We will abandon the 5 color grades for upgrades and ships. Fine (blue), Mastercraft (purple), Common (green) are not used and thus are useless. Nobody makes them and nobody buys them.
As a result of testing the final ship quality and shipbuilding system will look like this.
Captured - captured (grey) will be assigned to all ships captured (except for ships captured from player fleets)
Сrafted (yellow) - ships built by players
Special - events, rewards, tournament vessels, or maybe extremely rare and hard to craft (months of effort required)
Instead of quality (who would try to make a bad ship) players will select things they want they their ship to have sacrificing other elements if they want to improve one of the characteristics
Definitely will be done
For example if a shipbuilder wants to increase speed it will increase ship cost AND will have to sacrifice the hull quality
If they want to have additional slots for upgrades they will have to sacrifice space or increase weight
If you take more crew you might need to reduce hold
Cannons and ammo and powder supply will affect cargo hold and will reduce ship performance if you overgun it
Under consideration
If you want to take 200 shots per gun instead of normal supply to battle you might need to sacrifice some space (this will solve cases of light ships unloading 10000 rounds in a battle into a first rate)
You can determine the number of repair kits you can take for the vessel and affect the weight.
Unstable designs - add to much sails (to increase speed) your ship might capsize in some cases
Other experimental ideas like 1 durability ships and other changes
Same treatment will be applied to upgrades.
Once this system is coded in all old ships and some upgrades will become unusable due to database changes and will have to be removed from the game.
ETA Dec-Jan
Discuss
Don't get me wrong, I love this game (i hav too many accounts to count, so u will understand how much i lov this game), not hate it or the devs.
But,patches after patches, u killed more and more player base ,from 3000 players in prime time to now, 600?
and u r not gave us many new things, u just changed the old system (most of it r screw them). Changing old things r not new patch.
Instead of change the PB system ( I mean in the PB ),u gave us a new hostility system, when we joined the PB, its still the same, problem not solved.
It's fine with the hostility system,but ppl who generated it, cant control which ppl or clan can join, so random ppl joined first and screw it up.
After 4 month developed, this game doesnt make me feel its improved ,just less and less fun and friends and players and good opponent , most of the ppl i know feels the same.
So, plz dnt make this game even more complex. Sometimes, simple is better, specially this game required more life time to sail or craft or form.
We want we can custom our sail color,maybe clan signature on it, we want we can custom our hull with paint, we want we can product paints ,so pveers can product them and pvpers can sail their fancy ships around.
I dnt even know if im playing naval action or trading action or crafting action????
All this AI fleet/fort/towers/trading/crafting r just killing this game very fast, since the first day 9.96 patch landed, its 1200 players in prime time, and now its 600.how long its been?2 weeks?
Why ppl come up see the new patch, but not willing to stay?
so, lets leave the good old things along,try not to ruin it, in the meantime, if u want to reduce the quantity of gold ships, just make it required life time to progress.
Like 1st rates need 36 hours to completed its building, and while a crafter has a ship in progress, he cant build an other ship,and his LH generation will drop to 2/3 from normal time,
so he can still craft some upgrades or save them for next ship. really simple isn't it?
And reduce duration of the ships, like under 4 rates hav only 3 dura.
I dnt want different guns in same ships, i want my personal style different than others in the same ship.
We already hav mods to change speed, why change it more? If u want to hav more hold, u can create a new upgrade for it, and its "new", why will we need different guns in same ship to break the balance?
Im sure u devs know how many copies u hav sold,and its very very low % players stay, 5 patches earlier it has much more.
plz stop killing this game. I really really like this game.
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Don't get me wrong, I love this game (i hav too many accounts to count, so u will understand how much i lov this game), not hate it or the devs.
But,patches after patches, u killed more and more player base ,from 3000 players in prime time to now, 600?
and u r not gave us many new things, u just changed the old system (most of it r screw them). Changing old things r not new patch.
Instead of change the PB system ( I mean in the PB ),u gave us a new hostility system, when we joined the PB, its still the same, problem not solved.
It's fine with the hostility system,but ppl who generated it, cant control which ppl or clan can join, so random ppl joined first and screw it up.
After 4 month developed, this game doesnt make me feel its improved ,just less and less fun and friends and players and good opponent , most of the ppl i know feels the same.
So, plz dnt make this game even more complex. Sometimes, simple is better, specially this game required more life time to sail or craft or form.
We want we can custom our sail color,maybe clan signature on it, we want we can custom our hull with paint, we want we can product paints ,so pveers can product them and pvpers can sail their fancy ships around.
I dnt even know if im playing naval action or trading action or crafting action????
All this AI fleet/fort/towers/trading/crafting r just killing this game very fast, since the first day 9.96 patch landed, its 1200 players in prime time, and now its 600.how long its been?2 weeks?
Why ppl come up see the new patch, but not willing to stay?
so, lets leave the good old things along,try not to ruin it, in the meantime, if u want to reduce the quantity of gold ships, just make it required life time to progress.
Like 1st rates need 36 hours to completed its building, and while a crafter has a ship in progress, he cant build an other ship,and his LH generation will drop to 2/3 from normal time,
so he can still craft some upgrades or save them for next ship. really simple isn't it?
And reduce duration of the ships, like under 4 rates hav only 3 dura.
I dnt want different guns in same ships, i want my personal style different than others in the same ship.
We already hav mods to change speed, why change it more? If u want to hav more hold, u can create a new upgrade for it, and its "new", why will we need different guns in same ship to break the balance?
Im sure u devs know how many copies u hav sold,and its very very low % players stay, 5 patches earlier it has much more.
plz stop killing this game. I really really like this game.