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On 10/23/2023 at 6:04 AM, chukiki2 said:

hire me as game director, u dont know what u r doing

I agree they don't know what they're doing, but I don't think a person that can't spell 3-letter words is going to do much better.

They briefly limited company size at the start of one of the seasons, whether on purpose or accident, everyone just made multiple companies. So long as people are gathering in discord it doesn't matter if you make the size 1600 or 16, they're all still going to be able to communicate and work together. 

This has been the game's biggest flaw since before it was released. ARK they did the same shit, slap more stuff in, have tons of power creep, don't fix the massive issues that cause gamebreaking bugs. Shiny new toys aren't so nice when their development causes new issues on top of the existing ones. 

ARK becomes less and less fun as they add more stuff, same is true of ATLAS. Rumor has it ARK 2 is going back to basics and will be more primitive...yeah until they patch in a bunch of power creep bullshit and make all the same mistakes a third time around. 

Revert the game to pretty much Season 2 status, maybe keep in the trade network stuff. But most of the game needs to be scrapped, they had a good thing and turned it into an awful mess. Ship PvP is just whoever hits the other person's sails first and then they're melted in one volley and the ships stopped. Then the stuck ship makes a boarding attempt. Every damn fight boils down to the same thing now, it's boring. Get rid of the fucking giant crabs, this isn't Ark. Get rid of platforms too. 

There's no reason to use anything in ship PvP besides a ramming gally, you can make an argument for the broadsider but when rammers will also melt your sails what's the fucking point. 

I'm someone who prefers the solo/small tribe life, and as soon as they announced players in the company that completes wonders first will get a cross season fortitude buff (essentially a higher base level and max level), I uninstalled. 

Have they reversed this idiotic decision yet? I've got an itch to reinstall, but I refuse to play a game where people are inherently stronger than me. 

I'm fine with odds against me as a solo because solo is a life I choose, I am not okay with people with permanent buffs I can't obtain running around. 

Every now and then I consider coming back to the game, but it falls into the same trappings as ARK. You have to be part of one of the biggest to thrive, you can't really accomplish much alone or as a small group except being a guerilla or tagging along to your bigger ally. 

I check the patch notes to see if they ever stop screwing over the little guy, and when they changed boats from no longer having gold cost I thought they were finally making progress....but now permabuffs throughout seasons for the wealthiest company? Nah, you just secured me NEVER coming back to the game with that. Bad enough to try to solo things like the kraken to try to stay competitive, but now you can never catch up with any amount of grind, you have to play the political big company game or fall behind not just for the season, but forever. 

20 fortitude isn't just 20 fortitude, it's 20 fort you don't have to spec for, making you essentially have a higher base level. I'm not playing a game where I am inherently weaker than others. 

Maybe I'll try private servers or something, but reading about the permabuff from wonders made me never want to come back to official. 

Only point I see as valid is there needs to be some weapon balancing. If virtually everyone worth their salt is using mace and shield, obviously there's something wrong with the viability of other weapon setups. 

The couple things I agree with are drowned in so much dumb. 

They consistently make the game harder for the little guy. Your best bet is to rob the large guy's weak spots and get some of their bounty. 

God does this team suck. Do this shit in the middle of the night when it's just me and the other hardcores playing. 

And 10 minutes? Depending on the wind/current situation(I was in the middle of raiding) you might not even be able to dock at an island within 10 minutes let alone a safe one. Give us a goddamn hour notice, AT LEAST. Or put it on a regular schedule so people can prepare. 

Sitting here with my thumb in my ass wondering if my brig is still gonna be there, for almost an hour now.

The notice should at least be longer than the shutdown itself. 

Never. 

It is currently supposed to be 2x gold, but I am getting the most pathetic rolls from whales I've ever seen. Why advertise 2x gold if one of the few viable means of getting gold is not 2x?

Could've spent this time 3x farming instead of wasting my time fucking around with whales. 

I just got my third one today. I've traveled 8 zones. 

So it used to be in a week of heavy sailing maybe once when crossing a server wall I would end up with a server timeout. Annoying, but as a once a week thing not a big deal.

Now, I get timeout errors every 4th grid. I can't go whaling without a half dozen host connection timeouts. 

Game should be improving, not falling apart. Where the hell does all of Wildcard's money go? It clearly isn't to server stability. 

1 minute ago, Ellentro said:

It probably isn't garbage. It really doesn't exist. "Community outreach" in Wildcard terms means that an unpaid intern that, when possible, handles it. 

Is Dollie the unpaid intern?

Don't forget, Jat tweets sometimes!

1 minute ago, Ellentro said:

They probably don't even know the NA PvP grid is offline yet.

Oh so it isn't that they aren't giving us feedback because their community outreach is utter garbage, but it is because they're so overwhelmingly incompetent they don't even know it is messed up. 

3 minutes ago, Legend27 said:

That's actually why I logged of last night.. i went to dismount the boat and ended up halfway inside the deck and couldnt get out. So I went to bed after lowering the anchor lol

After looting an enemy ship and swimming back with the loot I ended up below my bottom deck. (About the 10th time that's happened to me, first time I was encumbered with fat loot though.) So instead of killing myself like I usually do, I had to pull a plank off the ship and panic encumber swim to get on the ship and go put a new plank on. 

Typical Wildcard, server shutdown with no notice, and no explanation as to why or eta on it coming back up. 

Since I had tons of loot on me, I'm sure i'll wake up in the mesh. 

Woke up in a bed, couldn't interact with anything, now can't get the game to load at all. 

This game is like me, dead inside. 

8 hours ago, Percieval said:

Early access, they can change it to us chasing fairies over bright pink clouds and they’re obligated to do so. Even though it would be wrong. But wipes would somehow crossed your mind. 

I'd play it. 

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 The higher quality shipyard used when building a ship, the more level ups a ship will be able to obtain.

 

So now if you didn't make a ship on a perfect shipyard, it is pretty much worthless. 

On 2/27/2019 at 1:35 PM, Pax said:

Anything anyone tells you cant be substantiated.  There is a dev Live stream tomorrow talking about the plans for the March patch. That is where you need to get your infromation. Players are notorious for hearsay and lies to rile up the community 

Wasn't lies though, was it. 

31 minutes ago, DannyUK said:

Made a thread about it myself, I think there should be a server wipe as long as they've fixed the claims and is a whole new concept rather than spamming them again.

There should have been a server wipe when they changed the system the last time. What they did was allow first time players to go out and spam flags, ok fair enough they get to keep them but when you actually change the system to now allow other players to build on there or not it is moving the goal posts.

Why should they be allowed to keep land and rent it out when new players haven't had that choice? You change the rules like that you have to start over, sorry people didn't like it last time but it isn't a fair game when they do that.

The claim system is broken and until they fix it I am staying on lawless like many others, I have no desire to run around every island on every grid looking for a timer to go down, what a waste of time. You'd be there weeks on end just travelling from 1 grid to the next, no thanks.

When and if they wipe the server and change the system then I will be active and come off lawless, until then I'm staying put.

There's been a lot of things like duping and the mortar glitch that I think were worthy of a wipe. Alpha breeding is wipeworthy too, except they still haven't figured out how to fix it.  I'm all for a wipe, I'm just also for being transparent with the community and not just the leaders of certain tribes. 

If you want to hide there's servers where you'll be the only one online except for boats passing through once in awhile. There's some really really dead servers, and not just the ones with shitty resources either. 

Better than hiding however is defending. Puckle guns, creative use of landscape, and honeycombs. 

4 hours ago, boomervoncannon said:

So I've heard behind closed doors that Buster the Wonder Horse sells meth to children in exchange for magic beans which he'll use to grow giant Venus Fly Trap death plants and take over the world.

Rumors are just that. Rumors. If you like the game, play the game. If a server wipe happens, it happens. If it doesn't, then anyone who changed their behavior based on a rumor will have wasted their own time for no good reason. It's all house money anyway; no wipe is guaranteed but the most likely scenario involves a wipe at game launch.  In any event it seems unlikely the game will proceed from it's present state to full release with no wipes at all. That is not a scenario I would put money on. 

It isn't exactly a rumor, not from my perspective anyways, I was being vague because I don't want to call the guy out for having direct conversations with the lead dev when they're leadership in one of the top companies. Don't want to give the illusion of favoritism or collusion. The conversation happened.