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What maturin said: I have Made enough to buy a yacht in two or three battles with a yacht - put 12 pound Cannonades on it and take on some bigger ships (brigs etc.) just run upwind if they start getting the better of you. A yacht is really hard to hit if you juke and jive with it a lot. Plus you can always do some trading to make a few extra shillings to support your ship sinking hobby.

I am a tester - so I am prepared to lose things. I just now went afk for 2.5 hours while sailing in a basic Lynx towards an outpost, came back to find myself in a end of battle screen (so I got killed on the way) in that port (outpost) I had the basic Lynx (now with 4 dura's) but -------- but ------ my Snow that I had left there was gone, gone, gone. Apparently it was boosted by pirates or some such - I was away while it was deleted. I'm OK I'll just buy another one ----- In the released game we will have at least some tender souls who will get really really really soul hurt if the game steals a ship from them, so my suggestion is something like a tribuneral to adjudicate their issue with some ability to reissue either their ship or some gold to cut down on the soul hurt rage quits.

I remember we were talking about ways the Dev's could make real money without making it pay to win. How about if they sell small islands for real money - but all you get is when people sail by them a "port marker" (the 100 foot high white letters) pops up "Booyaah's Island" or "Raatha's Island" and the only thing it is good for is anyone can make it a teleport target. The Booyaah and/or Raatha can MC some large Trafalgar like battles as everyone Teleports in ....... Just thinkin outside the box .......

I have heard a rumor that the entire island of Tobago will soon be on the market for $4.3 mil - but it's just a rumor

I hit 1000 about a month ago, didn't think to post about it ----- but I am an addict I admit ------ The real question is: have you hit 1,000,000 in gold yet? How many times?

perhaps "skins" capability somewhere down the road? Personally I prefer the more utilitarian look .....

Also if the market showed what it would "offer" for items not in stock it would help a lot - at least with the items the port uses daily. Example: you roll into Aguadillia with a load of Cotton and when you are selling it you see the port uses a lot of French wine and Iron but it is out of stock now. You can see it is offering 109 gold per stack of French Wine and only 58 gold per stack of Iron. You know where you can get some French wine for 89 gold and potentially make a nice profit - so your next voyage is shaping up without chasing after unprofitable Iron!

Has anyone made a dime on tea, gold or silver?

I just ran across a Pavel with Black Sails, and I want Black Sails Are they going to be available at stores as an upgrade?

oh, sorry - I got it wrong. Perhaps you can ask Admin to make you a tester? since you are testing - you are testing aren't you?

I think anyone can "turn off" the edited by notice if they want to - perhaps it is a privilege I didn't know was. Try unchecking the _ show 'edit by' line in the lower right er left of your edit box.

Fight bigger ship than your own is a good way.

+1 I'm hoping that sometime in the next few patches we can see Trader Snow and Trader Brig ships for sail (er sale) in stores. This all by itself would instigate some more "testing" of the economy.

I'm tired of the junior high school tactics of debate - good day.

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