Willard

It was well known you will have tames in this game even before release. What are u complaining about now?

Im not attached to our tames. It´s just not worth to me. Tell me when u see people doing this in ship battles.

I have my battle brig on about 8-9k/17k weight because I want it to be fast. According to you I will take my tames and risk loosing them because I can have like 800 weight less right? No way man, no way Im gonna risk to lose tames like this.

Guess u are talking about PvE servers right? Because u can´t risk something like that in PvP.

And how is this "enabling" weight exploit? Why would you load tames just to provide a little bonus resources? Do u think people will start loading elephants on the deck so they have 25% weight reduction on wood? It´s 1 more crew AND u risk losing it if someone attacks you.

How are they enabling weight exploit now?

lol. How many megatribes don´t have anyone online during "offline" hours? Offline raiding is a problem for smaller companies which don´t have people online during night. Not for a fuckin 400 member megatribe which has 30 people online even during night. Stop acting like this is helping megatribes somehow. If u want to fight megatribe just put together alliance and strike them all together. Stop trying to fight alone against megacompany and pretend like it should be possible. Offline raiding hurts smaller tribes much much much more than megatribes. Megas really don´t care if u destroy 15 of their ships. They will have them back in a day.

So you as a small company can´t tame like 20 animals during 2x weekend? 1 person can do that ...

You will always be behind megacompanies. It doesn´t matter if u start somewhere else. There won´t be any new official servers.

It is a response to your post, not op. Thats why I quoted you. But ye, i agree puckles do well against flame arrows griefers. But nothing will stop cannon bear griefer.

Puckles can be destroyed by cannon bears pretty easily.

There is no way how to defend yourself while offline. No defensives can protect your ships. Learn the game mechanics before u go offline grief someone again

Wow, its actually nice idea m8. It would totally help to solve this offline bullshit.

Shit happens man. Like in ARK. It a 10 minutes tame with those rates.

This would lead to this: I play normally in a big company. I buy secondary account and start a new character and create new company. Big company builds 30 boats. Because they use onle 10 of them, they will let me with my alt to reclaim all the ships they don't need. I will have 20 boats in my harbor and I will go offline. Big company has 20 ships in my harbor which they can claim whenever they need and they are protected with 90% resistance. But I agree with you that ships/bases need some form of offline protection. Not complete immunity, but protection. Otherwise Atlas dies in a month. People don't want to lose everything everytime they logout without being able to do anything against it (because of lack of defensives in game).

Probably someone salvaged that instead of you.

No, we are not. In Atlas there is nothing you can do about it with current state of the game. Thats the problem. Puckles/swivels/cannons are all useless. Even balistas are useless because NPCs don't register tames/players on full range which means cannon bear can shoot while balistas don't. There is no way currently.

Right the opposite m8. I am actually the one who wants some kind of offline protection. Read that post I was reacting to. It was writen by someone who thinks this offline bullshit is completely fine. It´s not.

1) 20 ships for a 120 member tribe really isn´t a lot, is it? 2) This isn´t about tribe size at all. Even alpha tribes are griefed like this because there is no offline protection. Once you are offline your ships are easy target no matter what. That has to change or game population simply dies. We were griefed by !2! people with 1 cannon bear because we were offline. 3) You seem to misunderstand what Sandbox MMO means my friend. 4) 120 member company isn´t supposed to have land? Are u real? You know even mega-companies have problems with offline griefers? IVANARMY for instance keeps losing entire fleers by random offline griefers. Stop pretending this state of the game is ok man, just stop. If u care about this game, it´s developement and it´s population, just stop.

And still the only thing which makes me think about leaving the game is the lack of defensives against offline raiding. And I've played against hackers too. Bugs and exploits will be fixed.

Nope.

Offline raiding will be the end of this game. People will stop playing without ways to defend their offline base. Simple as that.

Labatts this game is early access, ofc people suppose to change game mechanics according to their point of view. Thats why it's early access and that why they need feedback for people. Currently 9 out of 10 people hate the fact there is no offline protection in any form (im not talking about complete immunity) like resistances to structures, ships, NPCs replacing planks automatically while being on anchored ships, reducing range on cannons while being on the cart behind the animal so puckle guns are actually usable as defensive against offline raiding etc. Developers need to come with some form of offline protection, otherwise population will shrink quickly and only those who play during nights will stay and eventually stop playing too becausr they won't have anyone to play against on such a big map.

It's doesn't have to be "noraid" times. Some sort of offline resistance buff to structures/anchored ships would be enought. So it doesn't take 5 cannon balls to sink your ship while you are offline.