Stalwart

Well there is truth in his words about DAS helping the Danish nation. They liberated Pampatar so that The Great Peacock and friends could evacuate a bunch of first rates, thus giving the Danes something to sink again. All part of the GRAND MASTERPLAN!11!!11!! For ARSE it's been quite a fun week. We are not a port battle clan, and probably never will be.. too boring 90% of the time. Normally we don't even operate in Dutch waters, preferring to export death and destruction to the nations who choose to be our enemies. But after an impromptu defense of Fort Oranje we wanted to have some more fun and loosely coordinated with DAS during the week. Despite all being "noob little shits who know nothing about the game" this somehow ended up in the East front being retaken in 5 days. A few ports were undefended, some resulted in glorious; wood-splintering victories while others needed several tries. But the east is by and large Dutch again and a good time was had by all, even by our opponents I dare say. Having all this activity in our waters even gave us the chance to capture a couple 1st rates and a dozen 2nd's on the side. All in all not a bad week for the eastfronters..just a pity the same can't be said for the West which was defended by our nations other 'faction'. If only we'd manage to respect each other, even if it's just a little, stop the insults and salty mud-throwing. We might even be able to discuss plans and issues like adults and turn into one happy, tulip throwing, nation with a fearsome reputation. Signed, One of the ARSE sisters edit : Turned Great P into Great Peacock..seemed more suited and a fitting tribute to Alex-SD's hilarious picture.

Since this thread is called war photo's i figured the Pampatar rumour deserves some confirmation. http://prnt.sc/cbv36c Let's hope the French can stick to their plan of building more victories than they lose, as we want many more large battles like this one.

One could question why you entered this battle against a trader after fighting us for several hours. Trying to spy and relay the exact ship composition? Did you deliberately sail between me and that trader right as i was lining it up? And the second you got hit started shouting about getting me banned. Totally ignoring my apology. Why did you feel the need to claim i said i would sink you, and claim you warned me about crossing my line of fire..when the chat log shows the first thing said in that battle was my apology. You are not being honest at all about helping us in that battle ,nor in your claims about me threatening to kill you or your warning about crossing my line of fire. Maybe stop playing the innocent newbie yourself, admit you deliberately joined the battle and made sure you got hit so you could file a tribunal case and request a ban? Let's leave it up to the mods and see what they decide. Again...My apologies for the inadvertent sinking of your ship, Stalwart.

I am the accused. I did shoot him once by accident when he sailed in between me and the trader. Sadly there were several hits under his waterline and he sank. (victory vs rattlesnake..) As you can see in the screenshot I apologized right away. Up until that point there had been no talking between us at all and I thought we were just the 3 ships of my clan. (all on Teamspeak) Being a victory ,bellona and trincomalee, so when i saw the small ship i assumed it was the trader we were fighting. Here you can see the full chat, which shows he didn't say anything beforehand and didn't warn he was crossing between me and the trader (like he claims in SS2) http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/264970571022257291/323BFCF348304B697D6C7EE166319F9C2D5F9AD2/ http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/264970571022257389/22AC837BDC5CAB3F1CDF9A1D059BFEA32B11061E/ Again, sorry to BSG-FBK.

ARSE will be joining with 2 teams NLguinnesNL Ezergoode Stalwart Nathaniel Hawk Barry Chuckles Capt Rowdy reserves : Burrnout Swan

Capitals could become capturable. -I would go the other way and make the capital region uncapturable and seed it's ports so they have all resources for building ships. Sidenote to this : increase production in capturable ports, both shops and buildings, by 1/3rd . -Losing everything (when a whole nation gets crushed) will make people quit...(think fe of guys who come back after 2 months inactive and find nothing they owned can be reached anymore) -Forced alliances sounds like a recipe for hatred,and imploding nations, among people who have been fighting each other forever. Total victory should become possible (with the map reset afterwards) Persistency adds meaning! If everything is fleeting and irrelevant people will lose interest much faster. You want to build a game where your players are invested and engaged in the game, not one where they only log in to shoot a few hours (shooter-style, they'll play X weeks/months and move on to the next)

haha "oops i'm sorry dad, wanne go play football outside?" (sorry for your loss ofcourse ,glad you have a clan to get you going again )

Goddamnit ,i wanted to nominate this thread for best popcorn and giggles thread of 2016 but didn't as it would be offtopic. Now you do it as a mod instead! Be sure to make refills as i think this thread will keep on giving for a while yet

The issue occurs when you recently changed something on your crew settings (like you did with boarding) ..the crew will FIRST finish moving around and only then start adding crew to survival. On bigger ships where lots of crew moves it can take so long that you are ablaze and in, or close to, fireshock before any crew even moves to survival. I would consider it a bug or faulty mechanic since when you catch fire, or get lots of leaks, priority should immediately go to survival and dousing that fire/fixing those leaks... noone would keep preparing for boarding or whatever while their ship was slowly turning into a bonfire.

disclaimer : What is written below is 100% my personal ideas and has no bearing on whatever nation or clan i belong to. I would have much preferred a treaty where each signing nation gets a RVR-safezone in a radius around their capital (say 2-3 ports in every direction) and still allow open world pvp everywhere. This treaty kills any reason to play for pvp-minded folk and will just make even more players quit. Saying we can all move 3 hours sailing away and roam out of massively overcrowded ports is just stupid and unworkable. Are we all now supposed to turn into missionrunners and accept this as the new 'normal'? From talking to people across nations i know there is a decent amount of players across all 4 nations who find this treaty rather absurd and who would prefer to play how this server was intended...PVP, aka actively search out and shoot at other players. Be that in traders ,missions or against fellow hunters you run into. Sink and be sunk! Guess it's time to move into spanish waters for as long as this treaty lasts...