Gregory Rainsborough

10th issue now available https://pdfhost.io/v/9e0hwAGpW_Gazette10finalpdf.pdf

Delaying hostility has always been a thing.

Drama creates content!

It's more the fact that in reality in terms of mast protection, the current port bonuses provide nothing. They're simply not worth having.

I feel that this port investment is really underutilised compared to the other bonuses. Most likely due to it being an awful choice compared to the others once you look at the hard numbers. This is how it is now HP Thickness Mast 0 1 1 Mast 1 1.01 1.01 Mast 2 1.03 1.02 Mast 3 1.05 1.03 Mast 4 1.07 1.05 French 1.07 1.1 Elite French 1.15 1.15 What I propose it become like HP Thickness Mast 0 1 1 Mast 1 1.09 1.09 Mast 2 1.1 1.1 Mast 3 1.13 1.13 Mast 4 1.15 1.15 French 1.07 1.1 Elite French 1.15 1.15 This would allow it to become a competitive investment and not just a, "meh, may as well add it because we can't think of anything else to do". Positives, competitive investment so there's a bit of diversity of port investments depending on the needs of the people who use the port. OW and PvP investments would differ because what's good in a PB is not necessarily what's good for OW, speed, mast, etc... Negatives, mast rig 4 would be on par with Elite French which would impact the market for that upgrade. You may see less masts falling in battles but I don't know.

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Had to be done I'm afraid

Spain stronk!

I think they should exempt traders as well. Most importantly though, proper spelling.

Screening battle at Baracoa

Could always call the American defence fleet the American defense fleet to satisfy the Americans

Don't get me started on armour

For all nations, it's English not American we're speaking after all. Most international people may use autocorrect which ruins their spelling because it is American but they are taught British English. For English language, please use defence rather than defense or at least create English (US) and English (International/UK) so some of us aren't triggered.

Facts are this: Pirates tag Prussians. 2v2 starts. Few shots exchanged. Swedes join. After a couple of minutes, Prussians d/c. Pirates split up to create to two 2v1's. Pirates practically kill one forcing him to run, cripple one by demasting. Pirates team up. Greg is not doing well so runs upwind to board Prussians and get new ship, Sneaky has moved to new Herc he took from crippled Swede. Licinio follows Greg and does some damage but not enough to kill or to put him beyond recovery. Prussians wake up, sail towards me. Greg tacks to go through wind as a result of this, Licinio then practically kills Greg (this ONLY happened because Prussians sailed towards us). 1st Prussian surrenders next to Greg, Greg switchs ship. Kills cripples running away downwind while Sneaky kills Licinio. Sneaky would have killed you without switching ship but would have done so regardless as his new Herc was fully health. Licinio would have been killed by Sneaky regardless of him getting new ship. If Prussians had kept sails down, Greg would have boarded and got new ship anyway. Them upping sails is the only reason I took sufficient damage to put me in danger. You were chained down heavily and in Ren, I was making gains upwind. Please, I know you're salty that the Prussians did what they did but you and the others would have died even if the Prussians had not reconnected and stayed sails down.

In-game it's called defense fleet, can you correct the spelling please?

@admin can you lock thread now since nothing additional is being added except shit flinging?

Admin can check our logs, we said nothing to RESO guys. That's why we I ran away from them, I wasn't expecting them to surrender.

They're Prussian players who I've never seen until this week, they're not alts. They're just good sports. Admin can check the chat logs, they did speak and they said they did it for that very reason.

The two Prussian players d/c'd at the beginning of the battle. The Prussians were upset that the Swedes had tried to ruin our nice 2v2. Swedes thought they would get an easy gank but got rekt and lost their seasoned ships. They're salty about it, I get it but surrendering is part of the game mechanic. From what I can tell the two Prussian players upon reconnecting started sailing towards us and we had no idea of their intentions, they surrendered next to us and we took the opportunity to get new ships. Licinio's "mate" had one bar internal structure, he was dying. We separated the engagement into two 2v1's, the pandora was demasted and couldn't do anything as the guy forgot rig reps by the look of it, one herc had been boarded by Sneaky and the other one was dying. Sneaky changing ship wouldn't have stopped them from dying as the herc he switched to prior to switching to the Surp was practically at full health. I mean I wasn't in good shape, but I wasn't sinking and I could have escaped upwind repaired and come back in. All the Prussians did was reduce the length of the battle as well as showing some gentlemanly behaviour by teaching gankers a lesson. Taking ships that have surrendered for our own to kill the remaining players more quickly is not a crime.

You just need to use a perk reset permit to clear your current perks and then you can select fleet perks.

If port BR was reduced you'd need smaller fleets to defend ports.

It is very tedious being a 30% sails while someone practices their mast sniping. It's a waste of my time. Same with those PvE players who chain, then run away and try to kill you from miles away. It's a waste of my time. Hurry up with killing folks and I won't leave or surrender but some players test your patience and I'd much rather reroll.

Is it possible to make more AI go through Aves PZ? It always feels empty, very few AI to be spotted and very few people as a result. Increase AI --> Increase carebears --> Increase hunters --> Hunters hunting hunters

Too early as well, NB is still Dutch Nice pic tho!

And manage ports.