Ichor

Thank you, for this information. Hopefully it wont be too soul crushing Lol.

Honestly, pretty cool. A lot of dedication to sail and not make any detours what so ever.

So far, also going from ark experiences, their idea of challenging game design seems to mostly be spawn a bunch of hyper aggressive powerful mobs and give the players virtually no chance unless they devote their life to the game.

then they take it a step further and kick you while you are down, threatening to delete your character because you don't want to go through all the headaches. The age mechanic is one I am strongly against as a whole, it breaks the whole point of an MMO for me by threatening to strip all progress from you. Currently it just robs your stats, but that's not cool either.  Reward for doing it or not, the fact that it punishes you and is planned to punish you more in the future if you don't want to is counter productive to the games long term playability.

I liked ark, and I like this game more, but some of the design choices are absolutely atrocious or outright cruel to the player.

I'm with you here, me and my crew have been trying desparately to get organic paste up north... but either crashing, bad weather, or nonsense (glitches) sinks the boat every time... right now we are on attempt number 4 to get sap....

also... if fur is practically needed in the tundra, why can't we make it where it is needed most? It just makes no sense and punishes players who are in an already punishing environment in an already punishing game. Who needs to make fur in the desert or tropics? It's like making wood completely unavailable in the tropic/desert regions so you cant build shelter from the animals there.

Ahoy, first post here. Anyways currently I am purely a PvE player, but some of the PvP aspects look fun as all heck. Like sieges and actual naval combat come to mind. But on the flip side there are the myriad of issues involving foreigners, exploits, and mega-corps.... So as an outsider looking in, what can you tell me about it? Should I dive in, or stay away?