Remove Port Battles - rethink the objective

[fox2run]

Why not remove the fight over ports altogether?

 

Maybe its the ports and claiming land that is the whole misere in this game?

 We should fight over the sea instead. Make the ports fixed but not the sea... Split the map up in zones of control. Make each nation able to plant an amount of battle flags each night. When battles are won, the nation have honor points. When enough points is recieved something happens... The sea changes colour, the leading nation has some bars over their flags - whatever.

A lot of discussion about ROE and Port Battles have been too complicated for too long. You need to simplify things and take the perspective of the player:

1. You log in.

2. Take a look on nation chat - "whats going on tonight?"

3. Sail around to find nothing of importance..

4. Log off.

5. Drops the game when 1-4 has been done for x amount of times.

 

After the log in, the player need some VERY CLEAR TOOLS to lead them toward the action.

WHERE IS SOMETHING GOING ON?

HOW CAN I FIND A BATTLE?

PvP needs to be FUN and addictive. 1vs5 is no fun. PLaying for hours with no PvP is no fun etc... Rethink the OW and make battles happen from the players perspective.

Make the map into a minigame where nations fight over like 10 areas or maybe even less... Each area or zone gives some bonusses or honor or something.

 

[Baptiste Gallouédec]

Ahah you troll, they finally do land-in port battles after month of requests and hard work, and you post: "maybe you should delete port battles" ^^

 

But i see what you want to tell about clear tools to find action, maybe just mark on the map where there is battle instances and status (open/close/pve/pvp/missions/time of pb) maybe that's not realistic but we have chat and teamspeaks as main tools but ts is not very rookie/casual-friendly and it would be more intuitive for a larger audience.

 

 

[Ned Loe]

More content will be added in the new patch next week. 

[fox2run]

24 minutes ago, Baptiste Gallouédec said:

Ahah you troll, they finally do land-in port battles after month of requests and hard work, and you post: "maybe you should delete port battles" ^^

 

But i see what you want to tell about clear tools to find action, maybe just mark on the map where there is battle instances and status (open/close/pve/pvp/missions/time of pb) maybe that's not realistic but we have chat and teamspeaks as main tools but ts is not very rookie/casual-friendly and it would be more intuitive for a larger audience.

 

 

How come you say Im a troll? I like this game to be fun. This is a suggestion thread. 

[Chijohnaok]

So rather than taking something that needs a bit of tweaking to fix it, we should get rid of port battles?

IMHO, what has happened sometimes in the past is when something was slightly broken, and could maybe be fixed with some minor tweaking, the developers instead go from one extreme to the other.  

So now the OP suggests that we eliminate port battles altogether.  Yet another instance of going from one extreme to the next.  

Not a solution IMHO. 

Edited November 29, 2016 by Chijohnaok

[Bart Smith]

I am afraid your suggestion cant be even consider by developers - removing PB from Naval Action will be like take dog a bone In next patch (hopefully) we get reworked port battles with land - so strong NO.