[Development plans update - Second Half of 2019]

Where are the privateer fleets protecting capitals, they seem to have suddenly disappeared,  it would be nice to see some consistency or does this only apply to some nations

 

[Can't start the game]

This is the same for a number of players currently trying to log in. Steam Authentication server error

[Port Glitch deleted wrong port!]

In places with very high pings (300+) the slowness of the database which stores things like ports causes problems like this. for anyone used to reasonable pings they cannot see the problem, for me it mean waiting for the system to catch up all the time. ink is the man if anyone is, but it is a problem when accessing most of the UI for some of us with third world infrastructure.. 

[Connectivity issues, lags, disconnects]

While you may not want to admit there is a server side problem Ink, these issue have been experienced by Australian players on Global 

and it appears to be getting incrementally worse by the day, as per Red Dragon 13 above  as well as stupendous lags and being kicked from the game .

I am keen to see the results of all the updates received over the last weeks but stability issues seem to be creeping in.

Great work by the way,  love the game.

[Little things you'd like to see]

I think that the weather in game has moved from the sunny Caribbean in it early release to a foggy dull English channel sort of weather, it is really be coming a put off.

Enough with the dark brooding atmospherics, we are a few degrees from the equator and the weather should reflect that. It was suggested to me that a short holiday in the Caribbean would do the developers and staff the world of good.  

I also like realistic weather so storms and the odd fog are fine but not all day every day this is not Kiev, please look at the weather forecast in Jamaica or Cuba it is not always overcast  like some parts of Europe.

Apart from that the game is certainly improving bit by bit

[Ship wipe - coming soon!]

Honestly I think this one dura  update will be a disaster of epic proportions, after 4000 hours in game the only really exciting time was when ships where actually free based on rank (close beta) you simply didn't think of ships cost. I think if the test server need 3 dura 1st's, then what makes anyone think that 1 dura ships in game will work, even if resource cost are cut dramatically, the current restrictive trade good model (silver and compass) will make one dura ships a waste of time for the average player. The only one's who will benefit are the rats who just cap everything and me who crafts so many ships I loose track. Also you will loose another third of players which seems to happen when ever there is a wipe for good or bad. 

Well I hope this game eventually stabilises it has so much potential, both as a game and as a business for the devs, but I have lost my faith for the moment. 

 

[Domox's Burning Sail Nav. Map [Now with Map Data, Arrival Estimation]]

Domax, man I really miss you site hope this is only temporary, it shows up the lack of navigation tools in NA in a big way. 

Thanks for all your work in the past.

[Devlog: Forthcoming content patches plan]

As a 50 crafter and long time player, I think there is a desperate need to adjust either the drop rate of fine woods or the quantities of fine wood needed to craft a non basic ship. I only need to look at the price of exceptional ships to see the mechanism is broken. from making 3 ships a week I now am lucky to make 1 every 10 days. honestly I am not interested green or basic ships they are a total waste of resources  now all getting difficult to find with the simplified basic mats economy.

I used to purchase 1-2 k of craft hours per day from noob players to make me ship parts and so support a larger economy,  now I cannot usefully use the hours I have, result crafting is totally stalled. new players have nil chance to get BP's unless the drop rates have changed dramatically, something I hope to never need to do again..  

So my simple request is get a little realistic about fine wood quantities required for crafting, or dramatically up the drop rate of fine wood production. unless you do something  the whole craft side of the game will wither and die.

 

My feeling on the rest of the game are relatively positive, and  while I like the hostility mechanism, the Port battle is another matter, we capture 1 port mostly with SOL's and get 4 ports free, that is totally stupid, very few opportunities for PB and often they are unopposed, poor old spain. this desperately needs more work including needing to capture each and every port, before a region is owned. 

[outpost creation stuffed]

hi devs whats the story I cannot create an outpost in a national port, since Maintenance today on PVP2,

have the money have the slot this only appear to apply in Port Morant which was recently re acquired by Britian

other player report not being able to delete them  

I hope this can be sorted quickly  

sorry worked it out me bad lol

[PvP EU One Server crashed?]

Thanks devs for keeping us informed, f.. up happen all the time at least you are keeping us in the loop

[crashing far to regularly]

re installed everything at least once, took the machine back to formatted disk, not much more reinstalling I can do.

Perhaps if devs look at the 30 or so crash reports

that have been automatically sent each time, them perhaps I might have some where to go.

[crashing far to regularly]

No just NA  this machine built just for NA and FSX, super stable until the last week or so then crash after crash, painful

[crashing far to regularly]

I have flag that my NA has crashed in the past, and that endless crash reports have been sent automatically by NA.

I have reloaded windows 10,  Steam, NA, read the forums, measured GPU temperature  but it was never above 60C

reduced the resolution , set OW frame rate to 30 frames as per dev suggestion, but honestly I am over it completely.

I play as Captain Clark on PVE us

the total lack of feed back is probably what really annoys me, but just for the record

 

please find attached error log

 

Unity Player [version: Unity 4.6.8f1_583461196f73]

 

Unknown caused an Access Violation (0xc0000005)

  in module Unknown at 0033:780ff1a0.

 

Error occurred at 2016-07-18_154224.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Naval Action\Client.exe, run by ianhero.

14% memory in use.

32689 MB physical memory [27954 MB free].

37553 MB paging file [30767 MB free].

134217728 MB user address space [134213030 MB free].

Read from location ffffffff caused an access violation.

 

Context:

RDI:    0x73d4b848  RSI: 0x780ff780  RAX:   0xc10688b0

RBX:    0x33122bf0  RCX: 0x17ec5628  RDX:   0x3e8fc22c

RIP:    0x780ff1a0  RBP: 0x010fedb0  SegCs: 0x00000033

EFlags: 0x00010293  RSP: 0x010fed30  SegSs: 0x0000002b

R8:    0xc1a000ab  R9: 0x17ecf050  R10:   0x00000003

R11:    0x00000000  R12: 0x010ff450  R13:   0x05684d48

R14:    0x00000000  R15: 0x780ff780

 

Bytes at CS:EIP:

88 fd da 0e 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Module 1

C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\xinput1_3.dll

Image Base: 0x00400000  Image Size: 0x0001e000

File Size:  107368      File Time:  2007-04-04_175422

Version:

   Company:    Microsoft Corporation

   Product:    Microsoft® DirectX for Windows®

   FileDesc:   Microsoft Common Controller API

   FileVer:    9.18.944.0

   ProdVer:    9.18.944.0

 

Module 2

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\vstdlib_s64.dll

Image Base: 0x5ee20000  Image Size: 0x0006c000

File Size:  348240      File Time:  2016-07-13_090514

Version:

   Company:    Valve Corporation

   Product:    Steam

   FileDesc:   vstdlib_ s.dll

   FileVer:    3.53.40.55

   ProdVer:    3.0.0.1

 

Module 3

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\tier0_s64.dll

Image Base: 0x5ee90000  Image Size: 0x001e4000

File Size:  330832      File Time:  2016-07-13_090512

Version:

   Company:    Valve Corporation

   Product:     tier0_s Dynamic Link Library

   FileDesc:   tier0_s Dynamic Link Library

   FileVer:    3.53.40.55

   ProdVer:    1.0.0.1

 

Module 4

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamclient64.dll

Image Base: 0x5f080000  Image Size: 0x00c57000

File Size:  12693664    File Time:  2016-07-13_090512

Version:

   Company:    Valve Corporation

   Product:    Steam

   FileDesc:   Steamclient.dll

   FileVer:    3.53.40.55

   ProdVer:    3.0.0.1

 

Module 5

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Naval Action\steam_api64.dll

Image Base: 0x5fce0000  Image Size: 0x0002e000

File Size:  166080      File Time:  2016-07-17_131436

Version:

   Company:    Valve Corporation

   Product:    Steam Client API

   FileDesc:   Steam Client API

   FileVer:    2.30.48.16

   ProdVer:    1.0.0.1

 

 

== [end of error.log] ==

[Port information on PC]

This is just flag that port information is stored on a players PC, if you reload Naval action or play on a different machine then all port information collected in the past disappears into the ether. 

So unless you go back to the original install it is gone, pity if you have crashed, burned and reloaded the game.

Is this a feature or a bug, for me it has been a total pain in the ass. as I play on two different machines, a desktop and a laptop depending on where I am physically.

My suggestion to the developers, is that like craft and xp, the map be stored with the player on the server.

[Technical problems and bugs]

I have followed you advice re GPU-Z but  another day,10 min in game another crash, couldn't get the gpu over 60c. I have checked the steam game cache with NP

This must be the 20th crash report the game has sent under the name Captain Clark, it is client.exe which appears to cause the crash, how do we progress this.

seems odd it is done in a public forum,

I have rolled back my machine a week, reloaded naval action and updates, windows 10 updates, graphics card drivers.

and had no crash so far after 1 hour, is it fixed only time will tell.

Well that lasted a couple of hours then crash out again where can I post error logs or is this automatic

More crash's more crash reports sent , nice to have some feed back on all these crash reports.

[Technical problems. Reporting guide. Known issues and their solutions.]

 I am having the same problem as JPJohns in the last 24 hours , nothing has changed on my system for months except your so called up dates, I find your error reporting tool as useless as the current NA 

 how can I even attach the crash file, if your final program is like this it will be a total failure. if the game was working yesterday and crashes every ten min now what has changed 

finally you early maintenance today indicates to me it is you side.which is failing please sort this out. 

[Technical problems and bugs]

Not sure what is happening in the last 24 hours but I am having regular game crashs, probably every 10 min  or in the last hour, I have change nothing in my configuration for months 

honestly I am completely over it, is it me or the game, who can tell, not happy. 

Then you go to maintenance early today no explanation so I assume it is NA side please fix this, if it is NA side otherwise you will loose another loyal customer

[Food supplies - advanced warning]

I like the idea of provisioning,  if it is realistic, adds another great dimension to the game.

 

I think the developers idea of a one off craft is at best a short term solution which has nil merit. food carried on a ship should be very linked to ship type and crew size.

 

The idea of different food type as suggested in numerous posts is ideal, with farms, plantations, fishing these are a  very good idea but will need fleshing out.

 

Moral based on current food supply is a great idea. Scurvy was the biggest enemy of life at sea, and rum was absolutely essential, no rum = mutiny

 

Crafting food and raw materials should not be linked to craft hours, lets get that fixed it is a total pain and adds nothing to the game except grind.

 

I think you have a great game but we need to eliminate some of the endless grind. it is one of the key reasons players are leaving in droves.

[server crash 16-06-2016 and 17-06-2016]

While I managed to avoid loosing my ship and 2.5 M in cargo, others weren't so fortunate, at least one santi with a lot of very expensive upgrades was lost, causing lot of angst from experienced players.

I hope admin address these losses, as  the investment in ships is substantial in both time and effort.

While server side issues are to be expected from time to time, players need to have this address asap to avoid loosing faith in the game which appears to have taken a substantial hit in the past few weeks

[Resource distribution, the economy, and giving players a reason to sail]

One of the major issues with resources which can be easily addressed, is the current limit on contracts.

I mean 5 contracts  what where they thinking, this makes it noncompetitive in major markets, this needs to be changed to at least 10 contract and possibly more.

At present why would you compete in a market when you only have a maxim of 5.

This leads to economic system which can only fail even in the short term .  

[Pve server sub forum please]

I Just want to support the concept of a PVE sub forum, clearly there are marked difference in play style on the two instances of NA, what is the worst that can happen. Every one get a voice for there own area of interest without being ganked even on a forum. 

[Open world: technical problems, glitches, bugs and workarounds]

 There  some strange stuff happening on PVE  today, initially very high ping, my end is normal if not faster than normal, then restart an hour later no chat, national, global or help tabs work, ping fine, I think we have a problem.  but what it is I am not sure what it is, also my clan chat says I am not here, friends tab is empty sounds fishy to me they haven't all deserted me. any thoughts

['Ingermanland' Russian 3-Rate 1715 (With Plans)]

 I have been sailing an Ingermanland for a few missions and let say even without a full crew and no copper plate upgrade in live oak. She sails faster than a Bellona or a 3rd, turn rate seems good for a 4th rate, it can stand in line of battle and looks fantastic in a 17th century way, At present they are very hard to get and relatively expensive, the lack of a BP drop from building the Ingermanland, makers her a dead end for crafters, But I bet every gold one will be sold for a premium.  I am very happy with this ship

[Naval Action Player Code of Conduct - submitted by the AUSL]

Signed, good work

[Little things you'd like to see]

love the game but I think that the breaking up of ships with permanent upgrades should attract a drop in notes of what ever type was used to make them, perhaps even for high grade ships that took a lot of notes to make.

 Currently there is no incentive to break ships, the BP drop % is so small it is ridiculous, parts drop is equally small, this could make break ship a real option.