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  1. make a new dedicated post ? Normalize ship to town size ratio. Houses look bigger than ships in docks. Add more greens to ports. More trees, bushes, palms... Npc should have different ship themes and paints. They all look generic.
  2. Is it possible to make all medium gun sizes available? Market should have all medium sizes
  3. Testers will get a promised gift)) that should balance the outraged crowd. Lol
  4. A quick guide on how to gank in Naval Action: 1.Log in you Alt in a DLC ship and hit the land outside the enemy port. Pretend you are afk sailing. 2. Have another alt group ready hiding. 3. Wait until the bait is taken, report the coordinates and intercept the guy. Or just know where you parked. 4. Abandon ship (free), so the guy gets no kills and Jump him when he is out. 5. Rinse & repeat with other free DLC ships from other group members. Please suggest your ideas on how this can be fixed)) Invisibility timer, Immune timer, speed boost timer. - all these could help but won't fix the problem completely.
  5. and that was my point and I personally do not want to see only groups/clans ganking each other. I love solo hunting, but when alts used to report your location and set up gank squad on top it's a broken game for me and no further money will be spent until it's fixed. I will hold on to positive reviews and dlc transactions. ex. Get in 1vs1, get defeated, rage, log in your alts and report your location to all active pvpers and let them kill the guy who beat you by quick gank. you call this normal? lol
  6. True, but all this 3rd rates rule the seas is useless if you are ganked by x4 numbers. Sail tiny and fail fit or do not sail at all alone.
  7. Question is, how were they able to find me during the storm within such a short period of time? I sank a player, jumped out into raging storm and got instantly tagged. Player was from another Nation. Unless it was someones ALT who reported F11 location in another nations chat.
  8. When you kill someone your location is reported to Battle chat. You exit battle and here you are.... You get jumped by 6 players who teleported and are set up to catch you, waiting.... Gank group Response time was 1-2 minutes from the time message was delivered to Battle chat and players already set up to gank you. Gank happened during 0 visibility (storm). Players knew the OS location precisely. Imho if player just jumped out from the battle he should have: Immunity for some time, invisibility for some time. Speed boost was added , but it is not enough. Chat message should be display region and not port name. Unfortunately gank fest is at its finest and highest peak. This was an experiment to prove that new single player who will try pvp will gets crushed by Vets and Clans in an uneven battle. This will not help game grow in any way. P.S. Game is not ready for release.
  9. Russian Cargo Ship from book :Russian Warships in the Age of Sail 1696 - 1860: Design, Construction
  10. The burning of the Vsevolod (referred to here as Sewolod) Russian ship Opyt engaged by a British frigate 11th July 1808 HMS Implacable at war with Russia – 1808 & 1809 Two events dominate the general impression of Russia’s role in the Napoleonic Wars. The first is the crushing defeat of Russian and Austrian forces at Austerlitz in 1805 – arguably Napoleon’s most impressive battle. The second was the French retreat from Moscow in late 1812, harried by Russian forces, a major factor in Napoleon’s downfall, culminating in the camping of Cossacks in the Champs Élysées in Paris, less than two years later. It is not so often remembered however that in part of the intervening time, 1807 to early 1812, Russia was an ally, though a not very active one, of Napoleon’s French Empire. The rapprochement between France and Russia followed the battle of Friedland in 1807 – another devastating defeat for the Russians. In its aftermath Napoleon met the Russian Czar, Alexander I, on a raft – neutral ground – moored on the Neman river at Tilsit, now in Russia’s Kaliningrad Oblast. What resulted was a treaty which established peace between the French and Russian Empires but at the cost of requiring Russia to stop trading with Great Britain. This represented another link in Napoleon’s “Continental System” which aimed at establishing French-dominated Europe as a single economic entity and destroying Britain as a trading nation. Russia fell in line by declaring war on Britain in 1807, and the following year on Sweden, the only European country that refused to be part of Napoleon’s anti-British alliance. Sweden’s decision was to cost her dear, as it resulted in her loss to Russia of Finland, up to that time a Swedish possession. Russia’s Czar Alexander I generally restricted Russia’s contribution to the war to the bare requirement to close off trade. The British, understanding his position, limited their military response, most notably to naval operations in 1808 and 1809. The threat to Britain’s trade with Finland was especially important since “Baltic Stores” – timber – were of critical importance to the Royal Navy. Britain’s response was to send a fleet to the Baltic in 1808, under command of Vice-Admiral Sir James Saumarez (1757-1836), to operate in concert with the Swedish Navy. On 22nd August 1808, a Russian force of nine ships of the line and eleven frigates advanced westwards along the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland to attack the Swedes. Accompanying the latter were two British “74s” ships-of-the-line, HMS Centaur and HMS Implacable. Russian resolve now faltered and a retreat ensured, the two British vessels outpacing their Swedish allies and catching up with a Russian straggler, the “74” Vsevolod on 24th August. Three other Russian ships in the vicinity offered no assistance as HMS Implacable subjected the Vsevolod to heavy fire and drove her aground. The Vsevolod “struck” – ran down her colors in surrender – but the main Russian force had by now turned back to come to her rescue. Outnumbered, HMS Implacable retreated and the Vsevolod was once more in Russian hands. A Russian frigate, the Poluks, then towed the damaged Vsevolod towards Rågervik (now Paldiski, in Estonia, on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland), where the main Russian force was now heading for refuge. Some six miles outside the port, the Vsevolod ran aground again. HMS Centaur had continued to follow however and, on 25th August closed, chasing away the boats that were attempting to get the Vsevolod afloat again. HMS Centaur drove on and indeed grounded herself. Her crew managed to lash her mizzen mast to the Russian’s bowsprit to draw both ships together before opening fire. Attempts to board were made by both crews but the issue was decided when HMS Implacable arrived and, standing off, fired on the Vsevolod for some ten minutes. The Russian colors were once more run down and some of her crew jumped overboard and managed to reach land. HMS Implacable succeeded in towing HMS Centaur off. The battle had cost the Centaur three killed and 27 wounded. The Vsevolod was however so firmly grounded that there was no hoping of getting her free also and the decision was taken to burn her after taking off the Russian crew. The decision must have been a very bitter one, since the capture of an enemy ‘74’ would have resulted in substantial prize-money for all involved. The Vsevolod blew up a few hours afterwards. (We encountered HMS Centaur before, at Diamond Rock. Click here to read the blog about her then). An equally daring operation occurred early in July the following year, again involving HMS Implacable, with support from the ‘74s’ HMS Bellerophon and the frigates, HMS Melpomene, and HMS Prometheus. On 6th July 1809 HMS Implacable had captured several merchant vessels in the Gulf of Narva (north of Estonia) but the Russian escort, an armed ship and some gunboat manged to escape. They took up a strong defensive position close inshore, where the larger British vessels could not follow. What ensued was a raid of the type in which the Royal Navy excelled – sending in ships’ boats for boarding and depending heavily on surprise and aggression for success. Command was entrusted to a young Lieutenant Hawkey, and the boats of the other vessels, laden with seamen and marines, assembled around HMS Implacable and headed inshore in darkness. The report of Implacable’s Captain Thomas Byam Martin(1773 – 1854), later Admiral of the Fleet, deserves to be quoted, stating that the boats advanced with “an irresistible zeal and intrepidity towards the enemy (who had the advantage of local knowledge), to attack a position of extraordinary strength, within two rocks, serving as a cover to their wings, whence they could pour a destructive fire of grape on our boats, which notwithstanding advanced with perfect coolness and never fired a gun till actually touching the enemy, whom they boarded sword in hand, and carried all before them.” Lieutenant Hawkey was killed by grape-shot as he boarded a Russian gunboat, allegedly shouting at the moment that he was struck: “Huzza, push on, England for ever!” The outcome was impressive and Captain Martin wrote that “I believe a more brilliant achievement does not grace the records of our naval history: of eight gun-boats, each mounting a 32 and 24-pounder, and carrying 46 men, six have been brought out, together with the whole of the ships and vessels, twelve in number, under their protection — laden with powder and for the Russian army — a large armed ship taken and burnt, and one gunboat sunk.” Those familiar with memorials in English parish churches to officers lost in the Napoleonic wars will not be surprised by the elegance of the language with which Captain Martin reported Lieutenant Hawkey’s death: “No praise from my pen can do adequate justice to this lamented young man. As an officer he was active, correct, and zealous to the highest degree; the leader in every kind of enterprise, and regardless of danger, he delighted in whatever could tend to promote the glory of his country.” The butcher’s bill for this operation was not negligible: seventeen 17 British killed and thirty-seven wounded. Large numbers of Russians were drowned in addition to sixty-three found killed and fifty-one wounded out of a hundred and twenty-seven prisoners. And now, two centuries on, and with the benefit of full hindsight, one realizes how futile all this was. Three years later these men would have been allies in the fight against Napoleon. But they never lived to know it. – Historian and Novelist Joan Druett
  11. Never understood why we are able to grapple another ship with 100% success every time when ship speed is satisfied. Why there is no chance system? ex. When the ship has 100% sail HP you get a 50/50 chance to grapple at 0 knots and if you fail a try you have to wait another minute and get pounded with cannon balls. If the ship has no sail HP then you have 100% chance to grapple. Now with mods, these numbers can be slightly increased or decreased. Right now we are having a fictional grappling action based on 1 hook at a set speed that will stop the ship and engage boarding. Is everyone ok with that? Mods Why not add more mods that would increase or decrease a grapple chance and give the player an opportunity to try last time to fight back. Why wouldn't you be able to cut grappling hooks and ropes and knock boarding ladders overboard? That would be a (crew training Mod for defense). Same with the offense mod, for example, Xebecs would be perfect boarding boats as they should be, but with boarding defense, you can delay the boarding sail away and cause damage to them. Every failed grappling try sets a 1-minute timer before another try. This is huge for pvp. Right now we Tbone, slow down ships and board. This is what you call a realistic game? Please make a change... Thanks.
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