Current state of Play

[Garfi 11]

I originally bought Atlas about 1 year 3 months ago as a bit of a time filler whilst I waited for Mount and Blade 2 and the next Total War. Here I am 1813 hours later. I never wanted to be involved in the PvP and I don't have the luxury or temperament to be a part of a Corp. I get called out to work without notice frequently and can't be relied upon to be on when I may be needed. And I can be a grumpy old git at times.

I have at times been helped and have helped quite a few friendly players out there and have enjoyed that. However, in all the time I have been playing atlas on the official servers. I have never seen more than two or at the very most three other players at the same time. This is not a game where you will engage with other players. it is basically a solo game with a few other players probably in different time zones. I realise if you engage in Discord etc. there may be ways of arranging more interaction, but I really cant be arsed with the immaturity endemic on that platform and I don't think a good game should rely on external websites to push its experience, it smacks of corporate failure if they cant maintain and update there own flagship website how can they build a successful business.  

I have played this game like I play all others. With the intention to experience and achieve as much as I can of the game. This includes completing all available quests. I have a range of all ships (apart from the Ramming abortion) and three markets with warehouses and a minimum of three farms for each market. I have in each base sufficient resources to build at least 3 Galleons. Despite this I feel that because I can not and do not wish to join a Corp I have been excluded from a large part of the game experience. It would be nice if the Developers took note and included some sort of global communications in the game instead of being stuck talking to just your current zone.

At the moment the zones my main base resides is completely unplayable. All actions  have to be repeated five or six times as you get lagged back to where you were up to 1 minute before. Indeed today I have visited six zones and five lawless zones which are similarly affected. The current state of play with the game is unfortunately completely unplayable.

I have formed the opinion the Development team do not have a clue how to progress the game and keep making random changes, at whim without consideration of the game play balance or the stability of the games environment. I cannot be sure of the actual stats but as a player I feel like the player base has dramatically reduced over the last two to three weeks to the point where seven or eight zones which previously would have had a healthy three or four or more players, now are empty. I get the feeling the players are showing the development team there opinion on their games direction.

I suspect that this is wholly intentional tactic from the development team and expect that when the servers are restarted, for the start the new season, in a couple weeks time, there wont be a PvE server.  When the community complains they will respond 'but there was to few players on the PvE servers to justify the expense'. 

I originally bought this game as I liked the idea of the pirate life but have slowly realised there is absolutely no piratical gameplay elements. It is a very simple survival/Minecraft clone with a couple of ships thrown in without thought of what to do with them.

Please correct me if you feel I am wrong about this but; There is no boarding of ships you cant really go out carousing and the combat dynamics are simply laughable.

Since when do pirates buy their ships. Can you imagine Blackbeard:

'Guys can you give me a hand I need to carry 2.5 tonnes of my hard won gold doubloons to the shopkeeper to upgrade to a new 'Queens Annes Revenge'. Oh just so you know its a fuc*ing  penteconter, a single deck ramming galley with cannons bolted on, ----   no far less than the current Galley! -------- Ok, guys don't take the piss I know it was out of date when the Romans held the Mediterranean but its all these Cun*s can think of'.    

Can you imagine his response when he is told he has to slay the entire worlds population of rhinos as well. I imagine his crew would exercise their democratic right and demote him to cooks boy. 

I think in the interest of honesty the name should be changed to 'MineCrap the Zoo merchant' because you will spend far more time building, Taming or in your market begging for others to create trade routes than you will on the open sea.   

[Ranger1k 183]

@Garfi and devs..

      Someone said it before me, don't remember who, but the quote was "How many times can you rearrange the furniture before you realize ya need a new house?"

I've stated also, MULTIPLE TIMES, that i have the solution that would turn this game into a GOAT (Greatest of all time). Millions if not billions in profits. Haven't gotten a single DM or Email.

Sorry, ain't giving it away for free.

Oh well.

Edited December 29, 2020 by Ranger1k