Severus Snape

A smarter solution would be to flip the front lines system and allow smaller ports to be attacked prior to the capital. I don’t recall who made the suggestion, but the capital unlocks when 3/5 of the smaller ports are owned by the same nation. this would prevent the situation in the gulf, as that particular clan would need to put timers on them and/or other nations could flip the ports.

Transfer of ownership would be initiated by the owner. If they want to give it away...they give it away.

What if, for example, the clan that wants the port didn't donate or contribute to building it up? Like BL4CK didn't contribute at Nuevitas and then demanded it be changed over? Why should they get the port? What we need is a transfer ownership option and have needed this in game for years.

ask @Wraith

Personally I never liked the idea of the patrol zones, though I think the shallow one could be considered a "success" if any of them could. Patrols seem anathema to the idea of an OW sandbox game. The appeal of said sandbox is that PVP (or anything) can happen anywhere/anytime. Patrols go against this philosophy. Now if we had sectors on the map where PVP was restricted or limited, like most successful open world MMOs have, a zone where pure PVP happens would be a good idea. I'm not sure ANY adjustment to PVP overall with have an impact in the game's health long term. Far too many flaws. I think the biggest "change" that could happen would be to make the zones FFA and group dependent. Especially the shallows. Your suggestion would be better placed in a lobby system honestly

Sounds like DK and Sweden just need to kiss and get it over with already. Or fight...off the forums. Though if you kiss, @Potemkin and I want to watch. We're kinda into that sort of thing.

I want whatever Pit's taking. His posts are always fun

Ed Rose, could you please report your involvement in the Benghazi Attacks?

First we whine about no fights. Now we whine when there's fights we didn't want. Sometimes I wonder how much more peaceful this game would be if PVP and RVR was restricted to certain zones/areas/regions on the map in a system similar to what most high level MMOs have out there.

Atreides seems like a fun guy to have a parties...

PVP turned into a merciless gank fest the moment they introduced pvp marks/pvp rewards. Game was designed to look good on a handful of player's streams and screenshots, everything else is just chaff.

No EU timers to hide out behind.

Whether or not that was a "promise" could be open to interpretation. I can appreciate the complexity and man hours that was involved in creating the paints/DLC, but it's not like these were made for free. It was a paid DLC after all and it seems it was a pre-funded DLC. Apex Legends is F2P and makes it's money off cosmetics and various loot boxes. Naval Action is not F2P. I fail to see the correlation.

any BR updates to PBs on the war server? I hate being that guy, but another ship that we have to pay for is cool and stuff....but we REALLY need to have a little more balance to RVR while we still have a pretty good mass of population interested. just my 2 cents

Nice, let one escape to tell the tale

weren't we gonna get a new chat UI?

1v1s really don't have their place in an OW sandbox. Which is why we need a duel room. Personally I find the solo PvP aspect more enjoyable than arranged fights. Sink what you can, run from the rest.

Russia wants more content. We'll bring some over with us....and maybe a little drama too.

No real life politics. Thanks. - H. Darby

1st rates should have their place in the game at the more important ports. It should not be every deep water port.

Up until a couple months ago 10-14 players was all that was needed for most PBs, including shallows. Now....not so much.

We can help

Too difficult now with the current front lines system. Also if it’s a developed region the swapping will destroy some of the upgrades in the transition.

And my suggestion does not prevent this from happening.... it just shouldn’t be free. As it stands currently a clan can capture one of the lesser ports, turn it FFA and then quit the game for months and the maintenance will be zero. Meanwhile the clan paying the bill to keep the region has to deal with the consequences. This should not be the case.