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Originally Posted by TheHawke
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Thank you - I think when posts are marked as trolling, the thread disappears from the "new posts" list or something. Maybe that's why I didn't see that thread. I honestly didn't suspect this was such a touchy question. But I suppose people who only do expedition fleet battles on busy servers must incorrectly think it is easy everywhere. So I guess I can see how they would start in with flamebait. How sad.
Invasions are generated with enemies proportional to the number of pirates around. Why does an expedition fleet on abassa have only 5 ships? Should be more like 40 Tyrants and 10 Intrepids there, no? Here's a picture of a typical modern navy battle group. But keep in mind that in pirate times they had smaller ships - so they simply launched many more ships as a battle group. (The face that launched a thousand ships...)
(Probably worth mentioning that a carrier battle group is only a small part of a true "fleet" of ships. Then again, the forward aircraft carrier there is that battle group's "flagship." Funny that in POTCO, a flagship is no such thing. And in POTCO, a true flagship is called a SOTL, while ships of the line are called tyrants. And in POTCO roving gangs are called a "crew" yet a ship's crew isn't even recognized as existing as a crew. WTG - let's mess kids up more, with even more backwards terminology! "Expedition Bonus" = amount of gold you lose when you win one with a small group of friends, or solo.)