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Correct me if I'm wrong but what I'm understanding is that someone can take over your claim while you are offline , not have to bother with blowing your stuff up and stealing loot but just downright take over all of your buildings/dry docks and whatever because you made the fatal error of going to work or to sleep and don't have people playing from every time zone? Please tell me this isn't really the system you came up with for your "GOAT" MMO. I have no issues with the to be expected problems that come up with a launch, even more so with an EA launch and think you have been doing a fine job jumping on the problems that have popped up but if this is really the rule set you envision for this game I just don't even know what to say. This goes to core mechanics that I can't believe anyone would think is a good idea. Say it ain't so!!!

I know I'm starting to think if they keep this, then we are viewing the game wrong, ark is a long term base building with Dino's, but this game if they don't change the pve land claim, this game is about "quick play", since you gotta be nuts to do anything long term and to be vulnerable to a one hour window of everything lost, isn't that basically a server wipe ? The potential to lose everything every hour on the hour on a player vs environment rule set.

What’s wrong about what he said?

Wrong. I was playing with my brother last night. Beds don’t work. I would die right near him and spawn on the other side of the Island so it became exactly what the op is saying. Kill myself over and over and hope to spawn closer. Rarely did

Only in that biome. In others, there is one for Straw. My point though is there are a ton of plants that do not give fiber, only berries. This was a bug in early ARK. Maybe I am wrong about it here.

wrong, since yesterday in the afternoon that began to work better servers, I'm playing with my crew until less than 1 hour ago, we all could get together, if there are problems, remember that it is an alpha that we all pay knowing things that would happen. See you when I see you.

I got to play for over 8 hours today, but after my last death, I was forced to restart my character. Now, any time I crash or logout, my location is different than when I logged out. Hour 1: Tried to play in E8, too laggy. Hours 2-5: The Lawless servers were added, so I killed my character and chose a new region to spawn: B6. My group and I got to level 8, built a raft, and tried our hand at sailing the seas. Hour 6: Sailed to the island in the south part of B6. We put a bed on our Raft and any time we died, we were able to respawn on that bed no problem. After checking out that island, we head west. Hour 7: We crossed over into A6 and my friends logged out on the raft. I was able to transport them around and I head south to A7. After crossing over to A7, I don't recall dying for awhile. I moved to B7 so we could leave the lawless lands. Right before reaching the first island in the NW part of B7, I died. I was forced to create a new character at level 1 without any region spawn location. I had no other options except for selecting a name and I was spawned out in the middle of the ocean in B7. The first time this happened, I was killed by a couple sharks and jellyfish before I could do anything. Again, I was forced to create a new character with no other options except to pick a new character name. And, I was spawned out in the middle of B7 again. I tried to swim to the island, but apparently I couldn't make it with a level 1 character and zero skills, I drowned. On the third time, I was actually allowed to respawn in my region, it put me back in B6. Now, every time I log out, it puts me back in the water off the coast of B6 but I still have my levels and gear. I'm not sure what is wrong with my character but I definitely can't play like this. Please look into this! -Sarcoth

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hey guys, have a problem I cant go to any server on the map, always "unable to fetch current server info" .. pls help me :( whats wrong?

I dont mind if they have a better internet connection... thats all well and good .. but .. when 1/3 (24 of 72) of all starting servers are not allowing anyone to login for 4hrs ... thats just wrong yes at that time it was rubber banding so the 2/3 servers that were connected were not advancing fast ..but it still is an advantage not to mention everyone in the lawless starting points are at a disadvantage for numerous reasons they need to wipe all and start everyone fresh.. basically do a relaunch correctly

First off, I have an older rig, an i5 6600K and a GTX 970. Ark used to run bad on this system, but recently it has been ok, 1080p, High settings with all the extras enabled, and I get around 50 FPS with a drop here and there to to low 40s. Its entirely acceptable and playable. This game though, after the servers finally run fine for me at least, gives me 30 FPS with drops to around 5 all the time. Which is funny since the high settings, as in ark, says eg. 970, I was kind of expecting to run it a bit better than this, especially seing as I saw early reviews that sad it ran pretty well even on older systems. Is this connected to bad server performance, is there something wrong on my system (shouldnt be, I keep a tidy ship... sorry), or is just so badly optimized , maybe built on an older version of ARK and this is why it feels like being back in early ARK. Funny thing, the system before the one I have now, ran ARK much better with an I5 2500K and a GTK560Ti, but when i changed to this it all went to shit, up until a recent patch. Maybe my card is just not happy with EU4. How is it running for you guys, especially those of you with similar systems to mine, after the servers arent shitting themselves as muh anymore ? EDIT: It seems they might be running some sort of adaptive sync, at times it seems like i get capped at 30.

Where to begin? For me it's not about the things shown for example in the Trailer vs. Reality youtube video or the poor server quality and connection issues etc. It's an early access and those, to be fair, were expected and surely will improve as time goes on. My major issues are about the balance of the game. From the trailers i got the vibe that this game would be heavily balanced towards the RPG/exploration side (Divinity Original Sin, Pillars Of Eternity and so on, with open world exploration) and not the survival. Boy was i wrong. The survival side is so overwhelming that it makes the game not fun for me and what i've seen, many others. It's often best to just let yourself die and reset hunger/thirst/vitamins etc, than to really worry about them the way it's ment to at the moment. And these mechanics in place really take away the potential exploration side of the whole experience. You are so tied down to your base/ship/crate of stuff that you can't really go explore the islands cause of all the survival mechanics. And the material farming, oh boy the the material farming. You have to spend tens or maybe hundreds of hours just to farm so you can build a decent ship to kind of get started. I just wish the would tone down these survival mechanics and focus on the quests, exploration and progression systems more. Maybe make the survival stuff be like a buff/debuff kind of thing. If you're for example hungry, you are weaker in battle and if you're full you gain some extra strenght or other buffs (or maybe just tone down on the starvation etc HEAVILY). Not so that you literally die in the middle of a huge island from hunger, cause you felt like exploring and now have to spawn on your bed million miles away and start farming food and materials for hours and hours just have even a slight chance of getting your stuff back from your dead body. Just focus on the FUN. Fill the world with quests and cool loot to go after. Make us feel like bad ass pirates and not some weak castaways using their last breaths to barely survive. Maybe the game is more of what i described, like couple hundred hours in, but for what it is like now i'm never gonna see that. It's just too much. Here's to hoping for a better future! There sure is potential here

Yesterday I tried to build a SChooner and a Sloop thing is... that once the crafting starts and it finishes the ship doesnt appear (Not even the skeleton of the ship to start building it) So I'm wandering if I'm doing something wrong or if there is any special way to build it... Since I build the Small Shipyard then I choose the Sloop or the Schooner (Having all the mats in the inventory of the Shipyard) The crafting time runs up and the ship doesnt appear, anybody else had this problem?I didnt die or logged out while the crafting was in progress also the Shipyard was in my claim, I did 6 ships so far none of the spawned.....

I've got a question, Yesterday I tried to build a SChooner and a Sloop thing is... that once the crafting starts and it finishes the ship doesnt appear (Not even the skeleton of the ship to start building it) So I'm wandering if I'm doing something wrong or if there is any special way to build it... Since I build the Small Shipyard then I choose the Sloop or the Schooner (Having all the mats in the inventory of the Shipyard) The crafting time runs up and the ship doesnt appear, anybody else had this problem? I didnt die or logged out while the crafting was in progress also the Shipyard was in my claim, I did 6 ships so far none of the spawned.....

I've got a question, Yesterday I tried to build a SChooner and a Sloop thing is... that once the crafting starts and it finishes the ship doesnt appear (Not even the skeleton of the ship to start building it) So I'm wandering if I'm doing something wrong or if there is any special way to build it... Since I build the Small Shipyard then I choose the Sloop or the Schooner (Having all the mats in the inventory of the Shipyard) The crafting time runs up and the ship doesnt appear, anybody else had this problem? Thank you in advance.

I've got a question, Yesterday I tried to build a SChooner and a Sloop thing is... that once the crafting starts and it finishes the ship doesnt appear (Not even the skeleton of the ship to start building it) So I'm wandering if I'm doing something wrong or if there is any special way to build it... Since I build the Small Shipyard then I choose the Sloop or the Schooner (Having all the mats in the inventory of the Shipyard) The crafting time runs up and the ship doesnt appear, anybody else had this problem? Thank you in advance.

I totally agree i feel like in need to play 15h of ark/rust survival to finally play some Atlas, its just wrong like i said in my other thread starting island should be PVE is would make game so much better: 1.Well people will actually focus on main goal instead of killing each other. 2.Perfect combination of PVE and PVP . 3.More pirate/exploring content instead of stupid killing each other we already have it in Rust and Ark?(never played ark before). 4.More people will give game a chance instead of deleting/refunding . 5.It actually make sense right? Like in MMO at the beginning you focus on PVE then you do PVP. 6.Lets watch trailer again and as you can see in cities people are chilling, talking...etc well lets make it real right? Instead of attacking, running, jumping like animals people will be actually talking, trading, teaming up.. sounds cool to me. 7.People will leave starting island faster so you can reduce amount of starting islands = less starting island, more islands to explore. 8.Also game is unplayable solo it takes forever to finally build something but it the end you will be killed by someone, but if there is pve you can take your time and eventually leave first island. Also what the f..k with amount of animals? just reduce it, its looks weird, not realistic.... cmon

Seven times I've now been in the situation that I've died / respawn / been forced to recreate my character (regardless of action taken to prevent). I've lost my Company, my gear and my bed spawn. My company mates are now many many levels beyond me and don't really want to come back and help at this point because it's happen so many times and it's a pain to try and help at this stage. I understand that it's an EA game, which is technically a beta, but when you force players to pay for the privilege to test your game for you you take on a measure of responsibility. Part of that responsibility is that when a major bug crops up you do your best to fix it and aid the players affected by it with some form of compensation be it levels, gear, coin, etc. Someone asked me if I felt entitled to support for a beta game.... yeah, I do. Money was spent. Regardless of what stage the game is at, you the company have a responsibility to the customers to compensate when things go seriously wrong. In my case, as in the case of many others according to what I've been reading, is the repeated loss of levels, gear, bed spawn ability and fellow players in a formed Company. Here is what I personally have lost... Level 1 to Level 9 (about 2/3 deep into level) - Dead/Respawn/Forced Recreate. Lost levels, gear, company and bed spawn. (Char name Kal Jaxa)(death by drowning) Level 1 to Level 8 - Dead/Respawn/Forced Recreate. Lost levels, gear, company and bed spawn for a second time. (Char name Kal Jaxa)(Death by Snake) Level 1 to Level 5 - Dead/Respawn/Forced Recreate. Lost levels, gear, company and bed spawn again. (Char name Kal Jaxa)(Changed several things in looks)(Death by Croc) Level 1 to 3 - Dead/Respawn/Forced Recreate. Lost levels, gear, company and bed spawn. (Char name Kal Jaxa)(Changed several things in looks including gender)(Death by drowning) Level 1 to 4 - Dead/Respawn/Forced Recreate. Lost levels, gear, company and bed spawn. (Char name Kal Jaxa)(Changed several things in looks)(Death by Snake) Level 1 to Level 3 - Dead/Respawn/Forced Recreate. Lost levels, gear, company and bed spawn. (Char name Kal Jaxa)(Changed several things in looks)(Death by Croc) Level 1 to Level 5 - Dead/Respawn/Forced Recreate. Lost levels, gear, company and bed spawn. This time forced to respawn in middle of map while rest of company, after many hours of piloting raft managed to claim island which I can no longer get to at all because you folks set up that ridiculous buffer zone initially that forced everyone to move two full "servers" (don't get me started on the server thing, very bad implementation going on their...Should have added a dozen more region servers instead of expanding landing zones) away from FPs. (Char name Kal Jaxa)(Changed several things in looks)(Death by snake, are we seeing the pattern in the bug yet?) Level 1 - Currently on hold while I decide if I'm still going to play the game or if I'm going to advise my viewers to avoid the game and the company in general.(Char name Kalcindra Jaxa) Yeah, I'm a streamer and quite honestly not happy with the way this launch was handled. I've been a GM for a game company in the past and I was a professional beta tester before the whole EA craze started and for me to say this launch was handled was horrifically says a lot. This was bungled from top to bottom, though I admit I've seen worse and do appreciate that you are trying to stay on top of it. So, what do I expect/want? Simple. 1) I'd like the bug to be fixed right away because it's affecting a fair number of people as far as I can tell and should be considered a priority. 2) I'd like to have my original lost 8 levels returned plus half of the XP earned on all the other incarnations I was forced to take. It's not an unreasonable request since we paid for game. 3) If the levels can not or will not be returned then I still want #1 AND I want it to be fair to all and have all the servers wiped so everyone starts fresh and no one has any advantage. Not to mention with all the bugs and stuff it couldn't hurt to wipe it clean and see what new bugs pop up. Thanks, Kal Jaxa

I've explored so many zones already sailing my stupid raft and STILL I am getting the message saying I need to leave the freeeport. What am i doing wrong???

when i havest trees plants and stuff they seem to be in the wrong place i hit a tree get nothing with an axe but if i hit the air around it i get the wood. for some reason the map of the island im at is blurrred all the time in any graphic setting ive had them to the highest and still blurred

1) The amount of animals could impact marginally, but I don't believe at the level of impact you're inferring 2) In ARK (As a reference), freezing areas were considered higher tiered regions, and took some kit building (leveling) to be prepared enough to withstand the conditions. In your case, not being able to make clothes in a freezing area is one of it's environmental hazards. Dress accordingly before going to these areas 3) I think you need to have claimed land to properly use a bed 4) They are useless in the starting zone, but it made sense for them to make it craft-able to include in your exploration survival kit of success. Starting zones are not meant to be permanent residences 5) Glad to hear! What happened though? 6) I only experienced this in the lawless regions without a raft. I think, those are in fact raft spawn points- but I could be wrong. Either way, I agree the spawns are pretty far out for swimmers

I've got a great suggestion here for you guys. - A lot of people are not able to refund the game anymore, because they've been trying to play the game, but haven't been able to because the servers are just always down. Or everyone is stealing freeports. They cannot even try the game before deciding wether they want to keep it, so most people cannot even refund anymore because of the shitshow you guys have set up. So my suggestion would be: After the holidays, and after this disastrous, hilarious shitshow is done and over with and the game is actually stable.. compensate people. Give them cosmetics, or something. Do something to compensate people. Because this is just ridiculous. Don't get me wrong. I believe this game could be very fun. But I've not even been able to play the game, because everytime I want to play, I'm barely able to log in. Even with the recent fucking update that went out minutes ago, it's still bullshit. I cannot even unite with my friends. P.S. Release the dedicated server kit, because your official servers are honestly, with ALL DUE RESPECT: THE FUCKING WORST. And excuse my language. But my dumb ass has put faith in your game, staying up till 4 AM to PERHAPS catch a glimpse of GAMEPLAY tonight, and still nothing. I'm honestly feeling retarded for even TRYING. Have a nice fucking holiday.

from what I have read yes 1 server equals one grid and 150 player cap. to max it out I believe it was 144 servers (might be wrong but its in this sub forum in one of the posts from another user)

Did you rent more then 1 server? Start zone is lvl 8 capped, as i understand(could be wrong) renting a pvt server is just a tile or tile set, not whole map.

I don't think you need the dock to make the starting raft i don't think? For the next tier of ships you do, but correct me if im wrong. You do need seamanship to craft any boat of any tier though, pretty sure its on the left side of the seamanship tree.