TND Announcements

When SS Opens (09/04/2025 @ UTC 23:58:00) – Announcement

When SS opens let’s enter the Atlantis Breach and start from there. As we clear mist if KIA is north, we go south. If they are south, we to north. I want to keep some distance from them. I don’t mind helping them, but I don’t want them relying on us. When you get there have fun and explore. Don’t stress out. First thing we need to pick a Stronghold, then everything goes from there.

Next Steps While We Wait (09/03/2025 @ UTC 01:58:36)

I’ve abandoned Brass Island and Midas Canyon so we can take Baldoor Gorge and Sinister Tides. To ensure you get your last port reward I’ve attached to Baldoor Gate. We at least need to take the gate before SS opens. Good job on the fast movement, I’m constantly impressed by what all of you can do with the small numbers that we have. Don’t forget to work on your PvP and Trading Trophies. Click SS –> Season Rewards –> Personal Renown to see where you are and to claim your rewards as you get them. Try to complete The Trailblazer missions as well. See you this weekend Mates. I’ll have a lot of time to hang out with you all.

Lvl 4 Port Vote (09/02/2025/@ UTC 01:35:00)

The vote was a complete YES. We have 2 more port rewards for the week so we’ll take Brass Island one more time. I’ll lay down the path to the Lvl 4 port, Sinister Tides is the straight shot from the gate so we can start working towers to it.

Saga Mission Divide and Conquer (09/02/2025 @ UTC 00:42:28)

Level 80 Armed Freighters don’t exist yet but they will, so I’m positive that we just have to wait until SS to start to go any further in the Saga.

Lvl 4 Port (09/01/2025 @ UTC 20:21)

We have the time, why not work our way to another Lvl 4 port. We have two that are open to the west Sinister Tides and Pitaya Island. We would have to change our gate to Baldoor Gorge then work our way to our next port. It’s a straight shot through the islands near the gorge. This will be put to a vote.

S3 / SS??

I’ve been asking around and anyone answering me has no idea when the new season starts. I’ve spoken to Starlite from DMG and she said that they have started already. She also said that there’s a lot to do to so get ready. She also said that there was a 3 day countdown to it which I’m not seeing on our sever yet. Could be the middle of the week. I wish I had more answers than this count down to look for. Keep your heads up and keep leveling. It’s coming when it comes.

The Plan to Help MedKit

Our offer to help was greatly appreciated but not needed. They ended up getting control of the area which is why we haven’t moved toward that area. MedKit is grateful and thanks all of you for being willing to help.

Announcements Webpage

Our website translator is better than the game’s translator. To improve communication I’ve made an announcement page where I will put all announcements and gang mail to help all that use a translator. I’m not making it public because I don’t want anyone else to see it but us. That is also why the address is quite long. It’ll be hard to guess. Please bookmark this page and check it whenever there are new announcements and gang mail. I’m actually copying them from here and pasting to the game now so all of them will be here. https://blacksailstrategy.com/homepage/soc/tnd/tnd-announcements/

Awesome Job! (Gang Mail)

Great job mates getting to and taking Brass Island. We also performed really well in the Legends of Conquest. I think we’re doing well and ready for S3. Although we are too small to compete with the big gangs I want to keep this standard as far as small gangs. I’m proud to be going there with all of you! Keep it up!!

Orphaned Towers (Announcements)

All of our towers around Arthur’s Town and Harbor Belle are orphaned because our flag was moved from there to Brass Island. Once the cool down period is over, if I’m not here please move it back to Harbor Belle. This is a good lesson learned. It took me a while to figure it out. The lesson: Areas with tower chains require a flag. The Brass Island area has a flag in Atlantis. The second needs to be in our second area (Harbor Belle). Always put them on the highest port in the area as well.

The Plan Moving Forward

With everything we’ve been through with all the drama and loss of good people I want to keep things simple. I’m learning with you and I do appreciate your patience so far. I can tell already that voting on everything is maybe too much, so I’ve toned that down to important issues. If I’m wrong here, please step up and say something. I feel many of you didn’t believe me when I said that we had mad respect from a lot of the S2 gangs. I will never…never…never lie to you. That is the truth. As I said in one of the Gang Mails, I talk a lot of smack when I’m fighting. My 20 years in the Navy has made a pretty good judge of character. This is how I became friends with Starlite (DMG) and moxy02 (ORV). No, this doesn’t mean I like DMG all of the sudden. I just made a friend that’s in a gang that I don’t like. I will still fight them if needed to, but I know our respect for each other will remain after. I encourage all of you to do the same.

Character judging is a skill that I bring to you and I hope that it will help us avoid BS in the future. I was involved with our beginning relationship with DMG. I saw through them from the start. I said something and tried to remain optimistic. Whether we dealt with them or not wasn’t my decision at the time. Now it is and I want you all to know that I will be avoiding BS, drama, and dead ends as much as possible.

I haven’t heard from the Boss since the 16th. I’m not sure if he’s coming back and at this point I’m going to plan for the worse. We have to move forward without him. I do hope he comes back and if he does. Don’t pressure him, he just wants to play the game so let’s give that to him. He repeatedly told me that he just wanted to be an R3 so he could just play the game.

I’m not going to give you a detailed plan for S3. I spoke to the leader of KIA today and officially separated from them. I made sure he/she understood that we are separating on even terms. We owe them nothing, they owe us nothing. He/she specifically said that they won’t attack us because we did so much for them. <— MAD RESPECT THERE! Do I trust that 100%. That’s a big fat “NO!” I want to avoid drama with KIA until they break their word. Then it’s on!! Here’s our simple plan going into S3:

*** DAILIES, first priority everyday. Do your dailies, get your Azures, and Ghost Ships before anything else.
* KIA will probably enter on the west side of the map. We will enter on the complete opposite side. I want to completely separate from them to see what happens.
* Clear as much mist as possible. Leaders, I need you to dedicate your compasses to this until you can see the whole map. Then treasure hunt after unless it’s needed to complete dailies.
* We need to find at least 1 ally. Another idea is to get to know the smaller gangs and team up with them if they are motivated.
* Take a Stronghold within 3 days and start taking towers and ports toward the center. We need a path north and south so we can have 2 plans. If we can forge a middle path so we have 3 options that would be optimum, but I predict the other gangs are just going to be lazy and go through the middle.

** EXPERIMENT: I’ve noticed that everyone likes straight lines and everything connected on their paths. I want to try an experiment and take a port. Build a tower chain to the next port. Abandon the last port, etc. until we have an island all by itself strategically placed as a launch point that isn’t near the rest of our territory. Let’s see what happens and if this can be useful.

Respectfully,

Your Humble Captain Diablo Cortez

P.S. I’M SO PROUD OF EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU! I’M PROUD TO BE YOUR CAPTAIN!!