Cpt. Peggy Leggy

How is it worthless? Try learning how to make friends. This isn't a solo game. It's not a duo game. It's not even really a trio sized game. You need to learn how to make friends. It's a PVP Pirate Sandbox MMO. If you want a solo version, host your own and tell everyone who joins they aren't allowed to make a company and must solo, and then ban anyone working together. You could also try hiring NPC's. They can defend your stuff while you're offline. They cost 1 gold an hour and gold is easy as hell to get. Most of all: STOP. FCKING. CRYING.

Hire npcs.

Place turrets/cannons and have your npc's on them, they will defend your stuff

No, they didn't.

wtf do you mean "grabbed everything"? Dynasty, the largest company, only has about 2-3 "secured" sectors, and by "secured" I mean we still lose shit to random passerby. You people are so full of shit when you cry about everything being taken. Just because you traveled to 4-5 sectors close to freeports doesn't mean the entire map is taken, ffs. STOP CRYING. YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GET YOUR OWN ISLAND AS A SOLO PLAYER/3 MAN COMPANY. GET OVER IT. MAKE FRIENDS.

Too much whining here about being killed while offline, the claim system, whining about large companies, no place for solo play, too hard for small companies, waaa waa waa. About the only thing you should do to help them is make hired crew (maybe a lot) better and able to do more things. It's easy to get gold and 1g an hour per crew is kinda nothing. Allow them to level and get pretty strong, maybe make their pay go up a little every couple levels, but let them get nice and strong. Work on the AI, etc. I think that would help solo/small companies a lot TBH, allowing the NPC's to defend ships and bases when assigned to cannons etc so it's all not just all no risk killing. Other then that the game is pretty solid outside of some balancing tweaks and adding content which comes later. The ship to ship combat is fun as heck.

Join said company. This isn't a solo game. It's not even a tiny company game, but you can manage if you buy protection via rent or something. Try hiring NPC's, they can help defend.

No thanks. Go host your own servers and make your own rules.

Explosives. If you can't make them yet why are you trying to raid those who can build stone?

The carbines have some good zoom levels and it isn't hard to hit moving targets that are a bit away, up close where it gets hard to hit.

You people picked the wrong game if you were looking for a solo game. This is a PVP sandbox pirate MMO. Learn to socialize. Make friends, join a company (or pay for protection). Maybe try unofficial where no companies allowed/only small ones. This is a game built on being fucking pirates! Griefing galore is literally the whole point of the game. Don't expect to do much solo on official, which is NOT a bad thing.

Don't play on PvP servers....?

How about a big fat no.

Also if you only looked for 5 hours you haven't even looked at even a tenth of the total islands.

Hey bud, I got an idea :) Instead of coming here and complaining that your 1-2 man company doesn't get to own their own island you make friends with someone on some islands, huh? It's a totally novel idea I know!