Belle

Hi

Cheers.

Here me out:
I have been playing Atlas from day 1. I have never had an issue finding a nice island with nice island owners who want a taco loving pirate to settle on their on land. Since the 1 PVE map and farmhouse/warehouses, it seems settlers who play daily are not wanted on any owned island. I dont mind lawless, but claimed land always has a better QOL of life if the owners demo bed spams. I have been from island to island and sometimes I get lucky and build a small hut but no shipyards. And every time I try and settle, I get the age old  "it's not you, it's me."  I have even sailed far and wide when island names say "looking for settlers", only to have it change when I get there  

Now I am an easy going gal, I dont build ugly, I have some good jokes, I have a bear obsession, I have a loyal brother who rolls with me and I am a pretty great person in general. But I am trying to figure out why after however long Atlas as been out, I seem to be looking for love in all the wrong places. What has changed that has caused me to be rejected daily. Am I too blonde, am I not piratey enough? Do I have a lisp? Bad jokes? 

Is there anyone out there that needs to the love of a loyal taco loving pirate and her first mate/co captain brother and has a nice spot on some pretty land with room for 2 shipyards, a house and animal pen, maybe a smol a garden and some pretty flowers? Looking for our forever home or forever until next wipe home. Will anyone out there give this scallywag a home?  I am looking for someone to invest me, could you be the one? 

Side Note to the Devs: Can we look at what you guys have changed that has caused this shift in many (I know its know  being unloved when trying to settle?  Can we get some more claimable islands? Can we give something to island owners to make it worth it, since the warehouses and farms seems to mean they dont need taxes?  (I dont actually know this is the reason but it seems this may be a reason.) Can you give island owners a better reason to have more than 2 settlers who take the entire island for their builds? Can we at least just examine this as a whole? 

Sincerely,
Belle the Janitor 
PVE Taco Loving Pirate +1

1 hour ago, SargentoTainha said:

Notes on the new Warehouse:

1 - The idea of putting a 2km range (or any one) did not work. This meant that, in the vast majority of islands in the game, only one or two tribes will be able to install it.

2 - If you go through problem number 1, you will see that your struggle was in vain, because, to solve the location of your installation, you will probably not be in the range of your own Farmhouses.

3 - Going beyond question 2, you will see that the Warehouse collects items much more slowly than your Farmhouse can produce, in addition to not collecting wood. That is, your Farmhouse will soon be full and shut down.

In summary, Warehouse has not solved the "tedious collection problem" of its Farmhouse resources. Not only that, it created another tedious problem of having to start connecting your Farmhouse and collecting the wood and thatch that was not collected. In addition, it created the work of taking the wood to the Warehouse, remembering that it is consuming a lot of wood, I spent 9 packs of 500 to collect the resource of only 2 Farmhouse and it was not completely enough.

Suggestions:

a) Allow a tribe to have a single Warehouse per island (completely forget about the idea of range, as it doesn't make any sense)

b) Do not modify the range of Farmhouses, this is not necessary to correct the problem and will create new ones, because if a farmhouse is demolished it will probably never be able to be replaced, given the large number of them. To resolve limit to a maximum of 5 Farmhouse per tribe per island

c) Connect all Farmhouses on the island, from the same tribe, with the limit proposed in item b.

d) Enable a resource selector from which items will be collected. Select the item to be used as fuel and define a minimum of this item, so the Warehouse can collect everything that is available in the Farmhouses.

This is a great outline of how this should work. I hope the devs see this. I cant use warehouse currently because well others have them. the above is pretty perfect overall. 

Been almost unplayable the last two weeks. So I have only been logging in to check on my tames which that seems to be a chore with the lag. Rubberbanding, magical teleplorting when just walking and sometimes deadlocking. Tried to sail just now. Nope. @ATLAS can we get a server maintenance for PVE? Or a restart? Or maybe kicking the hamsters on the wheel. Halp.

I can't see one good reason why others have the ability to turn off your farmhouse. Was this actually intended? I want to believe it was a dev oversight and not the expectation because if not, I am hard pressed to understand this mechanic. 

Hmm, these farmhouses seem like they could really be useful. While I do enjoy farming resources sometimes just because its relaxing, I like  the thought of having resources farmed while Im out at sea. Excited to see what this looks like. 

Question, any plans on revisiting the icebox functions to allow food to be stored? or adding an actual fridge that uses ice? I dont mind ice in the preserving bags,  but for bases, an actual fridge function would be nice so i can save the preserving bags for ships.  Not really a huge deal, more of a QoL question. 

1 minute ago, Kummba said:

Is the whole crafting area in tame inventory gone, if it is, go to a smithy or such and toggle the crafting view there, it should be back in the tame too afterwards.
@Belle

You are a gem! I feel a little dumb. I will blame lack of sleep. I have no idea how I toggled that off....

Thank you! 

I logged in today and the folders I created with stat info has disappeared. Yes, I double checked folder view.  Yes, I re-logged. I sadly have added points to a few so stat info for breeding is gonna be fubar is this isn't fixable, but there are worse problems to have.  I know they were there yesterday. Anyone have any ideas or have the same issue today?

Listen, I like looting as much as the next pirate. But since both NA and EU now share a server, the body looting is ALL THE TIME. I have played on NA, been through 4 wipes and I have never had my body looted, not even once. Why now all of the sudden? Legit no matter where I am and what I have, there is some naked savage window licker on standby.

Devs, is there anyway we can get say, a 2 or 5 minute timer before your body can be looted/inventory accessed by non company members? If people want to steal they should be on a pvp server but instead they are just enjoying making players miserable. 

More over, if you reading this are one of the body looters, a little nice and respect goes a long way. It takes less time to be a nice guy/gal than it does to be a chode. One day you may need help or something and if you were running around acting like you weren't raised right, you will find others hard pressed to help. 

Whomever posted this update: We appreciate the communication. Was needed as we were feeling a bit abandoned. Stuff happens and I know those who post updates for us are not where frustrated replies should be directed. I am sure whats been going on behind the scenes is beyond your control, so rather than beat ya’ll down further, thanks for not giving up. 

19 hours ago, Jack Shandy said:

They may not have given up on Atlas but do you believe they are actually working on it?

Do you believe their lack of communication is at all acceptable?

The server problems were a shit show, yes! but the game-play looked pretty good. And when it worked, it ran smoother on it's first day than Atlas runs now.

Yeah I did see vids of the game play and was impressed. I just want to be a pirate. Why is it so hard lol

48 minutes ago, lordkhan4444 said:

devs know with the release of last oasis/new world there is no point, they got all the money they gona get from this from pc/xbox so unless they plan on a ps4 release there is no chance of any more time/money being put in this game.

Last Oasis was and is a shit show. Nothing to be worried about there tbh. New World, to early to tell, honeymoon phase hasnt even began with NW yet, we shall see.

On 12/7/2019 at 4:19 AM, UnknownSystemError said:

The treasure maps spawn points are static. A certain map for a certain level will always spawn in the same spot. Those that have claimed islands often get to know where they are and only build occupied buildings like barns and such over open water on the shore. Your base sits over a spawn. It will continue to happen. Don't like uninvited guests? Move. We often put down a small wood sign once we know where one is (doesn't affect the digging it up) that says "Treasure map spawn point, do not build here!", but since lawless is lawless, no one is going to pay attention to that anyways.

Yeah, I been on this lawless spot for about two months until I find a place to build that wont get demolished. Last 3 places I became a tenant at (one man company) , owners going afk and losing their  land and my stuff was demolished by new owners (3 times now). The settlement situation is tiresome and frustrating.  But it a pirates life for me. Im gonna move my house. Thanks for the info

Thanks for insight. I had never seen it before. I finally killed all the AOTD and logged in just now to more in my house. Well they can have the house and mortgage. 

Had AOTD spawn in my lawless base house, kill me ofcourse and can respawn in my bed and my settlement house, same story. Am I missing something?

17 minutes ago, [GP] Guybrush Threepwood said:

No-one is saying you have to go sailing so don't exaggerate this. If you have time to feed animals, how time consuming is it to jump on a ship, jump off, or even just use the bed system to fast travel to each bed.

The problem here is not the fact you have to board the ship, it's the fact this was not made clear from the start.

Thanks in advance for simply letting me say my peace without telling me how I can or can't feel or what I can "exaggerate about." 

Why doesnt being online count. I cant always go sailing or board a ship because I have a life, but I log in to feed animals and 4 ships gone. This is stupid. This is why people stop playing this game because odd rules like this that no one knows about until it happens. Disheartening to say the least. Not interested in rebuilding my brig and schooners. this game already is an impossible time suck and things like this, don't feel good to players. I am not generally a complainer and tend to roll with the punches. But logging in just now to this, I am just going to log right back off and go play wow. 

Should be in C6 in 45 mins if the forum math is correct..