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I think it would be a great feature if you could hang shields and/or swords as well as lanterns on the wall hook it just seems a bit of a waste of a feature for it as it is and shields would look great round a ship.

If they re vamp the skills system to a progressive one that, you learn how to aim a gun better by, using a gun.. or sword perks open up as you use the sword.. want to be a great cook? start cooking tons of food. You want to be a master Captain, you better be prepared for many hours at the helm then! That alone will add hours of content that is player preference to what they like to achieve in a game. Cyclones, I LIKE THEM.. get rid of them? heh, I would like to see MORE obstacles on the ocean, not less.. HOWEVER, it would be nice to get some rewards for them along with the punishment for sailing trough them. Once they get the game stable, maybe try an EU/EA combined I know many players who play cross time zone already as it is.. but, I don't like the sound of pvp/pve .. too much exploits waiting to happen. heh. I like the idea of merchant/npc ships that you can sink or board and plunder but, I think they should add "navy spawned ship" that will spawn on a timer that goes off as soon as you do Maybe, the better your piracy skills are, the longer it takes for it to spawn in on you? hrmm, Navy ships out on the waters that will ignore you unless, you attack them or a merchant? Assist you if attacking Pirate or sotd? idk.. soo many things that they could do in the end lol.

If you want to kill yourself quicker and find yourself without poop then hold down delete or whatever you have the yell key bound to while punching. It drains your stam much quicker. Once out of stam you can let go since your character stops relaying sounds from your mic at max volume, but continue punching and each time you do you lose more health until you die.

Feel like I am reading Dr. Seuss.

so talk of an update but, no "get" of an update. i get what the OP is getting at, do you get what they get?

Humans poop if you hang them^^ Babys Dont poop so They Look Sweet And your Charakter doesnt poop so you Dont leave a trace if you Steal from someone XD imagine Walking around so Quit that no One hears you And then your Charakter poops XD

what exactly does it means, "a bit more quiet"? Only one post every two months than one post per month? Are you on a good way with your Xbob cashgrab shit, so you can asap restart programming your game? And if we can get an answer in any of the few threads about blackwood, the huge amount of bugs and if you will fix it this decade? You really should start to communicate more with us, but just ignore it again and again...

Well yes of course.

So if you can figue the percentages, we can ask the devs to do that portion of the events on weekdays. Only fair.

Well they don't get the myth bps and good gold from such high level treasure maps, I guess. Haha, nah... it's kinda true for sure, I think you saw my post in the thread about 2x. However, most of the players who can't breed because of no time, could've just spent those 4 terrible hours during baby phase, then did at least 2 imprints, instead of wasting time not being able to play further content and just playing the same content. Just suck it up once and get it done, even though all the other stuff about breeding being possible (healthy) or not is still there. Did that make sense? For new players, I offer to breed animals for them, they just gotta imprint. Often, the new players will then sit there and watch as the babies are born, then they just end up sitting around watching more and helping out. Then when they have a brand new spanking imprinted bear, they are ecstatic and say to me "thanks, that wasn't so bad, but I'm glad I don't really need to do it again". I really want 4x breeding now, damn you. edit: ohhhh you can actually just use two high lvl tamed bears, opposite sex for mate boost. That's what i did until a breeding event occurred haha

"just" breed... Maybe possible if there is 4x breeding event. Most of the players can't breed because of no time.

A good crab will do more damage than a bear with it's double smash (left and right attack at same timedoes 2x damage of one claw) it can also reach places bears cannot reach and you don't get aggro from tigers, lions, gorgons or pretty much and mob other than squids hydra and the 2 elemental types. Use your natures touch before you spawn the map and wait about 2 seconds so by the time they are out of the ground natures cry is up for 2x dmg. Animals can also use crafted foods such as shrunken head stew for faster stam regen (great for elephants) haven't tried spiced rum on them but more dmg and damage resist would help a solo player greatly.

Talk like what? Asking questions that you avoid, or reply that "you don't know", and then proceed to ignore and just continue to spam? Nobody wants events to be on weekdays if the reason is to make some people suffer. Seems you are not able to talk about anything else here.

Ummm zotel and doublehelix have pics but im not home atm but i got 2 in a week. Here is one of the pieces found.

no offense bud, but yeah were at that point lol

nope end of October hehe

I punched myself out. For some reason I was under the impression you couldnt punch yourself below a half hp anymore. ty

U don't have grapple?

For what? they've already said they are working on console and getting that launched before they do anything else on PC. What more do you want, you've already been informed you and every other PC player are on the back burner why they push out their cash-grab.

Entirely possible. I think I read at one point that ISO is a mother with small children. I have no idea if it’s true or not but it’s the sort of thing that could lead to the sort of thing you suggested when someone isn’t on the payroll and is behind. Actually I hope they paid her for all that work but who knows? The point is the same.

Ya just for npcs, players can still shoot the cannon max distance, and it's not really new, they were doing optimizations 2 months or so ago. Where they outlined the changes as server optimization for npcs But the optimizations from my understanding made the npcs calculate trajectory and shot based on the client instead of the server. While it does optimize the server it also requires someone to have the npc in render range for it to fire.

Biggest problem is on their new roadmap it says they want us less on land and more at sea. Yet the easiest fix to do that till mega patch is leave 2x on but they insist on not doing it, then when we ask about it claim it’s a perk.

I think it's probably just some language barrier thing. I'm still trying to figure out how getting the best stats on tames is an "economy". I just don't get the arguments being made. I'm not bored. The mail is still running, if there are ever any people around to send any. I just rebuilt the post office and it looks fabulous. Next up is the stables for carriage rides around town, and the Rumrunner Hideout Museum and Hysterical Society.

I play PVE with friends on a 4x4 grid with 37 islands, and it's fantastic! Just needs the Wild Pirate Encampments, some patches, way better melee combat, some future dungeons and content/stuff to do, and we are happy. I used to be strictly PVP for all games, but it can't be done without cheaters and griefers ruining everything... Just give the NPC's really good AI, and you are good to go! Add the option for PVP as well of course, but id rather play against human like AI without the BS. It really needs to be officially clarified, whether or not the Wild Pirate Encampments are still happening or not, since the live steam seemed like it scrapped the idea of it.

I still dont really think it should be ffa pvp, or factions, just pvp that everyone can fight and have fun with if they want to. Shouldn't force any companies to a certain group size. This post is about changes that make the game more playable for all the types of players. The only type of offline raiding that I think should occur is if the owners got off for a long period of time (close to a week) or if the defenders decide to log out because they are losing. I also don't like the concept of making it more costly to raid, because besides in offline combat, I think the equipment system, structure health vs cannons and all that isn't in a bad spot. Make it more costly to raid and players are even less likely to attempt it vs other online players. I'll sum up the changes again because this thread is getting pretty long. 1. Freeport bank, personal bank that's not enough to get by on alone. 2. No combat timer, only war. 3. When an island is taken, all structures inside the claim, transfer ownership to new owners.(fixes foundation spam issues) The only type of players these changes make the experience worse for are the ones checking the player count on servers everyday and looking at combat timers to see, where they can find loot and who they can make quit playing that day. Simply takes away the need to offline raid or troll other companies daily. The changes I've posted are very carefully considered to accomplish this goal.

I think the original concept was pvp only, and somewhere in the process someone had the sense to add pve. I don't think alienating the pve community is a wise move considering how many people have now left pvp, and also how much revenue is gained from pve players. Pushing pvp I don't think is a gamble that will pay off.

I'm really wanting to know what on earth exactly happened to the NPC Pirate Encampments? are they still coming? has that idea been completely scrapped? This was one of the biggest things I was looking forward to, especially on private run servers/solo play.

The land masses really need more to them then just the grind for resources (which I as a farmer enjoy) dungeons and unique loot create drive to explore. The risk to pvp should be out at sea while the risk/ reward for pve be on the land creating the desire to travel to further areas. Your npc crew also could use more love as they currently are a big part but are basically bland and empty of personality other then a random name and look generated to them. Unique crew with unique personalities would make the journey more enjoyable.

Blackwood came out so fast with a huge amount of bugs. We miss several resources and wildlife (like fish), silos don't work, claiming don't work, maps (big and minimap) are broken and lot of terrainbugs (like that "airbubble" at hydraisland-freeport). Now on the new roadmap they talk about the main focus is on the official servers. What does that mean to all blackwood players? Why didn't you, devs, wrote down any word about blackwood in your roadmap? It's a official map of your company (bought or not doesen't matter, you published it in your name) and it's fullfilled with bugs. Please take note that a lot of people play on blackwood and they all feel loss now (way more than before).

Some people love building boats, some building towns with shops, some like taming, some like sailing and fighting. Deciding HOW people are going to play will have the devs playing this game by themselves. If the purpose is to have people be at sea, then you devs have done everything in your power to keep us ported: 1) You have cloudy skies that threaten rain with cyclones that do more overall ship damage than a full-on fleet fight. So, you PORT to avoid all that damage until you figure out whether 7 cyclones are going to literally follow you around a grid until you port. OR you PORT and twiddle your thumbs for the duration of a storm. 2) Living at sea requires us to carry enough ammo, supplies for repairs, and enough food and gigantic tables that the only size that can handle all that is the SLOWEST ship in the fleet (the Brig) or force everyone to build server-clogging galleons. 3) In order to have an awesome ship, you have to PORT, have a base to store the ingredients until it is complete and to build. To avoid spending the rest of your life with an axe and pick, you have to make tames to make that go faster so you can build your awesome ship to live on. Now you have tames that must be stored and protected and fed, and presto, you are landlocked and PORTED. Fast travel to feed is the only thing that saves the day, but you are naked, so whatever. 4) You made everything so heavy that "sailing" is more like watching dolphins passing you and laughing. You solved this with an awesome cargo box that you cannot even access unless you are PORTED. 5) Only you can repair your ship at sea, so if you are not keen to spend all your time after fights or storms or rocks making repairs to hundreds of single pieces, you must PORT. 6) If you lose your ship and everything you so lovingly built, you must have a place to rebuild. That requires a base that stores all duplicates of your goodies, blueprints, farming for cooking, clothes, weapons, etc.... again, you must PORT. 7) Scavenging wrecks overload boats, gold to pay crew overload a boat, supplies overload boats. So unless you are willing to dump all this (WTF), you spend all your time calculating how to keep the weight under 50% of the capacity to keep a decent knot. 8} Going around massive builds, avoiding squabbling neighbors, avoiding aggressive builds to block content, all double or triple your time on land and not in a good way. 9) Placing Treasure Maps in ridiculous locations, like inaccessible mountain tops, under rocks, squeezed ledges, in bases make it under a 50% shot that you can ever get access to it. And forget getting the good ones alone without a tame to help or drag some NPCs behind you getting stuck in everything from a bush to a turtle. It increases ported time. BONUS: The re-vamped island ownership did not work out as you planned, I think. Instead of a big company claiming big islands, they claimed all the little ones and they left the big ones free for folks that cannot even claim them. How about the large companies only being allowed to claim the large islands and leave the little ones to the little tribes? Thank you for addressing some of these issues, but taking away things that people like doing instead of limiting the things like over-active cyclones or weight and speed issue is a mistake. Make all things possible and all will come and play THEIR game. Totally get this is a work in progress, Beta and there are growing pains, just please remember: LAST and I think most important: NO one wants to spend ANY time playing and building and farming to have a wipe looming over them like a Black Plague. Most I have talked to say they will wait until these devs get their ship together, then come and play.

i dont want more water, man that is boring, but is your game, if you ask me i want a arktlas, i want to tame water animals and swing across the ocean with my mossasaurus, why ark has 40,000 players after 4 years and you 2,000, we like to tame, we like to explore, we like ark, we like a ark of the sea, focus in tame awesome animals, not spend 2 hours sailing in a boring ocean, forget my poor english

Its a shame that you are not happy that some people are enjoying part of your game a little too much for your liking. PvPvE?? Nerfing tames?! If you nerf all my PVE gameplay and force me into being nothing more than content for your PVP players to consume, then I will quit and go play another game.

Me and my buddies have started playing Blackwood on a private server. Have pretty much turned the south-central island into our primary hub by building a house in one of the pantheon buildings. The central area with the fresh water is where we’re keeping our animals, except the pigs, which are kept in the next pantheon building over. (never go to a WAAAGH! without da boyz backing you up) Anyway, been having a few problems with trying to find certain resources, like gems and oil. Started a solo game and used cheat codes to fly around and explore, (slight annoyance in that Fly stops working the second you hit water, and ghost also doesn’t work in water) and successfully found crude oil on the north-central skull island (it’s kinda shaped like a cat’s-head on the map, I found the chocolate-chip cookie looking rocks on the “fang”.) while the mermaid city had crude oil rocks, mineral oil in coral, and emeralds just laying around. And sharks. All of the sharks. Besides that, at a loss for where to find Shale Oil and Naptha, along with other gems besides Emerald. Found crystals like Ruby and Tellurite at home base, (promptly built ramps up to the spots for ease of access) and we’re quite enjoying Blackwood besides needing to go over every island with a finetooth-comb for a resource version of Where’s Waldo. Also note, clear cutting the trees on the western side of the pantheon and CAREFULLY making a ladder up to the roof of the western building makes for a great platform to provide covering fire for friends on the beach......or playing the “Tower in Texas” game with a carbine for bonus EXP from critters/hostiles running around on the beach. And no, I will not apologize for that joke.

Everything from rcon is showing up only on the global chat tab, not the all tab. If you switch to the global tab, you'll see the messages. Same for the messages when using commands from showmyadminmanager.

wtf do you mean "grabbed everything"? Dynasty, the largest company, only has about 2-3 "secured" sectors, and by "secured" I mean we still lose shit to random passerby. You people are so full of shit when you cry about everything being taken. Just because you traveled to 4-5 sectors close to freeports doesn't mean the entire map is taken, ffs. STOP CRYING. YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GET YOUR OWN ISLAND AS A SOLO PLAYER/3 MAN COMPANY. GET OVER IT. MAKE FRIENDS.

Can we just get an update on what is going on?

Getting rid of the claim system would help a lot