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My heart goes out to you my friend! That you still want to play it despite having no play time gives me more patience. I wish you and everyone else a good 2019. As for wildcard, I will be blunt since others also had the courage to speak up, go fuck urself guys, sell the game to other developers, u milked it enough, now let someone pick it up who actually loves gaming, their community and no doubt will have much better customer service than you guys do ^^ Thanks WoolyPenguin for speaking up so bravely, you made my day, having not being able to play for nearly 3 days now Mobius, thanks a lot for making that thread, at least those lazy bastards have woken up now after 3 days of hibernating the alcohol they bought with our money YARRRR Also big thanks to everyone else for keeping this thread active, so the devs had some active threads at the top to read about this disaster, I hope to meet you in game on our adventures, as now all we have to do is wait for the fix, see you all in game mateys! ~Scarlet Rivers~ {Pink Fluffy Unicorns}

It's been down for 35+ hours now, other clusters down for longer than 3 days, I am taking my ass to unofficial servers for now, because I love the concept of the game, but from now on, I have 0% trust in these developers, honestly they should just hand over/sell the game to other developer capable hands...

True, but crashes are the least of issues right now. There are clusters on all servers that have been down for over 24 hours, some even days. That is hundreds maybe even couple of thousands of players who cant play on their home cluster, cant even log in to die and respawn on a different cluster just to progress in some way or enjoy the game, there are dozens and dozens if maybe not hundreds of ship/raft attempts to sail into said clusters, making them also a victim in an instant, they cant turn around and go different way, that is pretty serious and big issue if u ask me, an mmo is not supposed to be like this AT ALL, not even a bit. And I understand its an early access, but their non-communication or non existing customer support ( forums isnt really support when its not even being read, and its not private ) is just the last straw. I dont care if they worked on xmass, its their own fault, they wanted to launch right before major holiday, their problem, and therefor only fair that they stay and work on the issues of a brand new game release, but the lack of responsibility, reliability and communication is just insane. You might think I am a hothead, but think of hundreds of people that cant connect, to a simple broken thing, it takes one person to fix the clusters, yet they dont are arent even working at the moment...think of all the things they keep breaking with every patch, how many ships have been lost to broken patches, days of work gone down the drain, not even an apology on their end. I already mentioned hackers in the previous post who are causing a huge mess as well. They said themselves, this is the most ambitious game to ever come out, then they must work on fixes quicker, 50% of all the players we had have already refunded if not more by today, that is a large volume and says something. They could learn so much from other game developers, yet they chose to make their own mistakes, how about a test server for every patch or new thing before you release it on the main servers!!!!!??? Or must this become another wasted potential like Dark and Light, it was such a beautiful game, TRULY! But you destroyed that game too, now there are maybe couple hundred people playing it max, spread throughout hundreds of servers, so lets see what a meat grinder this will become.

I like the game itself, but me and my tribe is seriously suggesting to just find another game, and get refund (which provides even past the 2 hour max, which doesnt surprise me considering how bad you guys treating ur customers, if the release wasnt horrible enough, the devs spit on us by ignoring issues for days and days on end, catering to hackers, what a fucking money grabbing waste of potential. Developers you really are the worst gaming company of 2018 and no doubt of years that will come. You have learned nearly nothing from ur mistakes of DaL and Ark. You spit on ur customer service, call this an MMO, then break a big portion of the clusters with ur patches and what not and dont give a flying fuck for day/s on end. Lets see what this game becomes, Ambitious money grabbing customer fuckover: Evolved.

Zaknafain I think you missunderstood what the problem is, ur zone/region/cluster whatever people like to call it, is fine, 112/150 I doubt anyone has issues connecting to urs, we are talking about the ones that are 0/150, it matters not where the players come from, its the cluster itself that is down, and anyone trying to enter it with ship becomes a victim just like us. it may show online on the server and map list, but it is in no way letting people in. I am sure that decay timers are still up and running, which is worrysome, cause it means in less than 3 hours, some of our stuff will be demolishable, minor stations and decorations, but still vulnerable. And people who have tamed animals, might starve or get attacked because of the high food consumption that has not been balanced yet.

Amen, that last part is exactly what me and my tribe have been chanting since the game launched " lessons that should've been learned from Ark haven't been." Also lets not forget Dark and Light, so they didnt learn from 2 grandparents. As for the glitching part, have you guys tried building ur bases on big natural ( unminable ) rocks? I somehow built my base on one such rock, and have not had any thieves steal anything. It also serves another purpose, big animals like elephants wont be able to damage ur core and outer structure . I have seen my neighbors houses get wrecked, by persistant vulture attacks, wolves etc, taking out foundations in short time. So my advice is, build high above the ground, and if u can try to have first floor empty and at least 2 walls high. I turned my first floor into a giant veranda with public stations or a place to park ur tames, then floors above to store ur good stuff, and even then dont assume its always safe. I logged in twice yesterday only to find some of my windows missing windows... i replaced them, and 1 hour later they vanished again...game is super buggy right now. Pincode ur chests and doors if u can, dont just rely on "locked" because u never know when a patch will break something..

At this time being its just easier if u move to live on lawless islands, the game is just too broken now, and not worth living on claimed lands. hackers and exploiters are having lots of fun, and devs havent banned them since a week now.... thats all i can say, so do yourself a favor and go to lawless, its the most stable place to be right now.

CLEARLY you are newer, clearly you don't think logical, let me enlighten you Mr. Name Caller. First 2 days of release 95% of ALL players couldnt connect to the servers, where in MMO game history have you seen that? Days following that, 50-75% of players couldnt connect or play without rubberbanding that wouldnt let them move so unplayable. Followed by tons of servers crashed up to 20 times a day with big rollbacks, making progress barely noticable. Allowing hackers and exploiters to destroy claimable regions (still broken as we speak!!!) Yes name call me, cause they let hackers do what ever they want for days and days.. And then ofcourse fast forward to now, where many clusters have been down for over 20 hours, where are the devs? hangover at home ofcourse! Why? Because they wanted to launch the game before xmass, but then they let the workers go home for holidays?! Why not launch the game in 2019 then!? You call us assholes, but we arent the ones who stubbornly pushed for holiday release, then let the game rot and scare people away with horrible managment.

Still down, and more clusters are crashing. 20+ hours downtime, and nothing being done, no messages from devs too. Bravo!

20+ hours now, never have I seen such a bad managed game in my life... I dont care if its celebration and holidays, THEY were stubborn enough to announce it right before the holidays, delayed 3 times, and ended launching almost before xmass, then they should be responsible and take care of their broken shit INSIDE holiday days too and not send everyone home. They should prolong the event buff of 2.5x but I doubt they will do that either.

Hehe reminds me of the movie Waterworld nice idea, people in netherlands are already doing it in real life. But on a serious note, I don't think that would work too well, mainly because of creatures in the water, and the army of damned ships. They would destroy such artificial floating island/ship on sight. not to mention sea hazards, I heard there are cyclones, and what not.

Many clusters are down now, have been for half a day some over a full day, devs don't seem to care.

So far I have heard many stories of better settling in lawless regions. It appears, people are abusing glitches and bugs, to steal other players claims, and there is nothing normal players can do about it because developers aren't fixing it, I strongly suggest to you to settle in lawless clusters for now, until they fix this madness. Edit: As extra info. Lawless regions are safer, no one can steal your base, the only difference is ( as far as I observed ) shorter decay timers, structures 4 days, but if u log in daily or every 3 days the timers always reset, other than that, u cannot place a bed in ur base, you will need a raft or other ship to place a bed for it to work, you can place rafts in freshwater ponds too, which is great if u build near freshwater, cause some islands can be very big to run from shoreline )

Could you guys put some more work into getting clusters back up and function properly rather than making fancy photoshop images? Sorry for being salty, but the whole game release and play time has been freaking madness, at the moment tons of clusters are down on EU Pve, seriously, some are down for 15 hours, some have been down for over a full day, come on now give us some quality of life!!!

It was a horrible idea of them to release this game near xmass and new year, I know they are fixing some stuff, but game cant be inaccessible for half a day, even major mmos keep their maintenance as short as possible which usually takes a couple of hours, if these developers cant get their stuff to work properly or don't have to the time to fix it within respectable period of time, then they really shouldn't have launched it near xmass and screw over 30% of their player base.

Not to mention, the 2.5x event is wasting away for us *sigh*

as the title says, i9 on Siren pve has been down for around 14-15 hours! Come on devs!!! * shakes head * Many other clusters are also at 0/150. Do you guys even check your own servers, or only when people start complaining... come on now nearing 15 hours of silence, be more responsible and reliable please!

I am from I9 Siren PVE as well, my tribe can't connect either, we tried validating our files, my friend even tried to delete his files and redownload them, it didnt help, it's been down now for nearly 14 hours! Devs please be more reliable and fix this please!