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4 hours ago, Forb Hidden said:

After a week now we removed the settings from the game.ini. my mate did something wrong I think and so we could lvl up our tames, but not the players anymore. 

It's a really complicated system and you can't find any explanation or tutorial about it.

And why the hell are the devs not helping out here? You know the codes etc. as best... Would take 15min to write down a tutorial about and post a sample for dummies (like me in this case).

Just a simple "how to for dummies" about raising the max lvl of tames, if you want to play on a difficult preset "1". But without extra fast leveling or super extra engram points o.e. just a simple Max lvl incrase. So u can breed a tame over lvl 100 and be able to lvl up after.

Is it such a big thing? Please help me out here because otherwise it's no fun to play on a higher difficult level.

This is a pretty comprehensive guide on how to change the exp tables for players/creatures:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1677567541

or here's a copy of an .ini file:

https://pastebin.com/9Svhvpgb

It will cover the creature's EXP up to base level 120. So anything born at level 100 would be able to gain another 130 levels. If it was born at level 120, it'll be able to gain 150 levels. Anything above 120 (base) would need additional numbers input into the table. 

1 hour ago, Realist said:

Yeah that was pretty disappointing to say the least. I was really surprised nobody was mentioning the forum crash. The sad part is they didn’t even say anything about it. I was looking on twitter and no announcement whatsoever.

when arks forums were down they immediately announced it on twitter and gave updates on when it would be back up. This was another big fail for them. The lack of communication is just sad.

i wonder how long that Q&A is going to be up before they actually answer some questions.

Aye, we should have posted that the forums were offline. Typically if they go offline, it's because someone is attacking our network, usually both sites simultaneously (most particularly after banwaves ). I usually post these and post on both platforms that they're unavailable (ARK and ATLAS ) but I was away this weekend for family commitments so wasn't around to do so but have reminded the others they can and should too. You'll notice that Chris sent out a tweet that he was looking into both sites, but it was only RT'd from the ARK account 

As for the Q&A, we'll be looking to answer those (in some form) during our livestream later this month.

1 hour ago, AntonyVW said:

Hi @Dollie Asking for an ETA of when it was going to be delivered was not the main point of my post. What I asked for was an update as to whether it still existed and what was going to be in it. ETA would be nice but not expected. But far to little info is being given out just lately on any topic. It is making folk like me wonder if it still on the cards and whether its going to contain more than just a cat.

We'll have a stream at the end of the month which will give some more insight into our dev plans going forward, but yes a large update is expected and when we're ready to share more, you'll hear about it.

3 minutes ago, Whitehawk said:

Many thx  mr J. gotta have that sub! ps, any plans on the airship? 

Nothing in the works any time soon, of course, we have hinted at things in ATLAS' keyart, however, they are a long way away and it's possible those plans could change. 

There are some plans in the works for getting additional abilities and will involve the power stones. 

Do you mind giving it a go now? 

There are small hitches if a very large structure has been destroyed, but general/more typical cases wouldn't have an impact.

Which network + server are you guys playing on?

Unfortunately, it's not something we support at the moment, there are concerns with 'insiding', when company owners have knowingly taken a break and then players have colluded to seek ownership via the support system. However, we recognize it can lead to problems in the event that a company owner is required for action and we have discussed steps to alleviate this. It's possible in future this could occur via our support team, but preferably would happen through an in-game mechanism. 

Unfortunately, there isn't a way to do this but will talk to the tech team to see if we can give owners the possibility to clear all hooks. Otherwise, we've only set it up so admins+above can set them live on their Discord server.

Aye, we'll be doing a pass on them to clean it up

8 hours ago, Ultrunz said:

Actually @Jatheish, givediscozones doesnt work. Me and a friend figured it out any way.

enablecheats

cheat completequest 1655 YOURID!

for example mine was cheat completequest 1655 77202334

to get ur id do showmyadminmanager click your name and then a command on the right, execute and copy your userid 

1655 is veteran explorer. I can't find the questID for the cartographer. Hopefully one of u guys can find it! 

Haha, thanks for the tip. News to me

6 hours ago, darkdaz said:

admins- after the patch a friend of mine told me they logged in today(tuesday), and they had to create a new char etc, but when they did the commands you said in the first post, they worked but some of the stations wasnt working correctly in a way they couldnt access them or anything

any ideas before we do a wipe????

Could you elaborate? Would they be able to take a video of what happens when they try to access the structure? I assume they have the permissions to do so? (inventory rank, etc)

Thanks, we'll check it out

We have had a few reports of this and are currently investigating to see what precisely is happening, whether it's due to the decay or something else.

Could you elaborate? Appears to function for me.

2 minutes ago, Habitman said:

Hmm nope, it didn't work unfortunately. I'm mostly interested in the 250% encumbrance speed bonus from the veteran explorer quest, it's so painful to play without it!

There are plans for Blackwood to support the missing quests in a future update

14 minutes ago, PitMonk said:

In your professional opinion, and as a Dev, should we bother trying to move our old (only 1 week old) data over to this new build or are we better off long term to just wipe and start again?

Honestly, it depends on how much administration work you want to do. The admin commands could make this a quick and easy process (moving all the structures/ships/creatures back to their original owners) within minutes or hours depending on how many different people play the game. If it's just a small group, it may be worth just running the commands. If you've not done too much, you may find it easier to restart

9 minutes ago, Habitman said:

Pardon me this is off topic but are there any commands to give the quest rewards for master cartographer and veteran explorer in blackwood since those 2 are unobtainable?

Mmm.. you could try using: cheat GiveAllDiscoZones but I am not sure if it'll work on that map.

FYI Folks, update on the post above:

We have managed to make already existing savefiles load with this change, however, you will be forced to create a new character and make a new company. Force-joining into the old company will not work. However, you can then reclaim all your structures, ships, and creatures again with the use of admin commands such as:

- cheat takeallstructure

This will transfer all the structures, boats, and claimflags of the previous company, to your own.

- cheat takealldino

This will transfer all the creatures of the previous company, to your own.

- cheat giveallstructure

This will transfer the structure you’re looking at, as well as anything snapped to it, to you.

- cheat givetome

This will transfer the individual object you’re looking at, to you (works with creatures too).

Just posted another update to the save file. Technically you could still go with your existing savefile, but it may require some admin intervention if you would like things to function how they did. We've updated the OP to reflect this.

7 minutes ago, Puppies4ever said:

It doesnt work.

Maybe its possible to start a thread before Q&A starts and everyone will post questions. The questions with highest reputations will be answered in stream.

We've done Q&A threads in the past, pinned topic where we've taken questions from and answered live on stream and it's likely we'll do the same going forward  -- we'll post an announcement when the details are available.

Not sure how feasible it would be for to fairly select two individuals per grid but do plan on having more Q&As in the future, particularly timed around our live streams (for which we'll be announcing the next one soonish).

We do have a fix for this coming up now for dedicated servers. Unfortunately, it'll require a critical change to the save system which means in order for it to work, previous save files will no longer function. Little bit more info is available here: 

Sorry for any inconvenience and loss suffered folks , the update will be deployed later today. It will not impact Single Player or Non Dedicated servers. 

In theory, you could always create manual backups of your save folder. They can be found here, depending on the map you're using:

SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\ATLAS\ShooterGame\Saved\BlackwoodSavedAtlasLocal or SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\ATLAS\ShooterGame\Saved\SavedAtlasLocal

It's not something that's in the game now, but it has been something we have discussed and considered for the future. No confirmation that it's coming, but it's certainly on the table to be considered.

 

 

 

 

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2 hours ago, Dosgimp said:

The brig that went "poof" for me had a sub attached to it, that was never detached for over 30days +.    I was under the impression that is what caused it to go vanish,  However we are still waiting for feeback from the Dev's 

Hm, it could be possible that this is the case, we'll need to investigate. Will look into it.

As for the decay timers, they are set up to work like so:

PvE - 14 days (Golden Age: 1 Day, Freeports: 3 days)

PvP - 30 days (Golden Age: 1 Day, Freeports: 3 days)

and then to keep the timer active, you have to physically stand on the boats.