Dongwoo
07-09-2013

maybe you have active quest.. you can't defect while having an active quest you know

Nina
07-10-2013

I'm dutch and i check each capital last week. I can't defect to anyone meaning Dutch is currently the lowest nation.

Lewis
07-10-2013

I posted earlier. In dutch too and tried all capitals yesterday. No options to defect. I tho maybe because i was distrust so i discharged myself to normal with all. I tried venice earlier this morning with no options... I may have a quest open like soneone suggested but doubt it. I will update when i get home from work and see if im holding a queat or not.

Rashid
07-10-2013

How to find the current European power ranks in game??

Sophia
07-10-2013

not sure if its changed since then, but as of a week ago venice was second lowest, as dutch was the only country i could defect to

Mei Hua
07-10-2013

Yea, im dutch, holding no quests, and normal with venice and cant defect. Dutch must be the lowest nation...

Kubrius
08-16-2013

Speed seems to be a factor. My aide only has lookout skill of 73, and I tend to have a higher success rate when I'm going very slowly.

Holfina
08-16-2013

No, speed is not a factor. Your success rate is fixed, however you could get many success in a roll, followed by quite a few consequtive failures.

It's just like production's greater sucess. Sometimes i make 8 master cannons in a roll, followed by 10 normal cannons, overall rate is still a constant...

Jafar
08-16-2013

The higher lookout traits your aide has the more effecient this will be.

Chester
11-04-2013

Can you correspond with multiple nations simultaneously to raise your ratings with them, or can you only reach amity-trust-etc. with one nation at a time?

Sylvia
11-05-2013

as u can get distrust-on alert- enmity- warring with many nations at a time it is the same with amity- trust- etc

Igor
12-23-2013

Can someone tell me the current EU rankings? Other than Venice>Dutch? Anything would be great :)

BigBlockin
12-23-2013

You need to add up and the citys on the map held by each country to determine their strength. It can change at any time with player investment.

Holfina
12-23-2013

Hmm, alright, I was under the impression it was more complex though. Thanks for correcting me :)

Lena
12-23-2013

there is more to it than that, but it is an indicator

Squeeze
12-23-2013

I just did some defecting. The current order is England-Spain-France-Portu-Venice-Dutch.

Hernan
12-23-2013

Thanks Squeeze!

BigBlockin
12-24-2013

"there is more to it than that, but it is an indicator" please enlighten us.

Carla
12-24-2013

sure, no problem. simply counting ports under control of nations doesn't give an accurate order of stronger to weaker. KOEI does not think players need to know exactly how it is determined (game of discovery and all that).

It will give you a rough idea, but it will not show you the exact order.

At one time France had control of more ports than any other country, and it wasn't even close. At no time was France the strongest country in the game according to defection order.

That's about as much info as I or anyone can give on it.

To know the order, you have to get all 6 starter nations to run together and see who can defect and who can't. the strongest nation will be able to defect to all the others, 2nd strongest all but one, etc. That's the only reliable way to work it out that I know of.

Lancelot
12-24-2013

So you can't do the defect investment thing right the first time and i'm supposed to believe you know what you're talking about.... oookay. Would you care to explain how England is the strongest nation right now when it has almost no allied ports? And hasn't for some time? Add them up right now and I promise you it will not be the same as the defection order.

I don't care if you believe what I say or not, but somebody is going to listen to what you say and screw up their defection order.

Sylvia
12-30-2013

Recently went otto...but can't seem to enter capitals even though I'm not warring with em. What gives?

Theo
12-30-2013

Did you have to pay 500k to enter or can't enter period?

Sylvia
12-31-2013

I'm Enmity, and it's only the capitals. Yeah, have to pay to enter...

Sylvia
01-01-2014

Is nobody going to answer at all?!

Sylvia
01-01-2014

Do you still have noto?

Meng Meng
01-02-2014

Yes...but I've been pirate before and it hasn't mattered for entering ports!

Kubrius
03-27-2014

Get aide to 100 lookout, make sure aide and you are both in the correspondence circle (and in the middle of the shaded area, not near the edge where lag might play a factor). It is much easier to get right if you slow your speed to the speed of the ship you are trying to correspond with. If you do it this way, you will succeed 100% of the time.

Kubrius
03-28-2014

Well, it could have been a lag spike I suppose, but it failed once in 50+ tries, so maybe not 100%

Gouda
03-28-2015

I have noticed I have more success when I choose to Correspond with the lead ship, and the closer I get to that ship when corresponding, the higher the success rate. and it seems like by a MUCH larger margin, my lookout trait is only 73, but since I have been getting VERY close to the Admiral has gone up to almost 90%

Kevin
05-15-2024

For those wondering, below is the different levels of friendship to go through before you can defect:
Amnity->GoodWill->Trust->Closely Tied->Sworn Allies->Affection