This is a great game. It lacks the large community needed to fully excel.

I say this, while telling you not to invest into the game. Or time.
The development team will gaslight, lie, and scheme to increase sales.

I started playing the game heavy late July. While the entire community is in ups and preparing for the 'RESET'. The methods to keep powerful clans from owning all the ports. The game does a reset of items.
This excludes your purchased DLC ships.
Since I started playing the reset has continually been pushed back, over and over. While they continue to advertise the DLC ship sales, since they are safe from the reset. The greedy circle continues while the community wait for anything from the development team to turn factual.

This game is just disapointing for what it could of been

a really awesome game and it gets easier as you progress

takes a lot of grinding

Went into battle for the first time and all my shots hit the water while the NPC hit every time. There is no point in playing a game if you have no chance of winning.

The games ok in its current state but could use some serious work, mostly before when your in the port. Purchased items should be sent to your ships hold not you wharehouse, epsecially if you are in a port with no personal one. Theres also no really good explanation to trade or the economy. The current trade tool lacks in a few key information points for trade. There is no way to gauge to value of the goods you are buying without typing in each individual good, making trade a little challenging in that section. Additionally theres no real explanation of how to actually play the game your are more or less tossed into it, The game is good has plenty of room for potential but theres some major underlying issues that could use some serious work, struggling ways to make in game currency etc, the player base what is left of it as long as you stay within our nation, leaving safe zones are more or less a risk unless you are looking for combat otherwise an enemy player is surely to attack you especially if your are in a ship of a lower class or can be seen as an easy victory. The concept of the game is great but there needs to be some serious work done.

Too bad the game is dying.It is the only game that gives you true age of sail experience.

If you read the master and commander or hornblower books, this is a dream come true.

One of the only sailing games with any amount of realism

well for starters ive been looking for a dogs of the seas rip off game for litterally decades. and this one is the closest yet. however. its ♥♥♥♥♥♥ its dogs of the seas economy got ♥♥♥♥♥♥ so this game didnt address the underlying issue and just ♥♥♥♥♥♥ it right out of the gate. i found out tonight that this game is from 2014 thats crazy cause its still ♥♥♥♥ 10 years later. theres about 100 die hard players that would eat a piece of ♥♥♥♥ if you told them it was cheese. dont use global chat you will get banned for making people read. and what the ♥♥♥♥ is with the gangster water lines empire total war had better battle mechanics. I posted a negative review then pulled it downed played for a week then got ♥♥♥♥ on by the community and the admin for mearly making quality of life suggestions. Sorry devs i know you are in ukraine and getting ♥♥♥♥ on in real life but pick better admins or make a better game this one is ♥♥♥♥ and this post i wont be taking down for you. at the end of my gaming time on here i got banned for racism because i was continuously spammed by clan inivtes and i made the comment that do i get a hood and a torch if i join 9 hours later they use that to ban me for asking why new players cant get an iron mine? fair call on the racism im not a racist but i was making a stark contrast on the games mechanics .....games racist?????... but im glad i got kicked now i can put my time into something better then this garbage dump of a game with an uninspiring community. rember if you do something for 9k hours and complain about how its not getting better,.... yea its the game definitly not you.