Sadie Blackhawk

Been all over the map. It's pretty quiet everywhere on Gorgons Gaze

Man after reading this. Im so thankful I made the choice to go to lawless. I have sucha love/hate relationship with the new system. People like that are the reason I didn't wanna move to any settlement island. As the saying goes. One bad apple spoils the bunch.

Also putting how many discoveries per island would also help.

So N14. at least I found a few. I'm on Porrtague Enclave now. Still have 8 more discoveries for this region but not seeing them. My feedback. This is extremely tedious. It's honestly not even fun hunting for the needle in the haystack. Even with a spyglass. Either the small bubbles are to hard to find or they aren't working properly. Doing 255 grids of this. Well rightnow after 2 grids and only having minor successes im ready to log out and go watch tv. Would be a bit better if more treasure maps tied in with discovery locations. Or even change the able mapmaker (since that is pretty much useless with the whole map uncovered) to be like the Eagle Eye/Piracy tree where a beam pops up to find the discoveries. @Jatheish @Dollie

So this morning I decided to set out from K8 and head to o14 to start exploration/discovery point hunting. I've been here since 11am. Its now 5pm. 3 islands hit out of 4 and alls I have is the 3 original discovery locations for hitting the islands. I've ran both the perimeter and the interior of 3 islands. Not a single discovery point found beyond that. Used the spyglass. Nothing. Are these seriously not working? Gonna hit the last island for the initial discovery after this and then head to N14. Figured Id head down the 14 grids first and work my way back to K8. Also some treasure bottles are empty. NA-Gorgon's Gaze

No your not the only one. Reversing is painful.

Are you close enough to water to board the bear onto a ship? I had some Asian asshats refuse to let my fallen bear out of their wall of behemoth gates. I pulled my ship up to the gate, climbing picked over and boarded the bear on and told them some very unladylike things.

Ok so im not losing it. I went to tame a lvl 29 elephant with wheat this morning. Have advanced taming prof. IIRC pre wipe. I was getting around 4% per feeding on a lvl 30 elephant. Today was only getting 1.5% or so per feeding with wheat.

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Hey I can concur. I made 5k on eu pve yesterday doing a few hours worth of maps I literally collect a bunch from one grid or a grid away and do them all.. It can be done easily. Ok so I did have to tame 2 extra bears to get that JM map done for the treasure master update. But on the forum topic. Man claimed islands are getting foundation spammed out more then lawless. Glad I chose to not do that whole claim thing.

Can we get them to show up on the maps after we discover them. Right now I have to retravel to an island to figure out which one it is. Makes it hard traveling to specific islands to trade/help people.

Can equip them after making them. Once you log out and log back in. Can no longer place them in slots. I have the required Tool Usage. If I put them in the smithy and take them back out then I can use them again.

It would be nice to have hitching posts like they do in ark. Not only for ships but for my yard too.

Rhino seems to be getting less metal too then I can with a pick. I said something about the giraffe on here and twitter days ago.

Had a giraffe pre wipe and now again with new patch. To me it seems im back to getting more thatch with a pick then I do with the giraffe. It was at 6x thatch for a giraffe?

Seems to be missing. Tons of elderberries and billberries. No fiber that I could find.

Please don't remove lawless. I don't want to rent from someone. Nor do I have any inclination to own an island after the test realm. Could I. Yes. Could I do it right off the bat yes. Do I really care about a claim flag -not really. I might grab one for my company members since they didn't try out the test realm. Small islands are around 15 and 23 points to claim them. Even with the numbers changed. You can still have a claim if you can get there in time. I just looked at the map and scrolled over some of the islands to see what the point cost was for it before they went down. It might not be the island you specifically want though.

On NA PVE I had pings of 255 in some lawless zones. I don't think its gonna be any different whether its EU or NA. I honestly don't think they are gonna hit the 40k mark for that server. I'd say maybe 10k. More people seem to like the PVP environment. I'm still not worried about it being on an EU server.

Correct Draale. I was on it during the PVP PTR. Ping was actually pretty good. Think I was sitting at 50-60 most zones. NA PVE will be up in a few weeks. They need more hardware for that one.

Depending on where you live. I got to either the 1 or 15 zones for Tin. It only uses thatch and wood to make alloy. It's a fun run in a schooner-dodging the mean whales till I can get harpoons made.

Ok here is my idea for pvp/pve areas. We can still keep the current system of Settlement. But to deal with the issue of 4 day decay on both lawless/claim islands. Why not do something as simple as a claim block? It's a no build radius so people can't touch your pixels. Can be placed on both lawless and claimed lands. Make it decay in 10 days. That gives people adequate vacation time. Make sure the cost is high enough where people can't spam them and settlement owners can actually demolish if people decide to be jackasses and spam them. Lets say 1000 gold will give you 10 days grace period. It wouldn't be all that different from the current claim flag system. It also will give people a sense of ownership and safety. It's something to work towards and not just a gimme gimme. If it auto decays in 10 days time. Your choice is to build a new one or go back to 4 days decay. Only buildings and ships would be guaranteed safety. You don't feed your crew/animals in that 10 days. Well guess they are gonna starve out/mutiny. Can be made like a makers mark or house medallion that you post on the front of your main building. Kinda like the cosmetic flags.

I think they did this so more people can get islands. Per patch notes island points are going by company sized so solo's don't claim all the islands. - Max allowed company island points will scale by company size for PvE.

All things considered. I know im gonna take hell for this. They gave people what they wanted mostly. A place to build. Those who wanted claim flags and the system to see who is on top. They did that also. Those who "need" to have a claim flag. Have one if you want to work for it. I think most people will find when things return to 1x. Upkeeping a claim isn't gonna be worth it and lands will change hands a buncha times. I watched it happen on the PVP PTR. People trying to maintain the upkeep right off the bat found out its not as easy as you would think unless you've played the game for awhile. Most people will probably jack the tax rate up to 50% so people wont wanna build there. But if you need land. It's there. Big islands. People are gonna have a hell of a time policing every ones builds. To me the incentive is to get people to settle on your island. Gold will come with treasure maps. Now if your lazy and don't wanna do treasure maps. Sure the tax bank might provide adequate income for small islands but once things go back to 1x. It's gonna be hard to just rely on people doing treasure maps if your island is set at 50% tax rate. Personally if I seen that and had maps on there. I'd throw them out. Why would I wanna travel several grids away to do a treasure map when half of it will be taxed away. Trying to do multiple systems across multiple platforms is a recipe for disaster. So they have a choice. Get rid of the Dynamic Atlas Map/Claim flag. Go back to ark style. Or try to make it so people have options. You don't wanna be taxed or babysit, live on lawless/ find a nice landlord. Really is there any difference between Lawless and claimed land anymore if you don't own the settlement? There are plenty of lawless islands out there. Plenty of big islands. Not everyone will toss up a 50% tax rate and some people will genuinely be nice landlords. I'd like to believe that not everyone who games is an asshole. Pillars are gonna happen on both lawless and claimed islands now. It's seriously a damned if you do/damned if you don't scenario. Lets say they gave everyone a claim flag and treated it like the current system with gold upkeep... Do you really wanna farm all the time for upkeep. What happens if you want to have multiple bases. As a lvl 10 with a claim flag. Can you sit there and cover the 50 gold every 12 hours for upkeep? So you go that route. Well everyone lives back on lawless stuff gets spammed out. You can't make it to cheap. People will just fill the personal claim flags with gold....No decay-no land over time. They can't change it to harvested resources. Reason why-People will stock those tax banks/flags full of stuff and things will never decay out. In the end. It will be the same old song and dance. No land for new people. People bitching about no land.

So log out lastnight at my base in N2. Log in this morning. Schooner gone and one crew member mutinied. Caches were still on the ground. Guess they poofed with the patch.

I seriously hate discord. I mean its a great idea. But this game is intensive. I hate having to load other programs to find out what the hell is going on. Then twitter. Ok maybe im old. I have never understood that one at all. What the hell is a grinder!