Jack Shandy

3 hours ago, DOSE said:

Wild giraffes don't seem to...

They do, but it's a pain in the arse. better to use a large gate for a trap.

2 hours ago, Alasson said:

good time to take devs from Ark and focus them to Atlas

Not likely, they want all the people that dropped atlas to buy the new Ark DLC. (I wonder if the old Ark season pass still works)

When did this team ever bring out anything that did not require months of fixing, might have to wait a bit longer.

On ‎2‎/‎21‎/‎2020 at 6:46 PM, The Falcon said:

Regarding the Resource Silo, please explain the rationale for only accepting berries.  The food larder on the ship for the NPC's holds everything.  The resource silo was promoted (as I understand it) to "feed and pay" NPC's on your base and anchored ships.  How is it a valid replacement if it does not hold the same items and restricts to only berries?

 

Stack size and decay timer on the silo would make all other food storage solutions obsolete, on land anyway.

2 hours ago, user1 said:

A: My car won't start. This is very annoying.

B: I don't know what you're talking about. Mine will start just fine. There is nothing wrong at all!

Not knowing the server, as I said, I could only give a 1/4 perspective, and yes I gave a example but am well traveled enough ( doing discoveries by boat ) that the example is well founded.

By the way I'm sorry to hear about your car, mine seems to work just fine.

On ‎2‎/‎23‎/‎2020 at 1:15 PM, Percieval said:

If that doesn’t work then I don’t know what it is. With me it’s usually 1 warrior but if there are more it will just take a little bit longer. 

I think people were talking about slightly higher level maps than ones with only one warrior, those are almost as easy as they used to be.

You Don't say what server you are on, US / EU, PVP / PVE.

From an EU PVE perspective, while you are correct, in the more popular regions space is a premium with owners spamming to keep the isands for themselves or spamming to vet prospective settlers. the more north or south you go the more space is available.

As an example our island, in a corner tundra region (close to many differing resources) on a large island are just 3 companies, taking up less than 5% of the coastline, there is no spamming and only the occational trap or ramp up to resources mar the unspoilt island.

Breeding can be set up to be not too time consuming.

I live in a tundra region and 6 grills in a semi-circle will  keep bears warm at all times, and with 1 stack of wood lasting 4+ hours. (that's your heating sorted)

I have a small farm for vegetables, having 1-2 troughs nearby they have never ran out. (that's the food sorted)

As for time, I get home from work from 5-6, pop on and breed bears, set timer for 4 hours, at 9-10 baby's pop.(this bit requires you to be present for a bit), but 1 stack of veg in a bear will feed a bear for about 45 mins, use this metric to guess when you can leave the bears backtracking each stack (45 mins) from the 4 hours it takes to reach infant and can feed from a trough, for me and my bears that's about 1 1/2 hours in and they can hold 4+ stacks.

Even that 1 1/2 hours can be spent mostly away from the bears, I usually get 1/2 a stack of veg in them then potter about for 20 mins, top them up again and come back at the 1 1/2 hour mark, top them off again and I can log off knowing they will mature without any more input from me.

once they are bread to my liking imprinting will be a lot more of a chore and will need a weekend to accomplish.

17 hours ago, Enki Anunnaki said:

for once i agree with perci. just bring more bears. its not a big deal.

Yay! now there is definately only one way to do maps. WooHoo!

On ‎2‎/‎17‎/‎2020 at 10:02 PM, Acemac said:

what do you even do in this game in a PVE world? 

You relax,

Play at a pace you want to play.

Do discovery points in a boat, (hard consept to understand, I know, but a few like myself enjoy it).

Tame and breed your animals yourself.

make a good looking home and dock, that is actualy a pleasure to reside in.

Discover for yourself the best places to gather each of the resources, and then gathering it yourself at your leasure.

Make good looking but practical ships for traveling, hauling, hunting SotD with the knowledge they will still be there tomorrow.

Someday i'll do the powerstones, but i'm in no hurry, this is a huge game and i've time to burn.

Just now, Kummba said:

But how can we ask when you sleep or do groceries.
Beds will be gone after 2 weeks most likely, they are for discoveries, when everyone got it, they expire. Just wait it out if you missed them.
Also most bigger companies doing beds can be contacted via discord, we moved many beds when people asked.

Thing is you are from a big well known company, that I would suspect most know how to contact.

The vast majority of the bed spammers are from unknown companies that you have no idea where they are located, let alone how to contact them.

The game also has a turnover of players / companies so waiting it out is pointless as the next bed will be dropping soon enough.

I assume "companies doing beds" like yourself, won't be be having there beds despawn anytime soon.

Riding an animal you imprinted yourself gives a 30% buff to damage and resistence. Mate boost is about the same, but I'm not 100% sure.

Having both I do know makes a great difference, then you hit "natures cry".

Having imprinted animals you bred yourself means you only require half decent tames as the buff is worth about 20-25 levels in melee and 10-15 levels in health.

That BP suggestion has been voiced many times, and I suspect would very much be welcomed if they ever tried it.

Typicaly ships carried ballast as an unlaiden ship is too light to be stable, so their should be no penalty until at least 50% weight as ballast is removed when cargo / cannons is added, above that ships would only slow down a little with more weight, what would happen however is that it would take a lot longer to get up to that speed.

They already have an acceleration stat so a goodly reduction in linear and angular acceleration when over weight should not be to hard to impliment,  You get a choice of capacity or handling like a pig.

Certainly better than whats implimented at the moment, so thumbs up from me.

If you add that sail points be directly proportional to sail ability, lower sail points per ship and up sail stats to balance.

With your suggestions & the above, you would suddenly see a mirriad of differing sail sizes and configurations, rather than the 'all large speed sails' or the 'all large handling sails' for those that have found a good BP. 

A saddle can be set to belong to no-one as you can't get at it without accesing the creatures inventory. A box however has to belong to some-one so other people can't access or destroy it when it's not theirs.

They seem to have a lot of problems when they try to link things, and usualy produce more bugs than fixes.

They need to think more outside the box, literaly. like, right clicking any saddle in an inventory has the option to 'destroy saddle'.

10 minutes ago, DannyUK said:

At least New World is just around the corner which has PvE, I'm looking forward to that now.

that was funny, watching a new to gaming company finding what toxic asshats are attracted to open world PVP, and going "NOPE"

13 hours ago, Big fat krell said:

Yeah climbing picks work, I was just stating that as for treasure maps it will b inside there base and if it's a journeyman map u prob gonna need mounts and u won't b able to use,

check thier tax rate, if it's not 0% they obviosly want you to get that treasure and if there is no open doors they must want you to use thier tames not yours to kill the AotD.

Seems realy nice of them to my way of thinking.

29 minutes ago, Enki Anunnaki said:

i cant believe i havnt seen this post till right now. you have most of it right on the nail milos.

but Id like to add to:

"Remove/rework grapples. With the current implementation, most fleet battles are a pure numberfight as its impossible to 1vx at all when theres a grappleship in play. Im not sure what exactly needs to happen to make them more fun for both sides, just fuck around with it, any changes are good changes at this point." 

id like to see them do what ive always hoped they would do, winch boats up close like a fishing pole to encourage ship boarding. stopping a ship in its track with it is just lame. you should be able to tow an unanchored ship with it, or get towed with it by bigger ships or ships with more momentum. 

They have velocity and collision angles already mapped for ships hitting each other with thier relative masses and points of impact.

Giving those calculations to two ends of a rope would probably be the place to start.

there is suposedly a 21 day hiden timer. but it doen't work properly, at present it's more like a  random 1-5 week timer.

I had a break over the new year, but jumped on raised and lowered the anchor on each of our 6 ships before I left, you'd think all the timers would be the same length, but no, when we came back two ships had vanished after 2 weeks, one schooner and one brig.

5 minutes ago, RyuujinZERO said:

That won't work, the stucture is only several inches off the ground and any sort of new construction designed to act as traps, will itself be deconstructable by the landowner.

Empty it out of valuables, put something in there that looks tempting, screenshot it and lock it up tight. if it gets destroyed / looted screenshot again.

Proof positive the owning company is greifing and not just taking down structures.

A ticket mgiht work after that.

people can only tell you about the official servers they play on, suggest saying where your preference lies.

EU PVE, lawless regions are pretty crowded, most other regions are freindly and have space.

A posibility, they might have logged off inside your building.

You don't need to sit with them for the entire time.

Once you get the correct number of grills lit, the temp is good day and night, and one stack of wood lasts the 4 hours it takes to reach the juvenile stage.

One stack of potatoes (other veggies available) will feed a baby bear for 35-40 minuits, so once it can hold a stack you can do other stuff and come back. and at about 2 hours in a bear can hold 4 stacks, more than enough to feed it untill juvenile and feeding from a trough.

One trough full of potatoes (I like potatoes) is enough to feed 2-3 bears to full maturity.

So if i'm not imprinting it takes 2 hours, with only the first 10-15 minutes of constant attention, meaning I can breed even on a weekday evening. Pop on at 6pm and mate the bears, set timer, pop back at 10pm and raise them, by midnight they and the troughs are topped up and ready to be left alone.

Imprinting is a different matter, and only possible if I have a free weekend.

13 hours ago, xhanth said:

Can not sleep or have a job if you want to breed.

Also had berries I was packed on food they had all they needed so I could sleep but never enough  

Can't help you with the time required, but can give you a bit of advise on the food.

Plant some crops, they have two advantages, the spoil time is a lot longer than berries and they provide more food so the animals eat less. A win / win for breeding.

P.S. no need for more than the basic skill, they changed crop growth about a year ago making the advanced farming skills virtualy useless.

1 hour ago, Frikinauta said:

Thanks for answering. Where do I create the ticket? I unintentionally clicked on the option of creating a new pioneer and I would hurt a lot to lose all these weeks of work in the game.

Has anyone else happened? If you click on create a new pioneer, have you finally lost your character?

 

Thank you

the support tab at the top has submit a ticket option. 

I've not done it myself, but viewing the forum since the game released I've seen a few people post that they needed to start again as they could find no way back after hitting that button. (and I'm dis-inclined to test it )