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When you first sold this game, you offered PVP and PVE play. You bragged how big the map would be. Where is your commitment to those now? PVP and PVE players both deserve to be served in whatever you do. Both sides have legitimate reasons in defense of their gameplay. If that means two separate games, or a combined game with some sort of division, so be it. If it’s a money thing and you can not afford all the servers to support both, then say so. Is your silence because you don’t know what your gonna do and your waiting for some epiphany? So what your saying is all the toil and trouble we’ve endured since day one was for nothing because now your undoing everything and starting over with a completely different game? Remember day one and all the server problems. Remember, no trees on the islands to build boats. Remember the stone/organic paste and claiming controversies. We’ve come all this way and now you want to throw it all down the toilet. I like playing PVE and I’ve played some PVP and didn’t enjoy it. As many have stated you can lose a lot of work, really fast. I can appreciate the PVP mindset though. My memories of playing PVP involve trying to stop infiltrators from our island and spending hours repairing pyramid ceiling panels while underway in battle. Yes, with over 2800 hours I’ve rebuilt a lot, started out again more times than I can count, but I always come back to play because I enjoy the game. As a retired disabled veteran, I have plenty of time on my hand and I choose to play your game. As a PVE player, I guess that means very little to you. I gave up ARK for this game with over 6600 hours of game play. Don’t make that a bad decision. Your proposed new map is bad for both PVP and PVE players unless there is a way to save the individual game play styles. Some have supported factions, maybe. Maybe give the current PVE players a special flag or notification that will exempt them from PVP action. IDK. (I remember the HATS) There are a lot of good suggestions out there and I hope your listening to them for everyone’s sake.

Well foundation wiping is the main reason for people not wanting to engage. That is why small to medium companies don’t want to fight large to mega sized companies. A base shouldn’t be able to be wiped. The pvp should stay on the water where it belongs and then have ships be able to be destroyed in pvp. I will never agree that bases should be raided. That is an ark mechanic, but atlas will definitely fail of base wiping is still a thing. so ships/tames/crew all destructible. As well as the players themselves and their bodies can be raided. bases? Nope indestructible. being able to bounce back by keeping your base will allow you to build another ship without starting at the very beginning again. I mean hell of you lose your tames that is already a set back but if you don’t even have a set of tools or any benches a lot of times people just say screw this game. I really don’t care if people like raiding bases or not, it just shouldn’t be a thing. if people can build ships again it would keep the pvp going on the water at a much greater frequency. Base raiding just needs to be a forgotten thing.

I would like a straight up answer, this beating around the bush is maddening. When I bought this game it clearly gave the options of pve OR pvp and now you want to make it pvp? Where is that right? You close the only pve server that isn't EU, leaving EU as pve only options, if this had been the option to start with then I would have asked for a refund within the two hours that steam offers it. EU servers as EVERYONE knows is overcrowded, why do you think they come to NA servers? I feel that I am being cheated, the new team have come in, wiped all of the hours I have put into my place then tells me that it is EU or pvp.........No, I will no longer be suggesting to buy this game, it was a good game while it ran but I am still feeling cheated out of the money I paid for it, a hidden lie is what it is and that is what I will be telling people and trust me, I am not alone in this.

Yeh they are being too non committal about future plans for pve, I don't read so much as what they do say, more about what they are not saying. But I still think they will give it a month to see what happens with the player base before they change pve.

Mmmmmmmm I love roast duck!, But seriously guys, gals and others, I get that we are all passionate about Atlas, but I think we should leave the pvp for the new map tomorrow eh? (well almost serious anyway).

..my hair is dry, as the ocean is gone. But my eyes are wet, thinking what will be. Soon, the smell of ocean, taste of sea, sounds of cannons.. arr, those who wait, will see!

You're fine lol. There will still be a PvE server. No forced PvP

@Pooter @Linea i think both of you are correct on this, as i see it your base should be indestructible and your boat while destructible should be sent to your port for repairs after being destroyed (ofc w/e you were carrying should be dropped as an incentive for other people to attack, its a pirate game after all, some form of looting should be present) you could pay for the repairs with resources and gold wich would also give gold some value (right now even venezuela's money has more value than this game's gold).

yey new map is here.... as anybody needed that... its not that people want new ships or tames and a new tame even got announced ... over 1 year ago and we are still waiting ...

Well as i said there is a proven solution that can be found in many games especially of the era when pvp mmos dominated the gaming market before developers divided them into either pvp and pve to save money and then were puzzled why noone played. There should only be pvp active between companies that are at war. You can declare war on any company at any time but you need to buy an item and there is a 48h warning period followed by a 24h war time. This gives both companies time to prepare for the war and bring their players online during the war window. It also does stop griefing completly. There could also be unrestricted pvp zones in the center of the map mixed with this or the war system could cover the whole map as it is more competitive. It does solve all the mentioned problems and any player can play under these rules. There is no griefing and offline raiding. PvP is forced by fighting for control in bigger battles rather than griefing matches that see little player contact. Bigger companies would attack other big companies as it would be a waste of time to attack small companies that do them no harm just because they are sailing by someones base. One Companie cannot get dominant as they cannot subdue an Unlimited amount of other companies. With different companies controlling the rare ressource spawns trading would really kick off now. I would go with either PvP restricted to company wars and unrestricted pvp in the center of the map Or factions that divide the map into npc founded realms that fight each other under a competitive ruleset If they stay with unrestricted pvp and megas the game will be unable to aquire new players and only loose players. The game has already lost a massive amount of players that didnt like 100%pvp and 100%pve that was offered.

I meant people that criticize pve players actually, as i play mainly pve, and secondly its a forum, And I have been in the game since start and have watched everyone who no longer plays boycott any good idea for the game. So yeh I'll type what I want to thx, and I don't need permission to do so. thx

I don't know why they force people into joining megas because that's the only way to survive in PvP but they usually get you to farm resources all day, not my idea of fun as I like to do my own thing. Trouble with being solo on PvP is as people have said they just come and destroy you just because they can, which is why I've always stuck to PvE. If they changed it to factions or something along those lines I will be happy to play PvP, that way you can do what you want when you want and also help same faction in a fight, not having to be forced into it. 3 or 4 factions fighting for areas of the map would be ideal, you set up in the location and you having to defend that location that way the video they created on launch would become reality as ships would come into shore in their numbers and everyone on island attacks back. Wishful thinking though.

yeah maybe some sort of system that punishes big groups attacking small groups and rewards them for attacking same size or bigger groups

I'm confused why everyone is interpreting one PvE server "for the time being" as, one PvE server which will eventually go away and not, one PvE server which will eventually be joined by more PvE servers...?

I take it to mean there will only be one PVE server for the time being whilst they use the NA as a temporary test one for their future plans. Now, if everyone is happily playing on the one PVE server I do wonder if they will see any point in re-opening the NA one again. Lets face it, if you're in the Americas you wouldn't want to start over on the EUPVE server only to find the NA one comes back up in a month and have to think about restarting again another time. The worst bit about this is the map start is 4am UK time. Guess I'm getting up early on Saturday.

"one global PVE server for the time being" - Doesn't sound good to me. Does "for the time being" mean all my progress is going to be wiped in favour of a pvp server ?

"there will be one global PVE server for the time being." interesting way to say you don't care about the players that like and want to play the game but not deal with the toxic nature of what you call "levels o' fun with a focus on player encounters"

idk who was asking for this. but i just hope it doesnt ruin the game.

Personally I'd prefer PvP and PvE be on the same map but separated. This is where I would like factions to come into play also so if you are not a fighting person for PvP anyone like yourself can come to your aid and help you. As for the building part I wish they would make it more interesting and when you build ships you don't just make planks but you have to make the nails also and other items. If anyone played Life Is Fudal people will know what I'm talking about, having to acquire various items to make something. In Life Is Fudal you, to make a warehouse you would have to chop down a tree into a log, cut these logs into planks or into billets.. If you wanted Wooden boards you saw them out, makes it more interesting and fun to give you more of a sense of achievement in making something, in my opinion anyway. I want to know what they have to say first on what changes are coming, which will be taken with a huge pinch of salt as I know what they are like. They say they will bring monthly updates, no you won't, i've heard that before and learned my lesson. I'm still waiting for these "monthly streams" we were supposed to be seeing. I will believe something when it actually happens. If there is big changes and new content I will come back but not if it's the same things as before, moving a few islands around and changing the regions will not bring me back at this time.

game runs fine till i get on a boat or near a boat that moving seems to be one of the sound that causes it the game will freeze or shutter from 2s to 30s and sound is crackly . i'v check all my driver they are update I've verified atlas a ton of time after is time i try and fix it and last i have reinstalled the game 3 times now and the bug is still there. with the game running not near water i open options turn all sounds off with sliders the and apply the game goes in to a none stop stutter mode every 10 secs the game stutters none stop till i turn the sliders back up. there is 2 people that are having same problem as i have. full desc of what i did at bottem if you need it 1 uninstalled sound drivers verify files in steam 2 installed latest drivers verify files in steam 1 file failed 3 disabled sound card with reboot verify files in steam 4 switched sound devices from realrek to nivida sound and disabled realtek 5 switched sound from nivida to realtek and disabled nivida 6 deleted atlas 7 installed atlas game worked fine no stutter then servers patched and game was back to stutter verify files in steam 8 redid part 7 to try and fix it dint work this time at all 9 deleted drivers for sound and video card 10 reinstalled sound and video 2 restarted one for each install 11 pulled my hair out some feedback would be nice thanks

Let's not go around necroposting. In this case we all know the claim system has changed dramatically since launch so the topic didn't need resurrecting. Thank you.

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