Cool, doesnt sound too bad, will be getting a months patron on Friday as it seems it will help me experience the games features quicker and I am enjoying myself currently so a little money their way is a good trade off.
Are you guys in Melisara West in the same guild or different guilds? would be nice to play with some of you guys at some point. One thing that really does catch my interest is building my own ship, mostly because I am a big fan of the 17-18th century naval era and sailing about PvPing seems like it could be fun and profitable.
Me, Spurdo, Lennu and Tyr (from Mercs) are all in Exile. I'll get you in the guild once you've leveled up, because they're not accepting lowbies anymore after the recent incident where we had an actual spy in our guild
As for subbing: both Spurdo and Lennu have earned enough gold ingame to purchase subscription without actually paying anything - they both made alts and did the main quest then sold the clipper ship design
As for ships: you can get a clipper very easy, this is the small ship (but not rowboat). Getting a warship or a merchant ship is much harder though and is actually a guild effort
As for sailing/pvp profitability: just yesterday we captured some guilds merchant ship that was full of packs, we got about 25 packs, each worth about 7g - so thats 175g just for finding their ship, stopping them and killing them. It can be very profitable with some luck, depends on how many people are doing traderuns and how many other pirates there are around.
Sea warfare is awesome though, last time we had a fight with about 5 galleons on each side. It was both fun and confusing
