ThunderGod97

So as someone trying to claim land, ANY land...I've been wondering, what's the difference between the Upkeep timer and the PVE Expiration timer? Don't they serve the same purpose? Problem is, the times are vastly different on a lot of flags...so what is the difference?

Not a single flag I have checked has had less than 19 days since the patch. This includes flags for companies that have 50+ flags. One had 175 flags, and still had a 20 day inactivity timer on it. One of the flags I was watching during the 2 day inactivity timer period now has a 20 day inactivity timer after the patch with 60+ flags. The idea was good....but execution needs work. I'm still stuck with zero flags and have been searching consistently for the past week.

So one thing that needs to be patched in is the calculation of land claims needs to include sea claims that overlap land. We all know that sea claims are the preferred way to go since they cover a MUCH larger area. People are going to get around the land claim thing by claiming sea claims instead to raise their declaim time. Also, how is it that a company with 175 land claims (according to their flag) has a declaim timer of 20+ hours?

Exactly what I've been doing. Didn't find the F1 shortcut until today when someone mentioned it....been using the emote wheel or whatever it is to bring up the wheel and select place flag. Discoveries are at 71 points so far (max level 54)....could be higher but I haven't stopped and set foot on a lot of islands, just checking from the boat.

To put it in perspective, your main base probably takes up more land than all the land I've been able to secure in lawless with my buildings. I've done a small bit of foundation claiming for areas I know I want to build on (very small amount compared to other companies I've seen near me foundation claiming land that I've also seen with claims in non-lawless). That's on hold while I look to try to claim land with these new patches. You losing 15 claims and only 1 minute, really doesn't bother me...considering I have zero currently and have been sailing for days trying to find a spot for 1.

You get less declaim time when you claim more...not more.

Now you know how people that are struggling to find any land to claim feel about people who have overclaimed and are renting it out to people.

more than 50 claims....should be 24 hours...that would free up some land. Saw unused land I was watching (nothing built on it, 67 flags total) go from just under 2 days to 19 days with this patch...no hope to get that form them. The aim for PVE should be less than 50 claims....have more than that you lose them quickly, less and the declaim timer goes up with the smallest number of flags being weeks.

I can understand renting off land that is near your main base....but the practice that needs to go is capturing other land separate from your main claims just to rent it off to people late to the server.

And one of the completely unused places I was hoping to claim from a company with 60+ flags (according to the flags themselves) says it has a 19 day declaim timer on it....time to find another place I guess.

I was trying to claim after they set it to 2 days....but I was also aware that weekenders may lose bases simply because of that declaim time. So I wasn't trying to claim anything that looked like the people had been inactive for only a short time...only stuff where all crew gone, all tames dead sort of thing. That shows true inactivity. With that I only found one base that allowed declaiming, but that base was obviously still active recently, so I didn't try to declaim. This patch makes a lot more sense. It'll free up land from those who overclaimed (still plenty will have entire islands claimed though) and give people a chance who just need to take a little time off.

And it was still a pain to find any land that I could actually place a flag down to claim. Searched for about 30 zones and only found one piece of land that allowed me to contest. Saw a wolf still alive so I didn't claim it though. The people had obviously just not played this week...probably weekenders I'm guessing. I'm looking to contest, but not looking to contest people who look to be active somewhat recently. Crew members still alive (they'll contest anyway) or tames still alive mean they are just taking a small break and aren't inactive.

And that's one of the main problems with the state of PVE Official right now...people overclaiming more than they need. Liking the looks of this patch. Maybe I'll finally be able to grab some land now. Have ZERO flags right now and living on lawless where I fight the demolish timers to expand (demolishing single foundations).

So what's the right number? A week, 2 weeks, 10 days, 5 days? You have a group of people who got in the game and overly claimed land and won't give it up. Then you have everyone else (probably the majority) living in lawless or on their boat and trying to find something to claim. Those people are playing a game that doesn't really progress. Shouldn't they be able to play the game too...on official? The turnover needs to be high so that those who are dedicated to playing the game have a fair shot at actually playing and progressing, and those who don't, lose their claims. 5 days is probably a good number. If you take a vacation...it's on you if you want to keep your claim. It's not on the devs to cater to your vacation....it's on them to make sure everyone can enjoy the game. And for the people who are searching for some spot...they aren't enjoying the game. They shouldn't have to go to unofficial to enjoy the game. Also: -Consider an official single player option...it would solve this problem for a lot of people. -Limit claims per person and require something significant to get more with maybe a max of like 3 per person. Want more land? Grow your company. Right now anyone can just have how ever much land they are able to grab....and people are greedy and don't want to share (most people at least). Or they want to take advantage of other people...claim all the land and tax the hell out of people. -require visiting your claims to actually keep the upkeep going. Just logging in should not reset the timer on all claims. -Beyond 1 flag per person you should have to pay gold to upkeep. 1st one is free...beyond that, you need to sink gold into it to maintain that claim of your's. So a company of 10 could have 10 claims for free...and if they need more...they can pay to keep them. Limits need to be put in place so that people don't want to overclaim or are overburdened when they do it...so that others can enjoy the game too.

And just after posting, I tried again....got through to C8.

Same in D8, several of us stuck here

Please fix these bugs with tames, structures, and boats. The admins on the server I play on are having to fix this multiple times per day. I didn't want to bug them with fixing my bear the second time this occurred, so I fixed it myself using the knowledge from the first time it happened. First, on unofficial, with slightly boosted rates and a few special settings. Doublee is the name of the server cluster. Two nights, two cases of my bear getting bugged: 1. I had just finished a new Schooner. I was taking it to the local freeport island to get some crew for it. I anchored in the harbor of the freeport....finished my business there, and tried to turn around. My bear, which was parked in the middle of my main deck, was stuck in place. The boat was moving underneath her. I tried to move her on the boat, which I was able to do, but when I jumped off of her, she snapped back to the original position she was stuck at. I could not get her to follow. I lost all ability to interact with everything on my ship. I ended up dying, and I got the ability to interact back, but the bear was still bugged. I could not move my ship without the bear moving off the boat because she was stuck in that position and would not move with the boat. It required an admin to hop on the bear and teleport the bear off the boat, then bring it back, unclaim it and allow me to reclaim it. I then moved the bear onto the schooner....and it was fixed. 2. (just got done with this) I went treasure hunting with my bear. I went to one island, ran around a bit on my bear, and found that the treasure was up on a cliff, so I returned to my ship and threw away the treasure map (I don't bother with cliff treasures). No problems with getting the bear on the boat and moving with the bear on the boat. I run over to the next island which is in the same zone a short distance away. I get off the boat with my bear and go find the treasure, defeat the damned, get the treasure. I return to my boat, load up my bear. I then try to turn my boat around so I can leave. The bear remained in the same position like the previous time. I then proceeded to try unclaiming and reclaiming the bear, no dice...still bugged. I then tried removing the small handling sail on the boat which the bear was next to...no dice, still bugged. I then remove three ceiling tiles below where the bear is standing. I try to ride her, but notice that I have the option to move her onto the ship. I move her to the ship. The bear sinks down to my lower deck by the cannons. At this point the bear was unbugged and I could move with her attached to the ship. I then proceed to sail back to my base. Both times as I approached my base after the bear was unbugged, the bear appeared to teleport to the sloop parked at my dock. The first time, once I got in the position to anchor, I dropped the anchor, and the bear teleported back to my schooner. The second time, once I got in the position to anchor, I didn't drop the anchor. Instead, I jumped on my dock and let the auto-anchor happen. The bear did not teleport back to the schooner...it stayed on the sloop. I went over to the bear and tried to move it around the sloop, but it would not move and was stuck in place again. I had the option to move it to the schooner again so I took it. The bear then became unbugged and I could ride it off the schooner. I'm now contemplating building a special platform on my ship so that I can place the bear on it in order to unbug it next time without dismantling the main deck. Please fix all these issues with tames and their interactions with structures and boats.

The roof: https://imgur.com/Bhkl9Ug The "bedroom": https://imgur.com/Lugos94 Unofficial PVE with no mods and slightly increased rates. (Doublee) I just started setting up for farming. I setup my Stone Water Reservoirs on top of my "bedroom", where I have the beds for our company and our personal storage containers. I now can't walk in my "bedroom" without crouching as the reservoirs protrude through the floor and block movement in the floor below it. Please fix.

4th option: requirements should be lower than they are 5th option: requirements should be higher than they are

I have discovered a bug with the ladders and triangle ceilings, causing much waste of resources trying to place these rope ladders. It has to do with the snap points of ladders on triangle ceilings. At the end the bug results in destruction of the original ladder because one of the "additional" ladders created has taken the place of the original ladder in the chain of ladder extensions on the original ladder's snap point. Imgur Album with step-by-step descriptions for reproduction: https://imgur.com/a/iIOYNUg I am still trying to figure out how to place the rest of the ladders I want to place. I'm having to waste quite a few rope ladders to do this. I found this on a PvE private server run by Doublee. The only mod loaded is the Global Font mod which you see in the screenshots.