Trading begins based on a number of useful items or commodities. In the over-game, players travel to friendly or neutral ports, opening up each as they arrive for the first time. The player starts in a friendly port, according to whichever country they have chosen to represent.

In Naval Action, each player is given a ship: A square topsail schooner, to be precise. Its success is embedded in its central appeal: It sends us back to a time of romance. This Early Access game has proven to be a hit, with concurrent peaks player numbers of 2,000-to-3,000 and sales so far of more than 70,000 copies. ItвЂ™s historical.'Д«eing historical is important to Game Labs and to players of Naval Action. There are lots of obscure rules that help a developer say, вЂThis was in the fighting instructions and so thatвЂ™s why we can ban you for it'. 'We ban people if they commit that kind of offense several times.

'Profanity was forbidden in the British Navy,' explains publisher Game Labs' co-founder Maxim Zasov. Obviously, it's not possible to monitor personal hygiene or drunkenness, but it is possible to keep an eye on bad language and outright rudeness. Players who enter the sailing ship combat world must abide by rules of common courtesy, or face censure. In an attempt to create realism and to foster a sense of decency on its servers, the makers of MMO N aval Action have appropriated this Article, at least insofar as is reasonable. One such Article decreed that court martial be levied against 'all persons belonging to his MajestyвЂ™s ships, being guilty of profane oaths, cursings, execrations, drunkenness, uncleanness or other scandalous action.'

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