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  1. Posted

    2 minutes ago, Uueerdo said:

    ...and "started"; unless Eve has changed A LOT since I last played (which I am sure it has in many ways) it is impossible for a single person to be a mega corp.

    Are you even implying that it's impossible for one person to create a character and create a large corporation in EVE?  WTF are you people misinterpreting here?  ONE PERSON CAN FORM A CORPORATION AND RECRUIT PEOPLE INTO THAT CORPORATION.   Jeezus, I should not have to parse out the obvious to those who have played the game.

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    23 minutes ago, Hambo said:

    If these are qualifications of some sort then step aside lad :classic_cool:

    Don't think you have a license on being an old fart.  I wrote code in pascal on a PDP 11/70, copied code from Compute! magazine into my Vic-20 and sat in a chemistry room closet learning basic on a TRS-80 model 1.  And on the Apple 2?  Hammurabi.  And I chucked more quarters in change from my lunch money than I care to remember into Space Invaders.

  4. Posted · Edited by Jean Lafitte

    12 minutes ago, Hodo said:

    This is actually false, the largest corp in EVE, the Goonswarm all came together from Something  They planned to do what they did LONG before they joined the game, all came over as a group and formed the mega zerg we have now.

    I'm sorry, exactly where I did I say one person created the largest corporation in EVE?  I said, "one player can join the game solo and yet, have the potential to build a massive empire."

    And that is not false.  Please do not call me a liar.

  8. Posted

    2 minutes ago, Angrytango said:

    And to be quite honest, I am a martial artist. So yup... I recognize that sometimes people need a beating. And now I am speaking of real life. Not a game. 

    Unfortunately, it is the world we live in. 

    “You see, I have a policy about honesty and ass-kicking, which is, if you ask for it, then I have to let you have it.” - Taylor Mali

  10. Posted

    1 minute ago, Scorpionshawn said:

    Let me ask you a question? If a school shooter is shooting up the place would you be preaching Amnesty International at the armed guard that's about to kill him? Because I teach martial arts and I have students that are in this line of work Protect and server and that also goes for Animals protect and server.

    I think you missed a few posts there. That was a wake-up call directed at someone with mixed moral convictions.  I have not stated my moral beliefs anywhere.

  12. Posted

    Just now, Angrytango said:

    People like the mechanic, huh? Really. Taming in this game is absurd. Period. Even for puppy kickers like you. Clearly the PETA thing was not to be taken LITERALLY. If there were no line or morals at all because it is a game then will it be okay to kill kids in the game once they are added in with the breeding?  Does it mean that since it is a video game and not real that anything goes?

    It is clear that since you have no morals, arguing with you is definitely a bad time. I am sure you have some kittens to drown or something. So best get to it.

    Tip: Not everyone HAS a moral compass. 

    Now you're making assumptions. I did not ever state that I liked the system or that I promoted cruelty to animals.  I have not commented either way on those subjects.  What I am doing is trying to offend YOUR confused sense of morality where beating humans is fine but beating penguins is disturbing.

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    1 hour ago, Angrytango said:

    Actually I pick and choose what I kill in the game. There are animals and human NPCs that I just don't kill. Rational adults can decide on morality even in a video game. As for killing other players, in PVP no problem. That is what it is intended for. Apparently you don't like it when others voice an opinion other than yours.I started the post and simply stated that  I find the taming distasteful and not very immersive. Evidently, you like beating animals. It's all good bro. That's just you I guess. 

    Oh no. You don't get of that easy.

    You linked  the PETA logo, an organization known for animal extremism.  You can't sit here and say you have no problem simulating the murder of humans and THEN turn around and say that simulating the beating of AI controlled penguins is 'distasteful.' Because NOW, I get to throw Amnesty International at YOU!

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    2 minutes ago, Lynx said:

    I found this part to be completely false. The articles that described Atlas this way were just wrong. Atlas is nothing like Eve.

    While, for the moment, I'm still playing the game and mostly enjoying it, I agree.  Atlas is a very, very pale shadow of what EVE is.  Not to say this is a bad thing.  My wife and I played EVE for many years and finally gave up.  She got tired of being a 'den mother' to our corporation and I got tired of working 2 jobs.  But comparing the two?  There is none.

  16. Posted

    3 minutes ago, Percieval said:

    Yep. But I always thought people could figure that stuff out on their own. If they have looked at the information given, something must have ringed a bell that it will be very difficult for solo players. Somehow people are still amazed by it and want to see the entire game changed because of their solo adventure when in fact, it will break the games because those also take affect on large companies, exploiting it. 

    The developers of this game have equated it to EVE Online.  What they, and apparently you, have failed to realize is that some of the largest corporations in EVE started with one guy in a tiny ship mining ore. It still flourishes on the fact that one player can join the game solo and yet, have the potential to build a massive empire. And during the early learning process EVE players can sit in relative safety, increasing not only their skills, but their net worth.  They even promoted this with the video below called "The Butterfly Effect."

    So far, this game has demonstrated that if you join it solo, not only is your butterfly ass going to get smacked down repeatedly, they're going to keep changing the game to ensure that you stay smacked down until such time that you either acquiesce and go pick someone else's cotton... or quit.

     

     

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  17. Posted

    14 minutes ago, Angrytango said:

    Atlas is like crack. You know it is bad for you and that it is going to ruin your life, but you just can't seem to quit. Wish there had been a warning before I took my first hit. LOL I could go on and on about some of the issues, but I know that people don't actually want to hear it so all I will say is this... This game's got me tweakin.  I know it is EA so don't even respond if that is what you have to say. 

    I disagree. Atlas is much more masochistic than that.  It's like self-flagellation with the hope that someday, all of the pain will lead to salvation.

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  18. Posted · Edited by Jean Lafitte

    I had the same issue with my last raft.  Got jammed in the side structure of a small shipyard and simply couldn't move.  Fortunately, one of the locals graciously came over and rammed my raft several times with a sloop to get it un-stuck.

    Had to demolish this raft yesterday.  I was going to take it out to retrieve a corpse and got wedged into a cliff face.  Couldn't turn, couldn't back up.

  19. Posted · Edited by Jean Lafitte

    22 minutes ago, Bolognapwny said:

    I think Atlas needs to move away from these useless Tame stuff....

    You already have NPC crew and for a pirate adventure game I think thats good enough controlled AI... if you could focus more on their utility I think it meshes way better with the theme of the game.  

    The Tames like bears and wolves and all those dumb lil creatures like monkeys and stuff... oh yeah its "cool" but you'll never have a great use or balance for them... this isn't Ark... we don't need tames like that.... You can use those programmers on something way more useful.

    I think they should get rid of tames too.  It causes lazy, whiney, childish, self-righteous, egocentric pvp'ers to spam shitposts thus cluttering my forums with this crap.  It's quite pathetic.  You need a crew?  You're just being lazy.

  20. Posted

    2 minutes ago, ReaperShadow said:

    Okay so today i were with friends and i was gonna go to the toilet and after that i played ATLAS. But afterwards it said that i got banned from the discord for racism. And believe me they were at my pc when i was at the toilet. So i want to get back to the discord. Any suggestions on how i am gonna do that ? I totally don't like that i get banned of the server because of someone else. So please help me

    Just as captain is responsible for the actions of their crew, you are responsible for the actions of someone else on your computer.  Bon voyage.

  21. Posted · Edited by Jean Lafitte

    7 hours ago, Imperial said:

    My apologizes, ill try to be more clear. Im running on 8 gigs of ram, an i7 4790k and a gtx 960. Atlas is installed on my main hardrive

    I'm going to have to agree with the previous post about the SSD and add in two more things.  I initially had Atlas on my hard drive.  Moving it to the SSD improved it vastly.  The next thing, 8 gigs of ram.  I'm running 32 gigs and at times I have to use task manager to crash out of it.  I've noticed numerous times that Atlas is using 6+ gigs.  If you assume that Windows 10 uses 2 gigs, Atlas is filling the rest and you're probably doing a lot of memory swapping to the hard drive. That alone can cause some major lag. Moving it to an SSD will not eliminate the swapping but the SSD will do it much, much faster. The third thing is the video card.  I'm running a RX580 with 2 gigs of ram, the same amount it appears you have.  And according to Passmark, my card is about 20% faster than yours. I just bought this card so I initially thought I had a badass video card and could run on the highest texture settings. I found out I couldn't.  Every time I came anywhere near a player my frame rate would drop drastically. I lowered the textures to the next lowest setting and that stopped immediately.  What's happening there is the high res textures take up so much video ram that whenever the game encountered the need for a new texture it tried to load from the hard drive and kick something else out of the video ram causing it again to swap textures in and out from the hard drive and causing a huge, huge drop in frame rate.

    What I'd recommend, turn Atlas down to the lowest possible video settings, and restart Atlas and play it a while. If it runs fine with those settings, slowly turn up the textures and other settings and play some more until you see the lag and then, turn it back down a notch.  If it still lags with the lowest settings and your friends don't, then it's likely the swapping to the hard drive due to 8 gigs of ram. 

    While Atlas is running, do a CTL-ALT-DEL, open task manager and click on the performance tab.  In particular, watch the memory, hard drive and if you can see it, the video card GPU activity.  If any of those 3 graphs are constantly maxed out, then you know where the problem likely is.

    Hope this helps.

  22. Posted

    17 hours ago, Nightstrasza said:

    Agree that the gold cost for claims is bs. However, claims being small?, somehow with 2 flags never ran out of space, got so much space that propably 2 more ppl could fit into 1 flag, let alone into 2 of them, the sizes are fine, they give enough to build and have some personal space arround.

    You obviously live in a city.  If I can stand on my front porch and piss on a neighbor's house, you're too fucking close.

  24. Posted · Edited by Jean Lafitte

    Is this SERIOUSLY your idea of a fun game? Why have the hundreds... yes HUNDREDS of requests to lower the population of aggros and alphas been blatantly ignored? What grand scheme do you people have in your head that even begins to justify this and have the audacity to call it entertainment?

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    And if this were an abnormal gaming session I wouldn't be asking that question... but it isn't!

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