Originally Posted by Lepper

On the other hand, with no documentation and mostly lackluster tutorials (I have to say, the econ tutorial was actually a pretty well done example of what they can do when they try)

Originally Posted by Spinnaker Sam

That makes no sense. Rusty and the other founders have put millions of their own money into this game, as well as years of development effort. I think they have put a lot of stake in making this game successful. I highly doubt they did all that just so they could milk a couple million dollars from us. It will probably take them a few years to recoup the money they personally spent on this game.

I expect that means you'll be leaving us soon right? Afterall, you don't want to be one of the idiots being milked.

Originally Posted by beltpouch

I agree that the devs are not nearly as responsive as they were back in beta days. However, I suppose that's kinda expected somewhat. There is a lot more riding on what they say now then when we were in beta and they need to be a lot more careful about how they go about it I imagine.

Originally Posted by Kamui

Heck, I'm surprised the devs even look at the forums. I mean, who wants to go someplace where a vocal minority live to do nothing but attack and flame you, and then whine and kvetch when you're not around to attack and flame?

Originally Posted by solstan

If you are a national trapped in a pirate captured port, I think it would be fun if you were transported to a jail instance, confronted by a pirate and offered one of three choices:

Originally Posted by Spinnaker Sam

I like the direction this is going and it is enough to make me roll a pirate after it is implemented. I do have a question as a national though. When the town changes over what happens to all the national players that might be hanging out there? Will I be walking down the street and suddenly it becomes dark and all these new objects and NPCs just suddenly appear? I am concerned about the transition between the different states.

Originally Posted by Wintersdark

This sounds fascinating. I can't wait for my Pirate to be... a pirate!

I'm assuming that these missions will be available once per "raiding" of the port? So, pirates raid a port, it's changed to the "Being Pillaged" port, and the NPC's have the assorted missions, all of which can be done once. 3 days later, the port reverts. If the Pirates raid that port again, all of it's missions are available again?


Just as a thought, it would be VERY interesting if you had very, very difficult, Bey's Retreat style 50 missions available in the raided port that award national victory points the first time they are completed successfully in each port (to prevent a swarm of groups from "farming" map win VP's). These missions would encompass the actual sacking of the fort/town/city/whatever.

Taken further, have these missions be impossibly difficult at first, but become easier as the regular port raiding missions get completed - maybe offer temporary buffs as players successfully complete the raiding missions, or have them otherwise affect the big mission.

As we cannot hold ports, this would provide an additional means of building map victory points. If the mission was worth 1 vp, that would make a port capture and resulting mission completion worth 4 vp's, instead of just 3 for the port battle win.

The contentious point here is this actually gives Pirates a PvE method of obtaining VP's, though minor and only after PvP conquest.

I think this would make for a fantastic way to squeeze involved, extremely difficult group missions into the game in an intriguing way.

I suppose this makes those missions pirate only, however, which may be a problem?