Jean Lafitte

Well, here's another interesting tidbit. https://twitter.com/jeremystieglitz doesn't list himself as having any association with Grapeshot either but it's pretty obvious he's deeply involved and was listed as co-founder.

Ah, ok. I checked wayback and the only shot they had was from 2016 and it looked pretty much identical to the one there now. That does reek of some internal issues doesn't it?

No no... you said a co-founder changed his profile and you said it 'sounds' like other members of the team are doing so as well. Show me. What do you have that proves this? Not speculation based on your occupation. Proof.

Are you referring to Jesse Rapczak?

You should have seen this coming. https://twitter.com/jeremystieglitz?lang=en

Dammit people. Stop giving me such perfect places to put this!

LOL, nevermind. I just saw where someone else posted that gif on Jat's last tweet over 2 hours ago.

I do not have a twitter account and have never felt the need for one. If someone would like to crosspost that image to other places, feel free.

Sorry folks, I gotta do this again...

And I do that. I went south over the weekend and took a bear to farm fibers. However, I found my sap supplier to be almost emptied because, as he put it, Chinese drug SotD to his claim, bombed his tax bank twice and then, took over the claim where much of the sap was and farmed it all. I did trade a couple of horses for some mats but the thing is, mats are a consumable and in infinite supply to those that have them. Bears and horses do not get used with nearly the frequency that consumables do. So, what they have to trade, I consume. What I have to trade, they tend to protect.

And that's all I can do as berries, bears and horses are the only useful resources I have and the berries, as you so eloquently put it, are just spammed until they tame. And even when I do find a bear or wolf with unique coloration that might just accidentally have some real value, breeding is hosed. I refuse to stay awake for 30 hours straight trying to keep a cub alive. That should be it's mother's job. For example, this color variation of black and silver appears to be rather unique. The only thing I can do though is hang onto her till breeding is fixed or sell her to a masochist who is willing to breed her.

And what would you like me to trade? Metal? - only what's in the rocks. 0 metal nodes. Crystal? 0 Gems? 0 Salt? 0 Carrots? Turnips? Beets? Sugarcane? Coral? Pearls? All 0. The only thing my island has, and it's a large island, is trees, rocks and massive amounts of berries. Nothing anyone else doesn't already have in abundance. For tamables, I have bears, horses, crows, pigs, sheep and a few wolves and lions. Wolves have been nerfed to be a shadow of what they once were, lions have a huge weakness in their lack of HP. Bears and horses are commonplace elsewhere. Sheep give hides, not fiber(*boggle*). Pigs are only useful (and damned funny) if you have 15 of them trained to follow you around but they're not going to fit on a sloop. And the int buff from crows isn't really implemented yet so, other than looking cool, they're pretty useless. Now tell me, how many of those tames am I going to have to load onto my sloop to get 1000 paste and how far am I going to have to risk going in order to find someone that doesn't have a bear or a horse and does have paste/sap to trade? And even then, that 1000 paste gives me what? 50 stone walls? And I'd still need 1750 metal? Any idea how many rocks I'd need to pound for 1750 metal?

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Good news. Even though we didn't get a direct response, this indirect response gives me hope. @Dollie, @Jatheish - If this is your handiwork, thanks for getting involved. No further response needed.

Done that, quantity retrieved, 0. Am I missing something?

Actually... From Wikipedia - In its broadest sense mortar includes pitch, asphalt, and soft mud or clay, such as used between mud bricks. Pitch can be natural or manufactured, derived from petroleum, coal tar, or plants. Various forms of pitch may also be called tar, bitumen, or asphalt. Pitch produced from plants is also known as resin. Some products made from plant resin are also known as rosin. The problem is, sap is not a widespread commodity in Atlas regardless of the fact that every island has trees. Metal, I don't understand.

Really? Let me Google using mashed bugs for mortar... brb.

Welcome to the forums. Your voice too shall be ignored.

Ya, I was checking I think yesterday to see just how effective this company was at eliminating hacks/exploits. BattlEye @TheBattlEye 4 Feb 2018 More We have banned over 1,044,000 PUBG cheaters in January alone, unfortunately things continue to escalate. https://twitter.com/TheBattlEye

Actually, BattleEye banned over 1 million PUBG accounts in Jan 2018 for hacking/exploits.

And I'm willing to bet that Rome wasn't built as a result of chasing half it's population out of the city gates and shoving a stick up the ass of those that stayed every 24 hours.

I asked Dollie and him to respond to a post about a player getting very obviously griefed. Care to guess that the response was?

I never said there was. And if this game had been a LOT better thought out, a LOT further into development and if caused the dev team to take notice of threads like this, then yes, I would pay. I paid for an EVE subscription for over 10 years and had 0 problems doing so. Half of a pile of shit is still a pile of shit.

Well, that's debatable. CCP cared about their wallet. The big difference between EVE and Atlas is, EVE players could slam their wallets shut and have a huge effect which resulted in them caring. Here, we've already been played. The only real tools at our disposal are even more negative reviews on Steam or doing something so drastic that it catches the eye of media like PCGamer.

For those who missed this in another topic. Feel free to reuse this whenever someone asks for a dev reply or intervention. It should tell them everything they need to know.