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just wanted to thank grapeshot for the big middle finger they are giving the NA PVE players, forcing them to play on eu server with higher ping and more lag or to play pvp with all that nonsense. so glad you keep your customer base in mind when you make your ridiculous decisions.

it utter ridiculousness. they have zero knowledge of how to run a business and make nothing but one bad decision after another. now they've pretty much just screwed the NA PVE players and, if we want to play and not have to sit and watch all the spoilers pop up, forced us to play on european servers with high ping rates. utter garbage.

discord chat they are saying way late tonight or in the wee hours of the morning... they are a few hours out yet according to jat.

yes it was the performancetest beta. i was told that all i had to do was that and when the server came up it would show up. but no idea what time its supposed to come up

5 minutes ago, Captain Yellow Beard said:

LUL gl to them i guess lol. i for one can't what to start over.

u mean the performancetest? i did that and it made me redownload the game. and when i switch it back i had to redownload the original game again. from my experiences I've never had to redownload the original game before after opting into a beta so idk.

i opted in and had about a 4gig download.  surely wasnt the whole game lol

Just now, Captain Yellow Beard said:

there still going to have to be a client side update so u get all the new stuff. i would expect a separate branch to download for the PTR and the current game would still be in its current state but i could be wrong.

i was told to opt into the beta for it.

1 minute ago, Captain Yellow Beard said:

IT is and has been EARLY access. and we all knew that going into it. so EXPECT wipes, bugs, etc. thats what u get with EA games so submit bug reports etc. and make it a better game.

you would be surprised at the number people ive met that are upset abotu this particular early access wipe. hell, 2 of my crew swore therre would never be a wipe in a game like this and i tried to warn them. as soon as official word of the wipe came out, they quit and tired to refund their game. and these are folk that have 50 or 60 early access titles. lol.

no sign of the PTR yet?

1 minute ago, KimRSQ said:

what a stupid idea deploy the PTR only in one EU network. wait for the network and servers overload.

well, they havent shown a huge amount of common sense yet... why start now

3 hours ago, Lotus said:

I don't see a problem with her post after watching the video.

~Lotus

again its not about the video, its the statement dollie made and the perception of it thats the problem. personally it makes her sound like just another dbag. and it worries me that grapeshot doesnt see a problem with what dollie said.

On 3/13/2019 at 7:07 AM, Lotus said:

I read this and was like is she really promoting trolling/exploits? Then I watched the video. IT'S HAM AND PIG!!!! I lawled we were grid mates on my adventures in PvP. These guys are hilarious. I broke open a base gave them a bunch of stuff they were super excited. They are more RPers than PvPers. The group he attacks is TPG and their beta tribes. (They offline raid too) TPG has a moto of it's red it's dead and run up to groups and tell them to join or die. They went through and attacked one of their allies tax tribes just because the tax tribe wouldn't surrender all their stuff.

This is the fun though. This is why I love how Dollie posted this. It is 200 IQ. The offline raiding this guy is doing... People are like LOOK AT THE DEVS NOT LISTEN. LOOK AT DOLLIE PROMOTING THIS GAMEPLAY!!!... The patch that has already been announced literally fixes what is happening in the video. The people that complained about it literally played themselves and are showing how ignorant they are. I am way more amused about this than I should be.

~Lotus

its not about the video, its about a moderator being unprofessional. her statement posted above the vid is the problem. So many people see this and notice shes a moderator for grapeshot.. this is very very unprofessional and leaves folks with the wrong impression of grapeshot. or is it the right impression and folks just want to dream that grapeshot is better than this? either way its about perception and professionalism and dollie posting this was a huge mistake.

HAVE YOU LOST YOUR BLOODY MINDS????? are you not paying attention to your community? who do you have thinking these ideas up? wiping the map and taking land claims away from pve server and leaving every island pretty much lawless.  have you not seen what people do in lawless? pillars or foundations every 20 feet. Have you got no interest in seeing your game succeed? you are tipping half your community into the dumpster once again.  you folks have a game that has TONS of potential and you and you are losing your minds and driving customers away with the poor decision making. quit smoking your pot before creative meetings you are killing your game

On 1/17/2019 at 9:55 AM, Tindalen said:

Wait, pirates did not build their own nations?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brethren_of_the_Coast

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_Shih

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Pirates

Strange... someone should tell history it is wrong. 

did you read these wiki articles you posted at all? none of them formed empires or nation states, simply loose confederations of pirates.. they didnt control large tracts of land they commanded allied pirate ships in small fleets. what this game is pointing itself towards (and what apparently is happening on the NA PVP server is that you have 4 or 5 large nation states battling each other and the small companies either join or get obliterated.  That being said, i personally love this game, but i dont believe it should be marketed as a pirate game. based on their description that this is a pirate game, thats a fallacy.

On 1/17/2019 at 3:17 PM, KeyenDF said:

The game may not be something you like, but you can't say the game concept is wrong.  The developers decide the concept, not the user.  They wanted a pirate sandbox game, that's exactly what they built.  It just may not be your cup of tea.

i love this game, but i think making it a world domination game is where its flawed. its whats caused this land grab problem.

we are getting alot of people coming out the lawless zones and parking at our beach in such a way as to block all our ships in port. trying to get us to get fed up and sink their ships so they can report it and get us kicked so they can steal our land.

as the title says, game concept is wrong. pirates were never for world domination. yet you bill this as a pirate game when its more of a nation builder. if you want it to be a pirate game then instead of so many lawless and freeports there should be colonies of other nations, instead of ships of the damned their should be nations warships and trading galleys for us "pirates" to attack, forts for us "pirates" to assault. but as it stands, this isnt a pirate game in anything but looks.

its simple, when you leave a company, the flag disappears, forcing the company to readjust to fill the space. it would promote more unity in a company and not people just recruiting everyone they see. and a single flag for the whole island? im sure you can see the problem there as well as i can, particularly if each member can lay a claim flag. then youve got companies that are setup before hand just heading in different directions to claim entire sectors with no chance to contest them in the original land rush.

I dont know if this is the right place for it or not, but regardless, here it goes.

I would love another ATLAS server launched with a few changes made,  cap company size to 20 or 25 members, make it a majority map of PVE but mix in a few pvp lawless sectors, cap land claim flags to 1 per member of the company, dial back a bit on the ships of the damned, dial back a bit on predator animals agro range. and touch up your meshes and clipping issues (lost 4 animals to lions sticking their heads through a wall and dragging the animals out of their pens through the walls). Add ship degradation to someone parking their ship in non allied claimed territory,  and, for the final change, region restrict it to keep as many of the damn chinese out as you can (i know you cant keep em all out, but at least reduce their numbers)

These are far too numerous and its flippin ridiculous. just lost 15 hours of work sailing from d11 over to k9 and back, 2 sectors from home i cross the veil from F9 - E10 when it loaded me into e10 it dropped me in the midst of 6 Damned Ships with nowhere to run or turn, one was behind me, 1 to my portside, 2 off my starboard side, and 2 off my bow.. ALL of which were pointed straight on me, i had time enough to just barely start moving in a portside turn when they all opened up, in one volley they tore my ship to pieces and i lost everything i had worked to gather. this is unacceptable, you need to fix this. as it is, im probably shelving your game for at least 3 months. i love the possibilities of this game but youve turned down the harvest rates but your Ships of the damned are still killing our ships at the same rate. this is ridiculous.

except its not a small group, 11 grids and close to 100 players, so we are looking for more. we want to be sure we dont have ridiculous land claim situation of 2 people claiming an entire island or anyone wandering in constantly asking for land. you know, like the official servers.

im already age 54 in game.. . guess i better hurry to get done what i want to get done lol

we are currently playing on official NA pve. but we are very slowly and carefully recruiting mature fair minded folk and trying to build a server cluster to have a reasonably large map. problem we are having is its 1 server = 1 map sector as we understand it. and we want a medium to large explorable map. so far we have 11 people willing to run or at least rent a server for the cluster.

Its pretty ridiculous that we have a guy spec'd into taming but due to your convoluted skill list, everyone has to spec into beast mastery to ride the tames hes made for the company?? come one.. really???

where would one find sugar cane? sector and island please?

7 hours ago, Mancomb Seepgood said:

I prefer the update, still needs tweaking along with a host of other things but it's a step in the right direction.

think you misunderstood, im not saying stop the update, but 15 ghost ships per sector is crap and the range of aggression is to large on everything.. particularly the animals. ghost ships should be a rare thing, shouldnt be a common occurence.