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1) This piracy change affects players who do not have ships ducats and other resources more than rich players with fast ships. Even f you do have a fast ship like SHC, SLS and so on, when you carry any goods, you face a sail penalty even if you have a ship with 100 wave resistance. You will always be slower than a ship without cargo in the same setup
2) Tributes will not work as a countermeasure for many players. Pirates will just follow your ship since they are in a speed setup and you will run out of tributes at some point. Once again, spare a thought for players without resources.
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First of all, there is no reason to do this. There is really no reason a player needs to "farm" another, other than personal grievances with the person. Sometimes certain players actions deserve to be "farmed" but this is a small percent in comparison to those affected by this. Really, it is classless to "farm" a player anyways. If you are a "real" pirate of PvPer, go find another victim.
Next reason, is this will discourage our already small population, not to venture into hostile/lawless waters. Many players don't have the extra ducats to buy a bunch of Player Tributes, and certainly not many players like PvP, on this server. They may carry a handful of Tribs, incase they run into a pirate now, but once this new implementation occurs, they can lose their entire inventory of Tribs in one farming event. It isn't worth it for many players to venture into these waters. However, this would certainly lead to large increase in the sale of blue flags from Cash Shop.
Lastly, I feel the 1 hour compromise is best, The Green Flags help a bit but there is still major flaws. Also, I see new loopholes being exploited as well, such as farming alts to flip sea areas to lawless. Also, for example if pirates camp Black Sea, how can you do Battle Reports? A lot of us have jobs/lives, and can only set aside a certain amount of time to game. If I set aside my time to grind BRs in the Black Sea, then get camped, I minds well go watch TV and forget UWO. There are a lot of things that weren't thoroughly thought through here. I do like the encouragement of PvP/Piracy but, this isn't the best way to do it. Please reconsider this implementation.
Thank you
Nsblend
Some pirates complain that the 'seas are dead' and they need this change. However, this change does not bring a flood of new players to the seas, it simply abuses the few that are left, and will probably drive even more out of the game. It is not going to stop nanbanners from flagging, or port hoppers from using liners or logout tow. It does nothing to fix the imbalances between bounty hunters and pirates, which is probably the greater problem.
In all fairness, most pirates i know do not farm; and they were generally fine with the 1 hour rule. The ones crying for full removal are the alt and white-farmers, and those abuses are the very reason it got changed years ago in the first place. They are not happy with being able to hit the SAME player 4-5 times a night, and will not be happy until they can post in chat "hahaha, look i made _______ rage quit!" like they did back on gpotato and netmarble. That problem was rampant back then, lost us alot of players, and probably kept alot of their friends from ever even trying the game. The current rule and its precedents were in place to prevent this kind of abuse. This is a horrible approach and will do far more harm that anything, and just opens up the potential abuse of non-pvp players mathematically ridiculous levels.
Lets do the math. In a typical 4 hour session, right now you can get pirated 4 times by a pirate. If that pirate wants to hit ten players, he/she gets to pirate 40 times a day. The pirate cannot abuse a single player, but can hit as many players and they can find during the course of that session, but not hit the same player more than once an hour. With the change, now the SAME PLAYER can get pirated 24 to 48 times in the same 4 hour session (4 hours/10 minutes = 24, 4 hour/5 minutes = 48)
How many of you want to play the role of the victim and just log on to be potentially hit 24-48 times during the course of your evening ? With this change it only takes one jackarse to ruin your entire session, or to make a player quit altogether. If your not a PVPr, how many times do you think they should be allowed to hit you in one night? How many times is too many times?
Tributes don't solve the issue. The numbers above include the cool down times using tributes based on the table in the trial period post.
Blue Flags only partially solve the issue, but does NOT help people who play this for PVE, or who want to grind skills - you CANNOT PVE or grind on a blue flag. Don't make suggestions about staying in safe waters, the xp is just not there. *A PVE flag from the cash shop would solve this issue; and quite frankly I don't know why they have never offered one for the people who play this game for PVE.
Some (explicative) suggested logging out. I don't know about you guys, but I log in to play, not hide in a port, and certainly not to log out ten minutes later. When i set aside time to play a game, I expect to actually play it, not run, hide, logout, or forced into gameplay that i have never, in all these years, played the game for.
Sacrificing the remaining players even further for the enjoyment of a few is simply not an acceptable solution to the real problems. If you want to help piracy, or maritime in general, fix the balance issues between pirates and bounty hunters; do things to grow the server population; increase pvp incentives; fix the 'turning a white into a blue' trick; make the cool down times the same for BH and Pirates; make the search features work the same for pirates, let them go private, semi private, etc. Quite frankly, just applying a change to the search feature would create a ton more action for pirates.
Likewise, the larger portion of this player base I suspect is sick of those players who think maritime and pvp is the only reasons to play this game, and the rest of us are here to serve at their pleasure. Those players need to get their self-indulgent heads out of their arses and realize it is not the reason many of us, and likely the majority of us, play this game. Some of you fail to respect (or even acknowledge sometimes) that people play this game for PVE, adventure, trade, or empire building with little or no interest in pvp, or a passive interest at best. Instead you ridicule the reasons those player play the game, belittle them for their choice of game play with taunts like 'farmville' 'kiddie pool' 'boring' 'crier' 'whiner' etc, and act as if your way is the only possible way someone could enjoy the game. That character flaw reaches far beyond the game and likely permeates every other aspect of your life. If you cannot respect the opinions of others and work towards compromise, you will continually fail in life. We recognize that you want to play for pvp or maritime, but you refuse to recognize that we do not, and mock us because we have different preferences than you do. That character flaw reaches far beyond the game and likely permeates every other aspect of your life. If you cannot respect the opinions of others and work towards compromise, you will continually fail in life.
This last one is a pet peeve, but one that annoys a certain group of us on this server: The misconception that pvp'rs spend the most on this game than any other players. Wake up, that is not the case. The cash players in my circle of non-pvp players has put in as much, and probably far more, into this game than most of the pvp'rs. We play this game for a variety of reasons other than PVP, including adventure, PVE, empire building, ship collecting, etc, all concepts that are probably foreign to those idiots who think this is a pvp only game. If for no other reason, the depth of the game content says otherwise. Get over yourselves, your not as important to this game as you think you are, and we are more important to this game than you would like to admit; some mutual respect is expected and deserved. Other than someone who recently quit, the biggest spenders in this game that I know are not pvp'rs. It takes all of us - pvp, pve, traders, builders, etc - to move this game forward, so get off your little perches and realize your alienating a good portion of the financial support for this game.
As to FUBB, to clarify what we are doing and stop the rumors:
We are going to wait out the trial period. If Papaya wants to try other solutions to address the maritime concerns and end this 'return to farming' on August 22, FUBB will continue to support the game and its community. The one hour cool down was a fair compromise in the first place. FUBB will never support a return to the abusive gpotato/netmarble days. If they rethink this, modify it in some fashion that will prevent abuse, or offer other solutions for players (especially the free players) that will prevent them from being farmed while allowing them to continue playing the game (not hiding in a port or logging out, that is just a flipping silly suggestion), then FUBB will evaluate its position on it then.
After significant discussion during the break between servers, we decided to give it a go and invest our time and money into Maris because we generally liked where the game was on Gama and wanted to try to rebuild and improve on that. I am proud of how FUBB came together and that we brought nearly our entire membership forward to Maris. To those who were not around back then you should take note that we were willing to come back after losing everything when they reset the server, but are by and large ready to leave at the mere specter of returning to those alt and white farming days. That should give you some idea as to how bad, at least from our perspective, it was back then for non-pvp players.
At this time, if the trial change, ***in its current form***, it not rolled back on August 23 (whether by announcement or action), then FUBB will likely wind up operations and cease to function as an active company shortly thereafter. The majority of the active FUBB family plans to go invest our time and money into another game and is actively researching games now. Some former members will likely stay even if a lot of us go, and that is fine. This is a hard game for any of us to leave, and many of us have been here since the very beginning.
This was not an easy decision to arrive at, but this is a line FUBB as a company is not willing to cross, and a game mechanic FUBB is not willing to return to. Individual members are certainly entitled to their own opinions, and we have had a great deal of internal discussion about this. Nonetheless, unless you guys can prove to us that this will not be a return to the farm-fest that infected this game back in those days, then myself and those who decided to stay with the FUBB family and leave with me, are out of here sometime after the 23rd. For me personally, I would rather change games, and walk away from a substantial investment of time and money, than put up with the asshle farmers that infested this game back in those days.
I sincerely hope you can prove us wrong and give us a reason to stay.
mankind never learns...