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  1. In rough weather, I wonder if there would be a mechanic for it getting swamped?
  2. I am incredibly stoked about the Niagara. I just wish she had bow chasers for privateering
  3. I really think the first idea could be explored more, but I think it has a really sound premise. A lot of players, myself included, work long hours. On the weekends, I'd like nothing more than to sink 12 hours at a time playing, but I do so at the risk of a rather unhappy fiance (Though at least there would be truth in advertising - she'd know what she was getting into before signing the dotted line...) Perhaps fleeting can be done where a player either A. Hires a fleet to convoy them in their off hours, or, and I like this idea more, B. Nation NPC traffic has some scheduling aspect to it, where players can go to the departing port, park their boat, and a convoy that was already going to have half a dozen frigates suddenly has some snows, brigs, even perhaps trading vessels. Taggable in the open world, and perhaps even insurable.
  4. I agree with Rramsha. I think that the fog of war should be enhanced, rather than stripped down.
  5. In fairness, swearing is forbidden in the American military boot camp and has been for years, and is strongly discouraged outside of that - officially. However, swearing still happens quite frequently and forcefully. That being said, you'd occasionally get the senior NCO who wanted to be a model for the rules and would actually use replacement words for swearing, except they were habituated to using swear words as a mental pause (instead of saying "Uhhh"). This would lead to humorous incidents of getting chewed out by someone who, still arraging their thoughts would start yelling " Friggin' daggone daggone friggin' friggin' what is your daggone friggin' problem, devil?!" Just as an example of how rules are often passed to create a polite fiction, and are not necessarily representative of the actual situation. (This, not to be taken as disagreement of the general premise - We should all strive to be good stewards of the game and community. This need not be "preschool redux")
  6. Now, I would argue for privateers to be limited to one of the lighter frigates. But I think the idea itself has merit. Still, who would give the orders for these larger vessels? Server AI? Elected players of the faction? Whomever is ranked highest at the time on log-in? As far as privateer v. rated ship, one way to implement it might be to have people with their own vessels, but have vessels in different areas that you can go to and assume command of to fulfill X mission. You might require a person to have Y rank to take charge of the ship. This would allow people freedom of choice, while preventing privateering rated vessels.
  7. Jobe - Neutral, Deep Water Harbor -84821.9, 445364.0
  8. After all, the pursuit of liberty need not be unprofitable...
  9. Let no nation meddle in this, our Manifest Destiny. The Caribbean, by rights, ought to be an American Lake. This, my guns shall enforce. --- So, I go by Hans Wilhelm in the game. Somehow I missed the Open World announcement, so I'm quickly figuring that out, though I played a bit before that came out too. A history student by day, a paramedic by night (or, as the case is currently, a paramedic over the summer while school is in break), tall ships and the period that encompasses them are a passion of mine, so this game really fits me to a T.
  10. July 2nd, 1863: Lt. Col. Chamberlain is ordered to hold the left flank of the Union Army at all costs. Men from the 15th Alabama continue to push up the hill, and are repulsed time and again until the 20th Maine is almost doubled back on itself. With ammunition running low, only a few rounds left to each man, and stripping the dead and dying of their remaining rounds, Chamberlain, a Bowdoin Professor, decides to fix bayonets and charge.
  11. I enlisted in the navy some years ago as a corpsman, thinking I'd do medical stuff on a boat. Well... when I stood out in the middle of Afghanistan, surrounded by nothing but desert, I determined I was going to build a boat one day so I could eventually experience, you know, large bodies of water. As such, I ordered quite a few ship building books, of which I'd be happy to scan in anything for you. The History of the American Sailing Navy: The Ships and Their Development The History Of American Sailing Ships Yacht Designing and Planning: For Yachtsmen, Students, and Amateurs, by Boatbuilding: A Complete Handbook of Wooden Boat Construction American Small Sailing Craft: Their Design, Development and Construction The American Fishing Schooners: 1825-1935 These were all written by Howard Irving Chapelle
  12. I was a student at SUNY Albany getting my degree in history at the beginning of last year, and, though I'm now transferring to Kentucky, the 44th NY I found particularly interesting as two companies were from "Albany State Normal School" (SUNY Albany). They were enlisted by students and officered by professors, and I figured I would share what I had: http://www.albany.edu/faculty/aballard/civilwar/ http://www.albany.edu/news/40254.php At the time, I happened to be driving through Gettysburg, and stopped to visit the monument, and take some photos, they can be seen here: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_Lch0M7RFs7cXRXSzQ2VUdJWGM/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_Lch0M7RFs7WmNOcVVFbXZlS2c/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_Lch0M7RFs7OTViS09rVWwyZHc/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_Lch0M7RFs7c2M0STVkZmZDd0U/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_Lch0M7RFs7Qng3SDQtcDhHUDA/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_Lch0M7RFs7Q0xPQTRHMTBRU2M/edit?usp=sharing The ones aiming down hill are from the (officers) view of the 44th NY (re-looking through them, I see the unit markers in the foreground, so, my bad!). (Keep in mind vegetation will be different, as it was 149 years later.)
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