WIP Naval Action - Open world multiplayer RPG

[con20or]

i'm a bit late coming to this discussion - but only looked up PvE today as fired up Naval Action for the first time in years. PvE sounds very similar to single player to me? That sounds great

Edit - by 'that sounds great' i meant 'why aren't we all playing it?'

Is it because PvE isn;t like singleplayer or because its missing the on shore pirate duel element?

The ship battles are beautiful - trading decent - they've even added fishing and crafting.

 

[Dat Scharger]

Because PvE is basically PvP without PvP.

And thus executed poorly with less content.

-Poland, Russia and Prussia don't have ports and thus can't use the Admirality (Making the combat marks useless, apart from selling them).
-No port battles, even not against the AI.
-Can't fight cooperatively with foreign nations, including friending them. Playing as the three aforementioned nations means you are playing an Always-online-SP-game with very lacking content.
-No endgame. I'm basically just collecting ships now.

It's obvious that the PvE-server was quickly set up to appease the PvE-crowd, without giving it much afterthought. We can only hope that it will be properly adjusted later in development.

Yet the game seems to do something right, as I have already sunk over 90 hours in it and have built up a worthy fleet, with a Victory and L'Ocean as my top-guns. It probably helps that you don't have to grind for weeks or months to even set foot on a 2nd rate, like in Pirates of the Burning Sea. In fact, even 1st rates are very easy to come by due to generous payouts. I bought myself a Bellona way before I could sail it in the first place.

 

[con20or]

Im amazed its still in alpha - i bought in years ago and theres been far buggier games released - what are they up to i wonder

 

[Dat Scharger]

It's in alpha since five years with barely any progress (No wonder with only 2 developers), I'm afraid that they will end development due to running out of money or finally giving up as they just can't keep the workload up anymore.

 

[con20or]

When you say 'fleet' do you mean a collection of ships and you can take one out at a time - or is there an element of fleet battles? Like you can give the ai ships orders? Or is it just a free-for-all

 

[con20or]

ive answered my own question - looking online it seems you could control some AI ships using commands on the map screen - but also it seems they have removed the fleet battles for the PvE games - people not happy about that. Anyway - i can honestly say it is the most beautiful age of sail gamne ive ever played - some of the battles almost look realistic - especially as the sun is setting, with cannon smoke drifting over the water.