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Did you just call me fat? Homo Sapiens. We judge everything.

“Thingy” is a highly technical term whose use should be restricted to trained visual electronics technology professionals and not bandied about by laymen plebs such as yourself. Please refrain from giving the impression you are qualified to assess the functionality of such sophisticated media interface tools.

Imagine there’s no megas Its easy if you try No slaves below us Above our sails only sky Imagine all the pirates plundering for today ya ha arrrr Imagine there’s no land claim It isn’t hard to do Nothing to drive you bonkers And no countdown timers too Imagine all the pirates plundering the grid in peace You May say that I’m a dreamer but I’m not the only one I hope someday the devs will join us and get these @#$&ing changes done (With apologies to the incomparable John Lennon)

I will happily accept on his behalf any funds you wish to contribute to such a worthy individual.

I think your estimate is high. By about 19%. Give or take.

I just wanted to post to this thread to clarify that everyone who doesn’t have a doctorate in visual electronics technology is a pleb. That is all. Carry on.

I hear you but just FYI a core problem mmo developers face is that the average player can chew through content much faster than it can be created. Thus mmo developers all the way back to Everquest have tried to balance getting you to spend time with activities within the game that aren’t chewing through content (of which travel time is a staple) against making you do too much of this to the point you quit. Thus the problem your are facing confronts every MMO player and developer for the past 20 years. Also specifically to Atlas, this is where a lot of people overlook the value of handling sails, which decrease the negative impacts of sailing into the wind.

I agree that almost regardless of what anyone wants or wanted from Atlas, and many different people wanted many different things, so far it doesn't seem to be turning out to be what very many of us wanted at all. That is fixable, but long is the road and hard is the way out of hell that leads up to heaven, to quote Paradise Lost, and right now Atlas feels a lot more like MMO hell than MMO heaven.

If only Wildshot™ saw fit to fully inform their own playerbase by posting info like this themselves to their own official forums instead of leaving some folks to wonder because they don't follow twitter or instagram or grinder or whatever social media platform the devs deign to communicate via this week. I know, I know. I'm just talking crazy talk. *eyeroll*

In theory large convoys of trade goods protected by fighting ships from other (wait for it) pirates could be a potentially awesome blending of pve and pvp mechanics that could create excitement for everyone. On a practical level with what they have so far and how most people prefer to approach pvp, I am inclined to agree this isn't how it would play out and player shops are the approach that better fits the practical realities of a pvp environment, but surely you aren't falling into that old fallacy of thinking pvp is all that matters or that pve represents some small minority of the playerbase (nearly always a laughable assertion in any MMO that has both). Unfortunately your earlier comment that nobody cares about trade seems to imply this. Obviously most players focused to a large degree on trade would gravitate towards the pve side of a game which has both modes.

This. Also since one of the effects of sailing into the wind is to slow you down and lengthen the time required for that particular journey or part of it, there is a tendency by the very nature of the mechanic for this to tend to be true. When you're with the wind you get where you want to go faster, thus spending less time sailing under it's conditions.

Okay but pretty significant observation bias in what you're saying leading to your off base conclusion. Most of the discussion of trade hasn't gone on here, it has happened in other places like discord and ingame, primarily because traders want to be able to talk to each other directly in real time to hash out deals and (note this because it addresses another flawed understanding you express later in your post) ongoing trade relationships. Your comments about the auction house completely miss the point of what some people are actually looking for in Atlas. Old world actual trade as part of the play experience, where you have to move stuff from point A to point B and take into account all that that entails like dealing with weather, other players etc. Part of what traders are looking to do is setup ongoing networks where people who have resource A at point B regularly take it to folks at points C, D and E to trade them for things they have there which aren't readily available at A. You may find this boring or pointless. I assure you others do not, it is part of what they are looking for in Atlas. To each his own, but fostering exactly this sort of thing is almost certainly part of why the devs created Atlas as one giant world with different resources available in different areas but not universally so, hence why lots of different smaller servers with smaller grids (ie most unofficials) don't fit the concept as well.

Don’t make assertions about what any large portion of the player base cares about or doesn’t care about because you cannot possibly know for sure. I care about trade and belong to a discord channel set up specifically for players looking to do trade as an ongoing thing. There are certainly more than “a couple players” belonging to just this one channel. YOU might not care about trade. Whether the devs care about trade is an open question but they have said from the beginning that they were looking to pattern Atlas on Eve. Guess what Eve is universally acknowledged to have among online games? The most developed, complex, and in depth economy and trading systems by far. This post is really showing the bad gamer habit of asserting that your own likes and dislikes are true across the entire player base.

Sure. But should we throw our hands in the air, despair of the inevitable and announce that since there is no cure for cancer, fighting it is pointless? There is a certain segment of humanity that has decided the fact their parents didn’t love them enough is the internet’s fault. I feel no particular compunction to make things easier for these misguided folks. I believe in the inevitability of only a few things: entropy, the inaccuracy of airline schedules, the erosion over time of the sock count in my wardrobe, and the location of my private cell phone number within the databases of telemarketers bent on selling me things I don’t want at times that couldn’t possibly be less convenient.

Because Grapecard.

I see you’ve met the one and only poster I have on ignore.

LANDWHORE!!!

If you don’t think lots of people need this “obvious” information because they are otherwise clueless how such things work, then you must not be very familiar with gamers in general, or people on the internet. You might not, but everyone is not at your level.

You say tomato, he says terminal colon cancer. Who’s to say who’s right?

You do realize that game coding and belief in fairies don’t operate on the same principle right? Pretty sure Tinkerbelle is not on the development team.

This sounds suspiciously like someone with their priorities in order and a healthy sense of balance to their life. That sort of thing is strongly frowned upon in these parts and regarded by many as subversive to the existing social order. The final nail in the coffin is a confessed willingness to watch Nicholas Cage movies. This man is clearly a commie pinko hippie subversive, a fact which might be overlooked; but he also has bad taste in movies and that simply cannot be ignored. I motion that we gather at his place of residence promptly at midnight EST with pitchforks to deal with this obvious threat to our way of life.

This is an interesting theory.

... I’m not sure what bothers me more about this post, that you find GOT boring (seriously, what’s going on in your life that the events of GOT don’t hold your interest and can I be part of it?), or that you think it’s okay to casually throw V for Vendetta and Ghostrider together in the same sentence. One is a masterfully rendered dystopian epic that actually improves upon its source material as an adaptation. The other is one of the many forgettable Nic Cage movies that isn’t Raising Arizona.

A fine first post. Welcome to the boards.

I used to have a side business selling movie memorabilia and home cinema decor online and at events like home and seasonal shows etc, and the still shot of the guys beating the snot out of the copy machine in the field was one of our best selling items. People relate to that movie like few others.