Hullabaloo

Sorry Ink if I have duplicated this but I don't see any record of the topic I posted yesterday. Yesterday myself and another player were subjected to a tirade of abuse by another player "Ostupnik" which included racist abuse and comments about his mother. I included the screen shot, I will paste here again just in case. The strange thing was it was unprovoked, it began before the battle even commenced and anything at all was said. There had been no direct interactions (battles) with the player beforehand. I realise that this has been scrolled so I have added another that includes the very start of the exchange. ty

Was in battle with Pirates. Both were sunk and battle was effectively over just waiting for last enemy ship to sink. Just seconds before Player 'Hell Crab' sank a Hercules joined 'Captain Agey'. It immediately upped sails and sailed in completely the opposite direction to where all other ships were. One of our ships was de-masted and taking fire from the fort. The timing was such that it was very obvious that the Herc joined at request, simply to prevent the battle ending. He joined the battle with no intention of fighting. It didn't work as the de-masted ship was able to rep sails and sail away, but it was still a long delay. I warned the player concerned that I felt this was not allowed but no repsonse. This must surely be an exploit. Please tell me this is not allowed. I have provided a screenshot but I have recorded a video if required. If nothing ever gets done, people will just keep doing it. ty

Santa Celia also has initial 20 prep i think

I have had a problem for months now that often I get the 'boarded' notification in combat news but when I sink the ship the 'sank' notification doesn't show. I still get the xp and the mission % and the leader board points though, it just doesn't register the sinking on combat news.

Looks to me like: Russia lost a Pavel and a Implac, Sweden lost 2 Christians, Prussia lost nothing, Brits got into PB. Job done. Was fun fight though, thank goodness for screening eh, without it, this game would be unplayable.....;)

I don't think anything can be done. Even if those clans left there would soon just be a different zerg. At least REDS and BF were there from the start. As for those that have recently switched. I have no respect for it, but they do what they do. As for 'burn out', try defending ports when you have players in your PB fleet who can't even tack properly cos you simply don't have the numbers! That will give you burn out! :)

I believe so yes, xp is related to BR difference of you and the enemy ship (and the amount of damage you do hull sail and crew). Your rank just means you might be in bigger ships so more damage, more xp. I think your approach is a good one: just sail the ships you can and have fun and just let the rank xp look after itself. Focus more on opening the knowledge slots you want on the ships you like to sail and the ranks will come by themselves.

I think it is already there. Penetrating shots do kill crew, and you can look on this as 'wounding' if you like by simply viewing the total number of crew as a representation of your crew's overall effectiveness, rather than an actual headcount, (particularly as they can be 'resurrected' with a bit of rum anyway). 'Spalling', as you put it, occurs, as crew damage is heavily influenced by the wood type and it's splinter resistance and the angle of shot penetration. Crew numbers have a massive effect on the battle, affecting sailing, reloading and boarding. LOL, apologies, this is not a Naval Action post

Yes, my understanding is that if you are tagged by an enemy ship that is too big for the PZ then that is just a normal open world battle (no circle of death)

Enemy ship captured in the battle?

tony8888 sank a Pirate player at Aves, 5 times in the space of about 40 mins

Hey Felix Just a suggestion: Apologies if this has been mentioned before but on the Ship Stats/Comparison section I think it would be useful to show the Main sail and Stay sail areas of each ship, and/or some kind of figure representing the ratio between the two, perhaps just a %. This gives the user another indication of how it might sail some more info as to how well it how it tacks and the relative benefit and hindrance in performance of both Pirate and Spanish rig refits on the particular ship. I believe admin posted these values for all the ships somewhere on this forum.

PvP/PZ Rewards. PvP Rewards should reflect more the kind of battle you have won and the risk you have taken and what you have achieved. You should get virtually nothing for a big gank or sinking an LGV in an Endymion. You should get a big reward for an equal BR fight or a 1v1 duel. The rewards are too great for PZs too (I think you are even thinking of improving them further?). Nobody really risks anything as they just use throwaway ships fit for brawling so there is no cost/result/consequence. It favours large clans/nations who dominate with sheer numbers and yet the leader board reflects who has the most resources/DLC/mates to throw ships at it and stack up kills, combat medals and PvP Hunt missions . I don't mind having PZ's for people who want to do arena style insta combat but the rewards and leader board should reflect that they are risk free and promote more organic OW PvP which is better imo and which the high PZ rewards draw players away from. Rewards should be reduced for DLC ships too, again reflecting the lack of risk. There is too much emphasis on BR size (as opposed to BR difference) too. Yesterday I was sailing around in an Endymion, I had some nice 1v1 frigate battles but didn't rack up many points. Later I was in a Christian and ganked a couple of Redoubtables with mates and then I sank a shit admiralty 3rd rate with crap upgrades. It was easy and yet I suddenly leapt up the leaderboard and came out with an Admiralty Chest and 45 PvP Medals.

leaks maybe?

I got tagged by the same Prince 5 times in a row yesterday. The first 3 just to keep me in place til his mates arrived the 4th and 5th when he tried (and failed) to chain me down so they could catch. They didn't even get close. In the final battle I repped only once and after over an hour my sails were at 98%. It took over 2 hours until they finally gave up. Theoretically they could have done it for another 2. You might argue that they did nothing wrong but if so then there is something fundamentally wrong with ROE atm where someone can waste hour after hour of your game-time with very little possibility of an end result. I understand that it is very difficult to apply concrete rules to this. I would suggest an 'ungentlemanly conduct' (very British lol) rule where a common sense ruling is made on a case by case basis. In Despe's case imo they wasted an unreasonable amount of time on something that had very little chance of success and that should qualify as 'griefing'. Either that or change the ROE

Hi, I was in battle with a Rattsivan, (myself and a Swedish player who i was sailing with who joined the battle near the end). This took ages because the Ratt ran for ages and only asked for 1v1 after I had spent ages catching him. Soon after a Brit Prince joined, player name 'Thomas Slade'. You can see from the screenshot below I sank the Rattsivan at 16:23. The Prince proceeded to tag me, staying just in range and upwind. I had badly damaged sails from the Ratt fight so had to wait for a rep and then sail downwind to lose him. He kept tagging for as long as he possibly could keeping me in the battle for a good 20 mins extra. When I left the battle he immediately tagged me again keeping me in a battle for a further 15 mins and staying at distance for the entire fight. When I left again he immediately tagged me a 3rd time. We had the following conversation: I escaped the battle again. At no time in any of these battles did he approach my ship. He made it clear he was only there to delay me until his friends arrived. When i left this battle there was an ingermanland and an agga. They chased me for long while. The inger was faster than me downwind and the Prince was faster upwind. After a long chase the Prince tagged me for a 4th time. This time he did attempt to chain me down so the inger could catch. (NB: I had been out for couple of hours and had only 4 hull reps remaining). That's fair enough but he tried and failed. This took a further 45 mins. Even then he kept his distance at the end when the inger was way off and still kept me tagged in unnecessarily. He kept way out of danger only being close enough to keep me tagged in: During this battle we had a short short convo: THroughout these battles he made it clear that he was deliberately wanting to waste time When I left that battle there was another chase and the Prince tagged me for a 5th time It went exactly the same as the last battle. There was no chance that he was going to slow me enough for the inger to catch but even when that was perfectly obvious and the inger was barely in sight he continued to tag. It was even more obvious this time, they were miles away and I didn't even have to rep, it wasn't even close. I went afk for 10 mins. After 45 mins they had my sails down to 98%! Eventually the inger gave up and left but the Prince STILL kept me in battle for another 20 mins or so! I eventually returned to Tumbado at 18:40. Over 2 hours later!!! This is no good. This is 2 hours completely wasted and totally boring and frustrating game time for no other reason but to be vindictive. I honestly not looking for punishment for this individual, he's just a 'scum sucking bum bailey'. But there needs to be some sort of message sent to make it clear what is acceptable and what is not. If this is not 'Griefing' then perhaps there is a problem in the current ROE. Cheers

Levelling the playing field? Have you gone mad? I would suggest this: 'Port Bonused Seasoning Sheds' - Clans can invest in 'seasoning experts' so that woods seasoned in that port get even more bonuses Then: 'Elite Victory upgrades' - these would be even more elite elite upgrades that confer even more bonuses but can only be purchased with Victory Marks. AND then wait a few weeks and introduce: 'Elite Seasoning Expert Officer Port Bonused Victory Upgrade Trims' - These would have all of the above so as to add yet more bonuses and all ships crafted would be....wait for it....'Platinum' ! with ALL the trims, all the Port and wood bonuses and 6 upgrade slots! These would only be available to Officers of whichever clan owns the most ports and Officers of clans who are on their friendly clan list. Benefits A select few players sail even better ships simply by being associated with the richest clan and can consider themselves 'elite' players. You can claim to have introduced even more new 'content' without really doing anything very much Downsides A few of the scrubs might complain, but pfft! who cares?

Not really. I think he is just saying that DD perk should be temporarily suspended when you are crew shocked. Quite simple to implement i think.

oh nice! ty @Liq

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I have found a duping bug! 100% certain. Allows you to place upgrades onto a ship and then apply it to another also. What do i do? If i explain it on here everyone will start doing it!! dev pm me or i can just explain it on here?

Hi I am having problems logging into alt steam account with sandboxie. It logs into steam but everything is blank. I have tried creating a new sandbox and browsing to the steam.exe launcher in the program files but still not working. I have even un-installed and re-installed sandboxie but to no avail. Anyone experiencing similar issue and/or know of a fix?

same

rumour has it, that it changes the appearance of your ship, so you look like an Indiaman but you are in fact a Bellona

What took them so long? Russians should have taken the map ages ago! It took them 8 PBs yes but it was aIways inevitable. The only way to defend in the long term is to prevent hostility and you can't prevent hostility when no one is online. Last hostility we talked about responding and we had 4 players with 1st rates available. Everyone has 'given up' because everyone is bored. They log in for the PB for a nice fight yes, but nobody cares cos everyone knew what was going to happen months ago. I have 2 1st rates stuck in Cartegena now (cos i don't play weekends, another shit mechanic and btw @admin - re: your post fyi Eve online has something called 'Asset Safety' so you do NOT lose your stuff if a Structure gets destroyed). I will now have to sail to the port in a tlynx and then sail them out again x2. Will I bother? Will I hello kitty. I'm not wasting 3 hours of my life on that shit. Russians have won in RvR, good on them, well done, (a high enough proportion of active experienced players clicked on the white flag with the blue X, that's what decided it all and that's when it was decided, the rest is just a long boring wait for the inevitable). And If/when they eventually get round to taking the crafting Ports, even more will quit. So I'm 'crying' yes, I'm crying about the fact that nobody cares about Cartegena or Maracaibo or who wins RvR cos its all so dull. *just logged in game and seen the multi-flip lol