Make Light Sloops more targetable in pvp...

[Robmac7777]

I single out the lite sloops now and attack em aggressively because they have high lvl players on them. Use basic cannon shot, or grape shot. Get in close and turn/circle with them. Don't use any other shot as it is not as effective. Also, at a distance from them while steering, locate where they are on your compass, when they are barely visible in red - fire while circling around them, keeping the same distance. They can be had, the slippery little so-and-so's, I love getting em now!
Jack Aubrey all ships "Sea Mongrel"

[Dr. Zeppers]

Originally Posted by Robmac7777

I single out the lite sloops now and attack em aggressively because they have high lvl players on them. Use basic cannon shot, or grape shot. Get in close and turn/circle with them. Don't use any other shot as it is not as effective. Also, at a distance from them while steering, locate where they are on your compass, when they are barely visible in red - fire while circling around them, keeping the same distance. They can be had, the slippery little so-and-so's, I love getting em now!
Jack Aubrey all ships "Sea Mongrel"

Thats the ticket, study your opponent, and figure out how to beat them. I like that! Makes for a challenge, and success is ever so much more gratifying.

Looking forward to upcoming fixes and new content being put on open once they get it fixed up.

[Poison elf]

I haven't been out there for a good while, but light sloop will whip anyone one on one, well until the can't hit anything people won out over those that knew how. War frigate, of course, you would be using a full crew or why would you have that ship out there?

Other words a person solo with a war frigate is running around acting cool that they have the biggest most expensive ship? I was happy to sell some of mine and adjust to a small sloop, basically didn't have a choice. Since getting on any ship with a crew was such lag or game crash, with all the glitches.

Now that they took more than half the damage away from cannon, made the small sloop practically as big as a war frigate for those that can't hit anything, likely I won't be back out there. Only real battles I was getting were crewed ships, who a lot of the time still lost sitting on top of you missing. Or chasing down other little sloops, which for some reason I never had trouble hitting and sinking.

Glitches such as healing definitely paid its toll, and most I found I would target until they did the usual race and dock at some island. Now and then a few were pretty unstoppable, and few from your side Spanish/French would ever help, made them more powerful. If I ever put a second character on the little sloop to make it even to some of the big crews rarely we would walk away loosing. Most can't hit a stationary target no hope with a moving one.

All the war frigates I sunk, I would say 90% had no more than one person firing cannon, how many are on it? More realistically lets say how many are on one side, that could be utilized against a opponent at once.

We took out a war frigate with a full crew for like 24 hours, never had problems sinking anything that really came up against us, even several at a time.

To compare damage with something like lightning bolt, you also need to know the important stats. Did they have 4 points in barrage, did you try it with/without open fire. Key stats like this is what matters, and basically brings it back to who knows what they are doing, versus who is whining everything should be easy for them and they shouldn't have to work at stats to be better. Its also after you do damage it does the big points, so a lot of the time several shots with little broadsides would soften the ship up before using cannon.

I sure know if a small sloop is what was giving me the most trouble, it would be the very first thing I would go out on and see whats going on. War frigates always so conveniently lined up sideways so you could do most damage. Only time ya saw one turn at ya "where ya did less damage" is cause they were trying to ram you. Use to laugh all the time everyone always keeping the ship to the side. Obviously I don't need to say where best damage is to the little sloops with all the practice and checking into it people obviously have done?

I use to see 1800 damage all the time, on a light sloop from getting rammed. Alot of the time with that one single hit taking you down to being hit once with a cannon. The biggest problems I have seen is this whining by people that won't go out there and see what works. You are in a war frigate you better learn to use ramming, and jump to a cannon. No differant than a light sloop seeing someone is about to ram and get out of the way in time. Its broadsides work just fine, and one of the best things in the game. Forcing some people to not have a free ride and actually have to learn another skill.

Wish sometimes I could just take out a nice paper war frigate and see if some people could actually hit it with a cannon.