Naval Action News

Captains, following items are issued in the Redeemable for all players:

• Gunpowder: 70,000 (found in the Gifts & Rewards tab)
  
• Ball Ammo: 5,000 (found in the Gifts & Rewards tab)
  
• Doubloons: 30,000 (found in the Gifts & Rewards tab)
  
• Experience: Amount required to reach the Commodore rank (found in the Reals & XP Grant tab)
  

Items are placed in the Reward Chest upon claim
[h3]Other changes[/h3]

• The minimal possible damage during boarding actions has been increased
  
• Medicinal bark now spawns across various regions
  
• Rewards for patrol missions have been increased
  
• Armor HP Bonuses related to wood, modules, and books have been adjusted
  
• Guns now consume less gunpowder; for example, a 42-pounder gun now requires only 8 units of gunpowder
  
• Recipes for gunpowder and medicine have been reworked to improve logistics, addressing previous issues where required materials and raw resources occupied significant hold space
  

We are aware of the bugs affecting contracts, and fixing them is currently our top priority, along with issues related to crew disappearing when switching from a ship with a larger crew to a smaller one.

Until the contract bugs are resolved, please avoid setting up new contracts or claiming existing ones.



Spotlight image from Captain Mimolette from the July 2021 screenshot competition

Captains, the following changes were deployed on the Test Server today, March 5th:

• Fixed a bug where medical bark was not being produced, preventing Medicine crafting
  
• Increased the variety of ships sailed by NPCs in the Open World
  
• Adjusted the weight of raw resources and materials
  
• Improved localization
  

Captains, the following changes were deployed on the Test Server today, March 4th:

• Fixed bugs related to NPC behavior during boarding.
  
• Fixed bugs related to group invites and adding friends.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented item splitting in Open World.
  
• Fixed an issue where the required amount for clan creation was incorrect.
  
• Implemented various localization fixes.
  

Spotlight image by Captain Esteban from the June 2021 screenshot competition

Captains, the following changes were deployed on the Test Server today, March 3rd:

[h3]Boarding improvement[/h3]

• Boarding has been tweaked closer to old school boarding (but with less Cooldowns) including return of the command switch cost
  
• Free preparation per round bonus has been removed
  
• KD on brace, attack has been removed allowing more action
  
• Defend command is made not so useless against gun or cannon fire
  
• Min possible damage was increased to not get stuck in 3 kills per round
  
• Overall, we definitely will need another round of changes to bring it to great state - please provide feedback and thought on boarding in patch feedback topics
  

[h3]Other changes[/h3]

• Fixed bug blocking ship purchases
  
• Reduced minimum fees for distant ship purchases to 500 from 5000
  
• NPC tax is back to avoid price gauging and free 1 real overbidding on auctions
  
• Double shot bonus is now lower until ball cost balance is achieved. Reason is simple - because there is one standard cannonball the cost of double shot was extremely low compared to its received benefit. It will be increased once gunpowder and cannonball prices are finally balanced
  
• Fixed Crafting Recipes for the following items:
  
  
  • Medicine
    
  • Grape Ammo
    
  • Provisions
    
  • Gunpowder
    
  • Ball Ammo
    

[h3]Update on boarding vs NPCs[/h3]
NPC reactions during boarding are bugged on the test server. This is a known issue and will be hotfixed tomorrow

Spotlight image from Captain Junan from the February 2022 screenshot competition

Captains, following changes were deployed today on the Test server:

• Fixed a bug where books from loot were not working. Unfortunately, books that you found already have to be thrown out
  
• Updated loot from traders and warships
  
• Until further notice, raw resources, materials, consumables, upgrades, and books can also be sold to NPC shops
  
• Fire now deals slightly less damage to hull (but still significant)
  
• Reduced fire spawn rate approximately by 2x
  

Some Crafting Recipes are incorrect on test server. For example Gunpowder. To not waste money do not craft gunpowder until tomorrow hotfix

Spotlight image by Schindlers Liste from the September 2021 screenshot competition