ExplodingYeti

maybe he play pve, think again before talking... This game just like Ark was not designed for a very narrow type of gamer, quiet the contrary from pvp to pve and rp, survival and what not. If you think it was made for you I think you dream big time, wake up dude.

Honestly i wouldn't bother if you quit as well, this is not the kind of post i want to read when i have 5 min discussing the game.

Ye it's terrible, i liked the system way better before, you can adjust by dropping sails all the time though, it's just a pain to do. Even the speed boost is terrible now that i have experimented it further, make battling other ships not very enjoyable because your turn radius is so narrow now, once more you have to drop sail all the time to adjust now. I almost destroyed my speed sail to put handling, but i'm confident the whole fucking boat will be undrivable because ill have to destroy the wheel too as it stand on a ceiling that go inside the sail, so i don't even want to try. It's sad because the sailing part was well set up, they needed to adjust the Damned, not our ships, but i guess or they couldn't do it or just found it way easier/faster to do it that way. Well time for them to do it again i guess. That's what happen when your father didn't learn you to do proper work the first time, rather than wasting the time of everyone... Fucking pay a small team totest your shit before setting them on your live servers, god damn it, is that really hard to understand, the whole fucking industry work like this, for good reasons... Fucking rename the existing server as test server and open new ones you patch only once this kind of crap is set up correctly. And it's the same thing happening with the vitamin and food as well. Now that they adjusted the vitamin and the timer while sailing, the thing that happen is that your belly is full but you have zero vitamin. Now even if you want to play 'legit' you have to kill yourself if you sail for a long time... It's just bad.

Sadly it is very easy. Search on youtube. I have seen guys on stream do it, they can sink your ship in a couple of min. You can even do it solo in any non freeport zone. In freeport you need a few guys, still is super easy.

Did you ever even killed a damned, i guess you didn't so let me explain it to you. They don't give shit back, killing one give you 15 gold and a few crew ai, some useless music sheet and blueprints. So why the fuck would you even bother fighting them? All of this is pretty much in any crate. The only reason would be to replace a few crew members that died or fill in slots because you raised your crew limit. So risking your ship to fight them is a complete waste of resource, it's like a 99/1 ratio of risk vs reward, it's just that bad.

Ye and i'm confident the spawn code is garbage and/or trigger some bugs, because i have a house next to the sea in lawless, have a shipyard in front of it, a raft and a sloop. The sloop really need shallow water so is next to the beach right, but still should be out of land range for an aggressive predator. So when i started using npc ai you could see the aggressive mobs chasing birds then agro the boat right, fine it's logical. But now i have a schooner, he is anchored way way up beyond the shipyard, there is no fucking way the lion or whatever chase birds up to there and agro the crew, so the only explanation is that the boat probably trigger a spawn point or something , i was there all this time, nobody lured the damn thing. Also now i put a few level on my ai, 10 in health and 5 in melee and they seam to be able to take down the wolf. But it was only one wolf in a zone with almost no aggressive spawn, and no corcs no snakes, in fact i have to kill all the aggressive guys until a bear spawn as they seam to be on the same list. Problem is poeple killing bear or taming them. Also to the dev, you cna't really put your crew to defend your boat because if they are pulled away from the boat they will float like cretins instead of going back to whatever they were set to do.

Ye i tried and they are so bad. It's pretty obvious a guy made a spread sheet of all the feature of the game, sent it to a 3r country to have the line of code written down for really really cheap, and then launched the game. Because they are all like that.

Ye i'm about to throw the towel too, the game is too much of a time sink, i realized that as soon as holiday ends there is no way i can maintain anything i made in this game, the house the boats, even throwing a few hours in it each day won't do shit... Also nothing is set up properly in this game, it's just bad all around if not frustrating, so why even bother. A shame because the entire setting is pretty great, i have to give them that, they have some kind of good sense for game settings, but well nothing else follow sadly. At least I discovered i love sailing in games.

You mean the way it was before there was no game? No but seriously they did it wrong, they should have made 90% of the sectors lawless, left a few patch here and there for clans/zergs claims, those patch should be surrounded by lawless. If you played any game with claim and non instanced house/property this kind of thing was always the same, you need to seriously narrow this feature down to make it bearable. Free for all have been done countless time and never worked. For ex you'd need to have a clan of 30+ person to be able to claim a small island, 100 for a sector, this would work, not the thing they did. Nobody gives a fuck about taxes, what is valuable is land.

It is for me and probably for many other. I solo man a schooner, i have 4 big cannons front and rear, 10 on sides, so that is 14 ai crew, if you really want to fit it well you could had a new raw of cannons on the deck and a couple more in front/rear, might be overkill but who care if the ship have the level and spent into more crew the game should let you do that. In any case even with the bare minimum that i have you'd need 500 gold a day. For one single ship and one of the smallest... The thing is as it stand now the only way to get gold is treasures. But they nerfed fire arrow so you can't solo them anymore, i don't want to explain here but just go try and you'll see why. Crates give almost nothing, not even for your online spending, and this is for someone that fucking play everyday, almost all day. So logically you'll try to kill damned ships right, i mean you risk sinking your boat messing with them, well no, fuck you lol, a damned ship give 10 gold... Nice game... Ho and by the way you need at least 20 large cannon balls to sink a green damn, so the fucking thing don't even drop something more valuable than those, it's just bad. Honestly i trow 99% of the recipes and song things anyway.

This is not the kind of thing you can tell by watching a stream, be realistic dude. It's a question of feel while manning the damn boat. It's like a car game, some give a terrible feeling as if you drive a no weight box on ice, other have great feeling. Well we went from a great feeling to a shitty one. It's a personal opinion, i'm just reporting to the dev, don't really care if people agree or not. And ye i have some experience with boats in reality i know how they drive and behave.

The harvest is good, the bow and sailing is bad, really bad.

Ye it's terrible, i tried this morning. Also if you use fire arrow my bow broke almost instantly, or is it because i'm not used for bow to have durability and didn't really check. It seam you'll need to always have 2 bow like we did in Ark, it's just bad, especially because you need those guns, the shovel, 3 tools, the spyglass, the fucking grapel, the climbing pick, and who knows what else. Ho an a bit of mats to repair all that shit on the fly. I mean half your weight is now in common crap you run around with.

No admins can't do whatever they want, there is rules applied to who ever use a piece of code, there is one for using the client, one for using the server codes. If you start selling items in game on your private but the dev forbid it, they can sue you. If you are lenient like Notch was with the minecraft community and one day wake up and and realize admins make a fuck tone more money than you making the game; because they are greedy as fuck and use a pay to win system while you sell the game 20$, well anyone can see what happened there.

30% seam to be a lot to boost a counter wind, player should feel the stupidity in trying to go full on counter wind and learn how to sail (ie swapping side), use a handling sail or whatever. I'm not against the boat going all around a bit faster being more maneuverable, but ye 30% seam too much, i guess we'll have to try. I'll much rather have them code a keybind to open close specific sails if needed so i can actually use my handling sail when entering an arbor or trying to anchor. Also fix the full open, full close sail command on wheel, it twitch and bug out 99% of the time. The wind force on small wind condition, i'm not against it, but i'll rather have them fix the damned ships or seriously code a little harder on this feature.

You and the ai need to be very close to whatever you want them to be on, if not it doesnt work, just have them follow at very close range andd stand next to the cannon or sail 2 guys is nothing, best is to put them on sails. They are not a pain, its just ai lie pet in ark...

They are expensive and eat a lot. I have a schooner (14 ai crew, but would need 17 to fill the cannon and sail slots) and will need to do 1 to 2 treasure map a day to pay them, also if i'm not wrong we have an event that give double gold, so you'll need to do at least 4 treasure maps, most of the treasures are unreachable, up some fucking mountain you need a full bag of climbing picks to access. Also their belly food meter seam to be very big, probably a few hours before they starve. Before a night of sleep i had like 4/5 stack of food, all gone in the morning, and this is a short night. The crate floating in the sea should contain at least 10 gold each instead of 2 or 3 since now you cannot find that much of them (they seam to be linked to damned spawn). Also like all ai they are retarded, use your whistle keybinds or it's a nightmare. Apparently you can use them as pets, give them gear and all (haven't tested this part), you can apparently send them gather. Apparently they can guard your shit as you can assign them to kill only ship, animal, enemy, on top you can put them aggressive, passive, fleeing.. I'll edit a sec to tell the dev they need to redo the shop to buy them, they need a way bigger area to spawn in or they bug out.

This is not a freeport problem it's everywhere

2 Things here are important in pvp and pve, the weight/crew limit should kick in only if the captain is at the wheel of a ship, so that people can't sink them like that anymore. Second you need a way to kick players from your foundations/ship in pve, as it stand now you can have a greifer sit in your property, check all your containers, stand there until he is bored and what not, and you can't do shit about it.

I lost 12 crew last night while sleeping, they didn't even fight once, made one trip from freeport to the next zone... I had enough gold in the box i double checked it, but somehow they seam to have spent a lot more, only 2 stayed because they had a few coins in their inventory... Also my 2 crews on sail are clipping in the boat, probably because they were on a sloop before, then i transferred them into my shooner, now they clip in the lower deck. Fuck me now i have to return in these buggy mess that are freeports and spend 60 gold for nothing. My only explanation is that the server rolled back at one point or something, or they need more gold than what the ui show

Try fire arrows next time, and they are pretty well balanced, at least from my short experience. The only thing is that if you die, the spawning is screwed up, you need to go out of render distance to reset it.

Yes i witnessed it a min early, they fire big cannons on fucking sea bass, a fish? (they needed 2 cannon balls for a fucking fish) wtf and they are set in passive mode i double checked. I'm trying to set them on target my target now, but then they will fire if i fight pigs on the shore... Also they might be good in big ships with a lot of space but in small ships it's a nightmare, and dev team need to put more range into the commands, they literally have to be next to the cannon so you can command them to use them, on a small ship it's really really bad. Anyone had better luck setting them up? I'm editing to say that even on target your target mode, they waste ammo randomly...

It's in game, i have seen streamers find them. They are super super rare, don't count on them.

They still haven't fixed the overweight limit on ships. If you just put more crew than the boat can handle or have enough weight you can just sink any boat as it stand now so random people can just abuse this. Also they are fast decaying in freeport to avoid large clans farm the quick spawn rate of freeport and make them lag even more, so your best be is to go do whatever and leave asap; this is also a very bad design choice. Freeport should be forbidden to anyone lv8+ but the game wasn't set for that. I had to go buy npc crew in this lag fest, and my worst fear was to crash before going to new year eve, and find my ship decayed in the morning...

You can have a blast and still think the game is poorly made, these are not incompatible, in fact if you have some kind of strong judgment you should be able to make that point by yourself without people telling you. This kind of open world, survival, pvp with a lot of rp element attract a lot people. In those games communities are big and creative. Sadly this genre generally have very bad and broken games despite their amazing communities. In fact those games are more often than not entirely hold and raise by their communities, it's the case in all the survival games, be it with in game organization, or the modders, server admins and what not. Minecraft is a prime example.