L'Abattage

Are we talking of the same game? I have been playing pirates of the burning sea since 2008 and I rarely pvp. Do you not remember the whole "no crying in the red" fiasco? The lesson that fls didn't learn was that people play pirates and age of sail games because they like them. When people who wanted to play these types of games suddenly lost their ships and stuff, they rage quit by the hundreds and servers were closed. The thing I hope this game keeps in mind is that there are two kind of players... The very vocal and usually relatively small in number (hence all the requests for 1v1, 2v2, etc in the different chats) pvp players and then there are the other players who lurk (reading chat, but seldom commenting) and are perfectly content playing missions and such in a pirate game. Flying Lab made the mistake of listening to a very small, but extremely vocal community and we all witnessed those results. Pvp players want to fight anyone, anywhere, at anytime... Period. However, those who do not like to pvp will play the game on their terms or they will find something else to do... Either in game or someplace else. I wish you all the luck in this balancing act and I look forward to playing the game.

Not sure if it is possible or how exactly it would work in your game, but there are many times when large amphibious landings would be taken to try to capture a towns and control entire regions. Examples are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cartagena_de_Indias http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Quebec http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_expedition_against_Cuba http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Nassau http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pensacola_(1781) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baltimore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Washington Like I said not sure how to implement this, but creative assembly does a good job at this with their total war series esp. with empire total war and napoleon total war. I am really looking forward to this game.