Christendom

1 - read my post and comprehend it. 2 - a t/t or t/wo trinc can go 14knts with gear. If you were to have accumulated PVP marks you'd know more about it. my pirate frigate that has sunk many a US player on your coast and the very Pfrig you ran away to the forts from a couple nights ago that was faster than your endy, is t/wo. Sink a lot of players and you too can afford nice things. Fir/fir is for chumps. 3 - if you haven't been reading these forums or global for the past 2 years and have not caught on.....I'll let you in on a little secret. I don't care how the public regards me. It's a game. Here's a fight where you lost badly a week or 2 ago. I sat next to you side by side with a t/t endy with no upgrades (stupid UI...) where I was already 50% dead and still beat the crap out of you. Zaphod had a nice bellona and we took it home. In this fight you embraced every aspect of being the fir/fir gank noob you are known to be. You and Django outpaced your big ship, let me split you up and sink you 1 by 1, you went side to side with a better captain while I pinned you upwind and well....died. Nuff said.

You misinterpret my meaning. Solo play is important and viable and it should remain as such. EASY solo play should not. Going out and solo'n enemies and doing it successfully is hard. And it should be. Going in, snatching that one frigate or trader while you have 5 enemies join your battle to chase is fun. Any schmuck can go out solo these days in a Slim McChain special, fir/fir, and snag a kill or 2. Making it back home is a different story. Being a good solo pvper is a skill and it should remain as such. And in terms of the gankbox, a large portion of my pre-doubloon wealth was all the PVP books + best mods + somewhere between 1100-1200 PVP marks. Majority of which were done solo. Other players had more I'm sure, most didn't get them solo. I prefer the solitary hunting style of play and only really pop on TS to play with the clan once they all get on after work. There is something incredibly satisfying about de-masting a spanish herc, boarding him and then hitting the jets out of battle in a 14.2knt trinc while the 7-8 Habana reinforcements attempt to catch up and insult you in Spanish. All that said, solo PVP should be hard. Good players will always be good at it. Bad players....... will just make posts complaining like my pal Slim here.

You primarily sail alone and defensively in waters that are heavily ganked by multiple nations. The East Coast. Branch out more and solo hunt elsewhere. I don't know if I've ever actually seen you get a kill on combat news, so if you do collect doubloons from PVP you must be doing it with other people...aka ganks. This is a MMORPG with an emphasis on multiplayer. It's meant to be played with and against others. Solo hunting, while still viable, should be the exception rather than the rule. I've done my share of solo hunting up on the east coast, spanish area and down by belize.....it's not easy. It's far easier to go out in a group and gank, which is why everyone does it. You've been a rather big proponent of Admin and his doubloons change, well this doubloons change does nothing but encourage ganking since they are 100% necessary. You can't have it both ways. Marks or Doubloons will always encourage ganking in numbers. Here's a failed gank by your nation in US waters. Looks like fun. Not all battles in this game are won by superior numbers. TLDR - whine less on the forums and go out and hunt.

News Flash at 11.....Slim tries to gank and then gets counter ganked. Now now Slim, you need to give out the full details with your posts here. Slim likes to sail solo fir/fir gank boats up and down the US coast trying to hop in battles started by other nations for a quick gank. He unfortunately does not have the skill or the numbers to do this effectively. Last night he joined a clan mates battle, did a lot of chaining and then ran to the forts when another person joined. The night before he was trying to separate out group of 4-5 pirates by tagging the slowest of our guys and then immediately running in battle to waste time. Both evenings he was eventually sunk. Pro tip - If you want to sail alone in trash ships and attempt to get kills you need to leave the east coast and go play in less shark infested waters. You will always lose to us. I put up a lot of marks around Cuba and Belize area in ganking trincs. Another Pro tip - stop playing like a coward. Sometimes you gotta fight. PS - Stop calling Wraith and myself Trash in battles. We’re both far better players than you and we are both capable of getting solo PVP kills. You are not.

where does SORRY fall on this chart?

this won't go over well...

"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured...the first thought forbidden...the first freedom denied – chains us all, irrevocably."

+100.

rekt

Criticizing how others streams always cracks me up, especially when that person doesn't stream. If you can do better, go do better. Otherwise just shut up.

delaying hostility missions until time window closes is a valid tactic......no?

I need to see that pic again.. a few more times Cheeky

Seems like a lot of effort when the solution(s) already exists Outlaw battles or reward screens

Sure once I figure out how to leave port

Only one trying hard here bud is this post. Channel this effort into Naval Action. Might win once or twice. Less QQ and more Pew Pew baby. 🙂

good guess. I enjoy playing the game. Sorry? After the cap francais battle way back when I've made it my mission to make sure all our noses are clean. Even yours. https://gyazo.com/407d4c4cbafb40c810dce0e02690d5fe Maybe if you put in as much effort in game as you do here on the forums 7up would still be around and wouldn't of collapsed. Again. Say hi to russia for me!

ah yes, that fine line where players try to match their in-game preferences and fit them inside real world stereotypes. One of the many reasons we should be clan based rather than nation. If only more folks treated this game as simply......a game, imagine how much more fun it would be.

This is an excellent idea. Navasse for example has been french since almost the beginning of the merge and hasn't changed hands once. We need a mechanic to prevent long term holdings.

Server pop has depleted over time in every iteration of this game. Flags, no timers, EU/Global only timers and the current iteration with the merge. Every single time. Even now we have an option to mitigate night flips and the game can still not sustain itself. Maybe 5% of the current valuable ports are owned by US based clans...the rest are EU based. Night flip impact is minimal. The game still dies in between patches. Why? Because we lack content and after hitting max rank it gets boring AF if you aren't a huge PVPer. EU server was barely cracking 400 on a good day just prior to the merge. An interesting suggestion. Here's a variation of your idea that I like. A port has 3 options. - No timer - 100k hit daily - Mixed use timer (20:00 GMT to 01:00 GMT) - 300k daily - Specific 3 hour timers - 750k daily Mixed use timer would intend to try and overlap late EU times with early evening US times in an attempt to prevent extreme day/night flips, but still promote overlapping content for both player bases. Think of this as a weekend timer. Either option I think we need to address the fact that the game is spread very thin with 400-500 players in 11 nations. We need to remove some and hope populations shift a little bit more and mix to help with coverage making the mixed timer option a valid play.

I like this idea. Enable drop in style battles for every grid square.

Well when they and and their allies lose 3/3 ports in a multi flip its only logical to move on to softer targets.

Our intent is to flip a few US shallow ports we don’t want in hopes that both of us get fights and you guys try and flip them back.

Harbour Island PB - Pirates (Christendom) vs US (unknown) GF US guys, thanks for coming out. Had to call in the VCO banners on this one and brought out the EU guys. We actively stopped capping circles and tried to drag the fight on for a change instead of just winning instantly. Kinda worked. US could of done better if they grouped up and didn't flee immediately.

Apples and oranges. Don’t distort what points they are trying to make here by being a homer. Release and full wipe is months away. Maybe. If contracts are stopped for a while and ports make little to no income this could adversely effect some clans. This needs to be a quick bang bang transition or port costs need to be suspended.

Usually fishing for US sea bass.