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14 minutes ago, ReilanT said:

@Jatheish 

i really hope you will make real PVE rule because with your new way, the spam of pilar for blocking other player will be the only rule on PVE  

player are Selfish, dont forget this universal rule on a MMO 

People* are selfish, its a universal rule of life*.

1 minute ago, StarWhispers said:

But then those people had to pay up to %30 taxes. I do not know about you but if you just started a job and had little to no money and taxed %30 of your paycheck I do not think you would like it.

Then find somewhere else. I have an entire island and my tax is set to 10%. Plus, getting 70% of something is significantly better than 100% of nothing.

2 minutes ago, StarWhispers said:

 

Unfortunately the new players would quit because all of the claim islands were completely claimed. I think this way is more new player friendly and will help the game out. We only had a few claims and never bothered adding a tax because I always hated taxes in real life so I was not about to do it to someone in game. Trust me I understand that no claim kind of sucks but some took it way to far and got way to greedy. I hope this change will help keep the new players.

The only people that the claim flags hurt were people who were dicks. You could go to most zones in PvE and find people willing to rent land to you if you actually asked nicely, rather than floating in to a zone and throwing a temper tantrum because you couldn't find land on the first island you checked.

These changes are going to absolutely destroy pve servers. *ESPECIALLY* if buildings still block resources on non lawless zones. Also, if im understanding things correctly, banks are going to be useless on PvE now? Y'all had a really good system going with the taxes and the claim rentals. Just needed to tweak the flags for PvE, not get rid of them completely.

1 minute ago, Scorpionshawn said:

 YOU WANT TO KEEP CRYING BUD? SHOULD I GET BAN FOR CALLING YOU A CRY BABY? YOUR CHOOSINESS TO RESPOND BY LOOKING AT THE CONTENT INSTEAD OF IGNORING IT HALF THE TIME I DONT PAY ATTENTION TO THE MESSAGES AND IF THERE IS SOMETHING I DONT LIKE I JUST IGNORE IT BUT YOU ON THE OTHER HAND ARE SUCH A LITTLE CRY BABY ABOUT WHAT SOMEONE SAYS ON A VIDEO GAME THAT YOU WILL GO TO THE EXTREME OF GETTING THEM BAN IN OTHER WORDS THEY ARE OUT THE 25 DOLLARS THEY PAID FOR A GAME BECAUSE YOU! ARE! OFFENDED! .... IS THAT RIGHT? 

You obviously didn't read anything. If it were just the racism and it happened once or twice, I wouldn't care. But the racism, on top of the GRIEFING and the CHEATING are the major issues. But, you're welcome to read what you want to create a false narrative while ignoring any relative information, you do you.

1 minute ago, Not Happy said:

 

You don't understand the concept freedom of speech let alone any legalities.

Also, this is an international game numpty with EU regional servers. Your consitution isn't even applicable to the NA servers which includes ALL of NA and not just the USA.

Not to mention that, like he said, freedom of speech only covers overly offense stuff to "convey political messages", which is very much not the case here. Also, while playing an online game, you are more or less in their business. If they don't want you using racist terms in it, and you use them, guess what? They have the right to kick you out.

1 minute ago, Realist said:

No, there is twitter and there is also the devs direct email. Their direct email is where most of the ark players at least send there reports in. 

The main reason for that being is if there is a special exploit that they don’t want people to see they will disclose it only to the devs. Same thing with the n word. People don’t want to see it so it should be sent directly to them

btw that would be the best way to get their attention anyways, even if the devs come on here, which they don’t, they get their feedback from twitter because they get directly notified. 

Please don’t tell me you think they have the time to come on here and go through threads. If that is the case no wonder nothing is getting done with the game.

either way they aren’t doing a good job at either

Ok first off, it's some of their paid jobs to check the forums. Second, if you reach out to them anywhere else, they direct you to the forums. Sooooo, yeah.

2 minutes ago, Vorxius said:

Personally I don't think the main game / main servers are working as intended anyway.  It's going to take much time.  The griefing / insults and hostility / trolling on official servers just puts many off.  It sounds like it may be time to find a community on a private server, and enjoy playing.  It changes the game immensely. 

Yeah, I personally usually play on an unofficial server. Unfortunately, with the way this game is made, it is incredibly difficult to find full sized unofficial servers because of how expensive it would be to host one. Most of the ones i've looked at have only been like 3x3 grids, rather than the full 15x15

3 minutes ago, Vorxius said:

The guy in the screenshots is just a troll.  People reacting to it is exactly as designed.  Give this guy no air time, no brain focus, no attention, and ignore him.  Troll back.

The guy is doing everything in the book to get peeps rallied.  You peeps are falling hook line and sinker for it.  Don't rise to it as they say.

He's not just a troll though. He is also pin code hacking, abusing window glitches, and abusing weight glitches to sink people's ships. Saw him solo sink at least 2 brigs today alone.

Just now, UDO said:

are u 12 ? try going up to black guy in street and say hey NIGGA while wearing a swastika see what happens , come back here and make us all laugh ...

No need to be rude. He's probably from a different country where racism isn't as prevalent as the US.

I really don't think you understand what shaming is friend. I'm not shaming anything, i'm reporting a griefer, cheater, exploiter, and someone using excessive and blatant racism. As this is literally the only place to report people, it's sort of necessary.

Except that i'm not shaming, and that his steam name is literally listed where he changed my flag?

I have, as have at least 15 other people.

Thats the dude that has been griefing / pin code hacking out here. He constantly changes his company name to mimic mine and one other persons, solo sinks ships, and he may even be using some sort of a weight hack. Player name is Velsang A.

Whelp, now he is solo sinking peoples brigs. On a PvE server.

This guy has now changed his flag to a swastika. Anything, Devs? come on now.

Guy is back at it again. Pin code hacking in front of people, spamming the N word in chat constantly. Changes his company name to match mine constantly. It's literally harassment. Going to keep bumping this every time he does something like this until it's taken care of.

To add insult to injury, they are now changing their company name to match ours while they continue to grief, hack, exploit, and be all around terrible people.

Hate to have to add more to this guy, but he literally pin code hacked right in front of a company mate and myself, and then did it again in front of a few people in a different company. Just walked up to a pin coded box and instantly hacked it. Please, ban this guy already.

Just wanted to add more to this guy. Continuing to throw out the N word and just being an all around terrible person.

 Normally I ignore them to. But when they are exploiting the game to make it literally unplayable for other people, that's where I draw the line.

Just a quick update on this lovely human specimen. Cleared my flag message, and logged back on for a sec before going to bed to see a repeat performance, as well as an update to his own flag.

1 minute ago, Bolognapwny said:

God you are so tilted and salty, its just words man move on... Troll him back... 

Way to be part of the problem homie.

So we have had this company on the PvE NA server in K6 called Dark Brotherhood, led by character name Velsang A, steam account name Lahlah. Since he has been on the island (roughly 4 days now), he keeps between 5-10 buoys down at all times when he isnt online and specifically farming so that nothing respawns on the island. On top of that, he slings out hate speech constantly. Today was the last straw for me when he was nice enough to switch my flag message to what you see in the screen. (Content warning:racial slurs).

Please, for the love of god, ban this griefing, toxic person so that we can get back to actually enjoying the game.

Edit: For the sake of adding everything to the OP, he is now also pin code hacking right in front of people and bragging about it in chat. He is solo sinking ships (at least 2 brigs today, and countless sloops/schooners over the last week). He is also constantly changing his company name to mimic mine in an attempt to get people to think its my company doing it. He has also changed the picture of his company flag to a swastika.

So in other words you're an ass hole for abusing glitches to fuck people over? I think you deserve what happened to you.