Whitehawk

my boats have all levelled, however all my npc's and tames have stopped at 32.

It's like good toilet paper, 2 fairly heavy wipes and the hangers on are gone. But seriously in all the games i've played where similar has happened even just to bases ie purges etc most players can handle it once but twice will either make you leave or seriously affect your commitment to the game. But that's probably a gamble that's not avoidable now anyway, one way or the other.

Maybe they are gonna shrink the map and move islands closer together?

They separated pvp and pve for the same reason they introduced single player, to increase sales. I think merging pve and pvp will be a costly mistake as the two gaming attitudes are very different, and it will not work, after playing mmo's since day one of all kinds and I still do, forcing the two together after having them separated would take more work than they have the capability of doing. Had it started that way it would be different. As for wipe Yeh it's prob gonna happen but I don't know why people even assume it will level the playing field cos IT WILL NOT, and that's coming from someone who will be playing both. for a start I use the xbox controller on pc but I still use the mouse when it's quicker, xbox players won't. Also the total lack of decent tutorials means the xbox players will take weeks to get to grips with the game, while the pc players will be levelling like crazy. Ok in pve that won't bother anybody but in pvp you'll still get xbox users claiming the unfairness of it all. All said and done till it actually happens all speculation is really just that, speculation.

I take it as its xbox preview it will be digital download. Also I wonder if they'll still have private servers available? Gonna miss designing my own sails too unless they have a workaround.Also I hope they sort out the ability to order npc's on a ship with the controller, cos at the moment it's easier to move the sails myself. Either way i'll find out on the 8th. I'll see some of you there i'm sure. Looking forward to it.

I'd rather they didn't wipe but i'm not gonna be put off one way or the other. But having a wipe will not give xbox users a level chance against people who have been playing this game for 9 months regardless of all being equal level at start, the pc players will always have the advantage of game knowledge that xbox players won't have. Unless of course like me you are gonna play both. Then it will make no difference.

Yeh but look on the bright side if you own both and they introduce breeding you can be your own mum and dad!

YES OCTOBER THE 8th for HEXbox. YYEEEEAAAHHH GGGRRRREEEAATTTT. nice trailer.

Or just youth and energy in general...aah those were the days when I could put my shoes on without my back hurting.

the galley was an oar and sail based ship, but the fittings you need for oars would interfere in the gunports as the oars were long , and galleys needed a lot of crew. but it could be done with different parts.

Well I know a few suggestions have been pushed back as no go, and if you look at the new roadmap and the fact that they want to steer the player base towards areas that we are not supposedly doing enough in then you'll know what I mean by some of what we say. If you have a player base that enjoy sailing but don't enjoy pistol loading (just an example not for real of course) , Then you expand on the sailing, not force everyone to do more shooting, it makes no sense, as i've said before you eat in a busy restaurant not an empty one.

I suppose at the end of the day pc is the testing ground for what will be or won't be released on xbox eventually ,which i'm totally fine with. I wish they'd take some of what we say here on board though, after all we've happily (mostly) reported feedback and stuck with them for quite some time now.

Maybe he's back with his clan and playing pve instead, I hope so. My young son only wants to do pvp though, a lotta young people do apparently, Dunno if it's the competition of it or just the bloodthirstiness (can't believe that's a real word) .

thx, I shoulda read it properly..DOH

Maybe i'm missing something, but was there supposed to be a mention of atlas on the stream today? cos I couldn't find it. There was a lot on sea of thieves though.

All said and done they are at the core just more enemies to fight. I've come across loadsa empty freeports they coulda just spawned npc's into. It's a shame they r going down the conflict route when other options would be better ie friendly encampments with taverns etc for buying and selling from, maybe quest givers too , I know we got npc's that we buy from but the interaction with the ai is pretty basic. It's better than nothing for sure, but they could (maybe will) do more with it.

Hey c'mon people it's an easy enough mistake to make I mean WPE is so similar to WIPE it's easy to get the two confused at a quick glance, wouldn't you say ?

You could check your settngs but it could be a glitch, I still got no Hydra or drake spawn in blackwood.

I thought they said you would be able to turn the encampments on or off in single player, would they be on as default?

Lots of mmo's have decay, tbh I'm not sure you can ever get that part of it right no matter what you do. In conan exiles you get a week normally and two in summer, I see peoples buildings come and go all the time, usually twice losing everything and they quit for good. Fallout 76 have a mobile base you can use, Not sure if it works but no one can seem to get this game mechanic totally right, but they do keep trying.

The only wipe that doesn't put people off is always front to back. Especially on a first date.

Yeh happened to me and was even claimed by someone I had an alliance with. Never offered them back either. And it was pve. It's a dog eat dog world for sure.

many thx

Hey guys and gals, where is the foy on the blackwood map?

It's a good idea npc encampments but lets be honest it is literally more enemies to fight, where's the time and imagination involved in that? they coulda just added tougher beasts or more aotd what difference is it really gonna make to the overall depth of the game? We already have deserted buildings round the map that they could just slap hostile npc's into. If all people want is loads more fighting why wouldn't they just play a hack and slash or an action rpg? Or if its just constant ship battles people crave just play naval action. Personally i'm not that interested in a sea based battle royale. whether it's more beasts to fight or npc's it's gonna get mundane pretty quickly for most people. What would an mmo be like with more ai than real people? Someone on the dev team seems to be hell bent on a massive sea battle war game. I'm just glad they gave us single player. I know this is a controversial post but I'm not alone in some of these opinions.