Xilonas

10 hours ago, MagicPuncher said:

It's especially hard for solo/ very small groups, because it's nigh impossible to defeat a group of SoD solo. So if you are a solo player thinking you can hire enough crew to help you run your schooner (12+) or Brigantine (15+), let alone a galleon, there is just no way. To hire 12 crew costs 60 gold up front, plus 160 gold per day. That's borderline unsistainable for a small (1-3) player group. 

I play solo on EU PVE i have a brig and almost 10 npc Since saturday and i have still more than 1000 gold even if i didn't farmed any since sunday. i don't know how you can say it's unsustainable for small crew. just do 3 or 4 treasure map one day and you are good for almost the rest of the week. Take fire arrow do kill the npc that guard the chest and enjoy the free gold 

6 hours ago, Pappy Green said:

Everything on my island is returning, even after re-harvesting it, but it does feel like the respawn timer is a bit longer now.

10 minutes ago, Fiil said:

Everything spawning at my island too, much apreciated devs! (if you by chance read this ).

Havent had time to test the respawn time, but hopefully its not much slower than pre v10.

The timer are normal now, they were faster before cause the lawless area where listed a home server so the ressources respawn rate were like in freeport. Now they respawn at the same speed as in all other island (claimable ones)

didn't they just put some lawless area cause of the number of ppl trying to connect to the servers on the launch day? in my mind those lawless island where just temporary solution and would become claimable island like all the other after the number of player get stabalised . but that's just my opinion

13 minutes ago, Elrood said:

Have anyone tried to report such players and/or companies with this new system? This actually could be considered as "hindering" game for others if they spammed whole island.

you really the devs are gonna take some time to do something about particular foundation spammin on particular island? 

2 hours ago, Pappy Green said:

Lawless are seeing virtually no resource respawn. Foundations and storage placed on the ground completely block respawn in about a 200 meter radius. This makes it impossible for people to build boats to get away and to find and cook food to survive. Alphas do spawn in lawless. It is correct that lawless was created as overflow for freeports, but if they are no longer needed for that, what exactly are they reverting back to? Zones that are impossible to live in that serve no purpose in the game? The dev's are not trying to fix it. There have been 3 updates since the problem appeared and the devs have not even mentioned it in the patch notes. It was intentional, it is not a bug. 

the purpose of lawless island is almost certainly to offer an opportunity to build a raft and then Sail to another location ... i'm sure they never wanted ppl to stay there forever . and as it is now ppl like me that only want to build a ship and leave (cause lawless server as laggy as fuck btw) and find another place to leave can't even do that as all the island are spammed with foundation and pillar from greedy persons 

6 hours ago, RyuujinZERO said:

Have you actually tried contesting flags?

A tonne, maybe even the majority of flags are just plonked down by people doing random land grabs who have no intention of using or securing that land, many arn't even playing anymore. My little 3 man-company is always flipping unused claims of land and feeling out new locations in NA PvE to see how we like them (and letting other people take the land if we decide to move on).

Just a few days ago we gave up our old 5-claim plot in H10 to a friendly larger company who looked like they could make better use of it, and claimed an entire small desert biome island that nobody was using in another zone to be our new base. The island was 'claimed' when we got there, but there was no structures on it, no sleeping people to lock it down and nobody contested it when we started to flip them; nor have since come to object to our presence since then.

There is land waiting to be flipped and used everywhere. You just need to stop treating the existing claims as some sort've permanent lockdown. They're just that a claim. But if the owners aren't using that land, and locking it down with a base, then it's actually very difficult to enforce that 'claim'

I'm in the same position as OP, i play alone switched from pvp official to pve official 3 or 4 days ago and i can't find a land to claim. I spent almost all my time running on all the island i put a foot on to see if there is contestable claim.  Most of then have the upkeep timer running in negative and still unclaimable, and the few i found that where claimable i didn't work at all... one was in an open area with no building inside and no sleeping ppl neither but yet it told me the claim was contested and the timer never started ....

They really need to put a limit on the nomber of claim ppl can do it's getting ridiculous and ppl are too dumb to limit themself to take just what they need ....

So now i'm back in lawless area where i was running throught 4 or 5 island before finding just enough place to build 4 foundation ..... Lawless area are totaly garbage, foudation spamming ; shipyard all over the place; laggy as hell cause of all the foundation/shipyard and ship standing here for no reason at all.

Reallu hoping they will do something about this but as we saw with ark and pillar spamming i really doubt they will 

1 hour ago, uli said:

u don’t , u let the flags near the beaches be built on leaving the flags protecting resources as non build zones 

 

each flag claim zone can be set as neutral to build on or not 

 

ok and what happen to all the buildings if suddently the flag owner don't want any one to build in their land anymore and change the setting of the flag?

How is this gonna work? like if i buil my base on a land where the ppl allow other to build on and then suddently they change their mind and don't allow this anymore, am i gonna loose everything?

2 hours ago, Grongash said:

May have been the case ofc. We did however replace our flags after the "fix" and they still went down 2 hours after we redid them. If only there would be an easy way for ourselfs to see OUR flagtimers

I don't know how is this possible as yesterday i sailed to 7 or 8 differents island looking for 1 spot to build my base (as i play solo i don't need more than 1 claim) and i couldn't place a fucking flag at all cause all the flag already there has the upkept timer running ... i even saw a bunch of negative timer like -14560 second and still couldn't place a single flag..

What am i missing?