Hello Captains

War server (pvp) will be stopped today - Tuesday 11th of June for the installation of the release patch and pre-release testing (additional infrastructure and instances added to support the release)
Peace server (pve) will continue normally until the launch.
Launch window is set for Thursday 13th of June to Friday 14th of June (but if we are able to test everything properly we might release on wednesday evening (kiev time).

Other interesting events that happened on the 13-14th of June

Edict of Milan
Munich was founded
Battle of Naseby
Raid on Medway
Declaration of California republic
Creation of the United states continental army
Star and stripes flag adopted
First Oxford Regatta
Battle of Villers Bocage
First monkey rides a V-2 rocket into space
Some famous people were born on the 13-14th of June: including Skarsgard, Alzheimer, Che Guevara and Donald Trump


Summary

Launch between 13th or 14th
War Server - will be down from 11th until 13th or 14th of June
Peace Server - will be down on 13th of June for long maintenance

Captains

Patch has been deployed yesterday on 24th of April.

This is a group feature. Solo players must find a group of friends to use it or join a clan.

Imaged - dutch players deciding if they want Caracas to have a +5% speed bonus for shipbuilding or +10% thickness or BOTH

• Investments.
  
  • Clan alliances can now expand production of resources in ports
    
  • Clan alliances can now expand shipbuilding in ports
    
  • Clan alliances can now improve defenses in ports
    
  • Investments will drop their level after you lose the port, multiple losses of ports will lose all investments (to remove port trading)
    
  • Forts destroyed in port battles will have to be rebuilt
    
  • Clans will be able to decide who can access the facilities and build them
    
  • Once you build the facility you will be able to use it even if you are kicked from clan or alliance (provided you are in the same nation).
    
  • Other nations WILL NOT use the facilities and investment benefits
    
  • Ship building bonuses are created by clan alliance only if they build ships in their city. Other captains (who are not part of the alliance are not going to be able to hire artisans trained by clans).
    
    • Due to limited investment points some cities will have to specialize – in the first iteration there are going to be 2 types of towns
      
    • Resource base
      
    • Shipbuilding base
      
    • Or a mix of two
  • There is a limited number of ports that can build amazing ships with all the possible bonuses. Nations will have to fight for them.
    
  • This is a first iteration of the feature so expect bugs and problems
• Map wipe
  
  • All forts on map were removed (they can be rebuilt by clans)
    
  • Map was reset
    
  • Lord protectors were reset,
    
  • National leaderboards were reset
• Hostility mission changes
  
  • Hostility now can be gained only using missions.
    
  • OW hostility points are no longer granted to avoid exploits.
    
  • Hostility generation in missions will feel much faster
    
  • Defense timer cost is 250k Reals per day (might go up even more)
    
  • County capital and capitals give missions to capture 2 nearest county capitals
    
  • Free towns give missions for 2 nearest county capitals
    
  • Once you taken the county capital you can take its regional cities.
    
  • Marsh Harbor also gives an option to take Treasure Island, Treasure island capital gives an option to capture Bermuda.

• Forts were buffed
  
• BR limits for ports have changed
  
  • Largest towns (55 investment points) have 25000 BR limit
    
  • All other county capitals have 20000 BR limit
    
  • Regional towns have 10,000 BR limit
    
  • Shallow capitals 3000 BR limit
    
  • Shallow towns 2000 BR limit
• Lord protectors are no longer have tiered rewards for VMs
  
  • you get what you hold (but not more than 15VMs per week – lets see how it goes and maybe increase this limit later)
• Hostility points for port battle creation have changed
  
  • County Capital deep – 10000 pts
    
  • Regional town deep – 4500 pts
    
  • County Capital shallow – 2500 pts
    
  • Regional town shallow – 1000 pts
• Peace server changes
  
  • Historical peaceful map applied (this will change bot routes and bot nationalities)
    
  • Admiralty can now be used in ALL peaceful cities
    
  • Peaceful outposts and buildings can now be built in all cities
    
  • Peaceful PVE missions can now be taken in all cities too
    
  • You can enter and exit enemy ports in all ships including combat vessels.
    
  • Top class ships on the PVE can still be built in towns that are capturable on War server.

• Combat medals are now only granted for mission and patrol completion.
  
• Improved FPS performance in instances and port battles
  
• Added additional item descriptions
  
• Bots now use universal ranks to help judge their difficulty easier
  
• Added an option to make more books and upgrades in production run
  
• Added inverted mouse to options
  
• Added tooltips to clan warehouse
  
• Permit prices and requirements rebalanced
  
• New ship notes added to admiralty
  
• Pandora lost ability to use stern carronades due to placement of ports
  
• Epic chest now drops in Epic events a lot more often
  
• Grape damage distance slightly increased
  
• Grape min damage from raking slightly increased
  
• Port name changes and other minor beautifications
  
  • Some ports have their name changed or improved.
    
  • Spanish town (a city of striking contrasts) is now a capital of the Virgin islands
    
  • Sisal is now a capital of Merida
    
  • Some counties were rebalanced.

• Fixed bug that did not build 5/5 ships in some ports that became capturable recently. Apologies for the inconvenience.
  
• Fixed bug that was visually showing wrong ammo type (for example ball was flying instead of chain or vice versa) in instances for new players who just joined instance or relogged in into instance
  
• Fixed stationary bots in OW
  
• Fixed bug that cut your speed if you switched to a fleet ship
  
• Fixed bug that did not update your map if you switched from Peace to war server after AFK kick
  
• Multiple other bugs fixed

Captains. MEGA Patch was deployed today on 28th February!

Contents of the patch.

• You can change the language of the game in the options menu.
  
• Localization is not complete!– as new content has been added in the last 1.5 months – this will be translated soon
  
• Custom files for all languages has been added. They can be used by community translators or yourself to improve things you do not like to completely change language
  
• There are issues in some translations due to the fact that outside firm was - but they will eventually be fixed, with help of community.

• Battle UI has been freshened up.
  
• All Battle UI has been moved to one technology set (slightly increasing FPS in battles)
  
• Boarding is no longer showing enemy commands.
  
  • Boarding UI might need another pass of improvements based on your general feedback.
• You can now use buttons [ ] during boarding that will allow your ship to fire point blank broadsides.
  
• All buttons have received informational tooltips, which you can read by putting your mouse over the buttons

• Ships of the line will now rule the seas. No longer ships of the line will fear light corvettes.
  
• Damage model has been adjusted.
  
• Inverse DPS problems has been fixed (previously 4lb guns had higher DPS than 42lb guns)
  
• Reload shocks issues were fixed. You will get them regularly if you maximize damage in short periods of time.
  
• Lower rank NPCs turning has been adjusted (previously they turned like experienced rear admirals when they should not have).
  
  • Additional tunings to NPC combat will be applied soon.
• Turn rates were lowered across the board for most vessels, to support the precise deliberate combat model (low level ships turned like they were on drugs)
  
• Additional improvements to speeds and turning will be deployed next week.

• To increase number of PVP opportunities the following change has been made.
  
• Open world battles for the weaker side (based on BR) are open for 20 minutes. You can reinforce the weaker side if you are sailing by. The mission will close and swords disappear once BR evens out (with certain % threshold)
  
  • if you want to get help stay closer to friendly entry points.
    
  • If you are ganked, call for help in chat, people can help you. Of course just like tracers in ww2 this feature works both ways. If you attack in force your target might get reinforcements, changing the course of the battle.
• Overall goal is to give more pvp opportunities to captains
  
• Combat Medals were introduced. Combat medals will be granted for PVP activities, and will give access to pvp rewards.

• Changes to rare woods spawns and access
  
  • Rare woods resources now only have limited trading spawns in the Carribean.
    
  • Rare woods forests can now randomly spawn somewhere in the Caribbean in limited quantities. (can be fully exhausted)
    
  • These rare woods now can be received by clans using delivery missions
    
  • Сlans and clans on their allies list have access to these missions
    
  • Getting rare woods by using missions reduces their supply. One supply is fully cut down the forest will spawn elsewhere in another port.
    
  • Rare woods are: Live oak, white oak, bermuda cedar, teak, mahogany, caguarian, sabicu.

• Redundant protections removed from secondary protected areas (like Louisiana or Vera Cruz and Belize)
  
• Additional improvements of the protected areas will be done next patch

• Trading will be more available
  
• Resources spawn distribution is now better and ability to place contracts on trading goods removed.
  
• Additional regional goods added
  
• Selling goods far from the purchase place will make more money (buying something in Trinidad and selling it in the gulf will make a lot of money
  
  • This of course means that short distance routes will no longer make too much money
• Barter added (but not yet tuned properly – will be fixed in the next hotfix). It will increase supply of trading goods

• PVP hunt missions added
  
• Solo PVP patrol zone added
  
  • In the solo patrol zone you can only be attacked by the ship of the same class and battle will close immediately.
• Passenger delivery missions added
  
• Letter delivery missions added
  
• Clan delivery missions added
  
• Mission rewards increased

• NPC fleet placements slightly adjusted (gulf suffered, but all other regions will generally see more NPCs – we will fix the gulf problem later)
  
• Missions are now based on regions (less on port type)
  
  • For example Hispaniola is a 1-3rdrate region. It will only give missions for 1-3rdrate.
• Missions are now unlimited – if you finish your initial set of missions you can take new ones. No longer we will force you waste time on sailing to another to find additional supply of missions.
  
• Missions spawns are significantly improved – time is precious - you will no longer spend 20-30 mins reaching the mission. Missions will no longer spawn on other sides of large land masses.
  
• Group missions added (enemy types and rewards are not yet fully balanced- some missions might be very hard)

• Sextant perk is now provided automatically by default to all new accounts
  
• Fleet perk for 1 ship is now added to all accounts by default (so new players can go straight to capping and looting)
  
• Small amount of low level NPC enemies were added around Capitals to provide additional opportunities for new players
  
• UI scaling options added to the game
  
• Additional flags added to DLC for some nations
  
• 1 flag was added to admiralty store for some nations, in the next couple of patches all nations will have 1 flag in the admiralty available for doubloons.
  
• Prices for basic resources were adjusted, blueprints for ships were adjusted to support the new damage model. Some balance issues with blueprints were fixed.
  
• Labor hours will be adjusted too in the next hot fix (did not get in this patch).
  
  • NEXT HOTFIX Labor hours spent on crafting frigates and below will be significantly reduced. Labor hours generation WILL be increased 2.5times.

Captains.

Admiralty wishes you wealth, health and happiness in the 2019. Please accept the following gifts in the redeemables.

• Kiritimati Masts made from the strongest trees found in the famous Christmas island.
  
• Edinorog guns that will make your opponents fear your ship.
  
• Rare Christmas gift – Danish 2nd rate Christian.

Redeemables must be claimed before 25th of January 2019.

Attached - player made video of Christian by Captain Anolytic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVSEVeE4NEI

Captains.
Patch was deployed today 17th of December 2018

New content and experimental changes.

• Sextant perk
  
  • 2 points (price might change) perk will allow to determine your position at sea
• Shallow water based on draught of ships (experimental change)
  
  • All ships below 4m draught will be allowed into shallow waters and shallow water battles
    
  • This includes
    
    • Cerberus
      
    • Renommee
      
    • Pandora
      
    • Surprise (L Unite)
  • Hercules and LRQ will be allowed into shallow port battles.
    
  • Please make necessary preparations if needed.
• The game code has been almost completely prepared for localization. Localization/Tranlsation has started into main promised languages. Custom language file added for those who want to translate the game into any language for themselves or community or those who are not satisfied with our main english version
  
  • To use the custom file for your version of the translation:
    
    • Open folder Languages (currently Langs)
      
    • Copy the file named _English.csv
      
    • Paste and rename it to another name
      
    • Translate or edit that file to the language you want
      
    • Save it in the standard CSV format if you open it in the Excel (file uses UTF-8)
      
    • Name of that file will be available in the general section of options in the drop down menu
      
    • File will be working properly after game has been restarted.

• Important: Fixed the annoying redraw of all icons when dragging items between holds and warehouse. This will significantly increase the speed of item management if you have a lot of items in holds and warehouses.
  
• Fixed annoying blinking of expand button
  
• Clan leaderboards should now work properly and show statistics for the last 7 days (without weekly reset)
  
• Fixed the bug that does not allow to build buildings if doubloons are in money chest
  
• Fixed the bug that did not reset the exit timer when using grape against crew
  
• Fixed rare crash of client during teleports
  
• Fixed bug that closed port trade chat after sinking in the open world
  
• Fixed visual bugs of DLC flags on Essex
  
• Fixed bug that allowed the NPC fleet to reappear on the open world at the place of previous attack (if you sank any ship besides the flagship)
  
• Fixed the bug that hotkey did not work if you had tooltip active (when mouseover)
  
• Fixed the bug that did not let players pick rewards for previous challenge on the day new challenge starts

• Multiple minor fixes on the Port UI.
  
• Added new shallow patrol zone Deadman's Cay (+1 shallow patrol)
  
• New icons added to most trading goods
  
• New warning symbol D (damaged) under LEAVE PORT button to show that your or your fleet ship needs to be repaired.
  
• Added indication to Hunt and S&D missions to show 3 nearest regions where your targets can be found
  
• Improved performance of port UI
  
• Reduced FPS drops when opening windows.
  
• Improved the performance of drag and drop - holds and warehouses no longer hide behind other windows if drag and drop is in progress
  
• Barter resources are now spawned during the day (not immediately after maintenance)
  
• Loot from sealed bottles has been generally improved.
  
• Added 5th rate S&D missions in common non capital ports

Captains.

The day of days has come - and we are getting close and closer to release.
Patch will be deployed today on 31st of October.

This is the biggest patch we delivered to date so expect problems and issues - they will be fixed one by one.

Contents

• It is impossible to describe the multitude of changes in this patch so the list will be short and will just cover areas of changes
  
• New bugs and loopholes - please report issues in designated topics or in this topic
  
• Updated port user interface. Everything has changed. Just like with all interface updates it will feel weird and sometimes wrong. But it is a much better UI and most importantly it is better for localization
  
• Economy has moved to historical currencies
  
  • reals - silver dollars
    
  • doubloons - double escudos - gold goins
    
  • pvp marks and combat marks have been abandoned. Combat marks will be converted to reals - pvp marks turn into doubloons
    
  • denomination has been applied to all prices (approximately 25 to 1)
    
    • please report if we missed something in this area
  • 2000 doubloons will be issued to all captains as a timed redeemable for 14 days.
• Holds contents have been updated for
  
  • combat ships
    
  • traders
    
  • sealed bottles
    
  • chests
    
  • all vessels can sometimes carry crew pay (military ships) or results of trading in doubloons (traders) and in good amounts
• Ship capture rules updated
  
• Previously you could not capture imported ships and could not capture 1-4th rates on the PVP server
  
• New rule is the following (mostly concerns the War (caribbean) server
  
  • You cannot take non captureable ships to the open world but you can use them in the instance
    
  • this means you can capture all ships for sailing in the current battle instance
    once you exit the instance non capturable ships will be taken over by the admiralty (with hold)
    
  • Please make sure you dont exit in the imported ship or non capturable ship to the open world if you have valuable things in the hold
    
  • To receive a reward for that ship sink it in the instance transferring to a capturable ship
• New missions
  
  • Hunt and search and destroy - to find and destroy ships in the open world
    
  • Weekly challenges
    
  • kill missions (former combat orders) now have difficulty levels and increased rewards
    
  • bot distribution changed. certain regions now have lineships (like hispaniola) some regions have 5th rates only.
• Mission class and difficulty now depend on ports
  
  • Starting ports have lower level missions and easier missions
• Insurance has been added to all crafted ships
  
  • you must fight bravely and do not give up the ship (sink) to receive insurance
• Tow to port now only works if you are really stuck in the open world
  
• Economy has been streamlined
  
  • redundant materials removed (conversion tables were provided before)
    
  • resources weights and prices changed
    
  • building production limits have been greatly increased for lvl 3 buildings
    
    • e.g lvl 3 building now allow production approximately similar to 5 level 3 buildings before the patch.
      
    • as a result euro traders permits were removed from the caribbean for testing
  • prices for buildings were adjusted based on complexity of production
    
  • current buildings were closed and wiped for all players (costs to reopen was added to redeemables)
    
  • new buildings introduced
    
  • outposts now charge for passenger transportation
• Admiralty prices updated
  
  • book prices for high level ships generally increased (because of ample supply of doubloons from activities)
    
  • ship notes prices now correspond to the alternative of crafting that ship (a lot higher)
• Max BR limit for shallow port battle is now 110 (which makes Prince the highest BR ship that can enter port battles)

Known issues

• Сhallenge events will start on Monday (light, frigate, lineships)
  
• Economy and prices are new and might require several iterations to stabilize and tune
  
• Clan leaderboard table does not work as intended and will be updated later - it only shows port battle oriented clans[/i]
  
• Very rare issue of corrupted items locking the exit from ports can still happen - but we have added the automatic deletion of such items and added additional logs to find more cases of such issue. If you cannot exit from port or sell a ship it is because one item in hold has become corrupted - please let us know when this happen in support section or by f11.

Please provide feedback in this section (3 topics are pinned on top and focus on interface, economy and missions)

http://forum.game-labs.net/forum/7-patch-feedback-and-general-discussions/

Next steps

We plan to stabilize the patch in several iterations and continue work on localization in parallel


Official promised languages will be localized by GL, but we will provide the tool to change the language to another if it will be localized by the community (access to language file will be provided and players will be able to replace it with their own).


Doubloons for shipyard lvl 2 and lvl 3 will be delivered to redeemables or directly to money chest by the end of the day today. Spread the news. We wanted to deliver the update during maintenance and not wait until the evening.

Boarding speed increase was reverted as of 20th of September. It solves hugging, but it also decreases the tactical depth of large engagements and forces players to always fit for boarding instead of promoting diverse play styles.

Full list of changes.

• All upgrades increasing crew rebalanced (data below)
  
• XP and Money for kills and assists rebalanced based on BR of vessels (slight increase for 1-2nd rates)
  
• Yacht can now enter port battles and can be added to fleets
  
• Determined defender bonus lowered from 30% to 0.001%
  
• Barricades defensive bonus increased by 0.1 and attack penalty increased by 0.1 as well.
  
  Crew bonuses reductions
  
  • Shipbuilding:
    
    • Very cramped: 5% - previous 10%
      
    • Cramped: 2.5% - previous 5%
      
    • Extra crew trim: 7.5% - previous 10%
  • Modules and books:
    
    • Light ship hammocks refit: 5% - previous 15%
      
    • Hammocks book: 7.5%-7.5%-2.5% - previous 20%-10%-5%
  
  discuss.

Hotfix was deployed today 12th September

• Fixed the bug locking you in port if you wanted to claim tutorial rewards without the outpost
  
• Fixed basic cutter BR issues
  
• Fixed Diana bugs with decals and colliders
  
• Constitution Classic timed redeemable added to all captains for testing. Please login within 14 days to claim the ship

Hello Captains

Patch has been deployed today to live servers. 29th August 2018

• Diana wil be given out for testing to all captains in the Caribbean.
  
  • It will be a timed reward - you will have to login and claim it within 15 days.
    
  • Spanish frigate Diana
    
    • Spanish heavy frigate filling the gap between heavy and medium frigates
      
    • Gundeck - 24lb guns 42lb carronades
      
    • Upper deck - 9lb guns 32 lb carronades.
• Major BR rebalance
  
  • We are gradually moving away from the static BR based on HP and DPS characteristics and will also consider several other factors including battle performance data.
    
  • How it will work
    
    • Ships with much lower performance statistics will have lower BR even if they are a higher class vessel. For example 2nd rate pavel having a much worse battle performance than 3rd rate Bellona will have a lower BR than Bellona.
  • The changes will be applied gradually as full performance based BR is currently impossible as it will break old mission system. Once new mission system is added in September we will let battle performance influence the ship BR slightly more.
    
  • This will mostly affect the port battles and will require captains to recalculate their battle plans for future conquests.
• Speed changes
  
  • Wind curves slightly tweaked for
    
    • Hercules
      
    • Privateer
  • Speeds slightly increased for
    
    • Mercury
      
    • Niagara
      
    • Lynx
      
    • Privateer
      
    • Prince
  • Elite and Spanish/Pirate rig refit bonuses lowered from 30/15 to 20/10
    
  • Keep in mind that this speed change is a temporary fix to provide more options in the 6th rate category - all ships speeds, turning, and heel performance will be updated after port ui patch based on battle performance with the goal to increase gameplay depth. Current historical wind curves (fully based on sail plans) have been found to reduce gameplay depth instead of improving it, and will be adapted this autumn.
  
  Diana Screenshot
  
  

Patch is being deployed today 21st June 2018.
Contents of the patch

• MAIN Feature : Open world UI updated to a new version.
  
  • Open world UI will update to a more traditional MMO window based system.
    
  • Port UI remains on the old version. We decided to deploy OW UI first to help to uncover missed bugs and problems faster. Also your initial feedback on the visuals will allow us to deliver better port UI based on your comments. Apologies for the inconvinience that might be caused by the 2 versions of UI
    
  • Expect bugs and glitches.
• Name change added to Prolific Forger DLC
  
  • Separate item will appear in your redeemables
    
  • You will be able to change name once in every 30 days
• Admiralty connection added as DLC
  
  • Will permanently increase dock space, warehouse slots and economy buildings.
• Two imported ships will be added as DLC (time of appearance subject to Valve's approval)
  
  • Le Requin
    
  • Hercules
• Ability to trade in the open world added to game.
  
  • Trade is possible with your nation
    
  • Trade is possible in the radius of attack
    
  • If one of the parties to a trade exits this radius trade will stop
    
  • Trade is only possible from hold of the ship
• Patrol battle exit (escape) option added (to remove trolling and griefing)
  
  • After a certain time exit will be possible if there are no enemy players in your radius
    
  • Damage stops the ability to exit (just like the normal exit timer)
    
  • Being outside of the circle stops ability to exit
• Experimental feature: Open world attack button now has a coold down (60 seconds).
  
  • This was done to remove constant re-click to get better positioning
    
  • You have to be careful how and when you attack.
• Exams now show the following information in pop ups for motivational purposes
  
  • Best time and name of the player
    
  • Your time
    
  • Average time for all players
• Rules of Engagement (ROE) changes
  
  • For reinforcement zones
    
    • Battle is always open for the nation of the reinforcement zone
      
    • Battle closes in 10 minutes for all other nations (not owners of the reinforcement zones)
  • For Capital waters
    
    • Nation of the capital water cannot be attacked as before
      
    • All other nations can be attacked (removing unnecessary protection for enemies). This means that other nations will not be protected by your capital waters.
      
    • Battles of other nations in capital waters will be open to all
• Smuggler flag removed
  
  • Trader ships now have automatic smuggler flag and will be able to enter any port in the Caribbean
    
  • Player in the combat ship wont be able to enter enemy ports
    
  • You will now be able to switch ships in enemy ports if you have an outposts and docked ships there (to remove weird lockouts caused by legacy rules
    
  • Military ships can now sail out of enemy ports to remove lockouts if your port was captured or changed state from open to all.
    
  • Exit from enemy and contested ports gives you a 30 min port battle lockdown
    
  • Free for all ports do not give the port battle timer.
• Battle sails now give bonuses to
  
  • Ship turning
    
  • Yard turning
    
  • Sail resistance
• Fire changes
  
  • Fire now affects structure and planking differently. Planking will burn faster than structure. This is done to bring back more epic explosions as fast fires burn the structure too fast (ship sinks faster than it can explode).
• Structural leaks and penetrating leaks water intake speed dependence increased. Changes are as follows
  
  • 50% speed – standard leaks (current)
    
  • 100% speed – leakage is increased 2x
    
  • 0 speed – leakage is reduced 2x
• Control perk changes
  
  • Perk control can be switched off in the beginning of the battle, if you do not want to use it.
    
  • There will be a button for the first 5 mins that will let you decide if you want to control on or not.
• Tuning
  
  • All blueprints were removed from the admiralty and added to player shipyards for simplification (some of them of course will require permits to build)
    
  • NPC can rarely sail a 4/5 or 5/5 vessel
    
  • Capturable ports now give better chance to build a exceptional vessel.
• Fixed bugs:
  
  • Multiple bugs fixed thanks to player reports
    
  • Several tutorial bugs fixed
    
  • Fixed bug not allowing you to destroy an item in the hold if your computer time was set in the future.
    
  • Fixed the bug that did not let you take back Hercules if NPC was assigned to it.

• Le Requin
  
  • HP lowered slightly
    
  • Battle sail mode added
    
  • Speed of raising lowering sails decreased
    
  • Ship declassed as 6th rate
• Hercules
  
  • Broadside time tweaked
    
  • HP increased according to size
    
  • Ship re-classed as 5th rate
• 2 group statuses removed
  
  • Group status automatically converts to battle group once it exceeds 5 players
• Mission cancellation limit increased to 50
  
• Reinforcement zones ports and capitals (uncapturable ports including free towns) ability to build better vessels reduced, capturable ports ability to build better ships greatly increased

• Fixed the bug blocking the trade of ships in port
  
• Fixed bug that blocked UI for some time after sending the bug report
  
• Fixed bug causing incorrect display of national ranks
  
• Fixed bug that sometimes did not display the type of combat on combat selection screen
  
• You can now redeem the imported premium ships only if you do not have the same ships in docks
  
• Use rum now properly works if you drink rum on the Basic Cutter
  
• Replaced the icon for Carpenters to something more appropriate (remember that icons are not final)
  
• Reduced the fire damage to structure even more (as ships were still sinking before exploding).

Open world UI has undergone significant changes in systems and code, please expect bugs and problems and do not forget to report them in this topic:
http://forum.game-labs.net/topic/26163-open-world-ui-feedback-2018/