Trouble

Title pretty much says it, fix the Trader tool, it is not a reliable source for traders currently,

Huh, no you wouldn't, How many times have the pirates been caught using exploit's regarding the Pirate mechanic of attacking each other to hide in combat? Good luck with that, if you had rolled Spanish, you would have at least been required to bring an alt nation account to abuse the system, and hide in battle screens...

Wow Texas, the US can not recruit or hold new players by you advocating that they move into the gulf, Savannah belonging to the US, on the other hand would dramatically help with new player retention, I encourage any remaining US / GB players to re-roll pirate or pick up an alt account (like a lot of us have already done) and play as pirate, since the creation of a Safe PVE friendly area is all the Pirates really seem to care about...

So you are advocating that Pirate areas are strictly for PVE, got it, JobaSet the PVE advocate!

Just because I can ignore this person does not stop every other member of the US Nation from witnessing there Bile, and unlike the Pirates that have an ability to sink on offensive individual, the US nation does not, so we are stuck with a Pirate alt sitting out front of our capital, spewing Bile on our Nation chat, while reporting US player positions to the pirates, Don't really see how my ignoring of this player solves anything...

Since you and I both agree that the developers seem to be allowing the Black clan to use exploits at every opportunity, maybe the developers have simply chosen to let this game die off, and do not expect it to succeed, since if the developers felt otherwise they would dole out appropriate punishments, for exploits and Alts etc... Yesterday the US nation had a new Pirate alt of "Stuck in Irons Badger" trolling the US nation chat on his new alt "Sir Salt" for hours, making US nation chat completely pointless, as he parked his basic cutter out front of Charleston and reported US player positions to the Pirate's as he trolled US Nation chat... Unless the developers can figure out a way to keep one persons Alt from disrupting an entire nations chat, this game will become completely untenable!

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I know of three active US players with 1st rates, and none others, where are all of these supposed 1st rate ships that you claim to have seen?

Like half the US going Pirate?

Actually, if you you have been following along you would see we have plenty to do here, like join the Pirates, that does seem to be their desired out come to this,

Delusion much? Vast majority of the US player base has gone Pirate or over to GB, so good job on beating up an inferior force and thinking you accomplished something grand,

Actually this has been the Pirate agenda for some time now, every time they abuse a nation, many of that nations member switch to Pirate to avoid the abuse, it is quite intentional~

Koltes, you continue to speak out of both sides of your mouth, And I believe your actions in game this evening will Invalidate this entire statement of yours, I am not sure what mind game you think you are playing with saying one thing on the forums, but doing the opposite in game.

Based on the terrible behavior of individuals like HoneyBadger who linked NPG's crafting Google Doc to the web in retaliation before he went Pirate, I have little faith that you are not simply planting a New Alt into NPG...

This is complete and utter BS, if the Pirates cared about the health of the US nation, they would leave Savannah, so that the US nation could retain some new players, and hopefully raise them into veteran players that would potentially put up a decent defense, But instead the Pirates prefer to Club Baby Seals, and Thus inadvertently recruit these new US players into the Pirate nation,

Currently because the pirates hold Savannah, and raid Charleston on a nightly basis, new player retention has fell to near Zero, so all of your grand gestures of offering ports on the west coast of Florida are Mute, in that new players can are not even given an option to learn the game well enough to be willing to invest in joining a clan or choosing to learn how to bolster the US defense, Most new players opt to not join a clan until they get their feet wet, and understand the game a little, but repeatedly getting sunk by Pirates, is simply seen as a recruiting tool for Pirates, since most of the US nations newest players after getting sunk several times, simply decide to join the nation that is sinking them, so as to avoid that pain in the future, This threat holds no weight other than to run off any new US player that is sick of getting sunk out front of Charleston before they have even had a chance to learn the game, and new players will not scour the forums to learn of your threat before they go Pirate, your attitude is effective at killing new player retention, congrats! US has very few Veteran players relative to the other nations at this point, and currently find recruiting new veteran players beyond difficult, Since you find it amusing to continue clubbing baby Seals, Once again, Congrats on ruining your own fun by creating a diminished server population through your own actions,

Just got back in game myself!

I am West Coast US, play on PvP Global as well, and I can get to the shards list, and pick Global, but after saying I am 1 in que, it reports back in Bright Red letters "Authentication Error: Steam authentication server error" and I am stuck and unable to log in to game

Yes, I am West Coast US, play on PvP Global, I can get to the shards list, and pick Global, but after saying I am 1 in que, it reports back in Bright Red letters "Authentication Error: Steam authentication server error" and I am stuck and unable to log in to game

This is happening to a lot of Items in the shop, unable to purchase items that are definitely in stock

If you play this game then you would know that a team that uses this tactic could never be chased down within the exploited Green on Green combat, since they would have far too much of a head start, and thus are using it to hide in combat, no way to catch them and engage them in combat, even with the fastest ships you would never catch them

^ Shouldn't every Pirate that contributed to or was complicit in this action also receive a similar ban? ^

You sound like someone that kicks puppies and brags about it...

@Sir Texas Sir , the Raising of Hostilities in the Bahama's was done by a rouge clan in the US, not by the US Nation, those that raised that hostility will not even show up for congress meetings, So they are indefacto playing against the US nation, and playing Pro Pirate, A False Flag operation will you, to draw the pirates in, and you guys took the bait hook, line, and sinker, without thinking twice about it... @koltes The Quote about "rats fleeing a sinking ship", was not directed at the pirates, but at the US Nation, not only did it lose TF and VCO, but on Saturday IGG went Pirate from what we can tell, At this point the pirates are kicking a Puppy and acting like they are Super Tough Guys, real hard core PVP'ers and all, when in fact they are nothing more than opportunistic, and picked a faction that was behind everyone else BR wise. Simply because a rouge clan went and raised hostility to 32% in Shallow water, there is no way this rouge clan will clean up their act, our only hope is that they go Pirate... So much misinformation is being spoken in these threads, Is it the Pirates goal that US players simply use Papers to switch to a larger Nation? (IE. Pirate or GB?)

I heard a Rumor that NPG is going to take their top 25 guys and re-roll GB to claim all the gulf ports for themselves and the British Empire, in an attempt to thwart TF and VCO, now that will really mix things up, with everyone playing as the British...