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12 hours ago, IAmAnEasterEgg said:

How is having all the time I put in to the game all the tames I have just, dismissed like that not a punishment just because someone else is new to the game. 

Your mistake here is viewing a wipe as a punishment.  It's not.  The purpose of a wipe is not to take away anything from anyone.  It's to reset the playing field after a major change or to fix a problem that has gotten out of hand that all other solutions would be worse or actual punishments.  You viewing it as a punishment is simply not understanding the purpose of server wipes.  Again, server wipes are to reset the playing field, not to punish people.

12 hours ago, IAmAnEasterEgg said:

OK from now on we should just wipe the servers Everytime someone new wants to play because otherwise its an unfair advantage. 

Comments like this make you sound like a petulant child.

12 hours ago, IAmAnEasterEgg said:

Besides if a new player comes on can't find land and gives up after a week then he's the type of person who gives up very easily and survival games aren't really suitable for him. 

How incredibly presumptuous of you!  Not to mention the fact that scaring off potential fans of the genre is a good way to see the genre die off.

13 hours ago, IAmAnEasterEgg said:

That issue isn't really to do with land but to do with 3 things.

A toxic environment where alot of people are using aimboters and esp aswell as don't trust each other ie a lot of politics.

Lack of content at the moment people are jumping back to ark because it's a similar game with alot more content.

an absolutely enormous amount of bugs that are not been rectified quickly enough I also group lack of dev communication to the community. 

Lack of land is an issue.  But you're saying that it's not because "look at these other issues!"  That's not how this works.  All the issues stacked on top of each other makes each one bigger than it would be alone.  The first thing new players are most likely to encounter is the lack of land, and the reason for said lack of land.  Without being able to find a place to stake as their own, they're unlikely to encounter the aimbotters or the lack of content or mountain of bugs that exist.  Because they won't stick around if they can't even experience the most basic of features.

13 hours ago, IAmAnEasterEgg said:

The difference between the ark wipe and this wipe was lack of competition back then. If they do wipe the game will die quickly due to it increased amount of games on the market and coming too the market. 

The lack of competition that the current land claim issue has caused?

And I wonder, did ARK die because of the server wipe?  It's not like there was a lack of new games hitting the market during ARK's development.  All you've done is proven that a server wipe will not kill Atlas and is not a bad thing.

12 hours ago, Percieval said:

It is known that Nitrado is the official host for the official servers. 

I didn't know they were the official server provider.  Cool beans.

Though I'm not sure how that would have any impact on changing the island set up in the zones.

1 hour ago, Daemon Cross said:

Now I’m seeing threads about server wipes, upkeep on claim flags and general post about known bugs.

Not seeing the down side of server wipes (having been through a few over the years, they don't cause a mass exodus of players like the Chicken Littles are claiming it will).

Depending on how they handle the upkeep for claim flags, I see this as being something that's sorely and desperately needed.

The bugs will be fixed (mostly) as time passes.

The biggest issue I'm seeing is the lack of action taken against griefers and exploiters.  The former are easy to track down since their tactics often involve placing pillars or ships to block other players.  Those items have trackable IDs with them, so it's not difficult to see who is doing it.  What's more concerning is their stance on this.  They've basically said "We don't care that it's happening right now, we're looking for ways to stop it in a future patch".  The fix won't matter if you don't take care of the people that are currently playing.

While I expect some level of issues due to EA, letting griefers and exploiters run free is never defensible.

Good thing the claim system is being revamped, then.  Though the overlapping issue isn't an excuse for covering an entire island and not letting anyone have a piece of it while you're only using about 10% of it.  You're just defending your selfishness.

5 hours ago, IAmAnEasterEgg said:

So should the people who are currently playing the game properly not using these tactics be punished because someone else cant find land close enough to resources.

There is plenty of land around to be claimed u just have to find it. only in the past 2days we have had 2 separate groups of new companies join the server. 

When we landed on our island there was no fiber there was no sap there was no metal. So what did we do, we sailed to get these resources. 

Our island still doesn't have metal we still sail to get it

They wouldn't be "punished" by a server wipe.  That's your first mistake in viewing it as a punishment.  Providing a fair playing field is not a punishment.

Glad you're able to find land.  You have more dedication than the majority of new players will ever have.  Telling a new player "Suck it up, just keep looking" isn't going to keep a new player in the game.

No idea what you're getting at with your last point, though.  I wasn't advocating for having all resources on all islands.  In fact, I can't figure out why you're even bringing that up.  But to address it anyway, forcing players to sail to other islands and zones is exactly what should be happening.  This has jack-all to do with claims, though.

5 hours ago, Percieval said:

That is always good, but it won’t happen anytime soon because they’re probably contract bound (if they’re smart) with Nitrado. 

I don't know the details on this.  Can you elaborate or give a link with more info?  I've seen Nitrado's name a couple times, but I didn't know they were anything more than just a server provider.

On 2/23/2019 at 1:03 AM, Bullet Force said:

An easier solution would be to simply increase the build zone box size of the cannons so you can't place them close together. 

This would lead to issues with building in general.  It would be the "easier" solution, but it would create more problems than it would solve.

3 minutes ago, IAmAnEasterEgg said:

Yes they are going to wipe the severs with a cloth they do have to do maintenance on them. People need to stop wanting wipes. It will kill the game

You know what's worse than a server wipe?  Ignoring glaring issues of griefing and making major changes to core mechanics while not providing a reset on those core mechanics for the players.

I see a lot of panic about server wipes, but I've never seen a server wipe kill a game.  Ever.

8 minutes ago, Percieval said:

As long as you don’t add in more land, that should be fine. 

I would actually like to see a couple zones/grids with one LARGE landmass.  Too big for a single company to actually utilize by themselves.  Perhaps something the size of The Island or The Center from ARK.  The tiny islands we have right now feel very... silly.  Too much water, not enough land.

4 minutes ago, Percieval said:

What concerns me the most is that we didn’t hear anything about the claim system yet. I just hope it won’t be something we don’t know the details of till launch and then we all start crying and shouting again. If they do it right, they will ask our opinion about it from time to time in development. 

According to Friday's (2/22) Captain's Log, they're going to give details of the new claim system in this week's Captain's Log.  We'll see.  I'm eager to know the details, too.  The land claim nonsense is really the only thing that's dampening my interest right now, but it's a pretty big damper.

Seems to me that tames should harvest more similarly to ARK than what they currently do.

The Rhino was an especially big letdown considering it REQUIRES a pure metal node to get metal with it.  I don't recall any common tames in ARK that had such a silly restriction (perhaps I missed that phase of the game?).  Am I supposed to believe that a Rhino destroys the metal from regular nodes but is able to multiply what's gained from pure metal nodes?  Seems a bit farfetched and silly.

Similar silliness with the other tames and their respective "special" resource.  It all just seems arbitrarily and unnecessarily restrictive.

29 minutes ago, Bandit_Black said:

There is offline raid protection. 

It's called PVE. Don't turn this game into carebear. Recruit people from different timezones. Get btter defenses.

Or go to PVE

If you got a clan of 140 and you can't counter getting offline raided. You're doing it wrong, sorry. 

PvE you can't be raided at all.  No one is asking for that.  How is that hard to understand?  No one is asking for PvP servers to be turned into PvE.  How is that hard to understand?

You say "Get btter defenses".  If you'd actually spent time reading this thread, you'd know that's one of the problems currently with the game: There ARE no defenses that protect against offline raids.

If you think having a company of 140 makes you immune to offline raiding, you don't understand how anything of this works.

I would support the token idea under one condition...  The total, cumulative weight of all parts of the ship plus all the cargo currently stored on the ship at time of token-creation is how much the token weighs.

So if the cargo totaled up to 18k and the ship's parts all totaled up to 3600, then the token itself would weigh almost 22k.  This would prevent a lot of the concerns of transporting ships and massive amounts of goods without worry that they would be in any danger.  You could easily risk sinking a galleon with a single token.

Of course this also creates the issue of giving griefers more methods of being pricks, but I'm sure there's ways to deal with that that I'm not creative enough to figure out.

1 hour ago, Talono said:

I would pay for some items with real PVP advantage. Stronger guns, better weapons and armor.

But not for a fancy hat.. lol.

Lets not kill the game with Pay2Win, mkay?

10 hours ago, Smash said:

You know, it's possible to report QoL issues without sounding like a spoiled brat

I hate how people just feel they need to be so toxic towards wildcard games, dispite the fact they play them exclusively for thousands of hours....... 

What's toxic about pointing out something that even a three year old would tell you is dumb?  Don't overuse buzzwords just because they're popular.

And the truth of the matter is... It's a really boneheaded move to make the player marker the same color as something that will be used in large sections of the map.  In other words, the three main colors that the player marker should not use are...  Red, Green, Blue.  I hope I don't have to explain why.

Why should the griefer be given any sort of protection?  If you're legitimately raiding, not griefing/OffRaiding, then the people you're raiding will either...

A) Be too busy defending against your attack

or

B) Taking steps to prevent you from getting loot, which is a legitimate tactic to use.

As someone who I'm sure would call themselves a PvP player, surely you should understand that depriving your attacker of the goods they're after is a worthwhile goal in PvP.

29 minutes ago, Mythathos said:

PS. With dedication anyone can get land. Believe it.

While this is true, this will also run new players off before they can even get invested into the game.  It's a good thing they're revamping the claim system.  Shows they're at least aware that their game is in danger of dying.

14 hours ago, Aeonness Mernher said:

Yes we are aware that we have alot of flags, however this does not mean that there is no land available for other players.  We manage to continue to increase our land claim every day, which means that any other company could as well.  I encourage those of you that are complaining about no land being available to sail out and discover available land, because i assure you it is out there. There are company flags dropping everyday that are available for claim as well. Go out and discover new places.

In other words, you're proud of being greedy and selfish.

As for "we can do it, so can you", please elaborate how a husband/wife team can cover even a fraction of the same scouting area as a company with dozens or more people.  I would love to hear how you think this is in any way not an asshole thing to tell someone.

You can assure us it's out there because you have dozens of people out there looking, which allows you to cover vastly more ground than someone who is playing solo or in a small group.

How about instead of being greedy pricks you let go of some of the land you're clearly never going to use.  Or would that hurt your ego too much since you wouldn't be on the Leaderboard anymore?  At this point, the Leaderboard for PvE is just a list of the most selfish people currently playing.

I wish I could disagree with Crete, but the Suits never care about the community or how a financial-based decision will upset them.  ...until it has a devastating impact on their bottom line, but by then it's too late.

On 2/21/2019 at 6:10 PM, Itsme said:

Or.... maybe the real players are in the game PLAYING or have moved on while the entitled players are all on the forums still whining?

 

So a person is entitled if they don't play the way YOU think they should?  If they aren't happy with the state of the game, that makes them entitled?  What an entitled mentality you have.