VonSeydlitz

THIS! Also, the current labor hours system is insane. The idea that it takes over 200,000 labor hours to craft a seasoned larger ship means that smaller clans and new players (the ones you're apparently trying to attract into the game) have no chance whatsoever to acquire or craft such a ship unless they pay many millions at an auction. There's simply not enough time in a day to do this. And the fact that it takes 300 labor hours to construct 500 labor hours in the academy is just stupid.... Whether or not one subscribes to the notion that seasoned wood is a good or bad thing, if it's in game there should at least be some chance for everyone to acquire it

Has this happened to anyone else? Clan mate and I are attacking an Elite L'Ocean with a pair of 1st Rates. Things proceed and we're getting ready to board, very excited that we're about to take this down. Clan mates puts a grapeshot broadside into him and I am ready ready to do the same. Then... POOF we get an admin message that combat is terminated and we're going to be thrown out to a login screen. Except we're not. We get thrown out into the Open World, with full health, a few reals and some XP. It's like it never happened and the elite L'Ocean has (of course) vanished. We talked about submitting an F11 ticket, but there's no proof because there's not even a log entry that the battle took place. Does this happen often? Totally, unbelievably frustrating!!!!