Two loot events will run from daily maintenance on December 23th until daily maintenance on December 26th.
St. Kitts Event
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
Diana Event
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
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 Holdfaust from the February screenshot competition.
Where is my shipment? and Martinique loot events, December 16th -19th
Captains,
Two loot events are live from daily maintenance on December 16th until daily maintenance on December 19th:
Where is my shipment?
All traders carry increased numbers of crafting resources and rare woods.
Martinique Event
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 Revard (January screenshot competition)
St. Kitts and Diana events, December 9th - 12th
Captains,
Two loot events will run from daily maintenance on December 9th until daily maintenance on December 12th.
St. Kitts Event
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
Diana Event
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
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 Johnny from the January screenshot competition.
Martinique loot event, December 2nd - 5th
Captains,
Martinique loot event will run from daily maintenance on December 2nd until daily maintenance on December 5th.
Martinique Event
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 Gustav156 from the January screenshot competition.
Small update, November 30th
Captains,
A small update was deployed today, November 30th:
Hunt and Search and Destroy missions:
Missions now grant higher stars for seasons
Higher level Hunt Missions now grant wood chests
Higher level Search and Destroy missions now grant rare wood chests
Progression no longer takes into account pvp kills (including fleet NPC ships) to remove exploits
Players need to sink NPC ships from Open World only to complete such missions
Difficulty level, rewards and required kills were tuned
Rare shipbuilding woods thickness stats were slightly increased
Rare guns damage was slightly increased
Important: Information on current Grape Shot patch
Captains
Grape shot has been buffed and improved to bring more variability to battles.
Previously There was no reason to switch to grapeshot during battle unless you wanted to board. If you wanted to destroy the enemy combat power you had to shot cannon balls. Compared to 10-15 grapeshot broadsides to de-crew the enemy through side it took around 5-6 broadsides to destroy structure. As a result grapeshot was used during boarding or before boarding with only intent - to capture.
New grapeshot usage.
Grapeshot damage now depends on cannon damage. Heavier calibers destroy more crew.
Grapeshot works best if planking HP has been reduced to below 15-20% as before
Grapeshot also work if you shoot into areas where crew is located on open decks or shoot through unprotected areas (windows or stern galleries)
One proper broadside into locations of crew will send the enemy ship into crew shock
Crew shock will stop ALL activities on the enemy vessel for 1 minute and lock the rudder due to inability of the crew to operate the ship
This will allow you to remove the determined defender advantage and board the enemy if you shocked the enemy crew in the right moment
Crew cannot be destroyed completely - you kill less and less people per broadside once you get below 40% crew, Thus unlike rigging shock - crew shock can only be applied ONCE until you repair.
Example of usage If you see one of the enemies close to you with low planking HP but high structure it might be beneficial to switch to grape shot, send enemy to crew shock and board his ship. This will get you an intact ship if you win the boarding. if you have press gang and combat repairs it will also recover some of the crew and will reset your repairs. This could work particularly well if you enemies are not well organized and have weak focus fire.
Such high risk high reward play was not possible before at all. Grape shot was weak. Not anymore.
ps. Don't forget that if you are already sinking but have boarded the enemy the game gives you the "last chance" which will automatically place you in command of enemy ship if you win the boarding.
We will actively monitor the changes to grape and your feedback and will tweak it further if needed. Next week we will buff rewards for hunts and S&D missions for PVE and will roll some additional buffs to rare guns.
Diana event, November 25th - 28th
Captains,
Diana event will run from daily maintenance on November 25th until daily maintenance on November 28th.
Diana Event
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
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.
Other changes
Damage from grape shot and crew shock were tuned
Crew shock duration was increased. In addition to current limitations (repairing and sail control) it is no longer possible to fire a broadside, change crew focus, extinguish a fire, control the helm and activate brace during crew shock
Brace mechanics changed: players can no longer control sails, but helm control and pump work added instead.
Splinter damage to crew from round shot was lowered
Ship explosion now cause damage to nearby friendly ships too (exception: friendly NPC ships)
Server name was added on the character selection and character deletion screens
*Spotlight image from Captain Junan from the January screenshot competition.
Where is my shipment? Event. November 18th - November 21st
Captains,
Where is my shipment? Event will run from daily maintenance on November 18th until daily maintenance on November 21st:
Where is my shipment?
All traders carry increased numbers of crafting resources and rare woods.
Spotlight image from Captain Junan
Diana event, November 11th - 14th
Captains,
Diana event will run from daily maintenance on November 11th until daily maintenance on November 14th.
Diana Event
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
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 banymark from the December screenshot competition.
Hotfix - November 10th
Captains, following changes were deployed today, November 10th:
Fixed a bug that prevented NPC ships from properly using yards in close range engagement.
Fixed a bug that prevented players from capturing certain ports on the Caribbean server.
NPC Raiders now carry more doubloons on board.
Craft experience on certain ships was adjusted.
Improvements on localization (boarding).
Fixed a bug that prevented diversity of nations of NPC ships in patrol zones on the Caribbean server.
P.S.: Grape shot damage tunes will be deployed within 3-4 working days
