Mike L

I'm fine with the rates, just a quick pointer, if something is taking a long time to grind out in a particular area, like fiber or metal, find an easier place to farm it, most freeports will give you fiber at a rate of 1000 in less than a minute with a sickle. 

I feel like you should be able to steer, and use enemy ships sails, but not be able to unanquor the ship, then you get more of a piracy feel and you can move their ship while you steal it. 

Yeah something needs to be done here, I made a post, saying they should just increase gun dmg vs tames in pvp alot

Like 2-3 times as much so that you can fight them. I wouldn't be opposed to slowing carts down, but that's not the only problem, tigers and lions are still going to wreck the ground pvp, If you just nerf the carts. 

A blunderbuss is the highest dmg weapon atm at 90 dmg. 

Up that damage to 300% and tames become fightable and killable 

Double pistol, then swap and hit with blunderbuss is the most dmg you can do quickly. 

Yep, if you try to run a company the way I stated, there wont be a company to run. Which is why most megas end up being similar to each other. 

One similarity they usually also share is that one member of them feels like they need to help the company more than other members, so they start breeding tames which actually puts their company ahead, or they cheat, exploit and hack. 

Just make sure you keep those hacker,cheater, exploiters out of your company and I'm sure everything will be good, no matter which servers you choose. 

The hacker/ exploiter problem is a complicated one, since your company may just be trading/ doing commerce with cheaters, which should still get you banned but in a larger company this is hard to keep track of, just dont make everyone join/ally with you and force devs to do a mass ban where most of the players banned dont even know why, this is what it comes to eventually. We saw it in ark. 

There really isn't a reason to have more than 50 people in a discord at once though, other than zerging or maybe you just like to talk to that many players simultaneously.  To each their own I guess

Also I'll be ready to fight ya you can try and sink/take what we have but I'll do whatever I can to make that difficult, and i wont care how big your company is, retaliation is always possible! 

To the OP, you as a single minded player can feel this way about mega tribes, and about your mega tribe, but can you be certain that everyone in your tribe is like minded individuals that never disagree with you what yall should and shouldn't be able to do ingame?

You must be certain based on your company mates actions. Making all of your company take a vow doesnt work, they must never violate your benevolent leadership!

If the answer to that is no, then its just another mega abusing rules to crush small companies and make everyone choose between joining you, hiding from you, or quitting the game.

So I'm sure that the devs will ask megas about every decision before they make it LOL. 

I already made a suggestion post, I think gun damage vs tames needs to be at least tripled ,and puckle dmg needs to be quadrupled. 

Maybe even more is needed, you can see actual numbers in the suggestion link at the bottom.

If you have fought against tames and flame swivels yet, you might think the same. 

If you like this suggestion, upvote this or the suggestion post please!

Did some testing this morning, and there is a serious problem with tames vs defences, and with tames vs players. 

As it currently is dmg values against tames are very low. 

All this testing was done with primitive 100% weapons. 

Pistol, 23 dmg

Carbine, 40 dmg

Blunderbuss, 90 dmg

Puckle gun, 25 dmg

This is how much these damage tames

Which, is not enough to threaten anything. 

Flame swivels are the only thing that can put out out real damage to the tame and rider, however you can still ride strait past a flame swivel and live. 

Canister shot, destroys any defence/artillery structure in one shot. 

So I propose a rebalance, and I think the simplest thing to do about it would be increase gun and puckle damage to player owned tames. 

I think you need a 300% increase for guns and a 400-500% increase from puckles. 

This would keep tames in the combat as they would still be very powerful, but leave their usefulness up to player skill of the driver, and the defender shooting at them.  Also puckles have a tough time tracking them to shoot while tames move at full speed anyways, so a 500% increase would help, and they would still have to shoot most tames with all 5 shots to kill. 

How it is now though, makes the combat shallow and your only good option is to use a bear or horse with swivel or cannon. The guns are useless vs this, their damage vs players is ok, but they are useless vs tames.

A blackjack does dismount the rider, which could allow you to overwhelm it, with tames or other things, but that's about it for rider weakness or ways to disable them. 

If we dont want all the land combat to be tames only though, some serious damage buffs like these need to be put in place. 

Also remember that the heal takes 10 seconds to complete and is a min CD normally, or 20 seconds if you go with an intelligence build.  So these current gun damage values hardly do anything to the tame, the strongest thing is the blunderbuss and all 90 damage gets healed before you can reload.

On 3/24/2019 at 1:39 AM, UDO said:

except they wont and we all know it ...and its still safe place to store items forever with little to no risk ...even as u say if it goes vunerable for 1 hour good luck waiting forever to find the one time the guy logs into his super safe storage ...

Except they probably will do something, that's why they've gone with a war system in which this is impossible to do, with upcoming system everything will be vulnerable for 9 hours every day, that you will probably be able to see pretty easily when visiting their land. 

How are you going to exploit this system? If you can think of a way its important to voice it now. 

Besides even in the current iteration of the game all Freeport tames are banks that only require you render them in once per week.. 

It's going to be too hard for the devs to accommodate for megas though, their wars/battles literally dont even work or function within the limits of the game.

Ark ,two megas try and fight each other, they start logging on until, whoops the servers full, whoever has less players starts pin coding lights and turns on 1000 lights at once and crashes the server, so that when it comes back up they might get more players on. 

Atlas, two megas try and fight, cap out server, one has less players on, the less players give up eventually and the other mega keeps server capped while waiting on claim flags. 

Especially in atlas, all I see in mega tribe attacks is one packs up all their stuff and move because they know it will turn into the above situation, not a fight. 

I agree that the swivel cart is overpowered, however I dont think you should stop there, if you remove the cart, pvp on the ground will only be done with tame riders, lions, tigers, and bears. 

Guns and melee weapons would still be utterly useless, they should just nerf tames to the ground. Reduce their health by ALOT please. 

This wasn't supposed to be ark, please just make it so that tames can be blunderbussed to death. 

Then the cart would be more of a glass cannon/seige only tool anyways. 

I think the pvp would get more interesting if only the mythical tames were good at fighting, and regular tames just help farm, and transport mostly. 

Great suggestion! I believe 50 would be perfect size also, would be able to complete all the games content and have excellent sea battles vs each other. 

This captain Jack is just pulling the thoughts right out of my head!

Lol did you lose your job in the mailroom yet? Or did you just send those pink slips halfway to Siberia?

Yeah I think introducing options like this tied to a structure limit for companies would be great! I hate running into gates trying to render in or invisible cannons taking shots at your ship. 

Also would go further in making the game a competitive atmosphere and give reason to craft blueprint base peices!

Good suggestion. 

The armor works very well, however it is extra weight on your ship, IF you have enough hands to keep planks repaired it might not be as needed, but mostly these one sided cannon build will one shot your deck if you have no armor or at least deck structure, losing your top deck usually causes too many problems to fix.. I would recommend at least do one layer of roof armor with extra roof pieces on your ship to replace, dont worry about repairing them though, after you take damage from a cannon volley, its 2 minutes before you can replace roofs, and 3 minutes before you can repair them. 

Watch out for one sided builds though, they will wreck your top deck and sails. 

Prow ram? Is that the boat flipping ram design?

7 hours ago, UDO said:

OfF LINE RAID PROTECTION one guy buys a second account builds the base pincodes everything , logs off , logs onto his second account nice safe secure base , pin codes on boxes can store anything he wants safely 

What do you do when they make pincodes not work in stasis? Youd have to log on the shell account to access your stuff, easy fix. 

15 hours ago, war machine said:

I played pvp on ark,  No one ever broke through my defenses,

 

Sure u have to take your time and plan your buildings,  not rush through and get epic loot stored up before u can defend it but its the whole reason pvp is pvp  this whole  I am not online crap so u cant raid me is confusing me,  

I remember getting texts and phone calls in the middle of the night  telling me to get my ass online because 200 people where making a run for my base...  

 

lol i was up all night and all day   but i survived 

Your base was never "titan stomped" huh? And 200 PEOPLE wow, so not on officials then, would've had to have been a powerful, probably well known unofficial, Nerd parade? 

14 hours ago, Bullet Force said:

And that is why you will never be a top PVP player. You are letting quaint morals and ethics disadvantage yourself. All in or nothing that is the way to play.

Or I understand this concept completely, Weve had 6 mega tribes chasing us in ark at the same time. 

After the wipe we will have no mercy, but when your looking for ship battles, and you sail up to someone's base and sink all their ships while their anchored, then say over global, want to ship battle? Your not very likely to get one. 

So I posted this post, because finding players online atm is difficult.

We started just sailing around announcing ourselves in global, and we found what we were after.

If you think I'm a bad pvper though, I'll see ya after the wipe

We found a group that's willing to fight us, first we fought a legendary large cannon ship, that only had 5 cannons I think, was a tough fight, they maneuvered out of our barrage multiple times, and those cannons were hitting us but we won that fight, then we fought a brig that was all primitive with 18-20 larges, the waves kept making us miss, and they landed some good barrages on our cannons, once we were down to two cannons left we rammed them and tried to flame swivel, but they still had cannons and sunk us. 

Was awesome to say the least. 

So I never took a screenshot to post, sorry. 

It was a brig with all 18 larges on one side, and just flame swivel everywhere else. 

We lost to a brig that had 8 larges on each side and 4 on the back I think. 

Were going to design new brigs, I'm going to attempt a one shot brig that's only ship cannons, instead of larges next.

I dont have one, I'm at work right now, I could post one tonight, it's a pretty mean setup though, single layer of armour with 18 large cannons :p. 

The surprise could be part of the fun though lol, it's our idea of the toughest ship to fight so dont pull any punches against it, use a gally if you like. 

Since the wipe is coming we made the best fighting brig we could, and our tiny company has been sailing around looking for others to battle on the seas!

The ship is in l5 Freeport, we usually play about 10pm central us time, if you have designs you want to test out but have nobody to fight, post here and well come looking for ya, especially if your close to l5 at all. 

We wont sink ships where players are offline, we just want some more pvp action!

Well announce our arrival on your server when we get there!

No rules or anything, just looking for a fight that could sink our ship, you want to fight us with 2 ships, that's cool! 

If your interested just post where you'll be around 10pm-1am, central us.

They didn't go into detail on how the colonies will work, but I hope they at least change the alliance limit to a player count limit instead of companies, with company l limit, only companies with max amount of players will be in alliances. 

I dont think structures "your enemy" places are going to eat anything out of your tax bank, wouldn't make sense and would have to be patched pretty quickly anyways, so that doesnt worry me much. 

I'm pretty sure your still going to be able to set it so they cant build, or only allies can build anyways. 

For what it's worth Captain, the laws of physics mean nothing here anyways, I like your suggestion of balancing large cannons though, because after fighting lots of test brigs due to the 6x rates atm, I think the one that is best is a brig that only has about 18-24 large cannons on one side and that's it. With that you can do serious damage and possibly cripple any other ship you hit them with. 

That meta still needs some more rebalance, decks and sails dont need to be "one shot". 

Also the weapon that's best shouldn't also have the best range, that's just overkill. 

You could do the same setup with ship cannons but if your hit first coming into large cannon range, bye bye most of your cannons , and possibly a sail and your upper deck. 

They need to rebalance larges and do something about "ship armour".  Probably just need to make it so you cant build outside the ship deck. 

In any case, the meta, and the game just needs to be fun, I certainly dont want them to go with "physics" and limit ships to having two to three cannons that take minutes to fire each time, and almost the whole ship crew manning it. 

Cannons had to be counterbalanced on the ship with crew or sandbags and stuff and took extra crew to hold the rope or chain that kept the cannon in place, yeah that's just the beginning, screw physics lol, in no way do I think all that would be fun.

On 3/17/2019 at 7:32 AM, Bullet Force said:

I bet he also doesn't realize a longer barrel will give more velocity. 

Who are you talking to? OP,  Majoravatar, or I? 

If it was me, I do realize that which is why I think a long barreled cannon is a good idea?

Anyways the game is far far from real physics anyways. 

I looked at how cannons used to be fired historically, apparently the best crew of the royal navy could fire 2 cannons in 5 minutes. 

We dont want realistic lol

This would be an easy fix, there's already other ships from mods, it just has to be stat balanced for officials