Bad News Bear

39 minutes ago, Draycon said:

Honestly that's not good in my opinion. That means that a large part of the playerbase has left the game (I assume due to similar complaints). The more people leave the game the less people will want to play it. It creates a loop and I hope that the devs do something to stop it and bring the players back. While I want to have a place to build a base, I am not willing to have it at the cost of playing in a barren world where there is noone to interact with. Ideally I would love to see the game sprawling with players and be able to live on an island with multiple friendly or rival companies.

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.

3 minutes ago, JanuzDarkwater said:

Nope, that is not the case, not even half weight...we had no wind to escape and that thing saw us half a cluster away....

I am not talking you down nor insulting you, just stating that if the mob is broken, a lone ranger suicide guy, does not solve the issue....thats is why I post here so that devs can cjeck this out.

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.

1 hour ago, Khaler said:

Those boats are all anchored.

Our guys stuck with it last night after I logged.  TWO HOURS later, with only a few minutes left on the key expiration, two diehards in our company managed to get through with their keys and get the stones.   Two hours of dying constantly until they managed to drag the fire elementals off just right, get the lions burnt by them just right, etc.

Wow, what a fun quest.  NOT!

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

16 hours ago, Ducimus said:

so the patch that just came there deffo was something wrong… 20 min to add 270mb... and no nothing on my end it was downloaded in secs its the patching itself… was i in the middle of a fight in my brig i guess its sunk now lol gg

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

3 minutes ago, Draycon said:

By no means do I want to cause any conflict or ill will. I honestly want the game to succeed. I just wanted to open a conversation about these issues and I guess I did kinda Bait people with the title "I quit"

We're mostly EU PVP players but the issue was that we couldn't find any land in the Tundra zone back then. Maybe the situation has changed over the past month.

 

 

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.

1 hour ago, thefatlebowski said:

Atlas is.. Ark. yes it is. however i must say it doesnt feel like Ark. I have over 4000 hours in Ark.

Think of it as a super mod of Ark, whitout dino's. Where you can build ships and have a good time sailing them, the sea is absolutely gorgeos and very well done, different wind directions wich is the same direction once you pass to another server, the server changing is pretty much seemless. especially when you use an SSD. Im having a blast.

So every1 who hasnt bought Atlas yet, give it a try, its cheap still now, land grab can be a pain but also rewarding once you managed to grab some.

Amen.

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

9 minutes ago, Draycon said:

Well I don't know how it is on the NA servers but here on EU PVP, every island we checked had everything claimed and the only places that weren't claimed were either boxed in by huge walls or on top of really tall mountains.

 

 

Note: That was the situation a month ago when we still played the game

And if you're unlucky and the company reacts and completely wipes your base in a matter of minutes, then you're back to a freeport and you need to start from a freeport with no gear again.

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.

21 minutes ago, JanuzDarkwater said:

na guys, the aggro on those things is outrageous, they see you from miles away....and you suggest that 1 guy immolates by jumping into water with a bow? please.....think before posting....its broken a guy diverting attacks with a bow is not a good mechanic

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

On 2/2/2019 at 8:39 AM, Death Strike Gaming said:

its not racism to give a region such as "Oceanic" like most games do it allows players to have a better game play experience having a server closer to them, if you want to play on another server that's fine I would be pissed off too all the time having to play with crappy ping because I have to choose between two servers half way across the world I had to experience it trying to get to the fountain of youth the first day with a 342 ping playing a game at frame by frame isn't fun. 

It’s racism when you’re targeting a specific group (ethnicity in this post). The ping is not because of where they are, it’s because the servers cannot handle over 60 players without having performance issues. Players from regions far from servers will experience lag based on slow response, but wont affect someone nearby.

Why not lock out Europeans? Or South Americans? -that is precisely what proves this post and everyone supporting it to be racist. Probably ignorant to this fact as well.

Sounds like you were exploiting the glider bug

I say fix the cheating, they arent the only ones to cheat. And to be honest,  is the cheating fundamental issue in this post, not a race.

Asians are welcome in my opinion. I like playing with them.

I’ve heard so many biggoted pos remarks in this game. I feel the racism is an even bigger problem than cheaters. I say “I” to banning racists.

I don’t know how racist posts even last longer than 5 minutes on this forum.