Patch8

here is an idea. give pve players a new type of flag that can be placed near an exciting flag you own . limit them to 3 per company. spam the servers with notification " place your new flag(f10) on top of your old one because all the old ones will be removed in 3 days" . that will help to clear the flag spamming all over the maps and give room for new players. after all of the old flags have been cleared, you can change the limits of flags per company as you see fit. it will give you a tool to know what flags people want to keep in case you want to put a limit on claimed area. taxation is a strong intensive for players to go around and spam flags everywhere. so maybe disable it temporary. 90% of people who join out server ask if there are any area left to claim. and we only have 15 active players on my grid on average. we should have room but we don't because of over claiming . I only have one and I can't help these guys unfortunately another idea is to put a rent system where you have to put gold in the flag inventory , not sure if its gonna be a good idea for new players tho and it might force some people who don't care about farming gold to do something they don't like. maybe the first 3 flags are free and after that you have to pay rent

Patch V6.5: -Can no longer claim unallied boats on PVE servers. PVE Territory can only be claimed if the owner has not been active around the territory within the last 3 days. Clearly this is not working as intended in the game , which is turning PVE to a PVP with no way to fight back. People can claim your area after 3 hours after you place your flag and the timer doesn't reset so your land can be stolen even if your online. I'm sure you already know about this bug from the amount of posts about it in the forums, but please give us some hope and at least put it on the list of Upcoming Notes. Exploring, sailing and trading is a big part of this game , and it is sad that most of the people who play on PVE can't do that yet because of this bug, me as a solo player can't even move to another island on the same grid without someone tries to steal my only claim. Yes I can fast travel to my base and stop them, but this is not always ideal. I might be under attack by an AI ship or simply I could miss the message. around 70% of the people who played in my grid has already quit because they lost everything and the rest are stranded on the island in fear of losing it all. With every patch note I cross my fingers to see it on the list of fixes so I can start playing the game. as of now PVE is more toxic than PVP. I play PVE because seeing people help each other and be kind to each others makes me happy , and the only thing that is happening now is people trying to steal someone's hard work because they are lazy. These people who hunt for exploits in PVE are the worst type of people because they know we can't do anything about it. its like harming a paralyzed/ mute person who can't defend themselves or tell someone about it, and unfortunately these types of people are the ones who are being rewarded in your PVE servers. and this encourages more people to do the same. I really hope next time I open the patch note I see this bug either fixed or added to the Upcoming Notes. I would rather have reclaims disabled temporarily than having it broken. Im sad to see a lot of nice people around me leave the game because of it.