Sulfurblade

Personally I think the SotD are GREAT.... They keep the Hordes in check and keep the number of ships from getting out of control... There an awesome mechanic for making PvPers have to weigh the pro's and con's of taking there ship out of dock or not! Should we go raid that zone to our south filled with small guilds and newer players and blow there shacks up with our mighty cannons!!! SotD are almost in a way the guardians of the helpless.... But Now there turning the SotD on rafts?!? WHAT!!!! Thats just ludicrous... SotD should be no more then 5 and no less then 3 in any normal server they should not spawn in Free Ports and they should not spawn in Lawless Zones, however they should be everywhere else!!! And they most certainly should never attack a raft...

wait you think this type of behavior is okay???

Your joking its certainly not sarcastic....

M9 Free Port Sugar Cane everywhere.. M10 lawless Zone filled with Honey

one of my rafts has been sitting at full durability for 3 days now and I have never repaired it once... Why because I left the Safe zone and claimed somewhere in the world! If ships did degrade in the safe zone EVERYONE would park there because its safe! But thats not the intent of the game, so go play the game as it is intended.... I would happily side with you on many issues like for example SHIPS OF THE DAMNED have NO BUSINESS attacking rafts!!!!!! You want to complain about that then we are on the same wave length! If you want to complain about them dropping the time to steal a raft and or ships in general we are on the same wave length... But we are not ever going to be on the same wave length in regards to safe parking at the safe zone!!!

How about no.... There is an easier fix.... Sail out of the Free Port!!!

Dev's what are you thinking???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

There is Zero excuse for this type of behavior in a game..... Its one thing to RP and to stick someone into a Cell... But to leave them there and to taunt them with no game mechanic's at all to save you?!? This is WRONG and a Dev should take some action! FYI Get OBS record this and put it on youtube!!!

And thats the exuse right.... (Not saying it is) You may feel Justified and you may infact be but in there eye's when you give that justification, it then becomes just an excuse....

math is not your strong suit is it??? If 1 guy can harvest 1000 stone normally in an hour and he gets a 3 times buff he can now harvest 3000 10 guys can harvest 30,000 100 guys 300,000 At what point are there more resources then need to build defenses?!? And which group reaches that point faster??? Yes but they will forever point at the fact that you got the 3 times harvest weekend.... Just like those in ultima online would point out the early players who maxed out Resist on bladespirits... They took that away and it became far far harder skill to max out and they new line was "Well if I had GM Resist I could have beat you" You must always avoid creating these issues in an MMORPG!!!

But its not an advantage for those that start playing after the event... For them it unbalances the progress of those ahead of them...

ORP should not be a thing in a Civilization Builder.... any protection should be accomplished via the players in the game... EI your friend protecting your stuff while your asleep... A Sandbox is a world where the players write the chapters of the book and that includes good and bad... what the game needs is not game mechanic protection but game mechanic Causation IE side effects of being a criminal... And don't talk about the star citizen scam pls!

The sanctity of fair play inside of an MMORPG is a huge deal guys... If you want a Power Hour I am game with that, if your not aware of what a power hour is, its the first hour of your game time you earn more xp, in this case you could make it triple resources... But everybody gets power hour forever.... Events bye there defination are not Normal or regularly schedules so bye definition of an event you are UNBALANCING the game... 3 Times more resources means we can build 3 times more Infrastructure in our base then we could have without it... How is this fair for the new player who joins after the event who then comes to my base that now has three times the artillery and swivel guns ready to mow him down! No there are somethings that you don't mess with and need to stay constant for this very reason! Fairness....

1) Safe Harborage would just create more and more ships and ships would not be destroyed enough you need the destruction of ships. 2)I most definatelly agree there needs to be a reputation system if your scum you should earn that reputation and be displayed as such it should have negative impacts like the ability to not use Town NPC's. To be attacked bye the guns of the towns! Free Ports should have cannons manned with NPC's just for that purpose! 3) Again No to this Safety net you keep reaching for, park in the dangerous world like everybody else! 4) Absolutely agree the Skill tree is terrible and doesn't provide for professions... Skills need to be Less thats right we have too many skill points!!! At the same time we should be able to specialize in area's without have to learn 4 different tree's before it! And we need real profession skill trees!!! 5)NO to insurance again another attempt at a safety net! Live with the danger embrace it... 6) No offline raid protection either! However they should implement the typical Siege system that MMORPG's use which is Lay a Siege and Defender chooses a time in the next 72 hours and then it goes live and its game on..... 7) Ship building is already TOO EASY... without the 3 times resource collection buff... People are building Sloops in 1 day?!? How is that so valuable you cant lose it??? 8 ) disagree here too.... Ships of the damned should be normal atleast 5 in every NON Freeport or Lawless zone... Freeports and Lawless shouldnt have them! 9) Yes they need to buff trading more the economy is woefully lacking... 10) Nothing wrong with more robust perms!

WTF are you talking about mate???? I don't raid offline people heck I don't even raid.... The conversation here is that you want to be able to park in a safe zone!!! And that's just not going to happen.... Imagine if they made that a mechanic... There would be lines of Galleons sitting everywhere in the safe zones you probally wouldnt even be able to sail thru the mess its already bad enough getting a raft out of dock!!!

Its not about Lazy its about time.... If you can just pick up a shovel and dig two versions of dirt on the island that would be fine but you can't... No these BP require you to have to travel to completely differnent zone so you can get a wood thats different then the wood you have! Sorry but for the Paltry amount of extra durability I don't have time to mess with that... Nothing would get built because I am running all over kingdom come!

No Instances for any reason...

Wrong! You dont get a free I get to dock my ship in a place with no danger! Go park in the normal world like everybody else!!!

Your point??? Resource Collection was not an out of balance area... It is now while this event is going!

There is a big differnce between Skeletons attacking Trinsic, and tripling the amount of resources gathered in a swing! In most MMORPG events you die or you need to save the world or whatever its not Here Have a giant helping of easy for a few days!!! I am not against events I am against crap like this that wrecks game balance....

They arent taking the wrong path at all.... Learn naval combat... Learn how to escape a naval engagement There is no such thing as trapped when your at sea... You can pick nearly every battle your in (in regards to ghost ships) A smart player can trap you! Of course!

Uhm ^^^^^ This is a good feature not a bad feature!!! Why shouldnt the owner be able to defend??? Seriously mate??? What do you want Pv (No One Home)... Are you the type of person that waits for 3 AM so you can steal a flag from somebody?!? WoW just wow...

1 is way too few ... 5 is just right in my opinion and those 5 should be a range of power from Galleon level to sloop level...

Stop building un armed sloops with no crew... the Ships of the Damned are fine you just need to play smarter!

the current system is the same thing as what you are talking about right now you can piss on any tree you want unless another dog has already pissed on it which then prompts a timer and possible conflict... Your suggestion doesnt change anything other then remover the cool flags which personally I like.... No we need something more akin to 1 flag per person or an area affect around the radius of a guild...