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you can turn decay off in the menu in sp if you want to,it will even stop your boat decaying at a freeport

I could be wrong here but I believe it removes the entire game in some way whilst redownloading it with the updates installed.sounds crazy but thats how it seems to do it,Also the single player mode IS the dlc ocean menu that was intended for ark,it says ocean in the menu.It will download eventually,mine took all evening and it was well worth the wait,even with the odd glitch here and there.

Anyway the pve game has almost the same probs as sp and i'm still playing that,and as the guy or gal just said it's not cheating on sp i't your own game the way you want to play it(even if that does sound like an advert for ea sports).Maybe they should start a single player forum that way we'll just swap info and get useful information not just criticism from non sp players,The sad thing is all the attacks and negative comments from other players are the reason people wanted single player in the first place.

yeh It really is taking a long time to sail, the wind is blowing in one direction all the time too which is very odd,as for vits no everything I pick up even if it doesnt look like accai berries is basically accai berries only,so yeh I cant find any yellow vits at all.Someone on the forums did say they had a similar thing on a private server.

Mine was 40gb in total and took a long time,also it definitely is the ark dlc ocean menu.It was worth the wait though.I'm glad they did it tbh.

If you have a look at the single player menu you'll notice its the ark dlc ocean menu that has been loaded in,my download was about 40gb and took forever,I also think you'll find that the new system menu is definitely permanent and I doubt if you'd be able to remove a part of it anyway,ie sp.As for the sp it is pretty damn good,not without its probs but worth having,it will be good for people to try things out,ie building,ship design etc without it affecting their pvp or pve online game in any way.

Yeh apart from crashes am enjoying single player,my only critisism is how long the sailing is taking,it took me over 20 minutes just to get to another freeport on the same grid,and boy am i glad the sotd didnt attack,also cant find any yellow vits,anyone else having this problem?

Yeh I get exactly the same thing,its mainly when I click a lower part of the tree without doing the skills one by one,it doesnt seem to be wholly compatible with xbox controller,on loading screen i have to use mouse to enter single player,as it wont highlight with controller

Ive only got a single large speed sail on my schooner and wind permitting it is damn fast,but apparently the fastest sail combo for schooner is one large speed and at the front one small speed.havent tried it yet myself though.

I could be wrong,but I think the single player and update we are downloading is the original dlc that was intended for ark called ocean,we seem to be downloading part of it at least.and they don't seem to have sorted out the conflicts between the two yet.

Yeh the single player is good at first,then I noticed you cant move between freeports and every time it crashes,roughly every ten minutes I get fatal error,when I log back in my stats are straight back to level 1 level.It seems to be having serious probs with the skill menu on mine for some reason.I'm sure they'll fix it soon.when enough people tell them whats happening.

yeh mine finally downloaded but I think it ran to 40gb in the end,it also seems to need over 100gb free hd space too,cos I think it's almost been a game overhaul.

Apparently you have to have the same amount of space free as the whole game needs,it's the way it updates so I've been told,I had to buy a new hard drive because ark was doing the same thing,now it downloads much faster.I also had to clear the steam download cache once when I was stuck in a download loop.

I'm looking forward to a single player option,but I just can't see how we'll be able to have the whole map with no mem or lag problems,I hope they can do it,but i'd settle for a smaller achievable sp map than a full unplayable one.I really hope i'm wrong and they manage it,at least we don't have long to wait to find out.

I'd like a ship with air,Airships I think they are called,but failing that a bowsprit on the front of the ship that comes with building it.a bowsprit is NOT a figurehead its an essential part of some ships and as such should not need to be bought as a figurehead at freeport!

I'd love to see an airship,but it'd end up locked behind a mega boss that you have to fight with a rubber plant.But seriously I understand people who don't want it to go that far which is fair enough.For me its gone too far already to be strictly called a pirate game anyhow,We all know blackbeard was famous for his giant crab mount.and captain kidds submarine the falcon was the scourge of the seven seas,and lets not forget rackhams torpedos,the talk of every port in the known sailing world.

Yeh I agree,for months the hardcore have been banging on about how easy everything is and the game needs to be harder to play,well congrats to you cos now I spend half my time just surviving,repairing ships and feeding tames etc and a lot less time sailing, I was lead to believe they wanted people to explore more?,well they are going a funny way round it.The way they are going by the time single player is released there wont be enough players left on the servers to call it an mmo anyway.I don't see why some of the hardcore element don't just play fortnite,it seems that's what they want this to be anyway.

As long as all the resources are available there is no need for the whole grid, we play a smaller grid on private servers and it works fine.Also if you already think they should do a fast travel mod then you know the maps too big for sp,and the ark maps are way smaller too.

ARk has single player,conan exiles has single player,ESO you can solo ,No mans sky has a single player,Dark and light,Outlaws of the old west,citadel forged with fire has sp,I don't see why all you hard core atlas pvp'ers are complaining yet again.You don't see the point in solo or small group players on the servers anyway and this way you get to see them gone.I agree that having the whole map is pretty damn ludicrous in sp mode though,It seems they are trying an easier option than creating an entire sp map that stands alone,maybe by us playing on a ghosted server similar to the way events are done in some games,like your solo base in WOW.But however they do it the whole map idea is just a plain waste of effort.And you are right that in trying to please everyone all they have succeeded in so far is making the game grindier, especially for small groups and solo players,so maybe single player mode is a good option for a lot of players.

Or alternatively you could turn the game into an ocean version of doom and have enemies dropping more enemies outa their backsides when you shoot em.why do some people believe that an mmo should be the same style of gaming as a hack n slash or first person shooter?where you seem to think its not good enough unless your bursting your blazing way through a barrage of baddies and hammering your mashed up keys every damn minute of the game for all its worth?As soon as someone (who I might add plays pve,not pvp!)says they don't like some aggro or other they get called out for being un mmo patriotic.Maybe If a player wants to just constantly fight someone or something or they get bored,then they might be the one who needs to rethink about what an mmo should actually be,and maybe its them playing the wrong game.

When you come home from work with some time to spare and you cant be bothered to look at the players next to you with the 20 ships and shipyards they never seem to use,but leave there like giant lag magnets,then single player will be a small bit of light relief.I don't think we need the whole map though cos I don't believe the premise that it will be easy on the ram and lag free.And how will the endgame pieces be available?I guess we'll find out in a month.

what difference would it make to anyone if the sotd only aggro'ed armed ships?from what a lot of you are saying you can sail past or sink them all blindfolded,and as you do your resource runs fully armed then you'll still get all the great sotd action you love so much,as for giving up the game just cos I don't agree with one aspect of it,if we all did that there would be no mmo left would there.We all have things we'd like to see changed,even some of the atlas fanboys i'm sure,that's the point of the forum,its a place to discuss game related topics and views and for the devs to see how we all feel about the game.If you're gonna blow a gasket over someone else's opinion then maybe its you who should take a break eh.

I'ts when I'm sailing back,if I could make to the shore I would,,I don't get halfway across the grid with a warning popping up saying,30secs till wind drop!If you turn sail now you can just make it!It's not like the cyclone warning,at least they tell us about that. You do play atlas I take it?

When you use the paintbrush,just outline the sails in their paintable areas all round the outside.I then use the free programme atlas paint,because it has the updated game colours in it.I've also found that if you draw directly to sail in an art programme it can load pixelated a bit,so I now draw in photopaint at 300 dpi then drag it onto sail,makes it smoother.

yeh but my problem with the sotd and some other players agree isn't how easy they are to beat in a fair fight,its when u r unarmed and just doing a run for resources.ok you can outrun them a lot of the time,but not when the wind damn well disappears and you're dead in the water.I've even had them sink me when I was on a raft!Also not everyone has hours on end to play this game either so kiting isn't always an option.I think they should't be allowed to aggro you unless your boat is armed.