MrHeid

Dude if you are choosing this game over your gf and family you may want to reflect a bit...

Hahahahahahaha. You really think that. When has this company EVER met a deadline. It will be like 2 weeks minimum

Honestly it will probably be next month. I mean look at the history here

You are not correct. If you don't salvage every player you can get right now this game will fail. They need to find a way that people who want to be safe can and people who want to play hardcore pvp can. All in the same network. Look at every other MMO at there. Wow, ESO, Lineage 2, EVE etc... all let players play the way they want to. If you only appeal to the hardcore pvp players the game will fail. If you only appeal to the pve players you will fail. Alienating anyone at this point will hurt this games chances. For example, I like pvp. I don't have the time for the huge risk vs reward in this game. I wouldn't mind risking a ship in some combat if I knew I had a place to go rebuild. Having safe base zones and ship pvp zones would be so much better. Or some other way to divide it. I played on a private server that had different zones for pvp/pve. Lawless zones were pve and zones where you could claim land were pvp. You were not allowed to control land if you had structures in pve. It was great cause new players could build up a sizable fleet. claim some land and jump right into the pvp. If the got beat down they could go rebuild in a safe place or you could just go play pve if you wanted a break from pvp. The problem is this game has a small player base right now and they are spreading it out with 3 huge servers. There is going to be like an average of 2 people per server or something stupid.

Atlas PVP is for people who aren't actually good at real pvp games and just like to put in 11 million hours to get such an advantage that other players can't compete. (Not to mention all the cheating) Its a game for people who like unfair advantages. ARK is the same way. If you want to compete in a real pvp game go play a moba or fps. All the pvp players in here are acting like they are good or something. If you were actually good at pvp you'd be playing a real pvp game. This is a survival adventure game at best with some elements of PvP. They want it to be a MMORPG but its not really that either. MMORPG pvp is more balanced then this game. I really only enjoy PvE not cause I can't handle the actual PVP but because I dont have 11000 hrs to defend and such. I play real pvp games where everyone starts off with a balanced kit each time. If they truly want this to be an MMORPG they need to combine PVP and PVE and have zones where you can do PVP and zones where you can only PVE. It would make the game soooo much better.

This really is not a competitive PVP game. Lol it's a grinding PVP game. If you think you are "good at PVP" you are probably just good at playing a lot cause you have no life. Competitive PVP games only require skill. Not 10000 hrs to build a base etc. Ark is the same way. The only competitive (real PVP) version of ark was survival of the fittest.

I like the OP's idea.

I bet server reset won't happen tell me june. Have they ever even come close to meeting a deadline.

My prediction: PTS get Delayed to April 20th. PTS releases. Similar issues as launch. PTS gets pulled. PTS again released May 20th. A month later they wipe servers June 20th.

Not true. At least on PVE. There is only like 500-1000 active players I bet. Many of those would be in the same company. Claims are based on companies and size but I am guessing that a company with 50 people would be able to claim much less land then 50 individual players. Most if not all determined players will get a claim if they want it.

I was talking about PVE. You know since this topic has PVE in the title. There are not nearly as many "MEGA TRIBES" on PVE so its really a non issue.

First of all I don't think your choice of word slave is "correct" here. This is a video game. You are not forced to play it. Secondly we don't even know yet if the so called "slaves" get the better end of the deal yet. My guess is landlords will be competing get companies to settle on their land just so they can keep it. They likely will try to accomidate the settlers/slaves in anyway possible. Because if they don't they wont be able to afford the upkeep. The system could work pretty well with proper checks and balances. I have been considering heavily which role I would like to take. It seems like a lot more work to be the landlord honestly.

It sounds like to me they are going to make the upkeep nearly impossible to maintain without having tenants. So paying 30% taxis sounds like the almost better end of the deal then paying 50% island upkeep or whatever its going to be. I think what people don't realize is if the landlord is a griefer he wont get tenants and will not be able to hold his territory very long because of the upkeep. Essentially it is going to be imperative to be nice to your tenants if you want to keep your land. In fact many will probably incentive this by lowering taxis and encouraging building. Landlords will just need to protect valuable resources. Everyone is freaking out about this. The test server isn't even out. Give the devs a chance here. we have no idea about the numbers for upkeep and how much having people on your island decreases that upkeep. Chances are there will be plenty of islands for everyone to have since we have low population and a huge amount of islands. You can also live in lawless still.

Just remember that this company NEVER states a deadline and makes it on time. This update was supposed to be like late January at one point. Don't kid yourself. It will be late May before we see the offical wipe.

With the added islands I'm guessing there will be enough land for even solo players to get their own island. Though you may have to look. Hardly anyone plays anymore and there will be like a 1000 islands or something. Might not be as bad as you think. Doubt they will hardly have a 1000 regular people on the pve servers by then

I think it would be cool to be able to execute a NPC crew member with the guillotine to show the rest of the crew what happens if there is a mutiny. If you do this it would make your crew cost 0 gold for a few days or something.

I kinda think there is no reason to lock the sub behind the defeat of the Kraken. What purpose does this serve other than to annoy people? Why block off your new content from players? It just seems stupid to me.

Make the decay base rate very high. Like 30min or less. Then for each piece snapped together decrease the decay rate. A large base would almost decay at a rate of zero and would require minimal upkeep but people spamming unsapped pillars etc.. could not possibly keep them repaired.

Just play unofficial until after the wipe. Or take a break. That's what I am doing. I'm actually having more fun on a 9x9 unofficial. Less crowded. Mixed PVP/PVE. More controlled. Still got pve stuff and better rates

Can people just grief boats like crazy now by building pillars under them to sink them when anchored. Maybe I'm misunderstanding

Kinda sounds like they are trying to push everyone to pvp

EA or not I really don't feel like playing tell at least after the March update now. I'll probably find some other game to get hooked on by then. So although I like this game I think for me and many others it's already lost my attention.

There is like a ton of new cool mmo style games coming out soon. I doubt they will get all these new players when everyone is mad Exodus. Hey join this new mmo everyone is quitting. I think I'll be trying it New World from Amazon. Looks like fun

You sir are abrrasive in your conversation. You are either a teenager or very short in real life. Either way no one cares what you say when you are using wtf and caps all the time. It makes you look immature and short sighted.

I dont think so. Just make so it impossible to hang onto that many claims. They already said not only are they adding an upkeep but they are adding limitations. I'm not saying they won't wipe but I don't think you "need" to wipe everyone in order to fix it. Just let people know in advance that you can have x amount if claims so declaim what you don't want by this date or it will be randomly declaimed