SHIP UNDER ATTACK. SHIP UNDER ATTACK. SHIP UNDER ATTACK.

[Horold McGee]

Loving this game so far, other than a few little things - but the biggest drawback by far... SHIP UNDER ATTACK - all the damn time.

One schooner on a trade route, gets attacked by a single frigate once, and it triggers this notification so many times, since they usually get hit a few times.

I see you can turn off military notification and such, but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ the base implementation is so bad in a hilarious way + then turning off 'military' could be kind of detrimental.

Anyone else found this an issue? Any solutions people

[Gregomoto]

There‘s an item called white flag you can equip on you routes, that prevents beeing attacked.
Long term solution: kill all AI and ally with pirates.

[Hundinger]

Originally posted by Gregomoto:

There‘s an item called white flag you can equip on you routes, that prevents beeing attacked.
Long term solution: kill all AI and ally with pirates.

Or just be on good terms with everybody, meaning trade agreements. Alliances only get you into unwanted wars.

[LegendarioLlo]

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[Humble]

Originally posted by Hundinger:

Originally posted by Gregomoto:

There‘s an item called white flag you can equip on you routes, that prevents beeing attacked.
Long term solution: kill all AI and ally with pirates.

Or just be on good terms with everybody, meaning trade agreements. Alliances only get you into unwanted wars.

Yes, what he said, I had no issues with that, Alliances is only benefits for war, not for peace.
Trade is benefits for peace, but not for war.

[Horold McGee]

Originally posted by Gregomoto:

There‘s an item called white flag you can equip on you routes, that prevents beeing attacked.
Long term solution: kill all AI and ally with pirates.

Originally posted by Hundinger:

Originally posted by Gregomoto:

There‘s an item called white flag you can equip on you routes, that prevents beeing attacked.
Long term solution: kill all AI and ally with pirates.

Or just be on good terms with everybody, meaning trade agreements. Alliances only get you into unwanted wars.

Originally posted by Humble:

Originally posted by Hundinger:

Or just be on good terms with everybody, meaning trade agreements. Alliances only get you into unwanted wars.

Yes, what he said, I had no issues with that, Alliances is only benefits for war, not for peace.
Trade is benefits for peace, but not for war.

All good suggestions!

I already have some immunity on ships already. It is quite amusing having to plan in-game goals / adopt a play-style for drawbacks in the game design.

Seems more convenient to just implement a less sensitive notification such as via modding, since the current implementation seems suboptimal.

[XceptOne]

Alternativey when they are located at the edge of the map, pirates can usually be kept in their own little corner, by placing some military shipes into the bottlenecks between islands. The pirates will typically try to avoid them and just turn around, leaving the rest of the map mostly free of pirates.

Plus, negotiating cease fire or peace with pirates is usually much cheaper if you ask for it yourself in the diplomacy screen, as opposed to waiting until they ask for it.

I think you could just deactivate that notification, but that doesn't seem very sensible though.

Also, cherish the days when pirates are still a threat and bold enough to extort money form you. Later on they are usually the ones paying you, including occasional gifts to keep you happy and making sure you won't get any (wrong) ideas.

[Horold McGee]

Originally posted by XceptOne:

Alternativey when they are located at the edge of the map, pirates can usually be kept in their own little corner, by placing some military shipes into the bottlenecks between islands. The pirates will typically try to avoid them and just turn around, leaving the rest of the map mostly free of pirates.

Plus, negotiating cease fire or peace with pirates is usually much cheaper if you ask for it yourself in the diplomacy screen, as opposed to waiting until they ask for it.

I think you could just deactivate that notification, but that doesn't seem very sensible though.

Also, cherish the days when pirates are still a threat and bold enough to extort money form you. Later on they are usually the ones paying you, including occasional gifts to keep you happy and making sure you won't get any (wrong) ideas.

Makes sense, pirates aren't really are the source for me, I'm pretty at war with everyone from the onset.

Sporadic enemy ships going through my trade routes is the biggest issue, I've managed to solve the issue with conquest + disabling the notification, but it's a little annoying losing a trade schooner every so often and having to utilize some minimap awareness at all times.