Power & Prestige fails to address the games core issues

NortonGB

Power & Prestige expansion is port governors which was meant to be in at release with a ship tuning re-vamp plus some more missions.

To save me making another long post about what it should have been I will quote a couple of posts from the FLS official forum that sum up the complete game:

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Originally Posted by Ulrick Dayne I think When i'm in the red I fight the same people over and over most dont PvP. That being said the #s here are probably higher simply because many PvE players left becuse of losing over and over and forced PvP a long time ago. PnP will have no more or less success than POTBS has had. It simply has not done anything to address why people leave. Its not like new ship stats sre going to make the brits win a map or there fair share of battles. or that new ship stats will get 24v24 Pbs. If anyone believes that they have no clue. the biggest issue POTBS has is time investment. you just dont log in jump on your boat and fight. ressurect and do it again. you have to buy a boat get fitted sail somewhere where u can be blown up in 10 secsonds. or you get into your 4th unfair fight. 2-1 or worse. Everyone wants a fair fight uintil they r the ones that have 2 and the other guy is alone then ganking is ok. I dont think anyone will ever complain about losing a boat in a fair fight where it was 6v6 or 1v1 but to lose a boat in a 2v1 or worse people quit. it no fun to want to fight a fair fight and go to a PB and be outnumbered 24-15 and the other side thinks its funny sinking you. Its no fun to log on and see your port flipped for a 1 pm day battle and only you and 10 others are on. there are MILLIONS of game players in the world and Nats cant feild more than 7 or 10 players sometimes for a PB. Millions of game players in the world and we can't attact enough people with this game to get 24 out of 6 billion people on the planet? 24 from accross the USA? there is something rotten at the core of this game. and NOTHING in PnP addresses that. I wouldnt be surprised if PnP brings in no subscribers at all. the game has not changed at all at its core levels.

QFT /agree Originally Posted by JackBlackP54



The reasons why people don't play PotBS are not things like stats of ships/skills etc.

There are some big problems in the core of the game like:



-unfair fights, ganking, splitting groups



-forced PvP on PvE-players, forced PvE on PvP-players



-repetitive PvE missions, the same old locations again and again, nothing new to explore,

there are two other age-of-sail mmo's which have the whole world as map!!



-AvCombat, ping issues, internet-lag



-ShipCombat/AvCombat is too complicated for some of the younger/casual players



-overall not enough PvP, not enough exciting PvE content

also some of the epic content is only for groups (tortuga, forte..., bey's...)

this is bad for the more solo-minded/casual players



-no society warehouses, not enough society tools



-lack of longterm goals



-lack of rare cool items/sets/clothes,

it's the "diablo 2 effect" collect/sell/buy/change rare items/stuff



-economy, to talk more about this would end in a verrrrrry long discuss



-people don't use skirmish or group search function cause it's in hidden menus



-RvR problems, unbalanced PB's 24 vs 10,

overall too time intensive to stick to RvR for casual players



and more...



Don't get me wrong, i really like to play PotBS.

But the majority of players which have already left us couldn't ignore these problems.