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No No No No No What a stupid idea.... You don't bring up the EU and NA PvE servers a few weeks apart, that is a receipe for disaster. What will happen is you'll get flood of NA players on the EU servers resulting in a bunch of islands being claimed for a few weeks by NA players who will then leave. (This will piss off some of the EU players) Then not all the NA players will leave for the NA server on it's launch and that will mean lower population on the NA server. (That will piss off the NA players) This is literally the worst way to launch a mmorpg game, and I've played over 50 of the damn things. Either delay both PvE servers or launch without the Empire server.

Note: This Early Access game is not complete and may or may not change further. If you are not excited to play this game in its current state, then you should wait to see if the game progresses further in development. Learn more bit of a clue on the store page gives you all the information u need , nothing hard to understand ....

Thanks for the feedback guys, I'll work on something to aggregate our short/quick tweets etc so you can see them on the site.

just wanted to thank grapeshot for the big middle finger they are giving the NA PVE players, forcing them to play on eu server with higher ping and more lag or to play pvp with all that nonsense. so glad you keep your customer base in mind when you make your ridiculous decisions.

So I played this game for 750 hours or so, and they can wipe all the progress I have, even stuff that isn't supposed to be taken from you like player experience and other things, im assuming because they are too lazy to find some way to transfer our characters to their new system, and I cant get a refund for the game. Sure I bought it at early release, but there was no warning that I was just a guinea pig and all my progress would be erased, maybe that was in the fine print or some wall of text but I didn't see it.

My wife plays Atlas with me but doesn’t read the forums or follow any of the “information” that is given to us by the Devs. So I read what I can and tell her what the plan is or what updates have be implemented. After this last announcement, she asked me if the game is being run by children. She is totally serious and I told her, yes. We bought a game that is fun to play but has the organization of a bunch of kids trying to get a game of kickball together at recess. It’s their ball, they are the captain’s and your getting picked last because you can’t catch

I would get on my high horse but he was deleted. I named him Mayo, and sometimes Mayo neighs, but not anymore.

Getting very frustrated with the fact that the playatlas website doesn't provide news to the players who don't use Twitter or discord...this should be your first contact with players not the afterthought, this site should be updated before steam with relevant information pertaining to patches and updates. I left the public test realm when I saw the update available, started an hour long download to find out half way through that I should not have left the beta, waited for the download to finish, re added to the public test realm and am now waiting two and a half hours on another update....I am going to be late for the launch, and I could have had it downloaded and been ready had this info been presented and available through proper channels. This should be you first resource to reach your player base. And I have to get news from my fellow company members after they hear it on Twitter or discord, when I am actively haunting this page...

Thanks for your hardwork Dollie and for keeping us uptodate.

^what this guy said....

For those of us who have been out of the loop, when exactly do we want to log in before the wipe to get the special veteran tester hat and what not.

So here is the gold required to claim island acc to points New gold cost to claim an island or upkeep is 2x of the listed gold cost. GL HF. 150p - 122p - 527 G 86p - 312 G 81p - 286 G 77p - 69p - 230 G 57p - 179 G 53p - 163 G 51p - 155 G 46p - 137 G 36p - 35p - 99 G 24p - 64 G 23p - 61 G 20p - 52 G 15p - 38 G Will update once I find more.

The fundamental problem here is your lack of understanding of what EA is and what it entails. Accusing others of being sleazy because you didn’t understand what was and wasn’t being offered is the sort of thing people used to have the grace and humility to apologize for. This being the age of the internet, I am not holding my breathe. Want to impress people and defy expectations? Admit the mistake and apologize for casting aspersions at others due to your own error.

I think I'll step a way for a few, the suspense is killing me! Maybe if I walk away, it will happen.. like a watched pot never boiling.. although.. thats kinda dumb, cuz evenutually a heated pot will boil at the right temp, watchers or no... this however......

Auf die normale version. (Sorry... my German... really, really bad... time to start that again)

Dollie, on Twitter, advised to stay opted in to PTR because it will roll you back to the current live version and make you download extra data.

So what I've noticed in the ptr is now the claim is the whole island rather than some flags. So there will be less claims (more people without their own claims) and the same taxes. All this new system did was screw landowners who had land and made us all slaves to the very few that will get claims. System is by far worse than what we had. Land claims should have been 3 flags per player, maybe 5. This system is crap. Guess it really doesnt matter since there is no na pve server now. Man the dev's completely blew this game.

Sheesh. Stop whining. The EU people lost their PvE server a week early for the PTR so it's only fair they get their PvE server online first while the new server is being installed. Think of it more like: You get to skip the first 2 weeks of bug fixes while you play on PvP or EU PvE.

Hello. I stopped playing since the announcement of the wipe because I loved my slow progression, but with the wipe my progression would be lost so I gave up. Since then I have visited the forums every day for news. I was happy that finally the update would come out, now I see that PVE NA Server will not exist for the moment. Daemon Cross, will you play on EU Network? I always see your posts in this forum because I like your opinions. Note: In NA PVE you gave me a flag for my and my wife, we are always grateful for this, +100 hours of fun there After waiting so long I have 2 options: 1) Try to play on the European server and who knows how lucky to find an island. 2) Give up the game and look for something else. I will not wait "weeks" for a server.

So everyone jumps on at launch, people choose their island, therefore no way to know what future taxes are going to be on that island. People start building before anyone is able to claim the island, which will be quite a few because people gotta go grab gold first. You get your little base built and someone claims the island sets 50% tax. So how was checking the map first any way useful?

Haha this guys got his head on right.

Server will be up at 2am on friday is my bet.. and none of the new systems will work.. people will be building in freeports, pvp will be rife in pve zones.. pvpers won't be able to shoot anyone... and so forth..unto once more fray into... And I'll be sailing on my ramshackle sloop towards the temperate forests...

I ignored the things I didn't want to be real.

These logs are more interpretable than the Bible

The Crab. Gist of my thoughts: Overpowered version of the Krakinos. Needs a nerf. The giant crab is a wonderful addition, but it is too overpowered in PvP: Was on the receiving end of this. Crab was taking no damage from an imprinted bear. The bear being thrown in this clip does 120 DMG when Cry is active, it is doing 3 against the crab. Bullshit. Jump is ridiculously huge, it should NOT be able to bound of over the high walls, the throw is too far. It's just shitty to play against. Too easy to tame once they are unlocked.Should be a temporary tame if it is going to be this powerful. SERIOUSLY NERF THE DAMN JUMP AND THROW ON THIS THING, IT SHOULD NOT BE JUMPING WALLS T3 Breeding: Not much to say here. Temps need to be looked at and not be so ridiculously hard to manage; it should only be difficult to manage in the first few hours of life if there is meant to be challenge here. The current x6 breeding times should be standard, forty eight hours wait is crap. Claim System: Combat mode and war decing: Eight hours is too long. Six hours is more appropriate, IMO. Drop the 20 minute lockout to canons for island owners. Wardec should be 12 hours. At 24 hours it is just an offline raiding ticket. Claiming: Claim flag should not be able to tax without a tax bank, alternatively, get rid of the tax bank. Get rid of the ability to open enemy flags to retrieve gold. The Submarine Too fast. WAY too fast. It should be slow, and cost WAY more paste. Too many mean whales get spawned from it's presence. Player Shops In addition to the player-shop; being able to have our own NPC, and Cosmetic Vendor would be great. This would be great for PvE players and PvP Trade companies alike. Sorry for directness, I've reviewed too many Rust updates.

Imagine there’s no megas Its easy if you try No slaves below us Above our sails only sky Imagine all the pirates plundering for today ya ha arrrr Imagine there’s no land claim It isn’t hard to do Nothing to drive you bonkers And no countdown timers too Imagine all the pirates plundering the grid in peace You May say that I’m a dreamer but I’m not the only one I hope someday the devs will join us and get these @#$&ing changes done (With apologies to the incomparable John Lennon)

if this system goes live rip atlas , it will never gain enough of a player base , juts bring back the old system with claim flag limits ,

Pathetic, not going to keep repeating myself but nice wall of text I read a little.

I don't see how you can say it's not sleazy when it's not advertised or even hinted at. Even if it were advertised, I don't understand why it should be expected to lose your progress before an official release, even in an online game running servers. Why wouldn't the company just make a new server at official release and let people keep their progress from the EA period? Especially in a game requiring so much investment and enduring hardships and setbacks like this one.

Advice on that was posted four hours ago. Sorry you missed it.

as for everything you have it will be gone this is a full server wipe nothing will remain after

Nothing but Pirates in their underway running around the islands.

Still think the safest bet is to opt out, and download the correct version when it hits steam.

It wasn't you btw, there are dozens of posts from people who lost their ships.. who also didn't read it or understand it. The main problem with the logs, is the devs keep editing them on the sly.. one moment they say one thing, the next, they don't. If you look at the very last line of Dollies Ptr post in the Ptr forum. It says something like "150 company limit, 10 day decay rate tempory reduced to 6 hours for testing!" I had to work out exactly what she meant and to do so, I waited on an island next to an offline player who had a ship. At exactly 6 hours offline time, his ship vanished.

I agree the news should be on the website first. Social media is a bonus, not a primary tool. Whats the point of the website at that point.

Oh no, no no no no, and no!

april fools! they said a date, we tought they will make it 1 week more, but they actually doing at time xDD

Did anyone else log in on NAPvE yesterday to find a boat removed from there company.. Fix the bugs...

A couple of weeks for NA PVE? Wow its a good thing EU networks arent much worse than NA from what ive seen. They really should just wipe the server and delete the game. That would be worth my 30 buck rather than hearing their excuses and delays and even their bs.

They are, weather is still brutal and fiber will be relatively sparse with no 6x. Pretty sure I could build a fence out of lion corpses, too.

Not same taxes, max tax is now 50% so even worse.

So I am one of those who is having issues to the point that I cant even play the game due to issues between Grapeshot and steam and I hear today unless you have 4 players in a company you can't own land or claim land because SOMEONE had the BRIGHT IDEA of screwing with the land claim system today …. Nice Job GUYS WAY TO CONTINUE TO KILL A GAME THAT HAD SUCH POTENTIAL!!!! CANNOT WAIT FOR SKULL AND BONES!!!! PLEASE HURRY UBISOFT!!!!!

Well honestly I feel like they pushed people into the PVP PTR when they took down the EU pve server and then the NA pve server, now I think they feel they have the numbers to run both pvp servers and that’s why the NA server is being placed on hold for a couple weeks instead of the new pvp server. If NA pve players move to the EU pve server then what is really the point in bringing back up the NA pve server in the 1st place ?

Not. We collected gold. No time to have fun! If you don’t make it, you’ll become a dirty 50% slave!

There won't be any griefers.. devs have a plan for them.

the tundras should be harder to live on...….

Lets see if I can come up with an estimate that will be close. Patch is supposed to be released on the 11th so if we figure shortly after lunch cause no one wants to release before lunch in the chances something is broken! Then add their history that every release has been delayed until evening so let's say around 20:00 hours on the 11th. So I'll estimate 20:00 hours on the 11th. Wait, every single patch has also been delayed 2 to 5 days for "last minute changes" so then add around 24 to 120 hours to that estimate. So sometime around December 13th at 20:00 hours. Wait, wait! The 13th is a Saturday. If they release on Saturday and SHTF then they'll be working all weekend. So push that to 15th around 20:00 hours. Wait, wait, wait! That won't work. No one releases a big patch on a Monday. Monday's suck and no one's brains are right so push that to the 16th. So the 16th around 20:00 to the 19th around 20:00. Just kidding Devs, you know we love you! Just keep us posted a little better and we'll be like fat kids in Charlie's Chocolate Factory! Ok?!

I have a better idea. How about totally changing the game to get rid of the whole having to defend bases thing. Allow us to park beside an island and our ships have 100 times more HP than present. But this would have an invisible timer. You can't just run to an island and anchor and be safe. If somebody is pursuing you, they know your timer isn't done and they can still sink you. Also, get rid of the damage numbers so that people are not aware of how much damage they are doing. Make the game about having a Fleet of ships, not a base. Making a temp base with crafting stations...something small, should be very easy. Decay should happen, and be fast. Structures disappear in 72 hours, period. You only set one up to build a ship, and repair them. No tames needed...your crew does the gathering with you. The biggest problem with this game is the fact that you have to build and defend bases, and no matter how big you build, people can easily knock it down. One way or another, the focus needs to be on getting ships out to sea, exploring with those ships, and fighting with those ships.

Instead of one faction being added I think several should be added. I would go into length about this, but some other time.

Love this idea would also like to see a full blown bounty system and skill line. Players could place a bounty on a pk'er that would go on the bounty board allowing for player with the BH skill line to hunt the player for rewards. As well a player justice/jail system akin to Archeage would also be really cool.