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In theory our current method of boarding is period accurate in a sense. You need to get your opponent slow enough to grapple and then secure them to your ship. You can disengage (cut the grapples) after X amount of turns. The ramming bit is a little sketchy, I'll give you that. Realistically if you were to fight as close to each other as ships in this game do, majority of the actions would of turned into boarding fests. There's only so much realism you can interject into a game and have it still be playable.

Saturday night x2. We cried after we won technically.

When was the last time 7up won a Pb?

Outlaw battles + Unique perks

Sure, but let them enter port should they want to leave.

I’m ok with the battle being open for 15 mins. I’m not ok with not being able to enter the port until all players leave the battle instance. I should be able to leave battle and sail directly into the port I just fought and won, I shouldn’t be forced to sit in battle and wait 15 mins because 1 player is holding port entry hostage so his buddies can gank ships outside. This is poor mechanics. It keeps happening and needs to be fixed. Make the battle end after 5 mins and force players to a battle screen or something (maybe a detailed after action report?).

ya know now that I'm thinking about this a bit more. I hope nothing happens. ' Pirates will then start selling their services to go sit in hostility missions with fast frigates or maybe bellonas and take up the opposing side's slots. We'll be sure to F11 it every time though of course. @Batman having problems grinding up little cayman? Let us know, we'll come help out. Maybe WO would like to grind up Batabano without having to fight all of Spain. This could be very profitable.

I've jumped other nation's hostility missions with you personally......

Please bring me up on tribunal in a separate post if you so desire as I directed you to a couple of months ago. In the aforementioned screening fight I was merely fighting French players, successfully might I add, on 2 characters in the same battle that did not involve Spanish players as we were screened out from attacking a Russian port. One cannot expect pirate players to know the intricacies of Spanish politics and who their allies are or are not. Spain showed up to a port battle that did not involve them. We saw a French fleet ahead of us and attacked. The 3 Spanish players outside were not our concern nor was their involvement necessary. You also were still able to join the battle, just on the pirate side. So either tribunal me or don’t. It does not forgive your transgressions above. ------------ This tribunal is about you guys denying slots to a defending nation in a hostility mission by joining your allies side and restricting our ability to get more guns to bear on the enemy. Portillo was directly flipped due to your unfair preventative actions and we would like clarification as to if what you did was legal or not. Per @admin in a previous tribunal thread, below is against Steam EULA. "Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying Steam services, software or other content. https://store.steampowered.com/online_conduct/" These Spanish players directly restricted pirates from joining their defending side of a hostility mission by blocking available slots in the battle.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the order in which they joined listed on the tab screen in descending order. This would backup Cheeky's claim that Christoph, Graf and then Tiedemann joined and contradict Graf's claim that Teide messed up? Pirates were unable to counter Russian hostility as a result of this move. Spain directly blocking pirates players from defending their port and restricting their gameplay experience from taking up slots with no intention of fighting the opposing side is no bueno I would think huh @admin? I guess without JAGs around 7up's standards seem to have dropped a bit.

If only clans could control who sets contracts up in the ports that they pay for.....

Yes? This was kinda tried with NA Legends. It failed. There is a myth in this game that folks want fair fights and challenges. It's only a myth. Wolves don't want to fight other wolves, sheep are more fun. Which is why I'm always astonished when they actively lobby against protections that would keep more sheep in the game and make them happier. It's kinda like cutting off your own food supply really. Happy sheep....happy wolves. People are stupid.

Uh ... what? No battle can stay open, I just want the stupid glitch where the port won’t allow the winners inside until everyone is out of battle fixed. Seems rather stupid.

I'm merely trying to get clarification and hopefully get some issues that are long overdue changed. I don't care about a couple niagra deaths outside the battle. Hopefully @admin can provide some insight here. Thanks boys!

So this subject is a bit of a grey area in the game I think. After we won the PB player stayed in the battle for the full duration with the intention of of giefing the players inside and either forcing them to wait or be tagged by the 10-15 players of his nation and other nations outside since we are unable to enter the port while players are still in the battle. I had referenced this in another post below, but there was never a definitive ruling on the issue. I believe intentional griefing....and Elite was intentionally doing it could classify as a tribunal offense. This wouldn't of been a huge issue if we had not been so beat up and he wasn't in a boarding requin with close to 400 crew....we would of just sunk him. I don't particularly care if the player is punished or not here, but I do think we need to remove the broken mechanic of contested ports being closed to the winners if players till remain in battle. Clearly he was aware of what was going on. https://gyazo.com/edfac570016cc5acef9a60fe88c03ee5 The mass of battles/players waiting for us outside Stream of the fight - battle ends at 1:30 Shitty way to end a rather fun battle. Clearly Elite was bitter here or something. Regardless of whether or not this is a tribunal offense, the port lock out while contested bit is long overdue for a change.

We're kinda lazy at the moment. I feel like RVR comes in waves a bit. Sometimes you feel like doing it for a couple weeks straight....other times it's just REALLY hard to go motivate yourself and others to go sink bots for 2 hours. I've also been enjoying not going to bed late and actually not feeling like total crap when I gotta get up at 6am. So there's that...

While I'd probably be annoyed as hell about it, having a port battle be cancelled because the storms inside are too strong to fight in sounds really f'n cool. The battles with weather effects in them pre-steam Clicking swords in general for missions / pbs / battles is annoying and needs to be changed.

I am also having connection issues. SWFL. Connected myself and @William Death up to my VPN and the issues are resolved. Most be a hosting issue for the server.

Your nickname was KoC’s greatest contribution to NA

The thing about the clan based system is it needs to be one or the other. Right now we still have nations and national ports, but PBs are locked out unless you are with or on that particular clan's ally list....making PBs and the like a clique system. As you've seen in the US nation it's a bit chaotic with various clans disliking others. Now multiply that and you've got GB nation. We currently have a mix of clan based and nation based system and it just isn't running well enough. To keep in the theme of tittybaby's post here, I would recommend either switching entirely to a clan based system and having only a handful of nations be a race backdrop OR drop the clan owned / BR PB system and focus back on the nation port system. Less nations would also be ideal.

Actually if you read my post I merely mentioned you are not perpetuating the same farce you've been peddling for months on the forums about how the merge killed the game. So kudos. Back in the old system there were consistently more full battles daily. This was also in the alliance system AND other nations could pool players. We are currently in a situation where we are half in/half out of clan based system. We either need to ditch the nation idea or ditch the BR/clan based idea. The combination of both is not working. You mention Prussia, but it seems by all accounts they shouldn't even exist in this game. You could repeat your successes elsewhere inside one of the other nations and have similar results in this system, since you could operate all your battles within your own little group.

Surprised you didn’t pull out your bit about how the merge killed the game. Perhaps you’ve seen the light and realized that this game will never retain numbers until it protects its new players and provides dynamic content for its veteran players that isn’t stale. Games such as this rise and fall based on how entertained it’s casual players are and NA has sorely neglected them for 2 years. One opinion I’ve changed on lately is that BR based battles are no longer good for the health of the game. PBS are no longer national efforts in most cases with the average battle only needing 10 people. Prior to the wipe and BR system it would be common to have battles involving 100 people in a area daily. Now...not so much. the shift to more clan based fights would be fine if we ditched nations for a clan based game, but we have yet to do that. Now we have 10-15 people going into ports designed for 25 and a whole lot of screeners and ancillary people that used to be involved aren’t anymore. Seems like a shame.

I’d be happy to be wrong. I don’t think I am.

No one sails renos. Almost everyone I’ve sunk or capped has been store bought. Same with a frigate.

Saw a curious sight outside Saint Mary's this evening. An unknown pirate in an unknown clan sailing out towards a Prussian LGV refit just barely visible. Pirate was what looked like a store bought reno and was sailing north towards Brunswick. I attempted to follow but a clan mate was tagged outside port and I doubled back, so I only have speculation and no definitive proof. name on the reno sailing out A couple minutes later...... and he's Prussian too..... https://gyazo.com/1e975845caa07577488c2a860350d6ff I feel like the names and the circumstances are just a little too convenient. I most certainly could be wrong, though I doubt it. Worth a look I think. @Hethwill the Harmless hopefully the ROVER minds sort this out 🙂 @Ink