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10 hours ago, UnderTaker905 said:

Companies.....yeah....let me throw this out there..... There are obviously good companies and bad companies.... Good companies want you to invest in their product, whether it be a game (this case) or something else, but they ALSO read/acknowledge/respond to customer (us in this case) feedback. They appreciate what you say, whether it's criticism or a heart felt compliment. They act on what you say, taking your feedback seriously to improve their product.

   Bad companies just want your cash. That's it. Just your cash. They change their product according to what THEY want, with little to no regards to what their customers actually want or suggest. Feedback of all kinds, good or bad, gets ignored 99% of the time. When they just so happen to get something right, which would be rare, they act with "See? We listen to our customers" .... So.... Which category does this company fall in? You decide....

 

As for listening to feedback I read in one of the forums here where they are seriously considering removing the Q & A and no, I am not seeing things nor am I joking.

Like one guy said, maybe devs need to start being held responsible for what they sell instead of the " quick cash grab " that seems to  a trend but what it is truly is a rip off. I love this game I do not love the devs actions and non actions.

I wish a more responsible company would mimic this game only do it the way it is supposed to be done you know, the right way.

Maybe one day, sigh.

11 hours ago, MightyMonte88 said:

I tried supporting grapeshot, they dropped the ball and since the literal fucking release of this game ( i played since day 1 pal) It has been the exact same as it is now, shotty updates with no real progress, this game was dead in the water day 1 and developers need to be held accountable for cash grabs and unfulfilled promises.

I totally agree with every single thing you said.

1 hour ago, DannyUK said:

It wouldn't surprise me to be honest, not that they would tell us. The funny thing is they could turn all this around and make a great game or even move it to a new engine for better updates but it comes down to either they have no money or incapable of understanding code or both.

I haven't played it for a couple of weeks now, don't plan to play it. I noticed on the server I am on when I used to log on in the morning there used to be around 28 players,  log in to reset timer on a morning and now I see 6. The game has been dying slowly for a long time, I'm actually surprised I pumped 1800hrs into it, i've had my fun with it but the fun has gone now.

Yeah same here, I only log in for enough to update so it won't decay but, after my friend told me she couldn't even tame a monkey due to tame cap in G4 region that sort of put things into perspective more so than what it was meaning 1. A company is supposed to have a tame cap of 300 doesn't say you must share some of that tame cap with Tom, Dick and Harry!! . 2. They are eeking out pve playing even more  little at a time I don't think one can micromange taming, breeding and selling to be fair to other players in their region, it's just not possible, that is what the original 300 cap per company was supposed to do.

 I too have noticed less players, the number I originally gave for the percentage of people hanging on is actually an old percentage according to a few of my friends.

12 hours ago, Pattus said:

Game companies are all on the verge of bankruptcy.  Thats why a lot of games spring to life on Kickstarter.  MMO's are only survivable if they are popular.  So if you like Atlas, SUPPORT Atlas.  If you are 4000 hours into it and all you can do is badmouth then don't expect next time you log in that the public servers will be available, or the game itself.  They've basically shut down 80% of the servers by killing NAPVE and reducing the size of other grids by 1/4.

SUPPORT GAME COMPANIES  THEY ARE DYING ALL THE TIME.

Hard to support them if they do not return the favor of acknowledging their players, as far as the hours one has put into games is ones own time spent the way they wanted to spend it that being said, it should show some support IMO at 4k hours but one can only take bs for so long in any situation, I have supported Atlas myself up until the change of wiping us yet once again ( being lied to when they said they would not wipe again ) not crying just pointing out a blatant lie, I don't hide from them like so many others like to do nor, do I act like it didn't/doesn't happen maybe I am more compassionate about the people who actually play the game and who put in all of those hours, yeah, that is most likely the way my mind works.

Either way, I still have not gotten an answer to my question, only a smarta$$ reply that he never ever follows through with any explanation of what he means when he makes the simplistic statements ( not referring to you the poster, referring to the obvious one that only posts to have his numbers go up ).

17 hours ago, eeeceee said:

So, you're new to video games?

Probably more newer to video games than you are to being an a$$, that is a guess though.

I have been told by a few people that have played games for years and years that companies that have actions and non actions like you guys are actually on the verge of bankrupt, I am not stating that this is factual this is only hearsay but, from a few good resources so I would like a confirmation.

With you guys not only putting pve on global servers and now capping the tames in a region not by company but by region that is showing you are dead on with putting pve players out of this game, you are losing a lot and are barely above the 60% of those that actually still state they like the game.

When companies make big changes like you guys have, it smells of failure if Wildcard hasn't totally washed their hands of this game I would suggest they do as it is, a sinking ship, what a waste.

9 hours ago, Reeking cannonbait said:

There is definitely a wipe coming i just hope its later rather than sooner. It is still early access and wipes right now mean more map features. I dont want it either but it is inevitable. 

 

Ok so I wonder when promises actually start meaning a freaking thing. Did you read it here on the forum or is it because it is early access that you say this? The answer determines if I uninstall this puppy for a few years.

On 8/26/2020 at 5:56 PM, Chismebeard said:

Sorry all.  I'm usually only logged into the ATLAS account, and not my personal account.  

I also don't usually chime in because there is nothing for me to say.  It doesn't seem the Q&A questions are satisfactory, so we may discontinue them for now, and only post when there is a definite timeline for things.

Satisfactory? As in, we don't tell you what you want to hear? Or it's just easier if you don't look, like as in, putting blinders on..........................................

On 8/26/2020 at 2:25 PM, Reeking cannonbait said:

Please bring the other server grids online. The map was made too small for the amount of people we have on pve. Love the map layout but those other grids would be really nice to spread people apart. I am currently unable to even expand my base because I chose not to pillar spam what I wanted to prevent others from building. 
 

p.s. don’t make this game a “seasonal” format with regular wipes. To much time and effort goes into everything and starting  over is a chore.

Did someone talk of wipes? That would def do it for me, as it is I only get on a play a little bit depending on how bad the lag is or how badly battleye keeps me out.

There is absolutely no reason to wipe if their is a decay timer, that makes no sense at ll.

14 hours ago, tht0n3pirate said:

Can someone tell the dev's to make a small company server like come on who would disapprove of that, the only people that would be against it would be the claim obsessed mega tribes on the official servers. Make it just like Ark Survival Evolved, only 5 company members in a company and no alliances allowed. All the non-mega tribe folk (atleast 80% of us lads) would flock to that server and have a jolly ole time not having to deal with those power obsessed peeps. There'd hardly be a server where you'd get 5 fps from just entering because of the dozens of gallons docked uselessly at sea. upvote so the dev's lords can sea this-

yours truly 

tht0n3pirate

" only 5 company members in a company and no alliances allowed " When did they start doing that?

And where would all of the whiners go that get on and immediately ask " Can I join someones clan/company ? cry.

On 8/10/2020 at 9:30 AM, Cpt.Yarrr said:

During events it's almost impossible for WC to keep te servers stabile. Most officials, even without event, are almost certain of laggyness. So yes, lags are there as well. 

Keep in mind that loads of online based games, with lots of connections worldwide, have lags. This is not just this game/company. 

True but, you should not advertise something you don't or can't come through with js.

12 hours ago, DannyUK said:

The damage to the game is irreversible, there is no chance they could pull off something like No Man Sky did. They don't understand the code to change things around so what you see now is pretty much what you will see forever with a few tweaks here and there.

Lets be honest, how much has changed in the 2 years since release? Not alot has changed, most of it has stayed intact and that should tell us everything. The game needs building from the ground up but it won't happen. Their main priority is Ark which I've never played and I don't want to either. 

I disagree, it is a wonderful game, original in itself imo, it needs tweaking badly, if they had someone who knew what they were doing with tweaking it that would fix most of the problems, if they had their own anti cheat program that would fix most problems, I think right now they have too less of  cooks in the kitchen so nothing at all can be made that is right or rather, works right.

DEVS FIX YOUR BATTLEYE PROBLEMS IT IS YOUR ALBATROSS AND, OURS sadly

PSST! Ark is a great game and, your tickets actually get looked at and fixed.

3 hours ago, Sheepshooter said:

LOL, how are we responsible that there a less PVE player...? in a game that does not work as a PVE anyway...?
And again how are PVPs responsible that you lose tames on PVE which is a no-issue on PVP...

Somehow PVP play the game as is, PVE pretend to play something different than it is and do not survive...

OMG who said anything about you or any other pvp'er being responsible?!<rhetorical.

PVE is the same as PVP only we don't have a need to go shooting people and we don't have a need to go destroying what others have built.

We are pretty tame people until, we get riled that is

4 hours ago, Pant said:

They removed servers across the board. Both the EU and NA PvP have less servers then they did pre season 4. Despite common belief we do infact have lag issues, tames falling off boats and all the same issues you have on your PvE server. 3 out of the 4 things hes brought up I can live with no problem if they work on actual issues instead.

The only concern OP brings up that i would consider an issue is the lag. Constant 2x gathering, reduced NPC cost, farmhouses and 50% of the servers removed. Somehow people spamming the grids into a coma with npcs and buildings causes lag who would have thought?

I'd gladly sacrifice a couple of tames a day if it meant fixing lag, barrel duping \ bombing, weapon balance, claim system, progression system and other issues.

The game is supposed to hold a lot more than what actually plays on it but, it is not geared up for that and I don't think it ever will be.

Ohhhh I was under the understanding that they moved PVP players to NA actually, I saw that once when logging in but that was right after the last wipe that was promised to never happen again. When trying to get around that batteye issue WHICH IS HUGE and one may not think that until they themselves get it and trust me, you will get it sooner or later but, sorry got off point, the point was is that I tried to log into a pvp server, I saw two but tbh I didn't even pay attention to whether it was EU or NA servers as I knew what my only server was but, there were two pvp servers.

On 8/11/2020 at 8:44 PM, Sydhart said:

I am hanging on by a thread, I have now started playing Ark again full time since I didn't beat all of the bosses or join in beating all of the bosses but, I do get on and TRY to update my base that is if the old Atlas Albatross known better as ( You have been kicked by Battleye ) yeah, that one which has been a long, LONG time issue that us players absolutely cannot fix so while there are work arounds for certain things there are not for others like the Albatross, nothing that any player can do to fix this only on the side of Atlas devs team can do this I wondered, why doesn't Atlas devs make their own anti-cheat program like 7dtd and Conan and many other game devs do so they don't have to deal with the overload of tickets that come in like this but I was told in a big discussion a few of us players were having privately that that would cost money and that, is not going to happen not only because of the development OF the program but, for it to be monitored yeah, not happening.

This game has so many things to offer, the game not the devs, as far as I am concerned the devs do nothing and, say nothing.

I heard that two of the Wildcard members went back to Ark this is ONLY hear say I have no facts on this but, it would stand to reason why now days when you submit a ticket you no longer get a confirmation on said ticket and that if they need any additional info they will contact the ticket holder....wow, those were the days when they actually cared enough to at least, shut us up.

FIX THE BATTLEYE ISSUE DEVS, SO MANY IN B GRID AND IN H GRID CANNOT PLAY DUE TO BEING KICKED BY YOUR ANTI CHEAT PROGRAM, only cheating I see going on is y'all not letting us play for what we purchased. Still would like to see those TOS I have not found those yet and please before someone opens their gob it is NOT the same as code of conduct sigh.

I remember seeing Voodoo on here briefly and seemed to help and most def responded.

To the poster, looks like your place fell apart? I have had that happen several times unfortunately but, I have never lost anything, I always keep my animals on neutral, always have and always will, I am sorry you lost so many really, that was a lot of time and effort put into a hard lesson learned

 

1 hour ago, Sheepshooter said:

I don't think I refuse to hold them devs accountable... no white knight here...
But I also refuse to be stupid to lose my tames in the current (since almost 2 years...) state of the game to known bugs...
Especially if I can work around that... it is not game breaking...

If you think you "absolutely, positively, do not have to put up with this kind of crap" you can either stop playing, or continue to lose your tames to year long, known bugs...

Stop playing would be my suggestion for you... survival games seems not to be for you anyway, if you do not want to survive by avoiding the buggy dangers the game world put you up against...

Pro-tip to you PVE players.... better play single player and set wild dino damage to ZERO... problem solved... no noodles killing your tames through your RP-bases, no griefing of your building space by others... and no lag from servers loading in your giant useless RP-castles that you spam all over the place... thankfully in PVP we can "remove" your stuff if needed...
But let me guess, you will "not put up with" the game engine not being able to support your structure spam... even if you know about the limitations and it breaks your game...

I spotted you, a pvp player right off the bat you know? The one that got OUR NA server that has hardly any of the issues that the EU one does?

Real smart and bright of you to throw down comments that don't genuinely help anybody or anything except maybe your overblown ego which to the rest of us looks like a lowly smarta$$ that offers nothing but shite to a comment, seriously, you offered nothing so why don't YOU keep your trap shut when you have none of the problems us PVE players on the crappy EU server have, that wasn't a question.

1 hour ago, eldeschene said:

Hi everyone.  I was also kicked by battleye in B11 and can no longer rejoin or even if I do get in I can not interact with anything.  Does anyone know a temporary fix to get into the game?

There is no fix, ONLY Atlas team can fix it ONLY them and they act like we don't exist. I am looking for the TOS of this game but can only find Code of Conduct and it doesn't pertain to the game devs or, the ones that are supposed to fix the tickets. I have animals that will die AGAIN due to this so called of a joke of a team.Sorry to say for you, but your animals will most likely die as well, the temp fix would not allow me to stay on long enough to either interact with anything nor, feed my animals. 

Would like to know when someone is going to finally get around to take care of our tickets?????.......................H8 is still causing the Battleye issue and not only for me and the poster but for many more, devs? Are you just ignoring us because that is entirely what it is when you don't fix only what YOU can, it is seeming that you have put out a product you are not standing behind and this is not only my opinion.

10 hours ago, Braeburn the Bad Apple said:

Lost most of the day, but finally got on for a short session  You have any luck?

My friend told me a temp work around and it worked but it is not long term that has to be done on the devs end...........but I did get to get in and feed my penguins then! I my mate who lives in another state entirely got on and was affected with the battleye problem as well, really, really needs to be fixed or, let us players know what the h#ll to do if we can fix it ourselves, we have no problem with that but, we don't know for long term how to do that

22 hours ago, Braeburn the Bad Apple said:

Yup, been receiving “Host Connection Timeout” (xBox), and haven’t found any posts about a planned server maint Happens often since released on xBox, but never this long

Hey, you able to get on yet? We still are not, going on two days now and I have penguins that will die if I can't get in soon.

3 hours ago, Braeburn the Bad Apple said:

Yup, been receiving “Host Connection Timeout” (xBox), and haven’t found any posts about a planned server maint Happens often since released on xBox, but never this long

We have always gotten 15 minutes warning on a maint on the server, didn't matter if you had baby's due ( which I did and lost two different times due to not having a certain time, don't get those sorts of goodies.

Here it is almost the day is over and still no fix, this is totally ridiculous.

5 minutes ago, DLStein said:

Ok so now I am hearing that other players in other grids are not having this issue and it only seems to be affecting H8 grid.  Can we please get some help.  I don't want to loose all my animals.  The buildings I could care less about....I will rebuild but I want to keep my animals. 

Oh and of course the issue we are having has no affect on the pvp servers.  I know people that play there as well and they say pvp is working just fine. 

 

I haven't heard of any other grids so far but I was told by a couple of my friends that live in other grids that they are on the way to being the same, can't sail and keep lagging out, dc'ing with errors left and right, I knew this would happen

50 minutes ago, DLStein said:

Can't log in through normal means (rejoin atlas), can go through by using join atlas online and choosing anyplace on the grid.  This allows me to log in and starts me at my base no matter where I select on the map but, then I get logged in and cannot interact with anything at all.  I cant even open my inventory on my character.  After a few minutes it will kick me out with a battle eye error.  What the heck is going on????   Can someone please fix this??  I mean come on, it is bad enough to go through all these wipes and have to start over now this to.  

" Now this too ", this is an old issue that has gone on for a long, long time, I wish it could be fixed, I turned my ticket in today so I am hoping they fix it, normally if we are short on the problem and give the info on what is wrong, who we are and where we are normally it is fixed fairly soon but I didn't even get to give my cords which I always do, from now on I will write them down and keep them near. 7dtd got tired of their followers complaining about the battleye issue and made their own anti-hack program, I wish Atlas devs would do the same I mean, it isn't as if this is a new issue? If you look back this has been going on since the start of the game, this game shouldn't act like it is in alpha still.

13 hours ago, Gindorf said:

So if you hold the H key down itll show you the biome.

There is usally a small spot along the coast where instead of like Eastern Termperate itll say Temperate (which appearntly is an invalid breeding biome)

This has caight me a few times as well and it usally just big enough to cause this issue. To make matters worse it can be pretty inconsistant too along the coast.

Oh yeah I have noticed the inconsistency for sure along the coast, thanks for the advice though, I think in the future since I don't understand the tech part I will just throw up something simple like thatch to see if they will breed, not a lot of mats nor time I just thought it so odd though how it happens and all around me ladys were having baby bears left and right.

7 hours ago, George Catcher said:

I would like to add - I was really REALLY stupid to involve myself into battle against damned squad on one of the glitchy server (it was at G4 PvE).

My advise to everyone. Don't do that. EVER! I almost lost my lvl-42 Brig. I'm sailing home now with planks instead of gunports. And you know - I pretty experienced SotDs fighter I've got down like hundred of them this season. With lvl-60 Galley for quest.

There are 3 issues fighting them in glitchy server:

1) - Because of glitches no one clearing the area so if you go fight against a single Galley, after a minute you may find yourself fighting against 10 or 15 damned ship at once.

2) - Because of glitches you loosing about 30-50% of your speed. My brig usually do 10 knots downwind when it's calm. On glitchy server I could barelly do 5 in the battle.

3) - You can not turn your sails (they waving, flapping and dancing). And because your ship do jerky movement, within stops periods it doesn't turn and speed up/down. With this stalled control, slow speed you just easy target for damned ships.

Usually I'm like dancing with damned ships. But this time I was like and old knot, slowly passing by. Their Galley just turned around and released for about 10 volleys to me, until I managed to get out of his range. And yeah, most of volley even didn't showed to me. I just saw damage numbers without any damned cannonballs.

I've got 10 planks gone, and I've got only 9 extra so I thought I was about to loose yet another ship. Thx Gods I had 450 wood in my grile. So...

...damn! Never again! Just NEVER. There are golden ages without any structures and crowds - let them be a place for hunting.

It will only get worse as time goes on sadly.