Wetworth

If anyone is wondering how crazy it is in the US at the moment, the gift shop in Gettysburg is no longer selling the Confederate flag.

I just want a little 2x2 inch cube to... I dunno, hold and cackle with?

Sign me up! I'd pony up for that.

They just responded in the other thread:

I've used:

I believe the user logged in issue happens when the game crashes but Steam hasn't yet realized it. Just close and restart Steam.

Yes, corvettes. Just a friendly "here's a bit of trivia", no bragging.

The Grapes

I mean, we're in a test bed for the Devs to gather data. This isn't a final product, nor is it one that needs to be improved upon. Open world will be here soon, and this will be left in its wake.

This would be cool, but with open world coming, I'm not sure it's something the Devs would want to spend time on...

The Devs have said that the current game menu is a stop gap that will be changed and improved. It exists only for testing at the moment. We'll get ship images eventually (and I'm sure much more)

I dunno, this seems all over the place. Things like previewing ships and repairs will almost certainly change at some point. Damage model 4 and open world will change many things as well. I'd focus this more on things you want to see in the finished game, like whaling, rather than improving the test bed that we currently have.

Isn't that a demotion?

There is already an instrument in place to end matches, the timer. Further more, if I've played a great game on a lousy team, why should anyone be able to end it at their choosing? At any rate, this is an alpha test, and the win/loss count is pointless. If you're worried about that, suck it up and stay in game, if not just leave.

I don't think Washington was ever in danger. It was, at the time, the best defended city in the world (I have no citation, but they're out there). I also think that Lee did understand what he was facing, and that was a foe that the south could not defeat in the same way the south could be defeated. Everyone was aware of total superiority of the north in terms of men and equipment. The south had virtually no hope of conquering the north, it had to be a diplomatic defeat through a series of military defeats. He achieved many victories, they north just had enough determination to withstand them. A cataclysmic defeat at Gettysburg may have been enough, maybe not, who knows? Oh, I don't think Lee won at Antietam. I do think he achieved the best case scenario, though. It should have been a route, though I doubt the end of the war. Whether or not it would have been an empty victory, though, depended on what a defeated Meade did with the Army of the Potomac afterwords. That's a what-if that we can't know. At any rate, a southern victory at Gettysburg was a long shot with the north's interior lines and defensive positions. It does seem in line with Lee's tactics, most of hist victories were won through offensive tactics (defense of Richmond, 2nd Manassas, Chancellorsville etc)

So there is no confusion, Mastergunner would like his name changed from Jack Aubrey to Capt Gunner.

Pennsylvanian living in West Virginia. There are no boats here.

I think that he means when you go from say battle sails to full sail, some sails are lowered only to be re-set. It is a little annoying.

February 20, 1815: despite the Treaty of Ghent being signed over a month earlier, ending the War of 1812, US Frigate Constitution engages and captures the British Frigates Cyane and Levant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_HMS_Cyane

Stephen Decatur successfully leads a mission to burn USS Philadelphia in Tripoli Harbor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Philadelphia_(1799)

Today (yesterday) in American Naval History: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Philadelphia_(1799)

Today (yesterday) in history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Pictou_(1813)

Yes, you can lose them all and be reduced to a row boat.