Funny_Bunny Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 I suggest offering amnesty to Pirates once of twice a year. mechanics; Every so often (and rarely) a nation offers amnesty to current pirates. If the pirate crew accepts amnesty, they become members of that nation. (variation on terms and conditions can apply, such as; keep current assets and ship, surrender 10% wealth in taxes, or whatever else was historically offered. Same rules apply now for the former pirate, as to any member of that nation, save that Amnesty will NOT be accepted again in the event that the crew returns to piracy. Aye or Nay? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoarmurath Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Nay, a good pirate is a dead pirate... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herzog Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Nay. Once a pirate, always a pirate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BungeeLemming Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 A pirate is an outlaw. The pirate life of Naval Action is just what it was in real life. If you want to play HollywoodPirate live you have to look for another game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueEagleGER Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Nation players cant switch sides and this is good. Piratws made their decision to go rouge when they attacked allied ships, they should not be given a "well, I wasn't thinking, may I change again?" option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean-Gaspard de Vence Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 No. We choose to be pirate flights. Is the rest. No amnesty. One small problem though, for those who inadvertently clicks "without doing it on purpose" but still attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maturin Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Wait a minute... Most real Golden Age pirates ended up taking amnesty. How can you be against that? 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackjack Symons Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 I'm with Maturin. Amnesty for pirates isn't some carebear creation, it's a real thing that's prominent in history. Even Blackbeard, probably the most well-renowned Pirate of them all, accepted a Royal Pardon at one point in time. Admittedly, he returned to piracy and was later killed, but nevertheless the example stands: pardons were available. From a purely personal point of view, why would the nations want to waste their time hunting down pirates when they could have those pirates give up and potentially become privateers for those nations? Justice is a pretty thing, but when contrasted with the real world I think you'll find that justice is dispensed where it's convenient, especially in the allotted timeframe. Pardons are quite simply easier than hunting each pirate down (especially if their ship has five lives ) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ned Loe Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 There should be reputation that would allow pirate players to trade with other nations, but nothing more. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D. Federico de Gravina y N Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 There should be reputation that would allow pirate players to trade with other nations, but nothing more. good idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueEagleGER Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 No. We choose to be pirate flights. Is the rest. No amnesty. One small problem though, for those who inadvertently clicks "without doing it on purpose" but still attention. You will get a warnig screen, asking you if you really want to comit to pirates before it starts the battle against the own nation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William the Drake Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 (edited) A pirate is an outlaw. The pirate life of Naval Action is just what it was in real life. If you want to play HollywoodPirate live you have to look for another game Because the king's pardon offered to the Pirates of Nassau, the Pirates of Madagascar, etc. were all works of Hollywood propagandaAmnesty shouldn't be a timed thing, but be available to local magistrates, and are not available for a long time after used Edited August 26, 2015 by William the Drake 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maturin Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 amnesty was generally offered in exchange for... it wasnt normally "eh just give up being a pirate and we're cool" there were some strings attached I would assume...after all they could just go "fk it" an obliterate piracy like the UK's navy did to the slave trade Er, no they couldn't obliterate piracy. That's why they chose to try amnesties. Ideally, an amnesty would be a serverwide event just after a great pirate victory of some sort. The best pirate endgame would be to win an amnesty, so that players could actually spend the gold they had plundered. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funny_Bunny Posted August 27, 2015 Author Share Posted August 27, 2015 A pirate is an outlaw. The pirate life of Naval Action is just what it was in real life. If you want to play HollywoodPirate live you have to look for another game But, But… They offered amnesty in real life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethan_Lysander Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 I think amnesty should be something a Pirate has to pay for in Gold. A number of times in the last few months I almost became a pirate by accident, targeting the wrong ship in a very busy stretch of water. If I had been distracted for just the briefest moment and had missed the warning or pressed the wrong key I would have totally messed up my career. Being a pirate should and must be an option, but a route back to the "good" side must be possible and painful. I would suggest a forfeit of all gold, and vessels (ie. forced back to a lynx), but the retention of Rank & XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouse of war Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Yes, the pirate should pay in gold, a lot of gold and it should be a long process (perhaps 4 weeks game time) There should be a chance that rumor of the upcoming defection would leak out in a pirates ships report letter so that fellow pirates can show their appreciation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoarmurath Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 But, But… They offered amnesty in real life. And they had sex in real life... Not gonna happen in game either... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DazednConfused Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Never say never...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeBoiteux Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 (edited) Wait a minute... Most real Golden Age pirates ended up taking amnesty. How can you be against that? You got a point. So why not ? Moreover, NA is a game. A player who doesn't enjoy playing pirate anymore should be able to change that. But, just a thought : Right now, there's already a kind of "amnesty" for players who don't want to play pirate anymore and want to chose a real nation. They just have to delete their pirate character and create a new one from scratch. Losing gold and XP and grinding from lynx could be the price to be paid. The price of the redemption . IRL one can understand why nations could offer amnesty. It's already been mentioned by previous posters. However, in NA, there are two kinds of pirates : those who decided to become pirates from the very beginning and those who friendly fire during a fight. The latter who deliberately hurt and backstab their fellows might have to pay more than just 10% or so of their gold for amnesty. However, I don't have any clear-cut opinion about amnesty for pirates. It all depends on what we are talking about : amnesty for the player or amnesty for the character ? In a game as iIRL, one could imagine for a pirate character the kind of easy amnesty OP talks about. But can we for a player who easily friendly fires on players ? Edited August 27, 2015 by LeBoiteux 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funny_Bunny Posted August 27, 2015 Author Share Posted August 27, 2015 And they had sex in real life... Not gonna happen in game either... Thats not what your cabin boy told me… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macjimm Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 (edited) It's too bad that there is not some way to retract a mistaken click when entering an instance and not firing upon friendlies. It would be helpful to distinguish between mistakenly clicking a button and firing at and damaging friendlies. If I join an instance and damage or sink a friendly ship there are no consequences. * But if we click inadvertently on "YES" when asked if we want to continue an attack and then fire no shots at any friendly ship ... our future is ruined. The mechanics seem backwards. Seems like it might be better if a pirate is someone who intentionally fires upon, deliberately damages/sinks/captures friendly ships rather that a player that just makes one faulty mouse click. * Edit: add - phrased poorly. There may be consequences if someone makes the effort to report the incident to a tribunal. Should have said there are no automatic coded in game consequences that effect a player's career Edited September 2, 2015 by Macjimm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destraex Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 And they had sex in real life... Not gonna happen in game either... pirates likely had very little choice in this regard. That was a downside of being a pirate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nornica Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Absolutely no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brass Monkey Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 Would love to see players able put up their own gold as bounties on pirate players. If you board and capture a pirate player you collect the bounty. The Pirate player gets "Captured, keel hauled, bottom smacked and released by (player name, and date, bounty claimed) permanently recorded on his character Info. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admin Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 Would love to see players able put up their own gold as bounties on pirate players. If you board and capture a pirate player you collect the bounty. The Pirate player gets "Captured, keel hauled, bottom smacked and released by (player name, and date, bounty claimed) permanently recorded on his character Info. We had the bounty discussion some time ago Unfortunately it is too easy to claim your bounties by asking friends. No bounty system will work unless the gameplay for the person is severely limited or account disabled for some time. If someone has good ideas on the bounty systems that work please post in a separate topic in the suggestion forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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