Mike L

In your opinion, Badkebab. I however think it would be a good idea to try unraidable storage. Obviously from my above post there's design in the game for unraidable storage. Besides how do you have pirates instead of soldiers whenever anything you steal or take from bigger companies will just cause them to siege your land until you lose it. I want MORE pvp, MORE piracy, and LESS 48 hour attrition wars, LESS building my stuff again because I logged off. We dont all want this to just be ark, only with a different ocean.

Yeah, the above post are why I think, they should just make a Freeport bank, or my less favorite option ,change the tames to 1 day declaim, no player shops in Freeport, no player trading in freeport, no disappearing inventory on Freeport logout and dropped items immediately despawn in freeport. I feel like the bank is the better way to go, keeps the mmo aspect of the game, and adds another big difference from ark ,that alot of players playing these games look for. Storage that anyone can depend on. Almost no reason to put in a secure trading system, if you have no where secure to put items to trade for. The bank should be personal storage, not company, that way you wont have merge scamming.

I think it's a great thing for small companies, take it out, and once again they will start joining with larger companies, or just quitting once their hard work gets raided. Take it out, and you'll take out the pirates as well, just be left with companies. There are ingame reasons I think they left the settings this way, I just dont think it should be a secret, since it's not the most straightforward thing, but it's very simple. Also the more players that do things this way, the more players well find out on the seas wanting to do battle, pvp, raid, and otherwise just be pirates in a endless power struggle.

Ok so I've seen such mixed opinions on whether your allowed to keep things on tames in a Freeport. I feel like they've balanced the freeports already, so why would it be unintentional that tames have a 7 day claim timer? Also a side note, you can store items in player shops, and your inventory is safe when you log out in a Freeport. But alot of players I talk to think this is exploiting/cheating, WHY? I do think an actual player bank would be a better way to go, the tame storage feels a little weird and could possibly clutter freeports too much, if the player base grows.

I dont get it, I know this isn't helpful, but I almost always full sail into land while turning the ship to park faster, never been stuck, and anytime I've almost been stuck just steering the ship away from land with sails full open always works, but I read these horror stories, makes me feel like I'm really lucky. What it looks like to me is, the shallower the water the slower the ship moves, it doesnt stop. Opening sails fully while ship is facing land doesnt crash it, but it does allow you to turn away from land faster. Use a sextant and watch the knots when you press back. You will produce something other than 0. I've had the front and back of the ship wedged between shallows actually touching the land. Opening sails fully and turning away still worked after about 20 seconds. Closest call was I didn't see a rock and the waves slammed my brig down on it, the brig jumped into the air, landed upside down on water, then flipped back over. Overall it took 600 dmg to two planks.. Maybe I am just really lucky but I feel like I couldn't crash a ship even if I tried.

They could make cannons heavier, but to keep the ship combat from being all about boarding the enemy ship youd have to increase cannon damage to compensate, you could say double weight and damage of cannons, then the ship combat hardly changes but youd have less cannons.. To me though it's not in that bad of a place how it is currently

It would be nice if they replied, but let's face it there's alot more players than devs, they ARENT CUSTOMER SERVICE, they are game developers developing a game. I'm sure they want people to have fun playing their game, but I'll bet you couldn't read all the emails, messages, forum post, reddit post, game tickets, and discord messages they've received just yesterday in a whole week. I'm still not sure why everyone expects them to respond to "my boat flipped upside down" , with " here well spawn you 4 new boats so that you'll play still." If they did the tickets like in wow, there would be guides posted about how to get free shit from the devs, and they would mess up their game waay worse.

Yeah I was fooled by it not being like ark as well. They should make tames mostly used for farming in my opinion. I havent yet run into hackers, I'm not saying they dont exists, I HAVE however been called a hacker for winning a fight while outnumbered. This early in games development though is the only time hackers will have free reign to cheat, eventually they will get banned. If your being hardcore harrassed by them, it might be time to change company name or keep taking a break from officials like your doing.

You could yell with the delete key until your character dies, safest place for your ship is claims you have permission to be on during peace time, or you could get resistance close to 300% and upkeep the ship in Freeport. In Freeport it's completely safe but a brig will need to be repaired every 15 hrs.

They have to come out with content, and then improve the stability of games underlying systems, then battleye will be updated and kick all the hackers out, gonna take some time, but I honestly havent ran into any hackers yet. Your outlook on things is pretty negative though, hackers come cheat ya out of your claim or something?

Yeah, but at the same time, they aren't that hard to kill, they take damage like wood storage boxes or thatch foundations. The health is a bit confusing, but I can say from experience that two players can chop one down in about 45 min with metal tools. Cannons can destroy them in about 150 regular balls or 100 larges, effort to craft the cannon balls vs the shipyard is pretty close really. Would be a nice change to make their health "wood" that way they'd have about 30k health and be just as strong

Obviously some players wouldn't want their ship stolen, so they WOULD scuttle when they think they need to, but that would create part of the challenge, kill the player, and steal the ship while he's still on pvp timer. If they find all the beds before its scuttled, then there's not much you can do then. Ships would probably still be sunk usually, but youd have the primary goal of stealing it before sinking it at least. So many ways this could foster entertaining piracy.

Something should be done here in my opinion, because the sailing taking forever hurts the playability for the game. Two good ideas, could implement both of them would be 1. Take out the weather with almost no wind, so that wind is always at half or so. 2. Add a into the wind sailing buff that, increases your speed based on how long your sails have been into the wind, with like a 50% extra speed cap on it. Let's say 10٪ every 10 minutes until it reaches 50% where your fully buffed.

You can disable the auto lock in settings I believe.

Yeah I think they should make the ships steering wheel, and sails useable by anyone, so that ships out at sea can be "stolen" or "claimed" while moving it around. I dont think they should make you full anquor, take out the 20 min, so that it's not necessary to guard your ship for 20 min every time you park.

This was my suggestion on the matter To me it's the easiest way to rebalance it AND keep tames useful.

LOL when you miss? I guess pull out your AR, or gatling gun, and mow down the wildlife to your hearts content

I think they should just change it so that weight sails still move almost normal speed when the ship is weighed down, then they would be useful Like OP said.

Your stuff is still much less safe in lawless where they can set a mortar at your front door, I think what we are seeing here is, people are FARMING in lawless to move off and set up on a claim. Lawless still sucks for boat parking and it's always raidable..

Probably based off of total discovery points your able to get, so adding in all those new islands probably made you need more points for the levels. They should have balanced it so that your able to get a few more levels above what used to be max level, that way it wouldn't feel more grindy

There's cages?!? Or do you mean the gibbet? Would be great to have cages for bigger tames, they get in the way on ships soo much

The green circle is probably the contesting circle that they need to put a flag in to threaten your claim/take it over

Ohh they did this so you cant just spawn on every island to get lots of discovery points. Was wondering how they would do that, so the server you set as your home server cant get you discovery points, leaving the fastest way to get points is by sailing or making beds everywhere. Pretty cool

There is creme brulee which makes you faster, I guess would give the gear more effect, but your right they should give it some real effect or just remove it

You cant stop megas from being megas, never try and police something that's bigger than you/ your company. You wont win, however you could use their size to their disadvantage, learn their members a little, ask for an invite and just get in their discord for information. Tell them it's a direct order from their company captain, that they dont destroy your stuff, or that they even give you something lol. For the most part though, just stay out of megas way, and try not to take more than you need. In a company of 5 or less and you want a claim? You will need to police at least 20 other players to keep it, and you can. Or you can just be one of the 20 other players, and build on someones claim who wants you there. But anyone who plans on holding some land with too few players, or knocking on the megas door without A REALLY GOOD plan to do some big damage to them will most certainly be disappointed and frustrated. This is still an awesome game with very dynamic forms of pvp, and even living out of lawless and freeports you can still do alot.