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I still am so puzzled when I see those little merchant ships paddling past, then I check my map to see how far away a freeport is.

Because some person got skills and gear from completing the game basically, you're saying 2x is not needed by anybody else to play the game in order to get those skills? Can we just borrow your skills and gear? I don't really understand how that makes sense, seems the telling part of that argument is the "people just got used to", and some people don't care about 2x because they're above it somehow.

Go through the motions, or just let the devs know that the game is a bit of a grind which can have certain effects on people and their enjoyment of the game, with the aim of avoiding going through motions.

edit: I would like more breeding events, and for the breeding to be seriously looked at. Only twice I've breed animals besides crows and parrots, and it was during the breeding events. That is not because I don't find the game fun and I just had the realisation that I was just going through the motions, so I'm going to have to just make do. I'm not going to sit there and do the copy pasted from ark 8hours 'til juve elephant/rex breeding. It's just not a healthy activity for humans, should be changed, and has been promised that it would be changed. I cant believe the breeding is a copy/paste and unhealthy still actually.

Is this a new change and is this just for NPCs?

44 minutes ago, HighwaymanEd said:

I’m playing on NA PvE and I’m expecting a wipe, and frankly, bring it on.

Is this really helping?

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I’m not taking any sides in this debate of if there will or if there won’t, but I’m for it, my little group and I (4 of us) have been sailing around and around looking for a half decent sub 45 island to claim for over a month.

Ok.... but you just stated that you're excited to see a wipe.

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Sure some things are decaying, but I can still see clans owning several islands spread throughout the map.

What things are decaying? Not sub 45 pt islands? Those "clans" put in lots of effort to get those islands, and to keep them. Why do you think they have them?

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I think it would be more than unfair to introduce console players into a map with little but scraps,

Seems you want a sub 45 pt island but can't find one.

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cast offs and the unwanted islands with little to offer being available. Of course they could always live in lawless until some numbskull comes along and surrounds their base with pillars and buoys until they get frustrated and leave... oh wait, that was us...

There is only a few islands worth owning in the game.

I own a 15 pt island, and a 56 pt island. They are both shit. I can't get a good island, and i'm not a crybaby xbob supporter like some people appear to be, I actually joined the server about 3 hours after it went live, but I still find it easy to get anything I want, even though I don't have a 45 pt island worth owning, and play the game how I want, have fun and not grief others. I just don't own an island that is actually worth owning, a island that has rare mats and is a good spot for treasure seekers. I only own them because they look nice, get a few treasure seekers and have one rare mat which isn't in abundance so I don't really farm it.

Otherwise, lawless is the best. Nothing wrong with lawless really, except the trees that grow through your floors if you pick a bad spot to build. Nothing wrong besides the numbskulls who spam your base out of frustration at not being able to see that the game probably needs more sub 45 pt islands, and more islands worth owning.

Anybody can just say anything. It's not sweeping anything under the rug. Go back and read the entire thread again. Please don't actually LOL.

I enjoy playing atlas, I start writing about why and then hours later I have to delete the whole thing because I'm not sure I can make a post within reasonable time that details why. There really is so many things that are enjoyable about the game. Things like the ocean, weather effects, sounds, cuteness of baby bears, do indeed show talent and passion from the team. These things that we can see the passion in, they nearly spoil us, and can nearly make it so that nothing else is ever good enough. I'm not really sure why it is that it appears that you should feel guilty for playing the game, the criticisms are mostly pvp balance, lack of content and player count. I think it's just the vibe. If there is still people enjoying the game for the same reasons that they started to enjoy it for, then surely there has always been a good game there to play, and it's just some people don't happen to play/somehow give you that vibe.

I also enjoy reading posts about atlas. I started playing in December, and have only taken a break for a few weeks before the wipe. I kept playing PVP for a few weeks after the wipe, and then due to time concerns (and balancing) I started playing solo PVE so that I could do the content and roleplay while making my own missions. I am about 75% of the way through the missions that I had set for myself, have nearly all the quests done, so also getting there with the content. I enjoyed getting the 4 powerstones I have so far, building all the ships, taming all the animals. most of the time that was spent sailing around for 1000s of hours on missions.

Things that I enjoy about atlas:

- sailing*

- the atmosphere and game world

- anything to do with ships, mostly the building and combat, but i do like diving for treasure and stuff that makes me feel like its a real ship

- pirate rp'ing (I need to go replay Secret of Monkey Island very soon. Hehe)

- trading and breeding animals

- building bases and pirate hideaways

- trading, hoarding and grinding rare mats

- treasure!!

- making missions for myself and exploring, while pondering about the possible game story, balance and content that could be added, as I do all of the above

*there does become a point where it gets tedious, but this game nearly is actually able to be a microsoft flight simulator, and sailing can be fun just for the simulation factor. I would really like to see the sailing logistics stay how they are but also become not tedious. Just need more things to do while sailing maybe.

At the moment, I just do maintenance, as I can't commit to breeding more animals, and I've got quite a bit of maintenance to do. I still enjoy the maintenance, however, running around farming meat and sailing around for gold while meeting people is fun. The game just needs to be worked on further is all, that's why I enjoy atlas really.

12 hours ago, Realist said:

is that better?

edit: to be honest I do believe in my opinion that I do know things that they don’t. 

No. We've heard it all before, and you just contradict yourself, derail the discussions, etc.

I guess that makes sense, and explains your behaviour, that you think that you know things that the devs don't even know, yet they're the only ones who can possibly know, so you take it upon yourself to tell them what they are thinking and going to do.

Not sure why anybody should tolerate that.

2 hours ago, Inigo said:

Why do they need to wipe? most of the stuff should have auto-decayed by now since there are like only 150 people playing on each server.

They dont need to wipe, unless it makes sense. Have you heard anything from the devs saying that they need to? So far, they've said it makes sense to avoid a wipe if possible. The counter to your argument just by the way is that if there is only 150 people then why do we need to even ask why?

1 hour ago, Kummba said:

This is not a discussion or anything this is a fight some people are doing here. What has realist done to all of you?

I can live with eighter, a wipe would just fit my pereference more.

So i sit back and relax, and go back to ignore the threads with all of you snappy guys (and lady).

Peace out

 

You're not making sense.

You reply to someone asking you to try to explain further what you mean by "forever", because it seems like you don't know what you are talking about when you then say that everything is gone every few months, which is not forever.

3 hours ago, Winter Thorne said:

Forever?  Aren't you the guy that wants to wipe the servers when you get bored?  What's the point in going after any high quality stuff if it's all gone every few months?  At least try to make a consistent argument.

You said things will stay with you forever, for a month, for whatever, seems you don't really know what your preference is, or how to make a consistent argument/make sense at all.

All good.

Continue on with your preference for wiping things that stay forever so you can get your candy like a crying baby as my man @boomervoncannon says. I will go flush some money down the toilet, and hope for the best

5 hours ago, Kummba said:

You need to understand PVE, If you buy a good tame here, it will stay with you forever, so aim high.
 

 

27 minutes ago, Kummba said:

You can enjoy your belonging for month, what ever you choose to own.
 

Aiming high? Belongings stay with you forever, for a month, what ever you choose to own, so wipe every thing now, then wipe it again tomorrow, wipe it a bit more in a week.

Ok, gotcha.

I predict more quotes by certain people agreeing with a wipe. Carry on.  

37 minutes ago, Jerryn said:

 

21 hours ago, Realist said:

Ok so regardless of pro wipe or anti wipe. I would hope that the one thing everyone can agree on is that they need to give an answer like tomorrow.

Dollie  herself said “very soon”. I happen to think that means November. But for the people here that thinks very soon means October, then yes we need to have an answer right? 

So regardless of who wants what. Who wants to know the answer???

Its September.

Whatever

Yeah, its confusing. I recall the devs saying that they would release stuff with the content, but then they said 5 mins later that there is no new content until after the launch, and then stressed the point that the after is going to be a while. Lol?
 

Avoid all the shit is the second option?

That is logic?

Care to expand on that?

7 minutes ago, Percieval said:

 I know PC players wouldn’t care less. 

Ya, you quoted me saying I don't care, I just want a good game. What is your point here?

You didn't get the treasure?

34 minutes ago, PeglegTheAngry said:

Yeah look at those player counts. Real loyal.

Yeah. Those players that count, must be loyal.

I know you were trying to make a different point, that those who don't play aren't loyal.

Who would play this game still, so that they contribute to the player count, if they weren't loyal? (besides those just having fun)

Did you want to try to contribute to the thread further?

2 hours ago, Nutcutt3r said:

Or you could just realize these are two peons trying to change the rest of the world.

One that does not even play the game, and may not even "wipe in RL."

Er, yeah please enlighten me. LOL. *rolls eyes*

Wow. Stop feeding the troll?

Wow, a genuine, well constructed, well thought out post with sincere passion and criticism offering fantastic ideas the forums could actually learn something from. 

Forums: ignored.

Schooner with big cannons is fun!!

Speed sails you say? Have you seen the thread on reddit from a week and a half ago, where a person posted the work they did in the devkit, that contains speed sail fix? Dollie responded, saying it doesn't take long to make these types of changes, and that they're looking into it, and it doesn't take months, 3 months later.

I've noticed that there has been patch notes for the PTR posted recently on these forums, after it was pointed out that the patch notes were linked to a twitter post about a discord link, and not on the actual forums, and also that the links didn't work.

So, they are trying, I guess.

6 hours ago, Kummba said:

I am PVE you are arguing PVP

I am PVE atm, as PVP became silly for me. FYI.

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It was about Tames, which are a big part of PVE, you dont need to tame any if you get the (almost) best possible breedable.
And Guy i have 2 chars >level 100, XP is no problem, DP is IN PVE. Actually it seems knowlage and dedication is the real problem with leveling.

You don't need to buy other people's breeds if you tame.

You quoted someone who gave explanation as to why saying that going from 0-100 is easy is a silly thing to say. You haven't convinced anybody here that its not a silly thing to say, but we are all impressed by your knowledge and dedication to grind two chars to lvl 100

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First you combine as high as it gets unmutated then you start adding mutations (pref in a line per stat). That way you end up way higher, know your tames way better.

I know what mutations are, I was asking why don't you sell them?

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As zottle mentioned, tames speed up farm, transport, (land) travel and gold generation (XP) atm.
If you dont need to tame them because u can buy the best possible, one big reason to play PVE is gone. What is left is the achivements, but what for?

I know what tames are too, and the effect on game play with being able to sell them. It seems that you are saying that your tames are the best and if everybody gets them, you would ruin the game?

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Also many PVE people like to trade, there will be very limited sell opertunities for new player.
 

Do you not trade them now? Many PVE people like to trade because they can get the best tames that way.

Why would you breed these animals in the first place, if you're wanting to get them wiped? To give other people the same chance to breed animals and then get them wiped because some other people are new to the game?

On 8/30/2019 at 11:08 PM, Forb Hidden said:

Why the "Devs" don't go out and ask a real Gamedeveloper what is more important: bring out a console-release for a quick cashgrab or fix the entire game in its state to make current player happy, veteran players come back, new players join in and then, when the game is standing strong, go over to the next step?

Why the hell get we served the dumbest of the dumbest idiodevs, who think it's better to do it across every logically way? Didn't you learned anything before you get to GS?! 

7 hours ago, Forb Hidden said:

I would wipe out all because of fairness for everyone who plays on the same server.

You confuse me.

You just saying now that the devs are trying to launch without a wipe, what is their reason for that? Do you think the reason might be anything related to fairness? Or they are doing it just for fun, giving themselves a problem for the fun of it? edit: they are probably just saying it to make everybody happy hehe

6 minutes ago, boomervoncannon said:

The problem is that another component of Jobs personality was his dictatorial "my way or the highway" leadership. He could be brilliant, and there were aspects of his mentality that I highlighted because they were relevant here, but he could also be a huge dick. The reason this relates to him not having a better product is that the very best people in an industry usually get to choose to work wherever they want, and by and large they rarely choose to work for a guy who screams at them to just do things his way.

Right. I think I was just trying to say something about how it is nice to think that if someone like Jobs could advance tech and create things, instead of advance the image of a business.

When someone says that they don't give a shit about the wipe, and realist says that its "the best attitude to have."

What is going on in here? Maybe I should read the op, huh?

1 minute ago, boomervoncannon said:

Yes and the interesting thing about how this relates to Realist is the fact he began his time here proclaiming Wildcard as evil and down with Atlas and everything related. Now as the game has failed to come anywhere close to expectations, he has weirdly become a huge fan who is fine with a game he's never played yet having almost no content and perfectly happy that it won't have any new content for months after it's Xbox debut. What's that acronmym I'm looking for...

Smh.

Oh nice! I didn't know that.

That is just so obvious though really, isn't it.

3 minutes ago, krazmuze said:

But you are forgetting the modus operandi of the devs.    They will start hyping the next megapatch a month after the xbox goes live proclaiming they fixed all the bugs leading you to believe it will be here shortly when they know full well it will take them months to release, then months to fix before they give up and move on to the next megapatch.   It is the promise of content that drags people along so they hopefully do not quit....

 

Maybe you need to go back and read the op?

What are you even trying to say? Are you trying to say that "just promising content is bad"? What do you think a cash grab is?

Realist who are you trying to fool here?

Why are you happy?

It is a cash grab.

Oh for sure boomer, this guy just can't help himself, quite sad that he tries so desperately.

7 hours ago, boomervoncannon said:

I'm not arguing that Apple is better. I personally am not fond of Apple and tend to avoid their products. I'm arguing that Steve Jobs understanding of the importance of marketing is a key component of Apple's success, despite non Apple software and hardware products being as good or better. My computer is a PC and my phone is an android. I use an Ipad for work only because it is work issued, and in many respects it annoys me.

Well, imagine if Steve Jobs could do what he did with better product.