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[Enki Anunnaki 240]

On 10/27/2020 at 8:53 PM, Bigdog73a said:

I dont know the intent or their actual vision for this game.

However i quickly got hooked and really like playing Atlas. But every time you turn around they make it worse.

Animals were marginalized from must have to useless.

Ships are now headed the same way since you can set up a trade route rather than sail from D3 to k7 to broker a deal for your materials to obtain a well bred animal. Nope stay at home and let the trade route deliver.

No sense going for all the cool achievements and killing bosses. They are doing away with loot drops.

The map is dumb now. North and south are not cold, no the south east corner is.

And we have a saying in florida if you dont like the weather wait 5 minutes.

Well in Atlas its fun to experience cyclones in the rain followed immediately by a heat wave while in the 'tundra' region. 

Or 15 SOD ships are nailing you immediately as you cross a border combined with 8 cycles as you get glitch crashed into an island or iceberg with 0 chance your ship can survive.

Or black of night fog with cyclones and SOD you cant even see until its too late.

Now the weird trade route islands that only a bare minimum of companies had a chance to claim. 

 

Im done Atlas you took a game i was virtually addicted to and drove me away.

first off, i understand your frustration but i honestly think they've got the right idea on their path forward now.

trade routes will only make it easier for small groups to compete, if the devs do it right. by doing it right, im saying making the trade ships be sinkable, lootable and stealable to establish an actual piracy profession and vibrant trade economy in this game. where it would be stupid to do the big trades without an actual armed escort driven by players and crew. ive waited 2 years for this.

Has it not occurred to you that small groups should not be suited to control vast swaths of territory but be better suited for guerrilla warfare and piracy? 

they also need to add an ingame friendly list, not just alliances and enemies. maintaining a irl list of friendly merchant companies will be a pain in the ass. 

Edited October 30, 2020 by Enki Anunnaki

[eeeceee 116]

@ Enki yeah whatever matey, you quit the game so very long ago. You been waiting 2 years has no relevance.

The trade routes would make it easier, but the way that the devs has gone down their path is hardly the right idea.

[Cpt.Yarrr 197]

9 hours ago, Whitehawk said:

I think the thing that upsets most of us about Atlas is the same, and it's not the money. It's the potential this game started out with, that is now being gradually washed away on the tide. 

Spot on.

[Enki Anunnaki 240]

On 10/30/2020 at 6:23 AM, eeeceee said:

@ Enki yeah whatever matey, you quit the game so very long ago. You been waiting 2 years has no relevance.

The trade routes would make it easier, but the way that the devs has gone down their path is hardly the right idea.

its not just easier, its more gameplay loops. piracy and an actual economy is huge. now they just need to make rare items besides just high quality stuff. fancy hats. bring back the top hat and bunny ears. make a golden crown. make loot people want to horde as a sign of wealth and prestige.

and youre right, i have taken a break for a number of months and have no idea where the community and gameplay is at right now. i had grown very salty at the state of the game and the devs inaction... cant forget the big fuck you to the community either... i was emotionally invested and felt betrayed. but still, i do miss the old days playing this. it was a great adventure for a time. but what theyre talking about now. the trade routes, the new trade system. its actually making me want to come back... and after everything, thats a big deal.   

[eeeceee 116]

Yeah man, i miss that top hat haha!

I stopped playing when i got one shot by a barrel on a bred tiger during a big battle, it was just fucking stupid. The barrel takes minutes to make compared to a tiger, or to finding a decent sail bp. Nobody wants to lose their good sail to something that takes minutes to make. The "trade system" hype to me is just ridiculous, but yep maybe in a 3 years or 5 the devs will make a good game.