You can follow the main quest from the Admiral's Agent in Fort Caroline.

If you've never seen the Algerian Consulate, then you'll need to finish the quest chain from the Admiral's Agent in Rosignol.

The failure to surrender is not intended. We made a tiny change to surrender but it shouldn't have caused this behavior. Dev is looking into it. Thanks for pointing it out!

As for Marks of Victory, Taelorn tells me they were way too easy to get. Refit ships are supposed to be rare and expensive.

Just as a quick thought: in avatar space, have you tried ordering the person you're escorting to hold still? You should have a skill that orders him to hold still, and another that orders him to follow you. I'm not sure if that particular AI is set up to receive orders, but if he is, that might help.

Seeding the Auction House: good idea. I thought we had but maybe not or maybe the listings expired. I'm working on getting some permanent seeding out there. Thanks for the suggestion!

This is in Known Issues in the release notes for the next build: We have multiple reports of some players crashing entering Campeche, Rosignol, and Puerto Cabezas. Some players have no problem at all. If you're a player experiencing this problem, please continue to send your crash reports to Microsoft - we're looking into it.

I've added your "fix" (turning off AA) to the bug report as a hint to the Dev on how to fix it. I'll also update the release notes. Thanks for your help!

If you're not sure if a design is on track or not, please post it directly into a feedback thread before submitting it. That way you'll get good feedback, and can be more confident that what you're posting for submission is ready for the game.

That said, "huge pantaloons" generally won't work, because flags can be 10' x 15' or larger in-game. One size doesn't really fit all.

That's because everyone knows you were in the popular crowd in high school.

This never, ever works out like I want it to.

We're perfectly happy for you to have alts, we want you to play the game the way you want to play it. We certainly want to implement features that make it easier for you to play more than one character, and that make your game experience better. Unfortunately we have hundreds of features we want to implement. We have to prioritize them, and make hard choices.

So let me ask you, what is the feature you want most to facilitate playing multiple characters?