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The people who abused it should be set a lot lower then lvl 100.

What about punishment for those that were exploiting the bugs in the first place? Seems like reducing them to 100 doesnt do justice to everyone else that gets impacted that didnt cheat.

Really is this all you get for cheating in this game? A tiny slap on the wrist? For all this talk about hardcore gameplay you are real pussies when it comes to taking action yourself. If you are not gonna ban them atleast reset their discoveries and set them back to level 50.

You guys still need to punish the exploiters though, they were well aware of their actions. Reverting their 150 levels to 1000 then capping and destroying all the items above 60% is not enough. They need to set an example that exploiting will be punished.. else next time something like that gets discovered people will abuse it with no fear of more serious repercussions. Now the people who abused the glitch still got the better end of stick if they did not get punished... They are still level 100, avoided all the headache of doing maps and other ways of leveling up..

Right now a lot of the bonus events we've been hosting help us with profiling and analysing server performance. In the future, we'd like to be more sporadic with them. Perhaps have some on the weekend, some on weekdays, during holidays/special occasions. We certainly recognize that keeping it limited to weekends only and having it every weekend leads to folks only wanting to play then or missed opportunities for players who aren't able to play on the weekend. However, it's needed at the moment, as we typically see our highest CCUs on weekends and we can get the most out of our profiling then. We'd also like to play with specific types of changes rather than always having 2x Taming/XP/Gathering such as a bonus event to XP, or maybe crop growth, slaying AoD/SoD etc.

Some of us have to work weekends. Doctors, nurses, cops, firefighters, etc. Why not just increase total gathering and XP rates by 20% across every day, instead of singling out the weekends?

Attention Pathfinders, Recently, we were able to identify multiple ways in which players were able to gain a massive amount of experience points, very quickly. Some of these methods were made public, some reported privately, and others were identified internally. We wanted to be thorough and catch every possible way this could have been abused. Due to these bugs, a few scenarios arose ingame: Players were levelling much faster than intended. It highlighted a balance concern with how high items and characters could scale. Our aim was to tackle this in the smoothest way possible, and our intention was to avoid a wipe/rollback, and minimize damage to innocence at all costs. Ultimately, this is what we’ve decided to do and with our most recent update, we have introduced the following changes: Crafting Bonus on items is now capped at 60%. Any character which was above level 100 will now be reverted to level 100. One time character respec for any character that had their XP reduced back to 100. One time destruction of all crafted items with a crafting bonus of over 60%. We believe that these changes, whilst imperfect, should help restore sanctity to the Official Game. Going forward, we'll also be taking a look at how high stats can scale, in particular intelligence and health and we'll be adjusting them in a way that will have a retroactive effect in the future. We want to make sure that everyone can enjoy their adventures and will continue to take bugs and exploit matters seriously. We know we may not always act as fast as you like, but rest assured these matters are highly concerning to us and we will look for an effective solution which we can deploy rapidly within our means. As always, we value your feedback and encourage you to share it with us. Grapeshot Games

Thats a shitty excuse for not doing their job. Cheating and exploiting have been the problem with this game since day one, everytime theres an exploit or cheaters are running rampant on their servers the devs just sit around like a bunch of clueless kids. Any serious developer would have patched the guilotine out of the game the minute it hit reddit, somehow it took 2 fucking days before they even lifted a finger... Letting the exploiters keep level 100 is essentially like the police catching a bankrobber and letting him off with a warning and half the loot.

There are other game developers that punish even their most elite players so much more harshly, they are singled out and made examples of purposely, there should be an amount of fear in using such a blatant exploit.

What are you talking about? ~Lotus

Wait till the dudes who dont have the exploited crafted items are gettin blown away by those cannons and theirs are doing no damage to the super planks on the opposing ships lol. Gonna be some crying on here. A shitstorm is coming.

No its not. They can ban those accounts and if its wide spread enough they can dev wipe the company. A decision like that does NOT come lightly and I expect them to take their time investigating these allegations before making an informed decision. Also LOL at someone quitting because a game being alpha tested is buggy. That's hilarious.

Time for a wipe. After the guilatin exploit those that did not participate are so far behind the curve you cannot catch up without exploiting or cheating as well. Wipe the server. Devs dont have the competence to delete exploited BP created items. And cant seem to ban the offenders. Game in its current form is broken.

You can’t be serious!!! You’re joking surely!! i literally read your post 3 times to try and gauge the tone to see if it was tongue in cheek or not. If not, this is literally one of the most ridiculous posts I’ve ever seen on the internet! What world do you live on that has such people separated by such assumptions? Im a professional, and I like RC cars and computer games! One of the guys that comes out with us is a politician, another one is a high up firearms officer. someone I used to game with was a senior judge.

Because MOST people work a 9-5 5 day a week job. The 2x is intended to encourage people to play when they have the most time available. It is not unfair at all. Even in the groups you listed most of them again are not working the weekends or working them all the time. If they did what you are saying then 2x are not special nor do they encourage people to play more in their free time. You are simply upping the amount we get permanently. Your title sounds a bit entitled. Implying that because you have to work it is unfair. As if you are somehow being screwed over because you have to work those hours. You are in the minority in general, and nothing is going to ever be completely fair. Welcome to the real world.

Hi Guys, im out, i despawned everything, Scuttled all Ships and Deinstalled Atlas. Till this Game is Bugfree(i assume never) i wont come back! Have a Nice Game! bye!

u should change 2. to just all out cheating…. and add to the 3rd.. get ppl to tame crabs and attack minimum 50-60 ppl cus their servers is potato so u cause huge lags so its only tames which is viable…. now that is Atlas

So reading forums and seeing what has happened since the release of the game i feel like i got the devs figured out. If you want to compete in this game with other companies you have to do the following= 1 Stream - streaming gives you a shield against anything you do that breaks the code of conduct 2 Dupe - now that your streaming you are free to do what ever you like, the devs don't care anymore you are a streamer! You and your tribe are protected. 3 Make 10 different tribes - fill them with players work together to wipe out smaller tribes so nobody else has the slightest chance. Well done you are now part of the cancer that is ATLAS, your the reason why the game is dying cough mukka.

the worst part its the same ppl who cheated in season 1 and they sit on stream and openly say how they did it and how they used the ingame aimbot bug.. and still u only raise a finger against them and let them off with a pad on the back... its just sad that u dont take this seriously cus alot of ppl and companies quit cus of this and u letting htem go unpunished will make even more quit OR cause EVERYONE to abuse the next bugs which will be live with ur next mega update.,...

No, they sent a warning for a update 75 minuted ago... Exactly. They were updating the official servers. And they said " In 10 min we will be updating the official servers, thanks for your patience".

This one is kind of game ending for me tbh, In my opinion this takes all the variety and versatility out of the game, for me this is the reason I play these games because sometimes the person that dares to be different can do good and. I honestly hope this one gets changed back personally.

Yes, this. So when in case a future exploit arises people will be refraining from using it, due to fear of being punished.. but now if they wont punish these guys.. future exploits again will be used with no one to worry about any punishment.

Literally game saving. Good shit.

... can you please find a good game designer?

and there lies the problem with PVE player vs environment , there is no environment to worry about, this all started with ark when players moaned about their walls and bases being attacked by wild creatures , so now PVE player have nothing to worry about at all , what is so wrong about wild creatures attacking your walls/ baes trying to get at your tames , that's what defence are for are they not ? if pve players had to worry about the environment attacking them then the bp for building parts would be useful and worth hunting for ..

something similar happened to me and I lost a galleon because of this shit

Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\ATLAS\ShooterGame\Content\Movies and move all items there to another location. And try login again. If dont work in the first time try again. Its work for me. Good luck

Make sure to verify your files in Steam. I was getting multiple blue screens of death, memory errors, graphics drivers crashes (Nvidia). I did the verify and found 118 corrupt files that needed to be downloaded again. After that no issues for a few days. Then started crashing again. Repeated the process. Found one error. Fixed it again.

No game is ever bug free, so my advice would be to not play games, simples.

You wanna hear unfair? I work from home and can play most of the day every weekday but my mean old wife makes me do stuff with her on weekends. The Mondays are always nice!

No, I just find the sailing to be a huge time sink. That is why I rarely do it. Everything in this game takes 5 hours to do lol.. and once you have seen a few islands, you have seen them all. At least in other sims, like Elite, you have a hyperspace

Wipe will only serve to screw everyone over and those using exploits and external tools to cheat will continue to do so and get a big advantage again on startup. I don't think it would help one bit. Game is EA and being tested. Plug exploits, get BattleEye the info they need to watch for these external tools, ban/wipe cheaters and move forward. As to the items themselves....these are most likely stored in a database of some kind with info like owner, location, stats, etc. Databases can be queried and items found to be out of whatever thresholds GS sets can be wiped.

Does anyone know if there is some sort of filter on alliance chat box to filter what messages get through? I have a few alliances but when you chat in game others can't see the chat and they wondering what you're talking about. It would be nice to have some sort of filter on this if there isn't already one available, i've never noticed it though. It would be nice to have everyone in alliance but some just don't know each other well enough for this and makes it awkward when chatting to people.

The problem I see is the islands are not designed to be broken into hex's so they would have to redesign so all the claims have resources, access to water that supports ships, and a shipyards with land to build a base. So look at the current islands and try to figure out a hex that is the same size for large, medium, and small islands that has those things. You also need to make sure that the good resources don't have the ability to be claimed. To me it just doesn't seem possible. This also doesn't address what happens to the claims when people come and go from a company. So the guy that wanted to join my tribe that was declined because some of the people in the tribe didn't like him, then demanded to know who said they didn't want him in, when I refused to tell him he said to me, "I will figure out who it is and I will track their IP then I am going to take my AK-47 and go to their house and shoot the people inside", gets to just be on our island forever because he has been there long enough? Or the one that told me that, "I hope the @%$@ing chinese rape your daughter", he gets to stay on our island too cause he's been there a while right? The rules for Lotus Land are simple, don't be toxic and don't build on resources. If you can't do that then I should be able to kick you out regardless of anything else. ~Lotus

Yes, please do inform us all of this exploit so that at least we can use it as well if we cant catch up anyother way.

to be fair Jat, the 2x weekend gives many people a chance to catch up. Week days, for me, for example, I work in the city, start work at 8, sometimes get home at 11pm.. The weekends are my only chance to catch up, and the 2x really helps a lot. If weekends were still 1x, my personal game experience would be 1 step forwards, 2 steps back... I'd feel like i'm always on catch up. 2x allows me / us, to recover, and progress... especially with gold. Impossible to do during the week. I appreciate the 2x every week, i know exactly where I stand, and, can plan accordingly, putting the family first. Please don't change the 2x weekends!

Dunno if its a bug or just not available,but I cant rename my ships,everything else works in the wheel(although I wish they would make scuttle ship harder to access accidently)just cant action the rename ship option.Has anyone else come across this?thx

What is “popcorning” ?....

If they put up any event it would be unfair to someone, you cant please everyone at all times, i find it unfair the updates comes out every time im at work as well, but i aint demanding them to postepone them.

Yeah, they finally caved that the mechanic of staring at a screen, sailing with no wind or against it, for hours at a time just to experience content might just be losing them players. I am a firm believer that if you make the devs play their own game without god powers a whole mess of quality of life issues would be fixed quite fast.

As title, Please reconsider the very odd decision. To lock such a staple item in a sea-based game behind end game.bosses, all this leads to is a lot of players not able to access a large amount of game content, For pve players the more content they have the longer they will stay around, are u going to lock end game dungeons behind some odd boss kill or collection of 1000 keys from the kraken? No then why lock the sub away from a high proportion of the player base One thing I have also noticed is a lot of players especially pve just wait for a kraken attempt and hang about outside the barrier to unlock the sub, is this good game design? No And before all the usual get a group and do the kraken arrive , its possible to do yes ,but not everyone has the time to build the necessary ships and have the gold to crew it, and organise an event, they may also have trouble in social situations, Tldr: reconsider the sub locked behind kraken

This change was made because people were bringing tons of bookshelves, and then when those got nerfed, feeding troughs on their ships instead of repair materials because it was a fraction of the weight, and demolishing the troughs put the repair materials in the resource box to be able to repair. You can essentially still do the same thing by just bringing a bunch of extra planks.... planks are light and if you demo a full/close to full health plank you can instantly replace it and get plenty of repair mats from the demo. As for the current system, I think it is working OK. When you first drop your anchor you will see the anchor icon as kind of hollow, and it will slowly fill until you are 'fully anchored' at which time it will turn green. At this point anything you demo will go to your resource chest. I believe ceilings and walls will always return resources to your chest whether you are anchored or not as they fall under that 'core' category they are talking about. If I remember correctly roofs do not, and should probably be added to the list of things that do since they are used in almost every ship build. If you are concerned about losing resources while you build your ship, you can drop it pretty much as soon as you have the planks on it and anchor it and go from there.

Is it an “easy day” or “not easy” ?....

Need to unseat to do the leveling. this started with mega update i think. was able to level pre-wipe just fine.

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have you in your gus.ini set the dinoCount? when yes then delete this setting..