Captain OldTool

If people can troll they will troll. If they can grieve they will grieve. I am excited to see if it helps with some of the toxicity of the offline raids and freeport squating as a defense for animals and ships. As a full time dad I don't get a lot of time to play but would love to be able to do some form of PVP. Also please get rid of all the auto aim hacks...having that happen to you regularly where they shoot you from long distances is getting old...If half of the map was PVE and the other PVP and it took long times to travel between each it could set up a dynamic of build up so you can go control and battle without feeling like you completely devastated would be awesome and would put a large emphasis on trading with pve based players to be successful in pvp. Otherwise people will just freeport squat and continue to play like this anyway but be right next to everyone...offline raiding night in and night out...breeding bears and staying in the freeport at night when they sign off not risking anything they steal or have grinded for the day is unfair to everyone else. The reason they do it is to protect their investment of time into the game so they can ultimately keep playing...but they are abusing it and causing other players to quit prematurely forever...

All of my social network are working/ full time fathers. The grind for this game is impossible for this age group of players. The community as it is in PVP is extremely toxic and passive aggressive. Not to mention the grieving is insane. You talk about getting people to come be targets of offline predators that really don't have any intention of PVP...they just steal the stuff once they see a tile is empty. It is extremely not enjoyable at that point. Losing it all over and over in a fight is one thing...never seeing anyone to fight and just grinding resources endlessly is too much at times. Then to find out the people constantly enjoying PVP freeport squat and invest zero time into base building...leaving themselves never to be exposed to an enemy offensive attack...letting people go on the offense and keep animals in the freeports ruined the game...the boats can sit there for 12 hours plus without repair...it invites trolls...and that is what the game is full of now...trolls. It is more fun just having a boat and PVP'ing everything you see without investing any time into the game. I have had a horrible time with the game given my limited time to play it thus far.

I think having PVE players incorporated into a trading system would help boost PVP. If PVE players had a trade area where there stuff could assist PVP players on a different area of the map FAR FAR away then trade routes and defense would be crucial for the PVP players and PVE players. But not all would be lost. I think a great balance would help older players who now have kids. I can't afford to sit on here and grind countless hours. Sorry for all of you who have no jobs. lol It just isn't fair to be offlined every night... it is called PVP right? If you never fight anyone for anything how is that fun at all????? I get having your stuff taken in battle is the fun part of the PVP but people aren't fighting anyone...they are meta squating in freeports and repairing boats and keeping tames alive so they can continuously troll other players without losing anything, offlining, grieving, and new players are consistently targets of this behavior. When you go to find them you eventually find they live in the freeport with all of their animals. It's honestly just killed the game...if this new system fails to incorporate both PVE and PVP on different ends of the map this game will sink... no pun intended. Also...how are you going to display how many players are on in a server? It plays against peoples defenses if they know they are just facing NPC's. The game is just flawed....all the way to trying to climb the ladders on the back ends of the boats lol. I hope they new update fixes my issues with the game...but it seems like the system will be utilized by trolls again...they will just squat in new player areas for free loot. I can already feel the toxicity.