Adfax

23 hours ago, Percieval said:

You’re a troll. This literally is evidence that you’re nothing but a troll. You’re either not playing the game, of having your render distance set to ‘low’. Or you weren’t here from day one. 

 

The first week shit loaded in way quicker and sooner. Because there are lots of buildings etc right now, it takes longer whilst your ship continues sailing. 

If you just admit you’re here to troll, we can get it over with. Since you disagree with any logical post and respond with pretty dumb answers every time. 

No, you're just up the dev's ass regarding almost everything. It is quite sickening honestly.

Are you kidding me... You're letting people set attack windows?... Is this a joke?

Guys... HOW IS A SMALL COMPANY MEANT TO TAKE ON A BIG COMPANY IF WE CAN'T EVEN ATTACK THEM WHEN THEY'RE WEAK????????

STOP with these changes that just make big companies more and more invulnerable to attack.. My god.. Every nerf to offline raiding is just making the game harder and harder for small companies. Big tribes are essentially unimpacted by this.. Why? Because they have people online ALL THE TIME.

Stealth is NECESSARY for small tribes to compete. Stop forcing people to fight head to head. You're just making this game all brawn and no brains; what is the point? Whoever has the most players will win.. Wowww Great design.. Really deep and strategic.. 

Stop letting the crybabies convince you offline raiding is why your game is dying.. That is NOT why your game is dying. If that were the reason your game was dying, ARK would be dead; but as you can see, ark is still going strong. The most popular servers STILL being PVP. 

On ‎2‎/‎26‎/‎2019 at 6:27 AM, Percieval said:

The render distance is completely fine. The issues you’re having is because of the lag. Nothing less and nothing more. 

If it were because of lag, then if I maintain a stationary position outside of where I know I should be able to see something, it should eventually load in. It does not. Therefore it is not lag. It is specifically set not to render in until I reach a certain distance from the object. I'm saying this distance is way WAY too short.

Honestly.. I'd be okay with this wipe IF I knew my character was being preserved. Everything you have ingame aside from your character is impermanent anyway, and thus already lost. Wiping characters is just going to kill this game.  

Never delete characters in MMOs. Never.

Can't see ships or bases until you're right on top of them.. Utterly stupid..

I'm sailing around trying to find someone to have a ship battle with, can't find anyone because the render range is so low.. It is like looking for a needle in a haystack.. Ridiculous.

This game's playerbase is in freefall right now.. You're still clinging to mechanics that shouldn't be in the game.

1. The age mechanic

Nobody bought this game to worry about age, or hunt a fountain, people bought the game to be pirates. You know; what you advertised the game as? Every time I have to think about that fountain, or my character slowly looking  a way I don't want them to look, I just get annoyed; it just makes me, and many others want to quit, because we know the hunt for the fountain NEVER ENDS. It must end... Maybe you should even just give eternal youth on the third run when the buff no longer stacks, that way atleast we know we don't have to keep running it over and over. It is that idea that it never ends that really puts people off.

It is like we have to be tortured every month. Sure, you removed the debuff.. But no one is going to pass up that buff... Just remove the whole thing, make age a slider in the character creator; or for the love of god just give us eternal youth when the buff is capped. 

2. Convoluted melee

Melee is just useless right now.. It is utterly embarrassing actually.. You've completely overcomplicated it; you need to keep it simple. There are many ways to fix this.. But the main problem with melee is obvious.. The mobility. Either you need a way of melee players being able to prevent people from running (not exclusively the very bottom talent); or you need a way to hit people who are mobile when you've closed the gap. Right now, all you have are people shooting eachother with guns, and fire arrows.. It is brainless.

3. Anti-stealth gameplay

How is a small company supposed to compete with a big company when you can't do anything against them without being alerted? You give players too much information on stuff happening. What If I wanted to turn a mega tribe against a mega tribe? Play on their insecurities by attacking them at just the right time, and trigger a war? But noooo, you don't let us attack something without telling them precisely who attacked it. Stupidity. Let us use our intelligence to trick and deceive people, otherwise it becomes a game about pure brawn. Boring predictable brawn; where numbers define everything.

You don't let us do anything smart, you just let the big dumb dumbs domineer over everyone because you tell them everything they need to know .Where is the subterfuge??? Where is the guile?. You're taking these important elements out of your game that the little man uses to manipulate the bigger tribes.

You want your game to simulate a real world political dynamics; start with this.

Can't even sink a ship, or kill a tame without them being alerted.. COME ON. Stop it. This is ridiculous. You're just helping the big tribes more and more; and look where that has got you? The log should be entirely anonymous, as should the popups on screen.

Claims being placed actually make sense to be announced, as they are claims, something you're announcing as your own. Everything else ? No.

4. Turret based defense

If conan exiles can make a game without turrets, you can. Turrets just ruin ark quite frankly; the game is a success no doubt; but turrets just make big tribes untouchable. You add them here in the same manner, and say goodbye you your small companies, aka : the majority of your players. 

5. Claim based ranking

There was another thread that aptly pointed this out : "top companies are NOT top companies". This is correct. The people who you've proclaimed are top, are not actually top. Claim quantity is not a viable measurement for who is and is not the top company, and this whole idea of "top" should be revised. 

6. Fast travel

Nothing helps the big tribes more than this ability; it seriously needs to go. It just allows these huge tribes to greed monger all of the land easier; it should be scrapped asap, and you should only be able to spawn on a bed in your grid, or it is back to starter island with you.

19 hours ago, Nolan Tangcalagan said:

@AdfaxThe resist is only good for new players or small company, which will allow more players to enjoy game, but still this resistance needs an update. 

Making ships cheaper will grant bigger/middle companies to spam more OP ships

And why is that a problem? They're only so many players, and only so many per server; and a ship limit could easily be implemented. If they do the work, they should have the ships.

It is much harsher on small companies to leave it as is, as it essentially makes big tribes untouchable to the little guy.

They should just scrap the resist buff, and make ships cheaper to make so people don't cry when they lose them.

Just make ships a disposable commodity. 

So I waste hours of my life dealing with this stupid mechanic, the worst part of the game, only to have it reverted again after I've returned from the journey.. Back to being 90 years old again. Hours sailing there, trying to run naked into that garbage cave, and then hours sailing back; and now I have to go and do it again.

How do I know it won't be lost again after I do that?... How do I know my time isn't just being thrown away a second time?

Are you kidding me? I'm so close to quitting this game. If that buff isn't returned, i'm done. You had your chance, and I told you about this pointless shit. Just remove the mechanic and make age a cosmetic option in the character creator. 

The age mechanic is a terrible idea. It needs to be removed.. I've already argued it many many times as to why it is such a terrible addition. 

Just now, strawman said:

No please less offline raiding it's such a toxic meta

Offline raiding is stealth, it isn't fair on small tribes who want to attack big tribes. You literally can't hurt them anymore with these ridiculous changes.

It'll just be megatribes dumping on everyone, and no one will be able to hit them back. 

The more you make stealth options less viable, aka : offline raiding; the more you make it impossible for small tribes to hurt megatribes. 

The cure to this problem is simple : make ships cheap to make. 

The reason people hate losing their ships to offline raiding isn't due to ships being too easy to sink, it is because you've made them too expensive. If ships are always disposable, make them cheaper. You'll find less people complain.

Megatribes are already playing on the easiest difficulty by simply being teamed with so many people. They are the worst players on the game, STOP making it easier for them.

1 hour ago, boomervoncannon said:

Then clearly the appropriate action for you would be to stop wasting your time debating on these forums and go develop your own far superior game. There is clearly a great deal of money to be made, and even in the unlikely event you don’t care about money, you would get to enjoy the satisfaction of a game designed to your own desires.

No, it'd be much easier just to convince the devs what does and does not suck about their game.

1 hour ago, boomervoncannon said:

It is a fallacy to say that computer programming stems from emotion and although no one should have to break down for you something so fundamentally in error, I will further refute your argument by referring you to the growing debate over AI singularity. At some point the machines will be able to write their own code, upgrade themselves by constructing what amounts to highly complex logical arguments and they will do so without ever feeling an emotion.

The bottom line is you have a core premise that logic stems from emotion. I disagree fundamentally with this premise and have presented my case why. I’m not going to go around and around in circles with you as you attempt to rationalize a premise I have never seen anyone else ascribe to and consider fundamentally unsound.

It is a fallacy? Why is it a fallacy? We make computers for a purpose, therefore, they stem from emotion. The logic is completely sound. You're just in denial because to admit to that would be to admit you were wrong; which you're far too emotional to do.

I've explained the argument, it has no errors you've been able to point out. It isn't a fallacy. 

If AI writes it's own code, it STILL comes from emotion. WHY? Because it still all stems back to emotion. The AI that writes it's code was programmed by  what? A human driven by emotion. Therefore? Therefore my argument still stands.

Just now, Bad News Bear said:

Damn, I guess I was wrong all along. Never knew the only way to make a logical or valid argument was by first getting the seal of approval from the all-mighty ADFAX and his golden voice of reason.

I will ensure to have you proof-read all my future posts to ensure they are logical and valid. Because that is clearly the only way any constructive development will arise. Please ensure you let the developers know that you are the sole voice they should follow to create content, oh great lord of reason.

If I were, this game would be much much better. 

3 minutes ago, boomervoncannon said:

This is why I’m uninterested in going around in circles with you. Do not mistake my lack of desire to have to repeat things I should not with not having an argument. You assert that without emotion you’d never be able to have logical thoughts, but as I have already pointed out, computers, which have no emotions, are entirely capable of formulating logical arguments, and AI is rapidly progressing to the point where it does so better than human beings. This disproves the notion that emotion is necessary in any way for logic.

I have already pointed out that the programming in those computers STEMS from emotion.

This is why I said you're mistaking what i'm saying. What you are saying would apply if I was saying "emotion is logic", which is not what i'm saying. I'm saying all logic stems from emotion; even in a computer. No, the computer isn't experiencing emotion; the person who made it was. The person who is inputting commands was.

1 minute ago, Bad News Bear said:

Your post is an emotional response to an ingame content that you dislike and think should be change based on your personal beliefs. Based on your judgement you’re discrediting yourself.

we simply do not agree with your point is all. Could the content be structured better? more than likely, should it be scrapped as per your post? Absolutely not.

Wrong. There was emotion in the post, but the core argument remains logical.

But as I already said, you can't have logic without emotion first. So every post has emotion.

1 minute ago, boomervoncannon said:

Just because human beings both experience emotions and formulate logical arguments does not mean one flows from the other or is caused by it in any way.

It does.You'd never commit to a logical thought without a feeling first.

Your emotions are your reason. They come from your base instincts filtered through your beliefs.

1 minute ago, boomervoncannon said:

If this what you need to tell yourself to save face, I am not going to spend time going in circles with you because you are entrenched in a premise that I have never encountered another person subscribing to. We simply disagree on this.

You don't have a counter argument, I get it. Don't be a sore loser though. What i'm saying is completely... Logical.

It is a simple matter of cause and effect.

Just now, Bad News Bear said:

Please stop insulting people, we are not rude to you, yet you go around calling people who do not support your points stupid. It is incessant and unnecessary. You have been guilty of doing this on other occasions as well.

The only thing we feel is you trying to harass players out of your posts so you get a more favourable outcome of them via any dev reading through. 

You have been violating the code of conduct of the forums, keep doing it and you will see what comes your way.

Settle down; it isn't that bad. I just want you to argue your points better.

2 minutes ago, boomervoncannon said:

If A=B and B=C then A=C is logical and true regardless of how you feel about it. To state that logic is based upon emotion is to misunderstand what at least one of those two things are. Computers have no emotions but can make logical computations and do so constantly. Logic is not dependent upon emotion, it is in fact indifferent to it.

Right, but those machines are programmed for a purpose, from which the ultimate purpose stems from emotion. 

Without emotion, you never have logic.

You're misunderstanding. You're thinking i'm saying "emotion is logic". No, i'm saying you'll never have a logical thought without a feeling first.

5 minutes ago, Bad News Bear said:

Agrees witt you completely. Anytime he makes a carebear post and gets called out by players he talks shit to them, tries to humiliate and harass. I’m going to report him when i get on my home computer. His consistent replying is very unwelcome and insulting.

You only agree because they're attempting to help your failed argument. Failing at their attempt at that.

Okay, maybe it was rude to say you were "stupid", I admit to that. But everything else is true.

3 minutes ago, boomervoncannon said:

I will simply let the absurdity of this statement speak for itself.

Do I have to actually explain this to you also?...Okay then.

If you felt nothing, you would do nothing. Everything you do ties back to your base emotions/instincts in some facet or other. If you had no base emotions, you'd have no reason to do anything, and thus would do nothing. No logical thoughts, nothing. Logic is in service to emotion.

You're now guilty of the same sin as the person you're trying to help, which was exactly my problem.

Think it through before you post.

3 minutes ago, boomervoncannon said:

But you are not the sole arbiter of what is or is not faulty logic. Present your rational arguments and let people weight them for themselves. For someone who likes to invoke the word logic you use a lot of profanity, insults and belittling language, things that have nothing to do with logic and everything to do with negative, judgement clouding emotion.

Wrong. 

Logic is driven by emotion. It is the basis of logic. Without it, you'd never commit to a logical thought. 

The reason it is faulty logic is simple : 

FoY is tied to the age mechanic. If the FoY gets made easy, it makes age mechanic is pointless.

The FoY needs to be made easier because people don't tolerate the current iteration. 

From there? The age mechanic becomes pointless.

Anyone who wants the age mechanic, but hates the FOY hasn't thought things through. Anyone who likes the age mechanic, and likes the FOY isn't considering the impact on the majority. If the majority do not like it, then there will be no game to play if it is left as is.

Now, if you want to introduce breeding into it, that opens a whole different can of worms, with different issues that STILL make the age mechanic a bad addition.

2 minutes ago, boomervoncannon said:

“My opinion is superior to your opinion because I said so. I get to decide who’s opinion is good and who’s opinion is worthless. If I don’t like your opinion I will fell entitled to hurl insults, profanity and belittle you.”

This is what you sound like.

Faulty logic is faulty logic. 

I shouldn't have to tolerate people who can't even think something through properly; and then post without a thought. They're just annoying.

11 hours ago, Raine said:

Mind you, I didn't say I liked it.  I don't.  It's a forced quest.  Not only is it tiresome, but it leads to other breaking points in the game, as I mentioned above.  So from a player perspective it's vastly sucky.   That's probably why they allow private servers to option out.  If you don't like the dynamic, you find a private server with the aging function turned off.  But since this is the official beta server it sorely needs a housekeeping function, and this is one way Grapeshot can clear the docks, er, decks, for new players and fresh perspectives.  They're NOT doing this for us, they're doing it to help them manage their development.  

Bottomline: keep giving them feedback.  Make it constructive even if you need to let them know how frustrated you are.  I am too.  But it's beta and until someone comes up with a better housekeeping function (one of many they have here, and hopefully not the last), we're stuck with it.  Onward, Adfax.  I hear ya and I feel the same frustration.

Better house keeping function : same as ark.

Done.

Why ruin the game when such a simple and easy solution is available?

Offline raiding should be easy. That is the whole point..

You're attacking when your enemy is weakest.