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Yes, you have 3 days, then they can steal it if no one contests. Takes 6 hours to steal. If you sleep on your claim then it is pretty much safe for 10days of inactivity.

Since the most recent patch Sea claim overlapping seems to be broken again. I am able to place a sea claim and overlap heavily any other sea or land claim without the stealing warning, after 10 mins I took half of someones land. I ripped it up of course to give it back, but others may not be so nice.

Initial patch notes said they were "removing sea claims", a day later it changed to say "Fixing sea claim bugs"... so who knows what is happening.

The same thing is happening on our Island EU PvE, one company placed down sea claims along the coast and in some cases even took some buildings, our flags remained but most of the area now belongs to them. I hope this is fixed in the patch today/tomorrow

I know claims are a very sore subject right now, but I would love to see claims being a square rather than a circle Thanks

Hi all, Just checked outside of our main base on PvE EU and found someone built within our territory 4 behemoth stone gateways and gates... these structures appear to ignore enemy territory claims.... The destruction timer is 2 hours, but can easily be used for griefing and enclosing in peoples bases...

Just tested the same, neighbour placed a new flag, around 16000 second upkeep and ticking down, standing next to him on his new claim...... his other flag is stealable even when he stands on it... wonderful!! another weekend of protecting claims.. gg

So far the ones on our server are trying to reclaim their old bases, but of course others are trying to steal it from them too... at the moment you are doomed if you made a new company.. A roll back now is looking less likely.

The fix worked on our Server, but not for those that made new companies... it broke for them, everyone that did nothing got a fix and back in the original company

It fixed the company issue for me, but the PvE claims are still broken...

Just logged in after patch 9.11, entire company has been kicked including owner. Please roll back and fix... PvE EU

I think people are just frustrated that core systems that are vital to the game and game modes are not working and instead of them being acknowledged and priorited by the devs... they are busy making rafts attackable by ghost ships and other quality of life changes. These types of stealing and glitching issues should be the highest prio. If people lose everything they simply quit and dont bother trying again.

Most new claims have the 3 day protection, the problem is that the upkeep is not refreshing when a company member goes in it, in 3 days you will have the same problem again, combined with the enemy claim overlapping issue it makes it harder and harder to replace flags. We have been circled by sea and land claims overlapping into our land and we can not replace any flags at all

Some of the old flags gor the 3 day protect, when you place a new flag it usually gets the 3 day protection, but not always. The biggest problem is that the protection is not being reset, after 3 days it is claimable again and due to overlapping exploits you cant just pick up the flag and replace it.. as people will have overlapped your claim... meaning you must always have someone either online or sleeping in each and every flag you have to protect it.. Basically it is broken and needs fixing asap. for PvE anyway, never played PvP.

But Thankfully the Devs are working on critical issues atm, like making rafts attackable by Ghost Ships.. that will help everything

We just built our 4th Brig, the first 2 were destroyed in the dock by Ghost Ships, 1 was sunk by PvE griefers overloading it. Now the 4th, we finished it and stocked it well with repair mats and planks and gold, we needed some NPC crew for it, we were only 5 people, so we started heading for a freeport to recruit NPC crew members, we crossed into the next zone and as the world loaded 3 Ghost ships were sitting there waiting for us, all 3 immediately started firing, the server had 100 people on it and the lag was terrible, we were all shooting and managed to sink 1, this was the lvl 15, the lvl 17 and lvl 19 Ghost Ships just keep pounding us, we replaced planks as soon as we could but wasnt enough, we sank Just 1 would have been fine... but 3 right there waiting... crazy

Been posting about this very issue since launch, they implemented the 3 day protection, but did not apply to existing claims and does not appear to be refreshed as intended and does not prevent overlapping.. it is completely broken with not even an acknowledgement that this is an issues still from the Devs.... I would not recommend this game to any one right now...

Reaplced our flags and still same problem, losing land constantly

This is exactly the same problem that our company is having, we havn't been out on the seas in days, we are just running around contesting and trying to build a ship when it is quiet.... Not fun.

Did not work for us, same problem after replacing.

Spent the day defending the remaining company claims we have, all 8 of us standing around contesting, no progress was made today.. just contesting.... Its completely broken. People are able to overlap onto our claims after we go to bed, any structures on that part of the overlap are moving to the enemy company... its a really bad joke.. we just lost a shipyard as someone managed to overlap their claim over it... Nothing from the devs at all

Sadly this is not the case, my company replaced our flags and still people can take them, some work but some dont.

As a follow up, just remember that around 40% of the most desirable regions (not freezing or high desert) are currently lawless and can not be built on. They made lawless regions starter zones because the freeports were overloaded. Once the lawless regions become claimable again this issue will not be that big. Currently approximately 50 regions are "lawless" that are used as starting zones. This will change as the rush dies down. 100 people per region, more than that and it gets super laggy. 5k people?

I think the game is at fault here, not the player. Did you know there is a building called the Taxation Bank? Any resources harvested in your territory you get a percentage of it. There is a massive incentive to capture as much of the resource rich land as possible , this is exactly how the game is designed. In 3 hours we had hundreds of metal, and thousands of wood and stone... the tax alone from the bank is generating enough materials to build our Brig.... If this bank did not exist I would agree 100% that 1 claim per person is enough, but when you have this building there is a reason to capture as much as possible.

If and only if they add connected trading posts, which people can post goods on and people can buy, maybe with a generic "delivery" time then it could work, but If I need to go to the zone to buy it I may as well collect it myself. I personally started on the equator and and heading to the Thundra... I have been sailing for over 14 hours, only stopping to quickly check what other zones offer and repair the ship... If there is no npc trading post option with auto delivery.. trading wont be very viable.