I'd cry if we did. I'd never get to have a life with the sheer amount of posting going on.

There's a problem with the Athena NPC spawns in 1.2, making them incredibly rare if they appear at all. They're common in 1.3.

Directional speed mods are wind angle multipliers. They are separate from base speed. If you have a 15 base speed and +100% mods for a 30 max, with a best point of 90, and a beam reach of +3% then you multiply modified Max Speed * Wind Angle Speed = 30.9.

The "ideal" nature of battle sails is based on a combination of ship speed, bleed rate and tracking. It's more of a generalization than a rule, as there are many factors that can make it so that it's not true (relative motion, excessive temporary speed boosts, etc.). Also, some of the ships are better at tracking targets than others, which makes them adhere to the guideline much more loosely.

We've talked about doing this, but it's not at the top of the priority list.

What stealth nerfs? The visibilty hasn't change in over a year, so I assume you're talking about a nerf that wasn't in the patch notes. If that's the case, you need to provide details in order to get an answer.

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The site has been going through some maintenance, so it looks like you've got caught up with that. Hang tight!

Holy carp, folks.

/takes it back on topic

Since this has gone WAY off topic from the OP's post and has instead moved to he said/he said clutter, we'll close it out. If y'all want to debate over ship stats, you can do so, but please leave out the personal digs at each other.

No problem. Arguments done right are a very useful mechanism. It's sometimes hard, though, because we sometimes show up at entirely different places to even have the argument. Luckily, we all found the same stage this time. :-)

Honestly, realizing that shallows can be treated as a gameplay mechanism threw out all the problems and brought in all the good stuff, though it turns out there's still a little more work to be done in bringing them into the Open Sea. The first implementation will be for port battles only, and then we'll roll them into areas around the ports.

I dunno, I'd prolly succeed more at /toot and /belch