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pve does not need or benefit from a wipe, though even if you backtrack on it now the mere threat of it has already caused my various partners via various trade discords to all quit the game en-masse and they will not be back regardless of whether you wipe or not wipes also very much do not benefit small groups or solo players, because these are the players most likely to not know the various tricks that exist to capitalize on others' mistakes, and those mistakes can be punished extremely severely even on pve, and will be even easier to do with the planned changes

You don't? guess you're joe newbie, then

The number of really extremely vicious and mean things I can do to pubbie idiots in this new system, including on pve, is much higher than the previous system I'm not really one to constantly do vicious and mean things, but just working out the concepts in my brain for a couple hours I've already discovered lots of possibilities So that means when the first day ends, and I am level 51 with a full galleon ready to go, I can then spend the remaining every other day torturing the new players. Almost none of the veterans are returning post-wipe, so that leaves me, who knows how to stack 7+ gathering buffs at the same time, versus Joe Newbie who doesn't know what a gathering buff is. How do you intend to balance resource costs for structure decay when I can outfarm Joe Newbie easily more than 100 to 1? I'm not even exploiting when I do this

The last tip I'll give you for free, Grapeshot, is that build-anywhere-pve is going to make long-distance big boat travel basically unviable

Also, in addition to knowing precisely how to be level 51 + have a fully-built galleon by the end of day one, completely solo, I'm going to have a lot more space to do that with since exactly 0 of my current pve friends and trade partners intend to play this game again after the wipe NA PVE was already down to 300 players sometimes and getting land was super easy because you'd just pick through the bones of the thousands of players that quit, but with a full game wipe and no one returning I can probably just own the whole damn planet, more islands and all

wipe all you want, I know how to be max leveled with a fully-built galleon by the end of day one with no exploits, completely solo, and most players don't every time you wipe the game I'll just win more, because the secrets and tricks I've learned from 1200 hours in this game EXTEND the lead I have over the average player, not flatten it I am not the only person who can do this, so each time you wipe the game you're just crushing your playerbase that much more and also not really resetting anything at all

Oh also absolute lmao at everyone calling the disgustingly overpowered jack-of-all-trades bear "fine"

I guess my advice to a designer would be to remember that different players find different niches for things. I use my bull every single day for a couple of very specific purposes which it is very good at, and most players think bulls are stupid trash (and they are quite wrong). I'm also laughing pretty good at the whole raft of suggestions in this thread for things that already actually exist in the game. I think introducing a thatch animal is probably a good idea, but watch the power creep on it. No thatch animal should be able to match the raw harvesting of a legendary or mythic pickaxe with four different gathering buffs rolling, yet despite that it still could be good for the game for there to be an animal decent at thatch. Kind of like how elephants are pretty strong at wood gathering but if legendary/mythic hatchets were actually gettable, gathering wood would also be an on-foot thing due to the gathering buffs you can stack on-foot but not on an ele.

Started the day to find my bear killed by the rollback - I logged out with it safe, the rollback put it back outside my house, where it died Ending the day with the game completely unavailable for the whole evening, no one in my entire alliance has been able to log in for almost 3 solid hours Day's a bit shit, I guess

Someone told me today the west side of the map is desperate for gems. Yall need to come trade with me, I give gems away I don't sail and I don't travel, but if you come around my island there are gems to be had Oh, edit: I am no longer taking tamed animals, someone brought me my dream horse today

If you wanna negotiate a trade or something before you even come here, discord me at Dys#4702 Safe travels

Hi! I love to trade K12 is usually in need of salt, sugarcane, metals that are not silver, and especially especially honey. I am happy to trade you an entire planet of gems (ruby) for a solid supply of honey and salt I have a lot more than gems, though. I also have thousands upon thousands upon thousands of alloy (silver), metal (silver), organic paste, gunpowder, crystal (calcite), and I guess also wood (softwood) or other things if it comes to that. I also trade in gold coins, happy to take them and I have a few thousand to trade with myself. If you do come, please bring stuff to trade! K12 gets dozens of people every single day who come in naked on an empty raft asking for wheat and then they get confused when we ask what they brought to trade for it. I would also pay very bigly for a tamed horse or elephant. You won't be disappointed. I live in K12 on the north island, Wayline Isle. K12 is lawless and you do not have to deal with claims garbage here. Build wherever you want, do whatever you want. K12 is my home and the home of some really other cool people too. Absolutely absolutely absolutely please do come and trade. I've sold 6000 organic paste to passing travelers in the last 24 hours alone, you could be next.

Not if I can kill snakes with it !

Wait what the heck is an explosive barrel Can I kill snakes with it Now I'm interested

Heck yeah we do, get the link from one of us in game when it's back

Oh hi That big island is terrible and I hate it, I hate it a lot If you live in K12 you should join the K12 discord

wow that's not creepy or anything

If you're gonna ask "why do you gather gems when you have 33 thousand of them" the answer is because hitting gems gives decent xp fair question, though

Is there anything I can actually do with these things, not really anyone wants them I'm fortunate enough to live in an area where gems are used to make alloy, but that hasn't used up a lot

Hi, here's my wardrobe for today Your turn