James_32

Personally, i rather have this band aid fix. I prefer not to have 30 people jump on my ship and logout on it. I don't know about most of you guys but i have seen 5-6 randoms jumping on others sloop/schooners/brigs or what not to "check it out". If i want someone to check out my ship i would just ally with them. They can't build on your land since you have the option to make it company owned

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I agree, exploiting game to get ahead or grief people to ruin their time and experiences in a game. Personally, I don't get why those type of people wont just play solo on the unofficial if they have to cheat.

39 minutes ago, Gaxon said:

It's part of the game. Go out and claim land and yes there is land to claim. You have to look for it and claim it. We've claimed 7 plots of land today that never had a flag put down.

I see all of these people saying "no land", but there is land. They just aren't taking the time to find it or are in the wrong place.

I agree, i seen a lot of companies disappear and new people come in and claim land. Personally, i don't get why all the people looking for land just don't join a company. There is a company forum on the site.

That is an interesting question. I just claimed a couple ships of my old company. And can't do anything either it just shows them in green but also blue on the planks since they were part of the alliance of a company i joined.

I think you have to be in the company for the timer to reset. Any random person would just make it contesting or if their is a sleeper.

1 hour ago, DeltaFive said:

I had no pin codes the first time I was robbed and it still occurred. 

My company had that issue with another company that glitched through the corner of a building to enter it. By getting close to the corner then logging out so their body slides through the corner when they wake up they are inside. Assume they can do it from the inside to get out. But not certain this was a week ago when they killed the sleepers with repair hammers.

I think the vitamin buff boosts the damage. I seem to do 400 headshot with rifle when I have the buff on.

Best thing is to do what I did when the owner quit and did not pass lead. I had friend in the company delete flags near base and placed new company flag. And had to salvage the ships. I’m pretty sure governance option is broke since I had my stuff on personal when I merged into the old company and still belonged to the company when I quit.

5 hours ago, Muffinman said:

The fact you have to get a head shot on a level 3 anything is sad. What numbers are they looking at when doing patches? Spawn rates are through the roof but weapon damage is nerfed?

Henceforth calling this game "Zap Brannigan's Ideal Game." Wave upon wave of men just to get one plank built. 1/10th of the way their men! Don't give up! We've almost got a ship. Here, take these windup weapons!

That is the truth! Me and my company clear an entire area to farm for 3mins then another 30 wolfs/lions/snakes respawn.

I like option 1. I lost too many tames either threw animals walking in my stone house killing and destroying everything when offline. Or from having 10 wolves, lions, snakes agroe from across the map. Sorta gave up taming can't keep them alive enough to farm anything.

17 hours ago, MindOfMadness said:

The issue with every player having a flag is when you join a company your flag is part of their territory...  What happens if you leave that company?

It still belongs to the company. I joined my company with a flag and 2 sloops. The company leader and most ran back to ark and didn't pass leadership. I had to destroy the ships and reclaim the flag of was a sad moment. They personally owned option I believe does not work.

5 hours ago, Hackjob said:

Claims do need fixing. 

Going to say it region lock Chinese won't prevent some NA asswhole from doing the same thing, there out there

Agreed, had random trolls in my sector that were not chinese. Everyone that owned insane amount of land raised their taxes to 30% to combat chinese. Personally think they raised it to fill their banks out of greed.

3 minutes ago, NZScruffy said:

??  That will do absolutely nothing to help fix this exploit... Have a longer think about it..

 

There are many ways to fix this exploit. As have been mentioned previously. The devs simply arn't doing anything about it. There are even things that would literally take them 5 mins tops to implement to help dissuade this, and could be shoved into the patch any second. Devs arn't doing it... i'mvery surprised. But I assume its simply because PvE is not at all on their radar. it's an afterthought. 

Not sure if you read the notes but they are fixing the flags in pve? personally i think have the flags fixed would be top priority since you need land in order to build a ship.

1 minute ago, Preyzer said:

if they fix this they better add a way to remove the 3-6 rafts that get parked on the beach in front of are house ever day 

I agree, there is 3 sloops and a brig that looks like the owner quit near my base.  hope they added 7 day rule to be on or poof.

If your raft is there for 24hrs most likely you are repairing it several times restarting the decay process. Ships in Freeport are also being sunk by trolls over weighing them speeding up the process.

Flags are broken and have to replace every 3 days. Building on a claim does nothing even having sleepers does not protect it.

They need to fix the animals from walking through walls and killing sleepers. Last night when i was offline alpha wolf walked Through the walls and killed all the sheep and chickens protected in the house.

Yeah, that is what i was thinking. Another member was saying about going down piracy tree for ship stealing which threw me off.

What's Yours Is Mine

The player who activates this performs a feat of supreme piracy, allowing them to greatly accelerate the rate at which ship claim flags count down.

Leader of my company and few other decided to throw in the towel. Is it possible to claim ships in pve? i know i can pretty much claim all the land etc. and rebuild the company from there. Wasn't sure if i had to scrap all the ships and start over? Thank you guys

Only issue is that npc creatures apparently can go inside houses and kill sleepers. It's a bug i have been killed several times in my house had boxes destroyed by wolves walking threw walls when I'm offline.

Nothing is really safe in pve. Your sleepers die in house by npcs . Anyone can steal your claims. Brigs being sunk by randoms and now getting a bonus to use the ships resources to build their own fleet. 

8 minutes ago, MindOfMadness said:

They didn't wipe the servers per se...

They made all the old servers "Legacy" and started all new servers converting the legacy servers as they emptied out from people quitting or switching to the new populated servers.

I agree. I have never heard of any wipes on ark. Apparently nobody heard of legacy servers or played prior to arks release.

There is 15 of us in a company i don't play solo?

I redid my companies flags every patch. There is no such thing as 3 day rule. Changed the flags after 6.5 then again 7, 7.5, 8. Seems like every patch land becomes claimable by anyone. Greedy neighbors start to take more of my companies land when it happens especially with land going into ours.

They changed it to 3days next day they changed it to 30mins. I sold area next to my company. Every day they steal more flags near us. Feels kinda like pvp but can't stop them.

Claiming is broken atm unless you play 24/7.