DannyUK

They could do with updating building materials. I mean every wood wall you build is that horrible white/cream colour. Tried painting it but doesn't look much different in brown. I'm looking forward to seeing more stuff but I'm certainly not excited.

No they don't unfortunately, they have the odd Mods who come on to read but the rest don't bother. They need to allocate a few people from the team to be active and sort this mess out. I'm starting to think the devs favour the Chinese or they have some sort of input or financial reasons. This has been happening more and more and they don't do a thing about it.

I think most of us have been saying this but they never listen, surely can't be that hard to fix and stick it in with the patch they keep giving us daily? People keep saying "they are listening to the community" yeah right. We are testing the game for them and find these game changing bugs yet they carry on as if they are not bothered, why test them in the first place? I've logged on in the morning many times to find a cobra in a secure base. I since put all my animals on a upper floor to try and protect them yet when I log on I find them dropping through the floors with the snakes hissing at them. Lost many tames to these damn cobras, how hard can it be for devs to stop this? When you build it should have a certain distance where they don't spawn near it. Come on guys sort this out please, can't keep expecting us to tame and level animals only for them all to be killed like this.

I've built a tower with canons manned by NPC's. The trouble is the option "fire at ships only" does not work, there is a bug with it They seem to fire at everything that moves in the sea. They will go through alot of cannon balls so if you have enough its not a problem, I don't want to waste ammo like that. I've switched mine off until they fix it. Pointless at the moment but you could build something ready

I tried it the other week on Oculus but I just couldn't get it to work, it crashed. I have a RTX 2080 so should be able to play but would not work. I gave up with it but I'm interested also to know what its like.

Come on this is a joke now, I mean surely the dev team have to take this seriously at some point? I feel they get a kick out of it watching these things happen, it wouldn't surprise me if they are joking about it in the office and watching these clips for fun. I don't see them doing anything with this sort of thing, the Chinese are well known to do this. Why can't they have Admins in game to sort this stuff out? When it happens and a report comes in, teleport to that location and watch, ban the player simple as that. I hope you get this sorted I really do, it's no fun when these things happen.

I think it's happened to most of us by now, got sunk by SOTD. I was sunk the other week sailing through G6 and through no fault of my own my game crashed (shooter game error) frantically trying to log back on because the ship will be sailing away. I manage to log in 3 minutes later only to find myself up against SOTD, trying to turn, I manage to sail away but not before the steering wheel smashes and a plank below. The only fault of mine was not making spares but i've since learnt that lesson. I think they spawn way to many in at times, i've counted 6 spawn in front of me at any 1 time. There is no need for spawning so many, i'm just glad they go around in circles and not direct toward you as you're facing forwards otherwise that would be even harder. Many times i've been loaded to capacity and had to quickly steer away. The advantage of having a full load means you're moving slower and see them before it's to late.

If you can get at least 1 NPC as soon as possible, you should really have them on the sails anyway because it makes life so much easier. NPC can repair your ships for you by taking it from the resource chest. I once thought it was to expensive to buy NPC's until I started doing the treasure maps. Do a few of those and you'll have enough gold to last for ages. Other than that I just have all the resources on my body and repair myself around the ship.

Yes the devs made the mechanics and suddenly changed it favouring the first timers the system is clearly broken. What gives a landlord the right to charge rent? Because he paid for it for a set price. They didn't pay for the house and the bank comes calling asking for more money than listed (moving the goalposts) I don't see it as favour towards the new members so we beg to differ. Like I said many times before, I have no interest in the claim flags. I'm very happy where I am on lawless until they decide to fix the system and there will be a wipe at some point, it's inevitable.

No thanks, I play PVE for a reason and it's not to declare war. If I want to declare a war I would go and play PVP. I've seen that option in the menu "declare war" nobody is going to accept that invitation unless you are a big company taking on a small company. People want to build in peace and go out on adventures, that's why we play PVE. I found some nice people on PVE who help each other out, I wouldn't change to PVP for anything.

Yes but why should the people get to keep those flag when the devs have changed the rules, surely you can't see this as fair to everyone? So you say people will rent land, what gives them the right to rent it in the first place? If they wiped the claims and started again with the fresh rules they brought in then I'd agree with you but not when they move the goal posts 3 weeks in so they get the advantage. What they should have done when they announced the change of rules around flags was to say ok guys we are changing how claim flags work now, we will make it fair for everyone and let you claim the flags again. You can't just suddenly change the rules in favour of those who started the game first, that is not fair to new members at all. As I said before, they game is favoured towards the big Twitch streamers with big companies, they are not interested in the small timers. I'm very happy on lawless right now and if they turfed everyone off it I'd be saying goodbye to the game and I know alot of others would also.

Yes I'm in favour of that idea. I had a similar one in flags costing gold, everyone gets 1 free flag to start off somewhere, you want another it will cost you say 1000G and jumps up dramatically on each flag you buy. This will get rid of some of the gold, there's just nowhere for the gold to go at the moment, got more than I know what to do with. I don't know why they don't just open the lawless area up. When you demolish a structure you get nothing back, you should at least get some mats back like you do demolishing your own structures. Once they sort the flag system out I will happily go out looking, I know there is flags out there to be had but I have no interest when it's broken and all the stories off people stealing their land through glitches and bugs, not for me so I'm quite happy on lawless for now.

Yes I also think they should carry more weight. I only have a few NPC right now but does anyone know the total amount allowed for a company? There is only 2 of us so not sure if it's based on how many are in the company or everyone is set a limit.

Yes I have also done the same thing, set up a tower because people bringing in SOTD. Can't use them right now, they fire off at everything that's moving so i've had to turn them all off. I can't afford to waste ammo like that.

I never played Ark so can't compare the two but I like the tames. They need seriously looking at though as they are broken right now with glitching through floors and breeding not working. They are going to add a crab I believe to carry more weight, not sure how taming this would work, under water or on land? It's all nice if you have the man power crew, some of us don't have that.

The same bugs exists, they don't listen to the community at all. Big Twitch streamers on the other hand, well different story. I don't see the main issues people asked for changed. Cobras coming through walls. Animals spawning in base. NPC fire at ships only, tames vanishing/clipping through floors, I see non of these addressed.

I'm still having fun playing it but I see very little communication and the same bugs keep popping up. My view is it won't turn out to be a great game in the future because they are unwilling to listen. We test the game for them and point out simple bugs that have big impact on the game yet they still appear after daily patches. If they can't solve these in a short time I don't hold out much hope.

Well I've got to say when I read the list I haven't heard of any of them. Certainly haven't been across my way so not that big. Must be a mistake surely.

Yes same as me, I do exactly that. Spend the whole weekend weighed down with gold, got more than I know what to do with lol.

You sure it was the game itself though? The Chinese are well known to hack and exploit to do these things. I wouldn't trust the Chinese as far as I could throw them . I'm sure the odd few are ok but unfortunately for them the majority of Chinese aren't.

They simply don't care that's the bottom line of it. They do play the game themselves but having fun with it and not listening to what is going on. I bet you any money if this sort of thing happened to 1 of those admins in game playing they'd be kicked and banned before you can blink.

Said it before many times and ill say it again, you are right they don't care about the community. The only ones they'll take notice of is the big Twitch streamers. Watch their Twitch stream, no organisation, no clear communication, it was more like a lads night on a Friday. They have made the game how they like it and disregard anything the community want. Don't get me wrong I'm having fun with it while it lasts but I have no hope for it in the future.

I've been calling for that since day 1. I was always getting lost because the red X was hiding in the sea of red. I no longer have this issue as I'm on lawless but I hope it gets fixed soon.

Chinese? Well what do you know, how did I guess. Pathetic how people do this, I don't think the devs are interested, been many Chinese doing this and get away with it. A great dev team would actually communicate with the community but they don't.

Well as for the SOTD, i've just built a small defence tower near my ships with cannon along with NPC's. The trouble is there's a bug with "fire at ships only" it is firing at everything that moves in the water, can't really use it as defence unless you have endless ammo, which is a waste. The main bugs for me are SOTD getting pulled in "griefing" lost NPC's and tames bouncing up and down off the ship. Tames glitching through floors and ships. Cobras coming into a secure base through doors and walls. Why can't they make animals not spawn in bases or where you have built? If anyone played 7 days to die there was no spawning when you build there, surely not that hard? I have no interest in claim flags until that is seriously looked at, the system is broken and I will wait to see what they do. If they pull everyone off lawless and force people to go for flags I will say goodbye to the game and let them get on with it.