Putting the Glory back in Pirates Glory

[Most Lee Harmless]

Did-dums... oh how hard life is for thieves

Well, when merchants got tougher to hit then why was that?

Goose / Golden / Cooked

Shame. I'll drop a bent nickel in a jobless pirates collecting tin.

[Meliva]

yeah, typically if a merchant is an easy target, that makes them popular as pirate prey, until they adapt and get less easy. Then pirates either move on for new easy targets and the cycle repeats or they start having to put in more effort on the tougher targets. Typically they do the former.

[PhoenixKnight]

Here we go again

[Stan Rogers]

Most are busy behind the scenes with the new release.
That said, get used to dwindling trade fleets as port stocks disappear.
It might be a slow time for pirates but rest assured, it is slower for trade as well.
Much depends on how fast plantations can ramp up production so there is a surplus of stock beyond a plantation owners needs. Not until then are you going to see a return of dozens, if not hundreds of ships visiting ports in close succession.

It's going to get real interesting in a short while. You may even see player adverts offering bonuses to a plantation owner to release goods into the common market so they can get scooped up quickly by the parties in question.
If you are needing tools to complete a project or Hideout building, what are you willing to pay ?

[Banger]

I think you guys are jumping to conclusions. This wasn't complaining about the lack of piracy purely but the lack of activity in general. I'm quite enjoying the trader life as are my coffers.

I miss the banter in the forums, the discussion of the game, and of course the full plunder boards. Even then the full plunder boards was not necessarily the result of unscrupulous pirate activity just busy seas.

[Meliva]

I think you guys are jumping to conclusions. This wasn't complaining about the lack of piracy purely but the lack of activity in general. I'm quite enjoying the trader life as are my coffers.

I miss the banter in the forums, the discussion of the game, and of course the full plunder boards. Even then the full plunder boards was not necessarily the result of unscrupulous pirate activity just busy seas.

well lulls in the game happen occasionally. Then eventually things pick back up. Just like in real life-sometimes things are quiet, uneventful and a tad boring, but eventually something happens that livens things up. Sooner or later someone will take offense to something, start a little war, have some banter in the forums and things will pick up. Hell clockwork seems to be stirring something up now. I bet in a week things will be more exciting.

[fullfathomfive]

When you move a Pirate ocean activity intended game to focus on build-em-up projects on the beach that pirates in history were never a part of, you can expect game play,player, changes. When you allow sailing vessels fighting, sailing, ability's to be all the same competing for random outcomes, it removes ship building, refinement, challenges. The game banner at entry can be removed regarding "intelligence", as this challenge has been replaced by predetermined methodical actions activity. The current situation should come as no surprise to those that have played the game with intensity in the past, as the game focus itself has dramatically changed.

[Zephore]

I think you guys are jumping to conclusions. This wasn't complaining about the lack of piracy purely but the lack of activity in general. I'm quite enjoying the trader life as are my coffers.

I miss the banter in the forums, the discussion of the game, and of course the full plunder boards. Even then the full plunder boards was not necessarily the result of unscrupulous pirate activity just busy seas.

When you only see one fleet worth attacking in a port nowadays, compared to when you could attack plenty, without lighting up... See, that was fun. Lol

[Most Lee Harmless]

yeah, typically if a merchant is an easy target, that makes them popular as pirate prey, until they adapt and get less easy. Then pirates either move on for new easy targets and the cycle repeats or they start having to put in more effort on the tougher targets. Typically they do the former.

Typically they do neither: they just moan loudly that the game has become rubbish : a pirates life is not easy and nor should it be : same goes for traders. But its a sad phenonemon that too many players want easy targets with little risk and anything else is 'boring!'.

[sXs]

yeah, typically if a merchant is an easy target, that makes them popular as pirate prey, until they adapt and get less easy. Then pirates either move on for new easy targets and the cycle repeats or they start having to put in more effort on the tougher targets. Typically they do the former.

Typically they do neither: they just moan loudly that the game has become rubbish : a pirates life is not easy and nor should it be : same goes for traders. But its a sad phenonemon that too many players want easy targets with little risk and anything else is 'boring!'.

Don't mix the issue. No one complaining about a pirate life being difficult. It is about a lack of overall activity. It used to be you would sail into ports like Tzogos and Tortuga and couldn't step off the gangway without landing on a new player.

No one who has been around for any amount of time can honestly claim that activity in general has not gone down.

Hell I used to spend 8 or more hours a day on here. Now with the advent of plantations, I find myself in "set and forget" mode. In fact over the last few weeks, there have been days I haven't even signed in at all. That had never happened before plantations.

Don't get me wrong, plantations are a good thing and can lead to some awesome new strategies, but Banger is right. Activity is way down.

We need a spark of some sorts.