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Maybe you should start deciding on what land to free up and focus on keeping the more important areas if you have less players in the company now.

So everything went fine, for a long time, after a patch some time ago, i keep getting this error.... Im now totally unable to join the game for this 2x weekend. I've spend nearly 300 hours in this game, the past 50 hours has been freaking hell with things like my body flying (my crewmembers could see that) i got kicked out and upon log in, i was in the water in the middle of Zone L14 and lost all my gear. I was standing on Brosfile Island, this does not make any sense at all. On top of that, i've been running between 20-40 ping and the spikes im getting after some hours gaming, hits like 240+ ping untill i finally getting kicked. I rejoin and can play for a bit again. This is getting to the point of quitting. Its a shame, a lot of good people and we have some good things going, but this is really idiotic and the error is NOT in my end! Everything else run flawless, and my rig can handle what ever you can throw at it, this is my account or the game itself and it's really annoying and im at my wits ends here and no idea what to do. /Cap'n Anno

This line: "A large number of you have expressed that you are unable to make enough progress to reach this stage of the game, due to our hardcore design" In what reality do you people exist to think you have a hardcore design. It's an insult to the word design. Like you people realize that people have played games here since the 1970's right, some, through the 80's, 90's and almost 20 years through the 00's. You are talking to people who were playing Mario Bros in 1984 and in that timeline there exists this thing you released....and you think players struggle because you have a design that is "hardcore". The arrogance and complete delusion of reality of your situation, and the disconnect between you and your playerbase is astonishing. I really do think that if you plan to make a career out of creating video games, that you guys take a huge step back and re-examine how you are viewed as game developers and why. Because that statement is delusional. Like how did you manage to place blame on the players in a statement to said players for your own failures. Not ours.

Many people seem to have confused Solo Play with Isolationist Play. Solo Players want to: 1. Plant their own flag. 2. Build their own base of operations. 3. Build their own ships. 4. Sail their own ships. 5. negotiate their own contracts. 6. Make their own trades. 7. Fight their own fights. They are not looking to avoid interaction with others. They just want to do it on their own and share those accomplishments with their friends. An Isolationist player doesn't want to interact with another player in any way and is content to play single player.

That is for small number of claims only, it is 3days inactivity if large number of claims. How does a small time player with one claim troll you? Either they go inactive or they are checking in to see how the game is patching out.

I'm very glad they added a system to make life harder for people who have 10 claims per person or more. Exactly what it's supposed to counter.

Erm... GOD DAMN IT PEOPLE! 50 fing flags is not "a couple" It's a fuck-ton! And you still complain about 4 days timer?

Hey my dude. i read and bumped your other thread concerning the state of the game and it was well written. The inclusion of the videos of blatant hackers/ exploiters was also a good inclusion. I hope the stuff that was laid out in the most recent captains log works to help get a lot of the player base back as well as adding a lot of new players. They did point out that they realise they can’t just cater to mega companies or streamer companies (by extension) and realise smaller and medium companies make up part of the player base too. Which is good imo. I don’t know if the devs are trying to piss people off essentially. I just think they were focussing too much on the hardcore PVP aspect of the game. The player base for atlas and ark I don’t believe are specifically the CSGO, PUBG and Rust types. Which is good sometimes. In ark you can generally talk to other players (in my personal experience which may vary from server to server basis) rather than just being required to KOS lest you be KOSed first. I came to atlas (from playing mostly Rust on australian servers) with that in mind and the intention to change my play style. This seemed to suit atlas for a while until the stone update went live. Then offlining by a number of wannabe MLG (I’m assuming former ARK mega tribes became rampant and chased off a number of smaller and medium groups. That made discourse with a lot of the player base ( and therefore some game mechanics that I believe should be crucial to this game ) like trading and neutral claims with smaller groups living on them together to help defend etc disappear. Id really like to see the devs bring in a system that rewards large companies by turning them into what you’d essentially call a “government” with smaller groups ( civilian population) living on their land to reward those “governments”. I then hope the bigger groups will be rewarded for only fighting other bigger groups rather than smaller groups. I think the latest captains log may be addressing something like what I described above, which will hopefully bring smaller companies back to the game on a fair playing field. Keep up the good fight buddy. And thanks for the insight. It’s a shame to see such a cool game die due to such small mistakes on the part of the devs. I hope they can fix it.

Have you created an accordian but don't have the ability to play it? Check out my Autohotkey song macro tool: http://delayatlas.com/songmaker All you have to do is install Autohotkey, create your song, copy the text to a text editor and save the text with the .ahk extension like "mysong.ahk". Double click the file and press F12 or whatever toggle key you chose, and your character will start playing the song! The toggle key will pause/unpause the script. For example, this is the Lazytown You Are a Pirate song: r--r--gdsa--rrrrdrgiii--rrrrdrgdsa--a--g-hg-r---

We saw the patch coming while leading a counter attack on an enemy and pulled our whole fleet as far away from the enemy island as possible...We then try to patch and it jumps from 10 minutes to 3 hours, to 10 hours, to 20 hours, to 10 minutes and back.. not to mention UNPACKING OVER AND OVER AGAIN... YET... Somehow.. people got in nearly instantly... What the fuck?! (OH ya, I have 300 MB/s internet... Like that did anything) Seriously - At least hold the servers from going up until people download the fucking thing... So brutal.. One fucking enemy ship sunk all of our ships - ALL OF THEM - While not a single one of us could get back in. Super dope ATLAS dev team, super dope.

This is intended for Grapeshot. You may of course reply and troll but it will fall on deaf ears as I am speaking to Grapeshot. I really loved this game and many of the interesting aspects of the game but now I have done pretty much all that I have set out to do and there isn't much end game content to do in this game in its current state. This means that the only aspect left for me is the ship and ship mechanics however I cannot even get ONE F'ing ship to stay alive once I go offline as someone or SOTD will always sink it. Why in the hell haven't you implemented an "invulnerability" feature for our anchored and offline ships? Do you guys actually play your own game outside of the dev tools to experience how it is for your user's? The game is pointless if I cannot have one last overnight as it takes too long to farm as a solo player beyond a schooner. Allowing players (griefers) to sink anchored and offline ships is NOT PVP it is merely a troll tactic. There is NO PVP in offline raiding so why is it allowed? Do you want actual players or just a lot of trolls and griefers playing your game? If this is how you intend for your game to operate then I am forced to quit and return back to ARK but I am hoping that you have future plans to consider "offline raid protection" for anchored and offline ships?

This morning only 3 people of the company Chen B attacked us with three dragons. The problem, that the developers should attend, is that they put the heads of the dragons inside the structures (crossing the stone walls) and with the flames destroyed the chests, box, animals, ... from inside base and and it seems that the dragon steals the objects directly from our dead bodies. And how can we kill a dragon, the ballista is useless against her?, the speed of her projectile is too slow Apart from this, a player of the company Chen B, we believe that he used cheats because he always found the players, even if they hide themselves and killed them with a headshot being in movement or behind walls. Photos: https://imgur.com/a/cVGfkqP

I only get a white page when i either click top five on main page or the link Dynamic Atlas Map. Tried different browsers, same result though. Anyone else has the same problem?

First the things that arnt fun. Falling on another persons raft or boat makes me have to punch suicide to get off of it. Trying to tame an Elephant for 3 weeks and still can't feed the damn thing. Still can't find any land, camped out on lawless. Toxic players. (git gud l2p) Spending hours at sea traveling. Waiting over a a full minute for my items on my hot bar to re-equip, 30 seconds to reload 2 pistols etc. Being Bola'd and rooted in pvp. Joining a company and they don't let you destroy your own buildings, leave company. Shooting Crocodile with cannon, Crocodile laughs, kills you through hull of the ship. Junk loot, worthless crafting patterns etc. Giant stone gates everywhere. Spending hours for days building a ship only to have it sunk due to a bug. (schooner flipped and exploded) Everything related to aging and FoY. Broken skills. (all the bow skills are broken for me) no plus damage etc. PVE = no war. PVP = too much war My pvp experience: Build RS Sloop. travel across 13 zones looking for place to set up, looking for company etc. get blown up by brig with 14 large cannons. Spawn in freeport try again, rinse repeat 5x. I'm level 38 on PvP. In all that time only one group wanted to let me join their co. nobody had a place for me to build, every player I met tried to kill me or destroy my ship. Completely wiped out and started from scratch 5 times at least, a few times I managed to set up a shipyard and build a better boat but that didn't help at all really. My pve experiance: Me asking myself, whats the point of this? I could go on and on but wont bother, just needed to vent. K bye

Hey Guys, i lost 2 nice Brigs, 2 Schooner and other small ships with this new Patch. I think you guys have to do a rollback immediately. i dont play this game until you done with a rollback. or a statement, i used these ships everyday! thanks

JatheishToday at 5:13 PM Looking into the connection reports on our Official Network, stay tuned guys. Will hopefully have an update for you shortly.

Not saying it wasn't expected. However since there's no high sec or just a secure station to run into and take a break it's getting old and people are getting tired.

Flying endlessly is something a player in a PVP game that's based on a time 200 years ago shouldn't be able to. That's simply overpowered, since you can fly from one corner of the whole map to the other one. This way you could move lots of material over theoretically infinite distances, making ships obsolete in the end. I mean, why use ships when you can do transport and scouting without them? In a ship game there should not be stuff that makes ships unemployed. This game is for people who want to steer sail ships, and the glider is just a tiny side aspect of the game. Saying you leave now because they nerfed the gliders is like saying you leave because they patched out the body bag exploit (that made transport tames obsolete). I agree to that one guy who said like If you love flying, play a game about planes.

You are pretty much right on the nose with most of this. A hybrid server would cure alot of these issues.

I'm having the same issue right now. I can't get in or even find a server nothing comes up for me.

@Jozzie McTowel Thanks for posting that article about why games fail. I read it and felt like it provided useful insights. I decided to do my own scoring of how I think Atlas is doing against these points. I am between work apts and limited on time atm, but here is I scored it: I felt like point 8 I can’t evaluate because I have not yet done anything I’d regard as late stage content. Of the remaining 15... 6 points I think it passes or does well on. (3,4,6,13,14 &16) point 3 I feel like it passes but almost tries to fail on. 3 points I feel like Atlas is currently such a mixed bag on its hard to say one way or the other (1,7 & 15) 6 points it fails on imo. Points 2 & 9 I feel it fails on, but is at least heading in the right direction. Point 5 is an epic fail. I think this list certainly leaves room for debate and discussion, but is certainly a useful tool for evaluating Atlas to date. Thanks again for contributing it to the discussion.

It's still early and there's a 6 gigabyte patch people have to download (lol) but this is shaping up to be the worst weekend for Atlas yet in terms of player loss. I wonder what Grapeshot tells themselves when they compare this disaster to Ark's successful first two months. "We're just too hardcore for our loser players"? Then they tinker with accordion buffs and make underwater structures invincible.

I play on EU PvE in Lawless L6 on Onocastle (the north island) and enjoy building more than sailing. Built a large harbor with docks for quite a few traders at once (had 5 at once one afternoon). 2 pics of harbor and trading market with large easy to read signs. https://imgur.com/a/YTg8P1l People find the place randomly but if the devs had some sort of box that allowed for trades and this site would list the locations of these trading box and their contents then more people would sail around and pull in to restock on cannon balls, cannons, planks, sails, ammo and anything else for sale. These guys could do more of what they like and less of what they don't like (smashing rocks). I know a lot of people enjoy sailing and ship combat and do not enjoy harvesting/crafting the mats to do it but there are people that like that. This would spur a ton of travel and it would not have everyone flooding and lagging freeport, it would be all over the map and at every island (as it should be). Anyhow I hope the devs move trading higher up the list. Market building is expanding to make it fit in with the rest of the harbor. Ziplines to and from base to docks for faster travel. This game can be a lot of fun even for people that build. Cheers

Then at current rate, eventually you'll see they were right, but odds are you too will quit before then.

Beyond that a mechanic that allows allies to work on the same ships. Either a governance option to allow to mount and fire cannons,use repair hammer on allied ships. It would allow a lot of the smaller companies to man a ship for more joint fun.

Current copy paste of the stats 11,977 playing an hour ago 21,748 24-hour peak 58,788 all-time peak Now don't try to tell me unofficial isn't counted cuz this just counts whoever has the Atlas app running in their Steam client, and as far as I know Atlas is only available on Steam and u need to run it through Steam to connect to an unnoficial server as well. Here is the Steam stats from their in Steam stats page, it gives them a couple thousand extra players but still it's a horrible statistic. Top games by current player count CURRENT PLAYERS PEAK TODAY GAME 905,373 905,373 Dota 2 798,066 810,424 PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 626,017 628,750 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 124,649 124,735 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege 82,888 83,083 Grand Theft Auto V 74,613 74,613 Warframe 64,191 64,191 Football Manager 2019 62,597 62,597 MONSTER HUNTER: WORLD 60,113 60,113 Team Fortress 2 54,189 54,189 Rust 46,824 46,824 ARK: Survival Evolved 42,370 42,370 Garry's Mod 41,773 58,723 Rocket League 36,890 36,890 Dead by Daylight 35,938 35,938 Sid Meier's Civilization VI 34,251 34,251 RESIDENT EVIL 2 / BIOHAZARD RE:2 34,230 34,600 Ring of Elysium 32,028 32,028 Sid Meier's Civilization V 30,178 30,178 Terraria 30,168 30,230 Euro Truck Simulator 2 29,665 29,756 Unturned 28,703 275,043 KHOLAT 27,597 28,353 Path of Exile 22,940 22,940 Hearts of Iron IV 21,186 21,860 Paladins 21,039 24,139 Arma 3 20,874 20,874 Total War: WARHAMMER II 18,645 18,655 War Thunder 18,182 18,182 Europa Universalis IV 17,972 20,012 Counter-Strike 17,721 17,781 NBA 2K19 17,535 17,535 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 16,335 16,335 Fallout 4 16,151 16,151 Stardew Valley 16,081 17,802 中国式家长/Chinese Parents 16,001 16,001 Football Manager 2018 15,756 15,756 RimWorld 15,572 18,963 World of Tanks Blitz 15,307 16,211 The Elder Scrolls Online 15,115 15,115 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition 14,969 21,850 ATLAS

im at 90% on 2 bears official eu pve. we use boat to travel out of server if heat wave comes, we are placed in n11, temp is diferent inland, furhter out from land the colder, we traveel back and forth from our island based on time of day

As title says

lol have fun, and it's an english one just for you : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octet_(computing) It's still octet in French

All my SSd are in Go, Windows show all data in Go. Another country, another world ....Europe strange world.... You make my day thank you. ^^

Yeah i know, this is a EA Game... but they want to sink ships they are older then 3 weeks on golden age ruins. and its ok. but there was a failure, and i think we can tell this failure to the Devs, or not? i think a rollback and erase this failure is not impossible for the devs, so they doing it now. its okay, and i prepared.... but its okay too to tell them about this dude

They prepare for 2x when a major patch hits, so we don't get to mad.

From twitter " Hey folks, looking into reports regarding the destroyed ships right now. We'll be conducting a short rollback on our PvE networks to just before the patch went live. Thank you for your patience and we apologise for scaring you! "

guess no ships lasted long enough on pvp server for it to affect them

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/373477031 WTF?? The same pj getting 4 more dragons, in a week they have 7, I lived in D2 and Pathfinder Pathfinder and their crew use some bug to get the dragons. report them plis i want ship battles not this shit

The upcoming patch v18 may have the quality of life change that will meet your needs! - Ships that have been inactive for 3 weeks on PvE servers and Golden Age Ruin servers will now vaporize (tackling the abandoned ramshackle boats/rafts on maps) If the owners truly haven't been in range of the raft for some time, especially 3 weeks, then later today when v18 drops it should disappear.

Hi, WE took some land back that was previously ours and started to demolish the items build on it by the company that had taken it. As soon as I demolished the lighthouse, the server completely lagged out to less than 1 fps and then crashed. This is in B9 on The Raging Atoll island.

There is a massively huge difference between stocks and gaming charts.That is why there is a commission over seeing everything stocks because there is a lot of illegal activity there and manipulating stocks and stock values.I would garner a bet that the illegality of the stock market is far worse than the commission can keep up with or prove and that is a problem,they need to definitively prove every wrong doing. A game chart is VERY simple,it doesn't even carry any discrimination or excuses ,it shows that on that platform weather it is succeeding or players are disapproving with the developers ideals.

Keep trying, find the spot, easy. I’m sorry but ‘impossible, or 1 in tenth’. I tamed one maybe 2 hours ago without dieing once because of getting hit. Sit at the elbow and you’re fine.

It's almost unbelievable watching this game bleed. I can't imagine the mental gymnastics they're doing to avoid blaming themselves.

WTH are you talking about? MMO simply means that there will be a lot of players online at the same time, in the same world, and running around doing different things. This may be interacting with one another in PVP combat, grouping, chatting, or just running around as a solo player. This is all part of an MMO. I spent more than 15 years playing EverQuest as a solo Druid and solo Necromancer and another 10 years playing World of Warcraft playing solo toons. Even though many of us choose to try an MMO as a solo player, we will often time still play in groups when free time allows or the need arises. Some players play solo for the fun and challenge, some due to time constraints or erratic time restrictions. I have three kids and there were many times I soloed simply because it was easier for me to go AFK without affecting my group members, whenever I had to deal with one of my kids for random reasons. On the weekends, when I had more time to invest, I would often times play in groups. Most MMO's absolutely do not exclude solo players and Atlas has stated that they intend to adjust the game mechanics and system a little to accommodate all kinds of play preferences and this includes us solo players too.

Yeah you might get lucky one day, out on your sloop rolling around and then you get attacked by a Ship of The Damned .. While running to the nearest place possible you happen to beach right at that base.. Because it was the closest land to you! Then while trying to save your ship you find yourself hiding behind theirs which happens to get sunk!! Then to your horror as you watch the crew starts getting eaten by sharks and manta rays!!! I mean, that would be lucky for you. For them, not so much... Anyhow, feeling a little bit responsible you realize that THIS chunk of land just saved your life and now have a duty to maintain it.. So you plop your flag down and become the greatest steward the land has ever seen!

https://i.imgur.com/3eQPPsH.jpg got!! thankyou~~

I live in the Polar region and had wanted to start breeding. But the bears refuse to as its an undesirable Biome. Which leads to question, If bears dont breed in the polar regions, Whos bringing loads of them in and dropping them off each day?

Mythical tames are stupid and should never have been a part of the game to begin with. A bit of steampunk? Sure, but why the F do we need all the tames, this isnt ARK, noone wants it to be, stop trying to make it become that!!

This game is a fucking train wreck.

Right. ARK is in the steam charts but ARK had a very bad EA period aswell. Almost identical to the one we're having right now. I'm not a crybaby getting out charts to somehow try to make a point that isn't really a point but thinks it's a point? Or something like that. If you want to go ahead with charts saying the playerbase loses people, be my guest. But it is pretty much only pointing out the obvious. But then again; Everyone needs something to bitch about.

lost 3 ships after the patch today. What did you do ?

Region block then so that English letter users do not have to endure being spammed by all of the Chinese, Phillipine , Japanese, Kyrillic , polish, spanish , portugese , even some german letters...