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Well strictly speaking it won't but I hope that the prospect of rewards and fully loaded traders would motivate piracy by pirates. (Or strategic acquisition of foreign assets, by the nationalities) and equal benefits for defending players. Just as the prospect for a "huge ass battle" is large enough motivation for many. But I believe this will be more rewarding than player hunting where you might come across a Indiaman that may or may not be empty...

I just had a brilliant idea that would make players engage in pvp battles that's not port battles or screening fleets. A convoy of NPC trading ships sail from port A to port B. This will come with an announcement in the OW like when a conquest flag is bought. Enemy nations can intercept them and capture them for a great deal of resources and materials. (Line-ship constructions worth of cargo). If the convoy reaches its destination safely there will be upgrade and money rewards for protecting ships. As well as a huge abundance of resources in said port. (Crafters rejoice!) Cheers Fry.

I do believe that separate pirate clans should be able to form alliances. That way a lot of the pirate player base would still have the hardships of piracy but also the pleasure of being foreign privateers.

It got solved by the maintence it would seem since I can enter ports now. But for the testing data's sake; I also tried teleporting

Hi. I've been having a issue that I cant enter any ports. I sail under a Danish Norwegian flag and I have tried to enter La Mona, Christiansted, Amalienborg, and Vieques. whenever I press the enter port button. it just highlights and then nothing happens. I can enter a port if I surrender in battle. however if I leave, I cant enter again. I do not have smuggler's flag enabled. I've tried restarting. I've verifed the game cache integrity (its at a 100%) I've also capped a trader snow and took command of it just to check if going in and out of combat, or swaping ships would help. so currently I'm stuck outside Amalienborg in a broken trader with cargo. Cheers Fry.