That's impossible for us to control. Right now, if you don't want to get pulled in when your group member gets attacked, then you can just ungroup. Thus declining the prompt is no different than what we have in game right now. We can't avoid players circumventing the Ad-Hoc auto join unless we make it based on side instead of group, which brings a host of different problems. So, this gives players the versatility of deciding whether they want the grouped or ungrouped behavior for joining.

If you're not immune to attack for a few seconds to acknowledge the prompt, then the prompt becomes a default "help the enemy split my group" option. Large, coordinated societies would eat 6-man groups alive if they had join prompts w/o protection. It's possible that we'll merge several attacks instead of providing protection in the future, but that significant expands the scope here and would have delayed the fixes.

Again, you can already do this - just don't group.

2x9lb/2x16lb

The credit belongs with the shipwright who put the effort into making the model and allowing us to replace the Triton.

It's not quite that simple. The situation you describe is the ideal situation as far as the timer goes.

It's from Ibrahim in the Algerian Consulate.

Well, one of them can't get resolved (death in the family), so it has been pretty tough. It's funny, in person, he's nothing like he is on the forums and the game. He's quite charming and funny with some really cool interests.

Ooooh just wait until you see the new chat window in 1.2! It's more transparent and much slimmer. I hope you like the changes we've made!

Also, if the default text colors aren't doing it for you, you can already change those in preferences :-)

Whilst it is easy to make a change in VBulletin normally, it's not for us because your forum name is tied to your Station account and your User Content.

If you have a good reason why you'd need to change it, you can submit a Support request (Click on "Support" in the upper right corner) with your request and reasons for a change.

The web team will review it and see if it can be done.

Nice machine Nefarious!

The hitches in the ocean sea most likely have nothing to do with your video card - it's the process of new ships spawning which can be awfully expensive. We're working on it on our end and have made a few improvements, but it'll be a little bit before those make it to you!

There's nothing in the AI abandon code that makes them less likely to surrender to groups. However, no one will surrender in less than X amount of time. If you have a group focusing fire you can kill ships before they're willing to surrender.

There was no promise that it'd be in the next patch in that post. He said he'd fix it in the next week. Depending on the branch it goes in, that means it could take quite some time before it goes live. In this case, it's probably in 1.2.