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  3. Posted

    19 hours ago, Nacona said:

    Thanks for this infos. It's basically what i discovered yesterday evening so far. Until 17.30 i had gained another 51 gold but than two markets accepted that fit to my trades. Both run permanent trades about 10-17 ships at distance 30.00/20.00 (me H7 to H9/G8) so i trade sand stone for their marmor and we trade it back. Same with wood and thatch. Metal is not running that well... i get much iron but there is actually nobody buying all that iron i receive. My warehouse feels a little like it's complete empty(start with 30k of each). But good news is that all trades are actually 1:1 so i don't get cheated on PVE so far. And i earn of course the special event resources like gems or cannon balls or parrot eggs. So far to 5.30 in the morning i made over 4k gold now. Just need somebody with a trade for honey/any suggar/crystal because i don't have that myself.

    So if i have like 3-4 good trade partners i should just reject all other 90 trade offers i send to markets?

    Conclusion: The system is actually set to be exploited to generate enough gold to sink it into ships but still reduces the amount of starter ships. ALso no need to fix treasure maps or sunken ships as nobody does anymore^^. Well you could say just remove gold costs for ships and don't generate gold with trade loops. So far it does not look like established companys have les ship than before(just need some days more to get the gold). I saw one PVE island one compnay had like 15 transport galleons... wtf...

    stone wood thatch runns best

    fiber for fiber was working aswell

     

    and here we have the problem with the honey crystal trades...

    you can offer it, but the problem is to guess what it goes form is it wood is it gems is it iron, basically if you have a trade partner that has honey or crystal in the list you can try to make trades that trade fiber for honey or fiber for crystal

    this is based on that fact that in crystal areas is no fiber but crystal and gems

    but you can try every recource, you see instantly if it is working or not in the log.

     

    only accepted markets have a flow, ofc you can cancel or delete the other routs

    btw you can watch what your trade partner offers by revisiting the traderouts and look for your trade partner, over time some ppl offer more, you just have to guess or try what they want for it

     

    they have to be active tho

     

    and in laweless there is a great market flow but on claimed islands there is a rly bad one, idk maybe they don't need gold xd

    i think veryone that has a claimed island also playes on laweless anyway

    4 hours ago, George Catcher said:

     

     

    Yeah... I guess I'll wait what new patch brings, then will try to figure it out.

    i think you need new trade routes

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  4. Posted · Edited by photek

    1 hour ago, Ranger1k said:

    @Ninja of Bedlam

         I owned a Market and had 4 farms until about 6weeks ago in Lawless PvE . I've said it before but I think I averaged 4-6k daily. Very simple pre-patch set up. Nothing BPed, I just set it and forget it as much as possible. I know enough to understand what your explaining...

         30-60k daily is insane. Last questions I can think of...

    PvE or PvP? If PvP does your Company own any Control Points? Lawless or owned island?

    How long has the income been so high? Did it fluctuate with the patches?

    Anyone else reading this pulling in this much gold from a single Market?

    if you rly want to put effort into an alpha trading system that makes no sense, here is how it is working atm

    quick reminder this is an EA game, so things are not working as intended, some are exploitable

    if this game releases, this is not the final trading system

     

    alpha trading system:

    put stuff in your warehouse you wanna trade

    select your trade partners/routs that have not your resources you have

    trade 1:1 only

    trade stone for stone like marble for sandstone or wood for wood like softwood for strongwood

     

    that would be it, you can stop there and make 5k a day at least

    or you can push it how hard you can exploit this system

     

    i think i am on 30k a day and i do not even give stuff into the warehouse

    because i did set up trades that go in a circle, basically trading like before last patch (trading sandstone for sandstone),

    i also do 3 different wood types and stone types, not only 2, and i have 4-8 active trading routs (stone wood thatch 1:1)

     

    you just need the ppl that are doing the same

    and since it is working only that way, sooner or later you notice that by yourself

    you generate gold by nonsense trades

     

    you can trade forth and back with the same ppl aswell wich is stupid

    so i trade off my sandstone for marble and i receive marble, then i trade the marble for sandstone that is on my grid anyway (no need farmhouses), then it repeats, i added granite into the circle, so granite for marble and sandstone, marble for sandstone and granite and sandstone for marble and sandstone.

    same you can do with the wood types and thatch, flint is an alternative

     

    trades are high speed and automatic at the moment, wich will change

     

    i would not want to develop such a trading system.. a pain i can imagine...

    but with limits and balance it could be kinda working like that, limit forth and back trading, limit same server/island and alliance trading (exploiting) and the auto trading will be off by then anyway. no gold rewards if trading with the same person over and over again maybe aswell in the end...

     

    maybe this system changes and is based more on resources rather than gold.

    trading wood for gold is not bad either.

     

    for spreading resources tho, this would be the better system (the currently active one)

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  6. Posted

    30 minutes ago, Ninja of Bedlam said:

    @Ranger1k and @NaconaI have found you can make a nice lump of change if you set you market up correctly. I can get between 10-20k every 8 hours. Trading with 4 companies. And 5 farms connected to a warehouse. Something I have noticed is that with time if you start getting a bunch of aborted trades which results in less and less income. the best thing you can do is delete your market and rebuild it. That fixes it for me. Also when requesting trade routes try to find the ones with 8/8 or less routes. (Ex. 7/8, 6/8, 5/8 etc etc) not entirely sure of the correlation yet but think it has to do with the routes your shipment has to take to reach its destination, but that is totally speculative? If anyone knows please share your knowledge.

    do not make up your mind about this broken trading system, it is not reflecting anything in future, it is just running high speed for testing, it will have limitations that are not in place yet.

    atm you can abuse this system in many ways aswell. you even can fake a market for getting your trade route accepted, lawless has better market flow, and the unlimited gold is just KEKW

    in the end we will trade that what we need and not that we make gold with by shipping stuff forth and back.

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  7. Posted · Edited by photek

    On 3/8/2021 at 5:40 PM, Chucksteak said:

    Devs

    You left in islands that megas can own in multiples. You possibly fucked every solo on lawless. I mean PROPER FUCKED! 

    Can these be destroyed while I am at work?

    Can people put down multiples of these or just 1 per person or company?

    Can my tower be overrode by another adjacent tower?

    Can Megas still own several islands and then still go out into lawless and span claim areas for free to exploit market trades?

    No wipe? 

    Guys, I give you the benefit of a doubt at every opportunity. How about you flesh out some details. As it is, it appears you fucked solos and smalls into oblivion right now. 

     

    YEP

     

    they want a raptorshow for promotion i guess bc they can not get attention from the good programming work alone.

     

    i am just wondering what happened again

     

    maybe new devs. again, who the hell knows right

     

     

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  9. Posted

    On 2/25/2021 at 5:16 PM, Pant said:

    Seems like the devs have a vision of some grand RTS game where trade and gathering is automated and the players are just there to fight over who controls it. I don't see how the game is ever going to support that vision with the current upkeep of npcs and ease of spamming npcs/structures.

    haha that is true 😄

    an RTS loool

    switching from 3d to 2d and managing trade routes that actually work would be great tho xd

     

  15. Posted · Edited by photek

    no to gold upkeep for this monster and no gold req. for barrels because it hurts solo and small aswell

    everything else sounds great

    please add some recources in to the trade like -herbs medical and -hide and such

     

    maybe something is wrong with the farmhouses, i reequip the coal and it works i leave the area or log out come back after 2 hours and it has stopped and

    sometimes only stacks of 9 in the farmhouse, then i have to take this stacks of 9 out and start again, then it is running until the behaviour i stated above starts.

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  18. Posted · Edited by photek

    what is so unclear about the last official post about 2020

    ofc they wipe soon

    and i want it because the claiming system is trash, but propably the new system will be trash again like the trading route that makes no gold and no trades pop up and markets loading endless

     

    they should wipe before 24th tho, because you know, if you build up in your holiday and then new year everything is gone it would be another fu to the community

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  20. Posted

    6 hours ago, J.Dawson said:

    Please no god damn area claming, it was and is a horrible idea. 

    Island claiming is perfect for anyone, for 1 man tryna solo or big company.

    If you are going to implement that, then atleast give private server owners option to choose between each system.

    What kind of a sick idea is to add money to ship crafting? where is the logic in that and just imagening how tiresome it is already to get gold in 15x server i cant imagine official players.
    If you added premade ships at different qualities at the freeport then you could sell them, but gold is literally unneccesary crafting component in that.
    Like where the fuck does the gold go to? You slave yo ass off gathering resources and then you pay the sea gods 5k tax to get a schooner? 

    Since dev team is clearly bad at changing features with their own ideas, let the playerbase vote on a idea or porpose one.

    solo? nope

    i got fucked by a china twoman company they blocked my flag and placed a 2nd outside the circle, i was 30 minutes in and they got the island

     

    it is broken since ever

     

    ofc we need another claim system

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  21. Posted · Edited by photek

    well, i was thinking about this gold stuff until now, and i think it is too much

     

    more people farm easier and faster and they have more quicker than others anyways

    how about that:

    1 company 1 member 1:1 gold price

    1 company 2 members 2:1 gold price (double)

    1 company 3 members 3:1 gold price (tripple)

    and so on

    1 island owner company 1 member 5:1

    1 island owner company 2 members 7:1

    and so on

     

    the set amount of gold ranging from 5k over 25k to 50k would be "ok", if you are island owner

     

    on PVE the average island owner had between 100k and 500k in the flag last season

    obviously for island owners it is not a problem at all to pay that amount

     

    after a certain time tho

     

    this gold comes from making maps, over time

    who is making maps if noone is playing?

    noone.

    so no gold income

     

    brings us to the trading route

    this is not tested at all

    and i guess they want to test this how much gold it produces

     

    so we have to differentiate

    island owner company

    -splitting in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5+ members

    island allied/non allied/settlers company

    -splitting in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5+ members

    laweless company

    -splitting in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5+ members

     

    the island owner company i already described their gold income, tax from maps

    the settler company doing maps and ocean treasures and they get a benefit if the island owner sets the flag to pay for allies (wich will not rly happen at a new beginning)

    laweless company can only do maps and ocean treasures

     

    since laweless companys are only doing maps and few treasures, the main gold comes from the laweless companys

    ofc island owner company or settler companys do maps aswell, but for experience later, so later they do not need the gold, but laweless does, and the gold gets more and more for island owners

     

    if a island flag has lets say 250k in it, and you pay 20 % tax, you know how many laweless/settler companysmust have been there

     

    so at the beginning there will be gold and experience for all the companys

     

    but later the laweless/settler companys have no gold anymore, they have no additional income

    thats why i say compensate beeing a laweless/settlers company a little bit, 5k are too much to motivate people to play

     

    1k  15k  30k

    or

    1k  10k  15k

    maximum guys...

    but as i stated above you can do this if you want to make the people play for time not for fun aswell:

    1 company 1 member 1:1 gold price

    1 company 2 members 2:1 gold price (double)

    1 company 3 members 3:1 gold price (tripple)

    and so on

    1 island owner company 1 member 5:1

    1 island owner company 2 members 7:1

    ..

    the ppl wont play at all they quit after 1 or 2 weeks.

    your laweless player numbers are at least 15 times higher than the island owner company and avrg. 3-4 times higher than the settler companys (incl. multiple companys on multiple islands incl laweless)

    so the laweless ppl produce enough gold for island owners

    i once said there is no reason to have an island,

    well 😄

    now you have one, but it does cost you yor laweless players that won't farm shit, so the island owners won't have that much in the bank anymore

    then it comes from the settlers, but why should settlers farm this 5k and 25k and 50k

    you see if only one side wins it sux, the island owner

    so lets make 1k for schooner and the gold comes in slower for island owners but at least you have players

    lets not forget the shops, some parts are expensive af

    you will see this will ruin a lot if the trading route is not OP.

     

  22. Posted · Edited by photek

    1st, Reduced Transport Radius of Warehouse from 500m to 450m

    this is kinda ridiculous, i can not place FARMHOUSES in that range because farmhouses are blocking eachother so i am out of range for the WAREHOUSE

    so if i have 3 farmhouses only 1 warehouse can connect to it...

    this is odd dont you think

     

    2nd, Progress: Please make sure that new players are not lost and quit the game right away

     

    3rd:

     

  25. Posted · Edited by photek

    sure you missed one

    not using this <> at all 😄

     

    they should make world chat available and let people trade like now

    they should use the trade route to send recources/items to your base that can be ambushed that would be dope

    and btw

    since laweless is a stupid circle, all the materials are there except ironwood (even if you do laweless on the outer circle it is stupid to just drive a circle, and you still have a new inner circle with propably the same materials but only these islands are claimable wich would be the better choice so people are closer to golden age ruins and the maw, if you make an inner claimable island circle the vast majority of the various recources has to go wich i would do with laweless now, rly just driving a circle and having all the various materials 5/5 it not good, i've never visited claimable islands for anything else than treasure maps)

    i think we need the old map again or the current one heavily edited, mats and islands, remove almost all rare mats from the inner laweless circle and give claim islands the rare recources.

    they maybe have to work on rarity of recources aswell

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