Dingiva

No, no, no! Never ever remove the need to feed NPC´s. That´d be contra productive.
But i´d support changes on the silo, so you could put every food source into the silo. Noone can explain to me why real people would prefer berries over a steak.

How about a lan-party? You can host a server from your computer anyways.

Would be out of balance, since sloops cant have large sails. So, a worse ship - if you want to call a raft like that - with a larger sail than a sloop would be pretty silly. But yeah, i´d appreciate additional types of ships. The meta is kinda broken on that. Briggs arent totally useless, but why go for it if you can have a schooner...

On 12/3/2019 at 1:31 AM, WhiskeyBarrel said:

Green anchored ships shouldn't be sinkable. Just returned a few days ago and lost 2 ships to this in 2 days while offline. Not going to build a third. Will check the game out again if this gets fixed. I'm fine with them getting my loot but too time consuming to rebuild the ships.

Im pretty sure you dont have proof? From what you wrote on another thread, you dont have a claimed island. Even if you anchor your ship at an island that has a peace timer running, the owners of the island can sink you. The owners of the island can even attack you during peace timer.
That doesnt need to get fixed, you just need to understand the game mechanics. You cant just park your ship on a random spot that has a peace timer, and hope nothing happens. Learn the basic mechanics of the game, get in contact with other players, join a company or alliance. It will make your game experience way better.
If you refuse to do so, try out the singleplayer mode of Atlas.

You can determine if your ships are safe if they have a green achor symbol. Check the top right part of your screen. When you see your island info there, you´re withing the safety area around your claim flag.

For the rest: sounds weird. at least, it sounds as if youre not playing on official pvp server so far, since even ship cannons wouldnt be able to destroy structures during peace timer.

GM´s just need to spectate Hacienda players. They do this stuff every single day. They call that "pvp"

On 12/5/2019 at 12:40 AM, WhiskeyBarrel said:

You wouldn't be safe. All your gear and items on your ship would still be at risk but I suggest not being able to lose your ship in ~10 mins when it's green anchored. I know it's prob hard to understand if your a moms house basement dweller, but ppl have lives and losing your ship that takes a day to rebuild every time you have to unexpectedly step out for a bit WILL drive away the pop again. Your supporting/promoting design flaws that will drive this game under, again.

Oh yeah, it always comes down to that. Its basically a "everyone who plays more than me has no life, no friends, and lives with his mommy"-discussion. Like in every other PvP game. Must be hurting if people who have a full time job, several pets, wife and kids and several other hobbies still manage to be better than you, eh?
You need to log off while going for discoveries, anchoring in dangerous grids? Plan your trip better. And dont tell me that what i wrote before is short sighted. Since you dont even realize that theres people from different timezones, players that work on nightshifts and therefore have other time frames where they can play. For you, they are basement dwellers, since they can harm you when you are offline.

What you want is something that protects you, but in the same situation, punishes other players. I play in a company with about 50 players. We all know each other from playing different games together.
Players like you will never be able to raid us, or sink our ships. The only chance you have is when we are offline. Guess what? The protection would affect us as well. When you are online, we could grief you anytime. Each day. As long as we want. And you wouldnt have a single chance to fight back. By how the system works for now, you could. While we are offline. It takes you a day to rebuild your ship? Waddafack? Takes me about 30 mins to farm myself a freaking ramshackle sloop, which is totally enough to travel several grids.

Guess what would happen if such an offline protection would work: Players would just run, making sure they have some time buffer, then log off - et voila, they cant be attacked anymore. Even if someone is so freaking bad at this game that he cant manage to farm himself a sloop real fast, he has the same possibilities as every other player: Spawn on lawless islands. Run around, claim random ships. I do this whenever i come by ships that seem to be abandoned. I have so many ships where i could spawn, since all i needed to do was to build a bed on claimed ships.
There is freaking x2/x3 farming events every weekend. Pretty easy to farm enough within 2 hours to have all the mats for at least one ship stashed in a storage box, just for the case of emergency.

You cant handle that? You cant farm that much? You cant find ingame-friends? You cant manage to secure your ship?

So, the game isnt made for you, i guess.

On 11/29/2019 at 5:00 AM, Murillo said:

So, got my ship destroyed while I was offline. I'm sad that I have to grind for 8 hours to build a ship only to wake up to see it destroyed.

 

I want a answer from de devs about what they will do about this or if they'll do anything at all. Please answer me about your vision about this problem sonI can decide wether or not i'll continue to play this game.

 

Thank you.

1. If that happened in lawless region: Your fault. Lawless has no peace timer, and isnt supposed to be your forever home.
2. If that happened on a claimed island: Your fault. Combat time is 9 hrs a day. You can easily make friends who have overlapping peace timers to ask if you can park your boat there.

On 11/28/2019 at 1:04 PM, znasser said:

i dont know what was funnier, if the armored and armed npc thing, or  the i'm so fucking good with the sword that the only thing stopping me from taking over your unskilled pricks boats is your op swivels 

Thats exactly what this thread is about.
"im teh skilled one in here! the only thing that staahps me from being super1337 is swivooools!"

Imagine ship fight and boarding meta, if every player has to steer AND defend his ship on his own, without any help. He didnt even waste a single thought about that. Of course, the guy on the ship could bring other players to help him. But so does the attacker. Bring more players, kill swivels, profit.

2 hours ago, Leapdave said:

So you're a bigger company or your members do nothing else... you clearly think those 2 things should be required in order to play

Not sure if you are trying to agree with me but this is a great point. A well defended island that can't be taken in 7 hours *also* can't be taken in 9 hours, so a war token or many consecutive days would be required

Totally BS.
Our members play. And our war period is set to the average freetime in our country in the afternoon. We have 1 guy working on different shifts, who is only able to play in the late evening. So he generally covers the last 2 or 3 hours of the war time frame. Just because he likes to play this game. Not a single of our members is forced to play. Everyone logs in when he wants to. And if that means we have 1 or 2 hours where noone is protecting our base - so be it.

Just do the maths and you will realize that even if your company only has 7 active players, it can easily happen that at least 4 are online during the whole war period. Not the same 4 people for 9 hours.
 

2 hours ago, Leapdave said:

... because it's not reasonable to cover the whole 9 hours for me. It sounds like you agree with me. 7 hours would be coverable for me. Thanks for the support

Fixed it for you.

Its just not reasonable for you. And thats why you want a shorter period of time where you can be raided. Bad news: You´re not the core of the playerbase. You´re just one player out of thousands. So dont transfer your own playstyle/wishes/possibilities to all players.
Get over it. If you cant cover the whole time frame with your company - thats your own problem. Find more members or allies that help you to protect your island. Or refuse to do so. Its your free choice.
But dont ask anyone to play like you want. If you invest less time/are willing to invest less time than other players/companies, dont ask to be able to afford the same as they do. We have more active members than you do? Fine. Its because we are more active, and have more buddies actually playing this game. Noone has the right to punish us for this fact.

You´ve already lost this discussion when you implied that everyone who invests more time into this game must be unemployed. Just because this is the major argument whenever it comes to discussions about specific game mechanics that are too hard for some people:

Player A: "I cant kill XY, it should be nerfed, its has too much armor!"
Rest of players: "Dude, just try different tactics. With some skill, you can easily kill XY!"
Player A: "Sorry, but I just play for fun! I have a job!"

You´re Player A, obviously.

On 4/28/2019 at 9:10 AM, ragnar cook said:

Lots of talk about megas raiding ppl but they never say what mega.

Same here.

Heard so many things about those bad, bad, zerging Megas. Never seen them. At least, I´ve never seen them in such a large number, that a 20 man-company, acutally using their brains and having some skill, would have been able to defeat them. At least, defeat them for a while.

Pro Tip: An alliance of 3 20-man-companies can easily fight a 75-man-tribe.

The truth is: People in such 3-5 man-companies talk about alliance and stuff, but they dont do it. They use the alliance feature ingame, but they just use it as a chat and for trading, nothing else. If alliance members are attacked, they dont help, they keep doing their stuff. And another truth: a 20 man-tribe that gets ganked by a 50 man-tribe doesnt care about unfair balances while attacking a duo or trio. They dont ask "how many are in your company?" before they attack. They attack because they actually know that their enemy cant defeat them due to larger numbers.

But then, the 20 man-tribe comes to the forums and cries about megas. Thats so funny.

And hell, yeah: Of course, its the same old story that you´ll encounter on every game: "If smaller companies get supported, there will be so many new players"... yeah, ask yourself, why those players dont already play and join up your small companie? Because they dont fking exist.
And the small amount of players that would join  just wants to do their own stuff, playing solo, and being Jack Sparrow.

On 5/1/2019 at 10:55 PM, Leapdave said:

Combat phase is too long. It should be 6 or 7 hours. There is value in making a game playable for people who do other things too

A very average person with a job can not be available for 9 hours straight. A company all based in the same country (obviously USA) should not be expected to be online for that long. This is assuming the point of peace phase is to prevent offline raiding. A company should also not be required to recruit people from multiple companies in order to cover the combat time slot

Obviously my island was raided last night for a couple of hours after we went to bed (because we are productive members of society) and all of our ships were destroyed. The alternative of combat phase starting 3 hours before we would be home in the afternoon is not really any better

Sure, it's pvp mode but fighting npc crew and anchored ships is not pvp. There is no npc setup that can stop just a few players from destroying *at least* all of your ships even for a couple of hours

So, its the neverending, 30 years old myth again, that only unemployed people can achieve something?
We are all affected by the same mechanics. Our company manages to have solely members that have a job (productive member of the society blablabla), and still, during war period, theres always at least 4 or 5 people online. Not for the full period, but once someone logs out, another member might log in.

Seriously, its always the same story, about "i have a job" and stuff. Its boring.

Bulletthing is just trolling. Regarding his posts in the forums since EA release, i highly doubt he even managed to build a 1x1 on his own.

Fun fact:

10/10 Atlas players are some pvp superheroes from Ark.

You´re just a good player, if the majority of the playerbase on a server knows your name. Well, never heard of this guy, except on the forums. Guess why.

2 hours ago, Renegado company said:

No one responses here, I’m here from last 2 days trying to find the FOY and I arrive to de locations but I don’t know hoy to find the cave 

No wonder, since there is another topic. The FOY is on the same location on every server, but this dude just wanted to create new threads, which are not used by players.

Players ideas will always help to improve a game during early access.

I wish there was a suggestions forum for those ideas.

Oh, wait...

Its funny how all the "playerbase" says the game is dead already and blablabla, and they still come back to the forums every day. Being pissed off by a game, but still logging in every day and/or visiting the forums on a regular basis is some kind of retarded.

2 minutes ago, KORBATRON said:

I know because its an irl friend and he told me what it was. He was leader also. And i was out of state came back and got banned 2 days later. Also im trying to see exactly what it was but haven't got an answer from anyone but he mentioned the sign.

In that case, you should charge him the money you paid for Atlas.

You were in a company of 3. So no random mass company. You know that you all got banned for a sign. So you must have known about the text, right? If you were admin of the company, you could have kicked the guy. If you were just a member, you could have left the company.
And dont forget about the possibility that they also checked chatlogs and stuff.

6 minutes ago, TheSzerdi said:

I'm seriously considering buying a second account solely to infiltrate your company. 

Thats what makes you a butthurt little boy who cant get over something that someone wrote on the internet.

Maybe try out some singleplayer games?

This is fking early access! Stop making the same QQ-threads and start using the freaking suggestions forums. They are made to make - guess what? SUGGESTIONS!
Feel free to post there.

Dont come here, cry and shout "I dont like that! Change it, so it pleases me!"

4 hours ago, Scorpionshawn said:

There is so much i want to love about this game I even might have been the first post saying "I would pay a 15 month sub fee" Every time i turn around you guys are breaking the immersion, destroying the fun, making it impossible for any all or solo players. I have been a gamer longer than most of the people playing alive. I dont want to hear the its a early access. I GET IT!!! Maybe you all should get it and start listening to the players before this game ends up like DARK AND LIGHT. Red Dead 2 and Fall out 76 all busting out because of a lack of listing to the players.

BTW born in 1972 when pong was released

had the first gaming system, had the first Atari, the first in my school to beat Donkey Kong on colecovision, First nintendo that came with robot and gun for duck hunt, beat metriod. First play station and the EDO system!  Im a life long gamer 14 years on wow! Ark from the first EA and almost 4k hours into over 300 hours into this game.

 

Born in 1970. Started on a Schneider CPC 464, had an Atari, learned to code in Basic on a Commodore 64, had an Amiga 500, Amiga 500+ and so on.
And what you write is BS.
You are not "the players".

This is a survival game. And a PvP game. If you dont like to get ganked in PvP, simply dont play on a PvP server.
So, why would I, as a PvP-player, attack a raft? Because its PvP. I dont have to farm stuff, since other players farm stuff for me. Why should i leave him, making it possible for him to grow up until he is strong enough to attach ME?

I know, its hard to lose. But get used to it.

And mystically, only the defenders get kicked and have lag. Yeah. Technically completely legit. NOT.
Even if i wasnt a telecommunications engineer, working in the broadband business, i wouldnt believe that BS.

And nobody even wonders why the defenders cant reload their cannons, while the attackers can? Its simple: they cant. Lag is lag. If the server has lag issues, every player on that server is affected.
If only a part of the players is affected, its not a server issue, but an issue related to someones personal connection.

To be honest, i cant remember a single MMO that had south american servers. counterstrike and stuff, and community servers dont count.
Ive seen a chart about the peak of players during the last weeks. The peak was around ~90k. Assuming that all of them were from south america, and regarding the map size, you´d have, the south american players wouldnt even be able to populate the whole map. In addition, the timezones would leave some south american players without any other players to interact with.

Somehow, im sure that it is all about the chinese, only.

1) There is no "mysterious" symbols in player names. Chinese, Phillipine, Japanese, Kyrillic, polish, spanish, portugese, even some german letters arent correctly displayed. Its not something mysterious, its the simple fact that theres more than just the typical, english letters around the world.
2) So, youre asking to be fully protected while being offline? In a multiplayer game? Why? Arent people who life in a different timezone/country allowed to attack you, just because you dont play at the moment? Then do it! Protect your ships in pens, hire NPCs, build cannon towers and swivel guns, all manned with NPCs.

But stop asking to change game mechanics because you dont want to/cant use those that are already given to you.

2 hours ago, Anthraxian said:

  NA PVE Server, region M8. Agroed a ghost ship onto my galleon and stripped it of its resources. Company name "Dendroapis Polylepis." Individuals involved Alice Wei, Dub Tang, Pathfinder G. Ban these scumbags. Altas is deleting my steam posts - they do not want to admit this. Great game ruined by uncaring devs.

Ghost ships dont attack anchored ships, nor do they come close to beaches.
So, you did something wrong.

And sorry: But i think youre not special enough that someone would delete your steam posts. There is tons of bad reviews about Atlas on Steam, and you really think that they delete YOUR posts, instead of the mass of other bad posts? Seriously. Grow up.