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I understand the concept of the exploration schooner. But outfitted as you state really limits things. For one, you not going to be fighting any SOTD. Second, if you come across any really good or rare resources that you want you have no way of really transporting them off the island. So your just sailing around landing on islands and running around. Which is interesting for about 30 mins then it turns into the most boring grind. Sail here....jump off then back on....sail to next island...repeat. And it takes a ridiculous amount of islands explored to even bump your level cap up even one level. So for the time spent sailing and running around islands the rewards is pretty bad. IMHO I'm glad you enjoy it as much as your do, but for allot of us its simply not that engaging and fun.

I think the game is missing a real reason to play it....

Actually, the reality is when you fail at developing a game properly and it's a steaming pile of broken repetitive content...people just give up and quit.

The exploration to gain points to level is a mechanic in this game that just doesn't work. When your a casual player the time required to gather materials and the sail around to level up to gain more abilities is just poorly designed. The average casual player will never get anywhere in this game level wise. The game almost requires you to log in everyday and play hardcord for the most part. That does not appeal to a large amount of casual non hardcore players. I don't think its necessarily that the don't want to be challenged. Honestly the game has already been nerfed to the point that its not even hard anymore. The problem is it's just not fun..... In the end...this game does a few things right, but most of it is wrong. It needs to go back into pre-alpha closed and they really need to sit down and do a roadmap. I don't think these guys have a real plan, it's more like a bunch of moders with a few ideas for adding cool stuff to the game and nobody looking at the overall direction of the game.

Developers that launch their early alpha state game on Steam in early access get what they deserve. If you going to allow people to review you game you might want to consider have a bit more developed before you launch in onto steam. Since the devs have stated that their focus in on pvp, they are pretty much doomed. Besides the horrible unbalanced combat systems, broken meta's and poor implemented and thought out additions to the game. It's laggy as all hell cause their netcode is junk. It seems to be a hot mess more than Early Access. I wanted to like this game, but its just in complete disarray and after watching a couple dev streams these guys seem about incompetent at best. I hope the devs get their act together and get their heads removed from their rectums and maybe fix this game. I have since this post quit playing and uninstalled it. Good luck to those who stay, I wish you the best.

Is this just not playstyle? Is this not just playstyle?

All opinions are based on ones perspective. So my opinions are my own based on what I have seen in game. Perhaps the devs do care, perhaps the devs do visit a chosen few players in game. Perhaps they are competent and maybe they do listen. But from my POV, they are not and my comment reflects that obviously. Perhaps I should be labelled toxic and/or silenced because I don't shared the majority or the minority's view on the development of the game. I thought forums were for sharing ideas not labeling people and pointing out they are wrong. Perhaps we should acknowledge their view and figure out why they see it that way? Oh wait nvm that's not how humans think. We prefer to attack, label, criticism, and ban for lack of conformity in mindset.

Just quit playing till it comes out of EA. That is the best thing to do at this point.

I don't see the big deal, so the guy uses allot of different hunting platforms to kill stuff from different angles....

Of all the problems in the game and things causing lag. I don't think structure spamming is even a real problem. Plenty of place to build. There's not enough people playing the game to even worry about land anymore.

I honestly do give a rip about another map or single player. Why do we need a new map when the one we have needs so much work? Why do we need single player in a Survival MMO? I personally think this game is lost. They don't seem to have a direction hence why they are going in so many different ones.

There are lots of games in EA that have potential, including this one. But after a few months of watching these devs stumble, fall and just do and say idiotic things. At this point after seeing the last couple laughable "MINI-UPDATES", I have lost all confidence in this developer delivering what they originally had intended (THE ORIGINAL PROMO VIDEO). All i see is a developer who isn't addressing the real issues properly and just hard nerfing things to the point the might as well just remove them from the game all together (Torpedoes). And their updates are full of crap we don't want and tames that are useless (We want more ship types, not cats!). I mean seriously isn't anyone losing their confidence in these guys? Oh wait there coming out with a seahorse that can't be tamed.......NVM ....The game will be perfect after this next mega update. (Cause I know so many of us wanted seahorse!) (I'm trying to give constructive criticism, I'm really struggling with not hating on this game) PLEASE DEV'S HELP ME STOP THE HATE!

I spend most my time traveling from island to island exploring the cookie cutter islands for abandoned players bases and I have to say. I don't see that much foundation spamming. But I'm on the NA PVE server mostly these days. I gave up on their broken pvp mechanics weeks ago.

Yeah, I'm not sure what version of their game they are playing if any. But there is clearly a huge disconnect between the player base, the current meta for everything and the development team at Grapshot. Perhaps they should jump down in the trenches and actually play this hot mess and then perhaps they might come up with better updates, tweaks and changes. Seriously disappointed with this developer.

I don't think there will be a change back to the old system anyways. I think both systems are flawed. I don't understand why everyone seems to think they need to live on a claimable island anyways. I have never lived on one and probably never will unless they nerf lawless and force people to. And lets be honest, there tons of space available that's not claimed anyways(there has always been plenty of space in lawless). There isn't a big enough player base to even worry about not finding a place anymore. The claim that there is no land left to claim in only made at this point by ignorant players. But then again if you must live on a claimable island you better be ready to cough up some coin to keep it. Which on most island eliminates the smaller groups from ever affording the ability to own. And actually with the current player base of maybe 1k players actively playing the old system would work now. Its not like there are 50k+ players trying this game out anymore. And the old system did allow new players a place to build....it was called lawless. Do you really think when/if this came comes out of alpha/beta (whatever you call this mess) there will be some big influx of players? I really doubt it. It's going down just like Ark did. And Ark didn't see any increase in player base after leaving beta. Why would you think this game will?

The interface for coloring sails is just terrible.

Single player? #facepalm

I don't get comments like "To Save The Game" and the likes. I've been sailing around quite a bit lately and only been seeing 1-3 people in most regions. So if you run the numbers on that there probably isn't even 1k player on during prime hours and that pretty much equals a dead game. Well maybe not dead, but definitely dying unfortunately. I wonder how many players this game needs to have for Dipshot to warrant maintaining the official server cost of operation? I fear this game might not make it at this point.

But Don't worry they are adding even more islands with the next update so there will be even more islands that cost too much and are left abandoned. With the current tiny player base they could easily go back to the old claim system now without any problems.

I don't know if this question is just ignorance or humor......

They have already nerfed this game to the point that there is no challenge on land....and now you want to remove all obstacles on the sea. GTFOH....this is a survival game with nothing left to survive! If you think this game is difficult in its current state.....you should get gud or just quit. #bringbackthechallenge

Yeah, so glad were getting cats to tame, but forget trying to get on your ship with any ease. (I won't rant about how stupid the cat as a new creature is) Grapple Hooks are a good work around, seems like the best thing. Wish I could use the rear ladder but my aft cannon setup gets in the way of getting on the ship that way. Hopefully this bug gets fixed and doesn't become a permanent bug like so many did in Ark.

Does that work on a Galleon too? Cause I usually get up eventually, if the sharks dont kill me first.

Is it just me or are the rope you climb to get off and on your ship completely buggy since a few days ago? Just wondering if anyone else is having problem just getting back on their ships. It's really getting annoying and I have been playing other games because of it. Spending 10-15 mins trying to glitch back onto my ship through a ladder bug is annoying as all hell.

Can you change it to soap on the rope? so it's safer. I keep dropping the soap and bad things keep happening.