MaxPower

My honest guess? The developer that came up with the overweight system thinks its the cleverest thing in the world and doesn't want to touch it. Seriously, there is no other excuse unless their backend systems are such a mess that its extremely complicated to make such a change... which would reflect pretty negatively on the dev teams ability to be honest. And its pretty clear they never actually tested the current "fix" for the weight problem. I mean, making it a death sentence to step on a raft by accident yet still allowing non-allied players to grapple your ship and climb your ladders is just horribly sloppy. The current fix could still be left in place so people aren't able to board your ship in PVE (although it needs to be fixed so you don't get stuck to the damn thing if you accidently step on a raft). Conversely, since they already have the systems in place to detect that other players are on the ship they could add a radial menu option to "expel" players from the ship so if someone does get on, you can kick them.

Don't get me wrong... the ship sinking glitch is the biggest issue I have with their game and I've pretty much not played for a couple weeks because of it. There is certainly room to complain about the way the devs go about things, their priorities and their testing procedures (if they have any at all). My point was that you're getting bent out of shape about a balancing "fix", when there are likely going to be a million such fixes and changes over the next two years. If you can't handle that, don't play.

Ok and that's fair. Its not an issue to me but that's a reasonable request if its really that big of an issue for you. I just took issue with the idea that its disrespectful to curse in public or on a public forum because its really not, so long as you're not directing said curses at someone.

Sorry dude but its your job as a parent to keep your kids away from content you don't want them to experience. Its not our job to censor ourselves because you're in denial about the world your kids live in. Don't like your kids seeing what gets said on the forums? Don't visit the forums when your kids are watching. Its that simple. No see it doesn't work that way. You're not respecting others when you tell them to change their behavior to satisfy your belief in what is mature and respectful.

That's a great way to end a comment in which you're demanding everyone else change their behavior to conform to what YOU think is "right". Pretty fucking funny if you ask me.

While balancing fixes usually wouldn't be a high priority this early in a games development, we're talking about the adjustment of some numbers in a config file. Its not something that takes a ton of time to do... and keeping balance from getting too out of whack is probably a good strategy. Its possible to both fix things and tweak some variables as development progresses.

I'm not saying it doesn't and its the fault of the devs for not having offline raid protection in place. I just got a kick out of the "Aren't we awesome?" tone of the previous post. Personally, I'd be ashamed to admit I sank someone's ship while they were offline.

Part of the problem is simply the nature of an early access game. You're playing a game that's in a very early developmental state which means not only is there a lot of content missing but also balance is all over the place and subject to significant change in a short period of time. I think especially that last part is someone people need to really understand: Don't fall in love with the current balance of things because its going to change a LOT between now and the 1.0 release, which is years away. Creatures/weapons that are dominant now might be mostly useless next patch and things useless now might be far more powerful. People tend to fall in love with things that are super overpowered and then freak out when they're properly balanced (and make no mistake, some of the tame changes DID balance them). The best example I can think of was the flyer nerf in Ark. Flyers were so overpowered in Ark that's all anyone used. The entire ground game was essentially ignored aside from harvesting dinos because all you needed was a decent Quetz or Argy and you were set since they could get you anywhere faster and carry plenty of weight (PVP did have more use for the ground game to some degree than PVE did). Yet when the devs tried to balance them, people lost their collective minds. Whenever something is unbalanced and overpowered, people LOVE to use it... and they get angry when their overpowered toys are taken away. Its an age old problem for game devs. So really, if you're going to act like every single balancing change is the end of the world and threaten to quit because of them.... do yourself a favor and don't play early access titles since you'll be doing it a lot. Best to wait till the game is mostly finished and such major changes to balance are less likely.

It wasn't an accusation? Sure sounds like a name and shame accusation to me. Oh and you "took down" someone's ship while they were offline... aren't you special?

This is just another example of the devs not properly considering the ramifications of their actions. Most players are already over 90 years old and the age de-buff is pretty punishing, so it stands to reason most players will decide to go for the fountain of youth right away. The problem is that there is only one fountain per main server.... meaning thousands of people could be trying tp bum rush a grid server only capable of handling a couple hundred players. That was a foreseeable issue (which is why I haven't made the trip yet) that could have been avoided by having multiple fountains for the first spawn or resetting everyone's age so there wasn't an immediate log jam.

Eh quite frankly I hope that change screwed some of the foundation spammers a bit.

I think they merged all the topics together.

Can you give an explanation as to why you can't simply make it so anchored ships don't sink due to weight in PVE? That would solve this issue for the most part and wouldn't have a negative impact on the rest of the game. Sure, someone could load a ship up with a ton of weight while its anchored.... but that hardly seems like a game breaking issue since they wouldn't be able to go anywhere with it.

That or people are just trolling. Until there is 100% visual confirmation of the location I wouldn't trust any of these reports...

Someone is saying its rumored to be in O7 on in-game chat right now.... but I would take that with a huge grain of salt. (NA PVE) You already have the quest for it if you're 90 or older.

Because you pretty much are...

Uhhh not to mention that in PvP the fountain is going to be camped by griefers 24/7.

I think its pretty clear they only really care about streamers. Jat even got all excited on the stream yesterday talking about how steamers PM him ideas and shit. Streamers making trips to the fountain of youth with their army of rubes might be entertaining.... but its not a fun game mechanic for most players. At the absolute least they should have reset everyone's age back to 20 so we had time to prepare for this. To just spring it on the community, when most of our characters are already 90+ is just nonsense.

You can fix the door issue by replacing them (just the door). I'd agree about the aging debuff though.... total horseshit.

Yup there appears to be an issue with the collision on previously placed doors. Replacing them seems to fix the issue.

Perhaps I missed it but I don't see anything in there about solving the PvE sinking issue or fixing people getting stuck to other players ships as a result of their previous attempted "fix" for the issue. I'd say that's bad... really bad. Edit: Also, consider me in the camp that thinks the aging mechanic is pure garbage. No idea what the devs are thinking with that one... there is nothing fun about it.

Its not fixed...

I have spent a good deal of time complaining about specific game breaking issues that need to be fixed myself (PvE ship sinking mostly) but in general there is a pretty good defense to this: The game is in early access. I know, you probably think that's just an excuse... but in reality the game is in a very early developmental state. The standard practice of game development at this stage is to get all the content in as fast a possible and THEN worry about fixing issues. Obviously things are a little different with an Early Access title since people have paid for the game and are playing it. As such, major game breaking issues do need to be addressed but you should know going in that fixing issues probably won't be a major focus for a while.

Can you even pin-code or lock a rope ladder? I was just in the game and tried.... didn't see any option for it.

While I'm not 100% sure of this, I believe other players are able to lower your ladders anyway... so unless someone can 100% confirm that's not possible, do NOT assume your ship would be safe if the ladder had been up.