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Banana_Joe

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  1. How about allowing the buyer of the port battle flag to set the limitations for the battle.

    He could set a BR and / or a maximum percentage of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and the 4th to 7th rate ships. The higher the BR, the more you would pay for the PB-flag.

    I like the idea for PB-realted missions spawned. You could maybe up the BR for your side by fullfilling them, so PVE player could contribute to the PB.

  2. I recently joined after a few days offline and found out, that most of our ports are captured and it seems that we struggle to get them back, or even keep the few remaining.

    I don't know how it is in the dutch or swedish chat, but one drawback for combined operations for the french faction in the game is, that almost 95% of the chat is in french. My french is rather rudimentary. I can get my restaurant order right during holiday or ask for the way and that's it. So I miss most of the chat messages in french. I can imagine that a lot of people who sail for France have the same problem and either misunderstand or even ignore the chat completly and rather stay in the general chat, because thats mostly english.

    It would help organized defense and offensive actions if those would be done solely in english. I would even join teamspeak, but being rather bad at understanding written french I would completly fail to understand mumbled french over a headphone with everybody talking at the same time in a busy teamspeak channel.

     

    I am sure even bad english would help more in this situation then keeping the chat 95% french.

     

    Lets hope we get our ports back soon!

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  3. What about removing the damage bar on the enemy ship and add audible advice/oppinion by your first officer which might be more or less randomized in accuracy.

    Or more cheers by your crew if you do good hits. Like after 15% (+/-5) of damage to the enemy the crew cheers a hussa or your officer makes a joke about holes in that ship suiting her lines.

    You will get an appropriate image of the enemy damage state and can remove the damage bars.

    At the same time, I would give no hint at all for the enemy rank, or crew size. I want to suprise and get suprised when I board enemy ships.

  4. NO.. Just No, I just don't see the need to go nuts on realism. If you go this route then there should be only one HMS Victory, USS Constitution  etc.  Are we going to be sending out press gangs to bolster the crews?  I'm finding the game fun right now and I just don't want to micro manage tones of silly things to just enjoy the game for what it is now. If I had to micro manage things I would just go do something else and would totally loose interest.

     

    This game is fun NOW... don't make it a chore to play... I don't want to play games that would be the equivalent of a lawnmower simulator

    Would love to have the ability to send out press-gangs.

    I wouldn't mind more realism either. Micromanaging the whole crew might actually be quit nice. Sourcing food for my sailors, upleveling my cadets to officers, etc.

  5. Pirates should only be possible to craft and consume rum and wine. ;-)

    I am completely for a maintenance mechanic. The most expensive part should be to keep your ship working. The bigger the ship, the more you have to pay.

    Different crew qualities would be nice effect aswell.

    Maybe add national characteristics to the crew. French crew might be better at sailing, British at reloading etc.

  6. What I would like is:

    -No ship, nation and rank info window when clicking on a ship in OW only player name and the options to message and attack

    -Spyglass in OW

    -Ensign in OW like in battle

     

    So, now you have to look at the ship carefully and look for its ensign. Sailing directly towards an enemy somewhat hides your ensign giving some element of surprise without actually using false colours.

     

    With more ships coming in the generic terms should be avoided I believe. The class name or the most famous of that class' ships name. Example: Trinc is Leda class, but Trinc is more known.

    This,

     

    Plus removing the historic ship names. Maybe keep them somewhere down in the discriptions when you buy or craft one. But thats enough for my taste.

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  7. Of course I would prefer a system, where I can recruit or press my crew, need to get supplies and maintenance Material. All together with a promotion and experience system for my crew. But being a person who enjoys 2hrs of waiting in Silent Hunter or searching that single plane in Rise of Flight I knowmy wishes would be too hardcore and detailed for the not so sim-enthusiastic player.

    So I thought summing up all these costs in one package would be a nice alternative. You could enter Boni and Mali for certain crew qualities etc.

  8. Like I said introduce a crew-pack as some kind of "fuel" pack for your ships.

    Plan to stay on the sea for 10 game days, buy the appropriate amount of crew/maintenance packs. You rrun out ofvthem, you slowly start losing crew.

    If you want to replenish them after battle use them as another kind of repair kit.

    The amount needed, the price and the allowed maximum should depend on your ship.

    Crew packs could be crafted by barracks.

  9. Someone proposed before, to battle out the control for ports with more then one fight. I like this, because no timezone gets disadvantaged.

    I would keep the current flag system with the current timers. But instead of one big port-battle started in the open world introduce a button in the mission screen where it can be fought out in a best of three series by everybody who wants to join.

    The button is triggered by bringing the flag to the port as usual and stays up for 48hrs.

  10. I like the idea of just buying crew-packs similar to the "repair-kits". you Need x amount of them per day at sea and to fill up the ranks after a battle. Maybe offer them as a cheap common Version and a more expensive Version with a bonus on reloading time or something like this.

     

    Maybe you could even craft them if you introduce barracks for a new Kind of builing in your outpost.

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