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Just like the others, I didn' t get any e-mails for the download link or key - I checked the spam folder, too.

The change from Plymouth to La Désirade makes me happy

Don' t wanna sound chauvinistic, but don' t we have Royal Pink paint scheme already? Well, avatar customization (and in fact an avatar) would surely be nice, but so far I cannot see any priorities for this. Although - to be able to change the name of my officer would be really appreciated!

After being there for the first and third event (althoug PvE) I agree with some voices here saying, that things should be stretched out a little bit. Maybe the event could take place on a bigger area, not about one quadrant but maybe about four. In these quadrants over the time of a few hours there will be ships spawning regularely, floating up from the depths of the sea like driftwood. Give more people more reason to stay there, raise their chances to get some plunder while looking around a little bit. For more PvP though (and even for PvE with AI ships) maybe it would be better to put the wrecks inside an instance. Make it like an event marker where ships can enter all the time and try to reach a chest or wreck in the water. Give them a one minute countdown to plunder that wreck - then close the instance. Let people run and fight for some treasure, give people reason to screen their friends while they are loading the chests inside their holds. But let these "events" pop up for some hours in roughly the same big area, so give more people chances to find their luck.

Isn' t this actually a good reason to NOT add a flag? Why add an option that will ruin the good bluffing?

Well I still wonder, why the wrecks are not disappering. There must be something to it?

Maybe next time the event wi Maybe next time the event will just start on the other side of the map - now come on, it was just the beginning of something beautiful and funny!

Guess it is normal, that everybody wants a slice of the pie - well, I am just happy like crazy that the devs decided to create such a funny little event. In any way it was fun and even if I come out empty this time, I hope similar things will happen again very soon. Don' t be frustrated or angry, just embrace, that this game gets some interesting moments

Maybe there will be a respawn or something every hour or such for some time - people can hope, aye?

Hmm have you tried praying for more ships? Maybe it works

Felt nothing out of the usual, to be true. Still sailing now deep into the gulf though. Wish some heavy winds would push me over my Limits

Sorry Hethwill, I was heading from Mortimer to Key West and when I closed in to Florida, there came a heavy storm upon me and I thought it head something to do with the weather report! It was my misjudgement of the situation!

Wondering how long it will stay ... heading there with full speed and the weather is really "hellish" ...

Maybe the event will take longer than just a few minutes, only half way from Mort to Key West now Question is: in what direction is the fleet moving? East or west?

Are these storms restricted to the PvP servers? Just asking before I spend my time sailing there

It is a beautiful guide! This should be very much "official"

(Okay, let' s hope that this idea wasn' t posted in any different places around.) So what I was thinking about is an alternate approach to the current system: 1. Let each player have more than one officer, maybe up to 6 different ones, or maybe even 10. 2. Each officer costs more than the one before, a little bit like the outpost-system. 3. Each officer can learn only 1 perk - but this perk will grow with experience, thus for example let an officer with the fisher perk have +2.5% bonus with level 1, +5% bonus with level 2, etc. Maybe even use higher values here, because it will take time to reach higher values, like in this example give 5% bonus per level. 4. When gathering officer experience, let the player chose in any port, on whom to assign these xp (alternatively, award the XP to the office who was chosen to be aboard the current ship). 5. Each officer has only 1 life. If the player loses a ship, he must chose which officer he lost (alternatively, he will lose the officer that was aboard the ship that sunk). 6. Maybe don' t call these guys officers but "specialists".

I vote for Society! And concerning pirates I vote for the not mentioned Brotherhood

I don' t really see a problem here. I love to see my ship sailing across the map, especially now with some extra "prize" like fishes. But we must not forget, that there are some "managing" parts in this game and that we must be able to do this managing without artifical hindrances. Truly nobody is hurt when we are able to jump from one outpost to another, because it just eases the workload we have while organizing our own economy and resources. It is not like we can teleport our fleets back and forth or our goods. So please everybody calm down a little bit and let people have this little piece of "peace". Nothing on this outpost-teleporting will make you "pew pew pew" more. For me it is much more joy to do my managing quickly and then get back to the real game: sailing and fighting (so much for pew pew...).

Instead of all these little changes trying to mitigate a problem, why not change the main aspect of looting in a way that lets the group or person who first entered a battle decide how to distribute a boarded ship or found upgrades etc. This would at least make it impossble for some griefer to "steal your ship". And it would be much easier to manage distribution of a ship later, as it happend to me a few times, that I had to finally capture a ship that my friend wanted to sail later - sometimes I didn' t even had a free slot at my outpost, etc.