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Henry d'Esterre Darby

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  1. 7 hours ago, iKhone said:

    Option 1: penalize more seriously through long-term "bans" or definitive expulsions.

    Option 2: expand the number of moderators.

    Option 3 threaten to close the forum.

    Surprising to opt for option 3 without having tried the previous two. In any case, it shows that a large bulk of forum participants repeatedly violate the rules. I think it is delusional to believe that someone will feel alluded to, much less that they modify their behavior.

    Option 1 is what we're now going to do.  Everyone should consider this before posting anything that is against the rules of the forum.

    Option 3 is what happens if Option 1 doesn't work.

    Option 2 - find me a Spanish speaker with a good reputation, no previous warnings, and who is a constructive member of the forum and I'm sure Admin will consider them.  This community drove off the last Spanish speaking moderator by being nasty and creating a lot of problems.  Now, because of this, you get me, complete with Google Translate and a less than perfect understanding of Spanish culture.  

    6 hours ago, Jorge said:

    The problem is that there is no Spanish moderator and the google translator does not work ... 

    See Option 2 above.  Find us a Spanish Moderator and then behave in a way that doesn't drive them away.  This forum is not National News, it is under all of the rules of the forum and everyone who posts here are expected to follow those rules.

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  2. 3 minutes ago, Lieste said:

    No. Shooting through a mast will make a neat hole in it.

    Repeating these holes sufficiently will bring it down, eventually, but a yard wide mast will not be destroyed by a sub-calibre holing by 6 inch shot.

    All the rigging is far more vulnerable than the masts, and the smaller spars more vulnerable than the more substantial ones. Wind load on damaged masts and spars is a higher threat than mechanical injury from shot, though that can be the cause for a mast to fall below it's threshold strength, especially when combined with injury to rigging.

    Slim's claim above was that "even chopped from the base", or sawed through, a mast would stand so long as all of it's rigging is intact - this is incorrect.  We're in agreement that one hole will not bring down a mast, but the mast does require adequate support at the base or it will fall.

  3. 4 hours ago, Slim McSauce said:

    Masts did not fall unless their rigging was compromised, even chopped from the base
    a mast would still stand as long as it was supported by the rigging and everything else.

    While the stays and shrouds secure the upper part of the mast, there must still be strong support for the lower part of the mast or it will topple.  This is why masts are stepped down into the hull of the ship (or, in the case of top masts, royals, etc. secured at their base to the top of the mast underneath them) and not just set upon the surface of the top deck.  Shooting through a mast will most definitely topple it.

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  4. Alright, moving on to less personal, more general/clan based memes please.  Rule #3 is an instant suspension or worse.  Two of those is a full forum ban - we're not going to tolerate that crap here.

    On 12/19/2014 at 9:02 AM, admin said:

    3. Personal attacks, racism and discrimination are prohibited

    Personal attacks are posts that insult another forum user directly or discuss user’s personal life or situation. Posts that include race, religion or sexual preference based personal attacks and trolling can result in immediate suspension. Such behavior will not be tolerated and can cause immediate ban.

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  5. 5 hours ago, Capitan Salazar said:

    Greetings Sir! 

    Long time since last message but I lost the password! (Thanks god my grandson remembers everything, he is so clever, makes me so proud)

    I wanted to tell you my situation. I have a very nice guy in my guild who loved sailing that ship. I say loved cause he lost it in a unfair fight, he was so annoyed that he was going to quit the brotherhood and remove the game from the computer and then I told him "don't worry my son, admin wrote in the forums we will have it in a few weeks".

    Now, what am I going to tell him?

    That you're not a game developer and shouldn't have made promises you can't keep?

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  6. Just now, RedParadize said:

    I agree with that but there is a problem. By the end of ww1 secondary was more or less obsolete in its ship to ship role too. Its conservative nature of navy that kept them around until they were resurrected as AA/dual purpose gun. Iowa/Yamato tower are looking pretty empty without them. Having a nerfed down version of naval air strike (off combat) would be a decent compromise I think.

    That's a pretty good point.  I think as long as aircraft can't be used as an IWin button, they'd be ok.  The key is making them useful without making it a win requirement to have more functioning carriers in your fleet than the opponent.

  7. Adding float planes to appropriate ships for spotting and recon purposes, yes.  Adding aircraft carriers, no.  The carrier was the death of the battleship (and of ships with heavy artillery in general).  They represented a sea change in warfare and made heavy, lumbering behemoths obsolete.  I personally wouldn't want to see carriers in a game about dreadnoughts.

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  8. Just now, Gregory Rainsborough said:

    I don't think that's strictly true, Batman was banned for making a Lord of the Rings joke after the patch on the wandering forests came out.

    Joking in feedback threads is an extremely poor idea.  :)

    Read it as ALMOST NOBODY then.  Either way, it's not the common occurrence people make it out to be.

  9. Acting as a community means:

    • Follow the forum and game rules.- and just about the rest of what I'll put here is right there in those rules.
    • Be respectful to each other, but more importantly to the owners of the forum and their staff.
    • See something that is anti-social or a violation of the rules, report it.  Moderators can't review every single post every single hour - often if one person is getting away with something and someone else is not, the first person just isn't being reported.
    • Be constructive.  NOBODY has EVER been banned simply for disagreeing with the game's direction or a decision that was made.  Everyone banned that I've seen was breaking one of the rules, in most cases more than once or egregiously.  You don't have to even try to find thousands of examples of people disagreeing with decisions or not liking features and they're all still here.

    I don't know of too many areas of life where you can act like a jerk while demanding things and get what you want.  If you think the way to effect change is to be abusive and abrasive, you're going to be sorely disappointed (and you won't be posting here for long).

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