Willard

None of you guys know exact parameters of this new feature but you know exactly how it will be exploited... This doomsaying is exactly why they should not announce new features more than a week ago.

Truth is bad wind always discourages me from getting rare material, farming at golden ruins etc. Its just not fun to sail 25 minutes across 1 sector even while zigzagging. Together with disfunction of better speed sails its a bit annoying. Maybe they should add a minimum sail speed what you reach even while going against the wind. Ofc its not realistic but its a game right? Not everything in real life is what you enjoy.

You can pretty much oneshot those players when they are trying to reach you. Or your co-raiders.

You are right, I don't. Just doesn't seem to me such a gamebreaking thing as you refer. 99% people didn't even know it was a thing (including me after 700 hours in game). Even if I know I would probably not use it. I would be too scared to lose NPCs during battle with constant switching which would leave me defenseless. Edit: I know about N button ofc but I really don't know how to switch crew fast from one sidr to the other side of the ship. And even that N button is a bit risky during a battle rn because NPCs could fall down the ship etc.

Well there is not that way anymore obviously. And it does not have to be a bug but simply change they wanted to make. Otherwise "additional crew" stat on boats would be totally useless.

So basically you want to change it so it suits your playstyle, eeergh .... dunno what to say honestly.

The game is unplayable because of this? I guess like 99% players don't do this, they just put NPCs to all cannons on the ship. Isn't that delay because of reloading cannons? Maybe they didn't want players do this and patched it, who knows.

Blackjacks are OP, liquid flame on the other hand is the only defence against tames. If you remove blackjacks AND liquid flame you won't be able to kill any tames and it will lead to ARK - only tames will matter in PvP. Outside of liquid flame tames don't take much dmg ...

As Hurricane said, maps can be soloed with a bear (but its faster with a second person on a swivel gun), hydra powestones too (u can solo kill hydra without any problems with a ship cannons on your back). Dragon is a bit problematic solo but with a group of 5 u should not have any problems. Sotd fleets totally soloable with 4-5 ship cannons on the back of the ship (putting some levels into dmg really speeds up the process). I do it very often and always solo (and Im talking about red fleets on golden ruins). The only thing you will probably struggle is to kill Kraken with 5 people. It is possible but definitely hard. Try to join some alliance for it or go leech him (park your ship right behind a barrier). About ship fight - u need about 2-3 people on a ship and you are 5. You can solo fight too but its problematic with repairs then especially on a gally.

You know how many parameters servers have? Have you ever tried to run ARK server? Thats 1 problem - large amount of parameters which you would have to filter. Second problem - private servers are hosted by private providers. How can Grapeshot extract data from private servers which are not in their possesion? They simply can't. These datas are saved on private servers and they have no access to them. Moreover devs want people to play on official servers, not unofficial.

It's been nearly 5 months, not 6, not 7. If you compare game state back then and now its completely different. You only complain, complain and complain. Why are you even posting on forums of a game you don't play anymore? Keep your toxic posts for yourself.

They don't announce publicly who they ban as you can see here on this topic. How do you know they didn't ban certain players from megas?

Ok, we will try to figure it out. What level were you before you got banned?

And those changes are in favor of megacompanies how? How are lawless animals, sotds levels etc. connected to big companies? solo players can't claim an island? What a surprise man, what a surprise. Are you sure you understand landlord/tenant system which is in this game from the very beginning? Do you understand as a solo player you can live on someone elses island without paying any taxes because they are additive in PvE? Im sorry man but you completely lack knowledge.

Hehe, Im playing on EU PvP, don´t worry Still very much alive. And u know what? Im enjoying PvP much more now without offline raiding (which you somehow consider "PvP"). Noone was interested in Empires server with offline bullshit.

Game is pretty alive

Obviously they have taken actions against exploiters. There is a topic about account bound ban asking why he got banned because he never used any third party programs

Are you sure you haven't exploited anything in the game? Guilottine exploit, duping etc.

If you are not able to maintain your island/crews/defensives without double rates then don't have such amount of them. Double rates should be smt rare, not smt what you should depend on.

Can you specify some of these changes for megatribes and streamers? I see only 1 giod for big tribes and it was 75 company limit instead of 50.

I don't want to dissapoint you but I don't think filters for unofficial servers are their priority moreover you don't have any filters in ARK so I doubt it will ever be here. Check battlemetrics if you want info about servers.

How are u locked up? Other things - losing your stuff at freeport while being killed, killed by 5 pigs, that´s pretty much problem with your ability to play the game, not game itself

Have you considered talking to him about removing those walls? I don´t think changing the system because of 0,5% idiots in this game is a way to go ...

Ye max sail velocity bonus does not work.

It will be a separate server.