You have just made a pretty enormous change to the entire shipbuilding aspect of this game. The fine woods requirements (and relative scarcity), regional bonuses, competing demands for LH (e.g., War Supplies), and re-introducing varying quality in captured AI ships, each on their own merits would've significantly altered the crafting environment. Taken all together at once, and you've shifted the trade/craft gameplay to such an extent that the playerbase hasn't yet fully adjusted to it; folks are still trying to figure out "the new normal". And I don't think we will fully reach that state until pre-patch gold ships are mostly attrited out of the players' collective inventory. That might take a while.
I think how the playerbase eventually evolved to meet the new environment might've been pretty interesting. As one example, I think quite a few players are learning that middling-quality ships aren't necessarily quite so bad after all. Your 9.96 changes were clearly meant to make Exceptional ships, well, "exceptional", rather than "minimum acceptable". And from my perspective, we were slowly headed toward begrudging acceptance among the playerbase of that new reality. Your observation "...not used and thus are useless. Nobody makes them and nobody buys them." was certainly true very recently, and still valid for many today. I think if you had let this process continue, however, for another few weeks, this statement would've become increasingly obsolete.
Yet now you've announced another seismic shift in the shipbuilding aspect of this game...before allowing the current paradigm to fully establish itself. The mere fact that you've announced these changes is going to affect how the 9.96 changes play out.
I really don't understand the timing of the announcement, following so closely on the heels of 9.96.
Lot of that what you say i can agree. But the problem with common and fine ships at the moment is that they require fine wood and the jump from common to fine is just 20 more. For new players its hard to get all that stuff. Better would be to take out fine wood (maybe also less material requirement) of common and fine ships and instead calling it FINE change the name to SOLIDE.
They have to reconsider this update that you are planing because im sure it will kill the game. make a fair vote were you can sort out what people want. i know the devs have plan but sometimes plans change or have to change for better.
One more thing lots of people in this game love ships obivisous isnt it? What you guys need really to do is start creating more ships instead of messing arround with other stuff most of the people were happy with what we had of course optimizing is always good.
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Lot of that what you say i can agree. But the problem with common and fine ships at the moment is that they require fine wood and the jump from common to fine is just 20 more. For new players its hard to get all that stuff. Better would be to take out fine wood (maybe also less material requirement) of common and fine ships and instead calling it FINE change the name to SOLIDE.
They have to reconsider this update that you are planing because im sure it will kill the game. make a fair vote were you can sort out what people want. i know the devs have plan but sometimes plans change or have to change for better.
One more thing lots of people in this game love ships obivisous isnt it? What you guys need really to do is start creating more ships instead of messing arround with other stuff most of the people were happy with what we had of course optimizing is always good.
Sincerely Captain Sir Benjamin
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