[Join Prussia! Join Krake!]

Die PvE Raten sind noch etwas hoch ansonsten: lecker!

[Urgent Repair]

Imo mid sections should be the target of demasting. If their values were changed proportionally to the new DM that would be okay. Lower sections needed a buff for sure. As Hachi said kiting and spraying into masts should not be a thing.

[The betrayal of the dutch by the swedish cabal clan (#swexit )]

Dear @Thonys it's rather well earned retirement than betrayal. But as you ask so kindly, we will send you bottles with paintings of us chillin at the beaches of Jamaica.

[Deadmans Chests different loot value]

41 minutes ago, Jan van Santen said:

Yesterday eg i opened a bottle south of Kidds and the wreck was close to Swannsborough. According to netlify map thats 343 K distance. 

Perhaps bottles spawn near a town in nearer distance? Try to open them in Mortimer. I used to sail not further than Cap Francais ratio wise.

 

[The betrayal of the dutch by the swedish cabal clan (#swexit )]

3 minutes ago, jointventure said:

you are correct, on peaceserver we switch around, 

Yes. And because we had secretly (and in wise prudence) created acounts on peace server, we will buy the DLC aswell. I mean I can't let my 376 fir log, my fir fir T Lynx or my XP get lost. 

[Is it a bug, when your fleet ship doesn't follow your 'retreat' command?]

13 hours ago, van der Decken said:

Ya um, I've been asking for a year why our fleet ai is 100x dumber than enemy ai. But they insist they have the same coding... So, always at the beginning of a battle tell your ai to stop. Then after the 2 minute mark you can tell them to retreat and they won't even sail...they'll just disappear. (If they haven't been tagged.)

I wouldn't Call enemy AI smarter. Think of a trader AI. The same command is retreat. Think the most probate method is to order them to STOP and frag the battle away from them. All AI have (at least it feels that way) control perk. So to retreat they not only need not to be tagged but also to be about 750m away from an enemy vessel. 

Your own position towards your fleet ship matters: if you are right in front of it, you block it's escape route. 

So to drag away the battle from your fleet ship I would recommend to take some damage, get upwind of the enemy and sail parallel to it (AI is dumb and will stay in your broadside) away from your fleet. When you are away gar enough just press retreat and it will do so.

[Loyalty.]

As long as it is cosmetics only I could live with it.

[The betrayal of the dutch by the swedish cabal clan (#swexit )]

21 minutes ago, MassimoSud said:

clearly you can do it, but before remember to pay @rediii

I payed him half my NA career, I'm done

[The betrayal of the dutch by the swedish cabal clan (#swexit )]

4 hours ago, Barbarosa said:

Pala is trolling you.

No. Were going brits. On peace server. We talked about this. No more PvP for us. 

[The betrayal of the dutch by the swedish cabal clan (#swexit )]

42 minutes ago, Christoph said:

CABAL are bad losers

lets join all brits and make a 2nd PVE server 

i hope you are not joining brits @Palatinose

You are mistaken if you think it's a PvE server. It's the part of the Caribbean where milk and honey flow. @jointventure can now peacefully develop trading, Elias will, without getting interrupted by port battles, develop mafia structures, Durin can finally start digging the mountains of Port Morant for gold and the rest of us will simply parade on Mortimer boulevard zipping finest caribbean cocktails. hello kitty these pew pew troubles. No more I say!!!

[The betrayal of the dutch by the swedish cabal clan (#swexit )]

o7 

I hereby announce CABAL goes brits. #winnerteamjoiners #@Tacforprimeminister #swexit 

[Possibilities of OW RoE changes regarding delay actions.]

@van Veen telling people which ships to bring is not the answer to the question whether we as a community consider artificially prolonged join timers valid tactics or an exploit of game mechanics which in that case would need tweaking. 

To me that's a complex question, which needs either a rudimentary answer aka "allow everything - live with it" or a finely tuned adaption of RoE. Both solutions are fine imo. The question is what does the community want and not "Why don't you guys accept this is a war game where winning is everything?"

[Possibilities of OW RoE changes regarding delay actions.]

That's why you can vote

[Possibilities of OW RoE changes regarding delay actions.]

1 hour ago, van Veen said:

I have a problem with "no itention to fight". How do you judge that? 

Finding out what a player wants to do (i.e. his itentions) is simply impossible. You can only judge what he is actually doing (actions). 

You judge by the action. If he only tags to keep you in battle, suddenly stops,  leaves.  You leave and find yourself surrounded, his intention was obviously not to fight but to keep you in battle.

[Possibilities of OW RoE changes regarding delay actions.]

TBH I don't remember anything good for my enemies at KPR concerning TP back to port. Only the raider had advantages. As soon as it gets crowded, just leave and return at a pleasing time. It could only be a thing to TP back with empty hold, no fleet and to the last entered port. Make it a really tough choice.

[Possibilities of OW RoE changes regarding delay actions.]

1 hour ago, Christendom said:

Little bit of grey area here.

To me it's totally off-washed black aswell as grey-hazed white. As Kant's categorical imperative does obviously not work, we have rules (laws IRL). On the other hand it's a game and perhaps one essential reason for many to play is exactly the lack of or the limited number of rules to be obeyed - to flee reality for the sake of fun. As this differs from player to player I would advertise a compromise. As few rules as possible, as many as necessary to accomplish enjoyable gameplay for everybody. 

[Just a little bit of French salt]

17 minutes ago, Lars Kjaer said:

I think we all know what french admiral that is actually good at the game, but writes so poorly in english

It's not DesMoines. He considers these french players noobs and only plays with russian support now 

[Possibilities of OW RoE changes regarding delay actions.]

Due to the lately rising amount of tribunals referring to griefing in the OW, I created a poll about what players actually consider griefing in this regard. Also there are some proposals upon solutions stated by multiple players like @Liq, @Banished Privateer and others, though I chose some to me reasonably sounding parameters. Regarding the possible changes, the question of considering Reinforcement Zones as special or just part of the open world also seems plausible to be asked.

None of the answers you choose are binding, the actual values of invisibility time etc. are only proposals and tuning and adjusting recommendations are very welcome. This poll shall only serve as an overview to the community's opinion on the matter.

I would feel delighted, if you are interested and could advertise this poll on global chat.

[Ist noch wer aktiv ?]

Moin, 

die Aktivität schwankt eigentlich immer periodisch. Die Briten sind immer stark an Zahlen und im Moment sehr aktiv, aber wie Tom sagte, wenige bis keine rein deutsche Clans. Preußen hat mit HANSA einen Clan der derzeit aktiv rekrutiert, PGP von Salty Sails sind kleiner und sehr PvP orientiert, die Nation ist allerdings klein. Ebenso die Holländer, wobei dich da vermutlich fast alle verstehen. Neben den deutschen sprechen auch die Niederländer ganz gutes Deutsch. In Schweden hast du derzeit drei deutsche Clans die mehr oder weniger aktiv sind. Purg3, HREKK sowie HRE. Achso und @troodys SOS wenn die sich denn endlich mal wieder was anderem als American Football zuwenden

P.S. mir fällt gerade noch ein, dass falls dir deine Schiffe sehr wichtig sind, du sie einfach nach Absprache in einem Freihafen mit einem zukünftigen Clan Mitglied tauschen kannst. Genauso wichtige Ressourcen. Erst danach wechselst du die Nation bzw. kreierst einen neuen Char in der nation. Dann kannst du zumindest alle Schiffe wieder entgegennehmen. Natürlich hast du ohne das DLC keine XP und musst beim ersten Rang anfangen. 

PPS. Für HANSA @Captain Cid

Für PGP @Salty Sails

Für HRE @Bumsebiene

Für HREKK @Sven Silberbart

Für Purg3 ingame Gooser

Für GDL @Petrel (GDL)

Für Kings (Briten) @Jonathan Arlington (falls noch/wieder aktiv)

Ansonsten einfach im Global fragen und abends pms verteilen 

o7

 

 

[Naval Action Freedom Cry]

49 minutes ago, Banished Privateer said:

@LeBoiteux @Palatinose Don't expect too much geographical knowledge from a US player. 

Didn't want to point out this in europe widely spread prejudice ..

[Naval Action Freedom Cry]

Ukraine is western europe, penguines live in greenland and San Francisco is located at the atlantic ocean. 

[Total Wipe at Release - a suggestion]

@Anolytic nice proposal. Good thing about it is the first two weeks, when the map gets filled by nations capping ports, really everybody is "equal" (as Monkey said: years of experience is enough, therefore equal is kinda relative again).

The problem I see is: groups like yours or mine or any RvR focussed group aka multiple alt users. For AI pbs no knowledge is necessary, only time. Which is the only real advantage of alts. 

On the other hand there is no solution to this ever reoccuring problem. Therefore I really like your proposal.

[Crash of Cartagena]

25 minutes ago, Christendom said:

We did it first try.  Just need Lord of The Screeners to be there.

sheesh boii !! no credits to Amplify from me. I won't share the title "EZ content creator".

[PB's - efficient counter for denying a fight and griefing]

@vazco you recognize putting in a certain amount of dubs dir being allowed to only flip a port and being screened out penalizes the attacker twice. Most likely they will lose the entire pb fleet in the screening fight and additionally donate 30k dubs to the defender. In that case Hey would anyone aim to go for the pb if you can simply screen and get kills and extra dubs on top? Why would anyone attack "zerg nations"? 

I principially like the idea, it's the players who would kill it though.

[Reverse Crying in the Stream]

1 minute ago, Captain Reverse said:

But in last paytowin cry topic, he say: I easy win anyone in any 5rates in my herc. 

So I propose test that.

 

Buy Yea, second duel we can do in 5-3-2-1 rates 

You know as well as I do, that certain tactics work in 80-90% of the population. For example 12pd carro Belle Poule, you will sink many, als you also know it won't work against any player who knows what to do. Same goes for Herc vs Indef. Sry mate but that proposal only will prove Pit has a big mouth sometimes as everyone has.