Arzicane

44 minutes ago, wolfgang4466 said:

Asinego, I get that but the timer said 4 days, the shipyard was placed yesterday morning. so there seems to be an issue with the timers.

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.

2 hours ago, Realist said:

No, it promotes raiding. That is the only reason they are not consumable 

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.

11 minutes ago, funbasket said:

The problem is, the majority of players couldn't make it out of the starting zones for almost 36+ hours because of server stability issues. Those players who were, have essentially had a game-breaking advantage over the rest of us.

Once you're out of the starter zones there is almost no lag, so players level and farm significantly faster. Not to mention they have the entire world to be able to lay claim without any major competition.

This has already happened on every server, all while the rest of us can't even log in.

My mates and I finally got our raft outside of the starter zones last night. Within 2-3 hours we were found by a player crew of nearly level 40's in a large ship, and they proceeded to (unprovoked) one-shot us with guns and destroyed our raft.

We were a robust level 8. Never had even a thought of a chance. 

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.

1 hour ago, Naviss said:

Which is fine if there was land to claim or free to build a bigger ship.

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.

2 hours ago, Rickyh24 said:

I don’t care about his alpha excuse.  What the op said is happening.  People that are going to quote people and say “it’s an alpha we should expect this” should just not waste the forum bandwidth instead. This is bugs suppport.  It’s here to discuss and report bugs hoping for support.  

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.

1 hour ago, Dragoon said:

I have noticed that the claims that are larger are in water

 

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?

1 hour ago, Teach said:

There are smaller trees in the freeports and various regions you can forage without assaulting the tree with fisticuffs the same way (Hold E Key) you do Fiber/Berries. As said, it only takes a few wood to make your first tool.

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...

43 minutes ago, Realist said:

They calle it a pirate mmorpg year they made it more of a survival game than ark even is

who cares about vitamins. Can even drink all of the water like you can in ark.

this is way more survival genre than dayz even is

that is like calling the avengers a chick flick

Jesus Christ talk about genre blending.

 

 

...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.