Cauldronborn Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 (edited) We are pirates, why does everyone think we give a shit about a "capital". Edited February 23, 2016 by Cauldronborn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yonaise Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 (edited) I have founded the promised land, and have united the fractured clans. Now we the pirate band, shall go forth and hunt for Slamz! You may now applaud. Edited February 24, 2016 by Yonaise 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VonVolks Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 My goodness, it would have to be YUUUUUUGE! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[MCC] Die Antwoord Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 Mr. Bruce, As you regale this tale to your friends at the pub, how do you explain fleeing your own capital to attack the mighty forces of France? I am not suggesting it takes the wind from your hard fought conquest, but it certainly raises a few questions about the amount of glory you deserve to tout. W. Roberts I cannot speak for other clans or players but CF established in Aves exactly 3 hours after the game released on steam without knowing or even wondering about the numbers in any nation or even realizing we were pretty much settling near the French capital. Aves and Le Moule were the only two pirate ports in the area so using Camp du Roy was just the logical thing to do. Within less than a week we had enough members to try our hand at port capping and figured that having 2 cities only with nations all around us wasn't viable long term so we proceded to secure the area around CDR fully expecting the French to defend their turf. In fact we were a bit scared tbat the french would overpower us so we most fast to take as many neutral ports as we could to secure a foothold. We eventually took 3 french cities on these islands that they would not have used anyway. Our success up there and the lack of success in the Bahamas against the US zerg drew other clans to our area. We did not plan this, we did not expect this, in fact the choice we made initially was to do our own thing, kinda like moving to nullsec in Eve and trying to hold on our own. At that point, looking at the populations down there we figured our main and only threat in the region were the Brits down SE so as a combined effort we decided to rid the area of them. Our reasonning here was that we would be at the same time helping the french and letting them take most of the Brit ports for themselves, as a gesture of good will after taking their 3 unused ports up north, securing a whole zone for all small nations down there to have peace, allowing all of us to level, trade, craft in peace and fight any intruders as one (looking at the big picture, we estimated the US and Brits were too big to take on at the same time, on two fronts in Mortimer). Diplomacy failed with the french and they decided all out war was what they wanted. The newer clans down south are giving them exactly what they wanted and I have yet to have any french knock on my door to parlay and try to fix things. At this point, nobody on the pirate side cares about what France thinks and we are simply taking everything because too many lies have been spread and too much stuborness has been expressed. There is no hope for peace now with the French they will be wiped and that's all there is to say. That said we are more open for negociations with all other nations. We do not have an expansionist mindset, both the southern and northern clans have what we came for (more, actually as we had no intention of choking the french initially). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BramtheDutch Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 Pirates are now working on the great dykes, I hear that the great dyke between hispaniola and cuba is going to be called dealmaker. Soon there land will expand and they can grow plantations on the furtile ex-shallows to ruin the British econony. They will also plant forests to go up against the land-leased foreign-crewed first rates that the british use to defend their ports. (Aves, December 2015) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isink A Lot Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 You know, it really doesn’t matter what the pirates write as long as you’ve got a young, and beautiful, piece of ass. Ya know dude that appendage attached to the end of your arm is not a "young and beautiful piece of ass" right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[MCC] Die Antwoord Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 Ya know dude that appendage attached to the end of your arm is not a "young and beautiful piece of ass" right? Shots fired! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Roberts Posted February 25, 2016 Author Share Posted February 25, 2016 Britain is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman. - Roberts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Æthlstan Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 The french have been lied to by the pirates the entire time, yes. The attempt at peace with the french was an ultimatum in disguise. Brucy, you probably have good intentions but you dont represent all the pirate clans and dont seem to recognize their diplomatic incompetence. A serious peace offering with the french would involve giving them room to grow and prosper, with an outlined plan of future operations against the british and americans, as well as how to get the french a foothold near said nations. France isnt interested in Pve. Even if it was it needs resource ports, and the pirates insisted on having said ports. We could probably come to an accord and start bringing the fight to the Americans ir the british, but A) we have having a blast making Pirate lives in the south miserable. the pirates will probably never agree to police their nation (as they insist it is) and prevent rogue pirates from continuing to fight the french. C) unless things change it would be a poor move on Frances part to ally with any nation that is so blaise about its inability to control itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Æthlstan Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 D) convincing the pirate players to go up north and fight the big guys is probably impossible. They talk big but dont walk the walk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FACE Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 This will cause a stone crisis. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Roberts Posted February 25, 2016 Author Share Posted February 25, 2016 This will cause a stone crisis. Mainly ship crisis, we are using their ships and have already have a few, I am very thankful to the pirates who donated them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VonVolks Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 I thought they were all rapists and murderers though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BramtheDutch Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 PVP 1 or PVP 2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Roberts Posted February 25, 2016 Author Share Posted February 25, 2016 PVP 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tindahbawx Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 I approve of your wall cutting off British Cuban ports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajffighter86 Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 (edited) We are pirates, why does everyone think we give a shit about a "capital". The capital doesn't matter. It's the new guys in pirate faction that matter. The ones who pop their heads out of Mortimer and get it smashed and say 'hmm, maybe I'll join USA.' +1 zerg, -1 pirates That, my fellow rat, is what you should "give a shit about". And before you say, 'just come south'. No one new in the game is gonna want to sail 20 in-game days to go put cannonballs in a tower and occasionally see an opposing player they can PVP with every other day. (But if they're very quiet and try not to spook them, they might catch a glimpse of the endangered French species before a horde of pirates descend upon it and kill it.) Edited February 25, 2016 by ajffighter86 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[MCC] Die Antwoord Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 The capital doesn't matter. It's the new guys in pirate faction that matter. The ones who pop their heads out of Mortimer and get it smashed and say 'hmm, maybe I'll join USA.' +1 zerg, -1 pirates That, my fellow rat, is what you should "give a shit about". And before you say, 'just come south'. No one new in the game is gonna want to sail 20 in-game days to go put cannonballs in a tower and occasionally see an opposing player they can PVP with every other day. (But if they're very quiet and try not to spook them, they might catch a glimpse of the endangered French species before a horde of pirates descend upon it and kill it.) You forget two important things: 1. Anyone who is serious about joining the pirates can roll France, attack a trader (or Slamz for 500k if he gets the kill) and sail for a whole 20 seconds to be with us all. 2. Nation switching favor the Pirate direction because you lose nothing, most new pirates come from other nations. So its not a problem. Britain is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman. - Roberts That's awesome man, because the Pirates are currently ahd historically the closest thing to a democracy this game and the real world ever has. You guys should consider the switch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dharus Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 I have founded the promised land, and have united the fractured clans. Now we the pirate band, shall go forth and hunt for Slamz! You may now applaud. He's at Pedernales. We look forward to add your ship to our "pirate sandbar". That's the kind of wall the French are building. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johannes Zoutman Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 (edited) I have seen the face of these great Dutch dykes, and they are the things of nightmares... One day you will wake up, step outside your ships cabin to greet the sun and find yourself surrounded by grazing cows... Edited February 26, 2016 by Johannes van Utrecht 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francis Tabernac Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 One day you will wake up, step outside your ships cabin to greet the sun and find yourself surrounded by grazing cows... That dream's right up there, next to the one about waking up in the middle of a court martial in my skivvies! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cauldronborn Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 The capital doesn't matter. It's the new guys in pirate faction that matter. The ones who pop their heads out of Mortimer and get it smashed and say 'hmm, maybe I'll join USA.' +1 zerg, -1 pirates That, my fellow rat, is what you should "give a shit about". And before you say, 'just come south'. No one new in the game is gonna want to sail 20 in-game days to go put cannonballs in a tower and occasionally see an opposing player they can PVP with every other day. (But if they're very quiet and try not to spook them, they might catch a glimpse of the endangered French species before a horde of pirates descend upon it and kill it.) Right and I suppose when a new player in EVE online joins a nullsec corp they immediatly leave it because they dont want to travel 30+ jumps to go do boring stuff either? There is a reason there is a "Zerg" Noone is being forced to go down there, they ask in pirate chat where the action is, they get told, and they go by themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lefort Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 He's at Pedernales. We look forward to add your ship to our "pirate sandbar". That's the kind of wall the French are building. hilarious how that place is still holding Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grim DeGrim Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 hilarious how that place is still holding We are attacked by a horde of Vikings and Wooden Hooved beasts. Not some drunkenly band of scalawags. Let's keep it in perspective. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arbour Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 No one new in the game is gonna want to sail 20 in-game days to go put cannonballs in a tower and occasionally see an opposing player they can PVP with every other day. (But if they're very quiet and try not to spook them, they might catch a glimpse of the endangered French species before a horde of pirates descend upon it and kill it.) Occasional PvP? Every other day? You must not be a pirate, I'm assuming. France actively patrols the entire pirate territory now from Camp du Roy to Naprima Bay looking for a fight. Personally I get into 4 or 5 scuffles with pirates a night, and that is average for a Frenchman. Admittedly it's slowed down the past 2 days, but not because of the efforts of the French. The pirates just don't seem as eager to come out and play as they did before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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