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In my opinion the reason for the decrease of the playernumbers to 3k is because of the announcement that they will wipe... before that there were about 12000 - 15000 ppl online each day,.... not saying that the griefing, offline raiding (and so on) doesnt need fixing but we just can all hope, that we will reach 10 k + a few weeks after the patch again..

Hmm... The only thing you do is to insult me - I am NOT a PVO Player - dont know how you think you know this about me.... its wrong! I just tried to ask in a constuctive way which positive innovations the new system will bring?! To me I dont see any improvements... How does the new system encourages actual PVP as you said? If you say that u dont like the old system it is fine to me, but dont tell me you know that NO ONE liked it! You should not speak for everyone! Before the devs announced the wipe there were playing about 12000 - 15000 ppl enjoying the game every day - and for sure these ppl were definitive not all PVO hardcore players... All I wanted to say is, that to improve the old system would make more sense to me than totaly change it... sure it had its flaws but the new one isn't perfect either... So please tell me, what on the old claim system is so " hot garbage" and why do you think it is such "a terrible system" ?

@ Captain Jack Shadow: If you could find out earlier, that there are enemies in your claim: you can teleport back by using the bed (fast travel), in your base there should be a box with cloth and weapons... so you can defend your base. So the problem was that you didnt get the information early enough - isnt it? So a warning system would help, dont you think? The second problem is, that the walls and the whole base was destoryed in such a short time... Wouldn't it help, if the structures were stronger? I agree that there should be some changes to prevent those PVO, but to be honest I think stronger walls and a warning system, when someone is moving into your land, will be a good step in the right direction. I cannot see what the new coming up system will change regarding to PVO - Okay, we have the offline raid protection, but we have 9 hours of raiding time... during this time we have the same problems like before...

What I dont understand: They wanted to do something against griefing... well... in the old system you set a claim flag and you could only build in there. And in the new system you can build everywhere - as long as the settlement owner allows you to build on his land... so the new system makes griefing easier and supports it... so whats the point? And: I can't see what the big problem with the old claim system is, so that the devs have to totaly change this system... (and hence wipe all) If it is, because ppl didnt get land to build, I have to say, that in our sector a lot of land was free. It was claimed by the biggest company there, but if you asked them, you could claim a piece of land... and so time after time the island grows to a nice comunity with a lot of different companys which were able to defend together against big companys... The only thing is, it takes time so that ppl start to talk to each other, develop diplomacy, aliances and so on .... but to wipe now interrups the development... So I dont get it: why devs have to stop this claim system and change it completely instead of improve the old system (perhaps a limit of claimflags)? In the new system landowners will also be the biggest company in the sector and you will have to follow their rules, or they destroy you... but that's not new... (at least on pvp - PVE I dont know) So - again - i dont understand the necessity of the claim system change.... I cannot see what positive innovations the new system will bring...

Keep the old claim system! Maybe limit claimflags per person! Later in games lifetime u can introduce a election - system, where the island can elect a gouverneur and he can select the raid protection time and is responsible for playershops or building a city on the island or something like that... As long as there is no gouverneur the raiding time is fixed on the island maybe from 4 pm till 12am. But to be honest - first of all the dmg and the structure hitpoints have to be balanced, means that a single bear with cannon can destroy a whole base in a few minutes - like McGyver - blasts everything away with a spoon and a chewinggum and some annoying things should be fixed (like stucking in animals while running through the wood, not finding the "climb up" point, while in water, NPCs falling through the shipdecks etc) But if it is not possible to keep the old claim system: I agree Xenom

In my oppinion they just have to nerf the bears with cannons... All in all we (we are a very small guild) have a very good offline protection - after we were attacked about 5 times we found our "blind spots" and so we are very safe. For sure - if there will be a higher amount of ships than our defense could handle - we are dead - but that's what the game is about and we are fine with it.. So I suggest: Keep it simple, just balance damage of cannon- bears, wall - hitpoints, etc. etc. and I think the game would be perfect as it is. And fix some bugs and annoying things like stucking in a pig or cow while running through the wood... or make it easier to climb up the ladder while swimming ... And PLZ don't change the claim system!!!!

Thats exactly why the old system is better: this prevents the spamming of buildings. Noone can build in my claim, except I let him…. And i can build, what I want to. I think, that the game would get more players if they fix some annoying things as: breeding time - 48 Hours for bears - unreachable for normal ppl., cooking - not really useful, stucking! animals stuck in foundations, I always stuck n foundation when i log in after there was an update, NPCs - stucking or doing wirred things, and the most important thing: you build up a very high defending base with walls and mortas, cannons, tamed animals, walls after walls and defending towers over days, weeks an months, and 2 funny ppl come in and blow everything away with a spoon and a Chewinggum in 1 - 2 Hours.... when they fix this Point, i think that everything would be cool, and ppl would come back... I am sure the patch with the submarine would bring back many Players, when they fix these points…

I totaly agree ALCA, although I would have used the word "shit" a little bit less We are a Company of 2 - My husband and me! We tried to survive since release:) I think if there is a statistic of who died the most, we are right in the top:) We reached an Island, somehow, put our flag into earth, died about 1000 times til it was our land, but it was worth it. We build up and after a while, we had a good aliance with the whole Island. But some of them were too brave, attacking a very big guild. One day they came back and wiped us all;( We lost everything. But we learnd a lot - what we did wrong about building our house and defense. We found a new Island, a new aliance. Build our house and defense better, we learned what we did wrong - we needed more LARGE CANONS! So we build a better defense! Travelling many hours to get a ramshakle Sloop "full" of stuff, we didn't have on our Island. Made discovery points, got 2 times to the fountain of youth etc. etc. to build our characters. So - I dont have a big Problem with a claim wipe. But isn't it enough to wipe claims? not the whole character?! AND: When you bring the new Claim System - we just have to merge in a bigger Company (what we really dont want to) or we have to build on an Island where another Company tells us what to do. We cannot build any defense anymore, as it is said in the patch notes. The new Claim System Limits smaller companies in a lot of Things that are really fun, like building base defense, owning a piece of land, with our own territory flags and msgs and the like.... Isnt it possible to have raiding times to select and stay with the claim system we have now? Or that all claimowners of an Island can choose a raid window via poll in a new building that afterwards is the same for the whole Island.... Or : If u are offline - 2 hours after logging out, there will be a raidprotection - problem with offline - raiders solved… If u are offline more than 3 days - u have no raidprotection anymore…. PLZ let the Claim System as it is! And to be honest - there should be always ppl starting over new with this game - should we always wipe all and everything so these ppl have a fair chance to get an Island??? I mean, comeon! We are only 2 ppl, found a place 2 times! Everywhere around us where companys, telling in the Claim message, if you want to have a piece of land, you can contact them…. So dont know whats the Problem with the Claim System! Give us more posibilities to defend against offline Raiders as ALCA said, and everything would be fine for me... so Maybe remove the claim system on PVE server, or something like that, but on PVP Server it is working fine. Right now i am really frustrated, so I logged in and thought, that I dont know what to do... it is all in vain… I am really sad, because I really loved this game