Shintai

You listed the perfect solution.

The game evolves around mega companies. They even talked about this on the stream. 500 man companies are too small. While my company is still on the top of the cake (PvE server), it´s just a matter of when some new mechanic or one of the notorious admin cheating companies will get us. Claim/Taxing system, you make rich people more rich. And on PvE you can always play devils advocate with your tenants. 4 days to move or else...and the passive income is ezmode for us. Also 95%+ of all taxed claims are set to 30% because...well 30% was the highest possible Then there is the issue like fountain of youth that currently needs no further explanation. But don´t worry, in some future after you ran around with the infamous debuff you may get a heir to grind. Lawless is extremely overpopulated for the same reason and griefing is rampant there. You know when you enter a lawless server because they are the only servers that lag. I cant imagine how long it will be before we see the first entirely closed island. Discovery points are already being walled off because someone allowed people to build there. Some will try and sink your ship (Still possible), others will try blockade you, some will try sink your ship via undersea construction. The list is endless. You can´t claim anything with people in it or overlapping circles. So a single person can actively defend an entire server tile in PvE while being offline. In short, as long as all the mechanics are in that so massively favour mega companies and claim everything you can mentality. Then you wont have a chance. Cheats and shady behavior may or may not be stopped at least. Just wait till the sea zones come, map will be nothing but a green/red/teal overlay where you pass one annoying flag message after the other.

The problem is the way spawn mechanics work. In the morning I often see entire islands dominated by predators and sometimes that's Cobras. But it can also be Tiger/Lions or Wolfpacks. Running around on an Island with 25 Cobras after you... And yes, they glitch through walls and can damage anything but stone. The rule is to build everything 2 floors up.

The game already got companies not harvesting a single item, yet can push out a new Galleons daily. Everytime I look in our bank I just think, this is wrong while I struggle to go back to the storage lockers we keep adding more off.

Masts clip through currently. But if that will last in the future nobody knows. I do think you need the ceiling to be higher than the masts however. The only true way if you want future security is to use a Schooner as the max size with 4 small masts. Technically a Brigantine with 5 (or more?) small masts would fit too, but...

In terms of the weight issue I have found anything you harvest/demolish always adds. And one of the best ways to get weight is by doing demolish on ship planks. Then it will become a negative feedback cyclus. More weight, next ship, more weight.

If it is like PvP servers they simply use admin cheats. Meaning nothing you can do against them. It also means they can and likely have spawned endless amounts of resources in their bases. Watching twitch streams of said action is just heart breaking.

A big issue currently is it seems like a toss up if a ship decays or not when anchored. We have a guy in K11 EU PvE that tries to ship spam blockade us, and far from all his ships decay despite no crew etc. Another issue is the ship sleepers in claim areas that will always contest. These also makes a small but persistent ship buildup of anchored ships that never goes away. And you can currently forever be annoyed by a person who came to your docks and just shortly after decided this game wasn't for him or her.

There seem to be 2 major issues and it´s not so much about contesting in an anchored ship. 1. Sleeper never go off, we know several places now where players have been off for 2 weeks+, yet you can touch the claim. 2. Ship decay for anchored ships depending on location if often close to 0. Meaning same said gone people contest claims as sleepers. 3. Same ships slowly build up and just become more and more. Even rafts that never goes away. Specially if they used docking facilities inside your claim or simply filled up the beach line it becomes messy real fast.

SOD do camp borders. We have killed several SODs in unwanted fights because we get attacked straight after passing servers. This is with fast clients, fast loading.

I think it´s a bug that its 5 days instead of 50 days.

In the current implementation I can only say no to the age mechanic. But this is due to a few factors. 1. Extreme speed of aging. People didn´t even play a month yet. 2. The Fountain of Youth difficulty and movement speed. 3. No heir implementation yet and hence no way for many to get rid of the debuff. 4. Permadeath. The debuff alone should be more than enough incentive to do either Fountain of Youth or heirs. If the 4 above got fixed, then I likely be happy to keep aging.

In terms of farming, anything rock cant grow anything. I don´t know why the plot simply isn't invalid like they did on ships now. Large and small plot is currently the same. I assume farming as such is waiting for a major overhaul, including more plants, fixing plot types and sizes and so on.

I agree, we see significantly more SODs and they have a tendency to hang around in clusters as well now.

Lion/Tiger/Wolf Alphas are the only problems. Rest either isn't extreme aggro or can be handled movement wise.

-70 to -80C isn't uncommon in the temperate when a storm hits. Always been that.

Dragons, whales etc spawned in.

Seeing 2 dragons and 4 whales.

Again?

Go to a temperate freeport and collect 20000 fiber in 5 minutes.

The decay issue is a big problem for the trading. If trading was possible outside Freeports it would be another matter. There are a 117 ways you can lose the ability to login before ship is destroyed. And they are anything from technical to real life.

I agree with Devs, if anything they should have a larger carry capacity. Nothing should have weight reduction for anything. Personally I would like to see almost all tames gone anyway. Ride a horse, milk a cow, farm some chickens? Sure...ride a tiger or rhino? Hell no.

Agree, its outright painful to watch.

Just as a note, sea claims are more important than they seem. So it´s not as easy as just removing them unless you just want people diving to the bottom to place land flags.

That's quite interesting.