MindOfMadness

There are private servers set up kind of like that but my question about the one flag per person is what happens with your flag when you join or leave a company? If you join a company your flag becomes theirs... and what happens if you guys have a falling out? Does your flag stay theirs and if not how does it work when you open a big hole in the middle of their base that they need to replace with another player? What if that player already has land somewhere, does he lose claim on that land? What if it's your company and someone leaves taking half your base? There are a lot of problems with the flags and no easy solutions. I personally think flags should go away and islands should have a single flag for the whole island. Whoever controls the flag gets the taxes for that island and anybody can build there.

Have you met the cyclops yet?

In Ark if one boat was stationary the moving one would just pass through. This is PvE so there's no reason you shouldn't be able to phase through a stationary raft.

Because actually showing proof that you're wrong is being a fan boy... Do you even understand how to read the Steamchart? they've been holding at 48k... mouse over all the peaks and show me where exactly the are loosing mass players? 3.47% is far from mass or enough to make a difference and proves the majority (96.53%) likes the game. It's not hard to believe there's 1365 crying children that rage quit because they don't get what they want when they want it... BOO HOO... Grow up and accept it. Kids today SMFH

Reread your post... You did in fact try to tell me why people bought the game and how I should play... You did pay for half a game, it's early access and is labeled as such. You can (could have before 10.0 patch) build a base by spawning in the lawless zone and building a base... I know super hard to understand so far, right? Not like everybody else said... Yes, 50 of you are melodramatic but it wasn't "everybody else" and the game is holding solid at just under 50k players. https://steamcharts.com/app/834910 Just because you're crying here doesn't make it unplayable for 48,000 people. Suck it up buttercup, you're wrong. Deal with it and move on. @Taerarenai

Because they're sinking boats... I don't expect 100% of content from EA games. I'm choosing to still get value out of the game I paid for and when they get around to fixing the boats I'll start sailing again. People bought Atlas because they wanted to. You are some kind of special if you think you can dictate why someone should want to play a game... If I want I can choose to never build a ship and fill an island with two by two huts... You don't get to tell people how they can or should play. I guess you can keep farming for boats, that's your choice, not a smart choice, still yours to make. But to claim the game is unplayable is laughable at best.

Or... Those of us that selected that are building houses and screwing off waiting for the fix. It's a problem but I can still play the game... Just like it says. The game is still playable just not everything works currently. There are other features that don't work right now, like the tarot tree, but the game is still playable.

People do randomly go around piling on boats just to sink them... It happens a lot on PvE and even more so since they made it so anybody can salvage a ship.

Hate to say it, but the devs aren't gonna do anything about it. I'm just building a house waiting to find out if they are gonna fix it or not. So far it's not looking good... Been happening since launch and not a word about it from the dev team.

Not if you don't join a company on one. The lawless regions are gonna be your best bet.

Not sure how governance is set up. In Ark you could set it so people kept their stuff but don't know if it's like that in Atlas... From what I've heard\read it stay in the company and you gotta build a new one.

The issue with every player having a flag is when you join a company your flag is part of their territory... What happens if you leave that company?

All they have to do is change it from causing damage to the ship just doesn't move... simple fix but devs haven't responded to any complaints, in regards to griefing, that I know of. Surrounding the player with campfires might do something.

Only by mistake... It didn't work out.

On water crocs are pure evil, on land it's the wolves... I have had my share of croc trolling especially when they team up with some giant snakes.

Sorry for the griefing you guys had to deal with but it does look like the devs are at least noticing there is a problem finally. I'm holding off on ship building until Monday's patch to see what all gets fixed... Hoping they do something about the sinking of boats by other players.

I can out run crocs. Wolves... not so much.

Can confirm... A pack made me their prison bitch the moment I walked out my house this morning.

My problem is less with that and more with spawn rate... I walked out my door to 6-8 wolves around my house. Was a bit of a challenge getting my bag back to say the least.

You can't claim the area but the lawless zones have been good to me. I have a house finally and getting ready to put up my shipyard now... You can't spawn to beds (in houses) and the wildlife is a bit hostile in the area but I don't have to worry about logging in to my house belonging to someone else.

There's been a lot of thieving on the PvE servers. They might of been being assholes but they might of just been trying to stop you from jacking them. (Not saying you were) Oh well, we'll never know now. Anyways... I think the only real fix will be an admin and a report system.

I haven't seen them make any statements about the intended purpose of the lawless zones other than you can't claim land there.

Not a bed in a house. You can spawn to beds on rafts and boats but not one you placed in a house.

Beds currently can't be used...