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Exactly. It should still be a game. Not a fulltime job.

Well. Still, something needs to happen about the offline raiding. I'm all for PvP, and I'm all for raiding and getting raided but it needs to happen when people are online. Spending 24 hours building a proper boat, only to have one noob with a trillion of pickaxes to pick it open from the bottom and sink it, is just ridiculous. It shouldn't happen.. Even Rust isn't that punishing for players who sink hours into that game. And that game is savage. Then again, the game needs a lot of balance changes in general. There's people who make incredibly small characters so people can't hit them in melee combat because their hitbox sizes with their character. We were two level 15's last night going on a lawless island to get some wood to build our sloop with, and we got attacked by a small group of 2-3 people, naked with torches. They were level 26, and almost one-hit us with a torch and we did no damage on them beside the fact we had hide and metal armor and swords and spears. That's balance that's ridiculous. This game advertised as their version of EVE Online in a pirate setting. But it is more like Rust or ARK than EVE Online and obviously they are in early access and all but EVE has no offline raiding, for sure. This offline raiding attracts trolls and kids who just want to ruin someone's day, and that's a bad case if your goal is to create a steady and fun ecenomy where people can actually thrive in and build a game from the ground up. If they end up changing offline raiding, and the land claim system to limit it, they are gonna need a global server wipe. Because at this point, big massive zerg clans moved from Rust to this game, just to make peoples lives miserable and offline raid them.

I saw what you did. It looks like a good idea. Though I still think that they should also make it harder to destroy peoples stuff when they are offline. Like maybe give 50% damage decrease on it or whatever.

The devs mentioned how their wish for Atlas is to be like EVE Online. And I know it's early access and everything, but if they want to make this game like EVE.. they will have to do a lot to make it happen. A few points: 1. Offline raiding. In EVE Online, when you log off, people cannot destroy your direct property. They can contest your claimed areas but they cannot really destoy your ships while you're offline. This should happen in Atlas too. Obviously with good anti-combat logging mechanics. But if you view this as EVE Online, then turn it into EVE Online and not RUST where the toxic community leads and the noobs follow. 2. Claiming Land. The land claim should be different. A lot different. I know in EVE Online you just contest area's and claim it or whatever.. but in Atlas, that'd be difficult. There's more islands than there's companies, so there's no way for every company to have an island for themselves. Sure, they could fight for it but it's very unbalanced. An already settled company will always be stronger than a company without land, because they're not able to build anything proper. They're not able to build anything for themselves, as everything is claimed already. They could get started on a Lawless as of right now, but there's often large clans who are just picking off people farming already. Claiming land needs to be limited, or done differently. These are the main reasons people are currently just going on private servers, because people can set up their own rules. Because this feels like ARK with a different theme. And if people are going on private servers, you'll never get this game into an EVE Online flow ever anymore. Because people are rather playing on their own servers now, which isn't bad if you want to turn this in ARK or RUST.. but if you want to turn this into EVE Online? Then you're doing it wrong. And when you decide to change things drastically, and actually sort things out the right way you yourself imagined your game to be? You're going to have to wipe all the progress off the servers, because big clans have all the islands claimed and give no one a chance anymore. People are not able to get started anymore, because of this. And wiping servers as an MMO, as you advertised. That's a bad case overall.. I don't believe you guys are realizing even, what you've done. You've launched a game, advertised it as an MMO and an EVE Online type of game, while it's more turning into a survival game instead.

I don't have to explain this. Turn this off if you want to keep the PvP going.

Made a post about this as well before I saw this. It's ridiculous.. there's chinese clans and this clan called Infinite, who literally just claimed TONS of land and sea. And most of the time it's just because they can spam the shit out of those flags. There's no logic behind it. - Except for maybe getting notified when someone sails into your land at sea.

The Land Claiming system needs a better job. We're a group of around 20-25 people and we were looking to claim a bit of land. But everywhere we go, there's even bigger clans who have claimed huge pieces of land. Infact, there's groups (INFINITE, a company), who are claiming huge pieces of the ocean for themselves just to see when people sail into their zone so they can go and intercept them, to kill them. I think companies should be limited in how much land they claim.

We have the same issue here but on the NA server. Some grids are closed, and we happen to have all our stuff / raft on the one closed one.

Some grids are offline. No idea why. Which grid are you guys on? We're on M10.

There's a lot of grids down in NAPVP Kraken, from K10 to N10, those are all down. Cannot log back in anymore as I logged out there.

I suggest to add an 'are you sure?' screen to recreating a character. My screen has bugged out several times where I happened to accidently press enter after death, and it forced me to recreate my character. This shouldn't be so easy. Especially because you will lose ALL progress. So please, add an 'are you sure you want to recreate?' screen.

And btw. This happened after those tornados came, before that we did not freeze to death. But now the entire zone is killing everyone.

This zone is bugged hard. There were 5 tornados at once there, and even now the tornados are gone everyone in the zone keeps dieing of extreme cold. It is M12 NA/PVP

Me and my crew have been experimenting a little. Basically, you cannot respawn at a bed if you're too close to an island but only at sea. This you can see by the shade of blue around an island on the map. That's at least what we experienced.

P.S. I'm not one of the people negatively reviewing the game. I have no doubts that the game is good. I want to play it. I'm not gonna negatively review it. But I want to be able to play within at least 2 hours, so I know what the game is like.. so if I want to refund it (doubt I will want to refund it but w/e), I at least can. And considering I've been trying to actually play the game for hours on end by now.. yes. I'm frustrated and rather salty. At least I'm not one of those fucking weebs directly harassing the devs or anyone else because of my own frustration.

Yep. And in the Early Access rules say, that you have to follow your schedule. Which Atlas didn't do because they delayed 3 times. Either way. I'm here to rant, not to make an useful post. Your good advice is highly appreciated but my salty brains aren't willing to listen to it.

I've got a great suggestion here for you guys. - A lot of people are not able to refund the game anymore, because they've been trying to play the game, but haven't been able to because the servers are just always down. Or everyone is stealing freeports. They cannot even try the game before deciding wether they want to keep it, so most people cannot even refund anymore because of the shitshow you guys have set up. So my suggestion would be: After the holidays, and after this disastrous, hilarious shitshow is done and over with and the game is actually stable.. compensate people. Give them cosmetics, or something. Do something to compensate people. Because this is just ridiculous. Don't get me wrong. I believe this game could be very fun. But I've not even been able to play the game, because everytime I want to play, I'm barely able to log in. Even with the recent fucking update that went out minutes ago, it's still bullshit. I cannot even unite with my friends. P.S. Release the dedicated server kit, because your official servers are honestly, with ALL DUE RESPECT: THE FUCKING WORST. And excuse my language. But my dumb ass has put faith in your game, staying up till 4 AM to PERHAPS catch a glimpse of GAMEPLAY tonight, and still nothing. I'm honestly feeling retarded for even TRYING. Have a nice fucking holiday.

I've had this issue where when I try to draw a weapon or a tool, it takes ages to actually get it at hand. Not certain if this is because of the server lag or part of the game. But I feel like it's a bug.