Amy3

Cool, good luck

Breeding tames is pretty doable solo, you might want some friends around to play the game with but they aren't necessary at all to do breeding

I'm pretty sure it's less insane to have 1200 posts in this forum than it is to have 1300 hours in ATLAS, which is what I got I'm pretty insane though ngl Jat is at GDC and hasn't tweeted all week. Is he promoting Atlas? I kind of doubt it? Is someone else promoting Atlas in his place? No.

The most unacceptable thing about this patch is not that it took 3 months (and counting). It's not that it was announced poorly. It's not that it completely stalled and then murdered any interest in the game. The most unacceptable thing is the blanket of radio silence from the community managers. This patch is already way, way, WAY late and there are major aspects and features, in this patch, that we have never seen and know basically nothing about. Entire features that are entirely just question marks. At this stage in the patch cycle, we should know what's in it. We should have a very solid knowledge of what is happening to the game. We should've been able to tease specific detailed info from either the CMs or the devs themselves, about how specific mechanics will interact together. We should be pretty confident that further major features will not be added to the eventual patch. It is March 23rd, and we have none of this. The blame rests entirely on Grapeshot for it. They don't talk to us basically at all, let alone enough. Say something. Say anything. Did you get moved to working on another game or something.

I don't play pvp anyway, shrug

Asking a game company, for any game, to spend actual resources on "policing" so that they can ensure players don't have too many friends, is a pipe dream. Sorry N3, you have too many friends. Please eliminate three, or be banned from the server. This is stupid on its face.

There was a whole lot of fighting between megas in the week leading up to the wipe announcement, if the pvp server truly just does become "just the Megas" I think they could live with that

No one really knows for sure at this point. Including Grapeshot. Especially Grapeshot.

This is a bad thread, and I won't stay long, I just need to make something very clear here. Eve is a bad game, and attempting to emulate it or take lessons from it would be an outright mistake. Atlas is not like Eve. It also should not be. Thank you.

I don't even play on pvp so my knowledge here is pretty imperfect, but I can pretty easily name a whole bunch of big fights between top 10s on pvp in the final week before the wipe announcement. Someone who actually plays on pvp could probably name more. Did you miss the big Dynasty/CSTG attack on Federation where they were fighting for multiple entire days straight, because that was in that week You're right that Empires is stupid and no one intends to play on it anyway, especially the top 10s, but that's a different topic altogether

yes, often, hope this helps

One of the most telling things about this patch is something that has occurred since the Captain's Log. In both the K12 discord and the L10 discord, I've had a habit for a while now of complaining about Grapeshot's latest announcements, and this time I didn't say anything at all. The "March" Mega-patch, the Captain's Log, all the changes that are coming, neither discord has spoken a word about it in the past couple of days. Most of the members don't even know that information was released, because I didn't do my usual thing of letting them know. So they don't. Even still. Because no one cares. The buzz is truly lost when it comes to this update and probably this game. The PR department, and Grapeshot as a whole too, have majorly dropped the ball and continues to, even right now, to the point where the Atlas reddit just openly insults them now. They messed up.

The overwhelming reaction so far is that no one at all is going to play Empires, including the megas You'll have a lot of land available, pal

PVE didn't have 10 zerg tribes, though. It might've had five. Also the zerg tribes it did have were absolutely minuscule compared to their PVP counterparts PVE players overwhelmingly don't play in that big tribe style. I put over a thousand hours into PVE and my only interactions with big tribes was to say hi to Orion and to tell some idiots in Lotus that their builds were incredibly ugly. I put about a hundred hours into PVP and I knew the name of every big tribe, knew people in most of them, and had interacted with just about all of them. Including the non-English ones. It's not the same.

On PVE, "big tribes" make up a single digit percentage of the playerbase. Not even a high single digit, either. Orion regularly hit #1 for months and at their height only had like, 20 regular dudes.

Also the "NA" server is hosted in Germany anyway

I feel pretty stupid for waiting all day for this Captain's Log when it actually served to -reduce- the amount of information we have about the upcoming patch. This isn't the first time I've felt stupid for being so invested in this game, but this is definitely my stupidest moment.

This Captain's Log is so lacking in actual substantive information that I've really gotta question why it was four days late. The future of Atlas currently has a very serious problem where there are too many unanswered questions and too few concrete answers. And since this Captain's Log actually reduced the number of concrete answers we had, and raised plenty of new questions, it actually makes the current problems worse, not better.

I can understand the database changes that are going to be happening that will necessitate a fullwipe. Moving islands, adding islands, re-shuffling everything, sure. But I think that you, the developers, have done some bad design that makes wiping the game very very punishing to newer players and small groups, such that a lot of the solo players and small groups that have been clamoring for a wipe do not fully understand what is going to happen. I am not in any way joking or exaggerating when I say it's going to be very possible for a solo player, who understands the secrets of this game, to be level-capped with a fully-built galleon by the end of day 1. It is possible. I will be doing it. Without exploiting. Meanwhile, the average solo player or even small group will not be able to get things done anywhere near that quickly, because of the small details and tricks and secrets in this game that they are not aware of. And your average newbie will be lucky to hit level 51 by the end of the first month, something most experienced players won't have any trouble at all doing within the first day. I guess what I'm saying is that this game rewards clever experimentation almost too much, because when it comes to gather rates and such the highs are too high. There are still mindblowing, game-affecting secrets I am still learning even at 1177 hours in this game. I will give the developers quite a lot of credit though for making a system that rewards curiosity this much.

I'm curious what I can get my galleon farm time down to with 6x anarchy mode My last attempt during 2x went from empty box to full-galleon in 122 minutes, and I made a number of errors and was also missing a couple of important gathering buffs This will inform me on how much time I'll need to farm for on day-one post-wipe to get a galleon made before day-one ends

o ok well like I said, pve has had tropical land claims available for weeks, what's stopping you now

if you manage to get that pvp tropical land you want (pve has had tropical land claims available for weeks, so I assume you aren't pve), then you get to be the crybaby next wipe

Yeah I'm not really complaining about entertainment, I do have 1200 hours in this game and if the game became worthless tomorrow I'd still consider my money well spent Also my friend on pve who did get banned did actually buy the game again, so you're not wrong though to be fair, that friend who did re-buy the game has now quit the game due to the imminent wipe, along with all of my other pve friends, I am the only one left out of hundreds when you include the K12 discord and the various trade discords

hey Grapeshot, can you do one more 2x weekend before the servers die last weekend I was able to solo-farm 125k fiber, 125k wood, 125k thatch, 1200 hide, 3000 metal (everything to build a galleon) in 122 minutes, but if you let me run another 2x test I think I can get it down to 90 minutes instead tia

pve has plenty of land to live, right now at this very moment. I found land the other day that had no flags at all, 10 minutes and I had it, no declaim necessary pve is already in a situation though where it has more islands than players, and this wipe is only going to make that worse, so this lawless-everywhere idea is totally unnecessary and also allows a shitload of griefing