archaegeo

Nope, this is a MMO, long term building and gathering

There are plenty of private servers with 3x or 10x etc.

This one is supposed to take longer to build.  They still need to turn instant ship construction back off too.

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Play on unofficial servers, over 3300 to choose from.

Official is not meant for Solo unless you want to take the chances you already listed.

Puckle and swivel are really meant for repelling borders, though the swivel gun fire ammo is great for setting things on fire.

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On private servers you can gain however many skill points you want per level, so one person can do it all

Official is the MMO, work with others and do trade.

or you can play on one of 3300 private servers if you dont want to fight for land on official

This just makes my LMFAO every time i see it....

https://www.twitch.tv/crream/clip/EagerUninterestedDotterelPogChamp?filter=clips&range=7d&sort=time

Ship of the damned are pretty easy to take down, schooners can if prepared with repair materials and 3 cannons per side (saw cletus and crew do it earlier to a level 10 green boat 45k hp)

1700 gold with no defenses, thats what you wanted?

1700 gold is a LOT of gold.

You can use a grapple to get flotsam rather than jumping into the water.

Fire arrows do amazing damage to most critters and pc and set things on fire, including oil globules.

its crazy how some hate the game but do nothing but waste minutes of their life staying around talking about how others should hate it like them.

Do you really need others to justify your opinions and self  worth? Or do you have so little else in your life that you just want to ruin the fun others have?

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Forsen has 20k of 60k viewers right now, or 1/3rd, but he wasnt streaming this morning when it was at 55k viewers and still #4 slot.

The game is doing well.

There are over 3300 private servers right now, pretty sure its not the End of Atlas yet.

And most of the official servers are not at 150/150 people in each grid, just so many ships/buildings causing lag / low FPS right now, which of course they need to address.

Ill add em, but you can also just use the gamma slider

3 minutes ago, Arbs said:

nice to know ty.

be aware that anyone on the surface can unsuit you at the rig, also if you run out of oil you suddenly unsuit too.  If down deep either is normally a death sentence.

Nope, but you can play on multiple servers

Its a thing, its in piracy, secrets of piracy, gives you a diving rig

Put it on anything sloop or higher, put some oil in it (fish oil works) and hit E to equip suit

The view is horrible, but you can then definitely salvage things.

There is lots of land.  Go somewhere, put down a flag, and defend it till the land is yours.

And there not being open land for you doesnt make the game a failure, join a company and instantly you are pirating.

Or join one of the 3300 private servers.

Handling sails catch the wind MUCH sooner than speed sails, so on a multimast ship having different sails helps a lot

For more on tacking though, see here:

http://lrsailingcenter.com/posts/sailing-upwind/ 

4 minutes ago, Zadira said:

Thanks for all the info on the crew. We haven't hired anyone yet but we are noticing that our ship is constantly needing repair.   I didn't know that a croc or any animal would just randomly come along and start chomping. We might need to think about heading back to Freeport and hiring some help.

You can also get crew by sinking ghost ships, the green ones arent that hard to sink.

3 minutes ago, Vorxius said:

Doesn't matter if it's 50x gathering rates.  With no land grabs up for... grabs, it's pointless.

You can go try to grab any land you want, drop a flag and defend it.

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I mean, regardless of Yarrs personal issue and it not being fixed yet, we dont even have the means to report racists in game or out.

So you are 100% right about communications.