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Hi, I have to say, as a returning player, there seem to be something fundamentally wrong with the system as it stands. I come back after a hiatus of 6 months or so, and am starting from scratch. I discover to my "horror" that to build something as simple as a schooner, I have to gather 5000 gold?! In addition to the other resources. Ok, that is what it is, I get that it is related to the trade system and that is fine. I suppose that this means it should be relatively easy, compared to diving and digging for treasure, to raise the 5000 gold. Right, so I build my marked. Bit expensive, but that's ok, because I am going to make a killing, right? Ok, the marked doesn't work without a warehouse... Ok, that makes sense, I suppose, so I gather the materials for a warehouse and am finally able to put it down. And this is where the logic chain breaks down. I cannot put down my warehouse, because there is apparently another one in the vicinity. I cannot see it though, which suggests, that since I have a fairly good view from my spot, the exclusion range of a warehouse is quite large. This means, that it is almost impossible, or at least very very difficult, for a small single-member trading company like myself, to get some trade going, because there isn't room to get started? There is something very very wrong with this system, if I am required to join a large trading company just to get into the trading system. Seems to me, that the exclusion range on e.g. warehouses should only apply within a company. The same goes to some extend for farmhouses, quarries, mines etc. I get that logically, there has to be a limit to the automated resource gathering in an area, but since real estate in this game is limited, it makes it incredible difficult for new players to get started. You find a nice spot, build a nice base, get ready to build a larger ship. Only to discover that you cannot put down essential structures because you're within the exclusion range of another structure that does not even belong to you. I really do not know what the intention with the system is, but there seems to be some major flaws in it.

Hmm. Well whatever's going on with your farmhouse, I think we can rule that out as being the cause. Does your warehouse run out of slots? Another theory is you should try keeping at least 1/3rd of slots open in the WH. Who knows how far ahead the trade AI tries to plan space reservation. Your guess is as good as mine. Anyway good luck to ya.

@George Catcher I have a theory regarding the days you're getting no-gold. Have your original offered resources run low? For example, I trade slate. My slate stockpile is nearly empty after the above mentioned night of trading. In it's place though, I now have a huge stockpile of another type of stone. I'm going to go in and create sell offers for things I do not produce locally, so it will possibly re-sell. Try doing the same and let me know if that creates a consistent tax stream.

Thanks for the input George. @FlameBlade - After I replied to your post, I got on and spammed trade invites to something like 30 routes (instead of just 5 I originally had). I woke up this morning to find some had connected, and I made 500g overnight. Similar to what George is saying, I'm receiving a few things not set up in my trade offers (gems specifically...as I have no gem requests or offers set up). Not complaining about it, but whether it's working as intended...I have no idea.

Yeah. That's true. As SotD Hunter who took down hundreds of them I must say, most of time I do ignore most of week damned fleet. Those small one even lvl-50+ are totally waste of cannonballs, due to little XP reward and poor loot. Middle size... well... most of them are also trash and waste of resources. When I'm in to hunting, most of time I travel though Goldens searching huge damned Galleys lvl30++ only those are worth killing. And this is bad, because I don't do cleaning work in my grid, and even sailing my warbird, I also avoid damned ships, as if I sail some non battle schooner... This fleet Idea also perfect. Something like that was in old Russian game Corsairs. Depending on ship you had, you could search for small trade guy with small escort to rob, and after you've got huge floating fortress, you could try trade expedition fleet.

This UI overhaul is amazing. I hate the current NPC ship system. The NPC's have no purpose they are just their and they look SH*T. Yours is much nicer looking. I think they should also be much rarer but stronger and instead of having hundreds of SotD's randomly floating around we should have "human" NPC ships sailing with purpose - trade routes hopefully will add this and I hope its more than just a measly small paddle steamer circling the map. It should be a fleet of galleons travelling with an armed escort that will attack anyone who attacks the fleet otherwise just continue on its way. They should vary in fleet size and have multiple routes they follow with some being short other being longer.

I feel your pain. I have played with medium and large companies in previous seasons. At the moment I'm giving it a go as a tribe of two. Your experience matches mine, except I was able to squeeze a warehouse down in lawless, after doing some...shady pirate things to my neighbors. It doesn't get much better after that though. The Market interface is clunky, and there do not seem to be any good tutorials on how to use it. I think I figured it out, but to start making trades, requires that some other company randomly decided to check / change their routes, and finds my offers after side scrolling through 5 tabs of pagination (it is at least sorted by distance, so that's a plus). If I start making a killing on it, I'll let you know. In the 15 or so hours I've had it up though, it has made zero. I never minded farming RSS for 1 to 3 hours to build a schooner or brig (even without tames). Farming gold for several days though... that's brutal.

I'm gonna spread couple of photoshop I've made (with my poor photoshop skills) through the forum. So... a) - Damned ship looks could me more realistic, not some alien crustaceans made some bones ship and then put disco rave dance party inside. So instead of this: We could gladly see this: b) - Inventory menu made with TOTALY MISSPLACED ACCENTS! I mean we have small backpack, but huge opened crafting part (I just noticed I can hide crafting). Crafting window has ALL recipes together. Then we have smallest window with most important information, especially that tiny buffs parts where you should scroll it for all 50 buffs you've got... and then HUGE portrait, which no one cares about. We don't have that many armor types and cosmetic you know? So instead of this: We could see something like this: d) - And of course this minimalistic interface. Even small Russian company that made pirate game Corsairs ages ago, worked a bit on interface graphic. With all old paper, wood, rope, gold and royal velvet elements. I know next picture don't look perfect, but I just wanna show THE IDEA that instead of this: We could play something this like:

You forgot to mention HATS for bears, cats and rabits tames : ))) Well... if we are going to be serious then... yeah. I also came to THE GAME of sailing age, piracy and adventures. And in 2 years there were: - just 2 more types of damned ships I fight. - Shipwrecks I occasionally dive for. - Some rebalance related to the treasure maps, and resource gathering. - Cargo saddle with storage box, I use with my horse. And that's it. That's all what was added for me in 2 years. -- I don't care about tames, dinos, hats, dolphins etc. I'm not here to play happy farm guy, that do all taming and breeding. Everytime I put alot of XP in to beastmastery - I feel sad, because I forced to do so. There is no alternative to tames in high lvl treasure map fighting. -- I don't care about all this trading stuff. I'm not here to play middle age tycoon. -- As solo player I never been to Kraken, Yeti, Thench, because game just doesn't provide any instrument to gather players in groups and do all stuff together with all other players. And yeah... I was writing and even use ALL MY POOR PHOTOSHOP SKILLS to show that, instead of this: We could see something like this: Instead of this: Something like this (I know it doesn't look perfect, I just wanna show the Idea). And even here all made wrong: And it should look this like: