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The silk actually does change to straw for me as well. I have killed reloaded, killed myself, created a new sickle and none worked to reset it correctly.

So the sickle got bugged and wont pick up and fibers. I can still get berries/sugarcane with it but if I try to gather any fiber it doesnt register it hitting anything. If I hand harvest the fiber it still works though. This is after re-entering a single player game in region M6 if that makes a difference. There were a couple places were fiber and berries are in one spot and its only getting the berries into my inv.

Is the claim system bugged? You cant even contest when peoples upkeep is expired

So I have no idea if this is a bug as we have been on Lawless Islands and I am just out exploring so its my first experience with claim flags. Playing NA PvE and while out gathering thought I would look at the claim system some too. I pulled up my claim flag and it says someone has 12000 seconds of protection for paying their upkeep which makes sense. So the next area I ran into said the upkeep was -9000 something so figured I would be able to place a flag and contest it but It won't place my flag down to contest. I did notice something saying "Can't Place Territory Claim Flag: Another nearby Company's PvE Claim Flag has recent upkeep" I went around to all of this guys flags and none are positive all are in negative seconds.

Nope NA PvE in a tropical zone I believe.

So I just went out exploring since we are on a Lawless Island and aren't involved with all the new claiming stuff. While out I noticed some claim flags and was curious how contesting worked. I pulled up my flag and it said someone just paid their upkeep so they were safe for 12000 seconds or something. However the next one I went to said they were at -1200 seconds or so but I still couldn't contest his land with my flag is this a bug or what am I missing here? Now I went around the island some more and found someone I could contest but when my flag was placed the timer wasnt going down and his sea claim didn't look to be lowering at all while i waited around and did some more looking around for about 30 minutes. Can someone give me a brief idea of how the claim contest system or just claims in general should work...

So I was traveling around exploring and looking at claim flags for the first time since we are on a Lawless Island. I was walking around and a few places showed people had claim protection for like 120000 seconds or something for paying their dues. However I got to some and it said -130000 and I couldnt contest their claim. I am curious if I am missing something.

Yea they should really pin that. In my mind that means they are trying to make lawless zones basically gather only islands or small trade ports

The Devs need to pin it in the forums then Or Jat should say it on Twitter

If the resource spawn issue was intended in a post anywhere or are they just not even respawning. Would be nice if they would just say if its intended, this really shows their inability to communicate kinda like putting a timer up for release then passing that time and just putting a new timer without commenting on it. Then at release they admit they messed up bad and are not going to have that happen again with communication mistakes. Well here we are again . Jat has been killing it with updates but they slipped here in my opinion. Still love the game just want to know if we need to move one of our bases off a Lawless Land. Think most of the people would work around it if they just said it was intended. We don't want to abandon everything on one location and come to find out it was a bug though.

I didnt feel it was horrible before the patch. Now you have to play careful and not run into 2 or more wolves cause you cant head shot a wolf and kill it. We cant grind on our next ship cause the resources dont respawn lol. I still see a bad ass future for the game (long time from now) but having a hard time playing it right now.

Liatni I wasn't saying I am not having fun (I wouldn't have 100+ hours if I was bored). I am saying how can you do a full blown patch release and not know about some of these glaring issues. If they had any type of test server to test before hand they would have known of a bunch of the patch issues and could have mentioned them in patch notes and not said they were active things. I've done EAs, Alphas, Betas, and even some testing with developers on some games. In all of them I've been involved with you test before you put the patch live. This last patch made it really feel like they aren't actually testing things before hand at all. I will still be playing the game but will prob wait until the next big patch to fix this one as its a pretty big mess at the moment. As for following its progress I watch the patch notes and twitter a ridiculous amount each day. Also I like reading posts like this cause it really shows different thinking and sometimes I realize something by reading through chains like this one.

But with this last patch you really have to think someone is just sitting in a room writing down ideas and they have no test server at all. Half the things they did ruined the game this time. I have like 110 hours in the game too thats with me not playing much at start while they were figuring out the laggy freeports. I will say Im glad they are updating the game as fast as they are but they need to take the old "Streamer Server" and turn it into a test server or something. I wont be playing until the next patch...