Jean Lafitte

Of course we could always wait for the dev's to fix it... <-checks his watch

But hey, when you build another one you can put a bow spirit on it!!!

Yesterday I went to another island to farm fiber because what's on my island is crap. I took a bear. With the 2x bonus, I had 100,000 fiber in about 30 minutes and that's with the owner charging 30% tax. On the island where I live, that would have taken me all day. Was I happy to pay that tax? You bet I was.

Why? Because it's rather obvious that the dev's don't even play their own game and if we kept our mouths shut about things that are screwed up, they'd never know.

You'd think that ANY mmo released today would have some sort of system to allow you to safely trade with other players to prevent scamming before it even goes live right? Welcome to Atlas.

They don't even have to do that if I'm not mistaken. Twitter has an OAuth system which would allow them to create one post here and have it simultaneously posted to Twitter. But, that would require some coding on their part and we're all aware of that story.

Agreed, I've switched from taming wolves to bears. Now, if we could just be allowed to have them breed without having to sit behind the keyboard for 48 hours straight.

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Nope, that's exactly what I encountered. Which means, you better have your ships pointed toward land otherwise a pissed off corp member could raise the sails and take off. They couldn't steer but they may not care.

Because no MMO should EVER... EVER... promote solo play. It's just unfathomable why anyone would want to play with others yet have control over their in-game destiny.

Because using Homer Simpson for your avatar just screams maturity.

I'm gonna steal some quotes here. Until that time the beatings will continue until morale improves. I feel like the whole purpose of this game is to see who's the last person to rage quit.

Just came back from trading. One of the places I've gone to in the past was a nicely run 'inn' with open crafting tables and gobs of fiber to farm. Today, all the doors were locked shut and a large portion of the resources were already gone. There was also a notice on the gent's claim flag not to anchor ships anywhere on the island otherwise you'd risk them being sunk by asians. After talking to this normally friendly and hospitable gent he informed me that he had to lock down and close his facilities after these, as he denoted Chinese, moved into the island and proceeded to drag SotD to the shore in order to destroy player ships and structures. He said his tax building had been destroyed twice by this tactic. Keep in mind, this is a pve server. I did stop to farm some fiber and on one of the claims he previously owned was a new building with those infamous square blocks for the claimant's name. Thus far, I've had no interaction with any Asians on the server. I have watched their streams on occasion but other than that I personally have nothing against them. However, when their perceived actions results in someone I trade with turning from hospitality to hostility as a means of survival then I'm inclined to take sides. Whatever nationality they are, if they are exploiting the game's systems in order to grief, harass, provoke or otherwise make the game unplayable and unenjoyable for others then boot their asses out. Furthermore, it should not take the public broadcasting of Atlas by a streamer in order for you dev's to take action. You have your bug reports, you have the complaints on these forums, you have the complaints on Twitter, Discord and Reddit. Do your investigating in a timely manner, fix the exploits they use and then kick their asses back across the Pacific. That or give them their own server and leave the exploits in place so they can beat each other over the head since it is apparent they refuse to act like civilized humans.

No, it was 15 minutes of addressing user concerns and an hour and a half of telling us about all crap they're going to add before they even think about what the players want.

Well... I dunno. In-depth ship building? Well, ok. I can give you that one simply because you can add walls and such to ships. The actual keel choices are pretty limited for now. As for sailing mechanics, it's way off. It does a good job of providing playable ship movement that sorta simulates sailing. As for actual sailing mechanics, Naval Action is much closer to reality. Unfortunately, they too drove off most of their playerbase.

I do not know if this was intentional since it was nowhere in the patch notes but I have quickly become aware of a drastic change on my island. Wolves are no longer the apex predator and their numbers have drop drastically. Elephants have also vanished but so have vultures, a fair exchange in my opinion. I can only assume you planned to do this and that means, you have been listening to us. Thank you. While I am having to suffer some much less healthy wolf pets, now that I can actually get out and harvest and explore my island, I will adapt. Again, thank you.

OH LOOK! They're adding in another fountain of youth because a clusterfuck on one server simply doesn't give everyone the opportunity to crash and not be able to log back in. SHARE THE FRUSTRATION I SAY!

I'll tell you the result of the wolf nerf has had another effect. My front yard is now a veritable zoo of every passive creature there is. Bears were an uncommon sight. Now, there's 5 of them mulling around.

You sir, I admire. I picture you as an individual who has his dog shot by a neighbor and you merely wag a finger at them and say, 'now don't do that.'

I thot it was Gnomes. Little bitty gnomes riding in the wolves mouths, poking you in the eye whenever their lvl 1 wolf bites your head off and then giggling maniacally. Oh wait, that's the dev team. nvm.

Here, let me give you the synopsis. First 15 minutes, excuses and misdirections as to why the things the players want won't happen. Next hour and a half, all the really dumb shit they're going to add to this game without fixing what's busted first.

Simple. Everyone expects game to be make for them and them only. The way THEY play the game is the right way and everyone is wrong.

NA-PVE perspective. I have been loathe to use words of questionable morality on these forums because I'm trying to be understanding with this dev team and not sound like a ranting child. But, I feel I must digress for a moment. This was the biggest fucking pile of trash I have EVER seen on any mmo. First you give damn near the entire population of the server a STUPID debuff. Then, you force them to either live with this debuff or jam their asses onto 1 island when you know damn well your servers can barely handle 20 people on 1 island. THEN, you obviously think that this is supposed to suffice for content. Well let me tell you how your content went. First, after everyone dodged the stupidly insane number of SotD, they first ran in there thinking they were gonna kick ass and take names. But that can't happen on this game because the combat system is so utterly screwed up that players are easily decimated by a level 1 no matter what level the player is. But no, that's obviously irrelevant. YOU have to surround this shit hole with lvl 100 aggros. And those are just the ones OUTSIDE this cave. You also decide to flood this 'fountain' (which was just a stupid ass blue sparking particle effect) with mobs of insanely high levels so that, in the future, should any solo need to rid themselves of this ignorant debuff, you've guaranteed them it will be impossible. The content part? Oh, right... No, it wasn't all of us there with pistols and cannons and swords beating off the nasty mobs like your trailer implies. It was all of us running in naked so we didn't lose shit because we KNEW we were going to die multiple times, just hoping the mobs would be confused enough by the utter swarm of lemmings that they would ignore us. Who the fuck on that dev team comes up with these brilliant plans? Oh wait, I know... it was those of you on the stream who thot it HILARIOUS that you had cranked up a high level mob to the point that it utterly slaughtered the players. Got it. Now I know who to point the finger at.

Don't even bother coming to 014. This ignorant dev team in their infinite wisdom picked ONE PLACE on the whole stinking map where 90% of the population NEED to go in order to get rid of an absolutely IGNORANT debuff. Can you guess what the ping times are like in 014? Trust me, it's like day 1 in a freeport all over again. With the addition of some 150 sotd.

Thanks for sharing.