Naval Action

• NPC raiders start to attack clan owned ports starting Monday November 14th
  
• NPC raiders will prefer attacking low tax income ports due to low money for defense
  
• NPC raiders will carry doubloons and some will carry supply of wood to rebuild the towns they capture
  

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

Captains

We plan to deploy significant improvements to grapeshot damage this or next week.

• Previously grapeshot (a bag of metal balls ) anti personnel damage was based on flawed theory that caliber of the gun does not matter. We believed that if a small ball or a large ball hit a crew man the result would be the same: 1 casualty.
  
• Unfortunately this made all guns equal in terms of grapeshot damage and it did not take into account the initial velocity, stopping and penetrating power of larger metal ball compared to a small one.
  

• 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.
  

• From the next patch - grapeshot damage will be based on basic gun damage, and will be increased to the level allowing de-crewing the enemy ship in 5-6 broadsides if the side planking or stern planking is destroyed to below 15%
  
• Artificial upper and lower limits on grape damage will be removed. Damage will depend on your skill of hitting right areas of the ship.
  
• With more damage to crew captains will receive another option to destroy enemy ship without relying solely on cannonballs.
  

• Casualty: Crew member unable to perform the duties due to injuries or death, or the need to help injured teammates. Not all casualties are deaths, some casualties can be recovered by use of Rum.
  
• Direct crew damage: Damage to crew located on open decks, or through the gun ports and windows.
  
• Through planking damage: If planking is destroyed below 15% grapeshot can hit crew directly through planking.
  
• Crew locations: Crew is located on deck and around guns. Hitting other areas will not result in crew damage.
  
• Crew density: Killing crew in certain location will result in less and less damage in the same area. Spread the damage around other crew locations.
  
• Length of grapeshot flythrough: The longer the grapeshot bullets fly through the crew - the more casualties you will inflict. That's why hitting the crew through stern and bow results in the longest length of grapeshot flythrough and thus more damage.
  
• Crew shock - destroying significant amount of crew in one shot can result in crew shock (morale shock) which will stop enemy ship from doing some basic functions.
  
• Brace command: Forces your crew to take cover and allows significant reduction to crew damage you receive.
  
• Upgrades to reduce damage: Some modules and wood types reduce damage to your crew, use them for your advantage.
  
• Boarding crew focus: If your crew is preparing for boarding - damage you receive from grapeshot is doubled. This parameter is under review now and might be decreased.
  

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

Captains

Patch have been deployed today 27th October.

• Rank Experience levels have been lowered for faster progress due to short first season (ends end of the year). All levels will adjust retroactively, meaning all battle experience points you have earned - even if you played before this hotfix - will count towards progression levels.
  

• Starting shipbuilding experience levels have been lowered for faster progress.
  

• 5th rate hunt and search and destroy missions are now available in county capitals and national capitals.
  

Captains.

Two hotfixes will be deployed this week.

Tomorrow 25 October

• Structure repair is reduced back to 15% (from 30%). Broadside repairs will remain at 40%.
  
• This will allow the same enjoyable PVE even when outnumbered as NPCs are not really good at raking, but will reduce the length of PVP battles which currently can go on and on until one of the participants runs out of repairs.
  <*> If you are fighting the Player enemy who is actively repairing - focus on the stern rakes.
  

• Ships will gain water slightly faster at low structure (below 15% structure).
  

• Number of low level (7th rate and 6th) rate ships around capitals will be increased to provide new players with more hunting opportunities.
  

Wednesday 26th of October

• Rank experience tiers will be reduced for rank 5 and above (ships above heavy frigates). All experience gained will be calculated and your rank adjusted retroactively. This means that the new system will be used for your old experience gains.
  
• Crafting tiers and crafting levelling will be made faster especially at rank 7, 6 and 5.
  

• More Search and Destroy missions variability in county capitals and regional cities.
  
• NPC Raiders are disabled for Caribbean Main for 2 weeks
  
• Сaptain of the White/Red stats have been slightly tweaked.

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

• Gold Ducat
  
• Gold Rouble
  
• Gold Sultani
  
• Gold Thaler
  
• Strange Gold Bar
  
• Rare wood
  
• Rare guns

• Additional outpost permit
  
• Additional dock permit
  
• Diana permit
  
• Admiraal de Ruyter permit

• South Antilles
  
• East of Tumbado - area between Cuba and Tumbado
  
• South of Hispaniola

Important information on availability of War and Peace servers during launch.

• Access to F2P server (Caribbean) will be open to all paid version users during maintenance on the 19th of October.
  
• Free to play version of Naval Action will be launched on Steam 19th of October at approximately 4-6 PM UTC time/ 9-11 am Seattle (PST) when Valve would manually launch the Free version of the game in the Steam Store.
  
• Unfortunately due some technical specifics of the Steam side and our server tech, War and Peace server will TEMPORARILY be closed for several days. Valve will have to manually support access to old servers for paid users and this will require from several hours to several working days. We apologize for the inconvenience caused. If the temporary shut down will last for more than several hours - compensation will be provided one servers reopen.

New server launch - Caribbean

• Caribbean is a seasonal server which will accept all incoming players starting today.
  
• Caribbean server will have 4 seasons:
  
  
  • Jan-March
    
  • April-June
    
  • July-September
    
  • October-December.
• First season will start on launch of Caribbean server and will end at the end of December 2022.
  
• Caribbean server will have 4 nations:
  
  
  • Britain
    
  • Spain
    
  • France
    
  • Pirates
    
  • Dutch might be added in the next seasons.

Important: Caribbean Server - Seasonal Resets

• Seasons bring renewal. New players will never again face insurmountable walls of skill, overpowered ships and upgrades. Every new player wave will have the chance for a fresh start every season.
  
• Each new season, you and your clan will be able to choose a new tactic and approach to conquer cities. New clans, new alliances, new wars, a new approach to conquering strategic and profitable places.
  
• First season will start on launch of Caribbean server and will end at the end of December 2022.
  
• The following content will reset on season end:
  
  
  • XP and Crafting XP and Skill Books - will be reset in the first season
    
  • All assets - will be reset in the first season
    
  • All player investments in crafting - will be reset in the first season but compensated at the beginning of the new season
    
  • Naval Service Medals - all accumulated naval service medals will be sent to the player money wallet account in Season 2.
• At season 2 start all players on the Caribbean will start at lvl 0 and will have earned NSM in store

New patch has also been deployed

• Caribbean Server Port ownership leaderboard points will only come from 2 regions
  
  
  • Hispaniola
    
  • Bahamas
    
  • Combat for these regions will create a more defined compact active war. At the same time, small clans or groups of players who do not want to take part in a fierce war for prestige and service medals will be able to capture regions and cities all over the map for crafting and taxation.
• Ship crafting changes
  
• All ships will require permits to craft.
  
  
  • Permits can be gained from open world and mission NPCs and rarely from ship disassembly.
    
  • Permits will have an increased chance of drop from special events when they happen.
• Upgrades can no longer be placed into the upgrade chest at Sea.
  
• Leaks and structural leaks have been rebalanced.
  
• Crew on pumps and crew during leaks numbers have been changed. Crew on survival will not grow so drastically when the ship has taken a lot of water.
  
• NPC stats and rank changes.
  
  
  • Experimental ranks added.
    
  • Captain/Admiral of the Red - uses damage and reload mods, weak hull strength
    
  • Captain/Admiral of the White - uses hull and structure strength mods, weak damage output
• Cost of the port battle flag has been reduced to 100 combat medals
  
• Port battle flags are removed from loot. Flags can only be purchased from now on.
  
• Ship hull repairs have been increased to 40%
  
• St Kitts pump bonus lowered to 80%
  
• Grape damage increased by 25%
  
• Ship structure hitpoints have been slightly increased
  
• Costs of warehousing, outposts, additional docks, warehouse space and tow permits have been changed.
  
• Port defense no longer grants points for the Port Battle Leaderboards - to fix arranged defense exploit
  
• PVP Leaderboard (accessible from map) bugs fixed.