You can join us if you guys like, we are a smaller group of about 20 half who are pretty active and the rest play when they can. But I totally understand where you are coming from!! This game is still to brutal for the solo/ smaller groups of people who can only play a few hours a day because we still have jobs and families too. Like a mid-sized island is about 300 gold every 12 hours. So in one day we will have to do treasure maps to meet the 600 gold requirement just to have the ability to build on and play on an island that is "ours", now to add on that an ncp takes gold every couple hours but you cant have just one. You need them for the boats, you need them for base defense and no one can realistically sit on atlas for the 10hr raid window, unless of course you dont work and dont have a family and have no other responsibilities... It's hard to play the content of the game when you have to spend several hours a day hunting down maps, sailing to said map and sailing back. Then while you are out you get attacked by a larger group who sinks your boat and now you have to spend several more hours slowly farming the mats needed to build a new boat. Where do you find the time to fight back or do power stones or search for discoveries. The mega companies do very much so play on colonies and just have several companies tied to them. There is a very big difference between a group with 20 or so casual players and a group of 50-75 people.
You can join us if you guys like, we are a smaller group of about 20 half who are pretty active and the rest play when they can. But I totally understand where you are coming from!! This game is still to brutal for the solo/ smaller groups of people who can only play a few hours a day because we still have jobs and families too. Like a mid-sized island is about 300 gold every 12 hours. So in one day we will have to do treasure maps to meet the 600 gold requirement just to have the ability to build on and play on an island that is "ours", now to add on that an ncp takes gold every couple hours but you cant have just one. You need them for the boats, you need them for base defense and no one can realistically sit on atlas for the 10hr raid window, unless of course you dont work and dont have a family and have no other responsibilities... It's hard to play the content of the game when you have to spend several hours a day hunting down maps, sailing to said map and sailing back. Then while you are out you get attacked by a larger group who sinks your boat and now you have to spend several more hours slowly farming the mats needed to build a new boat. Where do you find the time to fight back or do power stones or search for discoveries. The mega companies do very much so play on colonies and just have several companies tied to them. There is a very big difference between a group with 20 or so casual players and a group of 50-75 people.