Temporary contract changes - MONDAY 29 Oct

[admin 45,992]

To provide smooth and easy material conversion within couple of days we will issue a hot fix for live servers and apply following TEMPORARY changes

• Number of allowed buy/sell contracts and ships on sale will be set to 0 (no more new contracts)
• Number of days contract can stay live will be set to 1 (1 day)

This changes will stay until the Port UI and material conversion is deployed / applied; these changes will be reverted after the patch. 

It is advisable to not set a lot of new contracts before the patch and claim all resources that are held in unclaimed contracts.

 

Contract hotfix will happen on Monday 29th October

[OjK 654]

Reading between the lines:

New UI, and Economy Reform is matter of days now instead of weeks?

[dagdriver 60]

Sounds like Port UI will be deployed very soon 😀

[Banished Privateer 7,254]

soon™

[Grundal 199]

cant wait

[Mr Pellew 169]

@admin What happens to sell contracts? Do I loose the things in them if I don't claim them back? Means I loose a lot of Tax money if I set big sell contracts and have to retract them now.

[Hennessy 65]

Can't wait :3

[Teutonic 3,850]

Interesting. Going to be a hectic market for however long this lasts.

And I agree with @Mr Pellew sell contracts going to get pretty screwed up. But if it means patch is coming soon then I don't mind.

[admin 45,992]

3 minutes ago, Teutonic said:

Interesting. Going to be a hectic market for however long this lasts.

And I agree with @Mr Pellew sell contracts going to get pretty screwed up. But if it means patch is coming soon then I don't mind.

they will expire in 1 day after hot fix is deployed. 

[Tricks1985 6]

I have many ships on sale !!!! can they stay because if i reclaim i cant teleport anymore XD

[RKY 431]

5 minutes ago, Tricks1985 said:

I have many ships on sale !!!! can they stay because if i reclaim i cant teleport anymore XD

ship for sale are no contracts...

Edited October 24, 2018 by RKY

[Jon Snow lets go 4,287]

So... big patch friday or rather next week?

[qw569 2,459]

Imho

7 November is good date for release patch😀

[Teutonic 3,850]

24 minutes ago, admin said:

they will expire in 1 day after hot fix is deployed. 

Ok

[admin 45,992]

15 minutes ago, Jon Snow lets go said:

So... big patch friday or rather next week?

never patch on friday, usually it ruins your weekend

[NethrosDefectus 519]

1 hour ago, OjK said:

Reading between the lines:

New UI, and Economy Reform is matter of days now instead of weeks?

I think he means the contracts changes will be within a few days

Edited October 24, 2018 by NethrosDefectus

[NethrosDefectus 519]

@admin Any idea how long this will be in effect for? It sounds like it will basically ruin the trading for most people.

[Busterbloodvessel 331]

1 hour ago, Grundal said:

cant wait

your in trouble then.

Buster (w8er)

[Banished Privateer 7,254]

1 hour ago, NethrosDefectus said:

@admin Any idea how long this will be in effect for? It sounds like it will basically ruin the trading for most people.

It won't ruin just trading, clans owning many ports will pay millions for maintenance of ports because contracts as the main income source are covering it. Just wait to watch clans pay 5-7m per day.

Edited October 24, 2018 by Banished Privateer

[Sven Silberbart 893]

i fear you are right and port costs will kill the last lucrative ports and the intention to conquer the carribean with it.

[Sir Texas Sir 6,735]

33 minutes ago, Banished Privateer said:

It won't ruin just trading, clans owning many ports will pay millions for maintenance of ports because contracts as the main income source are covering it. Just wait to watch clans pay 5-7m per day.

@admin he's got a point that it will cost a lot of clans money.   Maybe suspend port cost for that time and I would even say suspend RvR.  Make a good post to let every know know what the expect for the patch and allow them the day or two to do last minute stuff before the hotfix drops and than the day or two for the patch.  A lot of folks aren't checking in every day cause they to put it pretty bluntly, "Gave up on this patch coming any time soon."  So don't screw over the ones that are still around and playing.

 

[Hethwill 12,044]

4 minutes ago, Sir Texas Sir said:

So don't screw over the ones that are still around and playing.

So no removal of all assets when the game releases as well !? Or...

[OjK 654]

2 hours ago, NethrosDefectus said:

I think he means the contracts changes will be within a few days

True, but natural follow up would be the implementation of the patch.

Honestly, can't imagine how the game will look like if no-contracts mode would be prolonged.
Few days maximum, otherwise it will be chaos.

Going to be fun if no contracts will be available to put new hull repairs in the port

[Christendom 6,868]

10 minutes ago, Hethwill the Red Duke said:

So no removal of all assets when the game releases as well !? Or...

Apples and oranges.  Don’t distort what points they are trying to make here by being a homer.

Release and full wipe is months away.  Maybe.  

If contracts are stopped for a while and ports make little to no income this could adversely effect some clans.  This needs to be a quick bang bang transition or port costs need to be suspended. 

[JG14_Cuzn 604]

Admin:  

if Contracts will be removed, I think it will be a good move if you guys refund the cost of the contracts.