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Wed from the Discord. They ignore the forums and other social media. If you want current info, go there.

Nah, we are not pissed at all. We have just left. I got my $15 bucks worth and now know to never buy anything from them or their affiliated crap like ARK ever. They abandoned the game for months on end and have now given up on PVE and have decided that PVP is where they will get their money. That the lead developer slunk out in the middle of the night without having the soyboi balls to own up to his failure to go work on Vampire the Masquerade was telling. It is just more smoke and mirrors to try and con another group of XBobs, since the PC players are wise to their shit now.

That was our island. We gave it up because we didn't need it. Since people like to spam stuff everywhere, we put pillars on the small spaces to stop people from just dropping crap everywhere blocking resources and treasure maps. Once someone ported there and saw that you had nicely left a message asking us to pick them up we did and only left our house there. Enjoy.

Be happy they forgot to turn off the double harvesting when they abandoned the game.

Next patch will be 2021 April Fools like this last one. Instead of flaming sails they will add Tortugar shell customization. You know, the important pressing issues that Atlas needs to work on.

The "It is an early access game, get over it!" argument got weak months ago. They took peoples money, strung them along for months to try and get more from a failed Xbox release, then abandoned the game. It is what it is.

This is an update from the one guy left they forgot to tell that everyone else had quit because he was at home self-isolating. A huge patch, basically to make a shitty, useless tame relevant to the pvp side by adding another ammo type. Some minor qol bullshit and addresses none of the major issues impacting the game. But hey, those that whiteknight the shit out this with comments like "Gitgud noob, it is early access winning!" won't be swayed. Need to get some of the COE people that just got gaped by Jeromy Walsh in here to give them grief pointers when their world is crushed. Good job on releasing an untested build btw. Logged on to find any animal on a ship that was interacted with immediately appeared on the bottom of the ocean under the ship. Well done. Make sure to leave that part out of the Skype job interviews you will be needing to do for your next position.

Put your boot on it's neck and bear down. When the last Xbob leaves maybe they will firesale the assets and IP to developers looking for a shell to base their game on that have some talent for scavenging code from shitshows.

You have to be carrying gold to pay them when you claim them after release.

Yep, Vampire the Masquerade went to top of my torrent don't buy list after the lateral move.

@PeglegTheAngry Better yet, report them to the SEC and FBI for investor/market fraud. They frown heavily on publicly traded companies (Snail Games Inc.) creating shell companies to hide failed products from investor sheets and mandatory profit/loss reporting to investors. If they find that they created Grapeshot as a way of getting a write-off when it failed, worked behind the scenes to make sure it failed, and were not clear on who ended up with the money, they would make life very uncomfortable for them. Plus putting the screws to a Chinese gaming company would have great optics in an election year.

The image of rats abandoning a sinking ship does come to mind.

If you leave a company, you lose your shit. If you want to join a company and keep your shit, you merge with it. You are not the first person to miss this nuance of the selection wheel menu, nor will you be the last. One thing that won't be happening is you getting your stuff back unless there is another person still in that company. If they are, they can unclaim tames, ships, and unlock resource chests for you to transfer over stuff. If it was your solo company, you're fucked. As to the question whether they want people to play the game. My opinion, they don't care. They have squeezed about as much money as they can out of this. They would need to actually hire people that can code, (look to their hiring posts for positions open if you want to get a sense of how many critical positions on the team are unfilled), make hard decisions as to what they want the game to be, and make it fun. None of those are going to happen, ever if soon. So keep tilting away Don Quixote.

Nope. But you can salvage it.

Did this really need a 13 month necro?

That is because those with claimed islands keep them clear of trash or they become overridden with crap 2x2 thatch traps with no gates and DP bed spam. The control radius of a single foundation with a bed is huge on a claimed compared to lawless. Most who arrive rather than asking permission of where they should build that won't block spawns just set up wherever they feel like it. The "You're not my real dad! I will do as I like!" mentality of a small percentage of the ever-shrinking playerbase leads to an us vs. them mentality that is hard to shake. Good news. Anyone who is not actively playing has that island claim decay in 10 days. We have one base where a member breeds tigers that has switched hands 5 times in the last couple months. Every time it is claimed the new owners roam around and try to tell people to get off "their" island. Good luck.

That is like asking if the carnies are going to come back to town after they fleeced you of all your disposable income. Anyone can get scammed once, the trick is not to let it happen a second time. Other game studios that have gone to shit in the last few years started out great and then declined. This shop started out dodgy and has never gotten better.

If you are on PVE the abandoned structures will auto decay after 10 days of no one from that company refreshing them. Other than that, you are stuck with them.

Unless you think they are mushrooms, they shine in shit and darkness.

3X gold only applies to treasure maps. Which they screwed people over on with the latest changes (intended or not) to AotD. All fine and good to give 3X breeding and taming for the weekend, will help people replace all the tames they lost due to the changes. They want to force people to do sea content by making the only way to get gold is sail around and dive wrecks, whale, or sink Sotd (which cost more in materials than gold generated). With the latest middle finger given to the playerbase most of our people have moved on to other games, put their tames in barns, stocked larders, captains chests, and troughs, and log on every couple days to feed mothballed bases. Truly mind boggling developer decisions towards gameplay and trying to build a playerbase, but with the game being b2p they have no incentive beyond coaxing impulse buys from the uninformed.

The AotD have become so powerful, they are even spawning onto the forums to necro posts.

Weight bombing hasn't worked in a good long while. Once a ship is green anchored, you are stuck with it. Any interaction with it resets the timer. So tell your people to not crawl on it to "check on it" We have had a couple take anywhere from 3 weeks to 2 months before they have disappeared. We have a raft that has been there since week one of this "season" and never gone away. Since you never know when someone either from your crew, the boat owner, or just some random has interacted with the boat, you will never know till that one day you log in and it is gone.

All flags decay after 10 days of inactivity. It doesn't matter if they throw 2 million gold in them, no one from that company logs into that grid for that period of time, then poof. Island becomes claimable. You would need to be extremely lucky to just randomly find one though. Those that want it, watch and when a timer gets down to a day or so have already made preparations to be there the second the timer goes. Good luck. Another way would be if the flag runs out of gold, but since gold is stupid easy to get and basically has no real purpose don't count on that happening either. Since the only effective way to level beyond 65ish is to do 100s of maps, most people have more gold stockpiled than they will ever spend before they get bored and move on.

They had upped the decay on them because people were using them as mini bases. They didn't used to have decay, but now there is a time limit. Would need to go back through the patch notes and find it.

You missed the 24 hour window to remove the foundation. Known display bug. The single foundation timer is still counting down to 12 hours, so displays that it can be demoed. However the structure on top of it, bed, smithy, loom, whatever that has the 10 day timer is what you go off of. Everything poofs at 10 days, so if you have a tannery that says 40, have no fear, at 10 days of them not coming back to refresh it, bye bye. But, if they keep coming back, currently you are SOoL.