Seasonal Update: Treacherous Waters Part 2.

Captains. Part 2 of the Seasonal update has been deployed and two hot-fixes provided

• Shipbuilding changes
  
  • Historically when building ships shipbuilders had a choice to use fresh wood or season it in seasoning sheds and have stronger, slightly lighter timber. Ships built from fresh wood rot easily and were heavier and weaker.
    
  • Starting this patch captains will be able to season woods (provided they obtain the blueprint)
    
    • Seasoning Shed blueprint added - new building
      
    • Seasoning woods blueprints added
      
    • New frames and planking types added (indicated by the letter (S)
      
    • Tools blueprint added
      
• Trading and NPC privateering overhaul
  
  • Price system and trading resource drop systems changed
    
  • Trading goods is now one of the most profitable activities on the server
    
  • Trading NPCs are no longer constantly overloaded
    
  • Trading NPCs sometimes carry expensive loads (especially if you hit them on the end of the trading run with expensive goods)
    
• Privateer chest added to game. Privateer chest will drop from
  
  • NPC Port raiders
    
  • NPC Privateers in the OW (capital protectors)
    
• Increased drop of Victory marks and Combat medals from Raid Chest
  

• BR for both Player port battles and NPC Port battles have changed
  
  
  
  • Battle Rating will now depend on port investment points
    
  • More investment points = more ships required to protect and defend.
    
  • Overall points have been lowered based on the points
    
    • 55-50 points - 20,000 BR for deep, 2500 for shallow
      
    • 45-40 points - 10,000 BR for deep, 2000 for shallow
      
    • 35 and lower - 5000 BR for deep, 1350 for shallow
      
• NPC Raids
  
  • Points for capture zone entry have been slightly increased
    
    • Combat ships now give 15 points instead of 10
      
    • Trading Transports now give 325 points instead of 300
      
• Did not make it due to other issues
  • Removal of Capital waters limitations.
    
    
    
    • In one of the following hotfixes only distance will be limiting port choice of attack.
      
    • Capital waters will no longer act as choke points
      
  
  
• Point changes
  
  • Important historical production or trading centers have their investment points increased to 55
    
    • Cartagena
      
    • Caracas
      
    • Bridgetown
      
  • Several significant historical centers have their investment points increased to 50 points
    
    • Bluefields
      
    • Portobelo
      
    • Puerto Espana
      

• 36 Pounders are now allowed on all 32lb french ships
  
• Leopard finalized and ready for release
  
• HP and thickness caps have been increased due to forthcoming cannon rebalance
  
• Increased strength of Upper parts of explosion shockwave - which will demast top sections more often
  
• BR changed for Ingermanland and Wapen
  

Once the feature is deployed privateers will be re-introduced into the game. Privateers will capitals and sometimes venture into important channels. Privateers will sail in strong mixed fleets with intercepting heavy frigates and fast lineships and will provide strong challenge to players operating deep in the capital waters territories.



Hotfix was deployed on 30th November 2019.

• Privateer fleets route testing
  
• NPC Raid patterns have changed for lower level ports.
  
  • NPC Raiders will ALWAYS try to fill the BR limit by lowering class of ships.
    
  • So for example for 10000 BR port NPCs will bring 18 Saint Pavels or Bellonas instead of 1st rates. They will continue to use 1 ship.
    
• BR Limits for shallow ports lowered even lower
  
  • Nassay 2900
    
  • 2000 BR limit ports reduced to 1350
    
  • 1350 BR limit ports reduced to 900
    
• Chinese localization file update
  

Hotfix was deployed today, Sunday 1st of December

• 2 capitals of the Caribbean have updated Privateer fleets
  
• Privateer chest is now dropping from those fleets.
  
• Weight 250 tons so almost any ship can carry it out.