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Storage lockers are lockable. Have to set pin code, they are not locked by default. Should be the first thing you do after placing one.

Just look on the in game map, it tells you what everyone is charging. No reason to post and ask when the entire server tax rate is available to you already.

I was looking forward to the player shops. WTF are you guys thinking Jat? That's ridiculous and stupid. No way could I maintain that. Now your making it so the solo/small group player, on the small group server, cannot have a vender. EVER. It is obvious you do not want a player economy, or real trading/vendors. 1400 gold a day for a vendor is insane. Please look into this immediately, it wouldn't ever be worth it to have one if it is that much. As per the OP, please tell me this is a mistake.

Pretty sure it works like this. Having more settlers does not change upkeep amount, changes the payment interval.

Yeah we are a company of 15. None of us are on the PTS. All waiting for wipe. I could see how you might think that way, I know the reddit sub has lost a lot of subscribers. I just think there are far more waiting for the wipe than are not. The numbers will be much higher on "new launch" day whenever that is. Them keeping decent numbers is a different story. Maby I will have to join you lol. I know I have 2 others in my company that would still play if I keep playing. My company of 15 just might end up a company of 3. GG GS lol...

This is an assumption. My company has not tried the PTS nor will most of us, if any of us. We are all waiting for the actual 1.5 to drop, I am willing to bet we are not the only ones. My company is just tired of the delays, they do not care to test this out. We know where we are going roughly, we know what we are doing, just do not want to play until there is an actual semi static game to play. I might log in and play for a bit, but who knows. How ever that being said, if Grapeshot does not get a move on SOON, my company might bail. They have not said as much, but I know them as gamers, and the time since wipe announcement till now (and it will not be ready in a week in my opinion) and who knows how long until a release version is getting LONG. And if my company moves on I will as well.

Did you mistake them for any of the other "professionals" on this forum? It seems it would be easy to do... I mean We are all experts here right? lol... I think you are mistaken. This is my "pro" opinion.

Mountains out of molehills.

Troll post is troll. This is not even a good one. I mean even the name is troll. The entire gist of this should just be the word troll over and over. Turn the servers on devs, people need to waste their time on your game... instead we get them wasting it on this.

I am not sure sneaky, the video is not mine. They tried patching it after a streamer published him doing it on his stream and everyone freaked out hahaha. Though I am sure it was complained about before. Just found the patch, v. 18.73, "- Improved cannon collision and obstruction check to limit the effectiveness of multiple cannons in gunport." So when ever that was is when they tried changing it.

The armor definitely works. You will not be that much faster not unless your running 3 speed sails and run really empty (then you will be faster lol). My ship is completely covered and I am not much slower than others. My build is very maneuverable as well, I do not use 3 speed sails. So I can actually turn on a dime. There are more options in building than people think, everyone just copies what they see in videos it seems. I agree speed is an important aspect, perhaps the most important aspect. (I definitely think speed gives you an edge in combat, though there are other factors). it also depends on how comfortable you are with different playstyles and builds. For instance as I said above, I do not do the strong side builds very well. They are effective, half my company just loves them on schooners, but I don't play them well. And I don't like playing them. Also having fast lightly armored (or no armored) harassing ships can be a huge boon if you having a small multi ship engagement. Most people would go for a brig like mine before yours if we were together, allowing me to tank and a ship like yours to just swoop around blasting things. There are roles for most builds, especially if you coordinate builds. Which my company does. We do not just jump in ships and sail off randomly with random ships. We have troop transports, harrassers, tank ships, tackling ships (schooners set up with all bar shot cannons, take out your sails). I think you get the picture. It will change things up a bit. I had not heard of the levelable stats? what are they? Where did you see this? I would like to check that out. That is an old exploit, people have been doing it for a while. Grape Shot supposedly made it "much more difficult" to do than before but I have no idea how effective their "fix" was. I never did that so who knows right now.

Yeah I do get that. It is not 1000s though hahahah only like 354 or something, as I believe that is around the ship limit. I agree with the auto repair option, that would be nice. I don't mind tedious personally I tend to be a grind player anyway, in all game that have grinds I usually do well. On a personal note I think it is because I used to do a lot of work that involved thinking heavily, when I used to get home I did not want to think anymore, so I liked the mindlessness of just grinding something in a game. Zone out and not think and relax. I did jobs like that for 30 years, so I am kind of "trained" now. I definitely see how others would recoil in horror at doing it though. This game totally has steampunk aspects, by intention I think. It is less of a caribean pirates game and more of a pirates themed steampunk/magic game. Just look at the submarine, the weird thing that floats over the kraken, the fact we have a magic skill tree, the golden age ruins and some of the things there etc etc. So it is not just the ships, its the world they are building. I have a feeling the more time that goes on the more stuff like that we will see.

I don't have "people" to do this for me lol. I wish. I do it myself of course, it is my ship. Is it tedious, sure. Is it worth it? In my opinion it sure is. Every one in my company does it. Not for the cargo ships of course. Any ship that is for fighting though is armored in my company. I understand why you might not like it and thus not do it. Some people do not like the way it looks and so do not do it. I think properly done they look cool. You will not be much faster. As I said above, there are ways of mitigating certain things with certain builds. As sad as our variety is, most people just seem to carbon copy what others are doing. Thus making the small variety of ships and builds we have even smaller. Definitely play the way you want. That's the point of the game, to have fun. I am not trying to convince anyone to build this way or that, I was just saying armoring works. Also that all other things being equal an armored ship has a definite advantage. Which brings up another point, if the captain and crew of a ship are not good or decent it doesn't matter how much armor you have or don't.

I do not have a pic of mine, I wish I did. But that seriously was not a well armored ship. A mythic cannon doing 8.8k a shot is not going to one shot a mythic piece of armor. A ceiling piece has 5k as a common. What does a mythic ceiling have? A common large cannon will not take out a common ceiling in one shot. Not even close. I have a ton of ceilings on my ship. If you take out a ceiling unless you take a bunch out I still have a lot of armor above my ship. Then you have to go through my decks too. And when I return fire, you don't have anything but planks and decks. I have more health. My ship is not slow either by the way, The extra armor weighs, but there re ways of mitigating that as well. My build is very maneuverable as well. Like I said earlier, if you think it does not work then do not do it. I know it does. I have experimented with them, in PvE and PvP, without a doubt my ship lasts longer with armor.

I am straight as well. I am not nor have been crying about anything. As I keep saying to peeps like you, I want PvP, I like PvP, your "threats" are hilarious to me. I do not fear fighting others, especially not in a video game. That's why I am here, playing the game. I do not fear megas and I do not care if they play on the same server as I do. We will see won't we.

That is not a real armored brig. I just see it rimmed. It has nothing on top. Each top piece is another 5k in health and you do realize they have mythic building pieces too right? My armor also comes down further than that. All I see there is a bad armoring job.

I laugh at you.

Naw, it just stops me from taking plank damage without it, works on the larger ships, the smaller ships are small and thus lower so not as effective on them. The side heavy builds are not for me. My company mate uses it to good effectiveness on a schooner, but I prefer like you a "balanced" build. I dislike being defenseless and that's how I feel if I can only shoot in one direction. How is your ship setup if you don't mind my asking? Because it DOES work. I do not care if you think it looks stupid. It is very functional. If you think it is not then do not do it. I am going to keep doing it because I know it works.

Come get some.

I guess I mentally divided the "mega patch" from the system change. Yes I know the mega patch has been going on forever with those additions to the game. I think I separated them in my mind because one is just adding in content which I expect them to be doing, the system change is changing how the mechanics of the game actually work. The mega patch would have basically just added "nice" stuff, the system change has stopped the entire game and will change how the game itself functions. But yes I guess the system change was "added" to the mega patch que.

They have been working on it for three months? Where do you get these numbers? Three months ago they were not working on this system. I bought the game roughly mid January. There were no plans for this revamp then. They were happily chugging along with the old system then.

Just go look at some of my discussions with him. He is a delusional tool. He consistently lies about others, the game, and probably himself. His opinion is worth nothing because of those things. Not because he prefers one system over another, or likes this play style or that, no he is a tool because he is disrespectful, a liar, and in my opinion he probably just sucks at the game and so he wants it to be ark 2.0 on the seas, that way he can actually do something and pat himself on the back for it. Worthless in game and worthless here.

Awesome! Thanks for the update! A company mate of mine likes the strong side builds like that. I can not make them work as well so I prefer cannons all around. Mine had 6 larges on each side 2 larges in the back, 6 mediums on each side and 3 mediums in the front, and the prow ram which is functional. I love building and fighting the ships lol... Glad you guys had a good time.

It is true.

Except this is not ark. There is no real defense in this game. No set up in this game cannot be offlined by just a single determined person. You can make things more difficult for them yes, but nothing is going to stop someone with time on their hands and no opposition.