Mahakmar

It all depends on the blueprint, you ofc need the skill to craft said item (f.example cannons) if you do not have the skill to make them well you are outa luck, or if its green and up you need more sources of items (example is 2 diff hide sources-or 2 diff metals) getting the higher up stuff made is insanly costly when they require 3+ different various metals and such

make them target your target or ships, otherwise they seem to go happy nuts after anything , i would set them for your target only if you are npc hunting

yeah got a huge issue with the 6 h timer where we are at, people keep buzzing around and resetting timer , bout to give up -.-

well sigh we have a claim we been wrestling with long time now , it takes 6 bloody hours to take it -.- , the owner has gone off/stopped playing , no sleepers around but 6 hours of well staring at the wall, and people keep buzzing the area resetting the timer

well whats the best way to find them ?  havent explored that much yet been busy trying to build a base

There is a few issues with current claim flags atm  

1 : circles if they where square islands be easier to divide up

2 : overlapping on claims that makes you slowly loose terretory

3:  due to overlapping people will claim around their base due to fear of one day their base been overlapped and people get acess to their stash etc

4: those awful gates that cost less then regular walls, yes they stop things getting in but seriously , coming up to a place just walled off with them and you need to go behind for a map is just sigh

5: too many buildings in one area and the spawn will die off and be gone, tested it on a spot where peas and such did spawn, one 4x4 building took away all spawn in the vicinity

6: while the building on others claim is a great idea many will not allow it due to well respawns + people can tend to pack alot of stuff over a large area = spawn done for

I guess there is alot more but a combination of all the above and more makes it hard to get more people settled , so its not a easy task to get it balanced atm 

tbh the payout sinking 1-6 not worth it getting 5-8 gold -.-, you will be paying a crew each 0.6-7 hours on cannons  , so you need to do some recog to find the spawn then take out the ship , issue we finding atm they are clusterd lvl 1-20 -.- , one is fine as you can repair between more you are really pushing it

well then alliance and such can interact , there is  a system for alliances and then they would have acess , people behave badly kick them out 

or well non company members cant interact with the ship-go on it, period

yeah its starting to look like late eu/or morning for us eu  , make sure you stock the npc you have with gold-make it avail for them as skills will be reset upcoming patch

im all for limiting claims, however then they also need to fix overlapping flags, i lost 50% of my claim area due to overlapping , there is sometimes a reason why you see people have 3-4 flags around their base as to stop a overlap happen and you can kiss your stuff goodbye that was in the overlapped area

the neutral zones gonna be intresting to see how it pans out  , it will open up more people in area thats good , a small but tho  im thinking of overbuilding in a area thus killing the spawns on some smaller island  , we have some that love to build large houses but they also killed off spawn of metal-stone in the surrounding area

What im not liking so far is seeing people put sea claim and putting taxes everywhere its just a bother and annoyance , but we will see how things pans out when people open up their claims-zones to new people so they can build and start playing 

npc ai seem to bring out the worst in the crocs-snakes, so far only way to really protect them is them locked up on land when you not around between 3-5 walls , and even then you will have the crocs-snakes go ham on them

And here to show you (see the blue line in the distance ) , i can place a flag between my friendly neighbour  and my flag , tested it with others in area and they can place it there thus taking a big chunk of my flag, nothing i can do about it unless im catching the people doing it and go stand top of their flag , this is how people are loosing bases 

thats the huge issue with flag imo, they can slowly creep into your area without contesting, so be aware one day if not active enough kiss your base goodbye  , we got overlapping flags into our flag and nothing we can do about it 

sigh yeah we are having to guard our 2 small claims with people on shifts due to people come in , try , then leave, more players needing land  , we had hoped last night patch could make it so we could relax a bit but no

overlapping is the huge issue, enough overlaps and you will be without a base plain and simpel, the fix for protecting flags in PVE are not working AT ALL , replacing each 3 days when you getting overlapped flags means you have to contest the owner of it and they will do same next time etc etc untill you are done with the watch the flag game

people still dont seem to understand the claim and their circle is the issue, anyone can come stake a claim and slowly encroach your place and one day say goodbye to your base, and nothing you can do about it

They need to make claims square and not overlapping  , there is a reason people place flags around their base , so they can not worry about one day their 1 claim-base is gone cause someone overlapped your entrances-and gone in destroyed everything , this is the huge issue

sadly it seems the so called fixed never worked, so back to watching your flag-flags people

sigh yeah i lost a few npc due to suddenly a gator came middle of the sea and well 2 bites and they died -.- 

dont need the wind to reverse, put all sails down and just well hold backwards key, i use it to pin point park 

they really need to just stop people to claim-place flags till its fixed, then give a grace period where you can remove flags, and place a new one down that will protect the area you want to have 

Reading about people having people on 24/7 to stop loosing stuff is making this game look really bad and will drive away people

yeah remove the buoys (there ya go easy fix) , people in our area is loosing claims due to players taking them late EU time when most are sleeping, and they wake up and get mad place buoys and leave the game , thus rendering places dead for days till its removable or they decide to remove it (yeah right)

yeah the sea flags need to go, but also they need to actually make that if people are active-on the land the counter on claim resets, heck it works on lawless (login in lawless and your stuff resets to 4 day protection) why cant it work on claim spots on regular islands

there is a reason why people just live on lawless cause no fear of loosing their stuff as log they login 1 per 4 day -.- , ofc they cant go building bonanza but still

or have a ship resources box, for repair items + gold for the crew on boat , but be very careful as in a sloop they seem to really draw crocs-wolves after them and they die fast

 so i usually park them in base and neutral stance when not around