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  1. Posted

    6 hours ago, globytheoldpirate said:

    PvE taxe rate is a bad idea IMO.
    It's a PvP feature, people will be taxed because other came first, and can't be take off, seems a bit unfair.

    Taxe system should be, at least be set max at 10% for PvE if it stays.

    30% taxe for PvE is.. meh..

    I agree. I never liked taxes in real life, so seeing it in game just made it irritating. I can understand needing 10% for upkeep, but 30% is way to much.

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    4 hours ago, Beechies said:

    No Claim on PVE server! I was in the game 50 days and 2 of us couldn't find single spot to claim. Following that experience it is better without claim and if you really play you will log in often and your buildings will not decay.

    That is pretty bad. We had several in our alliances who were constantly looking for a claim as well. Since my company only had a few people we only had a few claims. We actually gave two away to help new players out.

    Honestly some companies took the claim system way to far and as a result a lot of the claimable servers were dead silent. Many company's were not to greedy though, but all it takes is a few bad apples to spoil the bunch. Or so they say.

    If they do keep the claim system on pve I truly hope they reduce the claim flags to 1 per server and maybe a limit of like 3 or  4 flags in total per person. That way veteran and new players could all have a better chance of getting a claimable land area.

  3. Posted

    1 hour ago, Enki Anunnaki said:

    im really digging it. i feel for those who will lose their pixels but damn this was needed. i can't wait to test it on the test server.

    I am with you on that. I have over 400+ hours of game play so losing our company's stuff sucks, but I really looking forward to testing the changes and new things on the test server!

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  5. Posted

    1 minute ago, MattOfSmith said:

    The only people that the claim flags hurt were people who were dicks. You could go to most zones in PvE and find people willing to rent land to you if you actually asked nicely, rather than floating in to a zone and throwing a temper tantrum because you couldn't find land on the first island you checked.

    But then those people had to pay up to %30 taxes. I do not know about you but if you just started a job and had little to no money and taxed %30 of your paycheck I do not think you would like it.

  6. Posted · Edited by StarWhispers

    12 minutes ago, Irisa~moon said:

    I really wish you would allow claim flags for PVE.  This sounds like basically all of our servers will be like lawless.  That means that people can come in and kill out spawns or prevent you from building by blocking and then there is the fact on lawless rocks and trees will spawn through the foundations.  I really do hope you rethink PVE version of this.  I feel we are getting crapped on.

     

    9 minutes ago, MattOfSmith said:

    These changes are going to absolutely destroy pve servers. *ESPECIALLY* if buildings still block resources on non lawless zones. Also, if im understanding things correctly, banks are going to be useless on PvE now? Y'all had a really good system going with the taxes and the claim rentals. Just needed to tweak the flags for PvE, not get rid of them completely.

    Unfortunately the new players would quit because all of the claim islands were completely claimed with no room to build. I think this way is more new player friendly and will help the game out. 

    My company only had a few claims and never bothered adding a tax because I always hated taxes in real life so I was not about to do it to someone in game. Trust me I understand that no claim kind of sucks, but some took it way to far and got way to greedy. I hope this change will help keep the new players.

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  9. Posted

    I have seen so many in game talk about the lag the sotd cause, spawning almost on top of them, or just today a sotd had pinned them into a rock. 😑 At this point the only people asking for more sotd seem to be the claim flag owners who want you to do all the work while they get their get tax from you...

    Earlier I was heading through a claimable region and a group of newer players were talking about having 7 ghost ships following them. I had advised them to try to outrun them and heal what they could at sea. With the lack of wind they tried to get to shore to anchor but instead they got pinned on a random rock by the sotd and were not able to anchor. They were sunk, and promptly started talking about how it does not make sense to have so many of the damned ships. As they talked in chat a person who owned a few claim flags in the ocean and on land in the region started talking about how they need to get the f over it and just suck it up and pay their taxes.. I did not know if they were joking or being rude so I asked the claim owner if they meant real life. This person went on a rant talking about how they do not even lift a finger and have all that they need. 😒 Apparently people who own claimed lands and ocean areas are ENTITLED to have you kill the sotd so they can make money off you.

    This is why if I am in a claim area I never fight the sotd. I would rather fight them in lawless where I get 100% of my earnings. Sucks when you play games to have fun or escape real life BS and end up having to deal with much worse BS in the game you play.

  11. Posted

    1 minute ago, Asanna said:

    Yeah that's a good map, just dont rely on the player counts if you're using the live version.

    I cant much watch the forums but in the discord I have everything pretty much down to the hour and edited into my name.

    Cant really keep up that easy on the forums but at least I can spread the info I have so long as people care to read it lol

    Agreed, I just use it as a reference not player numbers.

    That is awesome! I am happy others are getting helped too. Me and hubby were running in again and again until boom it finally spawned. Right after we got it I posted so maybe a 5 minute window. I hope that helps with your timers.

    Oh, and sorry for the confusion with G3. I and a typo queen 😅

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    5 hours ago, UDO said:

    this , we cant keep asking the devs to dumb the game down to the point it plays itself , there have already been too many casual crybaby nerfs any more and we just as well ask the devs to allow us to use bots to play it for us ....

     

    players today just want easy mode games , id love to see how they would react playing games like jet set willy , manic miner etc 3 lifes start agian 

    again lets just tell everyone how to play the game , instead of letting player actually , u know use their brains and figure things out , chat in global asking questions etc , too many casual player so quick to rage quit if they dont get instant gratification  

    The thing is this is not just a little thing. Resurrection mechanics are a main part of any game. The tutorial is so brief and you are given hardly any time to actually read it. If this was anything else I would not even mention it. I have directed the new players to the wiki, or even youtube for most everything else. Like the vitamins, the aging, the difficulty of unlocking skills by unlocking other skills. I agree that these should be learned by either doing, trying to find the information in the game it self, or even going on to the platform site to learn about it.

  16. Posted

    4 hours ago, Samstag Freitagsson said:

    They simply schould add some tips and a short guide.

    They do give some tips, but they are so quickly given as pop-ups that show at the top of your screen as soon as you load in.

    2 hours ago, Nutcutt3r said:

    Just give em clothes because they rage quit freezing to death. Or maybe weapons because they die punching trees.

    Oh yeah and food because they are hungry too...

    I have in fact done this many of times, because I am in PVE so to have to restart 3 or 4 times because they do not understand the resurrection mechanics can cause a lot of stress and be no fun for new players.

  17. Posted · Edited by StarWhispers

    5 hours ago, CamsterAu said:

    I feel including it in the ram. Sloop build would be over powered. It's already stupidly simple to get the mats to make a boat, and making a bed is simple too. Yes, a message would help new players, but don't hand feed them.

     

    5 hours ago, UDO said:

    this , we cant keep asking the devs to dumb the game down to the point it plays itself , there have already been too many casual crybaby nerfs any more and we just as well ask the devs to allow us to use bots to play it for us ....

     

    players today just want easy mode games , id love to see how they would react playing games like jet set willy , manic miner etc 3 lifes start agian 

    again lets just tell everyone how to play the game , instead of letting player actually , u know use their brains and figure things out , chat in global asking questions etc , too many casual player so quick to rage quit if they dont get instant gratification  

    The problem is that both of you are established players. You know how the game works. For new players the short pop-ups that tell them things only last a tiny amount of time. This game is dying. I am sure they want new player. More money. This game is going to lose a lot of money if the brand new players constantly quit then get refunds because they have to start over, and over, and over because they do not understand the resurrection mechanics. If the tutorial is altered and they actually explain the resurrection mechanics better then I would leave it at that.

  19. Posted

    I have helped many new players who were killed or died not knowing that they have to add a bed to their boat to respawn near their boat.. I kid you not.

    I have seen so many brand new players rage quit within 30 minutes of buying the game. Many of them shouting and or writing profanities before they declare they are getting a refund for the game they just bought.

    Some players do not react like this and just restart over again.

    I have been able to help some brand new players by meeting them in the starter zone bringing them a bed to put on their raft / ramshackle boat (since they did not know), full sets of armor,  metal tools, and basic necessity items (i.e. water jar) since they literally just lost it all.

    Having a quest to show brand new players how to place a bed on their boats or just having the starter raft / ramshackle boat come with a premade bed on it would help these brand new players a lot. This would also help the developers as people are far less likely to rage quit and get a refund.

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  20. Posted

    On ‎2‎/‎6‎/‎2019 at 8:50 PM, Zadira said:

    I am still having cobras slither through stone walls.  I sure hope that gets fixed soon. They are not climbing the walls, they are going right through them.

    Also having them spawn inside of bases should be fixed. I do not even understand why you see the cobras in the tundra regions. Almost all snakes die in cold snowy climates and only a few extremely rare snakes could survive in snow.

    On ‎2‎/‎7‎/‎2019 at 12:06 PM, Tina Toothpick said:

    Still no removal of the age mechanic, the main reason people dropped out of the game in a nosedive to begin with.

    Still regarding "top companies" as "top" despite them only having the most land claims, and not actually being the best.

    Guys. .How out of touch are you?.. How many polls on the age mechanic do we need until you remove it?. .

    You've pissed off : 

    -people who care about cosmetics

    -people who want to keep playing their character

    -people who don't have time to deal with this stupid FOY quest.

    Just scrap the stupid thing already! Remove age, and you'll see a resurgence in players. The core game (like ark) DOES. NOT. NEED. IT.

    I agree with the age mechanics. I have seen so many quit the game because of it. Now after seeing 7 different brand new players quit after like 30 minutes to get a refund because they can not stand things like the age system, the ridiculous land claim system, and the lack of real instruction except those pop ups that last a few seconds before giving you time to read it. I had one player come into our zone from the freeport complaining about dying, they were not even taught to place a bed on your boat. Most actual new players have No idea what ark is like so they only go by what the beginning area tells them to do which is little to nothing. I am surprised they do not have actual dialog and quest from NPC's.

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