this makes me very, very happy! thanks for letting us know!

The martial law bug is fixed in 1.4. The fix will be live next week.


Joe

Our plan is to pay insurance by default in PvE. There may be places where insurance doesn't pay out (or pays less) but we're not sure exactly what those are yet. Because losing a ship in PvE is rare relative to losing one in PvP it won't make much difference in the grand scheme of things.

We're also just going to pay the insurance when you scuttle. Otherwise we're just making you go get some NPC to sink you. That's annoying and doesn't add anything to the game.


Joe

The exact number is very much up in the air, but insurance will apply to writ ships.

Fraxl's devlog will have details. Look for it next week.

Definitely. All the crafted ships will be covered. It's just the stolen and free (fallback) ships that aren't covered.

We thought about adding a "buy insurance" option, but the fact is that you almost ALWAYS want insurance. Putting in an extra button you have to remember to click doesn't really add anything interesting to the game and means you'll still have the ability lose a bunch of money when you forget to click the button.

MOV refits will have an insurance payout that's proportional to their cost to build. The MOVs will be assigned some value and that will be factored into the costs.

We've done some work on the rewards in previous patches (tradable MOVs, MOTs, money for PvP kills, etc.) but those really only apply to the winner of the PvP fights. We're adding insurance to help balance the other side of the risk-reward ratio.

Outfitting will be included in the insurance payout. We aren't sure yet exactly how much will be covered, but it will be based on the production cost of the outfitting.

Since the new Herc is a UC ship it depends on when the model is ready. It will be in whatever patch we start work on after the model is ready.

This is one of the things the content team is working on. They are starting with the low level missions so many of the repeats below level 15 will be replaced with custom fights in 1.5.


Joe

There are a few bugs here that are fixed and one or two that are close to getting fixed. We've also been talking about more significant ways to improve the AdHoc joining mechanics, but we can't provide any details yet.

We want to open up AdHocs to multiple sides, especially for ducking into a PvE encounter for protection, but that's not a quick change.

Shallows are still under discussion as part of a more general conversation about Open Sea PvP. Pirate Pillaging is in for 1.5, I expect it'll show up on the dev log list.

Because the crafting is the fun part for quite a few people. This way the merchants get to build and sell more stuff and the fighters get to fight more with less grinding.


Joe

The exact number is still up in the air, but we're thinking more than half.


Joe

Pillaging! I forgot to talk about pillaging!

The first two towns full of pillaging are in 1.5. It's not clear yet if town #3 will make it in time.

Shallows turn out to be much more work than we expected. We are pushing it out to make room for many other improvements. It's hard to say when they will make it in, but it won't be in the next few patches.


Joe

It should be on testbed in a couple weeks.


Joe