strawman

3 hours ago, TheFishGuy said:

other types of oil

Polar biome has naphtha, looks like puddles of oil on the land

2 hours ago, CountCocoPuf said:

I do tend to want to sail directly in to the wind almost all the time. Just my luck I guess

The wind always rotates clockwise in a ~4 hour cycle, so if the wind is really unfavorable, it's guaranteed to get better in an hour or so.

It seems you need the resource chest full, idle crew on the deck sweeping, at anchor, not in a freeport for them to repair. But when they do, it's fast, it seems to go plank by plank and instantly pop them back up to full health.

On 12/30/2018 at 12:34 PM, Realist said:

discrimination lawsuit. Anybody can join any server. By law has to be that way

talking out your ass m8

16 minutes ago, Captain Jack Shadow said:

wolves

Use a blunderbuss

This is a really wonderful game. It's a fun and consistent simulation of the Age of Sail. I adore the flintlock pistols and the sail mechanics.

But the ocean is full of bloodthirsty neon motorboats. That's not fun or consistent with the theme.

I've only seen level 1 crewmen too. Would like to know how the repairs work too, I have a resource box but they've never repaired the ship. I don't have territory though

1 hour ago, [616]RexFortis said:

Lies.  I'm clicking on the Freeport servers in North America PVP and for the first time I'm seeing only 50 players in several of them when it used to be 140 to 150.  It's the lowest I've ever seen.  This game is dying rapidly.

because everyone's not a noob in the freeport anymore

Lawless zones are always next to a freeport so if you lose your bed raft the worst that happens is you have to respawn at the freeport and sail a new bed raft one grid away. Keep a couple bed rafts scattered around so you still have a respawn if somebody pops one

I had one medium handling sail on a sloop, then demolished and replaced it with two small handling sails. It feels slower now. Anyone been able to test this?

1 hour ago, Hodo said:

this is a "team" game... not a "LONER" game

This isn't true at all. The devs never said this, but they did say that solo players will be supported.

Has anyone tried the decay reduction skill from the Captaineering tree? Does it reduce freeport decay? 

They're just everywhere. They're not fun. They could have been cool and thematically fitting as a really rare and scary enemy, but that opportunity is gone now. The rest of the world has a pretty realistic theme: magic and fantasy don't play a big role. Big fleets of glowing undead ships everywhere kind of ruin that.

5 minutes ago, Underwrought said:

This has absolutely NOTHING to do with the EA tag quit bringing it up like it means ANYTHING.  Because it doesnt.  EA doest prevent them from lowering the decay rate in freeports to prevent losing a damn ship youve spent hours upon hours creating in 8 fucking hours.  Being EA isnt stopping them from lowering damned ships spawn rates further or removing all together for now.  Quit making excuses for a shit company.

Hard to understand how the devs got their heads so far up their asses on the ghost ship thing. This game was great on day 2, the sailing was fantastic and so unique... now it's just a less polished and feature-complete Rust

14 minutes ago, McGimp said:

I have also not seen a single response as to the original question. what is the purpose of the sloop if ghost ships spawn in lawless. It has zero advantage over other ships, speed manuverability - nothing. So why would anyone build one if its guaranteed death to a ghost ship. Genuine question, maybe we can talk it out and actually get some valuable feedback in this thread.

it's cheap

Doesn't have to go back to everything being 1 point but some of this stuff is out of control... 10 points for expert ballistic studies? So much for having a gun in my pirate game

10 minutes ago, Hrii said:

Just want to make it clear cause Im being PM'ed with hate msgs saying its EA

Don't understand these whiteknights... they'd eat a shit sandwich and tell everyone how great it is

D8 equatorial has it, orange blotchy thin trees that are called "Honey" when you hold H. I found a few honeycombs in the tropical biome below it, D9

Maybe it's just me but it feels like I can't run as far or hit as many trees without resting

1 minute ago, XLR said:

The devs were working on fixes during Christmas while your mother was feeding you with a good ol' turkey and giving you presents with Santa Claus patterns on it, respect them.

Their apparent dedication is nice but they're a corporation and I worry that this was all a plan to sell a bunch of copies for Christmas then chase most of the players away to save on server costs

Bumping for a nerf to the new skill costs

18 minutes ago, Realist said:

It is going to get a lot worse as well. This game will be 90% grind just like ark was. And actually prepare yourself for them to make it even harder.

 

the fact that a stream got max level in one day makes the game look very shallow. 

 

Once they do add add levels be prepared for it to take a huge amount of xp. If you aren’t willing to donate your life to the game you will never level up far 

If they had a way to keep leveling and getting more skill points maybe this would be balanced... but if it stops at level 51 like the character sheet says... it's like you'll spend all your points on 1/2 of one tree...

Good thoughts, I just went into a lawless zone and saw them for the first time... cool looking but the place is just swarming with NPC ships now, there's no way this is balanced

8 points for metal tools? 26 to unlock firearms after getting archery? The old skill tree was too cheap but this is too much, we need more skills per level or like 1/2 of these skill costs

Cool, thanks. It seems like one medium speed or handling sail would be the easiest for one player to control?

Can you climb up to the crow's nest on a ship? If so, how?