Wipe and Reset.

• Rank (Experience Level) will NOT be reset this season - you will keep your rank
  
• Naval Services medals and Investment levels will NOT be reset - you will keep your NSMs and investments.
  
• Port ownership, clan warehouses and all clan ownership will be reset (wiped)
  
• Personal belongings and all assets will be reset (wiped) (currencies, ships, upgrades, warehouses outposts and all other assets will be wiped)

Secure Chest.

• New storage will be opened to all Rear Admirals (rank might change next week)
  
• Secure Chest (safe chest) - will allow to transfer 5 stacks of items to a new season with some limitations (certain items cannot be placed to the secure chest - for example combat medals)
  
• Secure Chest will be available to ALL Rear Admirals. Use current XP boosts to gain this level if you wish to send some precious things to the next season.

Secure chest will be enabled next week.


Post will be updated with additional information if needed (based on your comments or if we need to clarify things)

Captains,

Following events will run from daily maintenance on June 23th until the end of the season (expected date is 10th - 17th of July):

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

• 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

• South Antilles - triangle of Aves, La Blanquilla and Saint George ports
  
• Northeast 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.

Experience from sinking a ship is increased so people who want to start the next season in a lineship will have a chance to get a desired rank.

*Spotlight image by Captain Hatan Xayk from the November 2021 screenshot competition.

Captains!

New season will start in July on the Caribbean Server
Key points that we wanted to share as soon as possible (before the main announcement)

• There will only be PARTIAL XP reset. There will be a safe xp level that will be kept for all captains. We are considering a 3rd rate to be this level but will post on this decision later this week.
  
• This week we will start a pre-wipe event with XP bonuses so people who want to start next season in a lineship will have a chance to get to that safe xp level

Captains,

Two loot events will run from daily maintenance on June 16th until daily maintenance on June 19th:

• 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 BotaQ from the July 2021 screenshot competition.

Captains,

Two loot events will run from daily maintenance on June 9th until daily maintenance on June 12th:

• 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

• South Antilles - triangle of Aves, La Blanquilla and Saint George ports
  
• Northeast 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 by Captain Schindlers Liste from the September 2021 screenshot competition.

• 7th and 6th rates lower and mid mast sections have been reduced. Lower and mid mast sections for all other classes remain unchanged.
  
• Mast sections of tutorial ships have been lowered to reduce complexity of demasting and boarding exams
  
• Top masts HP for line ships (4th rates and higher) have been increased

Top section HP across classes: (Chain shot damage = 10% of cannon damage)

• First rates = 3 HP (increased from 1HP)
  
• 2-4th rates = 2 HP(increased from 1HP)
  
• 5th rates - 7th rates = remained at 1 HP

Current after fix Table of Mast Section HP across classes

First rates
Lower section = 55 HP
Mid section = 39 HP
Top Section = 3 HP

Second rates
Lower section = 44 HP
Mid section = 31 HP
Top Section = 2 HP

Third rates
Lower section = 37 HP
Mid section = 26 HP
Top Section = 2 HP

4TH rates
Lower section = 32 HP
Mid section = 22 HP
Top Section = 2 HP

Heavy Frigates (5th)
Lower section = 24 HP
Mid section = 17 HP
Top Section = 1 HP

Frigates (5th)
Lower section = 21 HP
Mid section = 15 HP
Top Section = 1 HP

Corvettes (5th)
Lower section = 14 HP
Mid section = 9 HP
Top Section = 1 HP

Heavy 6th rates (6th)
Lower section = 10 HP
Mid section = 7 HP
Top Section = 1 HP

Rest of the ships
Lower section = 5 HP
Mid section = 3 HP
Top Section = 1 HP

Table of damage of Chain shot
4lb - 0.4
6lb - 0.6
9lb - 0.9
12lb - 1.2
18lb - 1.8
24lb - 2.4
32lb - 3.2
36lb - 3.6
42lb - 4.2

Increasing damage by mods or rare guns will increase damage on chain to masts accordingly.


We will continue tweaking HP of sections to provide more options for tactical disablement of the enemy without making it very easy and toxicly annoying.

Please provide your findings and feedback on the forum

Captains,

Two loot events will run from daily maintenance on June 2nd until daily maintenance on June 5th:

• 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 Koshka from the August 2021 screenshot competition.

Captains.

The following gameplay fixes and improvements will be deployed tomorrow 1st June 2023

• Important: Fixed a bug that reduced damage to structure when it was at a very low level (it was sending damage to non existent masts). Now ships with very small line of structure will lose it normally, and ships will sink and no longer interfere with combat.
  
• Important: NPC ships no longer start with their guns loaded.

Sail and Mast damage

• Lower sections of masts will be harder to destroy on battle sails and in general
  
• Top sections of masts will be easier to destroy even on battle sails
  
• Rigging shocks through sails will require significantly more precise shooting (more hits required)
  
• Rigging shocks through sails can be inflicted even on battle sails (but harder to achieve), to provide more tactical options if your enemy only using battle sails.

Other fixes

• NPC resource deliveries (iron, coal, oak) will increase.
  
• Ship Auction will not show deep water ships in shallow water ports.

Dear Captains

We have recently ran a vote on Safe Zones. The results of the poll were the following:



Total number of votes: 2145 players.

Thank you for the participation in the poll.

Captains,

Two loot events will run from daily maintenance on May 26th until daily maintenance on May 29th:

• 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

• South Antilles - triangle of Aves, La Blanquilla and Saint George ports
  
• Northeast 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 by Captain GoodwinChan from the September 2021 screenshot competition.