Kejsaren Posted April 7, 2018 Share Posted April 7, 2018 1 minute ago, Banished Privateer said: Pipalanoix maybe sits outside the port, but yes, I sailed around on Santisimas, Bucentaurs, Bellonas or even very tanky Constitution going just 10-11 knots solo. I had some great battles and I was "hunting", not just sitting ducks in front of the port. How is that surprising to you? It takes much more skill than using fir-fir ships, but it is a variable tactic. How it is surprising?, surprising that you are not ganked when you go out all by yourself in a slow ship. Or maybe you are ganked and just so good you sink them all single-handedly, or you just lucky and meet another tanked out ship and have a good 1 v 1... Or maybe you just manage to dodge gank squads with your variable tactic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fellvred Posted April 7, 2018 Share Posted April 7, 2018 11 minutes ago, RedNeckMilkMan said: So your solution to griefing is to reward them? I don't really consider it griefing, it's just how open world is designed atm. Is it griefing if a fir/fir Prince keeps a slow heavy rattle at range because he'd be creamed at close range? Is it griefing if a cannon frigate keeps a carro frigate at long range and spends an hour taking out sails and using up your stack of sail repairs? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kejsaren Posted April 7, 2018 Share Posted April 7, 2018 1 minute ago, Banished Privateer said: All your statements are true. It's both skill and luck combined. My 10.6 knots Constitution got away from 10-15 Brits chasing me in "revenge fleet" at Belize, mostly GNF players. Wow we agree on something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedNeckMilkMan Posted April 7, 2018 Share Posted April 7, 2018 (edited) 32 minutes ago, Fellvred said: I don't really consider it griefing, it's just how open world is designed atm. Is it griefing if a fir/fir Prince keeps a slow heavy rattle at range because he'd be creamed at close range? Is it griefing if a cannon frigate keeps a carro frigate at long range and spends an hour taking out sails and using up your stack of sail repairs? It is griefing when they have no intention of fighting or killing you. They just want to hold you in battle. Working someones sails down or shooting at range is not the same as tagging someone, shooting ball at sails for 1 1/2 hours, then re-tagging them to do it again. Edited April 7, 2018 by RedNeckMilkMan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojtek Posted April 7, 2018 Share Posted April 7, 2018 He's stupid griefer... I remember when he was chaising my Indiaman's fleet for like 1,5 hour o.O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fellvred Posted April 7, 2018 Share Posted April 7, 2018 34 minutes ago, RedNeckMilkMan said: It is griefing when they have no intention of fighting or killing you. They just want to hold you in battle. Working someones sails down or shooting at range is not the same as tagging someone, shooting ball at sails for 1 1/2 hours, then re-tagging them to do it again. Probably, but op didn't mention anything about retagging etc. The tagged player can also put a call out for help to gank the other guy. The way the open world is designed atm is player A can choose to keep player B in a battle for 90 mins, just like it's player B's choice to surrender and leave if he doesn't want to stay there. I'm not a fan of the design (way too much wasted/down time etc) but I can't see it changing any time soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Texas Sir Posted April 7, 2018 Share Posted April 7, 2018 5 hours ago, TheLoneWolf said: I had a live oak white oak bridgetown heavy rattle. He was probably fir or bermuda. So he had speed advantage. Also, he only shot sails and repeated it after I repaired sails so my sails were not at 100%. Also hrattle does not have stern chasers so he just keeps shooting sails from a distance. Just to be clear, I was not trying to run and sailed towards him to engage. After 20 minutes of distance kitting I got fed up and sailed away just to have him repeat the distance kitting. He sailed away after 40 minutes without even having fired at my hull. Just endless hitting of sails from a far distance. The point is that players should not be permitted to kite your sails for 40 minutes just to be annoying. If you want to fight, then fight, if you want to run then run. But staying at a far distance and only shooting sails for 40 minutes is an issue. Just go with the wind next time, he won't go over 10 knts even if he's totally speed decked out, most Prince hardly get over 8 knts. I think even your Tank out H Rattler should be faster than that. Though can understand the pain of some one that does that. I done my fair share of kitting with Princes lately but always to hold some one in battle until the big boy shows up or for an edge and the other guy slip. Got a rattler the other day just that way, but I wasn't kitting from a mile away I was popping his mast just out of range of his carros. Best thing to do when your in a tank out ship and that goes for any tank out ship is just not sale solo. I found the EU French in the shallws can't catch a Teak/Teak Prince/Privateer right now and that is what I been playing with them mid day in the shallows. If it's 1 vs 1 I'll fight, if they jump in with 3-5 vs me I'll kite them until I can make a good run and escape. Though they found the other day even 2 vs 5 wasn't good odds when you have all Carros lol...ate them up bad. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Texas Sir Posted April 7, 2018 Share Posted April 7, 2018 4 hours ago, Banished Privateer said: Just for the reckoning about the "10h kiting", I remember revenge fleets chasing me and my friends for 3h-4h. That's still not close to 10h, but just to give an example that similar kind of griefing has happened already and it's hard to avoid it. One of them was SORRY around Mortimer, other were some Spanish in Mexico Gulf and many other places around the map overall. It's not just capitals where it happened to make it clear for everyone. I remember doing three battles back before the wipes with some brits a long long time ago. First battle me and a clan mate jumped this Brit and got his indman and escort ship with our two trincs. Than we get out to find him and a bunch of friends. We go for a run. We escape, the clan matementions he needs to leave soon, get tagged again. I distract them enough to get them to chase me so that he can leave for dinner. I get out of the battle when clock runs out. I get tagged again.....run the clock out. Some of his Brit buddies fell out by the end of that battle. He tags me again with only one back up....that guy drops out half way through the battle just about the time I finsih cooking dinner. Shit you not I walked away and made dinner in the chase lol. I turn around and fight him. Sink him and than go to eat my dinner. All in all it was pretty much 10 hours of battles between me and that guy/group cause I sunk one trade ship and we hardly made it around the coast and way from them. 10 hours is way to freaking long think I would prob just say hello kitty it now and surrender about the 3rd time I get tagged. Which is something I did last night cause I was pretty dead with the odds/wind in my Vict and I needed to get to sleep. It was one of my redeemable ones any way so all I really lost was the Poods on the second deck and the Cart Tar refit I had on it. No biggy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hullabaloo Posted April 7, 2018 Share Posted April 7, 2018 Correct. Sailing directly downwind should lose a Prince. If you are too slow to do that then that is the downside of building a tank with no speed. People can play the game how they like, Pina Colada is a solo player and hunts Traders and other 6th rates in his Prince, which is valid (like a Pirate). He HAS to be in a fast ship cos he doesn't have clan mates to call up if he gets tagged by multiple ships. Agreed he shouldn't keep people in battle when there is no chance of success, but 40 mins, it doesn't sound like he did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLoneWolf Posted April 7, 2018 Author Share Posted April 7, 2018 1 hour ago, Hullabatrash said: Correct. Sailing directly downwind should lose a Prince. If you are too slow to do that then that is the downside of building a tank with no speed. People can play the game how they like, Pina Colada is a solo player and hunts Traders and other 6th rates in his Prince, which is valid (like a Pirate). He HAS to be in a fast ship cos he doesn't have clan mates to call up if he gets tagged by multiple ships. Agreed he shouldn't keep people in battle when there is no chance of success, but 40 mins, it doesn't sound like he did. IMO it is ok to chain a player to catch him or slow him down if you are going to engage at some point. 40 min into the battles Colada still had not engaged although he shot sails at a distance for 40 minutes. This is a waste of time and IMO done purely to annoy the other player. We are all here to enjoy playing the game and should not have to endure this. Can you imagine how gameplay would be if the majority of players started to chain at a distance just to keep the battle going with no intent of engaging. Read what I wrote in chat as well as Pina Colada's response. His intent is clear. Also, seems like this is standard practise for him. Something has to be done about this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trino Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 14 hours ago, Banished Privateer said: Pina Colada is a known griefer, he chains to death in every battle and never fights. He likes tagging you many times after battle and following. As experienced player I know how to get away from him, but it's annoying and time wasting. @Wyy @EliteDelta and many other players to mark in this topic to share their experience with Pina Colada. You remember our meeting at Cul de Sac some days ago? You where in Fir/fir P-Frig and your Buddy in a Surprise ... you said you will hold us in battle for the whole 1,5 hours ... you did it for 30 Minutes and then you had to leave because your buddy get trapped between us and the land. This was no griefing? I dont complain, i had fun and i knew you where annoyed because we saved the noob in 1st rate XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrackTerror Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 Without knowing his intentions with the tagging this does not surmount to greifing. There are plenty scenarios where this is perfectly legal and valid tactic, I am not saying this is one but sure is not worthy of tribunal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Njord Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 On 7.4.2018 at 10:21 AM, TheLoneWolf said: He attacked and tagged me. I have no problem in fighting but enduring 40 minutes of at a distance sniping sails is problematic. This right there is why I keep quitting, every time I come back to the game. It seems like the majority of players are not interested in good fights but rather PvE or fights that they have a very high chance of winning. Some players did this constant chaining and kiting to me aswell, only to waste my time and some insulted me for attacking their traders as if I was doing something wrong. Subhuman is what I would call this behaviour. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrackTerror Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 46 minutes ago, Banished Privateer said: This player does it to everyone, everyone is tired of him. His intention is never to fight. That's pure griefing. It's not one-time incident, there are tons of victims. That makes it a different story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMS Victory Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 have had the same problem with him multiple times: he will run, chain and when you want to leave he will chase you and if you turn, he will, once more, run and chain. chained me to 50% while i was fighting the bait and left Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Budgie Smuggler Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 Simple solution. Have an additional separate timer for hull hits. 30 minutes no hull hits u get option to leave. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ink Posted April 27, 2018 Share Posted April 27, 2018 Kiting is allowed by game rules, with the chain rework the problem should soften. We will monitor this gameplay problem further on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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