Captains,

Two loot events will run from daily maintenance on July 22th until daily maintenance on July 25th:

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

• 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 Rake News from the April screenshot competition.

Captains,

Diana and St. Kitts events are live from daily maintenance on Friday, July 15th until daily maintenance on Monday, July 18th.

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

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 Cuzn from the April screenshot competition.

• Combat Repairs perk cost lowered to 3 points
  
• Rigging Shock threshold increased by 20%
  
• Fixed issues with structure damaged through bow at high angles
  
• Increased yard power bonus on battle sails
  
• Accuracy of heavy calibers slightly increased for long guns and variants (navy, bloms)
  
• Reduced explosion damage on masts
  
• Frigate HP and crew number for some vessels changed (most ships increased, le requin slightly decreased)
  
• Fixed several minor bugs with combat repairs perk

Captains,

Two loot events will run from daily maintenance on July 8th until daily maintenance on July 11th:

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

• 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

Also, today we have deployed a hotfix - New Perks, Explosions fixes and other technical improvements.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/311310/view/3352383533753124567

*Spotlight image from Captain secritdokuments from the April screenshot competition.

• Perk Bloodthirsty - Reduces cooldown of crew recovery if you get a confirmed kill
  
• Perk Combat Repairs - Reduces cooldowns of hull/sail repairs if you get a confirmed kill

IMPORTANT. Perk currently works ONLY on the vessel you used to enter combat - if you switch ships in battle you wont be able to use the perk on other ships.

• Explosion damage has been lowered.
  
• Important: due to new mast HP you will still lose masts if you are in the explosion radius, please make precautions. It will be fixed next week.
  
• Rigging shock threshold has been tuned to a better state

Captains
Hotfix has been applied today 7 July 2022

• Rewards for PVE (combat) missions increased
  
• Variety of missions in ports greatly increased
  
• Loot from NPC ships (open world and mission npc) has been increased so you can fit your ships easier
  
• Rigging shock requirements increased by 80%
  
• OW NPC ships will prefer to sail alone or in small groups
  
• Elite bot damage bonuses reduced
  
• Hunt and search missions requirements slightly reduced
  
• OW and Mission bots will rarely sail rare wood ships
  
• Patrol NPC will have smaller fleets for easier patrols in PVE
  
• Penetrating leaks water intake (after previous 125% nerf from 6.5 to 3) have been slightly increased to 3.5

Example

• 4lb - Splinter damage 4 points
  
• 42lb - Splinter damage 42 points

Please report your views on the updated splinter damage difference in discord or here in comments on steam community forums.

2 new perks added

• bloodthirsty - if you sink the enemy (get confirmed kill) cooldown of your crew repairs will reduce by 20 mins
  
• combat repairs - if you sink the enemy (get confirmed kill) cooldown of your sail/hull repairs will reduce by 10 mins

Perks are currently disabled and will be enabled on Friday 8th July (after final testing)


Explosion damage and speeds are still under review

Penetrated holes leakage (water) was causing going down under (water) too fast.
Example: https://streamable.com/tehpq8

Technical update will be installed on the servers, reducing leakage from structural leaks
Leakage reduced by 50%.

As this relates to server based logic servers wont be stopped. Some instances might be unavailable for 1-2 hours.


ps.
If you are sailing fast (above 50% speed) and see red leaks or if you are a low structure follow the following procedure.

• Depower staysails - press T
  
• Switch off boarding and gunnery crew focus
  
• Turn yards to create negative wind power to stop faster (you take less water at zero speed).
  
• If you cant get negative wind set them to neutral (parallel to wind) this will remove heel as well.
  
• Only after that switch off the Sailing crew focus.

• Use large calibers - aim below waterline if enemy is heeling.

Captains,

Two loot events will run from daily maintenance on July 1st until daily maintenance on July 4th:

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

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.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/311310/view/3352382812566264435

*Spotlight image from Captain DimitriosK from the April screenshot competition.

Captains

Small patch has been deployed with several fixes

Fixes and tuning

• 1. Ships at low structure start taking water faster and take more water at speed. On average if you are below 3 bars of structure left it is advisable to slow down otherwise your ship will sink from incoming water (taken in due to structural damage).
  
• 2. Stopping ship reduces incoming water by 25% (instead of -50% previously)
  
• 3. Long gun penetrations have been adjusted to remove an unnecessary gameplay convention; (gameplay convention in question: increasing penetration with distance)

Great video on making money when just starting by Naval Gaming



*Spotlight image from Captain Lukas97Austria from the April screenshot competition.