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. 

On 2/25/2019 at 5:28 PM, DannyUK said:

I ride around the island on my horse also and pick up all the maps I find, I do several laps over the days leading upto the weekend, I only do maps on X2 weekend.

As for the amount you get it just isn't worth going for the far away treasure because while you sail several grids to get 5000G I can do about 8 lower level maps in my own grid to get the same amount if not more.

I've just done alot of maps today in my grid and got 13,000G so to me it just isn't worth sailing for god knows how many hours just to pick up 2k - 5k. I would certainly do them if they increased the gold for them but it would have to be a hell of alot to travel far out for it. At the moment though gold is useless apart from paying NPC and upgrading etc, I have enough gold to last a long long time.

If the recent talk of a server wipe is immanent I suppose the gold won't matter anyway.

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 

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

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

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 

1 hour ago, Semila said:

you can't kill the SOTD in PVE? how's that?

Think its a bug atm but really u dont want to wasting ammo on them, just avoiding them as much as possible is good as really they just block ur movement as it is so laggy usually they cant hit anything. 

Think the best atm is to get a discord with everyone in, then get a ship list and divide that into 4 teams for each quadrant. Each team should have 3/4 brigs and 1/2 galleons. Its gunna be hard due to the insta gib mechanic but hopefully they will patch that before friday  

37 minutes ago, postal1988 said:

From what i saw and heard Balistas work better against the tentacles. But to beat the Kraken itself and the Sotds it spawns you need Canons and a big stock of ammo it is a Realy long fight if you are u bringing a Brigantine you shuld bring some balistas on it aswell.

 

In PvE u cant kill the SOTD so dont even waste ammo trying. The strat is to have brigs all lined up in a circle to kill the tentacles, and galleons doing broadside passes when shield is down.

Was really hoping someone would organise this. I would be happy to bring a Brig with front facing harpoons to deal with the tentacles. We also have a large alliance in E7 and I will talk to them tomorrow to see if they would be interested. I confirm that I will defo attend and possibly a few more ships.

Let me know the discord we can use aswell as we will need a few split into different teams.

33 minutes ago, Winter Thorne said:

I think Jat needs some sleep.  

Here's what I think he's saying -

If a player hasn't been active in his claim for 3 days, that land becomes claimable by someone else.  Once the inactive timer goes over 72 HOURS,   (3 days =72 hours) someone else can contest the claim.  Sleeping bodies don't count toward the 3 day timer; you have to actually log in.

If that's the case...wow....please rethink quickly.  3 days is not nearly enough time -  vacations, illness...so many things can legitimately keep an active player away for more than 3 days.

If it's 3 days, you'll never see all the beautiful builds and landscapes we'd like to see in the game.  It'll be shanty town coast to coast, with people constantly on the move.

Hoping I'm wrong....

Just make it so you can extend a flag timer by adding gold to its inventory. In other words if you know you are going to be gone for a week then you need to extend the timer for 4 days. Lets say its 200 gold per 24 hours per flag. That means your flag needs 800 gold in its inventory to stay claimed. 

However I firmly believe that smaller companies should be working in alliances which are larger and not worrying about land claims. Land should really be controlled by the large companies as this is realistic. If you are a small company (i.e. 1 or 2 people) then controlling land SHOULD be difficult, this forces smaller groups to play together and at least create alliances. The problem is that the game offers so much freedom that ATLAS has some many markets to cater to; solo, small groups etc etc. If they make land easier to hold for smaller companies then it has a knock on effect on the large companies that land is too easy to hold and they take up all the space. Balance is the difficult thing and I feel 3 days is fair.

As a PvE player these daily miasions and new quest are extremely exciting. More MMO focused content is what these game is crying out for and these mission will keep giving me incentive to log in every day. Shame me entry didnt make it into the showcase but there are some awesome entries so its understandable. Keep up the hard work, this game has so much potential!

Introducing a replica of the Government House in Port Louis as seen below: 

Unfortunately white paint doesn't show so could not paint it to match. Also made a docks to service the mansion. 

Come visit us on EU PvE E7!

Jat I still cant log into EU PvE. Was at Golden Age Ruins yesterday when I logged out due to server restart. Havent been able to connect last night or today. Ive been able to get into NA PvE by starting anew character there but when I then try to logged back into EU PvE at a freeport my game just crashes with a Host Pending Connection timeout-Lost/timeout pending connection to host. Going to try the battleye fix above and see if any luck

Edit: Success! After using the low memory mode I ignored the error and unresponsiveness for a couple of minutes and the game loaded in! My advice to people is to be patient with the loading screens 

My good ship HMS 420 out on several voyages hunting treasure maps in EU PvE. The first pic was from a golden age ruin where we completed a rank 20 treasure map