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i tried to download the PTR, about 3 hours with my 6 Mbit connection. It was just finished and i was waiting for it to be maybe installed or sth so that i could give it a try but instead it stated "installation aborted" and started to download with 0 % again. First time i ever encountered this in my 13 years on steam. Great job guys ..

i dont see why it should be a problem to fix this. Games should be fun and not have stupid mechanics that make people unhappy. If you want to go milksop style with an OP tame you will also be happy when you are not prevented to dig up the treasure because some lonely defender sank in the ground whereever and nowhere to be found

13 minutes ago, Willard said:

Well there is not that way anymore obviously. And it does not have to be a bug but simply change they wanted to make. Otherwise "additional crew" stat on boats would be totally useless.

obviously you dont know what you are talking about. the mechanic still works, its just extremely slow and from what i can read from the patchnotes they changed it because of "instabilities with red alert" (whatever that means). And the right shift button which is named "end red alert" now in the options was "battlestations" before and still is if you havent done a red alert before

1 minute ago, Willard said:

So basically you want to change it so it suits your playstyle, eeergh .... dunno what to say honestly.

no i want it to be changed because it makes much more sense that the defender cant prevent me from digging out the treasure if he is not there. if he want to run and hide in the ground thats fine

3 minutes ago, Willard said:

The game is unplayable because of this? I guess like 99% players don't do this, they just put NPCs to all cannons on the ship. 

Isn't that delay because of reloading cannons? 

why would anyone do this if there is a way to switch them over in seconds like it was before?

No its because of the new cooldown of "red alert" and "end red alert"

26 minutes ago, [GP] Guybrush Threepwood said:

I'm assuming you are referring to the taming process as what sucks rather than the tame itself? If you mean the tame itself, then a bear hardly sucks when you can do a treasure hunt in 20 seconds killing the AoD. I play solo and tbh I never even bothered to do treasure hunts until I got a bear.

no they just dont fit my playstyle and i wont have a problem doing treasure maps either with my approach if the last defender would dare to show up to fight me and not blocking the treasure while nowhere to be seen

After a long time i finally made a ship with cannons again. when i last made one a few months ago i was easily able to switch my crew from one side of cannons to the other side with using red alert, whistle passive so they wont jump off to punch a shark and then press right shift with the other side of cannons selected to have them man the other side (i had to manually seat them at the cannons in every new sector before to made that happen, annoying but ok).

But with the strange changes to red alert a few patches ago this is only possible with an insane delay making it basically useless in battle..

i always wanted to be able to change them from one side to the other with selecting the side on the hotbar and then simple press a button to make them go over but not only you not give that to me, you also fuck up the long-winded workaround i figured out to not have double the crew to man the cannons

Pls fix the basic mechanics to make the game playable before you continue to add shitloads of new content with retarded "mega updates"

i dont use tames except from a crow. they suck

As i play solo i of course do treasure maps solo as well. it is very challenging for higher quality maps but it is possible with a lot of time and effort. what needs to be fixed is when it took me half an hour to take out all the defenders and finally get to dig out the treasure, in more than 50% of the cases there is a lonely defender left that sunk in the ground at the ass of the world, nowhere to be found but yet still keeping me from digging out the treasure. this is a fucking joke. it is no fun at all, not to say absolutely frustrating. Make it so that they will:

1. raise out of the ground again when you start digging and attack you or

2. when they need to sink in the ground make them go back to the treasure location and do it there or

3. come out with another fix that solves this disgusting issue

As i play solo i of course do treasure maps solo as well. it is very challenging for higher quality maps but it is possible with a lot of time and effort. what needs to be fixed is when it took me half an hour to take out all the defenders and finally get to dig out the treasure, in more than 50% of the cases there is a lonely defender left that sunk in the ground at the ass of the world, nowhere to be found but yet still keeping me from digging out the treasure. this is a fucking joke. it is no fun at all, not to say absolutely frustrating. Make it so that they will:

1. raise out of the ground again when you start digging and attack you or

2. when they need to sink in the ground make them go back to the treasure location and do it there or

3. come out with another fix that solves this disgusting issue

Dont believe them when they say "You are welcome to settle on the kraken family island". They are a bunch of arrogant assholes that will instantly kill you from behind immediately when you slightly start to turn your back

really? what kind of a fucking feature is this? i play online games for 20 years now this is the worst shit i have ever seen

You better be online 24/7 or someone put you in cage while you are off and all the progress you have made is gone and you cant do anything about it

Fuck this game

so after losing my ship and finding out there is no safe place for me i basically quit the game for days and now i come on and some joker seems to have put me in a cage and i cant get out. is there a way to escape or is the game basically over for me?

34 minutes ago, Leapdave said:

It takes time to get your attacks in position and having the entire enemy force there all at once is the exact goal of "the element of surprise"... you don't need the surprise at that point

i disagree. if you have the numbers and you see exactly what the enemy is fielding where you have time to set up the perfect counters and also unopposed because of peace time

17 hours ago, Leapdave said:

There doesn't seem to be any way to make this a good idea. Enemies could amass ships on the island in peace time, anchored, invincible... just licking their chops for the second that combat phase starts. This would be far too dangerous for the settlement owners

if an enemy company is big enough to amass as many ships in peace phase that you could not prepare for that you would lose the fight vs them in anyway even if they didnt use such tactics and they even lose the element of surprise

it is pretty weird because some servers i travelled have a ping of 200 with 40 people online and sailing is like a slide show and others have 60 people online with 80 ping and smooth sailing

3 hours ago, zwt2135 said:

Listen to these entitled kids who do not pay for an island and instead ride off of someone else coattails then demand more privileges when paying zero gold. How about this if you want to make all the rules go get your own island. My group started out as only 2 people and we easily took control of an island and held it still to this day. There is so many ways to get gold it is easily possible to do. Stop crying about it and make your own way if you don't like it.

you talking to me moron? Let me tell my painful story then. I actually claimed an island by myself for 76 gold for 12 hours and managed to keep it for a week or so to save my ship there when i was  going to work. it was perfectly close to a freeport so that i could keep my ship in the freeport over the night when i sleep and drive it over to my island in 10 min in the morning to save my ship for the 11 hours i spend to pay my landlord in fucking real life. but then someone came in the night in combat phase and just claimed it away from me in 2 hours.

So i tried to be a humble settler at an island which had the almost perfect peace time for me (one of the very few of the hundreds of island) and it was ok for the people who owned it for a while. But then they decided otherwise for some reason and simply killed me in peace time without a warning.

So it is simple as that if they dont change it i cant play this game anymore

46 minutes ago, Meriamon said:

No.

The owner need to can destroy structure / ships that it don't want on is island.

It's allready hard for eject toxic player from island we have so there ship are protected that infini respawn...

with toxic players you mean the players that have the impudence to walk across your island in peace time, not able to destroy anything and you cannot punish them?

in my opinion toxic players are the asshole settlement owners like you

as a settlement owner you even have the possibility to change the peace time out of nowhere once a week to surprise unsuspecting others from behind

pls make it so that anchored ships are also protected from settlement owner in peace phase.

with the mega update it was said that life should be more comfortable for solo players and small companies but the truth is that it is only more comfortable for companies that are big enough to support an island while for solo players like me it is still the same hardcore pvp (after the rollback of the changes to freeport decay) with no safe place like it was from the start. If the peace phase is for everyone (which is only fair in my opinion) i know that my ship is save after i suffered through the 15 min it takes to fully anchor it and i could travel the world like i would like to.

i dont want to be a fucking settler slave for noone and i want to do my own thing without someone permitting me to do so. I want to be a free captain sailing the atlas but i cant do so if i have to build a new ship every fucking week. you know how much time it takes for a solo player to build a fucking brig?

yeah that could very well be because it was an island faced plank that was destroyed.

Yeah great, when they changed the time you could keep a ship in freeport to 24h i really thought i could play this game but with that change undone and the "peace-claim-system" being basically worthless to me as a solo player with long off times during the day because of work and claim owners can sink my ship anytime they want, i rather quit again before i got to deep into it.

From what i understood from the patch notes of the new claiming system was that a ship that´s fully anchored to an island in peace phase should not ne able to get damaged. But when i logged on recently my ship was nearly sunk because someone destroyed a plank though the ship was fully anchored to an island with more than 5 hours peace remaining. So my ship is not safe when anchored next to island in peace phase?

so anyone has ever seen one player shop in the game so far?

So i built a shooner today and want to anchor at a settlement that has a peacetime till tommorow which will keep me save (at least i hoped so). I drop the anchor at the settlement but in the top right of the screen it says "NOT FULLY ANCHORED". Does it mean i am not save then?

from what i saw they are mostly statues or some kind like that with a very small shield radius. But even if you manage to find them in most cases they wont trigger anyway because you need to place a chair (but you cant in claimed territory) or need to be ko´d to get them ..

i quit doing discoveries until they fix that shit

FIX THAT SHIT!!!!