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Understanding The New Update

By Wither_King

A Basic Guide to Understanding the horrid state of the game after the new update.

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Category: Achievements, Characters, Classes, Co-op, Crafting, Game Modes, Gameplay Basics, Loot, Maps or Levels, Modding or Configuration, Multiplayer, Secrets, Story or Lore, Trading, Walkthroughs, Weapons, Workshop

Languages: English

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12 Nov @ 3:48pm

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Guide Index

Overview

Guide Contents

Not Even Free anymore

Purchasing Ammunition

Crafting

Reviews

*Notes*

Comments

Guide Contents

This is just a simple guide I put together to display, break down, and simplify all the negative information of the new update. I did some basic calculations and found some reviews best explaining whats wrong with the update.

Not Even Free anymore

This "game" was free to play when this guide was first made, however, now you need to pay $20 to play ammunition management simulator.

Purchasing Ammunition

Average Cost of supplying ships

For these calculations I did cargo missions for one hour and earned 28,524 reals. Round up to 29,000 for easier calculations.

Column #1 is the ship used in the calculation
Column #2 is the amount of cannons the ship can carry
Column #3 is the Cost of 100 volleys for the ship
Column #4 is how many hours of cargo missions it will take to afford to stock your ship with enough ammo to fire 100 volleys

Ship

Amount of Cannons

Volley Cost

Hours of Cargo Missions

Cerberus

40, 8pd

196,000

7 hours

Trincomalee

50, 18pd

495,000

17 hours

Implacable

90, 28pd

1,341,000

46 hours

Santa Ana

110, 32pd

1,850,000

64 hours

Santisma Trinidad

138, 32pd

2,322,200

80 hours

Crafting

Crafting was added in the new update, one of the major perks of crafting is the ability to craft powder and shot which is cheaper than purchasing it from a port.
However, in order to unlock the powder crafting recipe you have to spend hours leveling up your crafting level to gain access to the powder recipe. Once you unlock the recipe you have to go and collect the necessary resources to craft your powder and shot, which again takes alot of time most people dont have. In the end crafting is just another mundane time filler mechanic with no real purpose except to waste the players time with more mindless grinding.

Reviews

The following reviews explain the negatives of the new update in more detail
*None of these reviews are mine and all credit goes to the authors*

Review #1

Credits to "DreadNuminex" for this review

Review #2

Credits to "SimonCB" for this review

Review #3

Credits to "WerkWerk" for this review

*Notes*

Notes on Ammo Calculations:
I know that these calculations are slightly inaccurate but they are a close estimate to the exact costs.
I also know that I could craft ammo or join a large clan, however these calculations are intended for solo players.

The original post for the ammunition cost calculations:
https://steamproxy.com/app/311310/discussions/22/601901836224441681/

Links to the Reviews:

DreadNuminex's Review:
https://steamproxy.com/profiles/76561198381243692/recommended/311310/
SimonCB's Review:
https://steamproxy.com/profiles/76561198007265887/recommended/311310/
WerkWerk's Review:
https://steamproxy.com/profiles/76561197999168800/recommended/311310/

8 Comments

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Wither_King [author] 12 Nov @ 3:50pm

Thanks @Exumed for the update (and reminding me to update the guide on the p2p update)

Exumed 12 Nov @ 3:49am

Understanding the new update 6 months later:
The game is still unplayable. The dev has neither the skills or the first clue how to manage the game he bought the rights to. It's apparent no improvements will be made simply because the "developer" (read: license owner) either does not have the ability / experience to develop a game, or does not have the tools to do so... or both.
Naval Action is dead. It's time to jump ship if you haven't already. Pun intended.

Quarren King of Q 24 May @ 3:47am

thanks for this, you know a game has issues when advice and guides reference needing a large clan/group

Alvio Lampis 30 Apr @ 8:25pm

Yah... you may craft your own ammo...
There are only 2 things that you can do in this new "game":
-> 1 buy ammo;
-> 2 craft ammo.
That's all...

tiberius 26 Apr @ 4:39am

Many thanks for an accurate description of this boring abomination.

jumare 24 Apr @ 3:41am

Actualy this isn¨t a game, this is a hard work.

Wither_King [author] 22 Apr @ 9:24pm

@Reiver67 yes crafting is cheaper, however just to start crafting you have to rank up your crafting level. That alone takes hours to achieve, and once you do, you have to go and find all the ingredients and craft your ammo, so it may be cheaper yes but it still takes an equal amount of mundane sailing through the Caribbean.

Reiver67 22 Apr @ 3:59am

If you craft your own gunpowder it costs 1.44 reals per unit and similarly a cannonball costs 2.20 per ball.

A 9lb cannon requires 6 gunpowder + 1 ball per shot at cost of 10.84, times by 4000 (your hundred volleys) your cost is 43,360. You will use nothing like that to kill a 5th rate but you will loot about a 1000 dubs, which can be sold for 32k.

Similarly with your Trinc figure 5000 shots would cost 68,600.

If you use 1000 rounds to kill a 5th rate (and thats generous) you will be well ahead money wise.

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