Grongash

Dont know about the PvP part, but i know that at least one of the "Top" EU PvE Companies is just a sad little base with 2 dudes who just spammed waterclaims for ages.

Well just the rumor is enough to not waste any more time and go to maintenance mode until we have a yes or no. I love large parts of the game, but for example Powerstones and Explorationpoints are something im not going to do again. Whoever came up with that stupid system in the first place obvioulsy never tried to actually do it. It is NOT fun to visit the same crappy "copy and paste" islands in every grid just to level further.

I get that it is needed to get further along ONCE, but it is way too annoying to do it all over again. Not to mention that im not missing the 2 weeks i spent trying to actually find a place. 

5 hours ago, boomervoncannon said:

So I've heard behind closed doors that Buster the Wonder Horse sells meth to children in exchange for magic beans which he'll use to grow giant Venus Fly Trap death plants and take over the world.

 

Pah, thats common knowledge.

Beleg sie auf eine andere Taste um in den Einstellungen, zB "Tab" oder "ö", und schon funktionierts.

You can also contest with NPCs. Probably a ship in the cap ring, or even NPCs in the base.

3 minutes ago, Realist said:

People don’t want to do that. This is ark and finding a place to build should be as easy as putting a foundation down anywhere. 

People aren’t going to bother with all the sailing and timer watching. Not going to happen. Easy mode is coming very soon

The instant gratification generation...  "Meh where is my land, i want it now." We will soon have lootboxes, so they can buy land with their parents credit cards.

1 minute ago, Realist said:

Yeah they are not lying, you just got lucky. Good for you though. It is good to see people get some land every now and then

There is plenty of land around, all over the map. And almost all of the places now come with a prebuilt base... You have to actually get out there and look tho. Go scout, write down the timers, check them here and there. Its really not that hard.

Since your "Fixed NPC crew disappearing for a fraction of a second when mounting on cannons " fix plenty of NPCs suddenly started blinking for a second, every few seconds. This makes them fall through floors sometimes and getting stuck in floors/walls.

The claim rework will probably take care of it anyway, most of the companies only have players log for maintenance. If they wipe now they will lose the last few players they still have. I cba to start all that stuff over again, same for everyone left in my company aswell.

The little Tonto lost his Mum and can be picked up in K12 close to the border to L12, pretty much smack in the middle.

Sorry if this is the wrong place to post it, but i know how annoying it can be to tame those atm

6 minutes ago, trqfreak350 said:

and the handling on a galleon to engage them is hilariously bad.

Yeah, and getting back to loot them is fun too.. Feels like i crossed the half sector by then

If you want the Pirate feeling and look cool killing SotD go for a Galleon. If you want to be efficient both with Gold and Mats use the ugly cookie-cutter shotgun Schoner/Brigg  Side switching for NPCs is buggy and running a 58+ NPC Galleon to hunt SotD doesnt even cover the running costs sadly.

7 hours ago, Luxfere said:

Welcome to EA  I submitted a bug yesterday guess you didnt bother to check bug reports and bump it there instead of crying about it here. 

 

I posted a bugreport about that topic roughly 12 hours before yours. It looks like you didnt bother to check yourself

22 minutes ago, Warspectre said:

Oh, the crew are doing all sorts of fun things lately. Sometimes if you unseat them, they'll start bouncing up and down on your deck like it's a trampoline, and then they'll go bouncing off the deck, and up into the air, and just keep going, never to be seen again. You have to very quickly comma whistle them back otherwise you'll lose them. Tames will sometimes do this too when you have them board your ship. 

And then there was that time my NPC crewmember decided he was done sweeping the deck, he was going onto the beach to fight scorpions! And then he died. The End. So I didn't have anyone to control my sails anymore. No, he wasn't on follow, otherwise, he wouldn't have been sweeping when I left. Yeah, this was the same day I found out unseated crew would bounce their way off your ship, up into the air, and out of your life while at sea if you let them.

One of them went into space  And then there are the flickering ones that cant seem to decide on a dimension to live in

Looks like fast travel is bugged too...

Created a bug report... Lets hope they fix it quick..

Same here. Posted in bug reports, so only a matter of... nvm..

Well since quite a few people here didnt know, id say it worked

It happens to me everytime i fast travel to a different sector/server. Somehow i then see all islands of both sectors. It was an occasional bug here and there in the past, now i get it everytime. Its gone once you relog. Extra fun if you sail close to a fake island and suddenly a SotD clips through it and shoots you right away

2 hours ago, Puppies4ever said:

Its disabled. 

We have a few sitting around on top of Storage Boxes, they didnt move ever. No idea why yours do? The only time i encountered that was on ships, we always lost the chicken during a storm

8 minutes ago, BIGWILL said:

 which makes me feel that God is against me. 

 

There is your real problem.

2 minutes ago, MeatSammich said:

Ark has been rolling along pretty well for what, 4 years now without subscriptions, or as of the last I played, microtransactions.

Although, once the game is further along in development, I wouldn't be averse to their being some cosmetics - and only cosmetics - in a cash shop, especially if they were building related. I'd pay $5 to $10 for more wall textures, some aged wood textures, etc. Being able to build with the same stone texture that the bank has would rock, as well as being able to make a ships with an aged, half rotted look to them.

They threw out DLCs in ARK (even tho they screwed up with the season pass). They said they dont want to do that during the EA here, means they have to bridge at elast 2 years... And im pretty sure the servers where a lot cheaper to run.

2 hours ago, ptonfm said:

I think i am entitled to a free game and i love to freeload.

See.. If you quote.. dont edit the actual quote.

1 hour ago, ptonfm said:

Rofl.

Go on, if you think the game can be sustained from a 20 Euro "one time" fee be my guest. Thats not even going to cover the Server costs, not even talking about development. If you rather have an MMO free of additional costs and watch it die before it even makes the release... thats the way to go. 

1 hour ago, boomervoncannon said:

Those loudly touting that “they got your money, now they don’t care about you.” demonstrate a poor understanding of the enormous ongoing costs to keep a large open world MMO online over time, or how revenue from game purchases alone in these models does little more than cover development costs at best. 

 

I would love for this game to have a sub or a shop (as long as it isnt pay to win ofc). This wasnt a rant about how to finance the further development, in fact i am worried that it isnt sustainable currently. I got my moneys worth plenty. If paying a few bucks a month (or even an ingame cosmetic shop, etc) would assure that they actually WANT to put the work in and make their customers happy id be all for it. 

1 hour ago, Bad News Bear said:

Sometimes there’s a visual bug and it doesnt show you the buffs in the inventory menu, but they are still affecting you

They dont. It was never a "visual only" bug to begin with. Try to carry weight close to being encumbered. Write down the number of items you can carry, next time you lose the "ui visual bug only" try to carry the same amount.