Bad News Bear

I agree the whale thing is annoying, it would be nicer though if you could loot the whale from your boat by pulling up on it.

Dont build by the coast if you dont want to invest in gold-fetching to maintain latge defence crews. Build high on mountains or far inland. Most raiders wont bother to raid something they cannot reach with a boat. Generally you get raided inland if people hold a grudge against you or want to clear you to control the land you are on. a good way to keep a chunk of land that keeps your base from mortar attacks is to make small puckle shacks forcing players to destroy infrastructure just to advance to offensive positions.

Funny story, we had players shoot our base a few times with cannons, then left without even breaking anything. In global they said: “Too cold, fuck this”

I mean... I think the playerbase has shrunk, but jot as much at people make it to believe... I think a lot of players are playing 3-4 hours per day rather than 10-12 hours per day. Hardcore players are more casual. I see spikes here and there in my zones, just as much as dead times. I’ve been one zone go from 3 to 56 players over a frw hours, and there were no raids going on. this is speculative, and just going based on what I’ve noticed. we have an outpose in the tropics with like 6 allys on it, every night an alpha company sinks everything on the server for lols. Our strat is to keep our ships on the docks without releasing them until we can send them to our main base. and we have a base and 100% control of an island in the polar and is generally very safe. Really just depends where you want to live and what you’re willing to sacrifice.

You tried to talk me down with “think before posting”. I did think and I stand on my opinion, I quit multiple amazing games because they catered to carebear changes - it kills games faster than broken content. Right now it seems that everytime a player doesnt get survive or control content the way they want they go to the forums rather than actually try to find solutions. Our players tend to stick next to the border when traveling while wanting to avoid fighting.

Just go to unofficial servers with offline protection. I’m sure there are plenty of those servers.

Yeah the elementals are overboard strong. What do you get from killing one?

Dont get in a fight when they announce a patch? They gave us plenty of notice.

It’s a lot less busy now imo. Our pilar region sometimes I’m the only player online. I’ve seen it in neighbouring tundra servers too. I think most people were having a hard time with the launch rush. It’s died down a bit, but not enough to ruin the naval pvp action: if you want it, there’s plenty of opportunity.

Amen. death to all the cheaters too, it’s fun to grief them.

I keep coming across massive islands that are completely abandonned or have been wiped, so easy to find land. Just stay away from areas that are popular with megas/alphas. Desert/tropics tends to be hot for that. Temperate is really not that bad, tundra/polar is litterally a joke, 10 man squads holding down giant islands, so easy to carve a piece of land out of that. if youre interested pm me and i can tell you where to look on the NA PvP server... I would even help you do it.

Make it so you have to destroy the claim flag (picks, cannons, arrows) to claim territory, would make it easy for open land and hard for bases. People would have to think about where to strategically place their flags (even box them in). obviously box the whole flag and not just the base. when they take significant damage (not just 3 pick strikes) it would message the team. also make each claim flag take a decent amount of resources and weigh a lot (1.5k wood/thatch/fiber to make and 300 weight)

This game is phenomenal. It has to be tweaked, meaning people should, I hope, play with an open mind rather than a table flipping attitude. I understand your frustrations. as far as claims go, I dont think it would be that hard to go hard and claim mega clan territory, easy enough to scout for desweted but claimed land and claim hard and fortify quick. If I were a soli player that’s what i would do, setup in the water near an island I want to build on, prep everythign and strike quick, plop down a mountain base with rudimentary defences and some mortars and try to hold your fort. Kind of sounds fun, actually.

Broken mechanics require ridiculous survival tactics. I am giving you solutions for the current situation, I dont understand why you’re talking me down/talking shit to me - If you only want to hear people that are 100% on your side on this matter, taking this on the forums is likely not where you’re going to get that audience. I also don’t think they are ridiculous in any way, they are just hard to deal with in specific circumpstances. You were most likely overloaded, rather than throw your cargo, you decided to risk it all and you lost it. It’s the price you have to pay for that sort of situation. I would just say move on rather than ask to bastardize the content.

I dont think that’s unreasonable. You guys should have scrambled and tossed your cargo overboard. The reason, as mentioned above is for them to be dangerous, not just some other carebear farming feature. Another way to deal with that situation is to have a crewmenber jump overboard with a bow and divert its attention while the ship attempts to escape. currently the whale’s hitbox doesnt register for like 5min while fighting him, players need to musket them until they go through some sort of cycle, not sure if it’s a bug or a feature, def makes the fight fun.

Run over the boats, they are likely all sloops, just ride your ship in there like a warm knife in butter while playing Ride of the Valkyrie

Blue whale in tundra, sperm whale in polar so far. Havent seen the third one

The atlas tab is my second most used tab after inventory......... arghhh Or put it in it’s on icon somewhere unrelated to the tabs

Please, for the love of god, put it as the second last tab and not the last. Every time I click the last tab instinctively thinking it’s the atlas, brings me to the external wiki. It hurts my soul

Looking for fine+ maps for the A14 or B4 and surrounding areas.

Paint fading over time/sailing would be awesome. Could make for some interestig pve content in a pvp game

How have they not been fixed yet, you lose like 75% of them when picking

I find the grind perfectly fine on weekdays. Plus it isnt a debuff, it’s the regular game, you can always go on an unofficial server with x5 all the time if that’s what you want. I’ve considered it in the past.

Go raid during the week, I’m sure people that farmed on the weekend have tons of resources. They arent trying to disfavor weekday players, you’re just on a witchhunt for perks.

That is hilarious