Enki Anunnaki

its kinda like making laws for murder irl. everyone knows murder is bad for the community but there is still gonna be some asshats that murder anyways. Its good to have consequences, even if it's just barriers to make things harder for the asshats.

don't confuse dumb for lazy.

hey well congratulations, you're in the minority of players who are organised enough to pull that off.

even then, you could just paint your armor and sails a matching color or emblem. lol

mee too man mee too

i personally believe companies should be limited to 60 if alliances are gonna be a thing. if you want huge war parties then you gotta boot inactive members for the active ones and the casuals can find another group. ya know what im sayin? thats what the server can handle anyways.

the max number of people in a company is going to be 250. A server can barely even handle 250 people, it wont handle two groups of 250 battling it out... let alone 4 groups of 250 that is the proposed alliance cap. alliances are really meaningless. make a group chat tab if thats the key.

yeah whats your point

well, good bye keyboard.

*rage mode engaged*

current design, sure. but the march mega update will change a lot of dynamics. you're gonna need some serious strength to stomp a fully online company. there isn't gonna be much offlining people anymore. people are gonna have time to really stock up and defend themselves. Bp's are gonna be the name of the game after a short while.

apparently you've never crafted a high lvl blueprint before. its takes hundreds and hundreds of hours of sailing, gathering and exploring to find all the different types of resources it takes to make just a couple BP's. Let alone make a whole ship out of BP parts. Some BP's are especially hard to find, like mythical large speed sails. good luck finding that. But, let's say you found one and wanna make a pile of gold on the fly, you'll either sell the bp or if you have the mats, make a few and sell the product. there will always be a market for that.

betting and bounty stations also include voting stations and maybe those top ten company housing could be for top ten merchant guilds. Only companies with a at least certain amount of players (5-10) should be able to buy a free port house. the owner of the company is the only one who can cast the vote representing the company who holds the freeport house. In the governor's palace, have a room where each governor signs a book log on a pedestal with their name and describes what they are trying to do as governor. Anyone can come into that room and look at past governors and see what they did and how long they were in power. I think that would add a whole nother layer of politics and lore to the game. Maybe one governor was trying to be a savior and his fleet stopped pirates from raiding cargo ships. maybe another governor was a pirate lord that blackmailed everyone into electing him and he ruled with an iron fist oppressing everyone who didn't vote for him. maybe have a governor's announcement bulletin board or announcement system where he can set up player made and ran events and tournaments, maybe even wars against other governors. also, really, each one of the house could have a fenced in backyard where you could store a few tames. if a company gets stomped out in the world, it won't hurt so bad to fall back on their freeport home thus helping people stay in the game and not feel so defeated. my diagram looks like a f'd up spider but i think its cool.

i really like that governor idea, but in freeport. like allow every company a 3 by 3 by 7 height build spot and trade kiosk in the front or maybe even premade buildings a company can claim... and make free port a bustling town. make the paths between plots beautiful and build plots close to main square only buildable for the top 10's or something special like that.. allow companies to only build on one or two freeports. put a duel arena and betting station/bounty board smack dab in the middle of freeports town square. boom. that'd be sick. EDIT: hell, you could make the plots or premade buildings buyable with gold for a certain amount of time like a day or so. Make it so you can display your banner and stuff. make it fancy. make it worth investing in that building. show off one's prestige. make the governor's building the fanciest of all. have a governor race once a week. everyone who owns a plot gets a vote. what governorship means to the people is decided by the people.

i think there is a song you can play on your accordion that will speed up the repairing

we were friends with one of hsbb leaders and this was like a month and a half ago, way before you merged with them. so you probably werent there. i never mention ddosing because i know it was because of server limitations. I just know the were no flags with "everyone can build" on that island. it was on the side of the island where yall landed. and only one flag. we didn't have tax bobs. we fought back and forth pushing each other up and down the beach for hours, so you couldn't have claimed it regularly. maybe it wasn't a spy but someone who just wanted the pain to end so they could sleep lol... who knows. point is, if it was there, yall didnt notice for 7 hours. lol you are trippin. Idk if you're talking to me or someone else since you didn't quote anyone, but since your right below my post, i'll assume you're talking to me and don't know what youre talking about lol. i told my story because the guy i quoted said mega's never did anything but run away from a fight, bring their ships to free port and wait till they found an easy target, we weren't an easy target and i wanted to show how mega's manipulated the game. First, don't confuse "better" with more members, as they had to bring their entire alliance and get an insider to flip a flag. I'm just sayin that raid wouldn't have happened the way it did, under the new rules. we probably still would have lost in the end because their total numbers were probably 7 times ours, but, they couldn't have offlined our ships every night and we would have been in some actual battles. probably would have taken months to finish us off. which would have been nice instead of only coming in our off hours. aaaaand now your telling us how you merged into a mega... no one cares.. your just a carebear. They offered us a merge too. we said we aint about that pussy life, and we fought to the death. No balls no glory. we ain't gonna be slaves. Just because you didnt wanna get your shit pushed in you joined that mega. Don't act like you're better than us because you joined them, in fact it's just the opposite. You's just a pussy or maybe you're just a follower. I lead.

how the hell is it okay to address a few people on twitter about the game and not the actual forums... unacceptable.

could also just bring the whip back and whip that back into shape.

Fight pits or dueling arena on lawless or freeports. Make it happen!!!!! ill love you forever. add more bondage aspects to the game. I need a torture table and some shackles. floor and wall shackles, maybe even a shackle on a chain where you can walk around but cant leave! omg a ball and chain to slow ppl down!!!!!! allow the giblet and hanging noose to be raised and lowered in increments like a sail, but with a lever. bring back the whip from ark. i need me some whippage bondage role play sessions. NEED more RP cosmetic stuff. need iron bars to make a wall, put in a window or make a door. Cups,plates, jars, jugs, pillows, rugs, candles, candle holders, chandeliers, curtains, banners, couches, the whole 9. make them paintable and functionable. Different types of fires. like pires, bon fires, fire pits, burning barrels. need to be able to mount alpha trophies on a wall. need more carts. multi horse weight carry carts for hauling chests of supplies and water barrels. RP is a thing. even in pvp. We need a carryable banner on a pole someone can carry in battle. so we can extra flex on fools. Hell you could even sell fancy skins for the stuff and make a killing to keep funding the team to keep bringing us more content post release. I know id fork out the doe. Make Atlas Great Again.

i think the resources are for the structures themselves.

from what i've read, it seems they are incorporating gold costs per flag (which means per island), compounding for each one you have... the gold costs would need to be pretty high to counter the mega's from completely dominating the map.

bro...that someone might just be you.. lol.. the player base has been crying out to make these changes for a long time...

please understand that they are adding 1-2 new islands per grid. claiming an island will be much easier but more expensive to claim more than one island. It will be so much easier for solo's and small groups to set up shop on any island now without being taxed to death especially since the player population is down compared to the first days. Gone are the days of claiming lawless with spam. lawless will be the hell hole it was meant to be.