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Anyone with common sense did know this is an ambitious game and that there would be a lot of bugs in the beginning. Plus it is indeed early access, i have a lot of experience in early access games and the first weeks after release are always very bumpy, especially when a game is very ambitious. I think a lot of people made the wrong decision to buy this game without any early access knowledge or experience.

@MasterAny chance you could post your ServerGrid.ServerOnly.json file? Getting some weird binding errors with IPs, probably just the the wrong ports in my port, gameport, seamlessport settings. Thanks!

Yup the limits of 150 is a tad low. i can see 2000+ per zone but the math is wrong right now 10500 is all the servers basically can hold. which equals 40000k+ across all 4 servers not 1 server so where this all goes i have no idea. They have to fix this and make the servers correct, otherwise it becomes false advertisement, like you suggested. We know from the best dev teams in the world its impossible to have 40k all in one area of the zone.. we are not there yet. They have to uphold what they posted, ARK devs too. Its EA lets see what happens.

The title of this thread is wrong

Right now as a fresh player, if you die, you can respawn at any island in the grid meaning you have no chance to get back to your body, items, or small base if you spawn on the wrong island. I understand this happening later in the game when you should have a bed - but early in the game it is overly punishing. Here is what happens now ( at least on my grid N9 ) . You were on a great island, but if you die you respawn relentlessly on a deserted giraffe filled island. Everybody just runs into the giraffes to kill themselves over and over and over and over again. It takes about 20-30 minutes to finally get a respawn back on the good island. And god help you if you die again quickly because you know you have to spend 20-30 minutes killing yourself again which is mind numbing. You can see everyone doing this and some ppl just asking to be killed. This is not fun game play. Here is what I'm asking: Just have us respawn on the same island. It doesn't have to be close, but on the same island if you are below a certain level or in a noob area. Please and thanks!

Hmmmmmmm. Ok, maybe I've totally missed something then. What is Freeport? I've heard it mentioned many times and just assumed it was a generic reference to whatever the closest town or city was in a starting area. That said, I also thought the Lawless regions 'were' starting areas. But I'm guessing I'm wrong about this since the more I read, it sounds like starting areas are supposed to be pvp free and somewhat friendly to new players. I spawned on a cold rock in a lawless region when I first started playing the game, and I've just been bouncing from lawless area to pvp-ravaged lawless area ever since, trying to find a reasonable island to build a life on. Am I missing some utopia like setting to get started?

Problem: Ok so perhap there is alot of us or just happens.... But the thing i For any starting Group now ARE Royalty FUCKED. So i did some math here... IT takes a max of 15 clanmember to take over an island. correct me if im wrong here 15 players X 700 island = 10500 player. So this mean if a MEGA SUPER MEGA tribe of 10500. or more can Take over an entire server. Or let break this down 10500/15... that 1 per clan per island. If that clan only has 15 members. and no alliance. IF a new group were to start now there would be no room... oh and I forgot to take out Lawless and freeport... Let see... Im not gonna do anymore math but this mean that About 7000ish or less will have a land to use And what are the rest of the player gonna do about it... they cant. Because there is no land to build shipyard to progress into the game... you know building up a pirate aramada. that mean that 33,000 player per server will be useless fodder for 7000 player that has a land claim. Solution. A: Limit claim flags by clan 1-3 in respective by 50 per member in a clan. but 150+++ is only 3 land claimed. Thus Force a choice on clan where they want to settle. And allow internal battle on an island or more alliances. Solution B: Allow islands to be claim Place preset claim flag in a way that lets user claim part of the island SO an island would have A B C as a preset and while protecting that its allow some room for other player to place a base unclaimed to form up an army and attack. Think of it like a foot hold for an attack. And must be there to defend. IF you devs are STUPID to realized that you just made a Non material cost Pillar spam that Plaque Most servers. TO have freedom is to lose freedom. To have Controlled freedom is to have a balanced happy medium. Ive been saying this for decades now ... A controlled Land claim is MUCH better then a Unrestricted land claim because at the end of the day you want player to play... If there is no one to contest with then you will lose FAR more player even with those that own every land claim will get bored because there no pvp action... no one has resource to play with. To contest land claim should be hard but it shouldnt force Players to have to resort to such tatic. This isnt about 'Get good' as much as it is preserving land availability to others so that we can play and test. In fact on my private server Conan exiles. We have controlled land claim and everyone is happy. We had some salty players but Rules are in place for a reason and that is to protect Certain Clan from overtaking everything and allowing other new players to come in and have fun. At this rate you wont have any new player to come in because it will be all be claim and no more can play. This new claim contesting is not going to work i guanteed that it will create more problem then its worth.

I believe I have the same problem. I tried to join server G7 from E4 and now I cannot join at all. Looking at G7 server, there are 3 players, and the ping on the server is 274. I believe that there is something wrong with that server. Please can one of the devs look into this and / or restart that server. Thanks

I verify all files in steam folder, nothing wrong, same error ! played 5 hours no more refound for me ! DAMN DEVS DO SOMETHING !

Sorry linked wrong video, should have been this one

So...I am confused. I keep hearing bulls take rushes...so I have up to taming three (should be more than enough for a bull...) and I took it down iwth a bola...I go up with bare hands, rushes in my last slot, and it only gives me the option to remove the bola. What am I doing wrong exactly?

I have, but doesnt seem to do anythign when I hit the ship with a pick, am i doing something wrong?

wrong place oops

The devs mentioned how their wish for Atlas is to be like EVE Online. And I know it's early access and everything, but if they want to make this game like EVE.. they will have to do a lot to make it happen. A few points: 1. Offline raiding. In EVE Online, when you log off, people cannot destroy your direct property. They can contest your claimed areas but they cannot really destoy your ships while you're offline. This should happen in Atlas too. Obviously with good anti-combat logging mechanics. But if you view this as EVE Online, then turn it into EVE Online and not RUST where the toxic community leads and the noobs follow. 2. Claiming Land. The land claim should be different. A lot different. I know in EVE Online you just contest area's and claim it or whatever.. but in Atlas, that'd be difficult. There's more islands than there's companies, so there's no way for every company to have an island for themselves. Sure, they could fight for it but it's very unbalanced. An already settled company will always be stronger than a company without land, because they're not able to build anything proper. They're not able to build anything for themselves, as everything is claimed already. They could get started on a Lawless as of right now, but there's often large clans who are just picking off people farming already. Claiming land needs to be limited, or done differently. These are the main reasons people are currently just going on private servers, because people can set up their own rules. Because this feels like ARK with a different theme. And if people are going on private servers, you'll never get this game into an EVE Online flow ever anymore. Because people are rather playing on their own servers now, which isn't bad if you want to turn this in ARK or RUST.. but if you want to turn this into EVE Online? Then you're doing it wrong. And when you decide to change things drastically, and actually sort things out the right way you yourself imagined your game to be? You're going to have to wipe all the progress off the servers, because big clans have all the islands claimed and give no one a chance anymore. People are not able to get started anymore, because of this. And wiping servers as an MMO, as you advertised. That's a bad case overall.. I don't believe you guys are realizing even, what you've done. You've launched a game, advertised it as an MMO and an EVE Online type of game, while it's more turning into a survival game instead.

I got a graphical glitch while in m10 on the southern most island I went ashore but I was walking in air and stuff seemed like the ground wasnt rendering and it also seemed like there was two islands with the stuff that wasnt rendering and the stuff that was out of reach most of the time below my invisible surface.... So I did the logical thing I logged off to reset it... Wrong answer when I logged back in it would not talk me back to my session... it timed out over and over... So then I went to the Server and it wants me to pick a new respawn location sadly M10 Lawless is no longer listed as spawnable... And every other place doesnt work it times out... So it seems like I need to spawn at M10 but the game wont let me do it.... Hopefully this makes some sort of sense, But ultimately it means I cannot play until something is done to fix this.

I hope people will notice that it is indeed possible to make constructive posts, I doubt it but I do hope. I agree with you on the vitamin issue, I think you hit it with more detail in your previous post on the subject , Maybe you can link it for the people who don't just open a thread and respond with TLDR. I'm hoping many of the other issues will be corrected with more stability, the combat atm is pretty sketchy vs wildlife and much worse vs players that have previously perfected the art of bunny hopping in other games, again I think a lot of this is due to the current condition of a 4 day old Alpha test but I'm also hoping that later in game it is more action based melee than say Arks click click I hope something dies style but perhaps that is already in here with some of the sword fighting skills and the like. My understanding is there will be the type of NPCs you mentioned and they just aren't here yet, have bigger fish to fry with just making the servers stop crashing before they bring in too much of the other assets, I guess we shall find out what they came up with along those lines and tell them what they did wrong when the time is right. LOL 9/10 thread would read again!

This maakes me sad, but you're not wrong. A game should never be "die to survive"...

I wouldn't say I'd want rafts to come with a rudder but by level 8 you should be able to craft a rudder and place it on raft to use, I would lock the placement of the rudder though so it cant be placed wrong on not function right. Or at least add an Oar to take the weapon slot that can be used when fighting the winds

No, that is why i recommend to make a new breeding post. Your problem won’t get the attention it needs here since the title is wrong now

Wrong. I have tested this. Trust me. If your ship with a bed is outside the dotted line, you can spawn. If it is inside, you cannot. That is a fact.

Oh, is that what it's doing? I thought it was just broken....lol I was looking at that trying to find empty islands just to arrive and see it has been claimed, so i thought the live map was way wrong. This makes much more sense. I personally dont think this should exist at all though, but if it is, i agree.... all or nothing with this.

something's wrong with the server, has 0 players but it's up, it's my home server, i can't join, i think it needs a res

Bump Has this happened to anyone else or am I doing something wrong? Raft had good health / weight / crew limit on all 3 occasions.

That does me no good at all? I tried to direct connect through steam to multple servers on NA PVE and none respond. Almost like the IPs are all wrong. Side note.. I bring up the friends tab in the server list and nothing shows up now. So, I am fucked for another day. Glad to see my 4day weekend got shit on

It appears as though we can't connect to an atlas server unless it is connectable from outside the lan. please correct me it I'm wrong. I've been running a lan ark server cluster. servers show up in the lan browser, but not on the unoffical list. everything works great except survivor transfers at the obelisks. I'm unable to use port forwarding to an external ip because my home network is on mobile broadband - thus there is no static external ip and SparkNZ (my provider) does not route back to my network. It appears that with Atlas I will not be able to get this to work at all without first sorting out a static IP with my internet provider. Appreciate anybody with knowledge of such and whether this is correct.