Jack Shandy

Like your ideas, and the multiple players on a ship bonus sparked some ideas of my own. 1. with a captain at the wheel, if there is a player on the podium - +5% speed, plus an additional 5% divided by number of sails for each sail manned by a player. 2. with a captain at the wheel, manning a cannon will grant your loading and targeting bonuses to the nearest 1-2 NPC's mounted on cannons, a player on the podium will increase this by +1. 3. make cargo racks mountable. With a captain at the wheel, if an NPC is mounted reduce speed penalty by 25%, if a player is mounted reduce the speed penalty by 50%. Increase this value by 25% if there is a player mounted on the podium. (All values are for description purposes and can be changed for balance)

Zoning times must be greatly influenced by PC performance, when me an my mate go map / treasure hunting, I always hop on the wheel when zoning as they take about 10 secs longer to zone than I do. Zoning into a pack of SotD on a ship you have no control over as the person on the wheel is still loading in is hair raising to say the least. also, suggesting changes to current game mechanics are far more likely to be considered, those who suggested (myself included) the targeting delay would probably like a complete overhaul but also have realistic expectations.

Claims are already on a cost timer - the flag. you could have the short timer start on your buildings within a claim, if it runs out of money. By the way I'm not a Dev or programmer just a bloke chucking out an idea, don't bash it just because you see an issue with it, offer options, alterations or if none spring to mind just point out the issue you see.

There is a solution, one the dev's have even suggested, but maybe not in this context. An upkeep chest for buildings / connected structures. structures will keep a decay timer with or without this item attached, but short say 8 days or so. you can put mats into the chest to increase the duration up to say 30 days. Here's the good bit, the chest will consume any mats inside first before defaulting to the 8 day timer, so no upkeep cost if you play on a weekly basis but you can prepare for a trip or vacation. The down side is if you have multiple disconnected structures at your base you'll need multiple upkeep chests. I think I put this idea in the suggestions thread about 4-6 months ago.

I do not farm all weekend when there is a 2X event, I do however spend a few hours farming. If the 2X was only in the evenings or if i was working I would shift those few hours to match when i'm home and the event is on. If the event was on during the week guess what, I'd farm in the evenings, most farming is travel time anyway and 2X won't help you there. I'm not going to bitch and moan everytime I go on a weekend break and miss the entire 2X, a weekday event would be great, I can work all week, farm on an evening or two and go on holiday for the weekend and not miss anything. Whats next events for the rotating shift workers, "I can only catch 1 in 6 events, not fair"

Thanks for that, It filled in a few gaps between the stream, this roadmap and what people have hinted at on the forums.

Well yes of course.

So if you can figue the percentages, we can ask the devs to do that portion of the events on weekdays. Only fair.

A high level tamed bear is suficient, but will take a while. you can take out 1-2 of the big ones, before they dig into the ground to re-generate.

On lawless and unclaimed land, fair amount of that about at the moment, you will keep all the treasure.

They never did change the tax on gold, only on resources gathered.

Nope.

Still playing, still enjoying it. The storms may seem a bit silly in their implimentation, but when sailing though one I always go into first person mode and battle the storm from behind the wheel. Not being able to sometimes turn the ship as the seas are pushing against you, spouts dropping from the skies to be avoided, the waves getting so high they block your view ahead, that is a lot of fun and if you do it well its a good boost to your progress with the strong winds.

when a tame is relatively close to you when you tell it to follow, it will walk not run. and usualy won't clip right into you. So there is already a set distance between when it will run and walk. I wonder if they could change it so rather than "if" it is close enough it'll walk, to "when" it is close enough it'll walk?

Island upkeep just one of the upkeeps you will have to maintain. Tames need food. Crew need food. Crew need paying. Island needs paying. (the only optional upkeep)

Will a wipe bring back PC players? Everyone seems to think it will. So with a wipe the Xbox players won't just be competeing with the current play base, which people keep regailing with glee at being so low, but all the returning PC players that will grab all the islands first anyway. Seems to me a wipe might not be in thier best intrests.

There is a button to the left of your inventory that hides skins, you may have pressed that by mistake before you bought any skins.

I doesn't, he just makes it up and spams wipe propaganda in every topic.

LoL, the hogwash is what you write, that article doesn't mention consoles at all just sales between windows and xbox. But yes those other platforms are consoles, not that has anything to do with the linked article.

A wipe for technical reasons is fine and I fully support and will be happy to start over if that happens again, and I expect it to at some point. A wipe because some person / group wants a wipe, I say "sod off". It's because there is a different emotional response to things that are accidental, un-forced or needed to proceed rather than deliberate or not needed. It doesn't matter that the outcome will be the same.

The News section on opening screen only says skins, cats & console. WPE also was never actually stated for anything but solo / private servers.

Oh! I wish I could trust your words.

It isn't going to be a level field for more than a few minutes. At the last wipe we knew where we wanted to go, what mats and where to get them, even the route to take. It took us under an hour to have a bank and the flag down on our chosen island, and we were only a small group. Too small as it turns out, the company < island points at that time scuppered our well laid plans. Do you want a wipe because you believe you are entitled to it?

To my knowledge they have not said either way. They have said however that they have not decided if they will wipe or not, and that at least means a wipe is not needed. In the past they have said they would not wipe unless it was needed for technical reasons, but I don't trust them enough to rely on that. There is already a divide between console and PC players, they will perpetuate this with a wipe. And if there is a wipe, does any colsole player believe they can win a claim race with experienced PC players?

Some people were leveling ships by luring AotD on powerstone islands to the coast and getting thier ships crew to shoot them with crew mountable guns. So instead of nerfing XP gained by ships from AotD they made AotD immune to lots of types of damage.