Little & Not So Little Things

[Fynneous 8]

Little & not so little requests for pve improvements in no particular order.  (Edited to include additional posts in thread by myself & others).

1. Auto Closing Doors.  Seriously.

2.  Revisit Vitamins.  Everyone hates them. So now there's a do-stuff-til-you-die mini-game going on.  We all do it.  At a minimum, the timers for berries and greens need to as long as the ones for meat, and all the feed-your-face timers need to be longer.  Alternatively, please consider focusing negative deficiency effects to things like stamina, along the lines of old age effects.  No players should be dieing from scurvy in just a few game days.

3.  Please consider adding a real "Transfer ALL" to the HUD (inventory + hot bar + equpped), in addition to the current one that just transfers inventory. A double arrow icon above the current one works.

4.  Consider reducing Sea claim sizes around islands, or altogether.  The current situation is just ridiculous.

5.  More balance on decay rates (e.g. earthworms decay b4 they can be used 4 taming)

6. Change "Join Now" to "Delete Your Character and Reroll"  or some such

7.  Consider reclassifying eggs as protein.

8. Shipyards:  a) while building allow unlimited moving around pieces like sails and wheels until the ship is launched.   b) allow launched ships to snap back into the shipyard / drydock for repairs & such along with c) an option to repair "all" from the shipyard.

9. Ships:  Add a "gangplank", like the rope ladder, that can be extended to land or bldg's to help with loading, unloading.   A 2 tile extension to a shipyard would do it.  walking-the-plank, and keel-hauling animations at your discretion.

10. Dye's - Consider adding "dye color" to the description of any dyed item.

11. Add tooltip to improved recipes so we can tooltip over the recipe to see exactly what the particular missing ingredients are.

12.  Please add an option to increase the tooltip and chat text size.  2x the current size at a minimum

13.  Please consider adding "auto-repair" task option to ship crew

14.  Add 'Transfer All" to ship resource box

15.  Add "Edit Pet Name" to pet options  Thanks for the info Firzt!

16.  Please adjust/normalize sound effects for food trough and mess table containers - currently way too loud vs. other effects

17.  Breeding - show the sex of the pet in the dialogue box asking us to name them.  

18.  Either increase animal food stacks, decay time, preserving times, or all of the above.  Unless it's the intent to force players to stay awake for 40+ hours at breeding pets, a stack needs to last though the 8 hours between imprinting.  

19. We sorely need a respec recipe, potion, food, or quest location. (thanks for adding that to the patch)

20.  Tarot/Voodoo idea - A short "fill my sails" effect for a little scoot when the wind's just not working for ya.

21. Especially at sea, add an option for a confirmation dialogue box before demolishing items.  The current nested wheels with options that rotate between layers is a recipe for disaster.  

22. Add auto on off for lanterns when day and night cycles, AND change repairing lantern to refilling with oil.

23.  Please bring back the compost box.  Poop/fertilizer detail needs to be shared amongst the entire company.

24. Fix strawberries - they are not harvestable again

25.  Increase heat effect range of grills and campfires to at least a radius of one full tile.

26.  Consider replacing preserving salt with raw salt for making salted meats.  Currentlly, raw meat cannot be preserved in a preserving bag because it eats up the preserving salt.

27.  Add option to see Company members on map.

28.  For the love of Peet, change the color of player location crosshair on the map to something  other than the red claim flag color.  Players are getting nose prints on their monitors.

29.  Back to the Ship function dialogue wheel.  Please pull Ship Properties to the top layer.  Move Demolish to bottom layer (with a confirm)

30.  Stone Water Reservoir - Increase storage capacity to 2x large plot boxes, or 1200 units.  Right now they drain before the plot box ever needs it.

31.  Fix old Ark engine plot box bug where they stop functioning and need to be replaced for no apparent reason.

32.  Not Little at all - Fix losing pets when loading to ship asap.  In many cases they are loading under ship on the sea floor, and then die.

33.  Add more bed styles - captains bed and hammocks for starters.

34.  Improve Fishing. Add more fish types and turn-ins at Freeports for prize fish.  Add treasure maps to fishing loot pool.

35. Add a mounting bolt to ship decks to literally tie pets down to ship decks.

36. - Make ladders always allow you to climb them by hitting "E"! And keep always "Hold E" for all other actions like demolish, extend, retract etc.

37. - Fix "Forest" color dye. It doesn't work (and never was).

38.  Fix "Demolition allowed" to Lighthouses in Lawless. Right now it's "Decay time 02:00:00:00" and "demolition allowed" at the same time.

39. - Add a "players in region" somewhere so any1 could see - who is on your gird, what company he belongs to and where is he right now (island/open seas?)

40. - Add "group gathering" feature so any1 could "join the party" and head to groups adventures like golden age, kraken, high SotD's hunting, treasure etc.

41. - REMOVE RAINS from Tundra/Polar. At least when temperature is below zero. Right now you can see -27'C and RAIN? What kind of rain is that?

42. - Peaceful fluffy snowfall and heavy snowstorms in Tundra/Polar would be nice tho...

43- I wish to see st. Elmo's fire before thunderstorms and rainbow after a rain. Falling stars would be nice too.

44.- What if you find all discoveries in a grid and then you get info about all resources you can find there?

45. - Add stern, nose and open deck gunport and limit guns placement to just gunports : )

46. Would be nice, if from the captain's wheel you had a speed indicator and depth indicator. Maybe even an onscreen compass across the top.

 47. Add a button to a storage, that UNITE all same stuff to a stack. 

48. some civil human beings NPCs at least on some islands would be really nice (not sure how to do that tho... maybe some travelers with random camps or... even small villages).

49.  Would be nice, if from the captain's wheel you had a speed indicator and depth indicator. (and % opening sails).

50.  Add some kind of collision detection to player ship do not collide with SotD when entering a new server.

51.  Allow players to pick up and move swivel cannons, like a water barrel. 

52.   Consider allowing players to use swivel cannons from their hot bar directly (with some kind of movement penalty?)

Edited February 28, 2019 by Fynneous
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[Fynneous 8]

More small things, again in no particular order:

12.  Please add an option to increase the tooltip and chat text size.  2x the current size at a minimum

13.  Please consider adding "auto-repair" task option to ship crew

14.  Add 'Transfer All" to ship resource box

15.  Add "Edit Pet Name" to pet options  Thanks for the info Firzt!

16.  Please adjust/normalize sound effects for food trough and mess table containers - currently way too loud vs. other effects

17.  Breeding - show the sex of the pet in the dialogue box asking us to name them.  

18.  Either increase animal food stacks, decay time, preserving times, or all of the above.  Unless it's the intent to force players to stay awake for 40+ hours at breeding pets, a stack needs to last though the 8 hours between imprinting.  

19. We sorely need a respec recipe, potion, food, or quest location.

20.  Tarot/Voodoo idea - A short "fill my sails" effect for a little scoot when the wind's just not working for ya.

21. Especially at sea, add an option for a confirmation dialogue box before demolishing items.  The current nested wheels with options that rotate between layers is a recipe for disaster.   

22. Add auto on off for lanterns when day and night cycles

Edited February 12, 2019 by Fynneous
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[Notorious 67]

22. Add auto on off for lanterns when day and night cycles.

[DocHolliday 366]

20 minutes ago, Fynneous said:

21. Especially at sea, add an option for a confirmation dialogue box before demolishing items.  The current nested wheels with options that rotate between layers is a recipe for disaster.   

 

 

I have not done this yet, but came close several times.  Confirmation windows for anything that is irreversible is a industry best practice in games and OS/software in general.  We are human after all. 

Edited February 8, 2019 by DocHolliday

[Firzt 0]

15 is already in, under options in the E-menu

[Fynneous 8]

22 minutes ago, Notorious said:

22. Add auto on off for lanterns when day and night cycles.

Good one. Also, our Company would really rather, "refill lantern with oil" , than repair the thing because it's run out of fuel.

23.  Please bring back the compost box.  Poop/fertilizer detail needs to be shared amongst the entire company.

[Fynneous 8]

24. Fix strawberries - they are not harvestable again

[boomervoncannon 1,541]

59 minutes ago, Fynneous said:

Good one. Also, our Company would really rather, "refill lantern with oil" , than repair the thing because it's run out of fuel.

23.  Please bring back the compost box.  Poop/fertilizer detail needs to be shared amongst the entire company.

Pro tip: you can pin code lanterns to levers to make the levers a light switch. By doing this you can place light switches near doors or wherever that can turn on or off any number of lanterns at once.

[war machine 28]

18.  Either increase animal food stacks, decay time, preserving times, or all of the above.  Unless it's the intent to force players to stay awake for 40+ hours at breeding pets, a stack needs to last though the 8 hours between imprinting.  

 

2 HOURS FOR MEAT TO EXPIRE IS STUPID,  we need at least 6 to 8 so we can sleep

[Fynneous 8]

4 hours ago, war machine said:

18.  Either increase animal food stacks, decay time, preserving times, or all of the above.  Unless it's the intent to force players to stay awake for 40+ hours at breeding pets, a stack needs to last though the 8 hours between imprinting.  

 

2 HOURS FOR MEAT TO EXPIRE IS STUPID,  we need at least 6 to 8 so we can sleep

Adjusting the Feeding Trough to reduce decay  by 4x whatever it's doing now would be helpful just for keeping the pets fed too.

[Fynneous 8]

25.  Increase heat effect range of grills and campfires to at least a radius of one full tile.

26.  Consider replacing preserving salt with raw salt for making salted meats.  Currentlly, raw meat cannot be preserved in a preserving bag because it eats up the preserving salt.

[Fynneous 8]

27.  Add option to see Company members on map.

28.  For the love of Peet, change the color of player location crosshair on the map something  other than the red claim flag color.  Players are getting nose prints on their monitors.

[Booglee 10]

bumping for QoL improvements

 

[Fynneous 8]

32.  Not Little at all - Fix losing pets when loading to ship asap.  In many cases they are loading under ship on the sea floor, and then die.

33.  Add more bed styles - captains bed and hammocks for starters.

34.  Improve Fishing. Add more fish types and turn-ins at Freeports for prize fish.  Add treasure maps to fishing loot pool.

35. Add a mounting bolt to ship decks to literally tie pets down to ship decks.

Edited February 26, 2019 by Fynneous

[awakatanka 73]

 

On 1/31/2019 at 8:50 PM, Fynneous said:

 

21. Especially at sea, add an option for a confirmation dialogue box before demolishing items.  The current nested wheels with options that rotate between layers is a recipe for disaster.  

 

 

 

 

Hate that wheel options change if you stand on another place. It is not consistent and there for you make quickly  mistakes. Make the options consistent always on the same place.

[George Catcher 367]

- Make ladders always allow you to climb them by hitting "E"! And keep always "Hold E" for all other actions like demolish, extend, retract etc.

- Fix "Forest" color dye. It doesn't work (and never was).

- Fix "Demolition allowed" to Lighthouses in Lawless. Right now it's "Decay time 02:00:00:00" and "demolition allowed" at the same time.

- Add a "players in region" somewhere so any1 could see - who is on your gird, what company he belongs to and where is he right now (island/open seas?)

- Add "group gathering" feature so any1 could "join the party" and head to groups adventures like golden age, kraken, high SotD's hunting, treasure etc.

- REMOVE RAINS from Tundra/Polar. At least when temperature is below zero. Right now you can see -27'C and RAIN? What kind of rain is that?

- Peaceful fluffy snowfall and heavy snowstorms in Tundra/Polar would be nice tho...

- I wish to see st. Elmo's fire before thunderstorms and rainbow after a rain. Falling stars would be nice too.

- What if you find all discoveries in a grid and then you get info about all resources you can find there?

...a-a-a-a-a-and... (some1 will probably hate me for that).

- Add stern, nose and open deck gunport and limit guns placement to just gunports : )

[IIMKISnake 0]

Would be nice, if from the captain's wheel you had a speed indicator and depth indicator. Maybe even an onscreen compass across the top.

 

Edited February 26, 2019 by IIMKISnake

[George Catcher 367]

- Add a button to a storage, that UNITE all same stuff to a stack. 

(for example, your crew eats meat from Mess Table and they take 1 piece of meat from each stack you have there. After a while you get like 10 stacks of meat with 3 pieces each stack. One button to unite all them to just one stack would be great). 

- Oh and... some civil human beings NPCs at least on some islands would be really nice (not sure how to do that tho... maybe some travelers with random camps or... even small villages).

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Would be nice, if from the captain's wheel you had a speed indicator and depth indicator.

...and % of opening sails...

Edited February 27, 2019 by George Catcher

[Fynneous 8]

On 2/26/2019 at 12:18 PM, George Catcher said:

- Make ladders always allow you to climb them by hitting "E"! And keep always "Hold E" for all other actions like demolish, extend, retract etc.

- Fix "Forest" color dye. It doesn't work (and never was).

- Fix "Demolition allowed" to Lighthouses in Lawless. Right now it's "Decay time 02:00:00:00" and "demolition allowed" at the same time.

- Add a "players in region" somewhere so any1 could see - who is on your gird, what company he belongs to and where is he right now (island/open seas?)

- Add "group gathering" feature so any1 could "join the party" and head to groups adventures like golden age, kraken, high SotD's hunting, treasure etc.

- REMOVE RAINS from Tundra/Polar. At least when temperature is below zero. Right now you can see -27'C and RAIN? What kind of rain is that?

- Peaceful fluffy snowfall and heavy snowstorms in Tundra/Polar would be nice tho...

- I wish to see st. Elmo's fire before thunderstorms and rainbow after a rain. Falling stars would be nice too.

- What if you find all discoveries in a grid and then you get info about all resources you can find there?

...a-a-a-a-a-and... (some1 will probably hate me for that).

- Add stern, nose and open deck gunport and limit guns placement to just gunports : )

Good Stuff - Thanks! Adding to the OP.

[Fynneous 8]

On 2/26/2019 at 1:08 PM, IIMKISnake said:

Would be nice, if from the captain's wheel you had a speed indicator and depth indicator. Maybe even an onscreen compass across the top.

 

How about a buff like the sextant buff? 

Or an assignable task like part of the crew function from the Lt's Deck?  Assigned crew could even call out when water is so shallow that ship will take damage....provided the crew member is stationed for that purpose.   

[Fynneous 8]

53.  After the mother of all patches, tie building structure decay rate to number of connected pieces.  And/or start stand-alone pillars and foundations with a 15 minute decay rate.

[Fynneous 8]

54.  Add submarine blueprint to the loot table for dragons, hydras, cyclops and elementals at a minimum, or consider other alternate for regular players to attain the unlock vs. the 1% that will ever defeat the kraken.

[Fynneous 8]

55.  PLEASE fix the old ARK bug of pets sinking into foundations, or even below ground.  They are frequently unrecoverable even after destroying foundations.

56. There's a breeding bug whenthe baby/juvenile/teenager pets progresses to the next size up  where the now larger sized youngster bugs into & gets stuck into the surrounding geometry, which is sometimes unrecoverable.  Please consider adding some kind collision avvoidance check to the breeding progression process.  Might also solve #54 above.

[KarmaComa 15]

On 2/26/2019 at 9:08 PM, IIMKISnake said:

Would be nice, if from the captain's wheel you had a speed indicator and depth indicator. Maybe even an onscreen compass across the top.

 

I was expecting to see something like this further along the ships map skilltree but nothing so far, I hope we get something along them lines in the future.

[Fynneous 8]

57.  More on CREW ASSIGNMENTS. - Please ADD multiple station type options (sail, wheel, weapon, etc), even all the station options on the top layer of the selection wheel when assigning crew duties.  

Edited March 4, 2019 by Fynneous