Vizzini

Having recently gone through all this GB to Fr recently Move all your assets and ships to a freeport and create a base there. Be happy if it isn't a 2 hour sail to nearest freeport craft xp and rank xp are unaffected as the forged paper says , remove all old bases but not the freeport new base where all your stuff is stored then use the forged paper that is fixed to that character ( I have 2 on a char on pvp eu ) if you have another tied to that character, or the devs give you another in the future, then you could do this all again in the opposite direction. If you only have 1 forged paper , until such time as we are able to trade, buy or be given them by the devs it is a one way trip

Anything that gets players onto the OW fighting each other should be tried, tested and tinkered with until it works the way the playerbase and devs want it to we should not shy away from testing different mechanics and those who are too set in their ways or too jaded to see that changes are needed should be ignored as they are not helping the game

Try having a base within 30 mins sailing of an enemy. It's as hard as people want it to be right now. Be more mobile, don't have a safe base 2 hours away from the hotspots

Keep combat ... one of the better changes in the last few months

All this voting , no wonder you lot haven't got time to look for enemies to fight

I like the idea , no more forced care bear alliances I didn't sign up for. True enough I wanted clan wars or war companies being able to fight each other but I can understand how toxic that would have made it inside a nation. People thinking we could have had clan wars inside a nation are kidding themselves, look how toxic people can get in global when they lose a ship. Imagine how bad it could get when they get booted out of Carta ? No more councils deciding who we are allowed to attack and at what time. I like it

I agree with a fair bit of this, sadly there are many who thought we were getting "clan wars" and the ability to sort out differences within a nation. If we had known for sure we would be forced into infantile national agreements over which clan from which nation we could attack and at what time... we could have split of into the smaller nations for more fun Sadly, we would all need to go Pirate to be free of forced diplomacy and there are clans on GB who would have probably forged paper to safety by now if clan wars had really started

Monkey, I wouldn't get so bent out of shape regarding all this carta tar , quantitative easing business right now. Devs put in a short term fix, it's not like they are propping up a clan like Greece or Spain IRL Seriously though, it might look like a lot of one way gold going towards a clan right now, but it's not really much different short term than another nations clan all of a sudden using their forged papers and bringing loads of ships and materials with them is it ? Short term blip that might look big on the graph right now , but not for long. Much like Black wednesday in the '80s stock market.

we have flashing ports right now indicating open for all i think. be handy if they could flash when hostility is ongoing perhaps ? I like the solid colour thought for capitals too

15 looks like a good number to me for PB's Many large clans on global struggle to fill the 25 with their own team , fewer players in the battle would be easier to manage. If a clan had a lot of players then they could always have twice as many PB's Might help keep PB's going with limited pop also. Right now a larger team turning up and making ( for example ) 16-24 could cause the smaller team to run without fighting. If you knew you were'nt going to be outnumbered by quite so many at the start then maybe you might stay worth talking about for sure. Not everybody is in a large clan

Labour hours are manufacturable though, and you can purchase them via the admiralty as well. If I am short of hours, I know I can use up combat marks or surplus gold to get more combat marks and then convert to LH. People aren't building cannons or ships as they don't see much profit in it. Once the profit is there, the cannons and ships will appear, then of course people bitch about the prices but really, anybody who complains about prices in this patch is just a whiner. Combat marks are plentiful, gold is plentiful ... there can be little argument as to these facts right now.

Not quite the answer you were looking for maybe, but history and art combine quite beautifully in this painting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fighting_Temeraire

Seems to be a low population problem which is also exacerbated by people placing their first few bases as far away from the enemy as possible. We have no wars between clans... we have to get nearer to the enemy if you want to fight him and they are the nationals ( PIrates too ) on the other edge of the map Get your clans to build a base within 30 mins sail of an enemy port

Yep there are two maps I have seen, 1 to do with tax and the hotspots and another that is to do with ow pvp hostpots from the combat log I believe. great work from @qw569 that could be used in your great work "L2k" also

think this is the thread, did wonder about you using it for L2K but I didn't want you to think you had more to do

I had a good look around when they first announced a map reset and it seemed to me that any port that sold a rare commodity or a prt favoured by a nation / players would be a good place to start a base. @qw569 has done a wonderful heat map of activity , finance wise on eu from the api. Would be nice to see how much work goes into that and whether we could get a weekly version for global and pve if they needed too I'm also wondering whether we on global are still in gather the dots mode, rather than pinpointing where we can launch an attack from and call our home.

active clans , their nations ,their active hours / days & a few names of players likely to be of help would be a good thing probably needs be to updated every fortnight or so

When the clan leader declares war on their mortal enemy

Good news , game can get quite heated but I'd like to think we're all friends really !! fingers crossed for everybody else affected

clan 1 port battle 1500 clan 2 port battle 1500 clan 3 port battle 1615 clan 4 hostility at 100% ( at 1700) but has to wait until 22 hours after the first port battle has closed, joins the queue then... uses the time when clan 1 has finished , example 1700 port battle that look about right from the outside looking in ? clans can not time their own port battles to suit their playtime

Post of the day !!!!!11111 all hail @qw569 for his ingenuity !!

If the PB's being limited had been flagged up during testing, we may have had some brave people try a different nation. Right now I am guessing that people won't commit to that with their forged papers in case it's a one way trip that doesn't work. It's a consequence of not having enough people testing it which is unfortunate and wouldn't have been noticed until nearly everybody is playing live. Apart from the early PB teething troubles, people seem to be enjoying the restart and changes, at least from my own Pov and there is less qq in channel

Nope, make everybody a Pirate clan , let them all slug it out between themselves by choosing their own teams, not being forced into alliances with players they don't want or need call themselves Clan Sweden .. Clan Norway .. Clan Scotland .... or whoever and do whatever they want Being forced into a National agreement by the dweebs who think they own the sea ... pfffft

I'd have happily seen more nations added, but the the hysterical historical nuts would have whined. Forced alliances with no way to resolve differences lead to nations splitting anyway, and the only route we have to be a nation and be able to resolve any internal squabbling is by going Pirate or by being lucky and being given forged papers Right now ,for anybody who likes OW PVP , RVR or Solo play... go Pirate and you won't have to listen to anybody else or put up with anybody elses treaties, rules .... Being forced into the teams of some of the whiners we all have in our own nations isn't the answer, especially when changing teams has become so difficult This isn't a single player game and it seems to me that many playing this game don't play well with others ...

I see differences here, based on whether you see yourself as part of a democracy or a dictatorship.