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21 hours ago, Tyslin said:

Damn,....last time I checked it was a pirate game,....I feel like I posted something to a English class forum or something,....do you guys seriously not have anything better to do then bitch about my grammar, spelling, and etc....I will honestly say at 41 I could give a rats a**,....I am more concerned with hair loss, weight gain, memory loss, and etc.,....lol,.....

I assume this is my warm and fuzzy welcome to the forum,....

 

Historically most pirates captains we're educated.

I guess it is hard as using the right, right when writing.

On 3/1/2019 at 9:12 PM, DocHolliday said:

I am starting to think people should have to answer a questionnaire before participating in EA.  There will probably be multiple wipes before full release and once the game is "released" it will be wiped again. 

Did you guys think they would release the game and force all the new players to compete against companies that have 2 years of infrastructure in place? 

There does need to be an application for EA like the old beta testing applications.  To many children getting into EA tests thinking this is the completed product instead of READING the Early Access disclaimer.   But reading is hard.

6 hours ago, MrHeid said:

Close alliances.  Max company size to 10 maybe 15 players.  Game would be soooooo much better.  I mean pirates historically never operated in 500 person crews.  I would even consider playing pvp again if they did this

Henry Morgan...famed pirate/privateer.  He once sailed the seas in command of nearly a dozen ships and over 1000 men.  He was so successful as a pirate/privateer he was awarded governorship of Port Royal Jamaica and a full pardon from the Royal crown.

13 minutes ago, Bowtie said:

 

I believe the galleon is the fastest with 6large speed sails and no guns, or additional structure.  The Brigantine is the fastest when loaded with guns in gunports and 10 shots per gun and crew.   

On 2/12/2019 at 8:09 PM, Bad News Bear said:

Lol was that the one with 20 cannons pn the back end?

No but it had 84 guns, 42 on a side.  The bottom deck had 48lb cannons.  That means they fired 48lb cannonballs... Each gun was around a ton.  This doesn't include the 64lb carronades on the back.  Or the 800+ souls on board.

2 hours ago, Bad News Bear said:

What's stupid is how powerful and how many cannons you can actually put on a ship

Have you seen the HMS Victory?   And that wasn't even the biggest 1st rate in the Royal Navy, let alone on the seas.

Sorry but you must be mistaken.  Skull & Bones a real pirate game????   LOL sorry but no.  It's a continuation of the AC4 Black Flag system.  Naval Action is a better pirate game, in that at least you have to understand sailing mechanics.

9 minutes ago, Brick said:

I've said it before, I'll say it again... a VERY SIMPLE fix for this issue...

 

Create 4 factions

Divide the world into 4 equal parts and give each faction a section. 

Make players and their companies join a faction (equal spread of course)

Each company can still claim land, can still build ships etc... however same faction cannot attack you. 

This allows for smaller groups to go further back while the larger companies live on the "front lines" and if the smaller companies want some pvp action, all they gotta do is sail to the frontlines to assist the larger companies.

This will give us ALL an area where we know there will always be pvp if we want it. It will also give more casual players a safer area the deeper they go into their own factions territory.

 

Edit: Forgot to mention that each faction can advance its territory by attacking the other factions and successfully winning

Then you have the issue of alts, and faction population balance, then the faction alliances that will happen.  Putting in factions wont help the games core issues.  

6 minutes ago, Case of the Scurvy said:

This will also make the dinghy more viable

I would love to see the dinghy be more viable on larger ships.  I would also like to see the dinghy dock taking up a LOT less space on the deck of the ship.

12 minutes ago, LaiTash said:

I don't think it is intended, tho.

Yelling burning stamina is intended.  As for it being an easy way out of being jailed... who knows.

1 minute ago, MajorAvatar said:

Thank you for the tip, while useful, it is just a broken game mechanic that should be fixed as soon as possible. As this is the official forum, I propose:

- remove the yell VOIP drains stamina bug to escape jail.

and

- Add maximum jail time (4 hours? 6 hours) 

This should serve the intention of jail time, to remove the player temporarily from the attacker or defender list during a PvP event.

Thoughts?

The yell stamina drain is not a bug.  It is actually in the description when using it.  

And we have captured people.. we have had them until they woke up, and then we usually ask them to do something stupid, like.....

-Dance

-gather xxxx amount of materials.

-listen to one of our guys poetry.. (we really didn't like that guy)

-or be publicly executed.. we will hang them.

The last time I saw a hatched bp was weeks ago and it was a stone hatchet BP.  Haven't seen one since.   I have shovel, pickaxe, scythe, climbing picks, and even grappling hook BPs.  

1 minute ago, MajorAvatar said:

I researched this for quite some time, but never found this solution. Maybe it should be a simple option: Yell until you die... in the menu instead of a skill that only ARK insiders know about. 

More guidance would have been nice, for players that were not previously played ARK. It really looks, to me, like they catered only to players that did play ARK before. How does this YELL technique go? and how realistic is it in the gameplay? reasonable multiple hours of minimum/maximum imprisonment time (unless freed) feels far more immersive, realistic and connected with the intention of jail time (stopping people raiding your place or boat / defending against raid).

Basically what you suggest: use a glitch to get yourself out, instead of fixing the gameplay mechanics... 

 

The yell VOIP button uses stamina.  It also transmits your voice further.  What I have seen some people do is put on an annoying song or sound and hold down the yell button and wait until they die.   Look at your key mapping to find out which key it is, I remapped my whole keyboard day 2.

On 1/28/2019 at 11:42 AM, zysis said:

I'd love to see crew using a bow. I mean, they would be super cool sitting on top of the ramparts with bows equipped, told to be stationary and draw arrows from either the ammo box or their inventory. A 'stand your ground' command would be nice for this, given they'd probably just run at the enemy and try punching them. Crew firing a volley of flame arrows toward an enemy ship would be an epic sight to see...

I would rather give them carbines... with their innate aimbot, 5 of them in a propper line formation firing on my target would be ... devastating.

6 minutes ago, sand man said:

Thats not easy to do,,,,,is it ?

Well it is easier than asking the devs to redesign the game for an offline mode.

3 minutes ago, MajorAvatar said:

It is not a skill based game, playing better will not help you, at all. The only advice I ever hear is: find a bigger group to play with! Maybe restrict companies to 70 players and total allies to 140, that's acceptable, not 500+ player groups zerging with their 1000 player allies an official that totals, maybe 4k active players. 

Again, limiting companies and alliances size is not going to work.  People will just use outside of game methods of forming alliances.  I have seen dozens of websites for this VERY thing in other games that did limit alliances.  And it actually lead to more problems for others than it did anything else.  Where as now you can see who is attacking you, and what alliance they are from, in this other system you can be attacked and have no clue what alliance they are from.  

2 minutes ago, vaylain said:

Maybe you would prefer to play your single player option but I prefer legitimate PVP encounters, so that does not work for me.

I like a legit PVP fight.  But those are rare and far between.   I enjoy this game because it does happen a fair bit on the weekends.   

19 minutes ago, MajorAvatar said:

After nearly 200 hours in the game, Atlas is starting to disappoint me as a "pirate game". The meta shifted completely to taming creatures, instead of building and commandeering ships and cannons.

In short, my feelings are:
- Improve PvP, allowing the skill to reign over numbers

- Reduce the impact of tames, they should have minor supporting roles, able to help a little in gathering, building but not be totally full out war machines (else the game is just ARK without actual Dinosaurs, well actually i already seen Dinosaurs.....).
- Maybe make dragging cannons behinds animals very slow. Swimming with a cannon on a cart should not be possible 

- Jail time should have a limit in maximum time, a reasonable limit. Hours, not days or weeks, or months or years... 

- Increase the impact boats have, they should be the single most important thing to have, build and maintain.  Wee supposed to be pirates, after all, not beastmasters.

Ever heard of Pirates sailing with dinosaurs, bears, lions, Elephants and such? as long as tames stay as important as they are, its basically a reskin of ARK survival with inferior boats..
Who feels the same? what should be improved?

I agree with most of this... except the part about the being captured... you can kill yourself even when handcuffed.  There is a yell option which uses stamina, you can do that until you die.  It takes about 10min at most.  

The thing is even 2 or 3 times longer wont help.  Because there is a noticeable drop off to the ocean floor between islands.  So where it is deep, it is REAL deep.   

36 minutes ago, sand man said:

Dame game needs a offline option, job done and everybody happy.

There is a single player option....

Step 1- Create your own server

Step 2- Set password

Step 3- Play on your own server by yourself.

11 minutes ago, vaylain said:

Hey bro, Fuck off you trolling dickhead. Not everyone who enjoys actual PVP also desires the griefing. It is not the same and there should be better options to thwart griefing from the game. You are considering your suggestion as the only solution to the problem when maybe, Grapeshot might consider another solution such as offline raid protection instead. It is not up to you, it is up to them.

Wow... that was a bit of an overaction.   No offense but when you play this type of game you have to expect some attacks like this all the time.  People want an easy "I win" and the easiest thing is to offline raid someone.  Makes them feel leet.   I prefer doing online raids when they are online and sinking their stuff when they are right there doing things.  

2 minutes ago, vaylain said:

Where does it state that the game is NOT for solo play?

 

In the description of the game...

MMO= Massively Multiplayer Online 

Last time I checked Multiplayer ment multiple players, which if we look at the root of that... multi, which means more than one.  It can be safely deduced that the game is not a single player game.

Puckle gunners are supposed to be invulnerable.  

Are you sure they were killed while on the gun or did someone whistle them off of the gun?  If you leave your NPCs set to heed whistle commands they can be called off by someone else in the company.   

Sailing is fast enough already.  Build a lightweight ship like a Schooner or Brig, put nothing but speed sails on it... go everywhere faster than a modern day Aegis class missile cruiser.

2 hours ago, Jorm said:

Yeah its called Equilibrium Buff, you get it after keeping your Vitamins for 30 min on the same Lvl.

+20% meele dmg

20+ Fortitude

10% Weight

Not Sure if its correct but some like this .

Its +30 Fort... and it really isnt worth it for most of the higher level players.

Honestly it is REALLY hard to convince any of my company mates to not just kill themselves instead of eating.   Even with the meal buffs from higher level cooked meals.  

48 minutes ago, Thor Ragnarock said:

I mean if you want to be more period correct... A Cannon should have 2-3 npcs per... So can we get period accurate cannon teams please? lol

Try doubling that on the large cannon.

1 hour ago, gimpbrush said:

i mean the smaller canon, what i dit

it is a brigantine with four large canon at the front and four at the back. Ans i want to add for at the left and at the right.

Best regards.

The medium cannon is fine.  I have 4 on the back of my schooner and easily deal with SotD, and I have 4 per side... not sure why though... might replace them with 3 large cannons per side for giggles.  But the medium cannon has different options for shots, like bar shot... spike shot... those are options that the large cannon doesnt have.  

3 hours ago, Xaric said:

I would like to suggest that the craftable bucket be allowed to be added to the inventory and access the wall/mount hook so that you could gather rain water in the bucket for fresh water to drink.  This would be great for the smallest ships, you would mount the wall mount holder on the mast and insert a bucket and wait for rain to collect a small amount of some fresh drinkable rain water. Also once filled with water the bucket can't affect the weight of the ship so much like the barrel does once its full. 

I think you can put a stone reservoir on a ship....I havent tried though.