Martyn

I've found that if you use some decent metal armour, mastercraft or above, with a decent sword.. maybe even a shield, along with the pistols, blunderbus and some grenades.. Then Maps are easy.. the main issue, is getting to where they are.. either through someones walls or up a 150 high spiral of steps..then they're frustrating.. and you really earn that 2k gold.. I'd rather kill a couple of whales.

I know a few people having this issue, but they also don't really know how a computer works or networking.. and it's anyones guess what is actually causing the problem for specific people, it isn't a general issue, sure a region crashes and you see it.. sometimes I crash and I see it, but wait a few mins and it's gone, if you're getting this error repeatedly.. it isn't the game. It's you.

The point is, that's how everything is.. what do you want to make it more interesting? Noone makes any suggestions.. you just want it to be less boring.. ok so sailing is boring.. exploring the map to find every archway, so you can get points moving from island to island, often against the wind, just to push your max level.. is kinda boring, but that's how it is. They change it to make it more interesting and for many of us, myself especially, will find it more tedious having to deal with what you called boring. But is now more interesting, and nutcutters point is well made, nearly all the spammers, the people building great walls of docks, spamming docks, building 50 ships, blocking and hogging the islands, all complaining about how easy/hard it is.. they've all quit. Or they log in every 5 days to maintain. Everyone in my company is the same.. many haven't even played for over a month now, some only played for a day then logged out. Crews all mutineed long ago and I'm still here.. sailing around, exploring. Feeding tames, maintaining ships. For an empty company essentially of people who find the game boring.. all quit. To complain about a myriad load of other games instead. The point is, sailing isn't boring.. it is.. if nothing happens, but alot does happen and people choose to not doing anything.. that's your fault for not making it interesting. Not the devs.. they've added enough, now they've added more and kiting is a pain to do, don't mind brigs or schooners have forward facing guns, but gallys hit hard.. and soon all you folks wanting a more interesting sailing experience, will have quit and moved on and I'll still be dealing with the interesting stuff they added to make your experience better. Running through a forest is boring.. sailing is boring, flying is boring.. but it's how you get from A to B in most games. What do you want? To make it more interesting? mermaids dragging you off your ship? ships of the damned trying to cut you up? Sharks trying to eat your face off.. there's wrecks to dive for, flotsam to collect.. how else would it be more interesting? Oh right.. you want instant teleports.. faster travel.. basically you want a "i win" button.. that's your answer to it's boring otherwise? And I'm not specifically saying you said this.. but it's the general view in the majority of those agreeing that it's boring, but noone is actually suggesting what would make it more interesting.. if anything, you want it to be even more boring.

I dunno.. made me reverse course and sail into the wind to escape them.. was a red brig at least and my slightly overweight schooner I didn't want to risk.. but yeh, turned out I was looking at my own crewmen superimposed over the brig.. Gave me quite a start tho.

I don't mind loosing the fog of war, although it is really handy for exploration. If they don't add it back, it would be nice to have a visual distance check marker of some kind for islands I've not been to, on map, besides the ????? you get when you sail next to them or the ? in discoveries.. which is an unnecessary extra click.

Thanks for the whine thread, now they added guns to the front of sotd galleons, I have to spend more time repairing my ships. Thanks for that, hope it's more interesting for you now.

Only thing I don't like about 2/3x weekends.. is they end. It's kinda funny, I won't play on a private server if they have 2-3x.. but I like to see it from time to time on the officials. It also means on Monday I need to sail to some more islands, to raise my max potential levels. And the wind is always the wrong way.

Sorry to hear dude, been there got that t shirt as well alas. But you either try to trust people and get ripped off.. or you don't and live a very lonely life.

Changes are one thing.. but stuff that stops me playing, those aren't changes, those are failings. And I've pretty much stopped playing now, only log in to maintain.. soon I'll scuttle the ships and log out for.. ever maybe.

In my book that's an exploit. So I won't do that. I use it all the time to get loot for when there's islands with snakes.. i hate snakes. It would be more useful if it actually went faster with 4 people rowing, but it really doesn't. It might even be more fun, if you could get crewmen to row as well or at least tell the ones you've rescued to sit down.. instead of acting as shark bait.

The worst issue here, isn't so much that it was nerfed, but by how much it was nerfed. They need to stop doing these stupid 15-25 pt changes to weapons etc. Instead, drop it by 2-3% see how it works out over time, up it by 1%.. drop it by 0.5%.. not 25% that's taking the piss. Items are going from fairly useful to utterly useless every other patch. It's getting to the point where: Noone will make refined tools or weapons. Or ships. Because it just won't be worth it. Noone will add hps to characters or use harvesting skill pts.. because a tame is all you need. Noone will tame anything other than a Bear, Elly and Giraffe.. because face it, the rest of the animals are useless. Except maybe the Cow and the Chicken. These are just mostly useless but produce something worth having. Noone cooks or uses food.. except me.. And crew. But they only need veg. It's like buying a variety bag of candy.. but you only like the strawberry flavoured ones.

You might be right.. I jumped at my own shadow.

It could fit on the new cargo docks, instead of docking cargo, we could dock a sloop, plenty of galleons in the ole days used to have a sloop on board as well as ships of the line, for people to be ferried ashore in a little more luxury than a rowing boat. It would certainly be useful for picking up loot from the sotd as well as exploring islands.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1761513407 Cannot move. Can just run on the spot. Jumping free's me from the deck.

Straight CTD's. Stopped at island, was turning ship to anchor. CTD. Logged in, CTD. etc.. It is right at last moment of loading in or when turning camera ingame, like something is overloading and just terminating the program. I've recently updated my video drivers to optimum version.

Did the tames reappear later on? I have a visual glitch where crew and tames don't appear to be on deck, but if i leave ship and return they are all in the correct places.

Excellent video, always wondered if this would work. Problem is dealing with the other 4 ships.. whilst trying to kill each one. Thus most battles are you kiting lines of sotd behind you, broadsides are only for when they spawn all around you or on a gally and you know you won't turn in time. That said, I have actually sank an entire group of sotd, by sitting with sails down and just broadsided them all with large cannons at max range manually firing. 3 of the ships were red. But that really just points out that 22 large cannons is a thing.. and noone wants that incoming. Large cannons are however a very expensive day out.

Exactly my feelings on this. I sail from various islands daily to collect and harvest materials to build better ships. I scrap old ships, sinking them next to my base, then using the diving platform, salvage them and turn them into basic planks, which I then either sell on my shop or put into storages for emergency planks in times of that sinking feeling. I think the sailing period in the game is excellent, I like the spray, the sounds, the look, it reminds me of sailing in my youth, the only thing missing is the smell of the salt air.. but there seems to be plenty of salt air in this forum. People are essentially complaining about grinding, but life is all about grinding, crafting is grinding, harvesting is grinding. Pvp is grinding pve is grinding.. all games are grinding work to get an advantage or the exp to raise in levels. What you're all actually saying is you want a "i win now" button and the rights to pose around in your mythical ships, wearing your mythical armour and weapons, pawning noobs on the beach. And I get that.. but to get to that point.. you need to grind and grinding can be boring. So put on some youtube or other app, play music, rock along to tunes, and get with the grind. It is an inherant part of core gameplay.

well now you've confused me.. first you say it's boring.. then you say it's risky and prone to griefing.. which sounds interesting to me. I also just saw named sotd's.. there's interesting sailing if you want it. As for offline griefing. Actually, it's one of the reasons I don't play persistant world pvp. But, I actually think it should be allowed. Because it's fair, you can grief people offline, so can anyone else. What the devs need to do is introduce active defences, that protect your base or at least do serious damage to anyone attacking you.. oh wait they have already added that. Never mind.. there is no such thing as "offline griefing" in ark or atlas.. you have crewmen who can use cannons etc.. well employ some. Or play pve. In ark you have auto guns that fire at enemies as well as plants.. if you're still getting griefed in pvp.. you aren't doing it right. It actually sounds to me, like every other pvp thread.. which is what this is, you just generalised abit and didn't mention pvp side until 4th thread, but the problem is, most pvpers want their version of the game.. you know, where they only win. Noone else is allowed to have fun in pvp, only the ones who want to change the game into their favour. Well, I hope they don't change the game too much to make it safer for you. Pvp is supposed to be pvp. Any means possible. Don't like it, play pve.

Galleons cannot turn faster.. I can sail loops around a galleon with a schooner. They also have shallower drafts and don't get stuck as often as gallys do. As for running speed.. not really important in a fight with hydra or sotds, ability to dodge fire is tho. Esp since it seems everything just does percentage shots, so it doesn't really matter if you have 6k hull planks for 20k planks.. it still does 5% damage to both.

Just saw a lv 43 sotd called John the Mighty.. special loot? Bottom Left corner of N5 Eu Pve.

The problem is, if people complain that something is something else.. the devs might change it. Making it into something that neither either side likes.. and who will they blame? If I paint a room.. I don't hang around waiting for the paint to dry.. I do something else. If I'm driving I put the radio on or a cd.. I put the kettle on, then leave the room and do something else.. or I make a sandwich etc.. If something is boring.. do something about it. Just don't mess it up for everyone else.

It's just your opinion.. that you find sailing boring. I find it relaxing. I enjoy, sailing exactly as it is.

Nope, but the harpoon gun does, but not out of water.. they could have just made xbows.. that fire in or out.. and not even bothered making the harpoon. But they didn't. I actually feel, in my humble opinion.. that the arbolaster what whatever the stupid word is.. has pretty awful dropoff range, you practically need to be toe to toe to hit anything. Bow is much better overall. But the xbow is cool with it's little dinky magazine.

No, this is exactly, the FACT. You can't find stuff entertaining, now you're blaiming everyone else. Those are the facts. But hell, call me names. You probably think that makes your life interesting. What "you're" actually trying to say. IS you think your opinions are more important than anyone elses. And that only what you say, is fact. Everyone has an opinion. Matter of fact. Facts are opinions. And they change as swiftly. By the way.. did you know water is wet? Is that my opinion.. or a fact?