Puny Humans. They never learn.

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Man Hades, I'm right there with you on the 'we told you so'. Our guild was constantly being drowned (pun intended) out by what we liked to call their 'kool-aid kids' on PvP concepts and content. FLS constantly retorted that they were making the game 'they wanted to play' and I at one point said, "you may end up being the only ones who will want to play."

I guess we were wrong, eh Rusty? /golfclap

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Patch Changes Incoming:

The rest of the big PvP balance changes are coming in the 1.3 patch, which should see release in four to six weeks time -- according to the dev team's release schedule given in the Q&A. A goal the team has for the PvP players in this next patch is to allow them to do less PvE missions in order to afford losing ships at sea in PvP combat. It will also introduce dueling, which is the first step towards a full skirmish system coming in the 1.5 patch. Skirmishing will let players have full on fleet-sized (guild vs guild) battles with far more ships than is currently allowed. Exciting stuff, considering the massive amounts of cannons that are going to be flying through the sky.
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This statement was from an article yesterday. I remember LAST June (07) discussing these very same things that made the game boring and too penalizing to encourage PVP. Instead they listened to a bunch of vapor guilds who spam forums all day and who barely had a real guild structure in the beta test who said the game was lovely like it was.

How many developers have to crash and burn because they don't listen to their community? You can't patch in PVP love 8 months after release because by then your PVP community will have told you to "F Off", will have left your game, and won't ever return.

PotBS was supposed to be fun PVE, and Fun PVP with world/port control and awesome fleet battles. Too bad they rolled an epic fail on listening to their PVP beta testers.