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Well, I am happy to see that I am not the only one baffled by the "logic" of it all. Misery loves company and all that I can only hope, that the developers will actually begin to balance things so it actually works, instead of just adding new stuff. I like new stuff, but I like that existing stuff works, even better

If one is in my way I just blow it up. With that being said I really shouldn’t have to do that. Remembering this is a video game and player should have access to the farmhouses, warehouses, and trading aspects, I still for the life of me haven’t figured out why they haven’t just made a farmhouses of all types be buildable in your base and just collect all resources on the island it’s on. then everyone regardless of company size gets a farmhouse, warehouse, and market on a island and the perks of those structures. This would solve so many issues on its own that it’s almost a joke to say it. I get the idea that companies should be fighting over position on a island and the current mechanic works good just for that but where is the quality of gameplay for all players?

A few mini-tips on farms and markets. You will likely need to INTENTIONALLY lower the efficiency of the farms by placing the foundations in order to prevent them filling up quicker than the warehouse can drain it. It will not auto-start once it stops. It will just drain and remain stopped. Warehouse trades are weighted, and need to match at both ends. If I set a trade of "Slate" for "Granite" at a 1:1 ratio. I can ONLY trade Slate for Granite. If my neighbor has a trade of "Granite" for "Slate" at a 10:1 ratio, we WILL TRADE at an average of our rates. I will send 5 Slate, and he will send 1 Granite. You CANNOT PREVENT THIS except by cancelling the trade route. If I set a trade of "Slate" for "Stone" at 1:1 ratio, I can trade Slate for any other stone. Weighted ratios still apply. Some 'evil' person can set a bunch of "Marble for Stone" trades at 1:100 and if you have a route you will send 50:1 in return. Gold earned is based on distance (in grids) but currently everything is 1 because there is only INTER-grid trading. Gold earned is PER trade, at either 10 gold for two different companies trading, or 5 gold for inter-company trades. (trading with your own markets) You can set a market to private and have a few of them on one grid and just set a bunch of 1:1 trades between them to passively generate gold. Warehouses will stop collecting (I think) if they fill on weight, but not on slots? This one is weird.

@George Catcher @Ranger1k and @Gortok You guys will like this... I finally got the 50k gold for a galley and built one. Took it on its maiden voyage to get crew, im manually running the sails in the interem. Run into a fleet of level 30 SoTD. I cant turn fast enough, they blast a half dozen of my planks and take out 3 decks of the ship. Im using spare planks and repairing when BAM! my ship resource chest goes along with my 4th deck. I cant get to the wheel. I used all my spare planks. I had 15 spare planks and couldnt place them fast enough. I ended up using them all and still had 1 missing and 4 needing repairs. I was en-route to an island and sunk when i was about 500m from the shore. Galley sunk after sailing less than 1 hour. Before this I've spent 2 weeks on land. I literally spent less than 2% of my playtime at sea. HOW IS THIS A PIRATE GAME? The game is now just "satisfactory" or some material harvesting simulator, but it randomly decides to rollback progress that it needlessly gated to begin with. Its not even a game anymore. Its more just a trashcan that you work really hard to put as much trash in as possible. (OH YEAH, I SPEND SOOO MUCH MORE TIME AT SEA NOW) Btw... the SotD were camping the map border. They attacked me the moment my ship switched grids... WHY ISNT THERE AN EXCLUSION ZONE? Why dont SotD move BACK AWAY From the edges of the map if they arent ACTIVELY engaged in combat??? So what, log in 30 min a day for 2 more week and rebuild and do it again? or just quit? you guess what Im doing... GG Atlas devs. Im done again with this game for another year until they fix their shit.