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I have been submitting tickets and not getting answers. Am I using the right system, under support? The forum moderator just told me that is how I contest in game actions - yet weeks and months go by but nothing happens. Am I doing it wrong? I play(ed) on pvp.

Ah yes, the quarterly Atlas update sandwich. Top slice of 'Hey guys this is really hard but we have some great ideas and we're going to be doing a better job communicating and listening to you... and this time we really mean it!'. Bottom slice of 'Just remember guys it's still early access, so please don't hold us accountable for anything regardless of how poorly thought out or executed it may be'. So what's the filling this time? Ah, of course. An extremely complex multi-grid trade route system adding new island types with automatically generated defenses, npc trade ships, and a boat designed to ram other boats. What could possibly go wrong? I mean last update you said you were just adding warehouses, and we got an unannounced game-destroying barrel 'balance' change and you broke a number of critical core game functions and disappeared for a month without a word. I hope you don't expect much confidence from anyone that you are even remotely capable of successfully implementing something of the magnitude that you're describing. Stop dangling stuff that nobody cares about or asked for and 'teasing' all these cool new ideas you have when there are so many existing mechanics that are completely broken, useless, or imbalanced. Fix them. Get your game running smoothly and add some polish to what you already have before you go introducing a bunch of new stuff that you aren't capable of doing anyway. You also mentioned more frequent wipes. How frequent? Do you really think that's a sustainable model for a game that has a ridiculously complex breeding and 6 resource type grindy upgrade mechanic? Is that the purpose of the trade routes? Having to get a bunch of different resources sucks, so rather than simplify the core system lets implement a complicated, difficult to implement alternative to make it suck a little less. You guys have no direction, no accountability, no credibility, and nobody buys your 'new ideas, more communication, we're going to do a better job and btw look at this amazing idea we have' PR nonsense that we've seen over and over and have been let down every time. Nobody cares that it's early access. Early access doesn't give you carte blanche to make strings of idiotic decisions and expect players to stick around. The last thing in this update you said is that you'll be paying extra attention to suggestions and feedback, so here's some from a 5,000 hour player. Put this trade system, ships for gold, and whatever other half baked band-aid ideas you have on the shelf. Fix what you have, give regular updates on what you're working on, and stop saying over and over that you're going to be listening to players and start actually doing it. Focus your energies on resolving those issues and building on those ideas first. Thinking for yourselves and deciding what you think is best for the game is why there are 92 players on NA PVP as I write this. Get your shit together or just shut it down.

I am still waiting, along with numerous other players who you Globally Banned recently for supposed "exploits" to find out why, or if we will ever be allowed to play again. We have still yet to be told what we did, or when this will be fixed or when we can appeal this decision. I have put in tickets, sent emails, etc. We did not intentionally cheat or exploit anything. We were all daily active players who love your game. Most of us are XBOX players who chat and played the game daily with friends. We were merged into in a large company, of which you banned every member. We just want to be able to play your game again, and we did not cheat or exploit anything on purpose or know anyone who did. Whatever action you took on all of us was way over board. Still love your game, and wish you all the best. Hoping to hear back from someone about this issue.

dont worry all we have to do is tell them what we did wrong to get unbanned kekw shit devs

It would be nice if tickets were actually answered and not automatically marked as "solved".

Серверы PVE были полностью забыты !!! Никто не спрашивает у игроков PVE их мнение и пожелания !!!!!!!! Кому нужны ваши фермы и склады на PVE серверах, они загадили ими все острова, убили этот огромный игровой контент, который был песочницей !!! НУЖНЫ НОВЫЕ КВЕСТЫ, ЦЕПИ КВЕСТОВ !!! ГДЕ УВЕЛИЧИВАЕТСЯ И РАСШИРЯЕТСЯ СОДЕРЖАНИЕ ИГРЫ !!! ВЕРНИТЕ СТАРУЮ КАРТУ ДЛЯ PVE СЕРВЕРОВ !!! Игра становится полностью PVP, поэтому вы потеряете большинство игроков и игра обязательно умрет и уже НАВСЕГДА !!!!!

In my opinion, having ships cost gold to build is going to cause a huge disparity between small groups and larger groups. Typically, gold is a big deal to smaller companies. So if you have a ship cost 500 gold to make it, you're discouraging newer players/small groups from being able to make and try all of the ship types. On top of that, they're very likely to lose boats more easily (since they don't have as much experience, or as large of a fleet to take a fight). So they'll be having to build more boats. All I can imagine is that it's going to run small companies out of gold very quickly, forcing them to be stuck using sloops (which are terrible). I would highly suggest re-thinking this change.

My company of 40+ members quit this season because of Barrel Bombs and lack of Dev communication on the subject. Nothing changed and guess we aint coming back.

You guys should try and focus on releasing this game. These additions are good but doesn’t seem like your getting any closer with release. Maybe just add a few things to make the game ready for release rather going “back to the drawing board” on a game that’s over two years old.

I'm sorry to be so unpleasant, but do you ever look at your community needs? Do you not see what makes people leave the game even tho they love it? I can promise you it isn't the lack of rowing. Or do you just enjoy adding things nobody has ever asked for, and watch as the fun this game still barely provides fade away from the three low digits worth of playerbase you still have left in here?

umh barrels ?

PVE servers were completely forgotten !!! Nobody asks PVE players for their opinions and wishes !!!!!!!! Who needs your farms and warehouses on PVE servers, they dirtied all the islands with them, killed this huge game content, which was a sandbox !!! NEED NEW QUESTS, CHAINS OF QUESTS !!! WHERE THE GAME CONTENT INCREASES AND EXPANDS !!! RETURN THE OLD MAP FOR PVE SERVERS !!! The game becomes completely PVP, so you will lose most of the players and the game will definitely die and already FOREVER !!!!!

"Community" Ok, let me fire this one; "Who on THIS COMMUNITY asked for rammingships?" I want lasers btw.

would be better to fix some stuff before bringing new stuff who no one wants!!!

seens with the ideea of frequent wiping you just will kill the game!!! maybe you should not be to focused only on the pvp side,when the pve has much more players...

TBH it doesnt matter if your steam name is 123 for some

OMG I like the idea to be finally pirates and plunder traderoutes. But having the traderoutes playerdriven is hard to implement. You realised that resources only would never make this system worthwhile, so you added the whole gold thingy to it. But you may need to go the extra mile and reduce income elsewere to really make it the central point of the game. I see it failing hard. If this it the big picture we needed to see to understand the other QoL changes, i see no future for atlas esp. in PVE. If this is still a QoL for the big picture, it is also very worrisome. I was joking about the traderoutes would be the airship collecting the resources from the warehouses, tbh now that sounds better then what we will get. A system you will mostly use to earn your gold, eigther as initiator or attacker. How much old content you just deleted with this? What you need the resources for if everything gets autogenerated for you?

How the fuck are you gonna balance a ramming ship? 4 seasons and you have not been able to balance one fucking aspect of the game and now you propose to add another potentially game breaking element?

When you introduced farms and warehouses, thereby you killed the huge content of the game, you no longer need animals, seeds, plants, their extraction and breeding! Be consistent, then remove all animals from the game, all plants, they are no longer needed by anyone !!! Let there be bare islands and trees !!! Why was it all to kill ??? !!!

Used to love Atlas... Was all I played every available minute. Had a company that eventually worked it's way to owning an island. Then the "previous" (cash grab) devs left everyone in the dark for ARK. This killed it for most of the company and many never came back. This season I went in solo. Settled on a mega company island - friends I made when I started playing Atlas. As a solo player on PvE it can be a grind and farms and warehouses helped kinda. Farms in your area work well but warehouses... If I have one I kill the ability for the island owner to have one meaning I don't get to have one. This means that the "new content" just doesn't apply to me and I'm sure this will be the case for many. Claiming should be a hybrid of what you have now and had before. Each player has a certain radius they can claim with a flag or tax bank that makes it their spot on an already claimed island. That way it compartmentalises the area and allows a farm and warehouse and tax bank. This way content isn't just for the megas. I had 2 super casual players join my company... So casual that they are dead each time they log in. We managed to make a bit of gold but 95 percent of our purchases in game are with resources. I assume trade routes would help here but again will we even be able to use it. It really would be an awesome shift if this is implemented well. Later I had a friend from previous season come over. Bringing gold earned from being in a large company, which we used to get us up to scratch vs the megas. If ships are going to cost gold... As a solo player I'd have nothing just a ramshackle all season (If even as one storm and SoTD and it's gone). How is this supposed to get people on to the oceans. We have lives outside of the game so unless there is a passive job or trade route that can persist while I'm at work there is no way that'll happen. Lastly while the season started out roughly from a dev stand point it was OK for me till around the farm patch. Something on our grid broke and many couldn't log in. We got stuck in infinite load loops. Tickets were raised and immediately resolved. For a solid few months we couldn't log in. The work around was to not click rejoin but select the server you were on and join from there. This seems to work but something on the persistent players on ships broke players sleeping on islands. It's still broken and we still have to mess with the work around to play. TLDR: Please fix the issues. Please listen to your community (PvE paid for the game too) Please remember that there are solo players out there. Please take our time seriously - we also have lives outside of ATLAS Please take your games community seriously - give us more concrete interaction. Quality communication is beter than putting things out to just have captains logs. Bring back the Dev streams at least once a month. Give us actual lists and progress updates. Currently in the eyes of many players I've interacted with Grapeshot is a bunch of gamers trying to kinda make a game while playing their other favourite games. You need to be seen as a bunch of Devs working for a company that is producing a game that they want to produce and give feedback and join in the frustrations we feel (and perhaps fix them). Sweeping most of it under the rug ain't helping PvE or PvP. As mentioned... Make ATLAS the game the original Devs were excited about and the game you seem to want. All that said if what you previewed here is implemented and balanced properly I'm looking forward to it. Oh and Devs... feel free to contact us if you actually want to interact with the community, most of us have the same user name here and on the Discord server.

The desperation to cull the dwindling player numbers is palpable.

#nomorebarrel

can you guys create a commit list similar to facepunch so that the community knows what you guys are doing and you guys can see what the community thinks of it you would get a lot less people crying and it would be a nice change of pace to see what grapeshot is doing :)

The ideas are all focused on PvP, the PVE servers are very bad. You need to improve the quality of the servers, what’s the use of having a game, if players can’t play without disconnect, many servers whas crash the game when this very full. I'm really sad, because we lost time, at the beginning after wipe, we even managed to play, but then when the server has more constructions, we have many problems that hinder the experience. Despite the problems, I appreciate the efforts in bringing new updates.

surely you and the other devs can see the constant outcry about the barrels yet its ignored every time "As always, we appreciate the suggestions and feedback from the community. Please keep them coming! We will be paying extra attention to your thoughts " total BS, that meta has killed the game, would love to see the actual player count drop off of that week. no ones needing ramming boats, one barrel ship can wipe out ANY boat in one shot. game still sounds fucked beyond belief already quit this season (like many others), maybe next time eh?

no ones needing ramming boats, one barrel ship can wipe out ANY boat in one shot. game still sounds fucked beyond belief already quit this season (like many others), maybe next time eh?

Awesome! Keep pushing in the right direction team Atlas! Though i hope you also address more bugs and glitches/optimization please! Like maybe show a "before/after" so the community understands your actually working hard to fix the game itself. These new features sound great though!

Only way to get more players back is to undo the barrel bomb aspect of things and do a full blown wipe again... But hey... who am I to say what they should and should't do?

Make ATLAS Great Again!

That certainly does suck. I can show you the logic train, but it prolly wont make you feel better. Said company members cheat. Therefore the company is able to get an island possibly due to the assistance of team members cheating. With the secure island, further secured by some cheaters, your company likely enjoyed safer harbors, allowing you to have better levels ships for longer. Thus further advancing your combat wins. Possibly some good gear and/or BPs were gained from your defeated foes. Giving your company members better access to better gear. Also helped by some cheaters never missing shots, and knowing where everything is magically. So, say 5 of your players cheated. Well 155 other people benefitted greatly as the unfair advantage stacks multiply with every ill gotten win. I know I dont have a team mate cheating to help me out as I'm a solo, but I can see how much easier it would be if I did. So you didnt cheat, but you certainly gained from it in a way that can only be balanced at this time with a wipe. It's far less labor and more balanced for the rest of the player base to ban the company.

Hi folks, I have a big problem with my 4x3 map. I have finished the map so far with island etc but I can't get the big problem with the stones, ice cave, mermaid and whales as well as ghost ship and octopus. I ask for help . Who can do this for me on my card. Would possibly also pay what Thanks and regards

beyond the mats we need more abilities at sea!!!! help us start wars let me command 2 ships instead of one and let me be a CAPTAIN!!!!

Two questions- 1. Will there be a wipe corresponding with this update? 2. Will the wipe include unofficial? I ask because I quit PVP S4 and moved to unofficial. A lot of islands were removed from the game necessitating a wipe on all unofficial servers which was unaccounted for. With regard to barrel bombs, they severely broke the game. I think they should be shut down and maybe gliders too. Probably and unpopular opinion on gliders, but hell if you want to give us flight let us train Pteradons and build airships. That being said the size of the map/vrs. number of players you want to attract is mainly what ended it for me. By day 3 of Season 4, almost all of the islands were claimed by mostly the same companies from Season 3. The gold cost reduction to maintain an island made this inevitable. So my company was relegated to being settlers and paying draconian tax which inhibited our ability to produce. Anyways, I am happy that you guys are still working the game!