Arzicane

I think the best bet is to get away from lawless and freeport and trying building there.

Then you get higher by finding the stones for your compass.

And another can argue in a pve, it promotes trading, or selling of wares. It also applies to PVP as well, but the current state it is in...zerg is all they know.

In some tradition games yes, in ark and in atlas, blueprints are not consumable. It promotes sharing and trading from my point of view, I am just use to it from my time in ark.

Also blueprints help you from have to put points in certain trees, essentially letting you bypass certain skill reqs.

Seeing as you can ram other ships it probably rammed him, and his ship and continued to damage to his raft while he was beached.

Also to be fair, there is some group out there that would of mapped out the areas anyways. Be it sooner or later the outcome would of been the same.

That's unfortunate that happen to you, but keep in mind that new players from now to the end of this games life will always be at a disadvantage. With most games with a system like this, that is the case...be it through experience (level/knowledge) or materials. The most you can do either accept this and move on and go at it from a different approach, or simply not play it. I hope you are able to recover and move past boat load of pirates, and have a Happy Holiday!

Yea learnt the hard way, to take the extra time to sail further past the first set of islands out of freeport. My first non starter island experience was a 3 man KoS, so I am back at freeport to restart.

Then you can be that ol' pirate talking to your fresh meat scallywags saying, "Back in my day..."

I know you may not be in the freeport while asking this question, but i got alot of sap from E harvesting some trees. Might be a relation there somewhere.

i agree somewhat with you there. With some patience and a bed once could travel a further bit out and get some land. Most of the claimed land I'm seeing is the intermittent areas around freeports and lawless ports.

Please keep in mind that there is spot in the forums for Bug reporting.

We named the monkey jack, not you jack...ah good times.

Maybe it is due to the fact that docks take up some much water space, that when you plant a flag that covers water it gives you more lee way?

I can second it, launch day i spawned in a lawless server and it was hell and high water to get wood. Second day i manage to get into a lag free 132/150 freeport (suprising i know) and within the hour i had so much would a lvl 3 like me at the time didn't know what to do with it.

Im just glad there is cyclops in this game, time for some david and goliath!

Everyone is entitled to their opinions, be them true or false, but... ...its one thing to say you don't like the game, and another to speak(type) like you did. Happy holidays though!

I do know the bigger ships take damage if the water is too shallow, may of been that?

Yea for taming you have to invest in it, when you walk up to certain tames they will say something along the lines of (must being taming 3 or something), and you work from there.

The problem there is, they will just claim it right back. I do not think that your offline body will prevent them from taking it. So you back full circle to the start of the problem, and that is unlimited flag claims.

There is a skill called piracy that lets you take ships, until you learn that you will not be able to take it.

I don't think you need the dock to make the starting raft i don't think? For the next tier of ships you do, but correct me if im wrong. You do need seamanship to craft any boat of any tier though, pretty sure its on the left side of the seamanship tree.