Asinego

4 minutes ago, Mahakmar said:

this need to be fixed, we are having people place flags right by our base, and thus needing someone on flag duty = game is gonna end with people leaving in droves , due to no claims and people stealing bases and getting their stuff 

16 hours ago, Asinego said:

We have had the same issue and made a thread about it HERE I now do not want to play the game until this is reesolved.

My company has already quit the game until we're compensated or the bug is fixed.

14 hours ago, Goosfraba said:

people also dont seem to realize, the 3day saftey net for claims applys to new claims.. if you had your claim flag down before they changed the system.. you need to replace it.. otherwise your land is free to take.

I'm quoting someone from another thread here, but i also experienced this;

People replaced flags with new ones and still it was not working. And also a big problem is, that replacing is not really possible since for example mine are overlaping with other flags. If I would tear down the old one I would NOT be able to place a new flag simply due to not enough space left.

4 minutes ago, BoomerMcFisticuffs said:

Anyone know what diminishing returns means?

For those who don't, it simply means you get less the more of something you have. 

So lets apply this concept to claims and the protection time. After maybe 5 flags per company the more you place, the less time you have on the automatic protection. 

Of course, this involves the protection period being fixed first.

The so called fix that came in during patch v6.5 xD

18 minutes ago, Malupo said:

They should limit the flags to 5 uses period... after 5 uses  PER COMPANY then your DONE.  That way everyone has the same amount of space to use. no matter whether your company is fifty (East India Trading Company) or your going at it solo.

 

 

1 claim flag per person i think works means there's a reason to be in a company

We have had the same issue and made a thread about it HERE I now do not want to play the game until this is reesolved.

5 minutes ago, Jozzie McTowel said:

Isn't the white name above their "pirate name" their steam name?

you are correct, I have reported them now, thank you

Just now, Jozzie McTowel said:

Report them through Steam, if u have proof I think they can also get banned for that. Talking about racial slur ofcourse, the griefing is not Steam's concern afaik.

Character name and steam names are diffirent though? How do you report them through steam without knowing their ID

On EU PVE the 8th largest  company on the server Fenrirs Dogs - have atleast 2 players that are going around abusing voice communications to make harrassing and raciially stimulated comments whilst trying to draw wild animals to deliberately destroy our base so that they can claim the area we hold.

I am all for the spirit of claiming land and stealing territory even on PVE but shouldnt have to deal with griefers and harrassment of this level every time i log onto the game. The two pictured below are the biggest culperates and I believe that their company sends them here to annoy us into leaving as they do nothing else but hide in rocks, bring animals over and try to claim out land eventhough we're in it.

3 minutes ago, McGimp said:

Are you being purposfully dense? No point three is the reason point two is not possible. What gave you ghe idea these people dont like to explore. The fact is, and you acknowledged it, is that people cant explore due to ghost ships.

rafts are not a realistc means of exploration, youre at the mercy of the wind and could end up being blown back and forth between two zones all day.

Ghost ships are not a typical issue, they are just the current bug waiting to be fixed and thus can't be used as a 'norm' example. Also for the record You can still get quite far using the map and the raft, the wind doesn't change often enough for you to get blown back and forth between regions, and i personally have navigated from and to a set destination with just a raft more than once using more than 'the mercy of the wind' 

14 hours ago, [GP] Guybrush Threepwood said:

 

Nobody wants to build in lawless regions but guess what, people have no choice when there's no space anywhere else to be found because there's more ocean than land and people spam claim flags all over islands which is silly on PvE.

You can spend days and days at sea looking for somewhere to try and settle and the only way you can do that right now is by using a raft because you stand no chance in hell with the ghost ships.

So when trying to advise where people shouldn't build try to keep in mind that there is nowhere else for people to build.

P.S. My shipyard disappeared the day I placed it, it had not been 4 days and the company log gave no record of it, the only record was that my ship was removed and that's because it had a sloop construction in it, so there was no record of the actual shipyard.

1) there is more space in non-lawless regions i know this because i've travveled round a large portion of the map and the most congested areas are the lawless regions.

2) the whole point of the game is exploration if you dont like spending hours at sea exploring then this isnt the game for you.

3) ghost ships - this is a whole diffirent bug and I have made a thread about this myself HERE.

4) I understand your glitch and i sympathise with you, but beyond that i do not understand why the timer was so significantly reduced but the reason it could happen was due to the region you're in

1 hour ago, wolfgang4466 said:

Asinego, I get that but the timer said 4 days, the shipyard was placed yesterday morning. so there seems to be an issue with the timers.

I get the glitch but as just stated, you should avoid building in these regions as your stuff will be destroyed by other people

IF youre on a lawless island once you place the shipyard, a decay timer will begin and once it runs out, anyone can destroy a structure placed