Lotus

I already pointed this out. To me the thread shows incredible bias. The OP put negatives attached to the first positives attached to the other 2. The other thing you have to realize is that this poll does not control who votes. I could put 1k votes on whatever I wanted to win and be like that is clearly what the game wants. PvP only players could come vote. There's a lot of reasons this isn't clear or accurate. What is wanted is the ability to get land in a fair manner. The problem is what I see is fair and what you see if fair can be different. ~Lotus

How would that work for a bigger company though?

You can set tribes up to be like that the only people that would be able to get in is admins. I believe tames can be set that way too. I had the boats in a similar way until a captain died on the kraken and the guy that we repairing could not move the ship I was like whelp crap need to not have that happen again. ~Lotus

To me PvE is a place I can work on endgame content without having to fight other players. If a group goes for progression on PvP they run the risk of somebody attacking them when they are looking for the ghost ship or trying to pull the kraken. I don't want to have to worry about dying to somebody while I am doing a treasure map. I don't want to worry about people destroying my stuff while I am offline. That is why I play PvE. I am pretty sure the new tribe claiming an island thing is going to be amazing. ~Lotus

I'd like to see where you got that statistic. ~Lotus

That poll is worded poorly and shows an incredible amount of bias. The other thing about the polls on here is you don't actually know who is voting. ~Lotus

Day 1 we were only able to spawn in freeports and we hit a huge choke point. They then allowed people to spawn on lawless zones to help remove the bottle necks but it was still so many people. Lawless also had the freeport max level 8 cap. ~Lotus

Lawless as a system was designed for people to use as a place to stay before they get land. All the land got taken and so people never left. You used to not be able to use beds on lawless ground but they patched that because people were stuck there. Lawless allows you to build anywhere which makes it so people on PvE can grief easier. The other problem with lawless is that the resources respawn with no influence of what is built around them. This makes it so you don't have to plan if your new building will stop a precious resource from spawning. The game even in it's description say you search out a claim and fight to maintain it. Lawless in a way is a claim but at the same time keeps the game in Ark's shadow which I feel they want to really break away from. ~Lotus

Atlas is a PvP game that has a PvE option. I want it to be the other way around but with the player base that is how it is now. ~Lotus

Its a sense of community that I will miss. It was a way to play with people and get a feel for them as potential tribe members. It let me see how they interact with the culture of Lotus. ~Lotus

I don't know where you got that statistic. All of PvE is around 11% of the total playerbase. Before the "Big Tribes" stopped playing because we literally ran out of stuff to do (Mid Feb) the average daily player base (NA-PvE) was roughly 1.5-2k total players (depending on the day). 20 = 1% of 2000, with 10 tribes you would have 10% right there (Lotus, Atlas Shrugged, Paragon are also substantially bigger than them in terms of member count) . ~Lotus Alliances are getting removed from PvE. Which annoys the hell out of me. ~Lotus

The way it was explained is each island has a member requirement. The smaller islands will have a member requirement of 1 and go up from there. So a tribe will take islands based on their company size. The islands will have an upkeep cost that will be fed into the claim which will also be determined by the size of the island. This prevents tribes with 3 members from having 80+ land claims (I've seen it). Which 1 claim per person but opens a lot of doors for griefing. ~Lotus

To my understanding more players want the whole island system. Big tribes wanted 1 island claims, the smaller tribes wanted 1 claim per person. What was unanimous was no freebuild on claims. ~Lotus

To my understanding it's not late it is early. They didn't do one last week for... reasons? ~Lotus

They don't have any big changes announced that would actually warrant a delay though. They planned the new 1 flag system a while ago and announced they will keep another set of servers that don't follow that. No drastic changes are announced. ~Lotus

I could see a delay on a patch because bad coding but to delay a PTR means the raw coding isn't really functional. ~Lotus

Christmas has been delayed this year! ~Lotus

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Atlas has evolved into a forum game now. I don't have any € but I have some bolas and a giraffe.

I did my best but it's just so many things that have happened in this game. Then I got to reefbo and was like THIS IS THE VISION!!! ~Lotus

It might have taken 2 hours ~Lotus

I will show you my claims in a video. It will also tell the history of Lotus ~Lotus

That is why keeping tribes on their own island is so perfect. People can have their own island and do whatever they want on it.

TPG is a group that goes up to small tribes and says join or die. If you resist they use their numbers to smash everything you have. They go up to people they allied with and say give us your flags or we wipe you. Ham and Pig (The group from the video) is an RP group. I was on the same grid as them when we went to PvP. They are literally fighting oppression in that video. When they talk to the guy like why are you with TPG you can hear it in his voice that he doesn't want to be there but he is afraid to resist them because he doesn't want to lose everything his tribe owns and start over. What he was doing though was considered offlining which is frowned on but is not against the rules. The new patch makes it so you can't do that to protect the bigger tribes from nakeds and the smaller tribes from offline raids. It has not been taken the best by some players it's going to be tested. So if I have the story straight you stated that Grapeshot for a FACT supports griefing. I asked for proof you provided no proof just gossip. I asked where the proof was. You tried to dodge the fact that it wasn't proof. You then admitted you had no clue what you were talking about. My face was like this -_- You are now talking about Lotus like you know about us. With that same matter of fact idea. A huge chunk of the land we got (about 50-75%) came from mergers. Which I already stated. They merged because I cultivate an environment that people want to be in. So somebody joins with us and I should go kick their house down and give away the claims they brought in to make you happy? That is basically what you are telling me to do. We wanted to stay on the top 10 so we did something to maintain that spot. This is again something you were talking about but you don't know anything about. If a land claim is worth 1 point a sea claim is worth 1/2 point. Go look at us on the map. Again my face is like this -_- I believe they want this game to have land owners and tenants. The actions of the developers have shown that is what they want. If you get land it needs to be difficult. My first claim was 14 hours of sailing on a raft. This was before they made sailing so much easier with the always having wind. As for the whole why we went to PvP. We did all current PvE content. Killing the kraken 3-4 times is enough for most people but I wanted to make sure that everybody that was at the world first got credit for a kraken kill. Of the 170-180 people only 3-4 got credit. So I spent 2 weeks setting up runs. Over 1k players got their kraken kill with me. I didn't do it alone it was a team effort and it's fun to meet people. To get to share the super exciting experience with them. After there was no content left though some groups decided to go see how much land they could get. This is when some groups went from 80-200 claims to over 1k. Rather than play claim games because as a tribe we had all the land we needed we went to PvP to play around there. 1/4 of my tribe is ex-pvpers that got tired of the constant state of alert you had to be in and wanted to just experience things like the powerstones. Other players went to other games. So a huge influx happened from what me and my brother have coined the abyss. Think of the game as a mountain and we climbed that mountain and looked to the horizon. Instead of a view of exciting things we saw miles and miles of nothing. I kinda want to show you the map of Lotus and explain how every area came into the tribe. I think it will be even more fun to just make things up cause I have no doubt you have no clue what you are talking about or just trolling. What was actually said is the devs went to the 40 companies that comprise of the 4 servers. We were each given a triforce. If we come together as 3 leaders we can unlock admin for 1 hour. We are able to generate anything we want but not give it to people. We are also allowed to put a ban token on a players account. If a player gets 3 ban tokens their account is banned from atlas. Every account we ban gives us a soul token. If we collect 1,000 soul tokens our tribe will be granted immortality and be unkillable, never have to go to the fountain of youth, fly, and most importantly be able to generate and throw a bola with E so in a way the immortals can hit you with the E-bola! -_- I am 95% sure they pitched this idea to the angel investor as a lords and peasants game and are trying to keep it that way. You are preaching anarchy and trying rally people with you it's just funny. Who is this "we" you are talking about? It's mainly just you -_- Who are you telling to try to think on their own? I literally just pointed out that you followed the whole Dollie torchmob and they were wrong and you tried to point at it then you were like I have no idea what hell I am talking about. In blacksails you have the leader and the higher up crew as the players and the NPC's would be the guys doing things like sails. I have a member that likes to shoot the cannons he tends to miss alot but if he is having fun go for it. As for the NPC are they crew or are they actually slaves and you are renting them? Just wanted to point that out. This is again going to show you don't know what you are talking about. Davey Jones's locker is a place sailors would go when they would drown. Davey Jones was basically a sea devil. Redbeard could refer to a few different people. The most common for piracy would be a pirate that had a fairly large fleet. Would capture people then sell them as slaves. I have a serious question for you at this point. Do you just say things but have no actual facts behind what you say? ~Lotus

The fact that it's our land should allow us to determine who does and doesn't build on our land. For items though you didn't have bolas, maps, and don't forget bolas. @Larsque Tell him about bolas! How am I griefer? You just became incredibly amusing to me at this point. How much land do you think we have? Do you know how much land each of the Top 10 companies on NA-PvE has? You realize that the developers want us to take as much as we can and gives us rewards to take as much as we can right? To my knowledge I'm the only tribe in the top 10 that as a leader I said "DO NOT GO ABOVE THIS MANY LAND CLAIMS." Then I removed some of our older claims when people merged which people thought meant I will remove the claims they bring in when it was actually lesser used land. The new claim a whole island system's top 10 is going to be based on taking and holding as many islands as possible. As for justification of things you seem to just be lashing out because... reasons?... ~Lotus