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pc player here. Gonna blow your minds. Lay down and the mermaids are harmless.  Doesnt matter your fortitude, laying down will prevent you from jumping and you have mostly control to either hold yourself locked into position or move around slowly wherever you wish. wait the 15 seconds the mermaid is trying to pull you off the wheel and then just get back on the wheel

Break the harpoon, use a repair hammer

only NA is getting wiped  and reset tonight, rest are getting wiped and reset on the 8th

no one will be able accuse realist of posting about a game he doesn't play anymore lol

so was it intended to destroy all fences? Makes fences useless to have  since by default they are unsnapped structures.

the bear had a cart that was over weighted with 6k weight from all the rare rss I had brought to base in previous week. No one would have been able to lead that bear anywhere. There were 2 elephants, a giraffe , bear , lion, horse. If they were attacked by something they would have defended each other.  They were inland a good amout, if someone had a way of leading them to the beach then the bear would have died long before it got to the water

Logged in today to find the set of tames I had recently stored at freeport all died. We had been raided by CSTG a few days before and this was the last of what we could save while we rebuild. Logs show the animal's died but not by what or how. In my experience before when my tames died they would always log who if killed by a player or what if killed by some npc mob. The log just said they died. I have fought and rebuilt many times and if we had lost our stuff to enemy players I could be fine with that But I guess I am just tired of stupid things in this game like this.  I looked through patch notes to see if I could find where it was announced anywhere that tames would not be allowed on freeports anymore but found nothing in patch notes. I guess I am done at this point. It was fun playing with you guys. 

15 hours ago, Willard said:

I'm not saying you can't do it. You can. Im just saying it takes much more effort and it is too much for casual players not to burn out. You are one of the few as you can see in this very topic. I was talking in general.

fair enough, I agree, being larger definitely  makes it easier. We are highly active and put in a lot of work but its rewarding for us. Not everyone could or should do it, its really up to what is going to bring any user the most enjoyment is how they should play. 

21 hours ago, Willard said:

Claim system is good. Players who refuse to play how the game is designed are the ones who complain and eventually quit the game because they burn out. When people realise they are not supposed to own an island with their 3men company they will enjoy the game much more

What exactly is the stuff for megas and large tribes they added? 

I have owned a mid sized Island since wipe with my 3 man company and we have no problems holding on to it, defending it, enjoying the game. Stay in your Lane Debby downer. Play however you want but don't tell others how to play

Add one server  that on Saturday and Sunday portals open in every grid to this one server tile, for 2 hours its Free for all Last Man Standing, Battle Royal. Rewards awarded to winner and top 5 with highest kill counts, buffs, gold, tokens, figureheads, whatever seems fitting. Will encourage pvp . Keep track of rankings

yetis chasing you is creepy.

When starting in M2 freeport and north island is selected it spawns me on a different island and I have to port to the North Island still

Not sure if this is a bug or intended but in M2 freeport (new eastern tundra biome) there are no treasure map bottles around the island.

found plenty of treasure maps not on powerstone islands

Recruiting for after wipe. I am a solo player, been playing since the second week after game launched. I am looking for other solo players that would like to still do their own thing. In my Kingdom we are all kings! You do your own thing , I do my own thing we all share the same island and contribute to the mutual defense. 

Will be making an alliance Called 'Red Solo Cup' for any that wish to join as an ally instead.

If you don't want to join but still would like to share an island with other like minded solo players that refuse the join us or die mentality of the zergs then you are welcome as well. The island Taxes will be whatever the minimum possible is to maintain the island. 

I don't care what your politics are or what your game-style is either, play how you want. There is one rule though and it basically follows the honor among thieves philosophy. Stand by the other inhabitants of our Island. We don't shit where we sleep! Raid whoever you want , say whatever you want, do whatever you want , just keep all aggression aimed at everyone not in our server tile. 

I have led large guilds in the past and larger alliances (10 + years experience), I simply do not wish to play that way or lead in any meaningful way again. The bigger you get the more leading becomes a job and your playtime work. I am simply recognizing that even solo players need friends , can benefit from a network and mutual shared goals like defending the island together. I put in a serious amount of game-time every week and I refuse to be a mindless cog in some Mega's disaster. 

If your small and like the idea, let me know. I will be on PTR until wipe. If it ever comes online. 

Discord Info:

https://discord.gg/8PrmNrA

43 minutes ago, KimRSQ said:

what a stupid idea deploy the PTR only in one EU network. wait for the network and servers overload.

many people from NA servers coming on EUPVE just for try PTR. its mean  that many people who played on EUPVE leave the game by various new reasons.

just for me for example if i cant take my old spot then this reason is enough 2 leave the game.

sry 4 my eng.

Why would you care about getting your old spot on a test server? Its only going to be up for a week at most.

i  haven't played since they announced wipe, been waiting for the wipe. Logged in yesterday to check something and i noticed it as well. Felt like the choppy waves were going to stroke me out. My frame-rate was over 150 but the ocean is like staring into a strobe light of pixelated puke.

4 hours ago, Sadie Blackhawk said:

Thanks hon for clarifying that. Now I get why some people are against them. I play on a PVE server and was kinda baffled by the negative reaction. I have seen some posts where people want carts/cannons limited to horses. I actually agree with their idea after reading this.

Playing PVE I do like the tames. I love the solo taming aspect. I don't use cages. Mostly I free tame on the land so it gives me a bit of a challenge.  I can't say they've all gone very smoothly.

I'm honestly not opposed to them nerfing animals versus human players for the PVP aspect. I tame animals for their gathering capabilities. I'm not sure how easily that can be done and still keep them in line for killing alphas. 

I'd love to play PVP cept I have sparkly vision and would just end up dead repeatedly. Too much frustration for me and id be the type of person that would get mad, kill someone or destroy their base, then apologize a bunch and give their stuff back =P Yeah I know. nice girls finish last.

The problem with nerfing bear cannons is that in the following day people will then scream for nerfing horse cannons. Then it will be screaming to nerf horse greek fire, so on and so on as each nerf just pushes the players to find yet another meta way to pvp. It doesnt end, people need to stop calliong for nerfs, if your enemy uses bear cannons then you make bear cannons and its even and fair. Its as simple as that, there is nothing that is unfair if you can do it yourself. 

This is not directed at you, just quoting your post where you offered a suggestion to nerf the bears.

so my guess for what the new tames skills is:  ability to transfer to ship without flying into outer space or teleporting into instant death.

you guys got a dictionairy somewhere that your pulling all these made up definitions of things out your asses? 

its all perspective , whats hardcore to me is different then what it means to you and different from how someone else defines it. its all subjective.

On 3/22/2019 at 9:12 AM, war machine said:

I dont get the whole offline protection on pvp

 

 why.....  the whole idea is to set up your base so its unprofitable to raid it,

Sustainability. Every game maker is ultimately in the business to make a profitable game. 

When you have no rules , 100% pvp all the time with megas you eventualy end up with 2 sides and then 1 side. Those who lost and were devestatingly wiped end up moving on to other games. This type of playstyle makes sense when their are seasons. Nothing wrong with it, super fun and definitly has its place in the gaming world. If this isnt done with seasons this eventually kills off the population of a server.

ORP on the other hand and promotion of small independant tribes creates sustainability. Factions stay small, go back and forth and while there is a tremendous amount of pvp and chaos, no one is ever big enough to take over the entire server. People may get wiped but they can either move or rebuild. that is not as realistic in the first scenario of join us or get zerged.

I also remember the megas crying about getting offlined by solo players as much as anyone else. In the end how many of us log into which servers after wipe will truly show the devs whats popular and what is not.

On 3/8/2019 at 10:25 AM, Smokey Bones said:

So far, we have no hard timeline on the patch, so I wouldn't buy into the talk of the 27th that's happening here.  The captains log provided a general ETA on the test ervers:

 

Also, if you read the captain's log, you may notice that they've added additional content and features to the patch that weren't previously announced such as Procedural Generated Shipwrecks

My request to Grapeshot for the patch is to take the time they need to take to get the patch out, but work on cutting scope from the patch, not adding scope to the patch hich can further elongate the process

Sounds like someone doesn't know how to stay on task and keep focused. Nobody cares about new content that delays patch dates. Sounds like some cool stuff but Grapeshot needs to understand the value of keeping their word and commitment to a schedule they provided. I would rather be able to play the game again than waiting for some feature.

wipe has not happened yet. The eastern Tundra change was stated to be part of the rework

5 hours ago, Grongash said:

Its not, but some almost religiously keep repeating that apparenty "Early Access" means we are pre alpha and that makes all their errors and fails ok. Sadly it has become state of the art now to release stuff once it compiles for the first time, milk the first wave of .. erm.. customers and use them as free alpha and beta testers (under the banner of "help shaping the game").

Dont get me wrong, i know what i bought into, and i got my moneys worth already. I dont complain about bugs, i do however have an issue with how they handle them. The reset we get now is because they didnt know what they were doing and did zero internal testing. And the way they fix it is exaclty the same.. extreme the other way round, rushed, not tested, late (because they promised deadlines they never were able to make in the first place). I give them this "reset". But if there is another complete wipe coming im out for good. And dont play the "EA means wipe" card please. It does not. Plenty of games handled that. You dont wipe a "persistant" "MMO" all the time. 

Yea I agree, I work in IT. That's why it annoys me every time someone states the game is in alpha. Alpha does not = EA and EA does not = Beta. All three of those terms have different meanings while sharing some elements of pre launch. 

I am fine with the wipe now, I hope its the last one but all these wannabe alpha warriors that keep claiming things about the game that are not based on anything factual piss me off. They mislead other players and thats wrong.

On 3/5/2019 at 6:23 AM, Luck0r said:

Still. There is a difference between pre-Alpha state which is Atlas right now and EA.

And No, i am not complaining about the Wipe.

I keep seeing people claiming Atlas is in Alpha stage, can anyone point me to anywhere the devs have refered to Atlas as Alpha?

nope nope and nope