Koltes Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 On 7/23/2020 at 4:31 AM, admin said: Teaks - resistance (But brittle) Could you be a little more specific please? What do you mean by "resistance"? HP or thickness? What does it mean "brittle"? Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Never Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 Why not add a money chest as loot to ships sunk in pvp? the main reward in pvp right now is doubloons which aren't needed to craft ships anymore. The chest could contain reals up to 1mil reals for a 1st rate and less for smaller ships. But you still have to haul it back to port to claim it, so there's a risk factor involved. Because atm for a PVP game, PVE seems a lot more rewarding for a lot less risk. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cetric de Cornusiac Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 14 hours ago, ProChigga said: What's it like, being a professional brown noser? Difference between me and your sort is, I am treating devs like human beings and as the artists they are, thanks to me being civilized and also having a background in arts, and I don't confront them with impertinent entitlement and false claims like a bunch of spoiled retarded bullies besieging the customer service desk at a Walmart store. Waving falsified sales checks in their fists. Given this is done with some fairly new accounts simultaneously and in concerted action, I suspect you have been here before under another name; same behavior, same fate. Ah, and the cheers of the drunken crowd, it's sweet poison in the ears of beer barrel tub-thumpers, isn't it? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admin Posted July 24, 2020 Author Share Posted July 24, 2020 3 hours ago, Koltes said: Could you be a little more specific please? What do you mean by "resistance"? HP or thickness? What does it mean "brittle"? Cheers resistance, hardness.. They resist cannonballs, harder to break. But when they break they splinter easier. While soft wood is easier to penetrate, but it does not break as energy just passes through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koltes Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 10 minutes ago, admin said: resistance, hardness.. They resist cannonballs, harder to break. But when they break they splinter easier. While soft wood is easier to penetrate, but it does not break as energy just passes through. Got ya, thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm3 Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 3 minutes ago, Lieste said: The focus on increasing 'replacement' cost is wrong. This penalises those starting out, those who are 'less efficient' or who don't go around in huge fleets with the power to defeat anything they meet with little risk. It benefits the larger groups, who have large coffers. A *far* better way of reigning in the 'cost of doing business' for larger clans would be to make ship building 'normal' costs, with heavy 'repair, provisioning, arming, crew retention and pay, and dockyard space/costs'. These require payment as long as the ability to operate the larger ships is requested/budgeted for at the highest levels... with an efficiency of operating a smaller ship - unused ships could be held in 'ordinary' at reduced running cost, but with a requirement to commission them for use - with a repair/provisioning/arming cost. Provisions, crew, powder and shot, and ordnance (and the vessel itself) could all be items with a limited life, ongoing replacement costs, storage costs, that meet the 'growth' of a successful player with increasing costs, even when they are not "losing" ships. Whereas the starting player who loses his ship has only the reduced requirement to build another at a 'normal' cost, and to provide stores. With 'prize rules' permitting the retention of around 1/3rd the value of a prize, and this then being divided among the crew so the captain (with 2/8ths) has overall around 1/12th the total value (or has to 'purchase' their captures at 11/12th their nominal 'second hand/worn' value)... it makes accumulation of assets with no/minimal cost but huge value a more difficult proposition. You need cash sinks, places where money *leaves* the economy, rather than just more 'expensive trade goods' where profits can and will be made. And you want these to form a limiting feedback loop on growth/success. Almost exactly my thoughts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genevieve Malfleurs Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 16 hours ago, ProChigga said: What's it like, being a professional brown noser? the concept is called being a "decent human being". try it! it can be much more satisfying than throwing shit on everybody. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Never Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 (edited) 7 hours ago, Cetric de Cornusiac said: Difference between me and your sort is, I am treating devs like human beings and as the artists they are, thanks to me being civilized and also having a background in arts, and I don't confront them with impertinent entitlement and false claims like a bunch of spoiled retarded bullies besieging the customer service desk at a Walmart store. Waving falsified sales checks in their fists. Given this is done with some fairly new accounts simultaneously and in concerted action, I suspect you have been here before under another name; same behavior, same fate. Ah, and the cheers of the drunken crowd, it's sweet poison in the ears of beer barrel tub-thumpers, isn't it? The real difference is that you play the PvE server, so you're mostly unaffected by most changes being made. For example, how much ships cost isn't a big deal to you at all cause any ship you build is forever, you will never lose it. It's a bit different on PvP. Edited July 24, 2020 by Never Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cetric de Cornusiac Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 3 hours ago, Never said: The real difference is that you play the PvE server, so you're mostly unaffected by most changes being made. I have been there too, on your PvP. It is wrong to say I would not care about gameplay quality on your server alike. But that is all not connected to calling out bullies on forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Never Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 (edited) 37 minutes ago, Cetric de Cornusiac said: I have been there too, on your PvP. It is wrong to say I would not care about gameplay quality on your server alike. But that is all not connected to calling out bullies on forum. People only overreact cause they feel like they are never heard. Those same people being referred to as 'assholes' and 'bullies'; many of them spent many hours of their time trying to provide good feedback in a polite and nice way and were basically ignored. Patience is not some eternal thing that never runs out, specially when you are paying to get something. People could for example forgive being brought the wrong order in a restaurant once, maybe twice. But if you had to send back your order cause it's wrong 20 times over, you'd probably be screaming at your waiter too. Edited July 24, 2020 by Never 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karvala Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 (edited) Once again, we see a stated intention from the devs followed by a policy which achieves exactly the opposite. Stated intention: reduce the price of dubs. Policy: make quality and popular woods (LO, WO) much more expensive to harvest. Effect: everyone buys them from the Admiralty at 3 dubs per log (much cheaper than farming), creating more demand for dubs. Evidence: The price of dubs today is twice what is was a week ago. Edited July 25, 2020 by Karvala 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonH Posted July 27, 2020 Share Posted July 27, 2020 On 7/24/2020 at 10:02 AM, admin said: resistance, hardness.. They resist cannonballs, harder to break. But when they break they splinter easier. While soft wood is easier to penetrate, but it does not break as energy just passes through. @admin Do all the soft goods behave in the same manner? Do all the hard woods brittle the same?? if dont could we have the info on which ones do brittle more and how splinter dmg varies depending on the dmg received please?? much appreciated, thx for the changes, am loving the new balance, the game and the sailing model of the ships remember me now at the one we had on the alpha, which imho was excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sea Archer Posted July 27, 2020 Share Posted July 27, 2020 On 7/23/2020 at 8:56 PM, Aquillas said: This will create gameplay for frigates and smaller ships. It's strange and not historical to see in Open World way more 1st rates than LGV's, more Indiamen than brigs, etc. Maybe, it was strange and not historical to see in Open World way more 1st rates than LGV's, more Indiamen than brigs, etc. This will create income for gamelabs. People are now more or less forced to by at least the Redoubtable DLC to be competitive. But since the big ships were slowed down a bit, there might be a place for frigates in the game now. Still we need something that makes the Frigate and Pirate Frigate usefull again (maybe some medium water depth, where no bigger ships can sail). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[DNMF] Admiral Gerding Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 The game just killed the shipcrafters once again 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiet Assassin Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 (edited) This is stupid. The prices are astronomical. Believe it, or not, there are people who don't play this all day. The cost of crafting a simple Fir/Bermuda Surprise just went from 28,224 to well over 200,000 with the seasoned woods, minimum. Add mods, etc., and you're spending the whole day trading or grinding. Bigger frigates are 500K...and 1st rates? Forget it. Why do devs continually make HUGE changes to a game that used to be fun to play? Whose voices are driving this? I'm forced to download DLC ships, I guess. I'd much rather craft them, but don't want to spend all of my time raising reals & dubs SIMPLIFY, SIMPLIFY, SIMPLIFY! The game was more fun when it was simpler. Edited July 30, 2020 by Quiet Assassin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiet Assassin Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 On 7/28/2020 at 12:34 PM, [DNMF] Admiral Gerding said: The game just killed the shipcrafters once again Yup 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huliotkd Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 is the first page timber links updated? i mean , is it the values we find in game now? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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