Naval Action News

Captains,

Two loot events will run from daily maintenance on October 7th until daily maintenance on October 10th.

[h3]St. Kitts Event[/h3]

• St. Kitts 5 modules are available in the Admiralty, they can be exchanged for Broad Pennants that occasionally drop from 5th rates and higher
  
• Broad pennant will drop from military NPC ships

[h3]Diana Event[/h3]
Captains have to find rare ships like Diana, Santa Cecilia and Admiraal de Ruyter in the search areas provided below. These ships may carry a very rare ship notes and special loot coins, rare wood and rare guns:

• Gold Ducat
  
• Gold Rouble
  
• Gold Sultani
  
• Gold Thaler
  
• Strange Gold Bar
  
• Rare wood
  
• Rare guns

Coins might be exchanged in the Academy building to receive:

• Additional outpost permit
  
• Additional dock permit
  
• Diana permit
  
• Admiraal de Ruyter permit

If you already have the Navy Connection using the item will add even more outposts or docks (up to a total limit).

Search locations

WAR SERVER (PVP)

• South Antilles
  
• East of Tumbado - area between Cuba and Tumbado
  
• South of Hispaniola

PEACE SERVER (PVE)

• South Antilles
  
• East of Tumbado - area between Cuba and Tumbado
  
• South of Hispaniola

In case of capture of certain ports in the area, the nation of ships will change.

*Spotlight image from Captain Lord High Adm Cochrane from the February screenshot competition.

Captains,

Two loot events will run from daily maintenance on September 30th until daily maintenance on October 3rd:

[h3]Where is my shipment?[/h3]

• All traders carry increased numbers of crafting resources and rare woods.

[h3]Martinique Event[/h3]

• Martinique 5 modules are available in the Admiralty, they can be exchanged for Broad Pennants that occasionally drop from 5th rates and higher
  
• Broad pennant will drop from military NPC ships

*Spotlight image from Captain Junan from the February screenshot competition.

Captains,

Two loot events will run from daily maintenance on September 23th until daily maintenance on September 26th.

[h3]St. Kitts Event[/h3]

• St. Kitts 5 modules are available in the Admiralty, they can be exchanged for Broad Pennants that occasionally drop from 5th rates and higher
  
• Broad pennant will drop from military NPC ships

[h3]Diana Event[/h3]
Captains have to find rare ships like Diana, Santa Cecilia and Admiraal de Ruyter in the search areas provided below. These ships may carry a very rare ship notes and special loot coins, rare wood and rare guns:

• Gold Ducat
  
• Gold Rouble
  
• Gold Sultani
  
• Gold Thaler
  
• Strange Gold Bar
  
• Rare wood
  
• Rare guns

Coins might be exchanged in the Academy building to receive:

• Additional outpost permit
  
• Additional dock permit
  
• Diana permit
  
• Admiraal de Ruyter permit

If you already have the Navy Connection using the item will add even more outposts or docks (up to a total limit).

Search locations

WAR SERVER (PVP)

• South Antilles
  
• East of Tumbado - area between Cuba and Tumbado
  
• South of Hispaniola

PEACE SERVER (PVE)

• South Antilles
  
• East of Tumbado - area between Cuba and Tumbado
  
• South of Hispaniola

In case of capture of certain ports in the area, the nation of ships will change.

*Spotlight image from Captain Junan from the March screenshot competition.

Captains,

Three loot events will run from daily maintenance on September 16th until daily maintenance on September 19th:

[h3]Where is my shipment?[/h3]

• All traders carry increased numbers of crafting resources and rare woods.

[h3]Martinique Event[/h3]

• Martinique 5 modules are available in the Admiralty, they can be exchanged for Broad Pennants that occasionally drop from 5th rates and higher
  
• Broad pennant will drop from military NPC ships

[h3]Diana Event[/h3]
Captains have to find rare ships like Diana, Santa Cecilia and Admiraal de Ruyter in the search areas provided below. These ships may carry a very rare ship notes and special loot coins, rare wood and rare guns:

• Gold Ducat
  
• Gold Rouble
  
• Gold Sultani
  
• Gold Thaler
  
• Strange Gold Bar
  
• Rare wood
  
• Rare guns

Coins might be exchanged in the Academy building to receive:

• Additional outpost permit
  
• Additional dock permit
  
• Diana permit
  
• Admiraal de Ruyter permit

If you already have the Navy Connection using the item will add even more outposts or docks (up to a total limit).

Search locations

WAR SERVER (PVP)

• South Antilles
  
• East of Tumbado - area between Cuba and Tumbado
  
• South of Hispaniola

PEACE SERVER (PVE)

• South Antilles
  
• East of Tumbado - area between Cuba and Tumbado
  
• South of Hispaniola

In case of capture of certain ports in the area, the nation of ships will change.

*Spotlight image from Captain Junan from the February screenshot competition.

[h3]Captains.

We are deploying a patch today: 13th September.[/h3]

Patch contents:

Ports

• Port costs overhaul: All port ownership reduced or removed. Port times are now free
  

Crafting

• Labor hours removed from game. Outdated "energy" mechanics removed as they promote alts.
  
• Perk Foreman – is now outdated.
  
• Added a trade to admiralty to sell labor contracts that you might have for doubloons.
  

Trading

• Individual trading resources were a good idea because it gave every player access to trading but it gave too much power to players with multiple accounts. Trading is overhauled to reduce alt influence.
  
• Trading resources are now only carried by NPC traders and will appear in ports if players sell them, if players don't farm the resources there will be no trading opportunities in ports.
  
• Distance modifiers removed.
  
• Trading sets rebalanced and repositioned.
  
• Trader tool reworked to show only relevant information.
  
• Rare woods spawns added in all coastal regions.
  
• Upgrade crafting materials added to many regions (instead of 2 ports as before).
  

PVE/PVP Rewards

• Monetary rewards from PVE/PVP removed to reduce alt farming (using npc fleets or alts). PVP is now pure full loot. You get what the enemy had and nothing more.
  
• Electronic payments for kills removed. NPC drop more doubloons to compensate the automated payments that were provided before.
  
• All ports now buy doubloons at market low range (currently 50-60 reals per doubloons)
  

Delivery quests

• Delivery quests distance reduced. Delivery deadline reduced to 1 day.
  

Loot systems rework

• Loot tables and systems improved significantly and now provide more variety and no repeats of upgrades dropped.
  

Intro mission

• Intro mission is switched off - it was a mistake
  

Please report bugs or issues with the patch on Steam forums or in comments.