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While there is a place for many facets of the game to do well ... from OW pvp , RVR centric pvp and traders having fun doing whatever they want , the fact that I see clans setting up their bases so far from any threat speaks volumes. Putting your base an hours sailing from an enemy .... safety first I guess and yep @Sir Texas Sir ideas behind the smaller clans being able to participate are great. I had held out hope we would have full on clan vs clan wars with Nationals free to stomp whoever they wanted. The only place there would be a truce would be where their Nations flag flew ( i'e Jamaica mon or Belize) and if you wanted a war with the next door neighbours... have at it

If flexible Port Battles can't be worked , perhaps we can look at 10-15 player Pb's instead of 25 ? Smaller groups need to be catered for while the pop is lower than a snakes belly. We are the content right now and there aren't enough of us to go around on Global. The situation on EU looks better based on their numbers but I was hoping for a more Clan centric NA this patch

Similar situations arose with World Of Warcraft , the offline creator / leader has a set amount of time before the members can instigate a coup and remove the leadership Need an uncomplicated removal system in place. Offline for a set period ( longer than a holiday ) and automatically hand leadership over to second in command ? needs looking at for sure

hehe , fair enough , although the server status webpage lists Miami, so I assumed wrong

In fairness , on the BBC they were showing the looters in Miami, and I am sure somebody was running down the road with one of our servers !!

Im intrigued by the wording and although I was hoping for my first set of Forged Papers ( I am not adverse to disapointments ) will existing ones be trade able / sell- able or purchaseable ?

yes patch day blues atm

People who don't want to be killed in a PVP game should really think long and hard whether PVP is for them

Lets test it out , It looks great and people have been whining for ages suck it and see

Players are free to migrate from one server to another if they wish. Some have done so already. No need to merge when people are migrating by themselves. As for the PVE server, I have no idea as to it's population but there should be a place for those who don't like PVP I am sure both servers would welcome players who arrive on their server but there are many who do not wish to go backwards to nighflips .. etc etc Switch if you want, I did and could do so again. No need to try and force others though

yeah there are a fair few only on the Global server because of the dream , sadly there are also many who cannot play EU server because of their ping. Hard to accommodate everybody in a real time global setting and making it as fair as possible for all. People usually want PVP when they have the advantage and sadly the ones who will turn up against all odds and flags are the minority. If the game was ever a roaring success we would probably be split into many time zones so people can find a pvp battle just after their team time and before bed

try changing the ingame quality settings too has their been a graphics driver update ? have you got dust everywhere in your case making the fans work too hard ?

Tarren Mill guards coming out x4 and smacking you silly... good old days We are only suffering at the moment because we are the content and we are too few

I would expect your card to have problems on all games if it's having problems. Nvidia cards often had problems with water based effects, not sure for recent cards. This is why I suggested trying to lower the settings , to see if it helps or makes no difference. Does windows update automatically ? Does nvidia auto update ? Are you using the latest driver ? Have you had problems since a driver update ? is your case and card full of dust ? Check with nvidia on the web for a guide to card temps ? Lots to try , hope things get better for you

you could try and turn down the ingame settings for graphics and see if that helps how old is your gfx card ? It's not a bad one for the game by any means , just wondering how many miles it's done. My gtx570 can't handle the highest settings but it's never blue / black screened and is 6 years old nearly

Snip the rest of the rant. I don't do PVE very much unless that is all there is left to do. Mathematics I am fairly good at though and although I have only been playing this game since wipe time, it's not hard to gather gold and stuff IMHO Horses for courses I guess , each to their own, no need for the passive aggressive insult

Why thankyou Sirtrollalot

While RNG can be good when you get lucky, it's a well known fact that people won't like the grind. I'd make the upgrades available in the admiralty for a whopping amount of marks ofc People are reluctant to put their shiny new ship out on the OW without all slots open, all BIS upgrades present and the safe and sure knowledge that there are no enemies about

As far as the value of combat marks goes, it's tied to the value of labour contracts imho and labour hours in general which replenish automatically . You can also fish afk if you so desire. 175 Combat marks = 1 victory mark = 10 Labour Contracts = ??? Gold depending on going rate. For example if 1 Labour contract goes for 80k then you can easily get a good indicator for the value of a Combat mark. Lab Contracts I have been selling for 120k fairly regularly High prices for items is often a consequence of more gold chasing fewer items. Rare upgrades ( if still rare via rng) will keep rising in price. Victory marks are still getting handed out , combat marks are easy to get, sell stuff you craft to the ai .... Hull repairs sell at over 1k each to the ai from memory There is no excuse for being poor , just poor excuses ....

Fleet perk ?

Forced alliances are what we pretty much have now, every nation has a large amount of fellow nationals it cannot fight when at some point in time it usually wants or needs to . If we are truly going clan based warfare ( I am sceptical it will happen the way a lot of people think) then we need to start thinking of clans as individual nations and stop forcing alliances onto them why have nations , every clan to be its own boss, have it's own bases and everybody would have many more targets to shoot at. Why not have a flag for who you are nation wise but your clan mates are the only ones you cannot fight with ? Have so many different clans / nations that any alliances would be hard to keep track of , more opportunity for treachery , war etc

Loggin credentials failed also wasn't in the game at the time, trying to log in to global Uk based, internet all working fine

Talk is cheap , looks like you might have to run it past the leadership before issuing any more manifesto / ultimatums to the rest of the server. First page .. lies , so why should we trust you ? We want to talk to the organ grinder, not the monkey

Secret Port number 4 , Costa Del Nobody Cares.... as we have a map reset on the horizon Seriously, I think it's good the US are showing some spirit, fair play to them

I'd just add , the announcement about clan wars and upcoming changes that mentioned " don't worry about rvr for now " as it's going to change and result in a map reset did little to help