I'm just getting back into Atlas at a bad time it seems. I have to farm hella hard for mats to build a ship AND gold? As a solo this is just unrealistic for me. It already takes half a day to build a Brig and longer for a Galleon, now I have to burn a week or two getting gold to build them so they can get destroyed by bugs, frame drops, whales, or what have you in less than 15 minutes? Not to mention I'M the one building it, not an NPC? I understand this "USE THE TRADE SYSTEM" thing you're throwing at us, but where can I place a farm, warehouse, market when every island is riddled with when coast to coast? Why not have an NPC at free ports that can make higher tier ships, I.E journeyman and all that, for gold and let me build my ships for free which, you know, makes sense. Am I just tossing the gold into the ocean once the ship is completed? There's much better ways to make gold more important in the game than this. Have an actual player market where you can sell things like ship mats, cannons, tools, tames, whatever so you can bypass the building if you want and just buy it. Don't make me farm 18k gold for a brig that a stray whale is going to send into the ocean in under a minute when it takes me days to gather the gold needed, please? But I guess this will be labeled as "a lot of noise" because we all know you listen to your player base, right?
