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hrm, definately food for thought. I play small time so 25k feels bigger to me, but you're right, for bigger groups it's nothing. This feels like a thing that needs to be chewed on a bit and kicked the tires on and otherwise tested, but it certainly seems to have some significant potential unproductive uses.

I don't think it's a thing there will be a lot of immediate concern about, because right now land in Atlas feels like more of a buyers market than a sellers, which should translate to not a lot of existing landlords selling out to new owners. However, if activity picks up over time, this could be a very real issue down the road. For the moment I'm willing to be the guinea pig on this one though.

Okay so now that I've taken more than two minutes to think about this, it does make a certain amount of sense I guess. When you claim an island, you want a chance to start with a clean slate, over time the only people who would have this chance would be the first round of owners assuming the game has a sustainable level of activity. However, the counterbalance is that those already living there shouldn't automatically be out on their ear just because you claimed it for whatever reason and they didn't. So the cost of doing so is set pretty high to make the new owner really have to want that clean slate, otherwise they should let existing tenants be. There's an option, but the cost of the option means it's not a no brainer.

Point conceeded. I currently live on a claimed island and have never so much as spoken to our landlords, who as far as I know are benign, but you better believe if the island ever became available, I'd claim it in a heartbeat even though ownership isn't something I'm particularly seeking out atm. Would just do it to protect myself from this new, let's call it a mechanic, sure.

True, but to be fair, if you are living on an unclaimed claimable island without claiming it yourself, you're kind of that guy who builds his house on the volcano. Sure it might never be a problem, but you know it's entirely possible it could be a gigantic problem at any time.

okay, I'll bite. So let's suppose you get what you want and the devs give you a way to level easily post 100 to 150 in less than 30 minutes and is repeatable. Do you know why this is an absurd request? I do, because I've seen it over and over through the years. If you get what you want, your next post will be you complaining you're bored and there's nothing to do in the game. Yes leveling endgame is often grindy and repetitive. This is not an issue unique to Atlas. The bottom line is, do you want to still have something to work for, or do you want to be done with the game? Those are your choices because no development team in the 20 plus year history of this industry has come up with any brilliant way to provide content to players faster than they can chew through it.

So far it sounds like you understand what it's saying just fine, you just don't like it. Can't entirely blame you. Prices seem steep, especially for a development team that keeps making noises about being more small clan friendly and then leaving their players wondering when exactly that's gonna happen. My own question about this is why is this a completely flat fee across the board without taking into account island size, which is certainly a factor otherwise in cost of purchase, or how extensive a wipe will be. Smaller islands should imo cost less than these prices as well as islands where the wipe cleanses fewer structures.

Don’t make me give you an economics lecture. I will turn this forum right around and drive it straight home and some other gamer will get to play Atlas instead.

Did you take any of the common sense advice like Chuck offered or just keep doing what you were doing before and are now surprised with similar outcomes? We all know the definition of insanity.

Wonderful. More abdication of any responsibility whatsoever to ensure the customer is getting a product worth his or her money at time of purchase. “It’s not our job to tell you whether it’s worth buying or not, we just provide a storefront so they can sell you something that might be great or might be a barely usable pile of yak dung. Caveat emptor. Wait, where are you going? You need games right? Right?”

They certainly don’t. Grapecard said they were going for an MMO/survival hybrid, but they forgot to include most of what makes an MMO an MMO.

All games with a currency created out of thin air must have gold sinks otherwise there is just never ending inflation. Imagine if the US Treasury dept just kept printing new money every single day and never taking any of the old out of circulation. Pretty soon milk would be 20 bucks a gallon, then 40, then 60, etc etc. This destroys purchasing power and renders saving useless. Gold sinks aren’t optional. They are completely necessary.

“You? Guess? Spock that’s amazing!” - Kirk Star Trek IV

Killjoy.

That’s okay I’m just using your post as a platform to talk about one of my pet peeves with the industry,an issue that Atlas seems determined to make itself some sort of poster child for. If this industry doesn’t learn that there’s a potentially huge downside to abusing the EA concept at its customers expense, it may wind up learning the hard way that video games are the definition of a luxury good, no one has to play them.

I will take your word for it.... *shudders and goes back to eating his grits and livermush*

That is a bridge too far. *munches a Cheeto*

And as we speak I’m being argued with in another thread for suggesting we tone down the mud slinging just a bit.

/signed

I know they’re there because I follow you. In the shadows. Eating Cheetos and watching. Always watching.

Absolutely, except for the factually incorrect bit about respawning with the buff.

Incorrect. You do not respawn with the equilibrium buff, you just respawn with your vitamins in a condition to earn it. There is still a timer you must complete with vitamins staying in balanced status to earn the buff. I would agree that if all your going to do is get a horse with cannon than significant buffs to fortitude, melee damage and movement speed might not matter to you. To others they might have value.

I agree there should be a wipe at game launch. This is only fair to people joining at that time. As someone participating in Early Access, I expect the advantage I receive from participating to consist of game knowledge, not an established base, character, games, ships etc. A minor point, it’s not that Ark did no wipe at launch. They designated certain servers legacy servers and didn’t wipe, but also made it clear those servers would receive no gm support going forward. Most of Ark’s officials were fresh wipe at launch, which became a further moot point as Ark grew to 50k unofficial compared to 1k official servers.

Sorry, that screen needs a caption. Here, let me help: THIS VISUALLY UNPLEASANT WHITE SPACE WAS PUT HERE TO REMIND YOU OF WHITE PEOPLE PLAYING BASKETBALL.

If only this game had hard to reach spots say on top of giant stone columns with unremoveable foliage that could hide a storage box from the view of anyone who didn’t know exactly where to look...