Wichtelman

yes... they were in alliance and the other small company came to help with 2 schooner vs our armored battle brigs... i think it took about 60 min till it was over on both islands and most time was probably spent to loot their stuff...

just a little insight... we raided 2 small companies cuz they destroyed our spawns on an island for a certain resource to farm... we were there first but did not claim the island cuz not worth it to defend... we were ok that the small company claimed the island till they got aggressive... we wiped them one week later and now they cry why a large company raided them...

well rafts have more weight than ramshackle now = use a raft

it is kinda funny to see that almost nobody understands how the so called alpha tribes or megas operate... there are multiple reasons why certain islands will not be claimed but the main reason organized groups claim islands is that they have all/best resources to be able to craft stuff and a good defensive island structure...

there is no dmg decay on lawless... you can be about 90% safe in lawless if you know how...

on ptr you could set the raid window timer if you own the island...

ok lets assume the upk cost would start at lets say 1000 gold for 24h for small islands and scale up the larger it gets... what do you guys think would happen if the best islands cost like 10k gold?

could you guys pls stop to argue about pointless stuff? btw do not feed the troll...

Settlement owner is now allowed to insta-demolish enemy structures within 24hours (but not during the combat phase, though the timer will still count down) so i gues that topic can be closed...

if there are not enough players returning there will be no problem but we do not know that yet... well we took the island we wanted with about 10 people a brig and a schooner that already had an owner with multiple brigs schooners and stone buildings... took us about 30-45 min till they were wiped cuz they did not know how to defend their island...

if they raise the tax to 50% that would be your least problem... if they decide to do that they will foundation wipe you off the island...

i dont think that there will be 50% tax on an island if the owner wants people to build on it... it is set to 50% to prevent randoms building up to attack your base...

we took an island on ptr that already had an owner pretty easy cuz they did not know how to defend their base... they had about 10 ships and we just a brig and a schooner with about 10 people... actually if you know how to defend your island nobody will be able to take it in a war or during raid times... protecting your ships is another story and pretty hard to do if the attackers are decent...

well if a mega company splits up in like 5 groups on colonies to take an island there is no need for other groups and the upkeep cost is not high enough to actually matter "not that it would be any better if extremly expensive" if you consider how much players spent for their galleons and defense towers daily... ofc it could be possible that a lot of stuff is bugged or not yet enabled but atm it is a mess... well ok the max 200 points + upk on islands might allow small companies to settle down on "lesser islands" no large company wants cuz of rare resources... btw if you face people that think about stuff you are not able to claim an island from somebody cuz you never get to the flag...

tbh i dont think larger companies need people on their islands at all to help with upkeep... any random people that are not splits of your own company are a risk to turn against you... i see foundation spams on the good islands to prevent said stuff...

there is no dmg decay "as they said" on lawless aswell... built stuff on freeport the first day of ptr and it is still there so...

btw is it intentional that structures on lawless have no decay dmg as they said?

if there is a dmg decay like in freeport for ships on buildings on lawless nobody can really go and settle down on lawless...

na... one split does all the dmg and the other part does all the cargo etc etc... people can get really resourceful at circumventing basically almost anything...

percieval and bullet force are right... why would friendly fire stop a large company that split up at any point if they are coordinated? even if there were no allies at all it would not stop them...

talon you do know that most of the hardcore players without a job do not write on the forums?`xD

and you "percieval" just ignore the updates and what strain you put on yourself and your company if you claim random useless land... doesnt matter it is your opinion and you a free to have that... edit: we talked about a cartel system and large companies claiming more than +5 islands outside of bp mats farming? there will be no war with the currently planned system if the company + shadow tribes are active enough to fill a server... there will be raids vs small companies all over the place but it will become pointless to expand after the update...

hmmm 6x rates is already extrem if you think about how long it takes to farm a galleon... really depends on how active/aggressive the devs adjust stuff on the ptr...

yes shadow tribes will be a thing but more to ignore upkeep cost of an important island and not to control random islands everywhere... they probably raid those islands but it would be totally stupid and non strategic to build bases/claim land there...

why would i want random islands just for the sake of having them? maybe id get islands under control for bp mats but thats about it... if you just build on one islands and have a massive base there crewmembers and tames starve or mutiny and you dont even know where it happened cuz most players do not think strategic about that... if you control more islands this multiplies and random attacks + multiple wartokens can be used vs you... did you never exp max travel count reached or 150 player server limit? btw how do you raid a server/island if there are 150 active players on it?