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I'm fine with the time aspect for waiting...but it should not require you to hold the hands of your tames through the entire process. If you breed animals in the same climate they can spawn in than none of the weather should effect them for breeding or maturation of the baby. The Baby should not need to fed until it matures, that should be taken care of by its parents. The only thing players should need to do is provide a pen to keep them safe and ensure both parents are stocked on food.

I see comments like this quite often not just in this game but other games in various stages of development. I just want to point out that a company releasing content does not preclude they are ignoring bugs. Grapeshot is not just one hive mind that works on the game. They are broken up into teams. One teams job is to produce content, such as tattoo's in the freeport vendor or earlier this month commodities traded for gold at the vendor. There job has nothing to do with bugs or exploits around ships being sunk. All they do is produce content of a specific nature. They will probably continue to do this regardless of what else is going on in the game. A whole another team focuses on bugs and exploits and likely a different team conceptualizes ideas for balance and fixing some exploits. Yes I know what some of you may be thinking, no it would be a terrible idea to re purpose people or teams to fix a bug. Changing team members or re purposing teams is extremely counter productive to an groups initiative overall. Stop complaining about new content like its a bad thing and distracts from bug fixes. It doesn't. TLDR: Multiple Teams on in any game developer, They will always be creating content with one team while another team fixes issues.

Interesting I have not tried Flame Arrows since the nerf to them. I've been using tamed tigers set to aggressive. You can't be mounted the whole time but I find if I dismount and kill some first I still get exp when I kill the last few mounted and while the tiger is freely killing them dismounted.

Anyone found a viable way to grind levels after the most recent changes/nerfs to experience gain? I'm currently at lvl 47 and crawling my way to 48. Treasure chests give a very minuscule amount of experience now. Even Alpha's seem to give a rather small amount of experience compared to before. Anyone found a method to getting experience at a faster rate than a sloth fighting a snail?

From my understanding Merchant Ships and Merchants in freeports will trade any resource for a different type of the same resource with an additional gold cost.

Can you use Medkits on yourself or just other players?

While on the Steering wheel or LT's Podium you need to set them to "STOP" which is the Hand, I believe C is the hotkey, V is the key to set them to actively man the cannons in which case they will start to fire on everything. You only need to hit V when you are about to start shooting the cannons otherwise always leave them in the Stop mode.

If you have multiple crew on a ship I recommend you only unseat one Crew member, have them set to no follow and I usually set there aggression to Neutral so they don't try to run off the ship to attack something. They repair very slowly but its very effective to top off a ship or help with the occasional wolf that chomps on the bottom of the boat.

Having just talked to my roommate he is saying that at 51 Discoveries you get bumped to max 52, at 61 Discoveries you get bumped to max level 53. So it may be every 10 discoveries after 51 Discoveries increases the max level. We will simply have to keep discovering this system!

Sure I can do weight. I was going to do two identical Sloops with as minimal weight as possible to try and see just the speed difference. I might try several different weight amounts afterwards, maybe 10% at a time to see the difference.

Can confirm when you get over 51 Discoveries your Max level will increase. Its not a one to one ratio though. My roommate is at about 56 Discoveries and max level is 52 for him.

Treasure Maps expire after 4 Days of being picked up. While in your hotbar the timer will stop. So if you find exceptionally nice Treasure Maps that you don't want to do right away, put them on your hotbar.

51 is not the Max level. When you achieve enough discovery points the max level cap will increase. My roommate got to I believe 54 or 55 Discoveries and his max level went up to 52. Not sure on the ratios and if it scales to requiring more and more discoveries to reach a higher level. I've heard rumor the max is level 80. This will not be completely confirmed until someone gets every discovery.

I have heard else where that 1 Medium Sail beats out 2 Small sails on a Sloop. Please note when you go to place a Sail on a ship it will tell you how many points the Sail costs and how many points x out of y the Ship has. A Sloop I believe has 2 Points and a Schooner has 4 points. 1 Small sail consumes 1 point and 1 Medium Sail consumes 1.7 points. I'm not sure the points cost of a large sail yet. Also at some point I will conduct some testing on a sloop with different sail types and sizes compared to another sloop both traveling the same heading to potentially gauge speed and other effects. I'll post my findings on the forums when I have something conclusive.

Anyone else having issue trying to purchase the top hat or other cosmetics from the vendor at Freeports? I have gone to the merchant with a few hundred gold in hand, purchased Dyes and once was able to purchase an eye patch for 15 gold except I did not receive anything. 15 Gold was deducted from my inventory but I did not receive any skin to apply to an item nor did my character start wearing an eye patch. I do not even have the option to purchase the Top Hat. I have tried dragging the top hat from the vendor to my inventory, onto my headgear, removed my head gear and tried dragging it to my empty slot, to the headgear in my inventory. Right clicking on it shows an option to purchase but it is grayed out. I've tried dragging gold from my inventory to the top hat and still no results. I have been able to purchase dyes successfully but I do not seem to be able to purchase cosmetics. Is there a specific stipulation I am missing? Thank you,