pve server

[Raymond Woolstone]

no new player section that i can find, so im posting this here.

 

is the pve server exlusivly solo play? are there no group activitys or clans on this server?

i know the 50 ship battles are for pvp, but i wouldent mind a 20vs 20 humans vs ai battle.

 

i have been playing for 4 days now, sailing a snow on autopilote for the brits and i am finding these 1v1 or 1v2 missions to be boring by now.

 

 

[Chandler Latham]

There are clans, and there are group activities. Finding a clan requires going out and looking for one, or getting invited. (I was invited to mine after sailing with them for a couple battles.) With regards to group activities, Post-Captain and Flag Captain missions are, from what I hear (as a Master and Commander), impossible or extremely difficult to run alone. There are also larger AI fleets, found near Cuba and Haiti, that put anything found inside Jamaican waters to shame.

[Admiral 8Q]

You can get big battles in PvE. (Human vs A.I.)
But just like in PvP, you can't expect to do much for large battles in a basic cutter, or at low rank.
There are alot of 'group activities' and also clans.

[Capt. Rice]

Yea this game is not really tuned for pve as much and the mission are repetitive for PVE but its an alpha and pve will get less attention then pvp imo

[Raymond Woolstone]

There are clans, and there are group activities. Finding a clan requires going out and looking for one, or getting invited. (I was invited to mine after sailing with them for a couple battles.) With regards to group activities, Post-Captain and Flag Captain missions are, from what I hear (as a Master and Commander), impossible or extremely difficult to run alone. There are also larger AI fleets, found near Cuba and Haiti, that put anything found inside Jamaican waters to shame.

 

how would i find these clans? i flipped thru the first couple of pages in the clan section on this forum but only found pvp clans.

 

You can get big battles in PvE. (Human vs A.I.)

But just like in PvP, you can't expect to do much for large battles in a basic cutter, or at low rank.

There are alot of 'group activities' and also clans.

 

 

yea, i kinda expected that, i just wanted to know if there was any reason for me to grind the biggest ships other then just to look at it in pve.

 

Yea this game is not really tuned for pve as much and the mission are repetitive for PVE but its an alpha and pve will get less attention then pvp imo

 

in games where there are both pvp and pve, it has allways been so. seems it is the same here too.

[haibeo]

Try to look at the nation chat ingame and ask them.

 

there are few clan (at least on brit side) that actively looking for new player.

[Tindahbawx]

I wouldnt really bother with the PvE server to be honest, you'll get the same experience on the PvP server just by sticking to areas your nation has well under control, you'll rarely even see an enemy player. On the other hand it has the benefit of all the PvP content if and when you want it.

[Babble]

The better question is why does a pve server even exist?

 

 

Tindahbawx is right.

 

As long as you stay near your nations capital you will almost never see an enemy player.  And the way game mechanics are you never really have to fight anyone you dont want to anyway.

 

All the PVE server does is divide the player base more then it needs to be divided.

[Hethwill]

The player base is divided by technical limits until notice. The PvP / PvE setups are simply a by product and a added choice or instead we would have the same 4 servers all PvP.

[hoarmurath]

There's a pve server because pvpers were not willing to have pvp flags... And the game, contrary to some people belief, is not only about pvp. It was always said that pvp would be optional.

[surfimp]

I've been sailing with the American Continental Navy on the PVE server and really enjoying it. We group up into squadrons of 3-7 or more ships and take on AI fleets comprised of 3rd rates escorting frigates and the like. It's really quite fun and good practice. I've leveled up much more quickly getting 200-400XP per battle versus the 50XP I was getting from Admiralty missions (this is going from Midshipman to 1st Lt. where I am now).

 

Also, having spent a bit of time on PVP 2, I find the in-game chat much, much less toxic and offtopic on the PVE server... I was pretty shocked at how bad the USA National chat was on PVP 2, and I'm an open minded person. Just lots of 4chan -style trolling, none of it funny or interesting. It's a much more positive and overall better and more immersive atmosphere on PVE, IMHO, but that's just my preferences really.

Edited February 25, 2016 by surfimp