Slyce

For PvE the claim system should be changed to a limited number of claims per person/company. Unlimited claims (with or without penalty for higher amounts) only make sense when you have to defend all of your claimed land. It's actually good for PvP - if you want land, you have to attack someone and they have to come over to fight you off or at least turtle up for a siege.

I don't think the big companies will spam more flags. This is also part of the upcoming changes: "the time required to steal an enemy claim now decreases the more Claims that enemy team has"

maybe you just forgot to write it here but... you equipped your shovel and started digging, right?

Higher quality crafts need blueprints. You get random blueprints from floatsam, treasure chests and wrecks of NPC ships (Army of the Damned).

Some of the things listed as Crystal in that post are actually gems. I think it's Ruby, Emerald and maybe Opal.

1) if you can place it, there should be enough depth inside the shipyard. But if the seafloor goes up at the front, your ship may still crash on release. 2) you can put cannons on the upper deck 3) For sails you can mix and match anything that fits. Brig has 8.6 sail capacity iirc and Large Speed Sails take 2.7 while medium take 1.7. 5 Medium Sails take a lot of space and are harder to manage than 3 large.

I don't know how it compares to sickle but try harvesting trees with a pick.

From the latest patch notes: "PVE Territory can only be claimed if the owner has not been active around the territory within the last 3 days." I don't know how declaiming territory worked on PvE servers before that patch but I guess it was the same as on PvP (90min declaim + 30min claim). That guy probably took your territory before that patch and you are screwed now.