Chucksteak

Factually incorrect. I believe they contacted Elon Musk about some AI for their game NPCs. He said no. I assume you are not aware that a cannon on a cart outranges NPCs. Puckles are really good against noobs. An avid offline raider such as yourself should really know these things. I do hope you improve your skills as a pirate. Its getting embarrassing.

OOOOOhhh I see now why all the spammed threads with no thought or content in them. You're just REALLY REALLY bad at Atlas. Ill give you the benefit of assuming you are a child and simply limited in that respect. Keep working at it, you'll get better

Are you aware that you are incompetent, or does being so prevent you from knowing that sad bit of information? Lets review some publicly available facts for you: - This is the 3rd set of devs, or leadership of said devs. - This group is the most responsive, and its not even close. Dropping patches every 14 days with notes and feedback. -Those patches contain at least a plurality, if not a majority of things that have come directly from us the community. They aren't doing anything? Perhaps English is not your first language. Please try to better understand the words you are using and what they mean.

LOL!! That's the only redeeming quality to you?! Making a boat that looks just like everyone else's boat? But now you will be able to make a boat that looks like everyone else's boat, with less lag, so you will leave? The sheer arrogance that you have some awesome boat design that you thought of. I will give you the benefit of assuming you are a PvE player, else you would not suggest such silly things. What do you think you do that is so special? Do you know what the word "modular" means? Do you realize you already build a modular ship? Are you aware the buildings you build are also modular? Have you eve wondered why all of the structures and boats look similar? We all use the same planks, same sails, same walls ect. You can certainly chalk it up to lack of diversity in the modules. However it shows a severe lack of understanding to complain the way you have here sir. Please, try before you cry.

How can you call something that is not even finished garbage? You literally have not had a chance to even give this system an evaluation yet. You are only getting to see this system being built so far. The excuse of exploits on ships is not lazy. The fact that there ARE exploits on ships was the lazy part. Devs addressing this issue is the opposite of lazy. I think you have this 100% backwards. OFC there will be bugs when building a new system. Is everything you do perfect before you're finished? They even explicitly told us it was still bugged and even listed the bugs they know of. The new claim system is something that no one knows details on at this point in time. The fact that you say anything about it at all is bewildering. If you have inside information please let us know. To be sure we need a new claiming system. This one is terrible. I have hope that the next one will be better. I am sure they will put some thought into it, and I am sure it will not be perfect on the 1st pass. I also have a lot of hope for the new ship system. There is no customization in PvP. We leave off as many ceilings and decks as possible for weight. The boats are very very boring looking. No one, and I mean NO ONE, is customizing their PvP ships. Nobody has some awesome "build" that makes them better than a random teenager who builds the exact same boat. The way to repair, and replace planks right now is awful. Any step taken that moves us to a more seamless system with the boats is a good move. Or at least a move in the right direction. Like @Ranger1k said, they are already modular by definition. If we can increase performance and make ship combat more skill based with a more standardized ship system I am all for it. It could end up being the best thing they have done yet. Hell, one of the best aspects of SoT is the simple ship design that makes sea combat feel amazing. PvE guys, I am sure you love your houseboats. Hell, if my boat was perma safe all of the time I would probably do the same. They do look cooler, but they fight like shit and are slower than congress. For the rest of us, we all have the same boat. Lets all have one that lets us have bigger battles with less lag.

Yeah, there is no way that is the case lol. I agree with the rest of your post.

What you wanna do is go ahead and forget you even saw that travesty. Don't build or use a raft. For the same effort make a sloop.

Oh absolutely. I'm of the opinion that GS should take everything they can from SoT, mechanically speaking. So many things are so much better. Yeah the graphics suck, the map is too small and the content is really only PvP. But its so simple it works great. Atlas ironically has decent graphics, it did have a big map (wish we could go back to it), and lots more sandbox content. However they fucked up the parts SoT did perfectly. The difficulty in doing so is that SoT is a purely skill based game, and Atlas is more of a progression based game. I wish it weren't so much, but a lvl 120 will beat a lvl 50, and a mythic boat will beat a regular boat 99.99% of the time. I think there is a happy middle ground to be found, weather or not GS is able to find it. The new modular ship design looks to be a step in the right direction. We'll see. But yeah, SoT is baller for what it does.

Lol sry bout that. I wont lie, I considered making that say what I meant. But thought the underhand was to tempting to resist. No one cares about PvE who is employed by GS. Is what I meant. I know there is a die hard following of players. But it IS a game about being a pirate. That is fundamentally not possible on PvE. Every complaint I see from PvE is solved by PvP mode. Every patch and addition seems PvP oriented.

I was pointing out that this statement is false both empirically and literally. I care not if you think your view is held by most, becuase I am telling you facts, not opinions. Facts do not care how many people do or do not believe in them. The fact is that Grapeshot is doing lots of things we the players asked for. You lacking the ability to read and comprehend this fact is not on me. So I say again, just calm down. Write a list of everything you know most people wanted in the last 12 months. Then compare that to what we have recieved in the last 6 months. (PvP only obviously, no one cares about PvE) It's ok to be wrong in your belief. People go to church everyday, and there are over 200 religions. They all believe they are the only correct one.

You have to be under 25% weight for full speed I think, or around there. A PvP ship will certainly be top speed with nothing on it but a catapult and some cannons. Very boring meta but speed is key. Yet another reason I dont care if the new boats are less customizable, as the top players dont customize anyways.

I promise you that's a good thing. That raiding was almost always offline raiding. All I have wanted since release is to log off and know I can still have a boat when I log back on. Base, WH, markets, ect, ect, are all free game. Just leave my boat alone unless I am sailing it and have a chance to defend it. ESPECCIALLY if I had to spend thousands of gold to craft it! I had an easier and cheaper solution, but I will certainly take the dock and call it fair. Many people, including myself, had been advocating for just this type of thing. Witch brings me to @Captain Dingbat . Captain, you're being a dingbat...just calm down. If you look over their patch notes for the last several months, and think real hard about the correlation with what's been asked for on these very forums. You will find they are listening and working on our requests. Yeah, they also do stupid shit like dolphins that no one asked for. But mostly they are doing what we asked for. Take the new ship system everyone is bitching about like a bunch of uneducated jackasses. We asked for more ships and ship types. We asked for better performance and less lag. They are giving us more ship types that improve performance and all people say about it so far is "WAAAAAA! WAAAAA! I SHOULD BE ABLE TO HAVE ABSURD SHIP DESIGN THAT CUASES LAGGG WAAAA!" So chillax. Lets see what they do with these new ships before we bash them. We still have the original ships, and now we have 50% more types of ships.

Uhh, I like the invincible docks. Actually most every does. I think you meant to say, YOU don't like them. Harder to offline raid , I know becuase my schooner is still flaoting.

I think that you may be going about this the wrong way. If you are wanting monetary compensation from GS for intellectual work, I truly believe you should contact the studio directly and apply for a job or solicitate your consultation services. I could be wrong, but I do not think that there is a precedent for hiring an unverifiable person from a forum off of a promise of an idea. I believe you said you had experience in the game creation industry, this will help greatly. If you believe you have a multi million dollar "Idea" that would work for any game. Well then my friend, you should take your industry experience and your idea and go make a game and get that paper. Don't even let a terrible studio like GS get a chance to fuck it up. If you believe in this game and want to improve this game with your ideas, then you should get on the public game forums and discuss them in detail. Get enough positive feedback and it will most likely get implemented in some way shape or form. However you will be the only person that knows it was your idea. Maybe some of us will know as well. Keep in mind that GS hasn't released any games yet. They likely have not turned any profit. Their team is small, and greatly lacking in talent when compared to almost any other game studio out there. What they DO have is a lot of ideas that sound really cool. What they DONT have is any proof that they can carry these idea through to fruition. I will give you my personal view on this. Ideas in and of them self are not worth anything. Even after being shared with a group and refined into a better idea, it is still not worth anything. Money is only made when an idea is acted upon and a product is produced and sold successfully. So let me ask you. Do you really have an idea that these guys can do anything with? They have yet to implement their own ideas in a profitable way.

I've been hearing you talk about your idea for a while, but I dont recall you ever explaining it. I read a lot of too long posts where people throw up thier ideas. Some are good and interesting, some are lame. Then you get the despicable factions people who would kill the sandbox style for thier own pirate theme park. The thing is you can't say you have an answer on a public forum, then never provide your feedback. This isn't a direct line to the devs, it's a public forum, for us to share ideas and concerns amongst each other and with the devs and cm's. You know they read and act, even if the pace is slower than we would prefer. We asked for barrels to be taken out of cannons. We got it. We asked for better farming parody. We got it. We said , whoa, too much glider nerf. They unnerfed it slightly. We've been complaining about performance and lack of ship selection for years now. They introduce new and more ships comming out that will improve performance and now there are assholes bitching about it, and saying they don't read and it will kill the game. All of these actions were and are, openly and heavily discussed on these very forums. I believe, because of the evidence listed above, that your best chance of having your idea implemented would be to detail it and advocate for it. Rather than hint at it and demur about it. I honestly look forward to reading it because i think you put more time and thought into this game than anyone else I know of.

That dude prolly should have practiced with a sloop or schooner some more first.

@chukiki lol I like the funny post. Its obviously a satire about the rediculous benifit of offline raiding. I'm sure at some point the WH will get hp/defense similar to wh.

Propose, thank you. The "gatter" just kept cracking me up.

@Ranger1k Well, that didn't take long.

@Ranger1k I've read too many of your post to believe you. You are an optimist.

https://www.seaofthieves.com/news/awards-nominations https://steamcharts.com/app/1172620 https://steamcharts.com/app/834910 There is something to be said about knowing what you are and doing it well. SoT has some 50k users in last 30 days. Atlas has 5k. Obviously, SoT is a few years old, and Atlas hasn't even launched yet. But if we think about it, 40-50k is about how many copies Atlas sold in its first month. One could draw a correlation between those numbers, and say that there might only be about 50k-100k people who play this particular genre. I purpose most of them tried Atlas and landed in/back in SoT.

You said you were lacking gold for ships. That is a completely different statement from what you meant. Which is "It will take me 10 days to save up for the most expensive ship I can build." This is a true sandbox game where you make your own content. You have made your content what it is. You sound like your alone the way you described everything. But you talk of owning an island and building galleys. You have resources you cant find a purpose for, so perhaps you dont need defenses? Hang on, sir are you on PvE mode? Where you dont need gold or defenses and can never be raided? 1. Sloop is free. 2. You can afford a schooner in less than 48 hrs. 3. You can afford a brig in less than a week. 4. Why would a galley not take 10 days? You say it needs work then describe how its working amazingly for you. I'm super confused by your post.

What? Can you please explain your last statement? I am unclear how you generate 5k/day and have no gold for a boat.

@Ranger1k ofc there is a PvP meta. People like @Sykotech are assholes and don't actually know anything special or they would share it. Others hit on it though. Its barrels and shields. Barrels do OP dmg to anything. They were on cannons, that got taken out....again...but they were still used on gliders. So gliders got nerfed bc or barrels....go GS (idiots). Now you can still shoot them from a catapult from ship deck. So guess what....every other boat is a schooner with catapults and barrels. Its literally all I've seen in weeks now. It is the ship meta. Shield stun is broken still. You can get put into a stun lock by a high level player and there you shall remain. Its ofc a super easy fix by adding a delay between stuns, but the ever forward thinking devs have yet to address it. Nerfing gliders bc barrels are too strong was more important. The high level players will not be stopped by gunfire. Shield stun is the melee meta. Bear/Horse Cannon, for some reason I can't figure out, have more range than puckels. I can't tell you how many times I have watched these things assault my well puckled base and never take a shot. Or how many times I have taken out another base that was full of puckles and never get shot once. Its very annoying and makes you wonder why the NPC puckles even exist in the game. Only noobs get stopped by them. The Bear/Horse cannon has too much range, and even with a big cat tame its not easy to dislodge them. Cart cannons are the base assault meta. There is also cheating, although I don't consider that meta as MOST people seem to not be cheating. Only some people, and some people does not qualify as meta.

@Baktus SO, when I was able to drive by with my ship and shoot barrels out of a cannon, we all agreed that barrels were clearly OP AF. We all did the right thing and complained about barrels being OP until they were removed form cannons. I do not recall anyone saying that the ships were broken and should not sail quite so well. Now you're mad because some people used a glider to deploy barrels on you. Yet this time you say it is the gliders that should be nerfed not the barrels. You are disregarding that barrel bombing is not easy and takes skills and resources. We should promote things that are skills based, not remove them. You are disregarding that the glider was working as intended, it was GLIDING! It is only the barrel you seem to not like. I can agree with the barrel needing a nerf, but not with your reasoning for nerfing a glider for gliding.