Improved NPC behavior when using battle sails, if under escape command NPCs will use full sails from now on.

Tuning:

• Fire will spread more rapidly under fire
  
• Fire ship fitting will also spread fire slightly faster
  
• Floating battery is now also reducing the yard power as it should be under heavy load. Floating battery speed is also reduced from -20 to -25%, Turning is also reduced from -10 to -20%
  
• Fortification cannons damage and penetration increased by 10% at long range (kept same at close range).

Loot event
New loot event will run from today (now) until Monday maintenance.

Main event

• Additional outpost permit, additional dock permit that can be crafted using special loot items
  
• 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 - French and Dutch ships
  
• East of Tumbado - area between Cuba and Tumbado. Spanish and Russian Empire ships
  
• South of Hispaniola. Russian Empire and Sverige ships

In case of capture of certain ports in the area nation of ships will change.
PEACE SERVER (PVE)

• South Antilles - French and Espana ships
  
• West of Tumbado - area between Cuba and Tumbado. Britain and Prussia ships
  
• South of Hispaniola. Britain and Denmark ship

Other changes

• Players can build Diana frigate now. Note: A Permit is required, its recipe is added in the Academy
  
• AI behavior Improvements in battles - NPC should use battle sails more often now and chase its targets more precisely

• Rework of the Attack and be attacked timer:
  • if a player undocked and starts to sail, the default 45 seconds timer is reduced to 5 seconds
    
  • if a player undocked and stays without sailing (e.g. a player is not yet loaded on a slow PC) - 45 seconds remains.
• Improvements on the ship's auction filters.
  
  
• From now on all instances are softly stopped just before the maintenance time . This is done to prevent abuse from players on removing installed permanent upgrades from ships.

Loot event
New loot event will run from today (now) until Monday maintenance.

Main event changes

• New items added to special event loot
  
• 2 new blueprints added to academy - TEMPORARILY FOR 7 DAYS
  
• Additional outpost permit, additional dock permit that can be crafted using special loot items
  
• 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 - French and Dutch ships
  
• East of Tumbado - area between Cuba and Tumbado. Spanish and Russian Empire ships
  
• South of Hispaniola. Russian Empire and Sverige ships

In case of capture of certain ports in the area nation of ships will change.
PEACE SERVER (PVE)

• South Antilles - French and Espana ships
  
• West of Tumbado - area between Cuba and Tumbado. Britain and Prussia ships
  
• South of Hispaniola. Britain and Denmark ship

Other changes

• Players can build Admiraal de Ruyter ship now. Note: A Permit is required, its recipe is added in the Academy
  
• Port shops offer more medium guns now

Loot event
New loot event will run from today (now) until Monday maintenance.

Main event changes

• New items added to special event loot
  
• 2 new blueprints added to academy - TEMPORARILY FOR 7 DAYS
  
• Additional outpost permit, additional dock permit that can be crafted using special loot items
  
• 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 - French and Dutch ships
  
• East of Tumbado - area between Cuba and Tumbado. Spanish and Russian Empire ships
  
• South of Hispaniola. Russian Empire and Sverige ships

In case of capture of certain ports in the area nation of ships will change.
PEACE SERVER (PVE)

• South Antilles - French and Espana ships
  
• West of Tumbado - area between Cuba and Tumbado. Britain and Prussia ships
  
• South of Hispaniola. Britain and Denmark ship

From now on only ships carrying fireship upgrades will be able to blow up themselves by turning off survival focus. Other ships will only explode by being under concentrated fire from other ships or being under crewed.


Various flags are added in the Flag DLC and the Admiralty shop.

These flags added thanks to research and support of the following captains:

Intrepido and SirAlatriste collection

Spanish flags:

Bandera de Corso

Buques Mercantes 1748

Buques Mercantes 1762

El Ferrol 1760

Flandes Flag

Merchant flag


Anolytic collection

Russian flags:

Andrew's Cross Blue

Peter Yacht Flag

Russian-American Company

Tricolor 2


Swedish flags:

Banner 1620

Cross Flag


Thonys and Van stiermarken collection

Dutch flags:

Amsterdam Admiralty

Ostende Ensign

Retribution Ensign

Rotterdam

Rotterdam 2

Zeeland

Zeeland 2

No Mercy Flag

Geoctroyeerde West-Indische Compagnie


Stanley Kubrick and Angus collection

British flags:

Blue Ensign Blue

Red Ensign Wide

Scotland Ensign

White Ensign Wide - Barry Lyndon Version


Frozen collection

USA flags:

Reprisal Ensign

Wild Duck Ensign


Rovers and Z4ys collection

Prussian flags:

Brandenburg Ensign

Preussen Ensign


Elegant way collection

Chinese flags:

Commander Flag

Commodore Flag

Officer Flag

Provincial Flag

Loot event
New loot event will run from today (now) until Monday maintenance.

Main event changes

• New items added to special event loot
  
• 2 new blueprints added to academy - TEMPORARILY FOR 7 DAYS
  
• Additional outpost permit, additional dock permit that can be crafted using special loot items
  
• 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 - French and Dutch ships
  
• East of Tumbado - area between Cuba and Tumbado. Spanish and Russian Empire ships
  
• South of Hispaniola. Russian Empire and Sverige ships

In case of capture of certain ports in the area nation of ships will change.
PEACE SERVER (PVE)

• South Antilles - French and Espana ships
  
• West of Tumbado - area between Cuba and Tumbado. Britain and Prussia ships
  
• South of Hispaniola. Britain and Denmark ship

Other changes

• Trading vessels base speeds were rebalanced
  
• Penetration over distance is increased for fort guns

Hotfix content

Wind shadow

• Wind shadow acted as a permanent stun and this was causing hate as it had no counter. It was also slightly too strong as ships of equal size would still get some residual wind if they are tall enough.
  
• We reduced the penalty by approximately 20% This means ships with equal length and mast will lose speed but not by 100% and will be able to sail and turn (just slowly). Very small ships will still be affected by full penalty.
  
• Wind shadow distance was also reduced by approximately 10%

Hull load influence on speed
Hulls were designed to carry ballast, water and goods. If ship sits too high in water (empty load) its keel is also higher in water. Empty ship cannot be faster than loaded ship because its waterline shape becomes different and keel will not translate wind force into forward movement. Ship will also roll more and be more unbalanced

• As a result - old design when every ton added was making you slower was removed.
  
• Hold weight no longer affects speed
  
• The side benefit is also - server is going to be feeling better and your looting will become easier.
  
• To counter the abnormally high hold of traders we reduced speed of all trader ships by 1 knot.

Looting bug.
We fixed the bug that did not allow you to loot the ships that was constantly returning the item back to hold or warehouse.

It is still recommended to wait a second to allow goods to load properly into your ship if you play with high ping.

Contracts for ships and ship auction are back!

• Trading vessels base speeds were rebalanced again to make slightly faster than old fully loaded ships. (but not too much faster). This is done because holds no longer affect speed as a result base speeds need to be changed to bring the balance to old numbers.

New loot event
New loot event will run from today (now) until Monday maintenance.

Main event changes

• New items added to special event loot
  
• 2 new blueprints added to academy - TEMPORARILY FOR 7 DAYS
  
• Additional outpost permit, additional dock permit that can be crafted using special loot items
  
• 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 - French and Dutch ships
  
• East of Tumbado - area between Cuba and Tumbado. Spanish and Russian Empire ships
  
• South of Hispaniola. Russian Empire and Sverige ships

In case of capture of certain ports in the area nation of ships will change.
PEACE SERVER (PVE)

• South Antilles - French and Espana ships
  
• West of Tumbado - area between Cuba and Tumbado. Britain and Prussia ships
  
• South of Hispaniola. Britain and Denmark ship

Other changes

• Floating battery now has turning penalty (-10%)
  
• Determined defender is slightly less powerful (bonus crew lowered from 30% to 25%)
  
• Cartagena refit now gives 5% bonus to masts (instead of 3%)
  
• Solo Patrol timer increased from 30 to 45 mins
  
• Tools weight lowered from 100t to 50t

Captains

Trade chat returns to game as trading is an integral part of the game. It will have limited functionality to remove any chance of toxic messaging or trolling.

Patch contents

• Any message posted into trade chat will be forced into localized "Lets trade" message
  
• Trade chat allows item linking (send to chat) - by right clicking on item and choosing send to chat.

We are continuing working on the rare lag in ship holds and once fixed we will deploy the Navy Connection DLC.