strawman

all the new changes sound so uninspired. they reek of design by committee... no vision

Most of the lag now seems to be building- and ship-related so I guess we'll see if all those +8% server performance patch notes panned out

So I can spend the next month on non-stop naval PvP without grinding another ship every time I lose

Give us 10x gather/tame/gold/XP until wipe!

Wipe is the best decision they've made so far. Cya

They keep spinning off new publishing companies for each game to hide the fact that it's Suzhou Snail Digital Technology Co., Ltd. every time.

This!

they should remove ships of the damned entirely and come up with better NPC enemies. they make sailing expensive and frustrating... it was so much more fun the first few days when you could sail freely. sloop speed should be buffed too, honestly. still the slowest ship, but not by a factor of 33% or 50%, whatever it is now. just a little slower than a brig

lot of good ideas in here, the giant floating cannon towers and ship armor (lol) have to go

This!

Shield is the pro strat for taming, you can feed while blocking

Depending what changes they do to the claim system - like if they do the non-overlapping claim grid a lot of people want - a map wipe might be required. Let people keep their levels and discovery points, do some marketing hype, make the new claim system real good, and this might save the game.

https://atlasgame.info/ shows total online per cluster it ain't pretty

this, they're in way over their heads and just saying shit to placate the remaining players at this point

delayed to march

OP is correct, taming is buggy, frustrating and poorly designed. The fanboy argument - which also seems to be Grapeshot's position - is "so what, it's still technically possible to do". That's why this game is dead

If you're getting the little scroll-looking popup with the island name, you're getting the points. It's about 24 discovery points for a new level

You have to make landfall on islands you haven't been to before. Each one gives one discovery point. There are also smaller discovery points on various islands. You can see them by looking through a spyglass, they have a glowing blue shell around them. Killing a whale, or being nearby when someone kills a whale, gives 50 discovery points one time for each of the two types of whale.

no the only reason to farm them is they're the only source of ship/cannon blueprints

no it happened to me while building on my base today

Art and programming are done by different teams but programming to fix bugs and programming to make new features out of new art have to be done by the same people

he's right, though... friday's patch was all balance changes that didn't require actual coding... they're wasting the devs' time on new content when they need to be fixing bugs

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