Justme Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 I admit my time on was limited yesterday( 90 mins) but sailing the U.S coastline I only seen one trader. Has there been a decrease in AI traders? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nelson Hornblower Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Agree, I only played for about an hour yesterday and noticed the same thing. The ocean felt VERY empty without traders sailing around. Even if you can't attack them, just having more NPCs sailing around helps with the immersion that you're part of a larger world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maturin Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Long time passing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eishen Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 I admit my time on was limited yesterday( 90 mins) but sailing the U.S coastline I only seen one trader. Has there been a decrease in AI traders? I would bet by them being used as travel ticket for ships with the new IA capture rules you need one of those to send your ship to another of your outposts.... so they are going to be a scarce resource, specially the smugglers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anne Wildcat Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 I also could not find any traders, but yesterday was only the first day of the patch, so give it time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tief N Tote Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 yes we have all been discussing this topic on other threads so i assume this will be locked soon. i too am missing the contraband ships and traders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hethwill Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Ports spawn nationals. To find foreign traders you should have to travel to the edge of territory. Admin posted this in other thread. About the specific contraband, no idea, but did see a few yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justme Posted April 14, 2016 Author Share Posted April 14, 2016 Ports spawn nationals. To find foreign traders you should have to travel to the edge of territory. Admin posted this in other thread. About the specific contraband, no idea, but did see a few yesterday. Please note in my OP I said traders, which includes all traders both foreign and friendly. The only one I seen was a Spanish grosse venture off key west. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hethwill Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Odd but worth a look. Was in Dutch and Black waters and saw a fair deal, all with escorts. Maybe the lone ones were removed and that's why the quantity is less overall ?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RA6E Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Worrisome to me that the if traders have become more scarce? capping them and raiding is entertaining... Admittedly I also used them often to move ships around. IMO this makes the OW so so much bigger. Does this game really need that? Maybe we need the ability to teleport a ship somewhere besides capital once a day? I get the simulator/realism angle... But that's going to be a very small crowd. I've played a lot of open world MMO's with Big worlds.. But seldom one that has headwinds killing me for 1/2 my sailing time? I see this as a pretty big turn-off to a lot players trying this out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admin Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 investigating 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William the Drake Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Sailing around the northern coast of Cuba, I saw a few traders. Maybe a little less than normal. But still there. Even attacked a trade brig who didn't have an escort. (Pre-hotfix) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raskolnikoff Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Problem confirmed, will be fixed in a next hotfix 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackjack McGee Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Thank you. Thank you and thank you. Hope to see the hot fix very soon please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justme Posted April 14, 2016 Author Share Posted April 14, 2016 Problem confirmed, will be fixed in a next hotfix Thank you for looking into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buttski Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 just put in 'traders' instead of 'flowers' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevish Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 (edited) Was seeing plenty of traders all day, don't understand what everyone else's problem is... Most had fleets but there were solos/contraband traders as well. Edited April 14, 2016 by Trevish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennyo Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Thank you! As for the teleporting issue. I have heard the admin say they are trying to help casual players. A casual player does not have time to sail a ship for an hour to get somewhere when they only play for an hour or so at a time. A friend and I both started playing the game in January. He has less than 100 hours and I have less than 300. Take away teleports and all players like him are gone. I don't even consider 300 hours since January much more than casual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfimp Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 (edited) Problem confirmed, will be fixed in a next hotfix Thank you! I added my feedback to this thread, FWIW: http://forum.game-labs.net/index.php?/topic/13221-bring-back-lone-traders-and-boarding-of-all-ai-ships/?p=241504 Edited April 14, 2016 by surfimp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zisme Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Thank you! As for the teleporting issue. I have heard the admin say they are trying to help casual players. A casual player does not have time to sail a ship for an hour to get somewhere when they only play for an hour or so at a time. A friend and I both started playing the game in January. He has less than 100 hours and I have less than 300. Take away teleports and all players like him are gone. I don't even consider 300 hours since January much more than casual. I said this in the patch post.but it was deleted..this game is getting harder and harder for casual players to play... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomic Moose Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 (edited) this is not a casual gamer game and i will not recommend it to anyone who cannot play for a min of 3hrs a day 80% of the game play is fighting the wind what ever you do this a major reason why 75% of player who PAID MONEY to play this game have quit it just takes to long to do anything 3/4 of the 30 people who started with me have quit over this very reason they want to be able to long on for a couple hrs and feel they did something other than sail open world Edited April 14, 2016 by Atomic Moose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennytall Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 just put in 'traders' instead of 'flowers' Was looking for this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomic Moose Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 well it seems henry doesn think there is a problem with no trade ships how many pics of and open sea by land by towns do you want to show you there no traders alone or hell even with other ships this stuff needs to be tested please oh my bad we are the testers i forget Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justme Posted April 14, 2016 Author Share Posted April 14, 2016 this is not a casual gamer game and i will not recommend it to anyone who cannot play for a min of 3hrs a day 80% of the game play is fighting the wind what ever you do this a major reason why 75% of player who PAID MONEY to play this game have quit it just takes to long to do anything 3/4 of the 30 people who started with me have quit over this very reason they want to be able to long on for a couple hrs and feel they did something other than sail open world It really depends on how you play it. You want to cross the map everyday you have some long sessions ahead of you, just want to fight not nearly as much time needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b.westall Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 No traders HUGE fleets instead and the npc's never miss.what happened? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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