Lotus

The other problem was they wiped and we were supposed to get all kinds of stuff but there's trenches which basically just introduced crab taming and a find the new pillar for actual content. Kraken 2.0 was lackluster in difficulty. So as far as my tribe goes we have the same problem we had in Early February which is waiting for something to do. Our current plan is breed chickens then fight them to the death. -_- @Nutcutt3r I am going to assume you are decently progressed in this game. How many people do you feel it takes to do Kraken 1.0? @UDO What content is locked behind endgame? Calling the sub content is like saying the Phoenix mount from Tempest Keep is content. ~Lotus

They would need to fix claimed land or put a huge nerf on lawless for this. ~Lotus

I believe that breeding imprint should have 1-2 charges that are tribal so you can do stuff without commiting X days to breeding for a perfect imprint. Also the meat needs to have something done to it because breeding a carnivore batch is awful in terms of trough maintenance. I would love to see the game have more branches of content and quests for the different trees. As far as the trees go for points we recently had a discussion about this in tribe. My max level is 116 right now. Jat even said I'm OP! SENPAI HAS ACKNOWLEDGED ME!!! jk anyway with that I would have just about every tree unlocked but I don't expect many to reach that (this includes myself). When we were a tribe of about 10-15 I would have people call out what tree they were going to max and they would be our cannon guy or our shipwright. This was also before they changed all the max level stuff and increased your total points. Being locked out of trees was frustrating but having more people helped. So by joining up with more people it made the game substantially easier in terms of getting stuff done. IMO the game needs to be made more difficult because it's just too easy. ~Lotus

I will ask this in a series of questions because I don't understand where your information comes from. Where do you get that solo's are the largest amount of players? What glitches/cheese are you talking about? Yes the ingame social tools need work. The majority do not use the forums but they do use discord. Again where are you getting your statistics? Lotus is not the biggest playerbase. Lotus is 1 tribe and a crapload of allies (even the allies I can't ally are allies cause the rules are dumb). When you say megas though I don't like doing it but I guess I fall into that category at this point. A larger tribe in this game is about 20+ total members when I say that I mean 20 TOTAL not online at once. A medium tribe is 10-19, a small tribe is 3-9, then you have duo's and solos. The description does not say it is a solo player game. So by saying I want the game to be easier for solo players you are saying I want this game to be something it is not. How many people do you think you need to do the powerstones and kraken? What content does the sub give access to that you can not get with a divesuit? I believe if you can answer these questions we could have a better understanding of each others point of view. ~Lotus

Devs explained the direction they are aiming for is to make the game more like WoW for grouping and daily quests. As for the MMO aspect it's actually not classified as a single player game so you HAVE to play it with other people is the principle. https://gyazo.com/65000e576747ec544f93b156b08afc41 So it should be tailored that if you don't play with other players you are limited to a small fraction of the game. Unofficial has the changes you want which is for solo players. So why would you not just play on the server that has the changes you want? As for the smaller companies being the majority the Lotus alliance spans about 500 active players. To put that in a simpler number that is 25% of the EU-PvE which is roughly 1/8 the total playerbase. We are 1 tribe there's 5 other tribes I would call megas on EU. So I don't know where you got this solos are the majority thing. I will say it again the current content is not designed for some massive amount of people. It feels like 5 so I don't know how easy the game needs to be to make you happy. ~Lotus

You are attacking the fact that I am in a larger tribe but have not been able to change the fact that the sub is just a better version of the dive suit. You talk about end game content like you have done it but we decided to go kraken 2.0 first week which meant we had to divide who does what. We had a guy build a brig then sail around for the first 2 days collecting all the powerstones sometimes we helped sometimes he soloed them. The 9 essence are not locked behind kraken and were acquired with a dive suit on a schooner. The kraken 1.0 is soloable. I will break this down simpler because I put it every post and it seems to go over your head. 1 (skilled) person on 1 (BP) boat can kill kraken 1.0 and unlock the sub. A group of FIVE can easily take down 1.0. So how small of a group do you want to be able to do kraken? The group finder is the forums and word of mouth. When people found out we were doing the kraken last week over 100 people messaged me another 50 messages my officers. Of those people a group of 3ish saw that we raided at NA times and I let them know we were going to set up a EU time. This group took the initiative and set up a run which had 115 people show up today to kill 1.0. So there's groups, they look for people, the problem is people don't know how to utilize the forums or even the in game chat to find people running the kraken. There's actually a lot of interest in it and 100 people is super overkill for the fight. I will say it again 5 people easily can do it. The fight itself is soloable. As for the content being designed for megas it's actually not. The content is too easy which is why a lot of the game's good players quit. I am going to be 100% honest with you on this and I don't want you to take it the wrong way. Unofficial has servers that give you 10x and have everything unlocked which might be more the speed you are looking for. MMO generally means you have to play with multiple people the content is designed to for a lot of people. The PvE content is going to be geared for 40-80 people to engage in massive battles based on what the developers talked about before it's release of EA. As it stands right now it's nowhere near that hard. ~Lotus

Your diving suit is your flying mount and the submarine is a better version of it. I think they believe that there's something in the trenches you can't get with a diving suit. (which I had 2 guys with 8/9 essence before we even did 1.0 this time around) (I told them to not get 9/9 cause I didn't want stupid crap to happen, which it did ) I don't know what people think is locked behind having a submarine. The submarine does not prevent any current content but the polar dungeon... well... https://gyazo.com/e16e6d4c6ea22d6dee8c5d25204820dd That I can not currently speak about. ~Lotus

Technically it's griefing. -_- ~Lotus

I have a guy that got pulled off ran up punched her in the face then she gave him an achievement and some mythos. The basic strat is brigs with cannons camp the tentacles when they all die a galley will make a pass at the head. On 2.0 you need a few more gallies to go in a circle to kill the SotD galleys to help take the pressure off the brigs. ~Lotus

Which ones? Kraken 2 is 40%- Cooldown on activated skills. Explorer is +250% encumbered movement speed. ~Lotus

1.0 or 2.0? ~Lotus

To me this would have been better to change on Friday XD ~Lotus

I had 100% but something stupid happened and it died at 99% it was a sad day. ~Lotus

With the new update. https://gyazo.com/9907d9d93604cc2638b9653ff6912917 ~Lotus

The rocks on that island model have some kind of bug. Ever see a galley point straight into the air like a rocket? It's not a good feeling

PTR had the sub for a while then it bugged so they removed it. You could just build it though The sub is just a faster divesuit that is overpriced to repair and adds a lot of weight. Vanilla was easier in terms of mechanics but was far more difficult in terms of timesync, RNG, and complete lack of knowledge of encounters. Some times you would spend a whole night in 1 dungeon and it was glorious. The thing about it though was if you couldn't do things like that you could not get into even the early raids of Ony and MC which you needed to do both to progress into BWL. AQ you could just walk into but you needed a nature resist set to beat huhuran. Naxx 40 was something that I have yet to find reproduced. Again though I want you to remove ALL grouping from WoW then say a solo player can do it. This includes LFR and LFG cause you are grouped with somebody. Occasionally a broken class can solo this content when they out gear it. Currently for the Kraken you can solo it if you have a good full masterwork ship at level 40+ you can not solo WoW raids that are current content. ~Lotus

You can spec into the poor man's submarine. https://atlas.gamepedia.com/Diving_Attachment This is the non-cosmetic submarine. You can do the same thing as a submarine. I had a guy with his 8/9 essence a week into release of 1.5 (he was not 9/9 cause I told him not to cause I didn't want him to summon the 2.0 before we even fought the 1.0) As for WoW in Vanilla it was run the dungeons to get access to the raids then you needed to run the other raids to progress further. The gear tiered up aswell and you didn't get the next area unless you worked for it. The closest thing to the submarine would be the Phoenix (which was a 310% when it came out) which was locked behind raid content. LFR does not let you in unless you have a certain gearscore which would be like putting a level requirement on powerstones (I wouldn't mind this actually need to be 51 for powerstone 1 then 52 for powerstone 2). To actually get into the different difficulties of the raids you need to meet a gearscore or an achievement criteria for most pugs. I won't go into what a cutting edge guild application required Now with this in mind though. You needed to play with other people to get access to raid content even for dungeons, the limiting factor here is grouping up. So what you are saying is somebody should be able to play WoW solo and have access to everything (no 5 man's either cause that is grouping) To me if you don't group up in an MMO YOU are the reason YOU arn't getting the "whole game". ~Lotus

This guy actually knows the business end of WoW Easier game = bad for business. All content being done and no goals will cause the game to go stagnant and lose players. crab taming <-- You can do this with a dive suit (it was done day 1 on PvP) whale hunting <-- This is done with a cannon schooner (ballistas suck now) exploring <-- Dive suit salvaging wrecks <-- I just get naked and jump off (highest I have seen is a 15 and it's trash) I can put an extreme case in here and say skill trees should be removed to make it easier for solo players. This way they can have tames, build boats, structures, guns, armor, music, etc by themselves. As for the sub itself... The sub is not something you want if you can't allocate a decent amount of time to the game. I was excited when we got ours but it's basically a galley that bleeds your resources. Schooners of the damned seem to just smash it with shots then to repair I now need to keep gems, crystal, and extra alloy. As for content. All current content in this game is soloable if you put enough time into it. This requires more time than if you were in a group though so the complaint could be it should be doable the same by solo as a big tribe. That would make this a co-op game not an MMO. All 20 powerstones may or may not be the gate for the polar dungeon. The polar dungeon may or may not be the source of the flying ship. As for the people leeching maybe having it require the first 9 for the sub was a good thing and the change should be reverted. WoW wanted content available for all. The idea was no lore should be locked behind difficult raids. That idea was deemed stupid and they then started adding hidden phases / extra bosses to the harder raids. I guess a long story short. The game needs to be made harder not easier. You can choose to be in a tribe that does stuff of be a solo player and not do stuff. The only thing they need to look at are elementals because if they have a weakness I would love to know it. ~Lotus

I generally welcome people to join us when we do it. Last weekend we had a rather large turnout but posting it publicly lead to a group repeatedly summoning it to grief us. My requirement is to have a boat with weapons on it so you can help do damage to things. The Kraken does not gate you from exploring the trenches you can just use a dive suit. You can also still tame crabs using the dive suit it is just more difficult. As a game Atlas is an MMO and is not meant to be solo/duo the difficulty (kraken 1.0 is soloable btw, not easy but doable) for those that don't want to be that hardcore I posted that I was setting up a kraken run and had over 100 players want in. You don't need to have a big tribe to do this just be open to talk to other people and set it up. So to me the gate of the submarine and the gate of the polar dungeon are both acceptable because when you unlock it you will get a sense of accomplishment that adds a depth of satisfaction to this game. ~Lotus

You need to spend quite some time in there to get any real yields. ~Lotus

I believe that the fix was supposed to be because you could pop out of the water and they would swim away but this level of aggression has me losing 3/4 of the crew from SotD. ~Lotus

Our work around was to jump on a tame then jump off. ~Lotus

You can only tame Razortooths and Shieldhorns on powerstone islands with basic taming mechanics. You can buy the overpriced item from a freeport to tame a mythic creature for a few hours. ~Lotus

Also that is a trench squid. The giant squid is the one for the skill. Kinda like the big whales and the little whales. ~Lotus

Elementals used to be countered by kegs in the cannon cart. They made it so that you can't put kegs in cannons anymore for a PvP balance and this removed the only weakness I knew to elementals... ~Lotus