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Dev team- “we want to support small tribes and lone wolves” also dev team “let’s introduce a mechanic to make it even easier for large companies to have a monopoly of the map” -_-‘

I.... just want to clarify by: ...you meant somewhere around Thursday or Friday right???

Devs You left in islands that megas can own in multiples. You possibly fucked every solo on lawless. I mean PROPER FUCKED! Can these be destroyed while I am at work? Can people put down multiples of these or just 1 per person or company? Can my tower be overrode by another adjacent tower? Can Megas still own several islands and then still go out into lawless and span claim areas for free to exploit market trades? No wipe? Guys, I give you the benefit of a doubt at every opportunity. How about you flesh out some details. As it is, it appears you fucked solos and smalls into oblivion right now.

Lol you keep saying this other dude doesnt know what he' talking about, but you didnt know you could use a silo on lawless. A lot of your assumptions and conclusions are Possibilities* but not the case. Me and 2 others started playing again a month ago, built a base and what we needed in Lawless, been attacked a few times, defended it, never broken into and we are doing just fine. Yes a Mega could come wipe us any time, but they have no reason to Raid us. They MIGHT have a reason to try a new claim mechanic just for the lulz because what else are they doing with their gold/time? They reduced the gold cost of NPCs exponentially, ours might cost 200g a day, our barely producing warehouse generates far more than all our npcs and armored docks upkeep per day. There is like 1 unclaimed island on NA PVP, the devs forced people to live in Lawless by cutting the Map down 70 grids. Final note, just because youv never survived on lawless for more than an afternoon, doesnt mean others of us cant. I rather enjoy my time fuckin around as a Bob these days and no longer being a part of the Megas...

Dear Devs, i work in a normal job the whole day. How can i compete in placing a claim tower with homeschooling 24/7 Corona kiddies ? So what you tell me is that i automatically have lost absolutely everything 45 minutes after your patch jumps in just because i am one of the stupid people who work for the taxes ?

I agree they should definitely be more informative with their player base. For all we know the new system could be awesome but you’re right the problem still stands where we’re left in the dark.

Probably I think you would be suprised how many islands are held by 1-3 players with no affiliation with anyone. These days 10+ players is pretty much considered a mega and theres not that many megas per server. At the start of the season I ran into a 2 man company holding one of the equitorial grids up in the top left corner A1 or A2 or something.

I am a solo and you are clearly in a mega company. Likely abusing several thing as megas are wont to do. Since you seem to be speaking for me, let me help you out on some details. For starters you are wrong. I can prove it very easily. Most megas are currently full roster. Meaning there is no issue inviting people currently. Certainly not to the point where you have trouble maxing out membership. When you say "Literally NEVER going invite new players able to come in and scuttle all the boats in the harbor." You are "Literally" wrong. The main #1 reason we do not want to be in a mega is because of what you are advocating for more of here. WE DO NOT WANT A FUCKING DICTATOR WHEN WE PLAY A GAME. You want to lock me out of more things after you invite me to your company? Oh YOU can say what boat I sail. YOU can say when and where I can build. You can say what doors I can and cant use. YOU CAN GO FUCK YOURSELF IS WHAT YOU CAN DO! At least with that I must own you view. Your idea would make people leave your precious mega more than it would attract anyone of use to your cause. You want the solo players to join bigger companies? Take away the threat of restricting our in game access. All doors, boxes, buildings, boats should be unlocked to every company member 110%. Basically, everything I can do as a solo I should still be able to do as a member of a company. Else why would I join people and lose content? Do I look like a slave? Do you want to be a slave? I'm not trying to be a dick. Would you join my company if I told you everything you could and couldn't do? If I had 200 people and said hey, "this is your schooner, there are many like it but this one is yours." I believe you would tell me to go fuck myself. I'm just saying, please don't be so attached to your fake shit I game that you want to oppress people to get your jollys off. Knowing full well you were all 100+ against 50s-80s, you took 200 people to fight 35? Well, I guess I hope it was a rewarding experience. Megas sure sound like a blast.

Well, I keep checking back to see if there's any reason to start playing again. Guess what devs, you have just completely and utterly justified my purchase of a private ARK server cluster! I was a lawless pve player in the eu but you just screwed us royally. GG's dev team. GG's. Peace out guys, this ship has well and truly sunk

2. I think Devs intended that the larger islands and more resources and short distance would get the Megas there with 24/7 combat. But they are prooved wrong because Megas enjoy peactime as well. The Megas had to adjust to the less good islands to claim with good harbor bays and decend resources. There are lots of claimable islands that where useless on Maelstorm until added armored docks. 3. You can feed and pay NPCs on lawless with a silo. You do not need the flag therefore. Also costs are decreased heavily compared to Season 3 for example. So you could build a PvP base on a lawless pillar(mountain) which is pretty safe from the 1-5 players groups looking around for offline raiding. But you can't protect your warehouse and farmhouses from being destroyed every couple days. So yes, Megas could go Lawless but they don't need to and stay with the safe peacetime. Only issue of this map design ist that Sea Battle focus is turned to GA and all the high level ships pass by the lawless where small players want to start. The Devs should play the game and visit the different servers and islands, make some pictures of how players build the islands to protect themselfes. Even better would be if the Devs would speak ingame to the Island owners to ask them why they do things. 1-2 weeks like this and Devs may get a plan how to improve the game. I just settled on a lawless island with 4 types of Metall you can farm there! Is this still a bug from the Maelstorm map adjustmend?

The new Kraken ship cannot turn without the sails open HOLY Crap thats terrible the new kraken ship also when the front or back plank are 0 hp Instantly sinks. Man Imagine still having a known bug in the "new" boat system and then adding onto it. ANY BOATS AS THEY WANT.

@Pant 1. False 2. Who says they have to store them there? 3. Fast travel into puckle spam?... 4. Your ignoring alternate accounts. Also see rebuttal #2 Your closing statement is a broad generalization (a pattern of yours) and is derived from the 4 erroneous points listed above. I'll try this again. Goodbye Pant.

It is the most stupid thing they could do, after people claim we are gonna see even more huge walls blocking people from maps etc coz now its "their" place and now they can spam walls as much as they want within the area they now own , just to ruin the game for others,(hurray for even more laggy servers) plus this patch on PVE because we have shared servers NA/EU with their patch timers means that they are going to loose most players from EU, who is going to log on and see all their hard work gone, most pve players are players who got work and family and who dont have the time for offline raiding etc but maybe they just want PVE gamers from NA or maybe they are simply trying to kill PVE off completely so they can focus on pvp only because god know this new dev team are the freaking worst ever that happened to atlas, none of the devs are actively playing atlas and none of them are actually experienced in making a game , they are one huge fuck up of a team imo , who constantly makes excuses about "its early access" 2 years of early access lol ....... they dont know wtf they are doing at all , you cant design or repair a game you dont actively play your self coz you simply dont know whats good or bad

One final thought for the dev team.. Why did you present this feature, then have a "Q & A" with questions selected that HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FUCKING FEATURE THAT YOU JUST ANNOUNNCED? Thats like me telling you that your car just got swapped with a Tesla, then following it up with a "Q & A" about why the dinosaurs went extinct. Are you all really that fugging scatterbrained? Are you capable of focusing on ONE thing or is there some kind of issue going on? Can you walk AND chew bubblegum? No, seriously can you? Were you playing on Discord or fucking around on your cell phone when you wrote this announcement? What the fuck is wrong with you AND your staff that this "Announcement" cleared the approval process? Do you have a process?... Dimwitted, short sighted, incoherent fucking drivel...

"In the patch dropping early next week, we’ll be introducing a new claim system to the lawless regions of Atlas. Moving forward, Pathfinders will now be able to claim land in these areas using a claim tower that will claim everything within its radius after it reaches full health. This takes about 45 minutes and may be sped up with gold. These changes will take effect immediately with the release of the new update and will make your structures be vulnerable to being claimed by others. Armored Docks may be claimed in this manner, and that includes the ships docked there! " This is a truly awful change to make, and I sincerely hope you guys either scrap or fundamentally change this new system, at the very least for PvE servers. It doesn't even really make sense for PvE servers. Are we going to be able to attack the towers, thereby being forced into PvP, or are we just going to be given 45 minutes to say goodbye to everything we worked for? Do they get our tames, and if not, what happens if some or all of our tames are in a structure that was just claimed by a tower? And then there's the duration. 45 minutes is ridiculously short, it punishes anybody who plays solo or in a small company who has the audacity to sleep (and refuses to not). Allowing it to then be sped up with gold further benefits large companies and alliances, who can afford to dump significantly more gold into these towers than small companies and the like. Please don't implement this system on PvE servers, at least not without significant changes. My group of friends and I have really been enjoying this game, but we're already looking at different games to switch to because of this patch. We would all much rather play Atlas, but it's feeling like the devs aren't interested in retaining players like us. Really hope I'm proven wrong.

@Ferah That and the radius size will cause issues no matter how big they make it....(referring to PvE at a minimum) 1. If the radius size is small then back when I played I would probably have lost 3 out of 4 of my farmhouses. Some of the breeders will lose them all, unless their neighbor gives it back and they form an alliance or something. I squeezed the 4 farmhouses as close as the game would allow me to also. 2. If the radius size is medium or large I would own everything belonging to between 1 to 4 neighbors if my tower goes up first... Alot of people on PvE CANNOT find an island owner who will voluntarily let them settle. At one point I had 5 people squeeze in tiny little spots next to my base which had sheer cliffs at both ends of the beach. They didnt have farmhouses, warehouses or markets but they got to grind out a ship and play... Some quit, then other people took their spot... Basically ALOT of fucking players live on Lawless. Our grid consistently had over 10 players online 24/7. Often closer to 20.. One more possible issue. If I were part of a douchey, trolly Company lookin to get a bunch of free shit, control real estate and flat out grief people because its fun, I'd have Monday/Tuesday circled on my Calender. My members would be spread around various grids, in ships with gold, mats, smithys, some horses and Alt accounts. As soon as that patch went live we'd gobble up as much real estate and peoples possessions as this system would allow.. My boots would be soaked from the rivers of tears that flowed... The Q & A doesn't state any limiting factors besides gold. Anyone know any trolls?... Good luck y'all... *** I know I'm being negative, aaaand overly dramatic, I mean that last patch went smooth as butter, right? ***

Exactly - I think half the reason why everyone is freaking is because we have literally no information about how this is going to work. We need details ASAP.

After a lot of trolls, megas etc. will capture all small companies properties, devs will have their QnA, with: "We have a lot of feedback from lone wolves, about they loosing all! We looking for solution". And things will stay as is for next months or even years : )

The only "wipe" I foresee with this lawless claim system is casual players cleaning the blood off their asses..

I see how a wipe for this claim change is *clearly* not necessary. Also, If you believe that, I have this bridge I'd like to sell you...

I'm curious btw, why DEVs decided to get rid of current LAWLESS??? Was there particular reason for that? (Until today I thought new claim system will replace current islands claims...

Same for me, i can not compete with 24/7 homeschooling Corona kiddies. All solos/small companies who do not receive Bidens helicopter money but work in a regular job will automatically lose all structures, docks, ships and gold through this. RIP Atlas, very bad idea.

give details on claim functions now.

@George Catcher Yea they throw in the vague phrasing "will make your structures vulnerable to be claimed" at the end confusing things. Also they left out radius, gold cost, decay time, upkeep, taxes, tames, how conflicting tower placements will be resolved, PvE, PvP, tower HPs, size, a frikken picture of a tower... will it have a peace timer?...just to name a few important details off the top of my head... Basically to evade the responsibility of correcting the game mechanics and avoid a wipe they're going to have a tower-battle-royale on lawless. Don't get pissed at the devs, get pissed off at your neighbor.. Gah hah ha ha lol

Hmmm. I hope this radius won't be the same as first version of warehouses was: What do you mean by STRUCTURES? Will it be just prefab windmill, warehouse, docks etc? Or any structures? And how game will specify "the structure?" For example - will this one count as one structure? Or will I be able to claim this castle? How about this theater? Or maybe I can capture this bar??? I hope you do understand that in PVE LAWLESS in most cases is the only option for lone wolves. Because ppl just wanna their small spot (not to be landowner) and most islands outside Lawless are forbidden to build on for some reason.

I like the idea of a new claiming system but 45 minutes to claim everything I own? I fear that will destroy small companies like mine while we sleep.. There’s got to be a catch 22 in there somewhere right??

In the patch dropping early next week, we’ll be introducing a new claim system to the lawless regions of Atlas. Moving forward, Pathfinders will now be able to claim land in these areas using a claim tower that will claim everything within its radius after it reaches full health. This takes about 45 minutes and may be sped up with gold. These changes will take effect immediately with the release of the new update and will make your structures be vulnerable to being claimed by others. Armored Docks may be claimed in this manner, and that includes the ships docked there! Previously we mentioned that there may be a wipe with the new claim system if it becomes necessary. However, we are able to implement this without requiring it, so please note that there is NO WIPE at this time is this also for PVE ? as it dosent say anything about that? IF its also for PVE then how is that gonna work without a wipe?? you have us EU/ NA together on same server and when you release the patches most people in EU are sleeping coz they got work /school etc the days after or a family you can just ignore so you cant just stay awake all night and have the game be more important than real life, if this is on PVE as well many EU players are gonna loose everything have a think about that

gj dev team great additions to the game........ smh rip atlas

You want to remove; Armored Docks BPs SoTD Peace time Freeports Stuns Feats for most melee weps level bonuses aging Ship customization Structures (or at least any remaining usefulness of them) Ownership of structures Rewarding players who prosper bar shots All gold sinks handcuffs Reload timers Player announcement for entering or leaving a server Ship weight penalty company size caps Did I miss anything? You want to have; Ships be equal in stats Players be equal in stats All gear and weps be equal in stats Ships be free No bases (proved by your wanting to tear them down so fast no one would bother building them) Very little PvE and a heavy focus on PvP @chukiki Dude, honestly, you are wanting to play "Sea of Thieves". You take ALL of this out and get what you want, you basically have a shitty version of Sea of Thieves.

so... You live in lawless and can get wiped at any time with ease losing everything in less then 45mins anyway... And now the world ends because they not just have to bring in a cannon cart, but likely shit tons of resources to build the tower before you do...?!?! In the end you lose your shit anyway... if you are stupid enough to leave your important stuff in lawless in the first place... Yeah the 'claiming ships' (and the docks) thing is no good... they should not start that feature on patch day... introduce it a week later, so everyone can rearrange their setup... to protect against it... BUT... this is a patch day problem... because if it not happens to you on patch drop ( maybe because you get your shit out for the day to hidden base or FP) you will build your own tower and hopefully will be WAY MORE protected in lawless as before the patch... The real question on which I have not seen an answer yet (link?) is what happens on day two after the patch? How does the claim tower work? Costs? How do you 'unclaim' it? Will it be a time thing with contesting like the normal flags? Or will it be a million HP that have to be destroyed (like the docks)? How long is peace time in the claim? Is there enemy build protection in it (so we save on the shitty turf spam)? Will your claim area get smaller when someone places his tower outside your claim (like it did in S1) and nibbles on our claim and stuff in it? Maybe there is a bigger area around it where you cannot place another tower (like with warehouses and farms right now)? That are the more important questions... because if you get claim wiped on patch day in your till now always wipe-able lawless base or not... You will have to change / rebuild your setup in lawless to get same/way better protection IN THE LONG RUN...

Yes i play PVP official, but exactly this will happen on tuesdays (obvious to everyone above gorilla IQ) : a) naked jobless 24/7 noob is passing by b) naked noob sees a bunch of armored docks, galleons and a huge superfortress c) naked noobs builds a claim tower d) Tatatata... 45 minutes later noob owns a fleet of galleons, several armored docks, a huge superfortess and close to a million gold