Talono

Loathsome chests : about 12 gold from a purple one. Not worth changing the course or stopping the ship to fetch these. You lose too much time. Whaling : Well, 800-1000 gold is not bad, BUT you lose a lot of time sailing into the grits with whales.. and back. You have to take care about the cold, about the whales sinking your ship, about searching endless time for a whale, paying your crew on the harpunes during that endless waiting time for a whale to appear, about sharks eating you while looting the whale. shipwreck diving : dont try free diving, squids and sharks will eat you. Do it by using the diving suit from the pirate skill tree. You will get about 120 gold for a wreck. Well, it takes too long, sailing to the next wreck, diving again, waiting for the night to use the sextant.. and so on. Its ok when not already owning a pet for treasure hunting. treasure hunt : best option to earn gold. Grey maps are not possible to solo with plate & bow, because the fat soldier is regenerating before you can kill him. Pet will do the job, Ostrich or wolf will do grey maps just fine, even without natures touch. Bear is overkill and can also do green maps. Best if you hoard a lot of maps for the same island, about 200 gold for a map during the 2x weekends.

Well, if this is the case, why are there so many islands free to claim on official PVP servers ? I scouted many, there are huge fortresses on these islands, but the owning companies seem to have left their settlement. Their buildings are all intact and ready to plunder with 1 foundation and 1 cannon. Even ships are anchored but not have been touched by pirates. If i want to destroy another player then the 15 hours peace time can not save his assets and ships, definitly not. The old claim system was better by far.

What is the advantage ? Ok, my ships will be sunk only 15 hours each day instead of 24 hous... not a big benefit. I lose more ships with the protection than without in lawless. From my feeling i pay more gold for the upkeep than i receive from taxing treasure hunters, would you agree ? The ressource taxes i dont really need. I am targeted by griefers much more than when i lived in lawless. So tell me, why do i need to own a settlement ? Any good reason why i should keep the settlement and not go back to lawless ?

Anyone still playing it ? On my lawless island there were a few players on start, now i am alone, the bases of the others i can demolish. Even my ships, which were sunk a few times on server start are completely safe When i press „m“ either i am alone in my grit or maybe just one other player is around. And this at the weekend ! A lot of claim islands are free, i fact, if you can affort it there is no problem to become a landlord. Its a pitty for such a beautiful game....

I did test around in PVP today to find the new META : It is definitly a regular cannon shotgun ship. The large cannon shotgun ship is dead : LONG LIVE THE REGULAR CANNON SHOTGUN SHIP ! Large cannons in gunports is not a good idea, the range is not MUCH better, the damage 50% better, but reload a lot longer. Worst fact : Missing swivel ist preventing targeting. So galleon with 500 front guns, one shot, game over.

I am not sure, if you place 5 large cannons into the broadside of a Schooner then each volley has around 50% more damage than a regular cannon volley of 5 cannons, correct ? Plus the range advantage, of course.

Well, this will not change the meta other than from large cannon shotgun ships —-> regular cannon shotgun ships. Unfortunately they nerfed the large cannon damage again, otherwise the new regular cannon shotgun ships could have been countered by broadsiding with large cannons in gunports by using the range advantage. I have to test more, but large cannons in gunports seem not to work out very well.

That means large cannons only go into large gun ports = galleon only ?

I dont like to the torpedoes like the sub to be locked behind some mega tribe only boss mobs. Like in ARK this just strengthen the megas ultimate power further on.

Well, a bit expensive to -maybe- hit a sub.. there are not many subs due to the braindead lock behind the Kraken barrier.

Well, i dont like to group. That does exclude me from game content. Got it now ?

Can not place it close to an enemy foundation.... Can not place it on an enemy ship... Is there some secret PVP use for it, that i cant see ?

Strange, as this should no longer be possible after the patch.

The „Kraken leech“ is a bad idea, as you can never know when a team is summoning it. Do you have to be just in the Maw zone, or inside a certain distance when the Kraken is defeated ?

Just to rise that topic again : Please stop bringing new content locked away exclusively for mega companies only ! Bring the Sub in as a regular engram that everybody can aquire. I know that there are lots of (Forum) superheroes around who solo the Kraken on a raft one handed with a ramshackle knife, but for us mortals this is not that easy (unfortunately).

I checked by setting regular cannons to high range and NPC personal targeting also to high range. The crew still has a very shitty range when auto firing, they start shooting a long time after the SOTD death fleet landed volley after volley on my ship. I also tried manual firing the regular cannons. The range is a bit further than by using auto firing NPC, but not much. I am a lot more early in range of the SOTD cannons before they come into range of mine. I use a battery shooting to behind my ship.

Dear Pros, do you have hints for a noob SOTD hunter ? Regular cannons with crew on auto fire have a very short range, the undead fleet is definitly in range when my crew starts firing. I also tried the large cannons, but my crew is aiming very badly with 80% miss. Anyone has some hints ?

Can we get energy shields for the sloop please ? And plasma blasters for front and rear of the raft.

So why ? I have heared that whaling is about 1500 gold for just one whale, is this correct ? I would have to dig out 12-15 treasures to get the same gold as from just one whale ?

Ahh no thanks. I dont want to pay 30% slave taxes to you as my master. I furthermore dont like you to demolish my base for 24h after building it up. I furthermore dont like that you as my slaver can attack me at will while i can not defend myself. And i like to build cannons, what is not allowed if i live a life as your slave. If i will ever change my mind you will have my bear cannons and galleons at your gates...muhahahaha.

I agree, the bunch of creatures are deadly while free diving. I did with the diving suit. Well, around 30-50 gold for each wreck ( dont know if the 2x weekend was applied ? Was not applied to loathsomes). And some blueprints for thatch/wood/stone parts. If you have a tame treasure hunting is better.

Well ok, free diving does not work. Its no problem in terms of oxygen and swimming speed but an issue of a dozen giant squids, killer sharks and electric eels start ganging on you with insane agro range. Even at max swim speed they just outrun (or outswim ) your vertical movement and hit you to death long before you ever can hope to reach the wreck.

Well, i will test free diving first, dont like my schooner being sunk by mega trolls while i dive down. While free diving they can sink my raft if they absolutely want

Does anyone have a hint on these ? As the devs refuse to grant game content to casual players (=submarine ... i am german, so i deserve a sub ! ), is it worth the time diving for these wrecks ? I need a Schooner with diving suit i suppose ?

I made my peace with the Colonies system. Empire was still better, but Colonies is still better than ARK. Main issues annoying me : - no fog of war, this is an invite to griefers/exploiters. It would be cool if attackers would have to scout the island to see their status. Without fog it is too easy for griefers/exploiters