[Basic Cutter needs a change]

2 minutes ago, Musuko42 said:

The trouble with that is that it means PVP marks can be farmed at no cost.

You already do not receive PvP marks for sinking basic cutters.

[Basic Cutter needs a change]

3 minutes ago, Musuko42 said:

The only problem with this is that players could then use the basic cutter to avoid getting tagged. It might be handy for ferrying around small amounts of cargo.

The answer to this would be to completely remove the cargo space from the basic cutter, along with your suggestion. The basic cutter would then only be useful for returning back to a home port when you're stranded somewhere, or for doing low-level PVE missions (to get started when you're new, or to recover when bankrupt later).

 

Or just allow cutters to be still attacked.

[[RvR] Conquest mark pension of regions [Patch 10.1]]

So except for 3 ports you can only get the resources required to build lineships when you win battles with lineships.

 

Right, no problem with that at all....

[Forthcoming shipbuilding changes [Heavily Moderated]]

On 29.11.2016 at 10:40 PM, koltes said:

@jodgi This system works for all other games it has been implemented

And what games would that be?

[Forthcoming shipbuilding changes [Heavily Moderated]]

One possible (not sure if it would really work, just an idea) solution to the crafting time sink would maybe be if we could pay other players to transport goods for us like in EvE.

Alternatively, let people chart ships to transport stuff between all outposts a players have, but those ships are actually travelling on the OW and can be intercepted by other players, so there is risk (AI escorts cost extra).

[Forthcoming shipbuilding changes [Heavily Moderated]]

Hauling around all materials I need already eats up most of my playtime. My interest in playing the game of gank and be ganked in the time that is left (or when I lack the fine woods to do anything) after that is waning. Especially as combat now is just an endless turning to rake. And if I dont want a gank I am left with fighting NPCs which means either sailing around for an hour to find an NPC fleet which is in my range (and also fun to fight) or doing the same combat missions over and over again.

[Devlog: Forthcoming content patches plan]

With just one stern rake the AGAMEMNON under Nelson had forced the much bigger SANTISSIMA to surrender -

the lost and wounded crew numbers were just too high.

When you fire through the dearmoured stern, the cannon balls can fly longitudinal through the whole ship, which allows to hit more than

just one cannon crew with each cannon ball, and cannons could be destoyed in higher numbers. It must have been totally devastating.

 

Of course I hate when that happens, like you do - but I guess it is still historically close.

Where did you get that nonsense from?

The Santissima had been in battle for hours already and what made her surrender was the loss of a mast and not because a rake killed too much of a crew.

 

Compared to history the crew loss by rakes in NA is completely over the top. It took 11 rakes by 3 deckers for the Bucenteure to lose as much crew as you can kill with 2 rakes here. And there were also enough instances in history where a rake only wounded a few sailors and did nothing else.

[Crafting Has Become Hell]

It's a choice. I have made the same choice. We're unable crank out golden ships like we used to, but that's working as intended.

 

Gold ships? I am unable to craft green ships as I had gathered 600 logs without any fine log at all.

 

And sorry, but before I spend a day or more hunting down fine logs all over the map which sell at ridiculous prices with a trade tool that is completely useless to find available goods I rather stop crafting completely and buy grey/green ships from NPCs at prices no crafter can match or just capture them outright.

 

If you want to change that everyone only uses gold ships you would have to remove the color system and instead implement something else which is not so easily visible, for example allowing crafters to assign points into the various attributes during crafting with the number of points depending on crafter level and resources used (both quantity, quality and extra resources).

[Test event changes.]

The problem with capturing the loot has already been mentioned.

 

I think to get what the devs want you need to increase the time it takes to loot a chest. Instead of wrecks that can be looted with a click have them to be on sunken ships and to get them you need diving equipment (weighting 2000+). The chest themselves are light.

 

And to get several chests from a wreck you need 10 minutes of standing still. That way there is plenty of time for PvP and you can get chests in a warship.

 

If you think that this is too boring for the ones with the diving equipment you can use NPCs for that each nation has to protect (or maybe an unattackable NPC which work for whoever nation controls the area king of the hill style and slowly fills its hold with chest 1-2 at a time people can then loot).