Southern Seas Event - Q & A

From the previous post you will now know the details regarding the southern seas event, and how you can use this time to improve things as best you can.

I had a few nagging questions that could only be answered by playing the game and trying it out for myself. So I logged in and spent about 30 minutes sorting through my officers to get them correct.

Here's what I found:


Q. How many times can you reset your sailor's skill points?

A. One time.

The way this operates is that you have a global reset on all sailors on all nations already done once you log in.

Once you have allocated your officer's points they are once again set and you must then pay gold if you want to redo them again.


Q. Are captain points reset?

A. No.

This one was a bit of a bummer as it would have been helpful to reallocate some points on my captains.

The gold cost of changing (resetting) a captain's skill points is not as bad as resetting a single officer.


Q. Are officers able to change their types from gunner to support, or special?

A. No.

Only the officer ability points can be changed, not the type of officer itself.


Q.  Do the ability caps coincide with the ability bars you see for your ship performance?

A. Initially this is a bit of a tough one to tell.

My fleet mates mentioned that should get all 5 gunners to 100 accuracy. It appears that only with full 100 accuracy that each officer's ability bar will fill completely and by extension only will the collective ship performance bar reach the top too ( assuming you have with 200% morale)

While I was looking at only getting to the ability cap (of 480 for accuracy)  which works out 96 acc per sailor, I may have actually done myself some damage in the long run. 20 points in reload isn't going to make even the slightest difference anyway.

Thankfully I listened to my fleet mates.


Q. How does gold payback work?

A. The developers have added the 20% bonus onto the total amount of gold you purchase.

For instance if you choose the 6250 gold option the initial 250 bonus gold is added as normal. Then the 20% event bonus is added on top (1300 gold) giving you a grand total of 7800 gold.

The Southern Seas Event

For this weeks' update the development team have unleashed a wave of content for October under The Southern Seas event. Details include:

• South American players are now able to join the server.
• Sink ship event  - sinking the required number of ships rewards you with credit packs.
• Crystal event -  active players get a chance to earn a navyfield 2 crystal trophy.
• Gold payback event - 20% increase on new gold purchases.
• Sailor skill reset - free officer skill points resets.

The officer reset part of this event is a very important one. Many players have discovered that they would prefer to change their officer points. While this can be done at the cost of gold, the developers realise how helpful this will be to the community, especially with harbour assaults on the horizon.

Many gamers have placed points incorrectly on their officers to find out what works and what doesn't and quite simply refuse to use their gold for a reset if they selected incorrectly.

This is a good move as all players will now be able to fine tune their officer ability points to maximise their ships' effectiveness. Combining this with the ability caps mentioned on the nf2 forum here players can allocate the exact number of points as they wish.

The gold event is also great. If you're looking to spend some money on gold this really sweetens the deal with an extra 20% added on to what you buy.

Patch notes for this week also mention that matchmaking has been adjusted so that only tiers 1-5 and tier 6-12 will be matched together. This will stop the low tier population battling the higher tiers.

Also this is reflected with platoons having the same limitation as well. If a platoon wants to join a match only ships from tier 1-5 or tiers 6-12 can be used together. Ship from different groups won't be allowed to start a match if attempted.

So there we have it, have a great October event, fine tuning your sailors and welcoming all those new south american players.