Captain Trenchard

D7 is awesome for lawless bases. Crocs and Snakes mostly, with the odd tiger thrown in. Lots and lots of non-dangerous life as well. I’ve always got a little base set up there, tho I spend most of my time at sea visiting and exploring.

The claim system in place isn’t popular with large chunk of the player base. The reply was a bit snarky out of context. There are many players, especially in PVE who want to own islands all for themselves and keep other players off them. He wasn’t necessarily accusing you of doing so. The problem, even with all the new islands, is land is the one limited resource and it was a problem in the past for players having no where to build. Even most lawless islands where crowded. The current claim system doesn’t completely address this issue. It’s to a landlords advantage to be a landlord, but there is still nothing to prevent landlords from taking away much of the land from players who aren’t landlords. Which is happening again already. In PVE you cannot take an island from another player. In PVP you can. It is, in fact, an implied responsibility of landlords to keep resources from being blocked and prevent foundation spamming. Implied... but not actually required or enforceable.

It seems to only be showing up on NA PVP at the moment.

I’ve got the hat on NA PVP, but not on NA PVE?

I was going to make a joke and say sometime between 12:01am and November, but they’ll probably hit the mark this time. I would expect it to be early in the day.

I understand the devs though process on this. The idea is to have the players build towns, run taverns and hold festivals. The idea is for the players to interact and make the world alive instead of NPCs. The problem of course is that the game mechanics don’t actually allow players to do this!

We could talk about the cool hat we got after the last wipe.

As a solo player I was unable to claim a cheap island on either EU or NA despite being on within hours of the server coming online. Just not fast enough to beat out the company players. So, once again I live on Lawless. There is no advantage to living on claimed land versus living on Lawless. And somehow being on Lawless feels more like being a pirate (even tho I cannot really be a pirate in this pirate game).

According to the comments In the latest captains log, Jax said that NA PVE will go live at the same time as the Easter Event. Which should be late tonight or early Saturday morning.

It seems from the comments in the latest patch notes that Jax confirmed after NA Empire PVP comes down and the Easter Event starts NA PVE will go live at the same time.

Sunday is a holiday. I probably shouldn’t assume that they won’t go live on a holiday. But I did.

Later this week? It’s Thursday. Later this week is in the next two days.

While I don’t disagree with any of that, it misses the point. Ask the OP WHY they claimed an island in the first place? The answer will probably be something along the lines of they wanted to be self reliant, wanted to be master of their own fate, wanted to have the ‘best thing’ in the game (winning so to speak). People can’t claim an island cannot have those things... they are forced to settle for less. People who play games don’t want to settle for less... there’s enough of that in real life.

Attention Devs!!!! THIS!!! Here we have a company who’s claimed an island and is ADVERTISING for other players to come there. Why? Because almost NOBODY WANTS TO SET UP ON SOMEONE ELSES LAND! Your “new” claim system offers absolutely no reason at all settle on claimed territory. The only benefit is to the owner in PVE!!!!! Nice ad by the way. Except every island has resources.

There is actually zero reason to move off lawless. For solo players and small companies the new mega update fixed absolutely nothing as far as being able to get your own land. While a whole lot of people (who have claims) say they want you come live on their island and they will be amazing landlords (and I’m sure some of them are) the game actually has no benefit for you to do so. You can get griefed and spammed on a owned island just as much as in lawless. The only difference is who you complain to: a landlord player or the Devs. A landlord player might be faster to respond (if they actually do at all) but can’t do anything to the other player but delete his stuff (within 24 hrs). A Dev can do more (assuming that they actually do anything at all).