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Seeing as I rarely sail anything bigger than a schooner, I sail right through them. They just arent worth the time for me to worry about them. But the most fun I have had sailing was through an archipelago with shallow areas and rocks, in the fog during a storm. That was fun navigating.

Exactly. But I think the only time this really changes is if they are two different sized sails. Like a large and a small. Then you have to factor in which sail is providing the most wind force.

Last night I participated in an expedition to strike back at an ally of one of our enemies. We sailed for 2 hours nearly across the globe to the great southern regions of the world to strike at the iceberg that they call home. We dressed warm and loaded up on explosive barrels and carbines. We made landfall easy enough, no opposition and they had no clue we were coming. We snuck around their defenses, which they had next to none, not even walls.... it was laughable really. We broke up into teams, and each picked a galleon to strike. We climbed up the ladders which were left down and quickly dispatched the guards left on the deck. Climbing below decks and placing several explosive charges in their bellies. The whole mission ended an hour after we made landfall. Total we sunk 4 galleons, but lost a schooner to their counter attack to push us off the island. While this was an offline raid, it was a direct response to their offline raid of us.

LOL, sorry as much as I want realism in my games... wanting realism in ship design in this game where we have dragons, cyclops, yeti, and GIANT snakes just doesnt mesh. I mean every ship in this game would fail horribly in a real life situation. They lack any form of ballast and have a non-existent keel. Then the little rudder on most of them wouldnt work due to the size, and then the placement of the anchor not to mention size, would be horrible on a smaller designs. It would be in the way of most of the working parts to the rudder controls. And you dont want an anchor beating against the back of your ship... that would be a horrible idea. The lack of a functional bowsprit and no staysails, jib sail, or really any of the actual working sails on the mast. Then we have cannons that are operated by one person with a rate of fire that would rival that of a modern day bolt action. And they lob rounds so slow you can actually outrun them. Then the largest rounds we fire are 10kg or 22lb each, and those guns are MASSIVE, unlike the real guns of that size... they were big but not that big.

I have about 1.5k hours in Eve, and more than that from before I linked it to my Steam account. I can say that racism is just as bad in Eve... it is just harder to find because they keep it very localized. The Chinese in EVE have their own server, and the few that are on the main server rarely interact with anyone else. Most of the racism in Eve is centered around the Russian player base. And it is mostly not tolerated by the biggest corps in Eve, but in the early days, it was horrible. The point is, what helped Eve was the fact they have a seperate server for the Chinese player base. Here we dont have the ONE thing that makes Eve great, the economy.

Some of the higher tier cooking foods give decent vitamin D. And I often go shark hunting for prime fish meat.

Two days ago I punched a level 10 wolf to death while naked... They REALLY nerfed them.

Yell yourself to death... it works. And it could be worse.. they could have built a house around you with no doors and put you in cuffs.. I have done that.

I think you are right and wrong. The speed bonuses are averaged out like that but it is based on the total number of sail units vs the max sail units. And then averaged out... but I have yet to test it. I do know it does not stack. So a ship with a 102% speed sail and a 108% speed sail wont be 110% faster.

That is if they dont starve to death first.

Well cobras can swim... and they have a decent ranged attack. I actually like hunting them.. good amount of skin off of them.

I used a variation on this design, that used two rear facing large cannons and 50 shots total. I killed a level 2 SotD, a level 8, and a level 22. In less than an hour I went from level 9 to level 27 on one sloop.

GI Joe has been working for years to remove Cobra.... But as inept as Cobra Commander is, he is very charismatic and still gets recruits and financing.

The thing is, there are too many companies running around with 5-10 active members with 8 tames each, and 3 galleons, 5 brigs, and a slew of schooners and sloops. Sitting on about 50 NPCs on the galleons, and 20 on the brigs, and a dozen on the schooners. When in fact they dont need all of that.. because they are trying to punch above their weight class.

I would put a stone door on the inside... nothing says fun than a stone door and a wood frame.

Caption.... I can see my house. If it were a bowl of petunias "Oh no not again."

I am fine with metal being part of the stone construction... just not nearly as much as it is now. I am fine with organic paste being part of it... again nowhere near what is needed now. But both is just stupid.

Talking about Darkfall. Where you use macros and bot programs to get yourself as high a skill as you can, and then you bunnyhop your way through PVP.

Dragons are bad, but not as bad as the naked on a ramshackle sloop with 8 barrel bombs, oil jars and fire arrows. That is the current meta. They sail to where they start getting shot at, jump off the boat swim underwater for the whole distance, get close to a ship... clip into the bottom deck, place a barrel bomb, then jump out of the ship. Then they do it again on the next ship. when they are out of bombs they use oil jars and flaming arrows on everything else. Then when everything is sunk.. they just punch a bear and die and go home laughing. Welcome to the new meta.

I know you can stack 4 guns right next to each other, that will fit through a standard wooden doorway.

Ballista, to the face... problem solved.

You can build a 74gun SoL out of a Galleon... It just takes a little bit of work. It is the 2nd fastest ship in the game. When it is empty. If you load it with guns, ammo and repair parts it slows WAY down. Not as bad as say a schooner but it slows down. I personally think what it should do is turn WAY slower.. it can keep its speed but it turns too fast.

Spected out of stone.. because it really is kind of pointless at this point. Wood is cheaper, and WAY easier to build and honestly you can layer the crap out of it. Sure it can be burnt but if you put enough layers they wont be able to burn through all of them.

With the server latency being as.... "good" as it is, good luck hitting a glider in your moderate seas, where you bob up and down like you are at the end of a bungee cord after a drop off a bridge. That and gliders move at supersonic speeds.. WAY faster than anything else in the game, hell I think they are faster than cannonballs. As a matter a fact I am pretty sure a schooner with a large speed saild and a small speed sail empty is faster than a cannonball. The range on grape shot is crap, if you are outside of 30m good luck hitting anything. Flames still have better range than grape, and canister shot. Even NPCs on puckle guns are pretty pointless because of their low range even when set to the max range.

It is business not ethics, sorry I understand this because of the job field I work in. You can be ethical but sometimes you have to be a bit cutthroat to get the job done and stay in the black. I try to be as honest as I can with my customers, but I will not tell them something I dont have to legally tell them or they do not ask. This is not being dishonest, is it ethical.. depends... But is it business yes.