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2 minutes ago, Chijohnaok said:
Sounds like fun.
You're so creative to have come up with this idea...
Uh... he listed at least two separate people who did this before him...
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Just now, Hethwill said:
We must rise above such petty squabbles
At least write a story about it, embellish it with tales of bravery and stuff. You know, good propaganda ;)
lol had it been a good natured encounter, I certainly might.
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10 hours ago, Comrade I Stalin said:
That is very noble of you,and I apllaud you, but what does it have to do with other players playing the game the way they want?
One porting nations eliminates players and posibility of PVP. You looking at the result of Mega Alliance dominance. But thats politics of the server. You cannot attack 80% of players and AI on the server, so you go look for it elsewhere, unfortunatelly Experinced players have no reason to be there now.
My point was you were hunting there, hoping to get a good PVP, or sinking AI, or getting fresh air, all legitimate reasons, but from his point of view, you were blockading La Tortue and assembling a gank squad. As I suggested in my earleir post, you might want to look at things from the other player perspective before passing judgement. Not once I said he was defensive. Pirates are not defensive by definition, you do not become pirate if you are not aggressive.
In 3 weeks we get a new game. I am happy that you guys are still motivated to come out. That would be awesome 2-3 weeks ago, before the announcement. Now, really no point if you maxed out.
My point wasn't grief but rather this: Not a day has gone by where I haven't seen Pirates complain about being outnumbered and essentially bullied in battle. And yet I have not had a single pirate interaction where they sought to bring more than 4 times my BR to the fight. To me, it's hypocritical, and I felt it was worth pointing out.
As per his point of view, I get that. Which is why when the battle started and I saw the numbers arrayed against us (Right on top of us, many of them) my assumption was at first that it was a mistake on his part (We've all pulled in a target and accidentally dragged in AI. It happens.) so I came up battle text to say "Hey man, there's no chance of survival here with these AI. We're gonna run." which could easily be followed up with something to the effect of 'Oh yeah, with 15 some-odd more ships and SOL, running makes sense'. Instead it was met with calls of 'Coward! US is a bunch of cowards!' which again, to me, sounded foolish. And to go beyond that, I DID tell him we're not out to gank n00bs (Hell, we passed a kid in a Trader Snow, when he started trying to run, we came up on global to let him know he wouldn't be attacked, he could continue his course) so there was no need to try to bully us out of the water. His choice of action? Bring another overwhelming fleet and try to do it again, all the while calling 'Coward' that we wouldn't dive into 5 times the number of ships we had, all of which outgunned us.
This isn't a "NERF PIRATES!" post. More I thought it was worth pointing out that for all the cries of 'unfair numbers' I've seen from Pirates, it seems to be the only tactic they know in return.
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23 minutes ago, Comrade I Stalin said:
Did you even read my reply? Does not look like it. Read it slower please.
If you have a legimtimate complaint its fine., but all I see is story about someone using a fleet to tag you. I am sure you were in La Tortue to get fresh air with your friends in fast frigates. Totally inocent gathering with no evil thought in sight.
You want to personally atack me, fine dont care, more fun for me. It is a reflection of who you are and how you deal with other gamers.
At least be honest with it. When I hunt I hunt. If someone using fleet to escape, so be it, part of game mechanic. If someone using fleet to fight me, that is fairly easy to avoid in a fast ship vs SOL fleet and usually get the player if he makes a mistake or two. So what is a big deal?
Your mate thinks newbs spawn at Kidds, ok sure why not, goes with the rest of your story quite well.
Cheers
I read your point quite clearly. You accused us of trying to gank him, playing it off as if he was the poor victim having to resort to a fleet to survive when it was quite the opposite, he was attacking people fresh out of port using a fleet to hide and throwing insults at us for being smarter than to take the bait.
As to our purposes there, we were out hunting NPC groups as we have pushed you so far back that there isn't any other hunting ground near our shores. We very specifically do NOT attack your players who are outmatched.
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10 minutes ago, Teutonic said:
I think the main point I'm getting is both sides should stop yelling at each other about being cowards. In any normal situation a play that is outnumbers has every right to run, or at least get in a situation that gives him the advantage yeah? In the end, don't take it personally. Best thing you can do is ignore it and just get the best fights you're looking for, while dealing with the situations you don't like the best you can.
Running away is a legit tactic and don't let others get under your skin because of it. Everyone does it, everyone goes for the situation that gives them the advantage.
I certainly agree with you there.
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15 minutes ago, Comrade I Stalin said:
1 You go to pirate heavy area and get attacked. You were trying to gank a trader. Player outsmarted you by using AI fleet, get over it. What did you want him to do? Let you go? Let you gank him? What is the point of your complaint? Noone likes AI fleets but for some reason lots of players use them. AI fleets were requested by players in your Alliance btw. You did not pay attention to your surrounding and its pirates fault. Got it. I am rarely in even fight. It is fine, gives me more satisfaction to fight against odds.
No one ganked him buttercup. No one even clicked on him to see him there, as we were grouping up to head elsewhere and he was INSIDE our ships when we spawned.
Funny... I DO recognize your name from attacking baby traders off the East Coast though, so I guess I'm not surprised you're rushing in to pretend your pirate was defensive...
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4 minutes ago, Sir Texas Sir said:
Looks like some one got tagged in the Valley of Death (La Torte area). There is a reason you need to watch out, even if he didn't mean to there are all ways tons of AI for who ever owns that region around.
As for our complaint it's not with Big AI fleets as I think every one hates them including us, what we hate is Port Battles when you bring 35+ and screen against 20 guys. It's a big over kill and when US can bring just there own 25+ (they have the last few port battles) they don't need to be in an alliance with the second largest nation GB. Though this is going to get resolved hopefully when the next patch comes out. Two largest nations should not have had a port battle since Auguast of last year.
Now as for your own words you said he keep leaving and following fleets. Wouldn't that gives you a hint that he's being careful to not be attacked by two suprses? While he's in a lower BR ship a Cerberus? While some might be able to beat those odds, but not many unless the two surprises where two idiots. I'm going to say your not so if your in the same boot you would pull the fleet with you to.
Now show me a screen shot of like 15 pirates vs your 2 (and I'm not counting AI's pulled) and than we can talk about unfariness.
Next time don't hunt in that area and be more aware of what is around you when your popping in and out of the port. It's not like he tagged the fleet and pulled you in, he tagged you and pulled ya'll in. You had to get close enough for a tagg so I'm going to bet you where going for a gank on him and got screwed out of it cause you didn't see the fleets around you.
No, but nice try swinging the blame. We both left port. Before our sails had a chance to raise, HE had attacked us with the fleets there. As we attempted to leave the area after having escaped, he followed us to engage, again, with a numbers advantage.
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2 minutes ago, Hethwill said:
Ah !
I won't deny you but some of the streams i've watched from PvP2 were actually... not...exactly that scenario
being the black flag folk fighting against the odds.
Well, that's equally damnable. Don't get me wrong, I'm just as cranky at the US guys who don't see an issue setting up at La Tortue and ganking Pirate n00bs. I don't see the fun in seal clubbing... not at all. I guess I just expect far too much in the vein of honor. For me and mine, I have a standing rule that if a player's BR is less than ours, we will NOT attack. Maybe I'm silly for that, but to me it means something.
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24 minutes ago, Hethwill said:
Awesome.
We all have to put stuff out of our chests sometimes, guess the veiled content of the thread ( not the screenshot itself ) is one of them.
Feeling better now sir ?
Eh, I've only served to confirm that Pirates only play with at least 3x the BR of their enemies.
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5 minutes ago, Forphuxakes said:
Stay away from Pirate ports and you wont be anywhere near the fleets...Can i ask why you are near one of our ports? Maybe you are looking for some PvP but cant find anyone else on the server because you are stuck in a master Alliance?
Me and a few of the new guys I dragged in have been hunting NPC ships to engage. The largest we can muster is a Surprise each for the two of us, and Cerberus and smaller for the other three, and since there isn't much drive among players to provide a fair match, we focus mostly on NPCs lest this situation happen.
31 minutes ago, Hethwill said:One screenshot doesn't cut it
Nothing more to show, lol. Surprise is fast, and I made good on that speed running like a little girl.
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6 minutes ago, Nikodemus said:
OP This stuff happens to everyone, part of the game. I logged into a 15 person french fleet (players) one day. They sank me as they should.
Oh I get that. I'm not saying it's a game issue. I just find it amusing that Global is full of Pirates crying about how they're the victims of US bullies, but the first encounter I have with a Pirate player is THAT fleet, and him calling me out for not wanting to fight that lol.
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He grabbed us as we left port, so there was no chance to move.
And then proceeded to follow us, only the following time with a fleet of Ingermanlands. Each time we escaped he would follow with a larger and larger fleet, all the while screaming that "US never fights! You just run away!"
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So, I've seen a LOT of Pirates in PvP2 complaining that Americans don't play nice, that the Pirates are the REAL victims... and then I get this lovely fleet after me and they wonder why I don't want to stay and fight?
Just wanted to throw this out here. Whine and complain all you want, but I doubt anyone here would take these odds.
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I really like this idea!
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Wut?
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14 hours ago, Anne Wildcat said:
If ship building were brought back to capital areas, trade missions would be riskier, and more fun. Right now capitals seem very dead. Have done trade missions and at most have seen 2 players at the same time at a capital.
I like this thought process in particular, as well as the other suggestions.
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I would like to very enthusiastically add my name to the support list for this! Little bits of customization like that go a LONG way to getting everyone immersed and in love more than they already are!
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1 hour ago, Pad Seayew said:
And correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think they put HMS on the stern of RN ships, just the name. I defer to our much more knowledgeable members.
I suppose if we think of NA ships more as "based upon" or "inspired by" it could work in my head.
I understand your love of history, and share it, but I think the barrier is broken when we have twelve ships all with "Surprise" on their stern looking identical...
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I would just like to chime in on this. I love the ability to craft a ship to the trim and focus you'd like her to have, but not being able to name her is quite a crime. I know for myself and the friends I've recently dragged in here, the ability to feel a real ownership and connection to the ship that comes from being able to give her a name is really worth looking into. Heck since kickstarters are a thing here, I'll put into a kickstarter to be able to have our ships name on her stern! Being able to customize small things like the flags, pennants, and names, may seem small, but they have a huge effect on players' immersion.
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1 hour ago, Sir Texas Sir said:
Econ is ment to be player driven instead of I provided so this patch is going to be a big eye opener for folks as we have to actually gasp.....BUY STUFF FROM EACH OTHER.
I see that absolutely KILLING new players... seeing things like labor contracts going for north of a million gold, it won't take long for the big guys to simply buy n00bs out of any ability to craft.
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