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

5 minutes ago, Puppies4ever said:

For what? 

For me it is not the ressources, gold, tames, ships or structures. Its the work, its the time with friends, its the adventure. 

3 months is a long time in this game and yes, with x10 you can getm a lot of ressources etc. and it will never be the same. 

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.

2 minutes ago, Long John Screw Off said:

Snail Games is really beating this horse to death after Ark's dino craze. Pirates failed, so now they are gonna try Cowboys...... Sigh. Fucking STOP!

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

2 hours ago, Noodled Jenkins said:

OP

This!

On 2/18/2019 at 4:00 PM, Warspectre said:

I don't even understand how people are taming giraffes. I've tried multiple times and it just ends up beating me to death over and over until I give up. That said, yeah, if I had managed to get one I'd prefer it did better than that at gathering thatch too. 

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

9 minutes ago, MeatSammich said:

Also, just a wipe of claims and structures, that doesn't wipe the players levels/companies/etc wouldn't be quite as devastating on the playerbase, imo.

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.

1 hour ago, Jozzie McTowel said:

was hoping there was a website that could show me this by just selecting the 4 official ones showing how many players were on each but couldn't find it yet

https://atlasgame.info/ shows total online per cluster

it ain't pretty

47 minutes ago, Zlax said:

They themselves probably dont even know yet.

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

8 minutes ago, Olthoi said:

Im making the landfall, maybe just havent done enough.  Ill kep chugging along

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

1 hour ago, DilBert said:

The Atlas dev team already stated your statement is false. They have different teams for content and bugs. 

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

15 minutes ago, Warnie said:

What an absolute bell end you are.

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

11 hours ago, bitemyass said:

did i use the wrong type of math? should i use a new form that wildcard/grapeshot made up?

lel