Cpt.Yarrr

I had a very bad dream, was watching the livestream...

Not to worry, wipe incoming.

I got only one; Will this game be the game you sold to us?

Aaaand here comes the storm. No more details? Really?

Yes, put in a ticket.

Let me start off with this first, I'm a PvE player so this goes from PvE only (my view); the following is not meant to be too sarcastic but you guys really have done a great job in letting the (almost) entirely community go to the bottom of the sea and even deeper. Why? Thats an answer you all know, the silence on all threads and only responses on the Blackwood thread makes it even harder for the majority of players to even making it worth while to comment on this forum. Here goes; Almost 1600 hours playtime. Thats how many I got since the release in december 2018. Good deal for a game wich costed me about 20 euros. When I saw the anouncement; ATLAS, a MMO with 40K players. THE pirategame where you can tame and breed animals, NPCs and even companymembers, I was stunned. Finally a game wich lives up to my name and created by the people from ARK. I just loved ARK and almost everything about it. I often wondered how it was like to sail around in a pirateship and do the same as in ARK. Taming, basebuilding, making awesomely insane ships, upgrading canons/weapons and so on. Now we got the chance of fighting pirates and all what came with it. Hyped. Everyone got hyped, we watched the TWITCH channel for the release and even when it got delayed, people still wanted this game so badly. It looked like you guys hit it spot on. We all where gathering old friends to buy this game and set up companies. Opened up multiple Discord channels and we where LOVING it. In the next weeks after release, we got alot of patches, the game is in EA and it needed alot of tweaking. Players where giving alot of tips and bugs and we had the feeling you guys learned from ARK and finally stood closer to the community then before. Then; the wipe. The wipe was something needed, we all can agree on that. New players where given a chance to try and get an island for their own, next to alot of improvements such as the claimingsystem. We where all hoping for more "piratecontent", wich was promised to us. More boats/different canons/breeding NPCs/villages bursting with activities like in the anouncements. We also got a skin for helping you guys out. (ikr), communitymanagers where appointed to keep in touch, but to be honest, here it stopped. Entirely. I'll never forget your face Jat, when people where spamming the TWITCH feed with comments like; Where are the new shipbuilds? Why is there a charwipe? Why don't you fix bugs? It was there and then we said as an alliance;" He's in way over his head, this game will never leave EA." Griefing. Players and companies where being griefed big time. Like us, we tried to get help in alot of ways. The only response I got, after 3 days of continiously spamming the the "ticketbox"; "I see what I can do, but I can not give you any info from here on." Thanks for that, I guess. Alot of companies where not having the "luck" of being smarter then the one who griefed them, they also tried to get in touch and/or help, but nothing happened. They left and felt like being stabbed in the back, most of them never will return. I remember and issue with one of our allies at that time, they went on and on and on for weeks on the Discord from ATLAS. Finally they got help from one of the admins. It was solved in 5 minutes, the griefing player was warned firmly and it was solved. 5 Minutes it took for the admin, was it that much for the other admins to do this? And before everyone goes ranting on them, remember they are being told to do things. Or not. The "Mega updates". You gotta be kidding me? That was our first reaction. Unreal, we get a, yes people; A Ron Jeremy of camels. I still can not believe it, an animal to make salt water tastes sweet, it feels like a screwup wich was done with sweet waterspots during the design of the game. No new ship designs, no new canons... Erm, ok, we got a torpedolauncher wich is almost completely useless on at least PvE and wich is expensive as.... For soloplayers/little companies? Nothing changed, it has gotten worse. Foundation and pillerspam? Some companies think it's normal to bomb places entirely, still happening. I asked once if a company wanted to remover theirs, I got so much BS about it, now they even made all of the floors 5 wide. "We just want to prevent other people from building there, due to the resources." And how about blocking other players to build? "There is space enuf now, let them keep on searching..." Sigh... pathetic. And not a single person from ATLAS does something about it. July mega update? It's august ffs. We don't even want to know the updates anymore and alot of players do not even care anymore. We know we're getting new animals and a new gun. That's not wat we want; WE WANT NEW SHIPS, NEW PIRATE CONTENT, BREEDING NPCS, NO MORE BROKEN PROMISSES! I do not care anymore about fixing, for instance, the so much hated building bug? Keep it, you guys know how to fix it, but leave it please. It has been fixed by a couple of modmakers. And in this rate with the game being drowned, we all go to unofficials. This game should NEVER been thrown into EA. It has been completely changed since it has been introduced as a "Pirate MMO with 40K players." Too bad to see all players go, people we got to know in the last 6 months are mostly gone allready. They will not return, so be happy with their cash. I really couldn't care any less if one of you responded or not anymore. Only one thing me and alot of players want to know now; Is this game going to be as it was sold to us or not?

We should move this thread to the Blackwood one. That seems promissing for the community and communications between devs and players.

I guess it never will be fixed, so let me ask this; We're renovating our island now due to this BS bug (lost 9K buildingpieces since release and none of the devs/ceos even came with the idea to step in and actually apologize or even let us know what's the status. But hey, that's how the world rolls nowadays I reckon). And since the team doesnt give 1 single bit (no communications, nothing on this subject) why not make the floors snap WAY BETTER? I get loads of spots where it says its being blocked. Nonsense ofc, nothing in the way, but with S+ no problems on the same spots (tested). Building underwater? LMAO!!1!! How? Big rocks, no snappoints. With S+? No issues at all. (tested) So, don't tell us it can not be done. It can. Period.

Logged in just now. Bye bye 12x6 docks without reason? Are you serious? Really?

Or else, visit us at F9. We got over 500K.

You mean that game where we can build mega cities, docks and animalpens? Where picking up a wall looks like... erm, well a picked up wall instead of 160 walls gone bye bye? With all these awesome shipbuilds other then those wich are still here since the beginning? And how about that awesome skin for our "Dedicated hard work, feedback and bugreports" ? Where treasuremaps don't keep bugging out? HO, STOP. WE WANT CATS!?!11 Nvm the above. WE WANT CATS!!1!

Ok, fair enuff. Let me try to make a vid of some sort to explain, with numbers ofc, to show you how we got to this. No worries, not taking it personal. As for the AoD, what I mean is; they should agro soulely on the player(s) who activate/participate with the treasuremap. And hunt them down. In ARK (ikr lol) there is an offline protection. Perhaps this code works or can work the same in a way. As in ARK, I'm convinced the map locations should be "unbuildable". The sad thing with this; if it's being implemented, players will loose pieces of base.

This one helped me out alot the first time.

Google is your friend.... https://atlas.gamepedia.com/Amethyst I want our "So glad you brought ATLAS to a higher level and we couldnt have done it without you and your input" skin.

Simple; -Bugs -Bugs -Bugs -Bugs -Cats .

True. Then make those spots "unbuildable" like lootdrops in ARK. They will wipe ATLAS soon enuf, so shouldnt be hard to implement.

And thats why I don't understand admins aren't "flying" around and do some checkings. It's freegame for those who want to grief and exploit. We seen it happen, for weeks a company was griefed and blocked on their own island. For weeks they complained thru all the channels available. After 6 weeks an admin/dev took action and warned the griefing party. All it took was an hour and some wisely chosen words. This is what this game needs, sadly but true, admins who show themselves when needed. These guys and girls know exactly what to do and what to say. I just don't understand why they're with so few. The help I got 2 times was hardly needed, that's why I think there's more room for some of those willing admins.

On SP/dedicated no issues. We tested this on a million ways.

No, only just before you dig up the treasure you need to dismount. No, they should be aggrod on the ones who spawn them in, thru the walls and attack the player(s).

Getting really tired of this now... Just 1 wall was misplaced and picked up. JUST ONE! Another day online for nothing. Thanks! You do the math Grapeshot. Please continue building the map we all desperate going to need when you announce another wipe. Forget about the bugs. Sick of this nonsense and crap. And no, I'm not going to do anymore effort in making good pics, giving CCC locations, or ask pretty please. Fix this. Oh and if someone from Grapeshot can be as "communitive" as was promised, we all just might think twice for building. Souds fair after all this crap we're going to lately. "Heart for the community", yeah right. Not even a single update we got in months on this issue, no admin, no dev, nothing.

lol Like you do in this thread. lol again

If you put it like that, I can understand with you mean. The nonbuild radius should be more higher as well to prevent all this. The decay of pillarspam is greatly reduced, maybe now it's the time (at least on PvE?) to make the radius bigger?

We are at this spot since day 1. We own 2 islands. Whats your point? Its a piece of base wich he wants me to break down. Not a foundationspam.

Thanks, but you are completely wrong. I asked you before the decay of 12 hours where implemented to start with. So, what you do now is irrelevant. Second, the person who asked me has started building between 3 bases. The beach is nearly empty just a few meters further up ahead. The fact you are quoting me now, is again, irrelevant. But, since you did, let me clarify why I asked you a couple of weeks ago on an orderly way; You kept entire beaches on more then one island occupied with massive amounts of foundations. One reason for Grapeshot to implement this? All these foundations spams all around ATLAS wich prevented people from starting playing . That seems fair to me to ask you back then. I'm sorry you feel offended.