admin Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Captains should be advised that there are several highly skilled privateers sailing in the open seas. Privateers usually operate solo in a fast ship equipped only with chasers or sometimes no guns at all for better speed. They hire up to 50% of their crew as marines and also upgrade their ships with other boarding improvements. It is hard to execute boarding with 50% of your crew not participating in sailing and gunnery, but if that said privateer boards you it will usually lead to devastating results. Your crew won't be able to defend properly. Counter-attacking them is also risky even if you have a higher crew because of the barricaded decks. There are cases when such captains are able to win when outnumbered 3v1 and stay alive capturing all enemy vessels. Captains not willing to engage in boarding combat should take extreme care and stay downwind denying the opportunity to board at all costs, keeping their speed above 4knots. We are also investigating the reports. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hethwill Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Grape them !!! Is this a event like AI thing Admin ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admin Posted March 23, 2016 Author Share Posted March 23, 2016 Grape them !!! Is this a event like AI thing Admin ? its not an event- its already happening players got good use of the new marines mechanics. if you hear a boarding whistle better be safe. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sella Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Cheeky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hethwill Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 its not an event- its already happening players got good use of the new marines mechanics. if you hear a boarding whistle better be safe. That I know, although I miss some exceptional ones. But would be nice to have some rare and nasty nice aggressive AI roaming and provoking chaos. ( specially now that reinforcements are disabled ). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El_Compot Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Perhaps we'll soon see xebek at sea) Optimized mechanics under quick boarding?))) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pietjenoob Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Well, I am infamous in DAS with my Traders Snow for hunting down traders and some people make jokes out of it, the Bastards. And i know if people try to board me i have an unpleasant surprise for them. Unfortunially i can't attack because of the same Nation. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johannes Zoutman Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Well, I am infamous in DAS with my Traders Snow for hunting down traders and some people make jokes out of it, the Bastards. And i know if people try to board me i have an unpleasant surprise for them. Unfortunially i can't attack because of the same Nation. Pietjetradernoob. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siegfried Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Use a Trader Snow for hunting traders is other of my crazy ideas to try. Glad to see to someone is making it and it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justme Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Hmmm. I welcome the oppertunity to fight some aggressive AI. If i knew where they were I would happily hunt them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pietjenoob Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 (edited) Pietjetradernoob.Well there is supposed to be a voting to change my name to 'Pietje the Privateer' because of my 'Funny' traders snow.PS I am willing to give people a little course 'how to catch a trader with a trader' Edited March 23, 2016 by pietjenoob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrdoomed Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Way to narc me out admin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Red Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Just out of curiosity, why using a trader ship to capture a trader ship? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanay Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 (edited) Just out of curiosity, why using a trader ship to capture a trader ship? You have all the space needed to take the full cargo with you and continue to the next target, no need of sailing the captured trader ship to keep all the cargo, done it quite few times using a trader snow against all kind of traders. Edited March 23, 2016 by Kanay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siegfried Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Hold cargo. You will don't need go to port with each prize you take. More time saved. The counter is that you will sail slower and catching other traders is more time needed, but you can counter this with a better tagging. I don't try this yet. P.S. Sniped by Kanay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pietjenoob Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Hold cargo. You will don't need go to port with each prize you take. More time saved. The counter is that you will sail slower and catching other traders is more time needed, but you can counter this with a better tagging. I don't try this yet. P.S. Sniped by Kanay. Also a little bennefiet is that after you have done your capture you need to port and put everything first in warehous and then in Trader now it is even more time saving. Every ship i capture is around 7.5min or faster for the brig and snow. Cutter i think in 5 min and lynx really depends on coorporation of the crew and with a renn or snow it will take more time because of sailing back and forth and i can do 15 trader catches before going to any port in best situation. Minimal damage 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manuva85 Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 LIES.... I mean pls dont nerf boarding;p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justme Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 So the guys that use traders to hunt traders, where you based out of? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Red Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 15 traders? I wish there would be 15 traders to catch in my area Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pietjenoob Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 So the guys that use traders to hunt traders, where you based out of?Well i don't have a real base more an area which i rather don't tell you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maturin Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 15 traders? I wish there would be 15 traders to catch in my area Pick literally any spot on the north coast of Cuba-Hispaniola-Puerto Rico. It should be a conga-line of traders. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ned Loe Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Rage boarders! It's about time they finally operate on OS. That's how I hunt Traders btw Using Basic of Fine Marines doesn't hurt that much. Exceptional Marines are now garbage. Hammocks help out as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knallkorp Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Beware 1st rates im looking for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. Rice Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Its very interesting how many real players do not prepare for boarding when an enemy ship is right next to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ned Loe Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Its very interesting how many real players do not prepare for boarding when an enemy ship is right next to them. Few days ago I witnessed 2 guys got killed by a 3rd rate NPC because they sailed slow and did not have boarding prep. NPC boarded and killed them in 2 minutes minutes. One of them was Surprise from 'Stars' I believe. I myself almost got killed in pvp in my trinco when new mechanics came out. Learned the lesson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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