Captain 420

Now that the empires server is no more, will we see an increase in alliance limit on colonies? We have several splintered alliances at the moment due to the alliance cap and would be nice to get them all in the same one

I have done the Kraken 3 times already and now your going to wipe the progress and put something extra for doing it, FeelsBadMan

More PvE content (quests) that have a sensible number of managed engagements that give a nice backstory to the atlas world. I love the storybooks u get with powerstones as they are really interesting but getting them is boring and tedious due to the naked running to get them.

Just set it at 10% for everything, this is what I tell all PvE players. In the end no one will care what your tax rate is but I make a personal note of all companies with 25% and over and ban them from server events I run.

Gold is far from useless if you plan on making higher quality items. The amount of time saved by just buying the resources from freeport is massive

Mods lock this thread. It is entirely pointless

Hopefully this will be fixed by the intro of player mods that can come and deal with these situations, forcing black beards to open their gates or if they refuse destroy them. The suggestion is bouncing around with Dollie and Jat so hopefully it will come to fruition

Ive been getting this aswell, though only seems to be with fine quality+

If there is hydras on 07 please give coordinates so we can confirm and this can be sorted

Been travelling around doing powerstones this week but this has been very hard due to a bug with hydras respawning. On the above tiles there are no hydras, I have checked every inch of the island for hours and nothing there. Either someone is killing them straight away (no one else on the sever so dont think this is possible) or the respawn timer is bugged which is much more likely. Can we get someone to sort this out as Im getting frustrated about wasting hours farming bolts, sailing there, searching for hours and not finding anything

Making posts like this does nothing, they already know about both issues and are working on them. The tame issue is obviously a complex issue as it was picked up 2 weeks ago and tried to be fixed. Obviously they didnt succeed but they are trying. They already working on the NPC issue and if u were on the discord u would see. They say it should be fixed today. Anyway that aside you are playing an EA game. Bugs will happen, you will lose stuff to BS, you have to be prepared for this when you play EA, i remember buying dayz at release and how bad that was. Grapeshot only have a small team and are working pretty hard to push the amount of updates they are. Just be patience, accept ur losses and move on

Looking good guys! Any more news on the daily quests and the 8 new overall quests that were mentioned in last captains log, as a pver this is what im most excited about

Do AIs repair floors/walls of structures that are built on boats or just planks and sails? I tend to find they don't repair the structures only the boat and as such I prefer taking a damage to planks than structures as having to go round and find every damaged wall/floor is annoying. I may be wrong however

Just killed the drake on the island with no problems with server. Didnt go near ruins though but server seems to be ok now. Thanks for looking into this

From what ive heard it may be when someone is around the ruins area it lags the whole server. This was occurring for me with only about 6 people on the server. I haven't checked in about 4 hours so I will update when I log in again.

@JakeM thanks for reply! Good to know its being handled

Getting more and more reports that this is not just an EU PvE problem but an EU PvP one aswell.

Well this is obviously an issue as it should not be doing that. Grapeshot lets get this resolved today!

On EU PvE the server on o14 is hard lagging up to 255 causing players to become stuck there. Ive also heard rumours from other people that other servers are the same. The server has come back down to a sensible ping for periods of up to 10 mins but will return to 255 ping. Grapeshot have been informed of this for at least 3 hours and still no action has been taken or admin sent to region to manage players stuck there. Stay out of this server!

With the special kraken cosmetic for beating the kraken currently bugged, i think it would be a good idea to have a fail safe built in so people can recover their rare cosmetics if bugs occur. Allow us to purchase the special cosmetic from the cosmetic vendor in freeports after we have unlocked them. Make it like 5-10 gold to get the skin back

After 3 successful runs on the EU PvE over the last 2 days many people have gained the Kraken Cosmetic and are now reporting that there is a bug with it. After you apply it to a helmet, then store the helmet in a storage box and come back to it the cosmetic will be lost and only the original helmet is left. Was disappointed to lose my cosmetic this way and also another guy in the company had exact same bug.

Everyone asking about config etc. Brigs- Handling sails are the best as positioning is key and the wind will be variable. 3 Ballistas are recommended to to damage to tentacles but cannons can also. Id take a couple of 100 spear bolts to be safe and plenty of resources for repair. Now SOTD are killable a few ships cannons to kill them would probs be good Galleons- Sail config doesnt mater much. Large amount of broadside cannons to do passes when the shield is down. Probably need 500 or so cannonballs and alot of resources to repair. HHope this helps everyone. I will be heading to I8 tonight to park my ship and will be in the discord from around 6pm CET

There is also a vid of people doing it on NA, please make sure you watch this vid so you have an idea of the phases and positioning

- Fixed a bug with the Kraken which would have inflicted a high amount of unintended damage- The Kraken's Barrier will no longer damage ships on collision Hopefully they have fixed the insta kill bug

Hopefully that will make it a little easier! Id post this to reddit aswell