Todbringer

I did read your post and I referred to your post in the first part of my post. I started using plural in the rest of the post, so it was not a "rampage against it". Maybe you saw yourself in the rest of my post, but for that i am hardly to blame, especially since i was, in the essence, agreeing with you in most of your general opinions, but disagreeing with you being impatient about them. I just posted under your post. And I agree with you that the BPs should be available to all types of players, but we are currently testing mechanics of the pve and pvp events. They can't implement everything at once. And yes, I also mentioned balance testing since it is obvious heavy rattle dominates shallow waters. But in the same way, mercury mostly dominated it before heavy rattle. Once they release heavy rattle BP, it will be normal (unless someone expects that all ships of the rank should be balanced within that rank).. The devs are only humans and they try to listen to the community and they try to give us what we ask for. They read our posts and try to think of how it would work, and then do it and deploy it to see if it works. They probably worked hard on each and every addition to this game and they deploy patches hoping people will like it and are most likely proud of what they did. That's why I dislike to see whining that started within the first hour of the patch since I bet it creates the feeling that whatever they do is not good. And I think it's not fair. And it's not insult spreading. Some of the people here just act like spoiled brats never satisfied with anything. Tbh, the devs could just kill the OW and do World of warships type of game with microtransactions and get more players, money and easier life. But for some reason they still didn't.

Yeah, how about giving both the changes and the devs some time to set in and see how everything works out? You yourself said that there is no more time, so why would they spend time on working out pve event for all available ships right now? This is testing. For starters they've put in Cerberus to see how the event will work out and there is not a shadow of a doubt in my mind that, if the event is well received and works out, they will add other ships as well. If players can't play because they don't have a cerberus, then they can buy one. or craft one. It's not like it's not obtainable in a shop, prohibitively expensive or so hard to craft. For some of the posts here, the patch didn't even finish downloading before you started bitching about it. How about giving them some credit for the effort and their hard work and wait for a few days for fixes to be implemented and then say what we think? Some of the people here sound like touchy primadonnas that are never happy. I think that the latest changes fixed a lot of problems that came after the map reset and endless sailing and i believe it will get even better when they implement other rewards, store and (hopefully) some pvp currency. Also, it's a good thing they put in lobby arena style games, because now more people may feel inclined to play the game since they can log in when they have 30-60 mins playing time and jump into quick a fight. And it might (or will) encourage them to sail more and try for more ow pvp later on. Lobby style events don't drag players away from OW because those that play it and enjoy it the most wouldn't usually have enought time to play this game in OW. So it can only bring more players into this game. As for blueprints, i'm sure that the devs have a reason why they limit it. Maybe because if they were to release it, everybody and their grandmother would be sailing only in heavy rattle, or maybe they need to use them as special rewards or something. or maybe they want to test balance. If heavy rattles always win over mercs and similar, then they need balance fix. So, not sure why is there such a fixation over blueprints in early access game where everything will be wiped and lost in a few months.

Yup, give us some pvp currency. So that even lowly n00bs such as me can get something by slowly grinding through pvp (and hopefully improving at the same time). it would be a great incentive to go out and fight. especially since i know I won't be in the top 10, so I see no reason to go and risk my ship, upgrades and officer lives in pvp. Put some gold upgrades, some paints, etc in Admiralty shop to be bought with that currency. Or just let us buy chests with the currency and put random rewards in it.

This sounds good. I would deffinitely craft more dura higher rank ships that I would eb using for a longer time, but would craft lower dura ships for those starting ranks or for shallow water battles since I wouldn't be sailing them so often.

meh, they should just speed us more in OW and allow us to queue for large and small battles anywhere.

A player in a gunboat tried to attack my trader and it said that he couldn't initiate combat because BR difference was too high. What is the BR difference that prevents combats? When can I attack larger group (to pull them to battle) and when will ti fail? EDIT: typos. Dyslexia ftw.

I think you look at it in the wrong way. This is a one time buy game (meaning it's not a free MMO and it's not based on monthly subscriptions). Every game has a certain number of playhours where it is profitable to buy it. I believe that if I buy a game and I get 200 quality playhours from it, then I got my money's worth from the game. I have placed an arbitrary ROI on games where I think that I should get some 100 hours of good playtime for every 20 Euros spent. If I get less, it's a waste of my money. If I get more it's a bonus and a great game. Now, in this game you only have to distinguish how many hours of QUALITY playtime you had and if it was worth it, due to the fact you spend most of your time just sailing around.

That would be good. i know that some community created missions in Star trek Online were excellent. People really created great stories. Just need to watch they don't make missions designed for farming exp.

hey guys, i would really appreciate a tutorial on port battles. I can't find any that would be up to date and to be honest I'm not quite sure how port battle mechanics work, together with screening, etc. Because of that I avoid going to port battles because I'm worried that I will screw something up either with screening or in the port battle itself. And I'm sure there are a lot of other noobs out there that need help with it too.

Sorry then, I didn't realise you actually want to play it like that. I thought you were telling me how you got around the problem of huge time requirements in this game.

Actually, I think this could solve the problem: 1. allow players to destroy cargo during battle 2. allow players to pay or transfer part of the cargo to the attacker during battle. That way defender can offer part of the cargo or gold payment to the attacker. Attacker will get goods and / or gold. Attacker will have an incentive to accept that since it will save him time he would spend chasing the ship, he won't waste ammunition (which is coming in the future) and he knows the other player could just destroy all the cargo. if the defender destroys the cargo, the attacker will still get to destroy or capture his ship. The defender would, by paying the ransom, save the time he would spend trying to run away, he will still have part of his cargo, he would still have his ship, crew and officer and he wouldn't waste the time he spent sailing. He would be discouraged from destroying his cargo by the fact that he will then lose the ship and all the cargo or all the cargo even if he manages to escape. So, both parties would be inclined to try and make a deal. And if it doesn't work, both sides, in a way, lose. But the attacker still gets to cap or sink a ship.

Good change. As for teleporting, I think it should be kept since we can't transport goods in a fleet ship. So, if you cap a trader and don't have enough crew for both ships, you can't take it if there is no teleporting ships. But, I suggest that if you use teleport then you lose use of the officer and the minimal amount of crew required for that ship for some time depending on the target port distance, symbolising you giving the command of the prize (captured ship) to your officer and skeleton crew to sail to your port. That was a common method for prizes during the age of sail. best option would be to have captured trader actually visible sailing in OW with your officer and skeleton crew so it could be retaken or captured while on route to your port, but due to AI not being quite up to par with human player I doubt it would be able to survive and escape if it was captured anywhere near the area with high enemy player concentration.

well, yeah, but that's not how it's supposed to be if you are playing a game.

I think that every square on map equals 10 minutes sailing time. I was talking about trading. Also, free towns are capped at 5 deliveries of 1k goods each. I use it all the time, but I need those deliveries for trading too, and with the weight of trade goods and the time needed to deliver it's not much that i can move. That's why i suggested giving people more deliveries. Then i can sail around gathering stuff and then send it to free town i need and then sail it further. Then I won't be wasting so much time sailing, but people will still sail around with goods and will have a feeling they did something, even if they lose a ship. anyway, i think we agree on the basic important issue: there should be less time spent sailing but more people in the OW. Only reason i can think of why people are afraid of sailing with traders and losing goods is time spent sailing (since money is so very easy to arn). So, there should be shorter intervals for sailing. that's why i suggested more deliveries and higher volume for deliveries. People will still have to haul all that stuff around, but it's a difference if i have to sail again for 10 minutes or if i have to sail again for an hour. wow, you got so much angst and wrath in you. I bet you were foaming at the mouth while typing. There, there. Since you enjoy it that much, use print screen of your ship while sailing in OW and glue it over the screen and stare at it for a few hours every day. It will be just like a real thing. The rest of us that have jobs, families, friends and girlfriends/wives will find a way to spend the time saved by ship teleports and hopefully less sailing. lol Adios.

You know you can't sail for an hour alert and concentrated (if i were to sail goods from capital to my hub it would take me an hour and a half). This is a game, not a job. As for pirates, if they allow us to transport goods in fleet ships so players can defend their traders and goods and fix battle result camping, it will be ok. last time i lost a ship after sailing it for 45 minutes because atatcker was hiding in battle result screen, popped out and tagged me with 2 renos and after 35 minutes of trying to escape i lost the ship. And an hour and a half of my life i spent sailing and another 45 minutes since i had to sail it all again once more. In those 2 hours of my life I could've played WoW, EVE, TW Warhammer, Civ, Wasteland, Pillars of eternity or any other game and would have something to show for it, some progress. EDIT: I enjoy trading and crafting A LOT. But I don't have the time needed for all the sailing around to do it. So it hurts even more if I waste it by losing a ship after sailing for such a long time. RL time is the only mark of value for the risk taken in this game.