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  1. Elric
    Sant Lago. The odds were a little one-sided - but I have to thank the enemy captain for allowing me to cap his ship and even the odds a little.
  2. Elric
    France has had roughly 18-20 players active over the past week. But only 5 or 6 at any one time. Plus more than half are rookies who can only crew 250/350 or less. There are 5 'veteran' players who can crew 1100 that have been active this week (that I've seen). There were 10 Dutch in the Windward PB - with several notables missing (Q, oneeye, van decken, Vincent, davos, and others). I would think the Dutch can field 15+-20 players in a PB - still more than the French and Swedes combined can muster.
  3. Elric
    Yes there was - although I would have preferred it to not be at 5:30am Eastern Time. 16 vs 15 was a good battle.
  4. Elric
    Windwards - a great brawl - the defenders did a good job holding the circles. For a while it looked like they might get to 1000, but we continued to pound ships and the attrition took its toll... With the defenders split, we focused on killing rather than capping circles... it paid off. Good fight
  5. Elric
    Ah... Pike - a good running fish.... I've seen it run many a time... I thought Pike were supposed to be feisty. Seems this one has no teeth - must be a genetic defect that Darwin will take care of... IGG = I Gotta Go....
  6. Elric
    I had a game lockup yesterday as well. PvP2 PB at Cap-Francais. There were only 20 players total in the PB. I had just joined the PB, it was incredibly slow getting in - taking over 2 minutes to get into the battle,. Once I set sail, I hit the Tab key to view participants and the game just froze - I had to quickly kill the game, restart and join several minutes into the battle. My ping numbers were showing around 40 - so it didn't appear to be connection related.
  7. Elric
    Assuming we go back to port battle timers, I would like to propose we have timers for each day of the week. The issue today, you play on a weekend in the morning or during the day, you can end up scheduling a port battle during the week when many people cannot attend. A 10am PB on a weekend is OK for me, but 10am on a weekday, I'm working. I would propose each region have timers by day of the week, rather than a single time slot for all days. With a total number of hours allowed for attackers being assigned to different days. In the example below - having 8 x 2 hour time slots that have to be assigned by the lord protector - one for each weekday, three over the weekends - with the weekend day time slots spread a minimum of 6 hours apart. For example - using eastern USA time Monday - 8pm-10pm Tuesday- 8pm-10pm Wednesday- 8pm-10pm Thursday- 8pm-10pm Friday- 8pm-10pm Saturday - 8am-10am, 6pm-8pm Sunday - 10am-12noon Then when the attacker buys the flag from the admiralty, the flag is purchased for 2-3 days into the future. When you convert these times to Australian or Chinese times, there is always at least 1 day of the week were each port can be attacked in a players primetime. The reason for only one extra slot on the weekend, Sunday night in the USA, is Monday morning in Australia or China. Thoughts?
  8. Elric
    The latest in a series of GB/USA/Dutch versus Dane/Swedes/French battles - this one at Cap-Francais. A little one sided. The port goes back to GB for the next few days... I hope they don't glue the GB name on too tight.... It will be coming off soon enough.
  9. Elric
    The USA/GB chose to bring a knife to a gun fight.... duh... You had 4 rookies in the battle - yet you had top admirals crewing mortar brigs? You SHOULD have had a considerable advantage. Why not bring first-rates? You can't craft them? You don't know how to sail them? You are scared of losing them? Hmm... I think I know which... The GB/USA team can only blame themselves - yet you make excuses...
  10. Elric
    Not much to report on this mornings PB at Puerto Plata - the two players who showed for GB/USA didn't stick around long..
  11. Elric
    Cuidad de Cuba - the mighty defense The start - we appeared outnumbered. The End...
  12. Elric
    I don't understand this. I just did a recount of the numbers in todays Savannah la mar battle - there were only 23 Danes/Swedes/French versus 25 USA/GB. A GB player in a Bellona bailed before the battle really got going. Why? GB had the numbers! It wasn't like one side had frigates against 1st rates - it should have been an even battle. GB had a couple of smaller ships in the battle - but so did the Danes/French/Swedes - we only had 15 1st rates in the battle.
  13. Elric
    I fully understand the concerns and frustrations Admin raised. Looking at many of the posts on this forum, they do nothing to help the game. The trolling and nasty comments back and forth all detract from the game. What many of you forget. This is a publicly viewable forum. Prospective buyers of Naval Action can read through these pages - and what do you think a potential buyer is going to make of all the caustic comments, personal attacks and flaming? We all want more players of this game... As an aside to this Devs, you might want to reconsider which pages of the forum are accessible to the general public.
  14. Elric
    One of the screening battles outside the Pirate/Dutch PB While this PB was going on, the majority of GB players chose to not support the Dutch and ran missions to setup a different port battle. What should have been a fairly even Dutch and allies battles wasn't.
  15. Elric
    Good fight GB. It is nice to see 25 v 25 in a PB.
  16. Elric
    heh heh heh - yup... the price you pay for venturing out in a vic on your own... my kind of odds..
  17. Elric
    As always, donations of materials and ships are much appreciated. Plus fine woods have helped finance the clan... I chewed through 50M in gold buying ships and materials for clan members in the last 30 days - nearly down to poverty level - just 40M left in the bank.... but it's only pixel money.
  18. Elric
    I would rather see more mixed trader fleets. 2-3 LGV's, 1-2 Frigates, 2-3 cutters...
  19. Elric
    SINK is now 23 members. We lost one member to the pirates, but got one back from them... 14 players active within the past 5 days. The junior members are gradually climbing the ranks. More senior players needed - so if you are tired of being 'one of the many' in the big nations, come over and make a difference... In one month - from zero to 23 members...
  20. Elric
    I think the current 5:1 ratio is decent - a Vic has 600BR, so you need 120BR to attack a solo vic with one ship - That equates to a Surprise versus a Vic - a decent fight. Or a cutter could take on a Frigate
  21. Elric
    not if it is done on BR - it would stop it entirely You should be able to have 3 or 4 cutters against a 4th rate, but 25 cutters against 5 SOL would be about the maximum the formula should allow.
  22. Elric
    I like the 1 v 1 or 2 v 1 versus a bigger ship - the Surprise and/or Pirate Frigate taking on a SOL. That is a good challenge. 25 Surprises versus 10 Victories would be a good challenge, but 25 Surprises versus 25 Victories would be a slaughter
  23. Elric
    nChance getting wet feet
  24. Elric
    I know this is just an example above, but I hope 20 SOL can attack 25 SOL. So you would need 5x BR to be able to tag a larger ship 1:1, then gradually reducing to 1.25x BR. Then 20 ships can attack 25 comparable ships.
  25. Elric
    It would be nice to have a good fight for a port - too many of the recent ones have been unbalanced. The time is 7am Saturday in the eastern USA, so some GB players should be awake.
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