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George Catcher

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  1. 14 - Damned ships issues. For all past seasons damned ships were engaging us when we were close enough. It was like that: - We see damned ships - they do their mindless circles. - We see level and health of them - meaning we are dangerously close. - We see health bar - meaning damned ship engaged and gonna shoot us. Right now it seems to me - their engage radius became very large. They go intercept us as soon as they draw. So if we are in full speed on schooner, or ride tradewind - if we see damned ship, it means he gonna intercept and shoot. I mean it's not big deal to receive some damage. To loose couple planks, ceilings, railings. To keep like 15 wallhooks in box, to replace them after yet another damned ship destroy yet another wallhook. But... It's just no fun. They just annoys us twice as before. ESPECIALLY IN TRADEWIND, where you can not possible avoid them due to lack of high speed maneuverability. So... what I wanna say is - give us a chance to avoid them. Increase their draw distance already!!! Or brings us some XP bonus flying high speed near I dunno... ------------------ One more thing. For couple times I crossed! And as soon as game loaded (and it happens very fast I have 32GB RAM and SSD) I found myself near camping damned ships who already shoot me several times!!! Really. It's like that. - I ride my well repaired schooner with planks of 5098 health. - I hit the border. - All loaded. - I see 2 planks missing, 4 planks leaking. - I see lvl-40 damned galley and couple damned schooners around me with alot of damned cannonballs flying from everywhere and alot of overlapping numbers And that's the WRONGEST feature you ever made. You made player hit the border with no way to know what's on the other side. And then - camping damned ships, do their attack while players loading and doesn't even know they dying. This is the best way to make ppl feel helpless. And they feel it because you made a game works in injustice way. (You do know this issues are most hated by players from all over the world right? To feel helpless and injustice). So I just repeat what I wrote earlier. Code and introduce restricted areas for damned ships. Some distance from the borders. Some distance along tradewind paths.
  2. I've got 5K for schooner and 10k more in just 3 days, doing lvl-5 - lvl-13 treasures with wild-lvl-28 bear I tamed. And I think I'm the only one who likes the idea of putting efforts to your ships (meaning I like the idea of gold cost for ships).
  3. I'll add more weird issue I experience. I now do Powerstones, and for that I put 5 cannons on my Schooner's stern. When I successfully kite Hydra, I press shoot (LMB) - and my 4 canons do volley. The guy from one central cannon - dismount instead of shooting
  4. 13 - Custom sail paint draw distance is WAAAAAAY TOO LOW!!! I saw a Galey with white sails approaching. When this ship was near it turned out he has custom sails paint (the paint appeared on sails one by one as ship came closer). I mean C'mon DEVs! We don't draw sails just for ourselves. We also wanna show off in front of other players! This is MMO game after all! And if ppl are bother, learning how to do it, install photoshop and this ARK-converter tool, gather mats, create paint dyes... they would like other players to see that. And it turns out - most of time ppl just see white sails, and only sees our works if they approach close enough? (And I mean really close!!!) I mean REALLY! We would sail white sails, if we wanna other players to see our white sails.
  5. 12 - Pick and Axe now gathering more stone than flint. While it's always was Pick for flint (gather more flint than stone) and Axe for stones (gather more stones than flint)
  6. You'll see message if they are too far, so no worries. If you able to place them - you fine.
  7. Hahaha, I've been to your grid yesterday. It was fun to see Fairy Tail do some chat with Looney Tunes (I probably for the first time ever gonna buy breed tame from someone. Interested mostly in breed Tiger, but right now it's a bit early for this I guess).
  8. 11 - My crew leaving stations after I cross. I'll add to what @Myrm said last message. I have same issue. One of my crew keep leaving his station after I cross the grid. It's always the same guy whose duty is on the central cannon on stern. 12 - Damned ships need to have restricted areas. Ok, here is the deal. After you introduced gold cost for ships (which is I'm wholeheartedly approve) ppl no more ride Brigs and Galleys. I mean there are some PPL ride those, but not as many as before. If I meet traffic in ocean, 50% of ships will be Sloops, 25% - Schooners and other 24.95% are Brigs and Galleys (I saw just a single Ramming Galley since you started to introduce new ships). Do you know what are the consequences of this decision? There are WAY LESS PPL do their Damned Ship hunting right now. Way less ppl clearing they home areas, etc. Most of ppl are just passing by Damned Ships, and Damned Ships are following them for some time. That's why, after time passes by, most of Damned Ships are moving closer to the border and start to do camping there. In fact, I never saw THAT MANY Damned Ships camping borders before gold-cost-for-ship was introduced. Same happening with tradewinds. Ppl are flying high speed and more and more Damned Ships engage, following them to the tradewind path and stops there. The only difference here is a bit bad issue. - There is no point of fighting Damned Ships inside of tradewind, because with like 0.01% of sail ship moving full speed of 30 knots and it doesn't turn at this speed (so no maneuvering and no kiting). - You CAN NOT avoid Damned Ship inside tradewind, because you need instantly change direction by like 40-50 degrees, and with this speed ship does like 1 degree in 2 seconds and it's like 10 seconds before hitting Damned Ship. So... I mean I'm trying to hold "A' or "D" but biggest turn I was able to do is 6 degrees, which is totally not enough. I use those winds alot (and they are so far the best you did for sailing) and I keep receiving damage and hit Damned Ships (and I really looking forward to hit em doing 30 knots on my Ramming Galley ) Anyway. There will be more and more of them there. So I see only solution. You need to code somehow and introduce restricted areas for Damned Ships. Some distance from borders. And now - tradewing path. So if Damned Ship accidently went inside this area out of fighting with player, he then move out the shortest way.
  9. Yeah. I still wanna hear something about the map. - Did they do grids around freeport - old fashion lawless, and some other grids new claimable lawless for purpose? - Or maybe they gonna fix it and turn all grids around freeports to claimable lawless as well?
  10. Areas around Freeports are not claimable : ))
  11. Most worries for me if they are turn areas around freeports to claimable lawless without warning everyone : ))
  12. 10 - Warehouse doesn't collect more that 1 stack of resource. I had 10000 metal in there last evening. Today I found yet 10000 metal. Oh and this resource is keep disappearing from my working mine, but I guess it wont go anywhere just erase from existence.
  13. 09 - Losing hunger in ocean. I actually noticed this one long ago and just keep forgetting to write it down. If I lose stamina and regain it, while sailing, in typical situation I'll lose about 5 hunger (10 for cold and 15 for freezing). But If I lose all stamina and use steering wheel while regain it, I'll lose like 1-2 hunger. Not sure if this one is a feature or bug?
  14. 08 - Tradewind issues. During night rain tradewind path on the ocean surface is invisible. There are some places on map where tradewind path showed, there is a path on ocean surface, but it doesn't provide any x-tra speed: G5: D8: Here on D8 I've tried something. - I exit tradewind path, but this green wind icon and also orange waving lines in sails stayed with me no matter how far I went from tradewind. I back to tradewind path and no matter what direction I sailed - green wind icon was there. And I got NO speed bonus. - I relog the game. After that green wind icon disappeared and never appeared back. Even after I entered tradewind path again. No speed bonus. - I sailed to the border, crossed, and then went back to tradewind path. Green icon didn't appeared and I've got no extra speed at all. Next C8 grid was fine. I have some guesses, which I'm gonna test later. Before I hit D8 I was riding tradewind and crossind the border in long turn, holding "D" key while hit the border. Maybe THAT was a reason this server broken down for me?
  15. 08 - (need to be fixed ASAP) crew in "following" state on the ship don't follow pathfinder. Ok, you DO know that hired crew can use JUST CLOSEST station on the ship, right??? Meaning - if closest one is the sail - I can only press "use sail" in round menu. If closest one is steering wheel, I'll see only "use steering wheel". To make them use specific station I had to order them to follow me, lure them to the station I need, and then press "use station I need" in round menu. Well. It's not that easy anymore. If crew ON THE SHIP, if I press "enable following" in behaver (or if I press "T" whistle - following), instead of follow me, my crew will try to reach ship center at all costs. So I can only put them to the closest station from ship center. In my situation - to get my crew use ballistas on stern, I have to stop my ship, jump to the water with my crew, swim from behind and from there press "use ballista". You know this feature is already troublesome, because in some cases I had to lure crew to the different part of the ship before they reach right position. And somehow you made it even worse and absurd. So PLEACE bring things at least back to where they were before patch!!!
  16. 07 - Let's talk about farms a bit more. I wanna ask DEVs - do you really have a vision of game you creating? Or you just randomly mess with numbers and then see, what happens? Before wipe, we were trading with Nacona. My 2 farms (windmill and lumberyard) were enough to get 100 ships running constantly, and we had average 6K gold a day income. With current gathering rate, each farm will provide... like 5-6 ships a day. I mean real time day. So. I didn't set my trading yet because with so little wares I receive by farming - I doubt anyone will ever be willing to trade with me. I remember what you said when you introduced trading. "Trading is the way to earn gold". It's not anymore. I mean, if I place like 8-10 good gathering rate farms around, I'll get some good numbers. For that I'll have to claim like 20% of really big island or up to 70% of smaller one. I'm about to start high level treasure hunt, so maybe I'll get better gathering rate BPs, but now, my 117% mine brings about 4K metal in 12h. My 114% lumberyard - about 3K wood and thatches in 12h. So. The way I see it. You set huge restriction radius for farming structures, so players wouldn't build a lot of farming structures around. You dramatically reduce gathering rate, so players would want to build a lot of farming structures around. It's like you want players to build a lot of farming structures and at the same time - you don't want players to build a lot of farming structures. So my question is simple. Do you have a vision of how it should work? If so - tell us about it? You want just megas to do trading maybe? P.S - Before I replaced my Windmill to Mine, it also gathered like 3K fibers in half of day. You do understand that with a bear I can gather 3K fiber in just 2 paw swipe? So windmill (which is required alloys to build) it totally useless trash now, because with a bear I can gather same amount of fiber faster than I go get and deliver fuel for windmill.
  17. That's how it's work now. Unfortunately. We are all still waiting for devs make statement about that.
  18. You know what I'm worried about? DEVs can suddenly realize - those areas around freeports are unclaimable, and it suppose to be new lawless. And then they just release some fix patch without telling anyone. Somewhere at 5:00 am in European time. So every1 who later logs in find their bases claimed. GG WP.
  19. Mines collect metal from rocks. Just there are some rocks with "extended hud info" shows that they have metal in em, but they don't.
  20. Alright let me speak a bit about new farms. 06 - Farms radius must be GONE!!! Bring "per company per island instead!!!" I read some posts that you made windmill to gather just fibers, vegis and berries for purpose. So. Before patch, I had my windmill gathering for me: Fibers, Stones, Flint, Wood, Thatches, Metal and Sap. I also add lumberyard to maximize my profit from trading and after that - my warehouse was full of stuff. Now, to reach just basic I had from my windmill before patch, I have to place 4 farms!!! What does in mean? It means I need to capture HUGE territory for just myself. So check it out. I settled on BIGGEST size island in a game. One of those 2KM wide. I placed my 2 farms as close to eachother as possible. I measured distance (by making screenshots) of farm radius and opened photoshop. I repeat. I live in BIGEST TYPE OF ISLAND right now. And I wonder. What if every players who settle there, wish to have their 4 farms??? How many players will get what they want on the biggest island? You know what? If they place their farms just as close to eachother as possible, then it'll gonna be just 11 players. Like this: I didn't put farms on empty cliffs. Now. This situation is unreal because we not just put our farms close to eachother. We also want farms to reach our warehouse. We also need to place farms to resourceful spot to get best from them. So... typical REAL situation will be something this like: Just 6 players. And only 4 of them have 4 farms. - So imagine the same picture on island twice as small? - Players says there are some island where even 1 player cant put 4 farms there. - And I saw a lot of messages like this: "Man... I have to capture so big space! I just don't want this!!! I just wanna keep my base compact and have my farms around it!!!" So the BEST solution I see here is simple. Get rid of farms radius. Bring it "...per company per island" instead. You afraid of ppl overflood all with farms? Well... make them wanna place just 1... Or you can even go opposite. Make player able to build 4 farms IN SMALL RADIUS from first farm they placed!!! Right now we have like a lot of unhappy ppl just in my grid. - Some of them unhappy because they didn't get a spot for at least a single farm. - Some of them unhappy because they forced to capture like 10% of huge island.
  21. Ok, today I for the 1st time ride a tradewing. Just if you curious about speed - 25% loaded sloop with common mid-speedsail goes 25knots. Speed increased at center, and decreased to 22knots and lower depends on how close you to the edges. To make me see things better (due to sloop is really low) I had to sail with my LMB hold most of my time.
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