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Why Black Stabbath thinks every person in the game thats not him is a "virgin" or "nerd" is some introspection hes going to need to do on himself. Most gamers are just normal dudes, but his point is valid. Fast travel as it exist is terrible and counter intuitive to the premise of the game. Argument: "Its ok as is bc there is a timer and you arrive naked." False, the timer per bed, that you can have unlimited of? Or when you arrive naked and right next to your teleporter you have a stash of gear. Thats what everyone does now. Try to be less naive. Argument: "I have a life, how donyou expect me to do inspections and maintenance on my 2nd 3rd and 4th islands/grids?!" Your part of the problem. Notice how everyone is complaining about trying to find land, while those who have it already need 0 effort to defend it? Ever wonder why peeps want the claim system redone and a wipe? This is why. Why should anyone be allowed to beam up to thier 2nd grid in seconds to defend becuase they were immediatly alerted to who what and where an attack is going on. Argument: "I wont be safe if I leave my base and cant travel back." I think everyone is fine with beds being personal only and capped at 2. I can see 3, but id suggest 2 myself. Argument: "Who has time for all that sailing! Its sooo boreing!" .....you bought a game.....about sailing...as a pirate .....you....bought.....a....game....about.....sailing......as....a....pirate.... ????? Also, its not boreing, but thats like, your opinion man. Argument: "This is a PVP thing and shouldn't be a change in PVE" Well, there is still land claim issues on PVE I hear. Further more, at no point so far have the 2 modes recieved differing updates. I would assume this would remian the same. Reguardless, this would still benefit smaller companies who would have more of a chance to get claims down before the red shirts start beaming in. I have to assume if you are hard against this, you either dont like what the game is about...dot dot dot...see above. Or are simply stretching your reach to far with no effort, likely in a bigger company. I get it, megas wanna be England back in the day, but its just not helping the game bros. It has to take SOME effort to maintain that claim besides, port and smash. Hell, there is an argument to be made that the claim system just needs some minor tweaking and not an overhaul if the beds are revised and the theme of the game maintained. Did I miss any? -CS

Waiting for the server to be availible so i can be the first one there!

Yeah, if you use stupid tactics its becuase your unable to compete normally. I could build a cannon wall. But it looks stupid and is obviously not the original intent. I could glitch into the bottom of ships, but its obviously a flaw. I could use esp and auto aim as there are no repercussions to doing so. But why wouldnt i just host my own servr and play solo if i dont want to compete with others? Im sure many of you have no objections as i see the cannon wall ships everywhere. What can i say, the majority of humans are followers. Monkey see monkey do.

This is about numbers and facts, not political affiliation. I love politics and follow them daily, some of us are sicker than others. I hate to tell you this, becuase it might upset you. Some 60-70% of Americans agree with her position on several/most key issues (various reputable polls). It was a foregone conclusion that she would unseat Joe. Only on Fox news was that even a shocker, I could see that comming 2000 miles away from the otherside of the country. Its just a stark contrast becuase your post was spot on up untill then. So yeah, almost everything you said. Oh and if I were a betting man, reguardless of affiliation, I'd ride money on her being the first Madam President sometime in the next 20 years. -CS

Ive gotten dc plenty of times. Never once a crash. I would hate to say its on your end jean, but I think its on your end. Have your mates had the same issue? Or is this lack of trust with things oy apply to you? Full disclosure, i have an average rig with subpar isp, prolly why i dc to begin with.

Ima go out on a limb and guess that you have land claimed and as such the issue is less important to you than your tames. Personally, tames are lame, but w/e. A wipe would be good for the vast majority of people if this 4 page thread is a sample size. If peoples numbers are accurate about total player count, I havent verified those numbers of thier history personally, then its kind of a win win scenario. If you went from 60k to less than 10k in 3 months, you certainly wont be doing worse. The claim system was not well thought out. Change it, and it can be better, but how do you resolve the 3-6 servers per mega co. already claimed? If i were a dev and saw the feedback, i would humbly acknowledge what I thought was a good idea didn't pan out. Id rewrite the claim system and wipe everything and start over and see what happens. Hell, I'd wipe servers at least 2x a year all through EA as a release simulation just to get more and better data for the launch of the game.

Wow, you literally just advocated for P2W mechanics in this game. Or any game that is played with other people for that matter. I try my best to adress opinions and ideas and do not like attacking a person. However this is blatantly against what every single gamer should innately stand for. Witch is to be able to have the same opportunity to enjoy a game they paid for without parsing out better parts for those that can and want to pay more. You sir, are a piece of dog shit. I will activly spend 10 minutes hoping something unfortunate happens to you today.

True up to a point. I see a way that makes sense and can facilitate more claims per person. But i dont know if it would be favored. - Limit beds to 2 per person. - You can only fast travel to your own bed. I like it. Fast travel doesnt really make sense in this game. Super annoyong to go lay claims on an empty (fully claimed as all land is, just no people) island and suddenly people magically start appearing. Really immersion breaking.

Absolutely claims should be limited. I liked the idea of a leaderboard, but in 3 days it became obvious to anyone that this wont work.

Devs, please release it when it you feel its ready and complete.

Ahhh, good reference. It makes sense now. I hoped there was a good thread here. Just another random uninformed troll.

Wait, some dude who doesnt even play the game, let alone own the game? Comes up in here to start threads about his opinions on said game. Then proceeds to call the game "Ark", when in fact everyone who purchased it is aware it is titled "Atlas". First off, tames are lame, but thats like, my opinion man. I wont pretend to know what GS will ultimatly do with them. I will for fact say this is not Ark. It is similar to Ark in many ways, but is different in many ways as well. Do you see any dinosaurs walking around? Are you trapped on 1 grid with a capped amount of people? Do you see metal walls anywhere? Look Ark was a shitty concept done just good enough to last a few years. Atlas is a great concept, with the jury out.

Ive thought about this also. A castle in the sea so to speak. Concecptually it works since you can inexplicably claim patches of sea. However, the logistical hurdle is the absolute lack of resources aside from what meger amount your ship can hold at a time. I still think its something id like to do at some point. Your probably 100 pillars just to start, and i doubt the boat will anchor to anything but land. Personally i think your boat should be able to anchor near any shipyard.

Lol at how easy it is to fix this game. Its so close to being a great game. 1-5 claims per person, you pick. Boom, 5k+ player return in a week or less. Your welcome. Want more players? Wall defense value returned to what they were. The advantage should always be to the defender. Ffs this is game design 101. Boom, just added a few more thousand players. Thats 2 changes that can be done with very little effort or cost. Theres a list of more complicated things that could be done to improve the game, but they would all have a diminished effect compared to those above.

Top end machine when it was built I am sure To be fair, if your not in his grid, why would you give 2 shits how big it is. Its no less impressive architecture. Also, static structures appear to load 1x and are fine after that. Keep in mind the render distance for structures is way less than for ships. I imagine to reduce the load on sub par GPUs. The most important thing however, is that we should be allowed to build anything the game lets us. This freedom is what makes it a sandbox. Why would anyone in thier right mind argue against that? Small structures suck. Im with the OP, give us more shapes

Sure, but the topic of this post is "Top company's" are not "Top company's" or some stupid shit like that. Not, "I disagree with the rules of Atlas, lets make a new ones to favor smaller numbers" Change the rules, make gold finite, and defenses nigh impenetrable (an untouchable bank?) and your set to go. Now you can build an economy around gold and make trading the win condition. Else gold can be subbed out for any of the building resources and it would have basically the same value.

If I have a million grains of sand, am I richer than you? No. You can go get a million grains of sand whenever you want. If I own the world, am I richer than you? Yeah. There's only 1 world we are both on. It is the only thing in game that when you gain it, someone else loses it.

Look, I know there are several of you that would prefer it to be different. This just is the way it is. At the end of the day, GS invented this game and the conditions to be considered top 10. We don't re-write the rules of games we play with others. The Browns don't get to say that the Superbowl is an ineffective tool to determine the best football team, just because they will never get there. Land is the ONLY finite resource available. Like it or not, there are no BETTER ways to currently say who is the best company on the Atlas short of the % of the map controlled. Again, if you dispute that as an accurate power ranking, then go start taking land and prove me wrong. I'll cheers you if you do. -CS

Your doing mental gymnastics to make that work. In your hypothetical situation, the big company would wipe the small company and take all of its gold, thus becoming the #1 company (Its brutal AF bro. A small company attacks one of our ships, a message is sent, land is open and available in short order). This will absolutely be one of the companies currently on the top 10 list, well when it existed at least. The small company will not have the resources to retrieve that gold, because they are a small company. Also because they are a small company, they don't have the resources to have a mega defense in place. This is all in spite of the fact that there currently ARE NO mega defenses that are worth more than 15 minutes. The small company has to search and beat the team that has 20x more people, land, resources, defenses everything. Every single attribute you give a small team you have to multiply and also give to the bigger team. Or, lets say the big company wants to carebear it up. How long would it take to get more gold? 25 man vs 100, 25% of the time spent. 25 vs 500, 5% of the time spent? Its simply a numbers game. You can have 25 Rambo's, and would still lose to 500 peewee Herman's. An actual better metric that could be used, would be # of members logged on in the last 24 hours. As it is, land possession is a damn good measuring stick. If you are a small company and want to be top 10, go land grab. You will find your limit of what you can maintain and will easily be able to compare it to a larger company. -CS

I would prefer an active economy based in Gold. Id love it. If its done correctly the Russians will start selling in on websites. That's how you know it has real value Logically though, here's the problem with your scenario. small company with 100k gold, gets hit 1x, 100% gone. Large company with 100 gold, get hit 1x, its 5% gone maybe? Who is the stronger clan? The small co. that farmed thousands of treasure maps, or the co. that claimed 3 grids?

The problem is, there is no limit to the availability of gold. Land is finite. Thus it is scientifically a better measuring tool. In the real world, nations have a controll on how much currency exist since it is man made. Otherwise it would be useless. Its is actually only trivial in Atlas in addition to being limitless as only npcs will accept it by default.

In this context, yeah absolutely. 7>6 Say it out loud. Its called the say it out loud test. Seven, is greater than, Six. If we are rolling dice, id rather have 7 than 6. If we were fighting id rather have 7 people on my side than 6. If we were having an orgy, id rather have 7 women than 6. Its a basic principle, sure you can start adding caveats and conditions, but the basic logic is very sound and really very well tested. They even came up with the easy to read mathematical statement just in case it wasnt clear. 7>6.

Dude, lol. Lets put it this way. Those aren't aliens. Ill stop there becuase you agree with me.

No, in PvP you would have just taken your shit back and then likley would have allied with him after a dialogue. Glad you recovered.

Not really. The taxed person can just leave and go to a better taxed location. The oweness is on the taxer to both maintain thier claim and make it worth being there. The taxed person can always claim it and flip the scenario.