Aquillas

No. I am a lover of small ships. I have a lot of kills, even in Traders Lynx. I do think that people sailing only in Trincs, Indefs, and so on, just don't have the challenging spirit to try Lynx, Navy Brig, Privateers and so on. All that ships are very fun to use! None are dead! May be, the volunteer spirit of players to challenge themselves must born again. Just have a look on some fun... All these fight were successful, some times requiring some inventive reactions, and I do not always have the kill. But Naval Action is featuring a period filled of goose quills, not only goose kills. Isn't it?

Would be such a marveeeeeeeel! I want that for Xmas! Please @admin, I was quite a nice kid!

Xmas time before Xmas date? Good to know!

Many players of big nations have several accounts. Doing the way proposed by @Nooop, these players will move one to the small nation. This would imbalance this small nation more than it is right now.

In Naval Action, a good Russian is a swimming Russian

If a DLC ship comes in game with same data than a craftable ship, she will stay inferior to the craftable ship, because of the port boni, which are applicable to crafted ships only. DLC's have some bonus, but these cannot be chosen by players. Which is good for keeping crafting worth and alive.

I'd immediately purchase the "Pomone" DLC, as soon as available.

Really, there is more satisfaction to tag a Indianman in a Lynx than in a Trincomalee or in a Xebec. But this is not a guaranteed victory (the last one escaped from my guns, Grrrrrr). And I got so many fun fights in tiny ships! No way, or long way, for me to leave the love of my youth. [BASTD] & YMCA for ever! Can you feel, in a Christian VII, the satisfaction I got when killing in a single (and lucky) Lynx rake, 78 crews out of a Trinc? And you know what? This Trinc was later boarded and captured... I did not get the kill, this was just one more smiling event.

By the way, I am not sure that long guns in broadsides was historically correct (or even possible, due to weight and lenght of the guns compared to ship width). On photographs and videos of the Victory, the 32pd guns seem to be medium lenght.

La question n'est pas autour d'une nation, russe ou autre. La question est plutôt de savoir si le RVR est ou non l'unique activité du jeu. Quelle est l'activité des screeners (a priori bientôt réduite à rien quand les flottes de PB pourront directement "téléporter" au port attaqué). Quelle autre activité que les PB? Crafting et commerce ont été cassés par le patch 27. Pour ceux qui veulent absolument progresser vite, PVE ad nauseam. Les autres, PVP, c'est possible dans toutes les nations. A part les Polonais, il reste à tout le monde au moins un port à peu près potable.

I don't like them. None of them. I have zero slot on them, in fact zero XP on any of these ships. And not at all interested in developing XP on them. People and developers have to admit the fact that some players will never be found of using big tanks, otherwise I would play World of Tanks. Some players have stats similar to mine: I have presently 4000+ hours in game on my main account. I have zero XP in any 1st rate. I have no 1st rate on my docks. I have zero XP in any 2nd rate. I have no 2nd rate on my docks. I have zero XP in any 3rd rate. I have one Wasa on my docks, a gift by a mate. I never used it. I have 2 slots free on one 4th rate (Ruattvisan), mainly due to screen battles, otherwise I almost don't use it. I unslotted completely the Xebec, for participation to PB. Useless development, because PB's are for 1st rates only at the moment. I have 1 or 2 slots on the Pandora and the Hermione, the only 5th rates I used since wipe. I tried the Trinc and scrapped it. And I pretend to play Naval Action, in spite of regular "irony" (and even insults) from capital gankers: "Aquillas, when will you come in fight in a real ship?". @admin, is my Navy Brig a real ship?

I never understood really the reason for permit wall. I read that this is for limiting the number of big ships in the open world. As a result, only 1st rates, Christians, Wasas ans Trincs can be seen. Great variety! Great achievement of permitting... But this is absolutely normal, and players can't be blamed, because all recent content is made for big ships only, preferably 1st rates: PB's in which 1st rates only can come in (for max BR reasons), raids, NPC PB's are for 1st rates only. All new content is for 1st rates only. Smaller ships are all sentenced to death. Nerfing trade missions, nerfing mortars, just removed smaller ships out of the game and out of PBs. Because they have no content, except one: new players in small ship or in undercrewed medium ship must be and stay easy victims for veterans in charge of the leaderboard kikimeter. So that, in fact, veterans in small and medium ships are just to try and help new players starting in game. This is a fact, and this will stay like that because nothing is announced in the development plan to change that fact. Veterans in small ships are just baby-keepers. Hardly recruiting function, but in fact, baby killers are more rewarded in game than baby keepers, maybe one of the reasons of the poor player retention in this game. Permits do not help. Permits are all toxic.

@Ferdinand de LaSalle, this message is for you! @beall2022 You can contact in game "Ferdinand de Lasalle", he is in FROG clan, an English speaking clan in France.

+1

And it is easy to leak her to death.

That's true too. Probably some players made errors yesterday: not entering in battle when being tagged, not informing others in TS. Maybe the same in Roseau. I ever got the case of being tagged just out of a port, going to battle without attack notice and seeing later (TAB) that I wasn't dragged in someone else battle, but just attacked and information not given by game. Shit happens. What was new, at least for me, yesterday was the fist time I saw a screening fleet (and the one of the second nation in RVR ranking) being unable to enter in fight. No offense here to any nation in-game, just some surprise. Even knowing that the British population in-game have a lot of first lieutenants, we lived with it up to now. From now, we cannot live with it anymore: this is the new summit.

Where is the accusation in my post?

In Little Cayman, the Russian screen was so strong that the British screen could not even attack it (insufficient BR). As a result, a part of the British PB fleet could not join the battle (and was sunk 6v21). The game imbalance reached new summits yesterday. But this is the game too: no balancing rule on game, no balancing rule foreseen.

@MassimoSud With the kind authorization of clan officers, I will make a technical survey (starting at Basse Terre) to provide feedback and support to local communities. Then I'll sail South to open an outpost around Fort-Zoutman for giving my 32 pound contribution to "diplomatic activities". @Thonys, this outpost could also be used for screening against Russians in the area (the time this still can be done). Sinking Russians is my utmost fun in this game, whatever other wars status.

By the way, and from an historical point of view, I did prefer the war declaration made by @sveno some years ago, when he attacked the French Antilles because of the presence of the best hookers of the map at Basse-Terre. Relations between kingdoms are less poetic by now… I have some nostalgy!

@Thonys, I personally have no reason to fear that war and my diplomatic range is now voluntarily limited to the range of a 32pd caronade. But for sake of clarity, why didn't you add in the reasons for war the Dutch squads which are daily chasing Brit traders around KPR since one month after release? I propose this new reason for war: During several months, Great Britain did not lose patience and just defended traders and new players around his capital. VP cannot do that and due to a two day counter-attack by GB, VP is obliged to declare a war that VP is in fact making since release. I think this is more matching facts. Good luck & have fun! Faithfully yours

Maybe, at the end of the battle, a message could be automatically generated to all: "During this battle, player XXXXXX had a Loki Rune" To get confirmed of the Loki jump, To get the name of the players involved in.

The only time I was jumped by Loki, I had no doubt. The "NPC" fired chains to my sails (I knew from that moment this was a player). I managed to board him, and he was firing broadsides during boarding, showing that the player was still there. I was not surprised by the combat news, reporting that I boarded and sunk a Spanish player, but I don't know who he is (no chat during battle and no answer after). And as the NPC was initially an elite one, I got the note.

Same for me. I have fought with and against Capt Smile. Never got any problem.