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  1. Posted

    32 minutes ago, Whitehawk said:

    The devs do need to speed progress up. It's all very well quoting early access forever, but there will come a time when Atlas is so severely dated, that the gameplay issue will be the least of it. Once the gaming industry starts to move on, Games that are struggling will just sink. And if Atlas goes mainly pvp only then they will need to make the map smaller. Or there will be players sailing around for ages looking for another player to fight. The only way from that would be to have a dedicated combat zone and a mainly pve map.But there just isnt going to be enough pve content for a lot of people.

    UR5 (Unreal 5 engine)looks amazing and has a new feature that we have not seen done before that I know of. Witch might not be saying that much. Regardless, UR5 gives creators of earlier titles the ability to upgrade form UR4 to UR5. This alone gives any game created in UR4 a economical life span through the life of the next engine. So, technically this could not be an issue.

    But something else is going to be an issue, a far bigger issue. Its called "Valheim". With a concept as good and new as this, it is only a matter of time until someone makes a legit sandbox game. Now clearly it wont be Valheim (there are only 5 dudes making that game), but more will come and eventually someone will put some money into the project. 

    Now Atlas is in year 3 of development and on its, what are we at now? 3rd or 4th set of people working on it. It is really starting to look like they wont get this one off of the ground. That is a big shame. They seem to still be searching for a theme, insane. ITS FUCKING PIRATES! Geniuses, one and all.

    I don't know if you have noticed, but Atlas is already mainly PvP. If you need proof, exhibit A is the fact that no one even bothered to make sure that the new PvP towers didn't make it into the PvE version. Lol there is exactly nothing that they can provide on those servers except mayhem with zero recourse. Exhibit B, Just about every problem you have on PvE is solved in PvP. Its not a separate version, its just PvP with dmg to self and structures toggled off for other players.

  3. Posted

    On 3/12/2021 at 7:04 AM, DiseasedLeopard said:

    It would be nice if tickets were actually answered and not automatically marked as "solved".

    Dude you gotta let this go. It aint gunna happen. This game is not released, its in EA. Everything you are doing is testing for enjoyment. No one is checking these tickets, and frankly you shouldn't expect them too as that would likely take away from development.

    To be more concise, they don't know how to fix your problem at this time, so it wouldn't do them any good to try. Your problem stems from the product being unfinished and in a state of construction.

    Nobody calls the elevator repair man to come before the installation crew is done installing it.

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  4. Posted

    13 hours ago, Ranger1k said:

    @Chucksteak

    First off you just made me go watch Full Metal Jacket, fugger 🙂

    Gotta side with @PHaRTnONu and @Nacona regarding spies, insiding and the opinion that access mechanics are a pain in the ass.

    Well your welcome, its a great movie. 🙂 

    In addition to not wanting anyone to ever have that much control over MY gameplay, I also think it is appropriate for there to be an escalating amount of risk in having a bigger company. The whole pesky risk/reward thing. This is my opinion and you can side against it certainly.

    However the fact is that this is not at all currently an issue for megas, as many of them have full rosters with no issues picking up members to stay full. Just a wish for some people to have more control over others. If you don't trust me with full access, then don't invite me. I wouldn't join in any event.

  5. Posted

    On 3/7/2021 at 5:44 PM, Pant said:

    Theres a limit to trade routes so no and storing gold on lawless is a bad idea for obvious reasons.

    There is not a limit to alt companies. There are plenty of places in lawless where gold is stored by megas. I have lived on lawless for 90% of my Atlas life. I have managed to never loose any gold or materials that I did not want to loose. It is, er sorry, WAS actually pretty easy to keep your stuff secure.

    These are all facts.

    Now that anyone can claim it all before I even finish driving to work in the morning, I am not so sure.

  6. Posted

    On 3/7/2021 at 2:50 PM, Pant said:

    Megas don't care about lawless... why would they?  Why would a mega spend resources and time to claim lawless bobs beach shack? If you took 20 people to lawless how long do you think people will find it fun to 20v1 a lawless bob or shooting empty structures? 

     

    Megas do care about lawless. Perhaps not in the way you think. I refer to it as an exploit, but it might not fit that definition. 

    What's better than having a few markets on your island for trade? Going to the adjacent lawless tiles and taking over some islands to setup more markets and WH to trade with yourself. Ever wonder why the megas have millions of gold? Its sheer volume. 50+ people cant generate that much gold on an island, but by dominating several lawless they basically farm gold in unlimited amounts.

    This is the problem, this is what us solos and smalls are complaining about when we say its hard to get gold and keep markets up. The ever brilliant devs stated that the markets were to help the solos and smalls and that there would be incentives for megas to let them exist and earn their keep. They were obviously wrong as the incentive ended up being to dominate the land of solos and smalls (lawless) and take it over for their own trade rather than trade with the markets we set up. This is overlooked and not discussed enough.

    When it comes to gold, its clearly an incentive to take 20 guys to wipe out 1 solos area to earn another 10-50k a day.

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  7. Posted

    On 3/7/2021 at 12:26 PM, Ranger1k said:

    You know 75% of hardcore players have alts right? Even requiring island points won't provide a deterrent.

    Yeah people keep talking about all these alts and spy accounts. I think 75% is an exaggeration. I have met lots of people. Many that play so much more than me, I would call them hardcore. Only one guy ever had an alt and that was for crafting back when INT was broken.

  9. Posted

    On 3/4/2021 at 6:16 PM, PHaRTnONu said:

    #3 Adjusting Company and alliance sizes ONLY HURT NEW PLAYERS. STOP ASKING FOR IT
    Here what would happen, we would come in w 5 company's capped we would have us all in the same discrod, we would still operate and work and resource BP's as one company.
    So while all 200 of us roll you, you would be stuck w your 35 man company crying..... No option for you to absorb new company's, no way to expand your social interactions.

    What the DEV's NEED to do is FIX PERMISSIONS!!!!!!!

    Literally NEVER going invite new players able to come in and scuttle all the boats in the harbor. The permission tree is one HORRID area that is never addressed, probably cause most of us larger company's are tiered of Giving the solutions written out and being ignored and seeing DUMB QUESTIONS like this get a breath in the room.
    Your problem is you are being rolled by big company's right?
    The solution isn't your problem (make big company smaller), your solution is to LOWER the barrier to you being a BIGGER COMPANY. What holds you back? what is the #1 issue holding you back to being a larger company? THATS THE SOLUTION.
    1 Boxes being able to place INTO but not remove items
    1 REWORKING permission to ship's on individual basis, and Company permissions. Take a look at star base, Duel universe, Star citizen. THOSE permission tables while complex are there because THEY ARE NEEDED and serve a purpose. ATLAS doesnt have them and HAS A INCLUSION PROBLEM. Large company  don't invite and teach new people, Because they have TO MUCH CONTROL AND ABILITY TO REEK HAVOC. If we could limit there ability to place structures offensive weapons (cannons, barrle bombs the works) on owned islands, SCUTTLE SHIPS!? Why is this even a option for the lowest ranks still!!!! been crying for that fix since Season 1. If we could also set permission on certain ships to add company members ability to repair/replace/drive/scuttle on a ship by ship basis, we could invite new people train/teach them.

    With out those controls its easier to leave the bobs on the shore and sink them. #1 issue is inclusion and barrier to invite new players. its not the company size is to big, its the ability to invite is to risky. Fix that and you have a WHOLE NEW BREADTH of ability to make the game better. (maybe increase ship counts to 75 or 100. every one in the company wants a boat... YOUR GOAL IS SHIP COMBAT?! why limit a companys ability to have ships then!!!!!!!! no one like that.)


     

    I am a solo and you are clearly in a mega company. Likely abusing several thing as megas are wont to do. Since you seem to be speaking for me, let me help you out on some details.

    For starters you are wrong. I can prove it very easily. Most megas are currently full roster. Meaning there is no issue inviting people currently. Certainly not to the point where you have trouble maxing out membership. When you say "Literally NEVER going invite new players able to come in and scuttle all the boats in the harbor." You are "Literally" wrong.

    The main #1 reason we do not want to be in a mega is because of what you are advocating for more of here. WE DO NOT WANT A FUCKING DICTATOR WHEN WE PLAY A GAME.

    You want to lock me out of more things after you invite me to your company? Oh YOU can say what boat I sail. YOU can say when and where I can build. You can say what doors I can and cant use. YOU CAN GO FUCK YOURSELF IS WHAT YOU CAN DO! At least with that I must own you view. 

    Your idea would make people leave your precious mega more than it would attract anyone of use to your cause.

    You want the solo players to join bigger companies? Take away the threat of restricting our in game access. All doors, boxes, buildings, boats should be unlocked to every company member 110%. Basically, everything I can do as a solo I should still be able to do as a member of a company. Else why would I join people and lose content? Do I look like a slave? Do you want to be a slave?

    I'm not trying to be a dick. Would you join my company if I told you everything you could and couldn't do? If I had 200 people and said hey, "this is your schooner, there are many like it but this one is yours." I believe you would tell me to go fuck myself.

    I'm just saying, please don't be so attached to your fake shit I game that you want to oppress people to get your jollys off.

     Knowing full well you were all 100+ against 50s-80s, you took 200 people to fight 35? Well, I guess I hope it was a rewarding experience. Megas sure sound like a blast.

     

     

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  10. Posted

    On 3/4/2021 at 4:50 PM, ATLAS said:

     

    :anchor: New lawless Land Claim Changes:anchor:

    In the patch dropping early next week, we’ll be introducing a new claim system to the lawless regions of Atlas. Moving forward, Pathfinders will now be able to claim land in these areas using a claim tower that will claim everything within its radius after it reaches full health. This takes about 45 minutes and may be sped up with gold. These changes will take effect immediately with the release of the new update and will make your structures be vulnerable to being claimed by others. Armored Docks may be claimed in this manner, and that includes the ships docked there! 

    Previously we mentioned that there may be a wipe with the new claim system if it becomes necessary. However, we are able to implement this without requiring it, so please note that there is NO WIPE at this time.

    Note to Private Server Owners: Private servers will be unaffected by this change - functionality to make this change to your server will come in the patch after.

     

     

    Devs

    You left in islands that megas can own in multiples. You possibly fucked every solo on lawless. I mean PROPER FUCKED! 

    Can these be destroyed while I am at work?

    Can people put down multiples of these or just 1 per person or company?

    Can my tower be overrode by another adjacent tower?

    Can Megas still own several islands and then still go out into lawless and span claim areas for free to exploit market trades?

    No wipe? 

    Guys, I give you the benefit of a doubt at every opportunity. How about you flesh out some details. As it is, it appears you fucked solos and smalls into oblivion right now. 

     

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  11. Posted

    On 3/6/2021 at 6:15 PM, chukiki said:

    Ill always update this list

    If you do not respond to our feed back and update your posts again like no one responded, we are all going to report you and ban you from the forums for just being an obnoxious asshole who is unwilling to engage in his own topics.

    A lot of big words there for you I know. Feel free to use google translate.

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  12. Posted

    You want to remove;

    Armored Docks

    BPs

    SoTD

    Peace time

    Freeports

    Stuns

    Feats for most melee weps

    level bonuses

    aging

    Ship customization 

    Structures (or at least any remaining usefulness of them)

    Ownership of structures

    Rewarding players who prosper

    bar shots

    All gold sinks

    handcuffs

    Reload timers

    Player announcement for entering or leaving a server

    Ship weight penalty

    company size caps

    Did I miss anything?

    You want to have;

    Ships be equal in stats

    Players be equal in stats

    All gear and weps be equal in stats

    Ships be free

    No bases (proved by your wanting to tear them down so fast no one would bother building them)

    Very little PvE and a heavy focus on PvP

    @chukiki Dude, honestly, you are wanting to play "Sea of Thieves". You take ALL of this out and get what you want, you basically have a shitty version of Sea of Thieves.

     

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  13. Posted · Edited by Chucksteak

    On 3/3/2021 at 9:38 AM, Caine said:

    Not sure how you guys play the game, but from what I can read you are doing a lot wrong. I had over a million gold and 4 land pieces. Every tame and ship I wanted, mythic ship all kraken, sea horses whatever. What are you doing in this game all day long?

    LOL

    23 minutes ago, Caine said:

    I already gave everything to a small group of player because I´m not playing anymore. The game is very boring actually.

    Sure you did. 

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  15. Posted

    1 hour ago, Pant said:

    Season 2, 3 and 4 had between 1400 - 1500 average players when they were wiped. Average player numbers right now is at 2100 and we lost 24% of the players in february, if that continues this month we'll be at 1500 players at the start of april.

    The current player count has nothing to do with weather or not a wipe occurs. It is driven by necessity when a big enough change happens. In the past these were normally map/claim related changes that could otherwise not have been done without a wipe. 

    You could argue that resetting the characters was not necessary. I preferred it though, with the rampant exploits, especially early on.

  16. Posted

    3 minutes ago, Max Deckert said:

    I have been searching around for an answer to this question before making this post but haven't had any luck.  Do resource gathering structures like the mine and the quarry only gather the types of resources that are visible in the environment?  Thank you all for any help.

     

    Max

    Yes. You can hold "H" and should be able to see a blue sphere. It will collect the appropriate mats that are located inside this sphere.

  18. Posted

    1 hour ago, George Catcher said:

    I mean... if there will be a wipe soon, I just won't make it in time. So DEVs SHOULD MAKE A STATEMENT of at least do they plan to wipe everything SOON or not?

    I guess I'm within those ppl. I just lost everything to trololol players and I feel I'm just not ready to start over, knowing all might be erased soon...

    Man, sailing a brig as a solo...ballsy. I stay with the smaller cheaper boats personally. You don't feel as crushed when you run across a mythic that is faster than it has any right to be.

    About the wipe. I really do not believe they have any date in mind themselves. They probably know weather or not they will wipe, and I assume they will at some point. However they likely do not know for sure when work will be finished on the thing that will necessitate a wipe. We all assume (and hope) it will be the new claim system.

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  21. Posted

    On 2/20/2021 at 10:08 AM, Asuroh said:

    nope, never had someone answer and it's still happening, submitted 2 tickets with 2 different coordinates and they were insta solved without answer

    Yeah tickets arent really a thing. I wouldnt rely on that. I guess it's just bugged for now. Let me know if you figure it out.

  24. Posted

    On 2/15/2021 at 9:06 AM, Dev Crusher said:

    Message to the self-proclaimed solo superheroes in mythical armor and with mythical carbine, who solo one-handed Hydra, Kraken and God : It is NOT possible ! The average solo can never have gear above blue.

    You can easily solo a hydra with normal plate armor and normal bow and arrow. I have done this before. OK easily is not the right adjective. But it is harder to find it and get into position than it is to kill it.

    I THINK you can solo the kraken. But I do not think you can solo it with normal gear. I could be wrong, but I did see a youtube of a dude doing it solo.

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