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I'll happily sub you the money while you get on with the latest edition of L2K and find out where all the denizens of global went ( which nations etc ) if nothing else, this merge will have plenty of people scurrying around the map looking for a home , new allies and old enemies steam sale too soon by my reckoning and who knows, maybe the devs will announce on their steam page that there has been a merger etc and the players get on with playing the game and not bitching !!

to be fair, most people seem to only be missing a couple or so forged papers and a couple of redeemable aggies, everything else of mine ( clan bank ... everything...) is all there my guess is that the free redeemables we were recently given have overwritten somehow the same redeemables we were given on the other server but thats my best guess

they didn't transfer over no , not sure if they should have done either. My little eu char had his but no more transfered when my global toon dissapeared. couple of aggies and 3 papers the rest all looks good afaik

well at least in the case of Captain Bligh and the Bounty which is well documented , he was subjected to a rather extensive investigation. Even history has wavered on whether he was a good captain or behaved badly in the well known case. He was given commands after being evicted from the Bounty but only after a proper enquiry. Captains who lost their ships in battle etc probably had similar enquiries

I'm running the same old card as you , I had an issue with the asus tweak program which halved my fps and also I have had to turn my quality settings down a notch and fps is stable enough to play. I am also running an old and stable driver. clean install of drivers as Ink mentioned and see if you have any other tools running in the background that could affect the gfx

Double it up. Needs to penalize. Right now 4 mill would be like sticking your fingers up at those who turn up to defend

Easiest way to get more PVP , become one of the small nations. Rather than muddle on with the same 3 Power-blocks and their Mexican standoff , try something else. None of you want to become the smallest of the 3 and fall foul of the other 2 so much it beggars belief. There are only 5-6 clans who are really interested in RVR and if they really want to PVP then thinking outside the box is required. It's perfect feasible for you to split into different Nations, you've all got Forged Papers but that means you would all have to risk getting attacked by a larger force ... I'd agree it would make it easier if there was a well placed free town within fair reach of everybody but that wasn't thought of before map reset. Perhaps it could be done now, have a think about where ? Global server is a doomed idea right now and people on it are still whining about PB times when the whole idea was to be able to have them whenever players wanted. It takes one 5 man clan to run up hostility and create more issues and only 1 nation has the chance of policing their own players because of mechanics. Shift into different nations and have a scaled down version of EU which seems quite vibrant right now. Just my thoughts..

In fairness , they do read plenty but we aren't always sure whether stuff we suggest is doable or codeable or even makes sense. Sometimes the stuff we come up with looks good on paper but can't be done or at least is hard to put into the current game. All that being said, a comment from a dev along the lines of yay , nay or maybe would help us sometimes i like the idea , it could open up other ideas with regard to bounties. Imagine Liq's contract with Redii's head on it ( for example )

Yep , player driven contracts would be great. ( Could also use them for deliveries of goods of all sorts too )

If it meant finding out what is North East of Bermuda and adding a way for us globals to meet and greet our Euro relatives via a long sea voyage ? yes please

hehe Norf , set up a Holiday clan , I'll pop over for a break. Brits please or Rodents for the lols

yep , also delivery orders giving xp perhaps. Deliver what the originator of the order wants , gets xp and an amount of gold depending on distance travelled ? plenty of other similar ideas , along with a bounty system perhaps a form of job board at capitals where players can take work if they want ? Could be good for new players to feel part of the world early on, rather than AI giving them 50xp missions that don't help other players.

Flashing map icon ( flag ) when hostility is happening ?

Green is already taken by mods. Don't really think anybody outside the clan / nation needs to know if somebody is designated a crafter and maybe has a different perk setup ? can't say I believe it's of importance IMHO

From a personal POV , I play on global and live in the EU like a good many others. Most players join the server with the best latency unless they have prior knowledge of the game and understand about Pb timers and primetime. Most players learn about this as they level up ( slowly) and many don't care ( why should they ) about the other server(s) The devs will have the information regarding player numbers and where they are from and I get the impression that the majority are not USA based but EU , the OZ / KIWI contingent being the smallest. That's my guess having played on both and disregarding a poll based on noisy players who spend more time on the forums than in game. i'd propose a different poll. More to do with character transfer and see how many of us would move if we were given a choice to move with all our goods from 1 o the other ? Global - EU or vice versa but any server merge would have to have a real poll ingame, 1 player ( not account ) having a vote as I feel that there are many here only looking out for what they want and not what is in the best interests of the game. We need more players , having only 1 server would help that because we are the content but it doesn't solve the ping issues or the PB timers Players chose their server and I would guess many would abandon global for the EU server rather than the other way round. Hijacking the EU player base and giving them worse pings and a playstyle they voted against seems like a losing idea to me.

Yes I realise the last part and voted as such, legends testing at the weekend sounds great, dragging players away from the ow sandbox game for a pre organised pvp fest ... not so much

go test Legends

Do you expect me to talk ?

Great , this flag always makes me think of the following image from a favourite film Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines

In fairness to the parties involved, there are 3 dogs in the fight at the moment and any of them with an ounce of grey cells will hope that 2 of the others fight it out, they even try to instigate this. Until such a time when the dynamic shifts , the stronger of the dogs will be the one who watches the other two fight it out. rats were vulnerable before VCO bolstered their ranks and weakened the Gb. Usa are still learning but have more numbers than before

@monk33y any idea about the number of clans holding ports on the EU server ? rather than nations ?

this is why i like the idea of either doing away with nations as they stand and being totally clan based or by having more nations available. This way the ow rules and pb rules could remain intact. It's not perfect any way we slice it, but we should be working towards a trial of some of the possible soultions. I'll test anything that helps pvp on the ow and pb's but National alliances forcing everybody in that nation to act a certain way isn't good for everybody Lets not forget how global chat becomes heated when somebody loses some pixels, imagine the cancer in national channel when clans start on each other for a pixel port or 2

If it was only clan vs clans in Port Battles , quite a few of them would be running away from anybody able to field a full 25 clan port battle. Outside in the OW it could be very different Lets hope we see more clan vs clan going forward but i think a reduction from 25 to 15 (PB's) might help. There seems to be no clan right now who could fill a 25 without multiboxers and setting a time that suits everybody