Test Release Notes - February 26, 2010

[Batleth]

Release Notes - February 26, 2010

• Decreased shooting distance of Expedition Fleet ship cannons by 42%
• Players are now notified when all Expedition Fleets are launching
• Expedition Fleet ships now load separately to improve performance
• All Expedition Fleet ships drop the maximum amount of cargo they can hold

Known Issue - February 26, 2010

• Zooming the camera in and out while at sea may take longer than normal

[MacIronhawk]

Nice fixes.

It's good to see they're actually getting better at keeping things on test longer to make sure they work.

[Captain Whale]

Aye MacIronhawk,

I was sad to see them lower the cannon range on the fleet though. One of the things that made it so challenging was that their cannons outranged us. Granted they would not shoot at you until you fired but you had to get inside thier fire arc to hit them. I would guess there will be about 3x the pirate ships attacking on Live than what they are facing now.

They are doing a good job of testing it I agree. They have fixed some of the things I have reported early on already so that is good.

Captain Whale

[Big Bad Wolf]

Its good that they have decreased the range that the fleet could hit, but, many pirates still sunk in the first 5 minutes even with a good crew, so it was never made any less challenging.

The bad thing about getting sunk so many times tho, is you lose the cargo and you lose rep when u go to jail. Unlike invasion, there is no total bonus reputation given for defeating the fleet. You can be defeated many times and end up in jail during invasion and still get a pretty 2000 reputation, but not for this fleet invasion

[Raikel]

looks like we're using percentages now. Can make them look more sophisticated, but in the same instance, dumb as well.

[Sven Osymthe]

They're doing great with the updates, hopefully this means something big is in the near future.

The bad thing about getting sunk so many times tho, is you lose the cargo and you lose rep when u go to jail. Unlike invasion, there is no total bonus reputation given for defeating the fleet. You can be defeated many times and end up in jail during invasion and still get a pretty 2000 reputation, but not for this fleet invasion

Losing the treasure is bothersome (if you aren't maxed), but the rep is good the way it is. Invasions give large amounts of rep because they are totaling enemies defeated, barricades remaining, etc. Fleets are just certain level ships heading from one place to another, unlike invasions which have no set level.