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Its EA. It will have waves. And many are running to private servers. Can't really get claimed land on official and all the darn invasions. This game will be around for some time.

I love the storms. I think we need larger waves. Please do not remove them. Purely love the 8-15 that appear.

I guess take the positive or lessons learned: Don't merge. Same thing happened to us. Just have to start over, and move forward. Or go to private server where admins can fix things, or try too.

play low memory This game may have low requirements but as you and others know; more everything is better. I am running mine at 32G, 1080 ti, i7 but my i7, 20g, dual 970s cant handle it unless on low/med. You just have to adjust and tweak some of your settings/options. And oh, if you dont, get an SSD. BIG difference.

Love the wind mechanics. Wind will change direction just when it wants. Just like mother nature does. You can also install different types of sails to get more wind 'not going your way'. LOVE the vitamins. At first hated it. But once you figure it out, use your skill points I have no issues with food balance. Thank you! as for the PVE raiding. LOCK your crap! For me its like going shopping and everything says free. Awesome! Keep them unlocked.

cause others can connect. Not really a server issue. If many can, and 1 can't. js. Go to your favs, find the server you were on (it will show servers you frequently went to), connect that way. Its how i've done it with issues. Could validate your game or reinstall it too. Game files get corrupted on clients.

Its why I have other accounts that sit in the area, logged off. That body still prevents it. The sinking of folks ships, killing their character with a wild, and attempting to take over the land in a 6.5hrs is hella fun. Even more so when folks run across back and forth gathering, only to reset the timer. Can take around 16hrs to get a claim. Party time.

Disable placement of flags will do it. Note- this is server wide. So if you have other islands on the same server/grid- you cant build on any. So what we did is allow flags, and just have a MOTD telling any builds in freeport will be lost. Their is no other setting atm to control more specific to an island.

Well, I started in freeport, made lvl 8. Ventured to Lawless- settled there. Started to build a couple of ships, get some basic tames. Lawless is not the bad. Just log in every 2-3 days. Lock your stuff. Then slowly venture out. Camp on your raft or whatever, what the shores for activity. Then start claiming away. Its part of the game. We now have 2 claimed lands. Took over half a day for the one. But now we call it home. All done within 75hrs of Atlas, and started on day 1.

The info as of now: "Don't worry about it". It was communicated once it was active, you go find someone to mate with, that offspring becomes an NPC. And when you are ready to die, you take over that NPC and become a new character. Probably rumors. I hate looking old and wrinkles.

Yeah, fun times claiming already claimed land. lol. Sucks when anyone sails or runs through chasing an animal, clock starts over. We had to have multiple folks on for each reset. It took a total about: 18hrs. Finally got it though.

Why trade? We are pirates. Just steal/pirate it. Pirates have a 'friendly' trading post? That would be odd.

Only a Player can contest. Just purchase another CD Key on a different account. Place it in the claim area and you should be fine. Its worked so far.

I have used Nitrado for nearly 2 years. Love it. Also have used 2-3 other providers I wont post here I will never use again. I have used Nitrado for hosting Conan, ARK, Monster, Minecraft, and Atlas. All PC servers. Hosting yourself is also good, but the problem with that these days is the huge amounts of memory/CPU. And don't forget bandwidth. Data Centers will cream any locally hosted server or VPS cluster. I understand the benefits on both. I'm in IT myself.

you be right.

I consider it a challenge.

Easy. Edit the defaultgame.ini which you have access via FTP. Works fine.

This does not solve say someone having a single grid with a freeport, and they custom added island. They want the islands to allow flag claiming, but limit to none on the freeport island. The setting is grid/serverwide. It is not smart enough to know freeport island vs a newly added island on the same grid.

Free leveling. Just shoot from the distance and collect XP.

1450 hrs in ARK is unrelated and can assure you- not experienced. You can have 4 hrs or 10k hrs in a game, unless people know what the learning capacity was met= pointless. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Personally, I see the game WAY better than release day. Just saying. and yes, based on public data available; the player base is going down. The Devs need constructive feedback. Remember they are building a game for everyone if they can. And if they want the game as it is now, so be it. Either buy it, play or move on.

Atm, no matter what zone or where you spawn or log off, you are NOT safe. Still glitches and ways to destroy ships and players even on PVE. VERY TOXIC environment. And yet you cant get your own server as the requirement for each square is a single server. And that does not come cheap.

Agreed. This land thing is a joke. Island after island settled by large groups. And some placing buoys in front of land settled to force faster decay. Peeps running around all day placing flags to challenge. Its like the gold rush- all sailed out and took all the land, and now profit from it. And when you do find a small place, the land claimed by someone else, they think they own all the resources in their boundary. really? lol. I will mine metal wherever I want. It will RESPAWN. geesh.

If you are looking for a refund you need to contact the source in which you purchased it; ie "steam". They have a standard refund policy.

lol @ the PVE suggestion. Cause now you have massive over weighted fleets ramming peeps stuff even on PVE. Fun huh. yup. I like groups in about 4-10. NPCs work great in that range. If I wanted to play solo or SP, I'd just get my own server and camp out.

Agree. Too hard to find open spots. Maybe they want us to live at sea 24x7. But then the seas arent exactly safe atm either.