime time... Its like you devs dont have any clue how much there actually is active PvPers & RvRers. Example, i can easily demonstrate what i mean: Some of the biggest pirate clans have more players than small nation has active players... Its not a secret that like in Haiti campaign sweden had like 30-35 active PvPers at best, that was our playerbase then. That lead to situation where after few months when you were almost as "forced" to play every night because we just didnt have reserves...got boring after 10-12 weeks... (yes, sweden managed to get more players to actually join into common effort, same time many swedish players have left the nation) Now, imagine after patch how stupidly retarded it is if pirates(or even one clan) decide to harrass smaller nation or help bigger nation beside smaller? Defending and attacking will come almost impossible.fact is that outside swedens prime time hours there are not enough players to gather even one full fleet, outside prime time there are only randoms and carebears, occasionally you see more than few players...playing in underdog nation will get new meaning after next patch.What we will see is abusive gaming and even more lame 1st rate fleets, specially for pirate side who allready use their masses in this game. Biggest single group after brits, and yet new patch just dont fix the fact NA has become more pirate sim than sailing sim with nations? Also, even if some uppgrades and perks are being nerfed game still continue going to direction where best/biggest ships and uppgrades + perks have way too much effect on battles. You devs created pirate menace, now with new patch there is just no damage control on them, you actually make playing as pirate even more appealing choice... Ganking is gonna be even bigger problem than its allready is, killing solo playing/missions can even make players to actually quit playing this game. These fantasy uppgrades and perks, really? Even if random player got ganked in bigger ship than few enemies, lets say like 3:1 , this fantasy game where having Best ship+ perks+ uppgrades makes impossible for even realistically defend yourself.what we now have is that in order to sink 3 enemies you actually have to shoot them twice because idiotic repairs and wonderboy perks. So battles like 3:1 are somewhat 5:1 or 6:1 if you count how much damage you have to deal... Even with nerfing some perks im afraid that situation will be even worse.Good for OP pirates(OverPopulated) bad for smaller nations/ mediocre+new players. Since bottles got nerfed ive been trying to find "necessary" uppgrades to newer players, finding uppgrades like monkeys/carpenters/marines have been almost impossible due fact that prices are way too high now for average player who has no time to spend hours and hours gathering 6-9 million just to buy golden marines if you even have luck and find someone whos selling these as they have become basicly un-accessable to newer players? I just hope that even if uppgrades are being nerfed at least make them more accessible. Gap between casual mediocre players and powergrinders has allready deepened creating situation where biggest and richest clans have possibility to throw gold and dominate battles. And please, dont start to argue that there is no difference between fully loaded uppgraded 3/5 ships vs. average joes cheap mediocre ship same time missing important uppgrades...

Coward chicken lord always find an excuse...

At least they dont use teak on their ships and are not forced to use "tactical retreat" like lord do... Devs should really model a rear view mirror to his teak ship so that lord would actually see the battle?

Voi veljet, miksi juuri VP:n joukoissa seisotte... Suur-Suomen eli ruåttin riveissä löytyisi aina tilaa osaaville kippareille jos vaan ei sini-keltalippu ahdista:) Aitoa hc-meininkiä ikuisen altavastaajan roolissa... Toivottavasti näemme yhteistyön merkeissä. Ps.Ruotsin aktiivisesti pelaava porukka on ympäri maailmaa, ei siis pelkkiä swedupettereitä.

Dont you yet know kid viscous? Pathetic liar and worst of all so chicken i wonder if he actually farts eggs....

Wow, some of vicious thoughts are really out of this world... Like that danes are under swedish dictate... Swedes respect danes, they fight hard and fair, unlike you sorry guys. We respect treaty we made, we didnt abuse danes situation, instead we fought elsewhere... In other hand, now when pirates has basickly lost all they can, you sorry guys pick sweden as your target? Same time forcefully taking ports away of your allie? Again i ask you kid vicious, where were you at the height of haiti battles? We swedes didnt see you on port battles, every other pirate clan we did meet except you, only random sorry guys...and even most cases they just fleed away leaving other pirates to fight alone? Now you dear viscous, you are mad to swedes?how charming for coward like you... Why swedes? Why not dutch or brits? Or US? No dear kiddo, only reason you are now trying to justify your childish fantasies is just because you think sweden is the easiest nation to start harrassing with absolute smallest playerbase in game... You really are pathetic...

Its not against all pirates.Just against that one clan which dont have any respect, not even towards their own allies... All this because one silly clan leader who thinks he can do whatever he wishes and that all pirates follow him and his personal agenda and urge for being supreme revenger... Whole pirate situation just culminates to that single no-lifer player, he and his utterly childish behaviour... All pirates can think what kind of "leader" you have when hes only showing for power is only finding easy targets in order to get personal merits and satisfaction. Hell, most players respect certain pirate clans who fight honourable way and fair, but not this kind of playing style where only way for him to get results is to seek easy targets...coward, liar, untrusted rat...and for him its just "selective targeting" I didnt see kid Vicious in Haiti port battles...he was busy hiding himself and his fleets when all other pirates fought bravely for port ownerships... Yet some pirates still see him as strong leader?only sorry guys i saw in Haiti battles were few random guys, rest were from other clans.Still kid Vicious talks like he has done something?Ganking randoms with huge fleet is only merit this coward has from Haiti campaign...

I feel bad for kid Vicious. By taking sweden as target he is not really affecting those players who are fighting in Haiti... only thing he can achieve by ganking newbies and low rank players in swedish waters is that players quit playing. and that is un-accetable goal even for grown up kid like Vicious...this kind of attitude propably cost this game playerloss before when he steamrolled US with his fleet... You tried on Haiti, you tried everywhere, and now you really think you can do what ever you want to satisfy your revenge and patch up your pride.Infact i see just fleeing chicken. If your sailers are as bad as those i met in my cerberus yesterday i really cant say anything but welcome. But again, bullying your alliance comrades, taking port from them even if they say no, using pathetic excuses for trying to move your fight were you think you see nothing but weak swedes, Oh man, you really are plaque to this game. Weak and and ah, so full of yourself... I wonder why you are called a leader of pirates.All i see is lame abuser, bad loser and worst if all i see bullying and selfish guy who really need to have something else to his life than playing naval action...your raging is hilarious, your "power" is to gather fellow monkeys beside you, sail with huge fleet and gank with overhelming overpower... Dear kid Vicious, you got even challenged to duel and you refused? Rest of playerbase know why... Without your fleet you're nothing, just empty bubble. Small shiny bubble which goes "pop" when more players realize that you're just annoyance to this game.Like a cockroach.Irritate more and you will be squished. And no, i say again, you're only threatening low lvl players, that harms the game itself.Your egoboosting costs to game devs more than those who has allready spend our time against pirates in middle of the map.we are ready for you, as we have been since sweden started Haiti challenge in first place.Now when you have lost secret Island and bahamas...well..you know...sweden and its honoured and brave alliance and friends, we have allready won... But im sure that attacking swedish suits well for you? After all, all you know to do best is to tease weak and helpless? There are good and honored pirates, like the guys who fight fair and even and enjoy good battles.I have wittnessed that many times, yesterday was last time i was honored to fight against very good and honourable pirates...they are skillfull, they dont brag, neither they are not obsessed and dillusional. Shame that noone can say same about you and your pathetic clan of yours. Im just waiting for moment to maybe raise danish or even french flag on my ship and see how we fight together against gamebreaker tyrannies like you. And no, dont take this as compliment.we all know how you just love when you get attention... Ps.how about you grow a pair? When i see kid Vicious sitting front of port, having bigger BR and ships than us who wait you... Yet you dont come until you gather EVEN more ships around you? Then you even try to brag about it how we dont fight against you...what a real hero... We waited 10 minutes for you.We had less BR than you, we had smaller ships than you...yet it wasnt good for you as chicken like you needs 6 to 1 odds that you maybe have enough guts to join battle...

Oh dear "kid" Vicious... you do know that you're just annoying little troll that almost every player laugh, includind your fellow pirates and so called allies... Lets say it this way: Its nice to see healthy "taunting" and bragging from other gamers but you have gone over the limits long time ago. Instead your efforts to troll forum you only make yourself look like pathetic no-lifer what comes to this game. Everyone knows you are just big joke. i once watched video where Jeheil interviewed you, you actually seemed to be pretty clever guy, So why you try to play this stupid role all the time? You know that jokes get boring after you read them time after time...same applies in this forum.I just dont see what are you trying to achieve with all this useless bragging because we all know how you actually behave ingame?

dear "kid" Vicious, you say that swedes are in Haiti just because US players joined to swedish nation? Thats nothing but pure BS from you... Your ego is becoming too big for this game, maybe its time for you to step aside and give room for someone who can be actual leader instead childish bragger like you? yes, you rest of pirates, why do you lick SORRYs boots and just feed this egomaniac wannabe "king of Black flags"?

Good work as usual.I really enjoy these "battle reports"

Same here, just continue please.

Nah. They had both one side shot down and my boat was almost intact...in fact i was nearly bout sinking the other one but i took severe hits from rest 6 ai ships which were in my stern and decided rather save my duras instead being greedy. And no, i once more try to say that even i only got easy mission the reason i hate these kind if things is that you do have overly accurate enemies on you as well...and there two players who joined had 6 ai helpers to prevent any good defensive moves for me, having 8 ships on your stern is still 8 ships.not just 2. Thats basicly is just good thing if you manage to change your mental thinking and take 6 enemy ships + two players with equal or better armour as practice. Only reason i was able to survive from enemy fire was to position me always between player and ai, cause even in 118xp mission those enemy ships are pretty deadly if they get free line to your stern. Off course these frenchies spended most time both sides on me so i just had "easy" job for lowering their hulls down as they actually blocked murderous ai fire to my stern, the vulnerable part of ingerman. Yesterday i had "normal" battle agaist three danes and even i made stupid mistake after 46 minutes while i was bout to sunk one of their ships the odds with inger vs. two connies + 1 essex with good skippers is pretty much low as inger do have less armour than connie, allthough turns better until you lose sails...that fleet mission with 6 ai + two players is as hard as that yesterdays battle where i losed by getting stuck on beach while i tried to get at least that essex down...which was allready lost whole side. (for sidenote i did get my revenge on that essex 15 minutes later as I was able to tag him and used help with faster ship to slow her down and into fight, yes it was my time to have fun with 2vs1 but game is game, you play as they do...) Yes,those are Pvp battles i do accept, still my opinion bout PvE missions stand, ai is in higher xp missions even more deadly than average player as they load quicker, raise sails quicker, turn tighter and shoot more aqqurately. That gives those enemy players tremendous help when they are able to join "solo" missions just for getting easy chance for loot... One forumer wrote well on situation we now have in this game, i use my fleet battle for extreme example of this same attitude except once again, i dont think "solo" missions as strict PvP but as reading comments i now realize this is just one way to abuse game mechanics(as you cant have reinforcements but enemy can still join against you):

For training purposes i used basic cutter(with carronades) and attacked gross ventre... That really teach you how to cut sails and how to turn and keep you always near his stern And yes, i have done it, cutting down gross ventre crew from 262 to 50 and then boarded him. Timer showed 2.5 minutes left when i was finally done with her...

ok, i have only played this game for maybe 3.5 weeks so i didnt know things you wrote... And no, even if i was just promoted to flaggcaptain i only use fleetmissions when server is pretty much dead/quiet and for training purposes. I didnt know such history of using fleet missions you described. Even more so, not giving your own nation a chance to join the mechanics make this kind of playing even more profitable for enemy nation players to join into missions... No need to worry 'bout reinforcements while you can use ai to help you doing same thing as you do in strict Pvp... Anyway, tnx for info.My understanding has been that fleet missions are part of game to train/gather xp and that these missions are somewhat separeted from actual Pvp enviroment...

opinion is opinion.I do understand it. For me abusing game mechanics is just no-go.I do respect my enemies , even so much that i rather meet them in fair&square than abusing silly game mechanics. So, salute! to all and may the wind be on your side...

No, you miss my point here... All i say that using PvE missions like these two did is just useless, not maybe to them, but in generally...PvE mission is mission where i took mission alone or with my team, not missions where enemies can come and use your missions to get even more "unfair" advantage? Even if i only had "easy" mission 8 vs. 1 really fulfills terms "ganking" what if i would started 158Xp mission? Or higher? my chances to come out alive would be pretty much zero...and for what? Picking up mission that are supposed to be "personal" not related to actual PvP at all? Those who do this are just lamers.Thats my point. As i wrote, i dont mind to battle with non-even odds, but seeing these two doing what they did is nothing but idiotic.There were tons of other "targets" in area yet they pushed in single player mission seeing glitter and gold and maybe easy loot&kill. Please, dont get me wrong, game has strong PvP and inside it has PvE too, being intentionally "un-sportman like" is the main thing here.Nothing else. It´s just bad excuse that you CAN do that, its cheap tactic nothing more.Cheap tactic for cheap players. If i would ever want safe playing i would make character on PvE server, but still, playing in PvP side... devs created possibility to play these "single player" or "team/clan" missions, playing these missions should really be outside of PvP.At least that is my opinion.Some of you may find fleet missions useless and being here just because an easy way to have XP, i see fleet missions part of game and this kind of chance to misuse fleetmissions is just very boring way to do that same "ganking" or whatever you might call it.PvP side is for that. I quit here from my part.Next time i see enemy going for mission i will engage him.So everyones happy now?

In my case i was floating beside flag for minutes (phonecall)and those two french were approx. 1 to 1.5 kilometers away when i started my fleet mission.I didnt go into fleet mission to get away from them, i was pretty close to home harbour and there were tons of swedish ships including big friendly ai fleets near by...and i really dont see two ships they had against my ship as threat, only in mission i was bit frustrated as they used those 6 AI enemies to help to fulfill their goal a.k.a ganking me when i was on solo mission... So, what i mean is that these two guys just decided to join my fleet mission in order to use my mission + them as easy kill and loot.Nothing more.Lucky me was that i had "only" 118XP mission since i usually do 132 and above missions to get somewhat nicer training exercises.(to be honest 158 and above are no-go for me as difficulty skyrockets from there, you need team efforts in higher missions unless you have bigger ship and as i "only" have sluggish ingerman it really pointless to do 168XP---> missions alone) There were tons of other swedes sailing in their proximity, yet they turned their ships on me and sailed on my mission...that shows their mentality pretty clear. I dont really mind to fight uneven battles, in fact there is this one nation i have never had even teams at battles, every time this one nation has even teams they usually flee away, unless they have good BR rating on their side they wont fight.Even if they have slight advantage they usually flee as they dont like to risk anything. In other hand all respect and salutes to danes as many times they will engage even if they have less br... Sry to say this but i have had only 3 vs. 1 to 7-9 vs. 2 matches with frenchies, all rest battles where i have been with even team and BR ratings they ALWAYS flee away.I mean ALWAYS. That is frustrating and even funny in same time. And what comes for fleet missions i really find those usefull.When server has low population i rather take these AI missions to train and get some XP than just sit around. Picking up harder missions can sometimes be very challenging fights depending how quickly your ai fleet sunks and even if ai uses same tactics all over again its good practice anyway. Playing battles with undercrewed ships, using nothing but manual sails on battles, trying to fine coordinate your moves against theirs same time keeping your ship having a wind advantage etc. those are reasons i like ai missions.And to be honest , ai do have murderous shooting accuracy in missions, so even lower br rating ships are deadly there, specially if you let them on your stern...i have had fleet missions where i take like 152 xp mission and after 5-10 minutes i made one mistake and whoops, there are 2-4 enemies in my stern raking me and even get me on fire...those are hard and fun missions.But not when enemies join in same time using ai fleet as artificial helper to get easy merit...

Long story short: Today was really quiet on servers so i decided to make easy XP by doing fleet missions.So i grabbed two missions 118 and 132 which were near home port.As there were pretty much enemies sailing (ganking) on home waters and as noob i wont sail other side of nation to get one easy fleet mission... As i started my fleet mission suddenly these two french heroes join in in order to gank me... Ok, broken game, solo player takes (easy 118xp) mission and wants to play it , instead you get AI fleet + two heroes who think its funny to come and ruin everything... (i really dont know why enemy players are able to join fleet missions anyway) Starting point was 8 vs. 1 since my two dumb AI ships sunked right away in beginning.two guest had trinco and connie and i had inger. What in heck these two french (sry to say but useless r*****ds) try to achieve when they join in clearly in order to get easy catch and my ship? For over 40 minutes these french heroes try to board me, shoot me, sunk me and same time i have these 6 ai ships shooting me.... Then after 40 minutes something really fun happened, as i shot both them, gave them leaks and put one frenchie on fire what these heroes do then? Off course they are running away in order to flee as usual(typical tactic for frenchies) They have nerve to come in MY fleet mission and still after they utterly fail to capture my ship they dont even fight like a man, to the death? Ok, they flead away, i thought i go and finish other one of those heroes but my sails were at 60% and i still had rest 6 ai ships behind me. so i just let these war heroes go as i was just so amazed how these two guys behaved. After a while, as being ganked ,shot, almost boarded and lost over half of my loved crew and half of my sails i ended my pathetic "easy" xp fleet mission...timer showed then few minutes left. Little hint to you , yes you two frenchies, you must be proud how much honour you two guys have.Next time i sink you and i wont let you go as i now did.,.Trust me, i dont never give up.And learn some basic good manners, so sad to see your kind of guys playing this game.At least stay in game and fight to end if you join in first place, but dont run like cowards.Same applies your cheap tactics by using fleet mission to try to cap player who even saw you but sailed away, yet you deciced to join and harras me? And finally, question for devs: A: why enemies can join into fleet missions? Another great way to abuse game in order to gank more? B: When enemy players join to fleet missions do they get my ship if they board me? If so, then change it.Fleet missions in my eye are solo/team missions totally outside of PvP... Ps. No harm done, i just dont like rude and unnecessary harrassing, even if it´s part of game.Some decency please...thats all i ask.

Hi, first id like to say i started playing only week a go so im not sure that this is the place to ask but i still made this thread as i asked from game chat and seems that even F11 button hasnt got "button" for these kind of situations i should done ingame report...well next time. But.The problem: I tagged non-gunned trader ship, and as i wanted to test my newly crafted snow(yes, im noob) in order to get some experience of how to handle snow i decided to catch trader ship. I tagged ship and same time this "tifelek" fellow joined to my side too, ok, no problem, he´s at cutter and want some action too. But no. As soon as combat begun i started to shoot down traders sails, this "tifelek" dude instead shooting trader he started to shoot me. Whole time i tried to slow down trader he constantly shot me. Finally after few grapes i decided to capture traderand i started deckfight. What does tifelek do? He parks beside me and whole time i was deckfighting he shoots holes to my ship. I was forced to disengage because my ships health was going down and down and i decided to head home, yet this player "Tifelek" continued shooting me endresult being he sanked my ship. Question: even if this tifelek as being french, joined to my fight against AI, he surely doesnt get anything personal gain for sanking my ship? I didnt shoot him back ´cause i just wanted to avoid friendly fire in any cost. start of fight, he allready had several hits on me: the as i was boarding he continued to shoot my ship: end result when i was forced to disengage from boarding as i got severe damages from mr. tifelek: And the great tifelek finally got me as as i didnt shoot him back(i onece put one single ball into his sail shown above picture)