Virkatjol

ladders are the bane of my existence. It used to be Wolves. lolol Sometimes i can't climb up if it's moving too much or too underwater or too much land... ugh. 

traveling through them is scary AF. I'm like WE"RE SAILING THROUGH LAND!!!! Uh wut land? lol

1 minute ago, Vaenix said:

Avoid the "Move To [ Insert Ship Name ]" option for right now, just hop on the boat and whistle to follow they should teleport to being where you are/near you instead of inside the structure of the boat.  The problem with "Move To" seems to be that there are designated spots for the animals to teleport.  Most of us are not fully aware of what all these spots are so we build these nicely designed boats only to have our tames inside of some walls/railings/ceilings somewhere. Our tame moving boats typically are built in such a way that there is a large middle section that is completely empty aside from the decks.  Move to so far has worked fine in those situations(going from the side and only moving 1 tame at a time onto the boat, then moving it immediately to a new spot), or using the whistle command which has been working perfectly for me so far(Thanks again @Percieval)

yep that is what i've been doing. I was able to just follow to a mid ladder and climb up but last night the bear climbed up in the way back... so now i'm only using the whistle from ship.

3 minutes ago, Nokim said:

at least you had a reason to lose it. My company has lost many tames to no other reason that random and instantaneous ground swallowing of tames.

example last night we were doing many treasure maps. the second to last one was for 450ish gold. 5 of us on bears, we beat the mobs dismounted got our gold. got back on our mounts to head to ship.

Suddenly someone calls out for help. His bears..randomly and for no reason SUNK into the ground to the point where we could only see his head sticking out.It could not be moved, ridden, called, set to agressive to attack nearby animals. Nothing worked. We were forced to abandon a lvl 66 bear 

That same day we lost another lvl 60 bears and a lvl 60 tiger the same way.

 

 

tames seem to get stuck in things way too easily. using the loading onto boat function often gets them stuck into boats.

10 minutes ago, Hodo said:

Had you done any maintenance on the hull?  Ships take damage over time if they are used or even sitting around.  So you have to keep up on repairs or they will sink.  Usually a couple of days if left unattended. 

we had crew on it repairing and a box of resources. and we'd just had it out the day before and check it for damage after sailing.

we had our brig parked at our dock, as we had it parked multiple days prior, and logged in and it was just sunk in that spot....

this is one of my favorite parts of the game. The maps are fun times!

These are all good suggestions. Much better post then my "OMG MAKE IT STOP" post

It was a completely unfun experience. Of all the things I've been disheartened with in the game this was the only one where I thought "Should I just quit? is this the way things are going to go?"

There were at least 10 fire elementals surrounding the entrance. Respawning on our sloop resulted in insta death at least 3 times. 2 from a lion just hanging on our boat - knocking me onto another to get stuck - and then murdering me, and one by a fireball. The respawn screen hadn't even fully loaded and i was dead again.

My crewmate and i ran at least 15 times each until we both just gave up because the respawn times with 1 bed left were ridiculous. So we just went back to base.

3/4 beds were also destroyed by things attacking our boat? which is complete BS. 

I made it to the cave entrance once. And then was pounced by 2 lions. Every other time a lion or fire elemental killed me as soon as i left the water or ran 10 feet. 

I guess I'll just be old and haunting forever now.

Far too many obstacles for a required mechanic. Especially when it moves around and server update after server update stop your progress. The creatures are impossible to get past when very few people are trying to complete the mission so it's a test of stupidity on how long you do it until you just decide being old is just fine. What a waste of time.

The more i play this game the more i hate the boxes it puts you in. It's been 700 days (or so) and I'm 97? i started out at 20. please learn how aging works. Also remove a stupid required mechanic to get back the stats for points.

Let people who want a challenge or whatever come to these islands but i just want to sail around and build and tame animals.

1 minute ago, Tillman said:

Me and a buddy went looking for sotd last night. We sailed through 2 whole maps and didn’t see any. So I would say no. 

after we got back with out supplies we emptied and didn't have to leave the area by our base to find 5 to kill and 3 we left. 

We are in K3.

We sailed to Polar K1 last night and at 1 point we could see at least 8 ships surrounding us. We were up there a weekish ago and it wasn't an issue like now.

We also had 2 aggressive whales chasing us on our way home as well as ships aggro-ing us.

There were so many they were piling into each other.

While these guys are great fun to kill it seems like perhaps there are too many for how many people are out hunting them.

or close to K3

we've had them killed in our land house so now we build over the water. Sometimes we find the animals IN the water under the barn when we log on. 

Super frustrating.

we must be lucky, i haven't seen the million vultures we used to have as well as wolves. We have crows and seagulls now though. But they aren't anything like vultures. Vultures are awful.

Life in the Tundra has greatly improved. Thank you for lowering spawn rates on wolves! I had no idea our island had pigs at all! Let alone a decent supply of sheep and rabbits!

We can harvest resources without dying every 5 minutes. it's amazing how much of the beach i've been able to explore and not die! 

i was having issues with feeding a sheep last night. It said hit e and i'd hit e over and over again with no luck. Sometimes it would take and sometimes it would take 5 tries to get the right hit box area. if it's giving me the prompt, it should be able to be fed. 

It's harder to get into the right area now without getting hit. I did 2 bears and a wolf last night and i managed to get the wolf to fall with her face over the edge of the high side of our pen and i could stand under and behind to feed without getting hit. However it's noticeable that it's harder to find the right area. I've tamed a lot of animals in the game and this patch seems to the most finicky. I had a bull at 80% tamed and then it stopped taking at all no matter where i stood. (but that was pre-the latest patch so it might be fixed now)

the one's i've seen look like cattails. I've only seen them on one island though and there weren't a ton. 

What do the other kinds look like?

2 minutes ago, Scorpionshawn said:

 

I love sailing i dont love sailing for 335 hours looking for a descent land to claim to really setting into the game.

I can understand that. Head over to K3, i bet we can find some shore for you!

Just now, arzosah said:

Void, I'm the only person from my company up there.

I'm in the Wandering Stars. We are basically actual neighbors!  thanks again for the use of your taming pen for that elephant!

Just now, Scorpionshawn said:

HAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAA......

REALLY DUDE! ITS BORING!!!!! 

if you think sailing is boring, then maybe this isn't the game for you? You seem to hate everything about this game on the forum.

Personally going out and exploring is fun to me, but I guess I have a home base. So maybe it's not quite the same.

Just now, arzosah said:

Big island on K3 is where I'm at, and it's a decent spot. seen a lot of people show up in the last couple weeks but there might be some space, at the very least fairly friendly people.

Howdy neighbor! What company are you in?

1 minute ago, arzosah said:

The tundra region I'm in doesn't have any fiber, I just take a bear to a bordering region an collect 100k fiber and bring it back.

we just got some added on our island in tundra. Cotton is from the red leaf'd plants now. but we were in the same position. It's a lot faster still to sail to a close region and collect tons of fiber and sail back. But at least we can grab some for quick things now.

The tundra is a rough place to live but I think there might be some space along the shore on our big island in K3. Just talking to people in the areas can help too, even if you have to do the long AF contesting they usually know who is active.

Just bring fur armor and a lot of organic paste. Be ready to be killed by wolves a lot. but our resources are pretty good, save the fiber.

1 minute ago, Hodo said:

I know where all of our wolves spawn.   They spawn in the same area every time.  There are 3 or 4 areas on our island they spawn.  I am sure it is the same for every island.  So the trick is DONT BUILD ON THEIR SPAWN.

if we built on the spawn they'd be in the house every day. But they aren't. I know you're probably pretty smart, obviously, also seem super kind, so i don't need to spell it out that if we built on the spawn we'd have them in our house every 5 minutes when it re-spawns many more wolves. 

They spawn in more then 3 or 4 places on our island. we are overrun with them ALL THE TIME. This is a constant complaint that no one seems to be addressing. 

30 minutes ago, Hodo said:

Funny never had one spawn in any of my buildings... But I put a roof on my buildings and as second floor most of the time.

we've had them spawn inside our buildings multiple times. We are not in lawless.

The wolves are awful. They are unbalanced and overpopulated and spawn super fast. 

Alphas are pointless and do not even give much XP any longer. 

Alphas are the worst! Just turn them off or put them on Alpha island in the middle. or somewhere off the map.