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I'm with ya man I really like this game but it's impossible for me to enjoy it with the claim flags and griefers,  me and my buddies went back to empyrion , we loved ark and really like atlas, it just needs a whole lot of work, and I think they are focusing on pvp at the moment

its still early access, ive lost my bases and ships multiple times now to glitch users and griefers. the pve mode isnt very enjoyable right now. i just figured grapeshot is working on stability issues than core mechanics at the moment , and even when they do start working on core mechanics im sure they are going to work on the pvp side of this first as that is where most streamers play. its fine though i play on visiting the forums until i see a patch that fixes some of the soul destroying issues in pve ...

ie claim flags( claim flag limit, fix the overlaping, correct the decay timer),

ghost ships, the amount of them and their ability to attack ships that cant out run or defend against them,

the ship weight issue where people can grief you by sinking your ship with weight

the glitch where people can break in to your base , kill you and then steal your base cause your not sleeping there. (lost a base i just finished building , went to sleep, woke up , and they stole my claim)

personally the claim flags is the worse issue , i can deal with the other issues, but between claimflags and the griefing its to much.  

claims flags should be reduced to 1 per person , with a skill tree (land managment or something) allows you to have more claims (the bank should be moved under this tree), each player can bring their claim(s) to a company and that adds to the companies total count.  this would promote people joining companies but wouldn't punish players that wish to be solo or small groups. 

until i see a change to claim flags or some fixes to progression , i dont think ill be wasting my time, i want to play atlas , but i just have wait for them to fix some core issues in pve first

im with ya , i just lost all my work from launch and my small slice of land in less then 7 hours (forgive me for sleeping) . as you said with the current claim system the game is practically unplayable in pve (solo or with small groups). 

ill come back to this game after i see them start to work on the core mechanics issues they have with progression. i understand that they need to stabilize the network first before they cant start on other things. im not complaining , this is a really interesting game, which im excited to play.  but its still very early in its development cycle. and i think the mechanics are their for the pvp side , where pve was slaped together , thats fine , i understand  the pve crowd is frankly boring compared to the pvp streamers, who will get them alot of interest in the game. im patience i can wait, i have a long line of games i bought on sale to play.

i think the grapeshot guys are doing great , they are following the logical process on completing / fixing the game , just try to understand that the majority of players and marketing that is being done for this game is from the content creators / streamers. 

just take a step back its early access , I.E. alpha stage, there are going to be game breaking bugs.

and let me also say that ark was worse off at this point in comparison to time in early access  

it probably more frustrating cause when i got to this island , it was mostly empty but everyone was having trouble finding a spot so me and my buddies put down just 1 claim flag near the beach and built on it , so because i was nice and considerate everything was taken from me.

so they want me to play atlas like a asshole , sink everyone ship (with the weight bug, how i got my revenge on the chode) , take everyones work and steal their loot

i can do this, maybe if i and other make it so bad , the devs will have to acknowledge the alarming and game breaking pve issues.

HYDRA WILL RISE

i just finished building my base went to slep last night and the land was claimed  ...all thhat work and its sttolen in less then 24hrs....im done

dont say you have a pve mode if its not pve, cause i have a screenshot that shows he killed me  

do say its 3 days to claim if these bastard took it in less then 7 hours

i dont even want to play anymore , i delt with all the bs during launc and the land rush and iwas willing to deal with it . but everything gone when i just finished building it

and i cant take it back cause of the stupid overlaping ....**** this

the main problem is the claim flags ...you have mechanics in place encouraging players to take as much land and build a bank so they can reap the awards of the travelers farming...however, in practice this is being exploited to the point where new players cant "setup shop" so they are force to farm reasources and put them on their raft and go adrift till they find a spot...(in pvp im sure this is a neat option) 

*UPDATE* i meant to mention that sloops shouldn't be aggroed by damned ships as they have no real way to fight them , its terrible progression to be stuck on a raft cause sloop cant out run or out gun anything. makes exploring grueling 

either A add a cap to claim flags , like 1 per person with an option in the skill tree to get more (companies with larger forces can have more space, even more if they have active members spec in the skill tree for more....this way you can keep the bank and it helps the larger guild maintain their fleet , company crew mates and stuff easier. 

or b remove the bank , and make it so any claimed land without a building decays at +200% or something, this would encourage folks to centralize their efforts in to a smaller area, as it would require alot more upkeep and work to maintain.

or c add a upkeep cost to keep the land ...like gold or some other random resource

just some thoughts 

cause in pve it feels like small companies and solo players are being victimized cause they cant get a area to build so all they do is farm and give people that control whole islands or large chunks free resources through taxation 

yea its pretty demoralizing, i had a sloop and was working on a schooner, i spawn in right after the patch, sloop was destroyed while docked near the shore, went back to my home , and my schooner that was still in wet dock was destoryed(almost complete). normally i guess this wouldn't be a issue, but as i play mostly solo , the game gone from this cool exploring pirate game , to me being stuck on a island gathering resources and taming to survive , with only being able to leave on a raft. ....it short its becoming ark. 

the progression just seems really off and its making it very hard to enjoy the game...i was having more fun before the patch that added the damned ships

yea they can have some small crap deck ones...but can you fight the crazy amount of ghost ships there are? probably not ...also if you look at the progression , a sloop is the next step after raft , and you cant make cannons until your alot farther down the tree, because of this , it extremely difficult to explorer and progress to find a place to build those ships that can take on groups of ghost ships

Draytown keys Island in C4 (PvE), no resources spawning ..still, its been a few days now , normaly its not a big deal , but thanks to the ghost ships that were just added i lost my means of travel. i would really like to start building some ships