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I hope thats a joke? I came across an island that had the taxes set to 50%.... The whole master-slave Feudal system is already crap as it is, dont you think 50% taxes is a bit harsh? 

No, just pick the ptr branch and you are good to go...

I dont think anyone actually wanted the upcoming PvE changes anyway. Its not even going to be tested, its completely overshadowed by the 2 PvP Type Servers. By the time they figure that out the last PvE Players will have moved on. And as long as the PvP Servers are a console command/cheat/hack fest im not interested in those either.

On 3/26/2019 at 2:30 PM, Master_Pain said:

Not a large enough sample size yet, but still, pretty telling...

But probably the active playerbase

They fit right in like the rest of the concept... Companies, feudal slave system, taxes, taming, Dragons, submarines, farming... all very "piratey"... Atlas has no identity. A bunch of ideas taped together.

The whole system is crap... I had at least half the treasures walled in or built over with foundations. The second one is even more annoying because the mobs spawn and you can kill them, but not dig the stupid treasure up. Not to mention the ones that bug because one of the mobs decides not to pop up again for whatever reasons so you have to start over.

1 hour ago, Gorelander said:

Yeah, each day I care less about this game and am starting to play other games.

Ever few days I'll come back and see if they have their sh*t together and I see more delays.

I wish I could ask for my money back.  This isn't early access, this is pay to beta test.  Just awful.

Yes, the game lost its momentum. I played it a lot, way too much to be fair. Looking at it now it had way too many bugs and problems and i had to spend way too much time with maintenance. A bit like waking up next to a very ugly person after a long drunken night out. Time to sneak out

If i would come across the game on steam right now, given the ratings and comments, i would most likely not touch it. Of the ones that do a lot wont make it past the 2 hour steam refund time

3 minutes ago, Talono said:

PVE will be wipped for it..muhahaha

Yeah i guess the 2 people left will be less of an issue than the 10+ left on PvP

It is however a bit scary that they dont seem to have the resources to run the current setup plus a PTR. Especially since its prolly the same virtual setup at Nitrado..

If they keep the feudal Slave System i wont.

1 hour ago, boomervoncannon said:

Not sure how you can say that’s the point and then make a statement which directly contradicts the point. An FPS game with zero players is still an FPS type game. An MMO with no players is still an MMO, it’s just a failed one.

The first one was sarcastic, the second one wasnt. Atlas doesnt support large amounts of players on their servers. Just because the Servers say 150 doesnt mean it can host that amount. They buckle with 20+ or earlier. 20 Players on one part of a map is less than old shooters, hell Doom could do more. So yeah, if the game cant handle a large amount it shouldnt be called an MMO.

My comment is about the technical limitations of Atlas, not the amount of people that play it currently. And if we would go by that we should call Atlas an "up to 4 Players Coop" game anyway.

1 hour ago, boomervoncannon said:

MMO is a genre designation like FPS or simulator. The number of players per sever speaks to the game’s success or failure but not whether it is considered an MMO for design and genre purposes, which is the context here.  Atlas is an MMO by virtue of the fact it is designed with massive numbers of players in a same game world in mind. The fact such numbers are not present doesn’t change this.

Yeah and thats the point. Atlas cant handle anything that comes even close to be MMO worthy. Not sure it counts to have a massive amount of players that quit.

This is as "Sandbox" as it can get, the fact that is has more of a cat litter box atm doesnt change that. Im not sure you can call it a MMO at the moment tho. 

Yeah sorry, but im not interested in the PvP part of the game. If you ever manage to sort the current meta and the hacking and console abuse we can talk again. Up until then its PvE or a different game for me, and the longer it takes the Devs to deliver, the lower the chances ill even bother.

1 minute ago, Percieval said:

This is false information. This game was never intended as a ‘ARK DLC’ because that would’ve been impossible to make because of the dino’s overload. You can’t have massive bases full with kibble farms and dino’s, and have the greatness of ATLAS’ map. That’s what the statement was by Wildcard I’m just repeating it. But let’s get the whole ‘ARK DLC’ out of the way. 

That makes the big emphasis on tames even harder to understand. But hey, thanks for clearing that up.r

Yes, if they would have released it as ARK DLC, like it was supposed to be, instead of trying to make it into something it was never intended to be. Having a Pirate on the game cover doesnt make it a Pirate game.

Ofc, it is a lot less fun apparently if you can actually lose stuff and be on the receiving end.

Grievers are happy about raid windows too. Its not like they looking for a fair fight. Im just amazed to see how far the Devs are from reality. Wouldnt hurt them to play their own game once in a while. Then they wouldnt overestimate the "returning" playerbase so drastically.   

13 hours ago, Salty Del said:

I think that instead of referring to it just as PvE, they should instead call the PvE variant Adventure(s).

Or "Slave experience"

Yay, by the time the patch hits live you can put all remaining players in one company on the 2-50 Server.

1 hour ago, Arykos said:

don't be afraid because of some chinese

I played a lot of ARK on official PvP servers... im not "afraid" of them, just sick of a culture that embraces cheating. No fun fighting people who dont fight fair.

1 minute ago, Arykos said:

funny how some randoms always know what other people will do or no

While it clearly is over exaggerated the general meassage isnt that far off. We are talking wipe, so this is about the official servers only. If you take the playerbase of the last month before the wipe announcement and substract the pure maintenance loggers you get a pretty small actual playerbase. So far no one of my company, friends list and the people that settled around our region on the official EU PvE Server see any reason to go on if they plan further wipes. Lets be honest, there isnt much to this game other than building in PvE.

So you can take an educated guess that at least the PvE part of the game will be screwed if they go on like this. And the PvP part got his own set of problems. Good luck if you think they will ever sort the Chinese problem or get a grip on the hacking issues. Give it a few months and you will all pay taxes to your new chinese feudal lords.

What makes you think that THIS will be the one deadline they actually make?

58 minutes ago, CazzT said:

It's like you Chicken Littles have never played an Early Access title before.  Children, regardless of your physical age, have no patience these days.

Not everyone is eating up every crap you get fed under the banner of "early access". There are plenty of EA titles out there who managed just fine. You dont constantly wipe a grindy MMO that has progression/building parts, period. If you have to, you make it clear, and you ease one the grindy parts. 

Also, most games are EA nowadays, a cheesy way of skipping expensive testing and financing the game thats still in early development.