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I am just stating the legal reality that most media is licensed and not owned. If that were not the case I would be able to use Frank Zappa's "Why does it hurt when I pee?" as a YouTube video theme song without worrying about being taken down by a Copyright claim.

Wrong. You do NOT own the game. you just own a license that allows you access to it. What do you own after the last server is reformatted?

Sometimes the positive reinforcement very rare and is buried in so much hatred and BS that the maze-runner gives up looking for it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8IVI0sZ6F8 Windows Insiders can now start the Atlas game! There are still problems, at least for me... I get booted by BattlEye because of a "Corrupted Memory #0" message. As a past PC tech I have maintained and updated all of my System Diagnostic software, including several RAM tests, None of which can find any memory problems on my system. A bit of searching on Google shows this issue to be one of many recurring problems with BattlEye going back to 2012, in multiple games including PUBG, DayZ and many others. I am surprised that anybody can implement BattlEye if they've Googled the past history of problems with this "Utility".

XP is probably a logarithmic progression. This is very common in RPGs and goes back at least to original Pen & Paper D&D. Of course in D&D you also have a difficulty progression as well, so higher difficulty tasks result in more XP awarded. I haven't experienced enough Atlas to know if that's the case here.

Wait... You don't think he's from the East Coast do you? Near Maryland...

If you don't provide adequate evidence and submit the complaint through proper channels you can demand bans until you are blue in the face. If they ban someone who doesn't deserve it then they, not you, may be liable in a lawsuit... Maybe not in your location but we all can't be expert in every countries' legal system. P.S. Your post was 7 hours old when I posted this. Are you still being attacked? Forum threads don't go away when the action stops.

This video, and possibly the "Early Access" video mentioned within, should be set up to auto-play on Steam every time the "Buy" button is pressed on an Early Access game.

Preach it, Sibling! While I was more a corporate tester for Microsoft products since the late 90s, I also have my share of tested games... I tested Age of Empires (Microsoft) since the first version. I tested Rift in the days when the test sessions ran for a weekend or at most a week before the servers were shut down for 2 weeks to a month and wiped and updated before the next beta session. I was briefly involved with Subnautica... I bought it about a month before public release. I'm testing Stationeers and Citadel currently, and I was just accepted for another closed beta that I'm not going to name... There may be an NDA involved.

Not in my experience. As a different kind of Administrator (Corporate Network) for almost 20 years I was not allowed to be "buttonholed" (verbally asked) to fix something without a ticket to bill my time and any required parts or outside service calls against. Able? Yes. Have enough time to be interrupted from scheduled tasks? Probably not. Allowed to by the Bean Counters tasked with keeping the department within budget? I'm laughing so hard I may crap myself

That's the impression I get from the type of complaints I read here. While I haven't seen any purely asinine complaints yet ("Why is this object green instead of red?") There are a lot of things that would've been answered had the complainer just read the game's Steam page before clicking "Buy".

I would assume multiple wipes before release. The Devs said in the livestream that the claims system is going to be rewritten from the ground up. Removing the old and installing the new seems likely to make a wipe desirable. A map change may cause a wipe. but if it only affected one grid maybe not. Basically it depends on which game systems are being changed and if the changes can be seamlessly implemented.

So, how many items do you buy from the "As seen on TV" racks in the local drug/variety store that have no chance of delivering what they promise? I never do. I have never been "paid" for alpha testing. Microsoft used to give us release copies of the software after the testing was over (hence I never bought Windows after Vista, and I may have been given my copy of XP as I was in charge of company rollouts to 1000+ workstations and servers at the time).., They once gave me a netbook with Windows7 Pro installed because my name was drawn from a list of reported bugs. Beta testing only gives what I would call "Early Early Access"... You still have to buy the game at release.

Funny thing... That's how a Sextant works in real life. It doesn't use the sun or moon, but you use 3 well known stars to plot your position. You also need a good chronometer, as the calculation tables need the correct time and date to be accurate.

Do we know the actual URL or IP address of the game portal? If we can get that at the very least we could run a Traceroute to see if there are other networks between us and the game slowing things down. At the very least, if I have issues when I can log back in (BattlEye) I can fire up Wireshark and record the entire logon protocol to analyze where any delays are coming from.

As someone who has worked in a ticket based service industry (IT) take it from me... You can't bill time against a forum post, or in my old situation, a verbal request. There needs to be a ticket.

It's also up to the players to submit "official" bug reports AND proof, if possible. If an issue isn't in the tracking system it won't be prioritized to be fixed. Devs are under no obligation to cruise the forums, which is a monumental waste of time that could be better used doing something else, like developing. I can personally spend all day here because I am nearly retired AND disabled... Got nothing better to do.

When I was able to log in (darn you, BattlEye!) I was running perfectly fine with a GTX1060-6GB card. My laptop can at least start Atlas because it's not on a windows Insider build... It's jerky and laggy but I blame that on the current configuration... I need more ram. I've got 8GB and an AMD 2500u in it... 4 core 8 thread AND 8 Vega cores running at 2Ghz-3.5GHz. The problem is that the "GPU" needs video ram, and the Vega cores can appropriate up to half of all System ram so I'm trying to run on about 3GB for the game (about 1GB for the OS). At least a 16GB upgrade would give me 8GB each for video and for the game, and it looks like ram is finally dropping in price

Sometimes I get the feeling that users aren't submitting evidence that proves the claim, like timestamped videos showing the incidents occurring. No Admin worthy of the title would act based on a complaint on a forum without proof. If you can't prove it, it didn't happen.

Succinctly stated! That's not PvP, that's "Coward vs Offline Player"

Isn't GS owned by a Chinese company? I thought I read that somewhere...

I'm assuming that there will be sky islands at some point in the future since the Lore says the current Islands are the remains of a continent in the sky that broke apart and crashed into the sea ages ago... All it will take is rediscovering some of the tech and "magic" from the golden age to be rediscovered. Hence Airships. Where the WWI tank and WWII Training Plane from the Devkit fit in, I have no idea...

You'll also want to check the network connection between your system and Atlas. It's possible that some issue at one of the ISPs between you is causing slowdowns.

Just because your system can render anything doesn't mean the server/software can generate scenes fast enough...

For me, the potential thing that will make the game more interesting would be the straightening out of BattlEye so I can actually log in and play again