Captain Jack Shadow 488 Posted January 4, 2019 (edited) You need ORP. We aren't even on the high population official servers. We are on unofficial, but our most recent experience shows how flawed the game design is. Let's not get into how the warped animal system drastically slows down resource gathering. Despite that, we eventually got a Brigantine built for our ten man Company. We set sail, and hit a couple of treasure spots, and sank a level 5 SotD. As we were arriving back at our island, we learned that one of our allies was just attacked, and their sloop sank by a schooner. We engaged the schooner, and damaged it, but we were heavy, and a storm popped up at that moment, allowing them to escape. Was a fun experience. So then as we started to park the ship, the AI attacked a raft that was near where we made our port. It was no match for a 6 gun broadside. The leader whistled the AI to passive, from neutral. We still aren't sure why they attacked the raft while on neutral. Anyway, we apologized to the Company, and would have replaced the raft, but they said it was cool. So, the very next day, as most of the ten were taking a break, 2 of us were online, at our base further inland, doing some gathering. We see a death message. We didn't recognize the name, but it was one of the NPC crew on the ship. We had set them back to neutral to defend the ship. A few were set to do repairs. Anyway, as we are trying to figure out if this was a new recruit we did not know, we see more red flash on the screen. Our ship has been sunk. We go down there, spawning into beds nearby with no armor or weapons, and find the guy responsible...he's on a bear. The issue here isn't that he was on land, or at sea...it's that he was able to sink a Brigantine by himself, somehow. Without people to play 24/7, this game has no adequate ability to defend your stuff. Not that ARK had adequate defenses either. It was a simple easy process to take down an undefended base. This is completely unacceptable. People did not come here to play ARK with Pirates. We don't want to sink ships at anchor, or have our sank in this manner. We want to fight on the high seas. The fight against the schooner was fun. But, unfortunately, this game just doesn't offer enough of that kind of fun. How about adding NPC cargo ships for people to go pirate, so they have something to do besides sink other player's undefended ships. Edited January 4, 2019 by Captain Jack Shadow 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ruuhkis 0 Posted January 4, 2019 33 minutes ago, Captain Jack Shadow said: People did not come here to play ARK with Pirates. We don't want to sink ships at anchor, or have our sank in this manner. We want to fight on the high seas. The fight against the schooner was fun. But, unfortunately, this game just doesn't offer enough of that kind of fun. How about adding NPC cargo ships for people to go pirate, so they have something to do besides sink other player's undefended ships. This, we really need more things to do while sailing in the ocean, this is a pirate game after all. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
