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What can someone hosting an unofficial server do? Can they have a setting to give more skill points or reduce the requirements?

Most people play solo on the unofficials, but even there you might be forced to join a company. 

I just don't like being told what to do in a game, and a lot of people that run the larger companies think that is what their role is.

23 hours ago, Sp3cialG said:

Their flag system seems to be based off of Eve's territory system. It requires team work with other companies and you aren't going to find every company wants to work with you. PvE servers are filled with individuals that want to play the game without being griefed and individuals that aren't good enough to survive on a PvP servers so they harass PvE players.

My company was the only company in the area. We set off and claimed the entire southside of the island we were on. Every 10 minutes a flag went down as we collected resources. We noticed another company claimed land, chatted with them about it, they took the west and we took the south. Easy. 

This system only works if you are able to meet other companies that are willing to be civil.

The key thing here is "willing to be civil". 

I've seen that on officials, but there are also plenty that are not. Only thing that stops those is a game mechanic that forces them to cooperate or a admin that boots them from the server. They are not in the game to be civil, they are there to cause as much trouble as they can.

2 hours ago, Mahakmar said:

yeah need a limit on how many flags you can have, also maybe if you got a bed-housing they cant stake a claim there

 

its not easy balance out this but there needs to be a definitive way of stopping taking at least 1 of your claims, so you can at least have a "home/base" in case game or you get lost at sea due to bugs-ships sinking

Yes, I was surprised you could plant more than one flag. Should be one flag per company member. If you plant a 2nd, the 1st should either go away or be claimable.

5 hours ago, Bigman1182 said:

Its easy to handle.... Just match the colors.

The process of restoring the vitamins is fairly easy, but...

It doesn't actually work to keep you alive for a long period. It only works if you die occasionally and restore them that way. If each time you eat you restore your food to 100%, but not above, the vitamins slowly drop until you end up dead.

So is the trick to eat to 130%? I've yet to make this work for more than about 3 hours, then I get a deficiency.

14 minutes ago, mizunami said:

they aren't meant to, just like in eve, corporations claim mass amounts of space, and sucks to be you if you cant. its a cut throat type of mmo. the only difference is here they have a pve server. again, if you cant claim land, then ask to use land. give tiem for those who have claims to buidl them up, and have things that peopel can use there. hell  my plan was to build up a few dry docks, etc etc, let people use them, and do what they will, along with services and lodging, and even places for little town tenants to build permanent areas. its part of the way they designed this game. get used to it. sorry for sounding rude about it but its true. evolve...adapt

So how can you use someones land? Can you spawn on one of their beds? Wouldn't you have to join their company? Doesn't seem like there is a mechanism in game yet to just use someones land, is there?

On 12/23/2018 at 1:44 PM, Riya said:

Since this is a survival game you ahve to take care of your body. there are creatures out there even on pve that kill you in your sleep. Why else would you build a house?

They are actually marketing it (from what I've heard them say) as an MMO first, with some survival aspects, so no, it is not a survival game.

Many MMOs don't leave your body in game when you log out. Seems like at least for PVE, the body should not remain. Maybe for PVP (not my thing), it could stay just 15 minutes.

The snoring at the freeports is ridiculous.