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Unless you live in North Korea does the government not own your land, they only have political power over it. Maybe could separating personal and political ownership solve the current land claim issues.

Everyone get's one personal ownership claim(maybe smaller then the current claims). This can't be contested on PVE and takes a LONG time to contest on PVP unless you destroy all enemy buildings.

Big companies can claim political ownership, this does NOT give personal ownership nor the right to build. It only gives the ability to set taxation and laws. On PVE servers could you even have democratic political ownership: each X time is political leader elected by inhabitants of an island. 

Some mechanism should reward big companies with many inhabitants who are NOT company members(or allies).

Worse, in the last dev update does it seem like they are encouraging claim spamming in PVE servers, I made a topic about this:

You are right just got wreched by a croc, I could defeat those yesterday with ease.

3 minutes ago, RedXStrike said:

Can't do anything. 1 hit knocks me out basically. Again - did they fuck up the damage on things?

Ooch! Yesterday was it fine but am currently on sea will test damage of creatures later.

BOW and kiting him can work

In the last developer update do you list the 10 companies who claim the most land, like that is some kind of accomplishment. Those mass land grabbing companies are the reason many players are unable to find land, they ruin the fun for others on the PVE server. It also indicates that you do might not plan to change this system.

If you real are pro mass land grabbing on PVE servers and don't plan to address this issue then please give us single player(one grid loaded at a time, the rest frozen or something). This IS game breaking for many.

Can you please communicate about claims? Do claims currently work like you intended, especially on PVE servers? Will you address players who can't place a single claim and are forced to play as raft refugees.

16 minutes ago, Realist said:

Probably a lot will go to pve as well so they can at least build even though they have to give up pvp 

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.

6 hours ago, HANABI said:

There is a lot of solo players in ARK and even more 2 - 3 people tribes out there ... You're really innocent and cute, that's funny.

 

Yes and those solo and small group players are less likely to post in the forums then the (in general) more hardcore alpha company players. The many who complain about claims are actually only a tiny fraction of the big group who is unable to get a claim.

We don't have that much land maybe should they BOTH add land and limit claims to 1/player

I moved to a private server because of that, in that server could I at least get 1 claim area after some searching. 1 Claim area is more then enough for a base, it can easily hold a big base,  the biggest ship yard and place for pets(you can always place those on the fenced rooftops of your base if you want to have a HUGE base)

This game IS about ships, a raft isn't a true ships and can't do the content designed for bigger ships anyway. The claim system is basically telling people "Only a few % can play the true game, the rest get a raft refugee simulator"

The area of 1 claim is enough for any reasonable base, they should only allow one claim/player and delete the rest.

yes this is needed

You need a base to get real ships(I don't want to stay on a raft forever), therefore is it absolutely essential that each player can have a base. I suggest they limit claims to 1/player for the first months. IF we have unclaimed land after several months with 1 claim/player THEN can we maybe raise it. This game is about ships, it is essential that each player can have a shipyard and build ships.

EDIT: I play PVE server

Yeah stopping claim stealing and limiting claims to 1(maybe 2) a player should be implemented together. The servers can handle 150 players at the same time but because different players play at different hours do we need even more land for players.

Stealing should only be possible from players who haven't played in 3 weeks or something.

Just this early is already a lot of the world claimed, In several grids is their already quite no land to claim unless you want to contest it. I think you need to drastically reduce the amount of land a single player can claim. If a single grid is intended for 100+ players then should it be impossible to claim more then 1% of the landmass  by a single player.

Or if this is not what you want to implement, then give me the option to run this in single player. I want to build a base and I want to have a shipyard(don't want to say on a raft forever). But this requires land, 1 claim area is all i need but extremely frustrating to get in the current game.

The sleeping bodies are lagging the freeport servers but I don't see added value in PVE servers.