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7 hours ago, Winter Thorne said:

What's your issue with making a limit to them?    It would fix it until the server population reaches a certain level, then you need another server, but at least the devs would be able to do the math (I think) and figure out how much space is left.

You are giving these devs too much credit. You still aren’t thinking about the fact that a limit would only hurt medium sized companies.

mega companies right now have around 300 people. Let say they have a limit of 10 flags. Well the 300 breaks into 150 making it 20. Both 150 groups break up into 4 75 person groups and so on and so on.

megas will not be affected at all but a limit. In fact the Megas aren’t affected by any balance changes. They will own the globe in approximately 2 months

7 hours ago, Goldfish The Builder said:

Removing claims as a whole is very bad idea, upkeep like most of us have been saying is the way to balance it all!

I completely disagree. That was the one good thing about ark was that you could always find a small place to build.

they literally have the worst ideas for this game and brought over the worst part of ark and then left the good stuff behind 

48 minutes ago, SoloHan88 said:

Or just a big group of people. I'd say 20 or more, preferably from different time zones to increase the likelihood that there will be at least someone logged in at all times.

That is the sad part man. Gotta be in a mega. Was part of one in ark and climbed the ranks. After that you just make alliances and wipe small tribes/companies. 

Gets boring just crushing the little guy all the time.

1 hour ago, Percieval said:

PVP gets boring overtime ye. I played on official for a long time but went to unofficial eventually because of regular wipes. I like the basic raiding and stuff way more fun, and you can do it a lot more / doesn’t take hours. 

Yeah mahal tend to just making the game boring and not worth it. I spend a good amount of time on small tribes as well. That is of course until the Megas came in and just made 10 6 man tubes and still wiped the server. 

Its like people are afraid to have a challenge. Instead they choose to form a gang because they aren’t good in a small group 

1 minute ago, Znick said:

I'm curious if you don't have wars to fight, what do you do on a server once you're max level?

What do you DO on a pve server if you can't take land? z

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Pve people like building on a very large scale without worrying about losing all their stuff. They probably also do role playing. They will probably also take the time to explore the entire depth of the oceans and every aspect of every island.

never been a pve kind of person but I totally get why they do it.

i am a pvp guy but pvp definitely gets boring because that is really the same old thing after awhile. While playing ark on extinction I barely uncovered 1/3 of the map because I was busy pvp ing so much. I don’t even know what the snow biome looks like.

wven if I did(probably not) play this game when and if it comes to console, it would be the first time I would actually play pve. Wildcard has crappy pvp anyways. If I want pvp I’ll play CoD or fortnite 

6 minutes ago, Znick said:

I'm curious if you don't have wars to fight, what do you do on a server once you're max level?

What do you DO on a pve server if you can't take land? z

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Oh yeah, especially since 99% of pvp on ark and atlas is offline raiding I wouldn’t even call it pvp to begin with ark/atlas has pretty pathetic “pvp” 

5 hours ago, Blackstone30 said:

Are you fucking kidding me now??? I was going to become a farmer placed for testing a large plot and put in wheat seed...now after hours of waiting i got my first wheat....and wow Spoil rate is 5 fucking minutes??  Same as with all the other food...round about 10 minutes till its already spoiled...This makes farming totally useless, then you need to have a gigantic farm with all ingredients for making advanced food and that even will spoil in no time....totally stupid

Oh man, you titled that totally wrong

you are lucky they don’t automatically listen to you.

you want the spoil rate decreased. I would change that quick if I were you.

pretty sure you mean spoil TIME increased, which means the spoil RATE would decrease. Change it fast before it is too late

1 minute ago, SgtOpt said:

As someone who cannot play all day every day I find this to be most frustrating.  I spend all of my play time on a raft, fighting the wind most of the time, only to find an island that is completely red with claims.  So I set sail and find another island that is completely red and the pattern continues.  I have yet to be able to find a single piece of land to claim.  I've spent all of my hours on Atlas on a raft.  Dying over and over and respawning over and over only to find red islands.  Game is not fun when this is all I do.  I'm tired of my raft and would like to establish some sort of bigger ship.  My play time is so sporadic that I would rather play solo, but this game is not friendly to those who dont have a large company that has someone online 24/7.

Yeah this is a grinding game, you need at least 12 hours a day. At least. If you don’t have that or more time to sacrifice then no you won’t get anywhere 

Just now, Thund3r 4 said:

Seriously toxic people in game. No comms just kill you and loot you. Unless you’re in a mega company quit your job and live on the game it’s unlikely you’ll ever get anywhere with this. 

Guess you never played ark. If not this is your new life

9 minutes ago, Jezzicles said:

You can find this stuff out in like 5 minutes of googling... Unless we're all playing some sort of alien beings, their vitamin system is just dead wrong.

 

Deficiencies of Vitamin C and B are possible... but you'd never get deficient on those in this game because you have to eat in between axe swings so you don't starve to death on your front lawn.

very true 

3 minutes ago, kolpo said:

Anywhere we can see the PVP/PVE ratio and ho< the chinese impacted this?

With the current claim system on PVE could a 1400 player company do a lot of damage even on PVE, hopefully do the devs fix the PVE claim system before the Chinese arrive in PVE.

Well the streamers on twitch are already going to try to scout. They will probably just get wiped by the Chinese but this is already becoming a big issue 

7 hours ago, Maxi said:

This is stupid, this server died and came back to the patch...  Skill Points = ruined now, can't do nothing. 

PLEASE TURN IT BACK

Not going to happen. Not being rude but wildcard has never taken something out of their game and they have made worse choices. Won’t happen 

7 minutes ago, Jezzicles said:

1. You get vitamin D from the sun. If you live in anywhere but the arctic, the vitamin D warning shouldn't exist.

2. Vitamin C is water soluble so you cannot die from eating berries. You would piss it out. You would have to take a bunch of concentrated supplements to get sick.

3. Vitamin B is also water soluble, you piss it out and can't die from eating steaks. You would have to take a bunch of concentrated supplements to get sick.

Basically, the vitamin system is bad.

Well yeah. They just threw it in to be “innovative” they are anywhere close to be smart enough to be doctors or nutritionists for that matter

2 minutes ago, Percieval said:

Yes but you can’t do anything about it, that’s the worst part. You can’t region lock because they’ll find a way, you can’t wipe the server because they will come back and you also can’t wipe them for duping because even if they play legit, 1400 guys can not be stopped by anything. 

That’s why I think people will be done with official servers soon enough. Only when the chinese are friendly you have a chance, but chinese are never friendly in all the games I played. 

Or ofcourse, all of the NA tribes need to work together and wipe the chinese, which I don’t think they’re up for that. 

Yeah I wanted to add to that last point you had. People on Twitter always say just team up and defeat them. They have no idea how hard it is to get 1400 normal players together. 

First off you have the “insiders” which are more common then you would think. They are very easily able to destroy an alliance very quickly.

then you have all of the “leaders” from different companies that don’t want to take orders from others which will lead to alliances being broken. 

It would take too long to name and describe all of the types of ark players but I think you catch my drift.

this game will become a non official server game. Probably a lot will go to pve as well so they can at least build even though they have to give up pvp 

1 minute ago, XLR said:

Well they made 2 mistakes : giving a date and releasing it now. That does not make the devs bad but their communication and organization is bad. So it's not about the devs but the man who takes decisions

Oh I am going off of ark as well man. I have 3 years of reasons to think they are bad, not just the few reasons from atlas 

2 hours ago, wakko151 said:

my point is, its the not the Chinese Govt. Its not the Culture of china, its individual people deciding to do a specific behavior. More importantly, Its about what the company plans to do about it.

 

I don't mind getting wiped, the constant trash talk, dying, constantly trying to manage bars, or dying to wolves and tigers. I am wondering though, if I am the only person who minds seeing chat constantly being spammed with the same message. The chat log is literally backed up. I type and 10 minutes later I see it appear in chat. Server has less then 50 people on it but lagging more then yesterday with 150 people on it.

 

How do you feel about spamming global?

Well you will mind when you just can’t build anywhere anymore.

and I don’t mean like right now with there not being space. I mean like when the Chinese do take over and you will never be able to contest the claim 

2 minutes ago, Percieval said:

They have duped for sure. There were reports of 30 galeons duped, and that was 18 hours ago. Nothing we can do about the chinese invasions.  

Well alteast FPS isn’t the scariest thing anymore.

no but on a serious note, it was harder for the Chinese to raid separate servers on ark but this will make it ALOT  easier now. This will become the biggest problem very quickly

2 minutes ago, XLR said:

Is it a matter of life or death if your little darling game does not release when you want it?  Maybe some kids had planned a day to steal their parents' credit card? Seriously, if they reported it, it's to make sure the game is not as laggy as it was when it was suppose to be released. Even if it was laggy day one, it could have been worse if they did not report.

 

Wow life or death huh?

and no I don’t care if it is late or not. Not in the slightest. I care they released too early, not too late. This game is broken not in early access. There is a difference even though some white knights don’t want to see it.

these are just bad devs in general 

Just now, Zoin said:

A maintenance cost which increases exponentionally could certainly "fix" it - The more claims you have, the more it'll cost to maintain - Wouldn't put a max limit on it, and would still allow for war and conqouring of territories, and then keep people from just spamming claims en-masse as they most likely wouldn't be able to afford that.

Currently though, with progression being tied to having claimed islands is massively problematic when there's such limited space and nothing preventing anyone from just claiming anything they come across

Not a bad idea but even then, that hurts medium sized companies ones more than anyone.

increase cost wouldn’t hurt the Megas, especially the Megas that dupe.

pretty much in any scenario the Megas come out on top and eventually control all of the land. 

Actually it will get even worse once you can tax other companies. Then the Megas can just tax people for their claim cost and not even have to work to pay it. Leaving the little guy grinding so he can have a 1x1 hut 

18 minutes ago, Boredaholic said:

Where you been? That's all old news... They've been duping for a couple days if not since day 1, they've been on since day 1... they didn't "just arrive", they've been there since the start and i'm assuming that all the random server crashing that happens every say 10 minutes to every hour is from them duping and causing the server to crash. 

Not old news to the masses. A lot of players just play the game and don’t come here. Just wanted something to inform them if they do come here

Just now, XLR said:

The devs were working on fixes during Christmas while your mother was feeding you with a good ol' turkey and giving you presents with Santa Claus patterns on it, respect them.

Respect comes with results not “trying”. When actual improvement show up the respect can be given.

try to remember it was their own fault for releasing it too early. They are to blame for that and don’t get a pat on the back for making a bad decision 

1 minute ago, Tiberius_theron said:

The Devs simply don't give a Fuck. They haven't looked at the forums or social media since this morning. 

Their just gonna let skill changes and ghost ships ruin a good game.

 

ROLL BACK THE SERVER 24 HOURS! PERIOD!

Don’t worry, the Chinese will ruin it way before the devs do(which they still would)

the Chinese have already begun mass duping so there won’t be a company on the globe that can stop them.

good thing about duping is it doesn’t matter if you lose anything because you can just dupe it again. Other companies have to take the time to make the defense. That is if they don’t start duping as well

There is no way to fix it. Not making a bigger radius, not making a smaller one, and not making a limit to them.

they were simply the wrong decision and a very bad one.

with ark you could build anywhere. If someone wanted to play solo and understood they had no chance, at least they could find a little hidden enclave and live for that brief moment.

some people will surely give excuses, but a game where there is no place to even put a foundation is a game that is fundamentally unplayable.

i am really disappointed in the poor choices made by this development company and it is time that we stop making excuses for poor choices and start holding them accountable. No wonder the gaming industry is going down hill. The white knights are the ones killing it.

Well I was waiting for this to happen. The Chinese have arrived. The number isn’t confirmed but it is said to be 1400 players strong. Even if that is an exaggeration, it won’t be by much.

even if the numbers don’t scare or nauseate people, the fact that they are now starting to dupe definitely should.

the real problem of this is that it took years for them to stop duping on ark. Wishing a week of duping they could already have an arsenal to wipe the globe.

and if you think wildcard will come to the rescue, they already said their main priority is making it to where all players can get on the server so fixing duping isn’t even on their radar. That is if they even know it is happening yet.

good luck to all the pirates, the Chinese have arrived.

Just now, Ruffalot said:

Do the developer have trolls in their own lines?

We spend a lot of hours with a lot of fun.

We all know this is an Alpha. Lags, no problem. Server crashes, no problem. Many updates and downtimes, no problem. Adjusting and reseting skillpoints, no problem. You are doing your best to make this a great game. you are working at christmas. Good job, thx for that.

But this is a ******* joke. The first ship of damned...ok no problem...sail in the wind and good bye ship of the damned. That was fun. Everyone of us was impressed. First time under fire and we survived.

Than changing region into a lawless...bääm next ship...and next and next and next. No chance to survive. everywhere you are are under attack. Damned ships are independetly of wind. We were looking for a place to claim since hours and now we can start from zero?

If you lost your land you won’t be getting another plot. Game has been out long enough that every place has been captured already.

btw quick note. The Chinese have come and they have around 1400 players. They also found a way to dupe. Won’t be long before they take over the globe 

1 minute ago, Percieval said:

Hey you’re back and misinforming people already. Great way to start the day. 

You are the definition of going off topic. Please stay on topic