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38 minutes ago, tsavo74 said:

How about it? Put up a test server with a claim flag limit with flags working as they used too? say 2 flags per player. No company cap. Company has 100 players, that's 200 claim flags for the company? It would be interesting to see the player figures for a server running like that. I reckon you guys may be surprised how quickly it fills. ( yeah I know the old argument about mega company claims, but it would still be capped to 2 per player maximum. A large company would naturally have more claiming ability). I mean itd only be a test server right? could always be removed? got nowt to lose. 

 

Just a weird far out idea

 

not a 2 per player including if in a company should be limite per company , 1-10 player 6 flags 10-25 players 12 flags 25-50 players 20 flags that imo would be perfect amounts 

20 flags can cover a good half of a small island or a very large area on a larger island , pre wipe i had 14 flags the area they covered was massive , more than i needed but i did get the tax as they covered the metal nodes 

1 hour ago, Telly said:

Didn't realize landlords only had 24 hours to veto your builds... guess that would work.

main reason i set up on one of the high point islands , very unlikely to be claimed soon and now my main base has been up for few days now its safe from any future owners , 

i read something about this are u on lawless by any chance?

21 hours ago, =MGC=Ranger said:

Because every single claimed land I've seen in PVE EU is 20% tax. Completely ridiculous to live and pay 20% tax. I live in NY and pay 20% tax as it is haha..Thats why NY is the largest exiting population state. Lawless=no tax. If the tax was 5%, maybe 10%..sure. But 20? No effing way. If a isle has good resources, we throw up a quick building with a bed and go on our way. The new claim system is complete garbage. When we stop at an isle with high tax, we farm the special resources and get the essentials at lawless isles instead.

the tax doesnt come out of your farming as per the patch notes on pve , try reading and keeping up with the changes 

10 minutes ago, Telly said:

Because I don't feel like putting the time and effort into building a base where the owner could evict us on a whim... what I learned from my time on earth is that people are assholes, especially when they are hidden behind the curtain of the internet.

only for the first 24 hrs of soemthing being placed , u want to be safe go buil don one of the larger unclaimed islands , they wont be claimed anytime soon 

On 4/21/2019 at 11:01 AM, Talono said:

I placed my water reservoir on a thatch ceiling which should count as fertile ground, but i get neither a percentage nor a refill.

has to be on the ground itself u get a percentage pop up , i have mine on 60% fertile ground in the desert all 8 are full over the weekend so have 96000 water , 

3 hours ago, Edguy said:

iv learn good stuff  reading all comments ! but in my opinion this a good sistem  i did not like the old claim system .... now that i know  1 settlement = 2 extra hours for unkeep  ill talk to my  otrher island friend ... i got 57 pts island and the unkeep  its 716 gold per 24 hours... i do  wish that or want come  install a base  on my island i do agree that he shoudl have some kind of small tax to keep his settlement  and  that way all his structure are protected ... that would encourage small groups of players to get some parts of the island and it would benifit the owner with the small tax to oay the unkeep .... (  yes my english is not perfect  dont have to attack me that way plz   ) 

i think slowly island owners are realising unless they want to spend all thier time gold hunting they need to allow others to build to keep the cost down , 

18 hours ago, Myk said:

 

Put that on top of really listening to your community, 

they really listened when the community was overwhelming against the stupid claim system in pve ..

5 hours ago, Rask said:

There is no land left.  Try to build and your stuff is deleted within 24 hours.  

 

wrong there is plenty of land left im in g4 on an unclaimed larger island if u get built up fast enough after 24 hours your stuff is safe even if the island gets claimed , there are maybe 4 other companys on the island , there is also a huge amount of players that i have seen with messages on their islands welcoming people to settle as it cost them less the more compansy settle , 

chance of the larger islands being claimed is very low less than 10% chance 

so to say there is no land left is just plain old fashioned bullshit 

9 minutes ago, SIEGEGUN said:

Who ever said anyone wanted to keep it? Or make it compete with a real ship? It does not. In any way shape or form. What it does do is give a new player or a player having to punch trees again have something viable to actually DO things to get back up. Now your insinuating because people want the ramshackle to be able to actually do something they want stuff for free? The ramshackle is hardly handing anything "free" out lol. Your statement is silly. Just because people want the ship to be able to actually work for them does not equate to "wanting everything free with no work or goals". If they were complaining they couldn't buy a real ship I'd agree with the handing free stuff out statement. But they are not. They are asking for a ship which is literally the weakest slowest ship in the game, which was heavily nerfed, to be able to actually do something. 

you are contradicting yourself , why does it need to be anything but a transport to get out of freeport ? u say it doesnt need to compete yet u go on to say it needs to , when it is fulfiling what is meant to be a ship to get out of freeport with the basics of matrials to get you started where u decide to set up .the nerf was good i hope it stays like it .

1 hour ago, SIEGEGUN said:

I disagree with that. Solo, small companies and new players to the game had great options for starting out with the old ramshackle. Now they will have a much harder time starting out, playing, or recovering from being wiped. The starter ships should be viable. They were not a "threat" to real ships nor taking their place in anything. There is and was literally no reason to change it. All changing it has done is make the new player experience and the solo/small company player experience a lot more awful. These types of changes drive players away. It would be different if the game had this mass of noob ships ripping the game apart balance wise and taking the role of other ships. but that is not happening. The old ramshackle was a terrible version of a real sloop. They could have buffed the raft to its current levels and still not have messed with the sloop. The only reason they did this is to make players try and take the raft. Which STILL sucks. The ramshackle with its weight and speed limits is a snail on the water, cant out run anything. Useless. These changes are an especially big deal on the PvP server. 

how does it , u sail away from freeport get to island start building your new and better ships , it isnt meant as a boat u keep in any shape of form , once again too many players dont want to work towards goals they want everything handed to them with little to no effort ....

22 hours ago, SIEGEGUN said:

Yes, I had one on my ramshackle before the noob ship changes. With the weight changes though I am not sure I would now. Even with levels it moved like a snail now, and it was not a speed demon before. I still need to test the ramshackle, but it will be exceedingly slow with or without the diving attachment. If you can make a diving attachment, you have access to a smithy, just make the parts for a normal sloop. you will be glad you did. They nerfed the ramshackle, it is useless now. It would be lucky to outrun anything. With their noob ship changes, Grapeshot has made all the noob ships worthless.

which is kind if the point the start sloop isnt meant to be anything but that a ship to get u out of freeport , imo should never have been an option the raft should have been the only option at freeports 

2 hours ago, Quon said:

Same, before the wipe my group (7 of us ) had 3 claims bunched together.  Took us along time to find any land to do that.   Now we get back on, and its even more of a piss poor claim system. The other 6 in my group said "Nope" not coming back that mess.  I am not going to be playing this game solo either. Claiming should not be in the game (PvE) if you paid for the game like everyone else and cannot get a claim. I cant speak for PvP since I have not played on those servers.

but u know what ? the devs think their new system is working  according to their latest captains log , can they not see that lawless regions are still the most popular areas to setup ?, are they so blind that they cannot see that players want thier own little areas free from any form of landlord that can remove anything they place within 24hrs if they so feel. ?

what makes the devs think that their new idea is better than what the majority of players are showing via the areas they setup and build and play ,?

remove the claim as it is, give players back the old system with hard limits per player/ company then maybe they will see a lot more of the map being populated .

6 hours ago, Arih said:

Nice benefits for the island owner, but what are the benefits for the settler? This is the problem in PVE. It's a one sided arrangement - all the benefits are for the island owner. It might work in PVP, I don't know, but maybe security in return for the tax might work.... mutual benefit. In PVE, however, all the benefits are for the island owner. Even if the 20% tax doesn't come out of my share, it's going to annoy me working away for the benefit of someone else without getting anything in return. 

They need to revert to the old claim system, and give every individual player 3 claim flags, in or out of a company. 

that would be too much imo 2-3 per player,with a  max of 10 per company if they need more than that then maybe freeport offers additional flags for 10,000 gold per, but keep some upkeep cost for the first 10 low, after that it doubles per additional flag this way at least if u want more than your fair share u will have to pay for it ..

4 hours ago, Emanuel a said:

My tribe of 20 was already threatened by a mega, they are demanding to give up my island or they will zerg us. Good job grapeshot...

didnt think it would be long to start seeing them demanding certain islands once the empires was shut down ... now the devs just need to raise the limit a few more times to keep the megas happy , and the little guys in their place ....

we know its pvp but the colonies was designed for the smaller companies , now the empires didnt work out they are all on colonies with their 30 alliance zergs ,

get your act together devs and make a plan for this game and actually stick to it , 

16 minutes ago, Edguy said:

We got a  big island( 53) and seriously  its suck ... no irons nothing or barely ... next island to us  a 35 points .... fresh water lake .... tons of metal nods on the beach  and ressources  everywhere  ... I don't get it 

bigger= more points not neccesarily better 

bear i find easy if its head it through the doorway just stand directly in front if it at max range doesnt hit u , rhino is just under and behind its chin near front leg , elephant is similar behind front leg try to have a raised tame pen this help greatly as u can almost stand underneath the tame , far easier to tame this way 

cab u show us a screenshot so we can better help you 

yes u can 

19 hours ago, DannyUK said:

I would guess at it changing again in a couple of months to something else, maybe giving people want they wanted in certain number of flags to put down on land.

i am hoping it will as are no doubt many other pve players 

4 hours ago, Talono said:

Hmm i placed a water reservoir and a barrel on fertile ground, both are not refilling after the patch.

Still broken ? Any hints ?

Maybe the reservoir has to be placed onto a crop plot ?

i have mine set on 60% ground , if no percentage comes up when placing the reservoirs they wont fill up , 

barrels i havnt seen mine fill up no percentage option on barrel when placing so dont think this mechanic is for them 

u mean annoying for megas they wanted to play with the small companys on colonies , 

the 50 limit was for a reason to stop the large companies from playing colonies and just serging the smaller ones , once again the devs backtrack on thier own statements , as the empires server was a complete failure they have done a u turn 

5 minutes ago, [GP] Guybrush Threepwood said:

People have claimed gold is treated differently, can't say myself as i've not done treasure hunts.

as islands need gold upkeep id say it makes sense to have treasure maps taxed 

its frustrating as they claim to be working towards helping the small / solo companys then do this , i dont understand wht they are doing to the game , mind u i dont think they know what they want this game yo be , they cant seem to make up their minds wether its a sea pirate fantasy game or ark in pirate fantasy setting 

44 minutes ago, Kidori said:

Because that's a part of their vision for the game, and we were told about it before any of us purchased the game.

except at no point did it say one person would own entire islands , or have ability to remove whatt they dont like within 24hrs of being placed pvp fine pve doesnt work 

19 minutes ago, Liqsquid said:

 

yes there has to an incentive to hunt them , now they are in packs bit harder to take them on