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(Official pve) Unless they do something with h11 monopoly on twigs, I sure as hell would rather use a giraffe to collect them than by hand. Or you can buy them at 250g per 1000 from lotus and mess around with setting that up. Maybe you can fill me in on a way to trade with them via market trade. Or "renting" one of their farms. On 5x harvesting I friggin load up! Point being there is a time and a place for tames. There is an economy based on tames and breeding. I've interacted with more people due to tames than any other element in the game. Taking that away is taking a pillar of the game out. This game is huge and has depth. There is so many things to figure out and utilize in this game. To be short sighted and want to only sail around and shoot things from your ship seems elementary to me. Don't get me wrong, it's a pay off from hard work but to have the best stuff to do that with, you need to utilize the tools provided in the game and tames being one of them. How quickly can you get to the ocean floor on the back of a crab? Almost instantly. If you're freezing, jump on a wolf. If your over heating, jump on an ostrich. Instead of beating on rocks like a cave man, do it in style with a rhino. Gathering and moving materials without tames just makes the game more simple and more of a tedious grind. Tames bring a whole other large element to the game. Why wouldn't you want them in the game? Its more enjoyable collecting materials imo than fn around with that damn market. I have 10 collecting and trading and funneling materials to a central base and I spend more time turning on farms and traveling to them so they don't decay and messing with trades than just playing the game. I'm losing more and more interest in the game messing with them because it has turned into a job. Tames are fun and useful. Bottom line. More so than these dumb pre-made ships. Leave the tames, lose the pre-made ships imo!

What am I doing wrong ? I'm trying to set up a 6x6 server. https://www.dropbox.com/s/qwsc79zzljk0jl5/Fatal error Atlas 6x6 server.png?dl=0

Some advice for the devs, piggybacking off of @NewLexican From The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracian (Christopher Maurer translation) #27 Better to be intensive than extensive. Perfection isn't quantity, but QUALITY. #57 Thoughtful people are safer. Do something WELL and that is quick enough... Only perfection is noticed and only success endures. #66 Take care to make things turn out well. Some people scruple more over pointing things in the right direction than in successfully reaching their goals... It is an art to set aside art when you must do so to bring things to a happy conclusion. #91 Never act unless you think it prudent to do so. ...It is dangerous to undertake something when you doubt its wisdom. it would be safer to not act at all. Prudence refuses to deal in probability: it ALWAYS walks under the midday sun of reason. #92 Transcendent wisdom. This is the first and highest rule in acting and speaking... An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness. It's more a matter of walking surely than courting vulgar applause. #136 Size up the matter. Take pulse of the business at hand. Many see the trees but not the forest, or bark up the wrong tree, speaking endlessly, reasoning uselessly, without going to the pith of the matter. They go round and round, tiring themselves and us, and never get to what is important. They waste time and patience on what it would be better to leave alone and later there is no time for what they have left. #147 Don't be inaccessible. ...The person who doesn't listen is a hopeless fool. Even the most independent of people ought to heed friendly advice, and even sovereigns are happy to learn from others... We all need a friend who feels free to scold us and give us advice... We need the faithful mirror of a confidant. If we value that mirror it will set us free from deceit. Post is getting too long. Zero clue if your listening anyway. Good luck.

This is a great tool, but i have a problem, im using the map 4x4 that comes with the manager pack, and i get no land/isles. I have tryed to load and export the json files in latest Server Grid Editor. Still no land i spawn in sea att freeport, and i tryed one more thing to fly via admin command to next grid but that did not work. Any ideas what's wrong I wish for a 5x5 or 6x6 map to /Klerkan

it be nice if you would stop the biger gruops from bulleying people in pvp and saying its ok to do that people are killing them selfs daly do to it around the world it happens online in games and on facebook and twittler i had freind that tryed to kill them selfs due to this happened to them on ark survial evolved and now i have hada a few friend have this happened to them on this game people think its ok to do in pvp. that is wrong and needs to be looked at and stoped when it happens for weeks on end.

I was convinced by a buddy to come back and play and work on mods with him again yesterday. I logged into a server he had found. It had multiple mods; so while I waited I booted up wow and played. Every time it would time out during the download process I would click join again and it would download a few more mods. Everything seemed to be fine; I got logged in. I found out I was on the wrong island and started to swim.. Either I die or I make it.. FUN.. but I died. Then when I tried to respawn; I was greeted with a kick message and you have been global banned. I get that you need to protect the game but I make mods; if there was something I wanted to do in the game that I cannot do I would just make it. Btw the server we were joining is running our mod. I have no reason to cheat this game. Please help me out and remove this ban so I can continue to help my buddy and the community with new mods. Some of our mods: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1958747476 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1639271123 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1929447823 I have commented on the discord and read through enough to know that plenty of people get banned and then get flamed when they claim they did not cheat. I wish I had away to prove to the community and company I was not cheating or doing anything that would make this ban acceptable but I cannot as I really have no clue why I was banned. I tried to update the mods I own and the mods I help with but I cannot even do that anymore. This is my last ditch effort before I just call this a lost cause and walk away. Thank you ahead of time for any help that can be provided. *I have already submitted a ticket to battleye and here but no response to either. In fact the one here just auto closes and says they are not looking at the ticketing system.

@PHaRTnONu Aww yea, gettin that ass now. Shark attack motherfucker... So noone is ever given rank 10 huh? What about the rank of Admin?... How do you navigate that scenario Emperor Talks in Circles? a. Angry illogical little twerps like you were the reason I left several large companies over the 3 seasons I played. You were happy to take the bps I donated, the crops I farmed, the food I cooked, the pile of money I grinded out, but never advice. When I'd explain how to conduct a proper military amphibious landing you'd ignore the advice and fuck it up. Three times in a row. You know why? Because shit heads like you are all talk. You don't have a clue how to conduct proper reconnaissance, planning and execution. All you know how to do is swarm ships in the water and overrun soft targets. b. Why the fuck do you call anyone who disagrees with you a roleplayer? What leads the 9 synapses in your noodle to divert to that "insult"? So FUCKING what if someone IS a roleplayer? Does that make their fun less valuable than yours? I don't roleplay but I've met some fucking hilarious people over the years who can provide HOURS of entertainment with a goofy voice and some well timed quips. Grow the fuck up you narrow minded, male-Karen, man child. Snide remark making, logic lacking... I could wreck your selfish, shit for brains logic for hours. 1 Noticed that you requested a box that people can place things IN but can't take them OUT. Whats wrong? Nobody in in your "Mega" likes the admins enough to say "Heres some gold for the Company fund Cpt. Karen"? 2 Noticed you have zero sympathy for the new guy whos worried he'll grind for hours but then receive NOTHING and get booted over a disagreement. Is THAT maybe why your so worried about scuttled ships? Panzy. Guessing your going to ignore the verbal ass whoopin your receiving in Q&A 9 and just thought I'd pop by... PS @Chucksteak sorry, couldn't help it. Osama Bin Phart here dropped some verbal diarrhea in Q&A 9.

So, I said your mega was "likely" abusing things. You say as a solo I "dont" know what it takes. Wasn't there something about absolutes and the sith? You took it personally I see. So I should ASSUME that your mega didn't take over an island or 3, THEN go into lawless areas and pushed out solos and smalls to set up more market systems to then trade back to yourself. Or perhaps that's just not abusing a system to you, with no regard to the solo. I should also ASSUME that no one in your mega went out and started throwing down claim towers on lawless while still holding islands. I will also ASSUME that no one in your mega (witch I also assume is full or near full roster) has ever cheated with third party software. I will assume as well that every member has been vetted and invited over for dinner to ensure their online identity. No your right, I am probably the imbecile here. Hey, if I am wrong here, I am wrong, but your mega would then be the outlier. Lets be honest. I have been in a mega, twice actually. They said "don't build, we have builders". They said "go here for FoB NOW". They said "Don't shoot these people", even though we are not in an alliance. "READ THE DNS LIST" because it only changed 3x a day. They allowed me, ever so graciously, to access the second from lowest set of doors and shit. There is a lot of DOs and DONTs in a mega. The people "asking" are usually the ones who have no restrictions I found. There is a reason I play as a solo. I don't have horrible ideas about megas, just some RL experience. Giving me the "OPTION TO JOIN" is not restricting me, and I never said it was. I am only restricted AFTER I join. When I can no longer use doors I built. When I can no longer demo things I built to even get myself out of a structure. When, if you had your way, I would be restricted to only sail the boat you allow me too. This is a pretty straight forward concept that should be easy to grasp and not questionable as weather or not you are (or are wanting to be) imposing restrictions on other players. It's not about me wanting to sink your ships. Its about wanting the respect you would give any sensible adult. We are playing a game and I would be happy to play with you. So long as I can do everything in the game that you can and you don't think of yourself as above me in any way. I think that is very reasonable. My post was a response to yours, and it was not incorrect. My point was; "When you say "Literally NEVER going invite new players able to come in and scuttle all the boats in the harbor." You are "Literally" wrong" This was then proved by the fact that you ARE a mega. Meaning you DO have a full or nearly full roster. So you DO invite new players, and they COULD scuttle some boats. So your supposition is incorrect. -CS

I have the same thoughts. I can't travel anywhere anymore because if I have to log off for a bit because of the existence of life outside of this game, I can't just anchor somewhere for a couple hours. On top off that I have an issue where there is a ship within my claim that I didn't claim that someone left to rot only now it doesn't rot. It's not decaying. The npc's are all gone but the planks health are the same as 5 days ago. So now I have to claim it or it will never go away. Is the objective of claiming ships to clear up shorelines, or clutter them with claimed ships or unclaimed ships that don't decay. Devs need to express their intentions so we can give feedback on what is or isn't wrong. Don't know the purpose of buoy. Just a toxic tool for toxic players imo.

that is the best they could do honestly to the devs that will not read it anyway: lawless got better recources and better market flow and active players! makes no sense to keep this big island claimsystem, but this would need another new map tho, or please go back to the first map, it was awesome. there was only issues because players traveled soooo long with their ship and had nothing to do while sailing, that are still season 1 problems that have been ignored until today, add the damn flying ship or portals! (just kidding xd, would be awesome tho) i am not even clear about your gamedesign, first you said it should be more realistic and players should be more on the water, then you implement this fake market trading system that generates gold for nonsense trades only to sink it into ships to build (i call that job creation in a bad way), and all ppl sit on their bum on an island again! changing map to the old map again with original discoverys, speed stats on sails (all sails and yes better sails is more speed), something to do while on the ship maybe dart, or let npc drive while you are on an island? doing nothing is always wrong, so you try stuff out, maybe you should try stuff that makes the game an experience again, and not a farmingsimulator for beeing able to sail in a shipgame. the warehouse range is too big and farms aswell, so how about removing the range limit completely or at least 75%? we have claim towers now. (in addition: remove shore limitation, remove same island trading) thank you for the seahorse, this was a very nice addition so ppl have something they can go for

Fortune favors the bold. Well done too the developers. They made a huge step towards fixing the game here. Whether intended or not. I noticed something was working better in the first minute. It still has all the problems don't get me wrong. So far on pve not going to bad with the changes. I lost alot of bases so I went out and gained alot of other people's bases. Still plenty of land to go around. Each company can only use so many towers in the whole game. Can't protect everything. So there's alot of farms up for grabs now I guess. Has balanced the game but strained it a little. Hard to explain. It seems more stable but lags more? I think this may be a big game fixer. It will destroy majority of the junk people build. To confirm earlier comment with my observations. The towers are not claiming boats in any way whatsoever that I've seen. Don't see many armored docks in lawless though. I will admit I came out on top 160k gold. I feel like a pirate for the first time since this game came out ironically.

Greatest idea of all times, bringing those toxic claiming towers to PVE! but can someone answer me, how to use HALF A SHIP?! anchored ships got claimed, but the ship does NOT belong to the claiming company, just the structures? So nobody can now use them at all? wasnt there an announcement that said "ships parked in an armoured dock..." .... what the hell is wrong with you to set up a patch that is NOT ready yet? dont wanna be that player stealing other guys ship and not being able to give it back or even use it..... Are you guys even thinking about what you are doing there? one of you programmers should start playing the shit so you could get int ouch with our problems you are causing - well like danger already told ... back to server, where modders know their game

My thoughts about the invulnerable lawless base are actually proofed wrong. The Tower does not give any protection to your structures... so it's simply a griefing tool implemented by the Devs. Maybe it should have some Peacetime to set yourself for like 16 of 24 hours? Also amount should be reduced to maybe max. 5-10 for a company to avoid spamming lawless.

Greatest idea of all times, bringing those toxic claiming towers to PVE! but can someone answer me, how to use HALF A SHIP?! anchored ships got claimed, but the ship does NOT belong to the claiming company, just the structures? So nobody can now use them at all? wasnt there an announcement that said "ships parked in an armoured dock..." .... what the hell is wrong with you to set up a patch that is NOT ready yet? can someone help on this problems? dont wanna be that player stealing other guys ship and not being able to give it back or even use it.....

@Nacona Can't find the "hint" I was thinking of. I'm probably wrong.

@Beaux Wouldn't be surprised if they drop PvE during this next wipe. They're dropping hints. Hopefully I'm wrong. Good luck

My early feedback: You cant see circles other then on map. You see a keepout area when oyu try to place on tho. The patchnotes ware wrong with the speedup its, 1% every ~30 seconds You dont get any notification other then someone place a tower in generall. Nothing when someone is claiming stuctures of you or is kinda contesting your tower. I got one of my 5 rafts that was parket in the tiny shipyard claimed, i could not do any other interaction then unanchor and scuttle, which i did as the structures on it belonged to the new owner. I havent seen any timer on the towers, are they static or loose hp over time? The point system seems completely out of protion, the radius is not big, but the amount of flags to place seems high. So they were thinking about a new claim system since november, what we got now is a bare minimum of something. And then they say, next will be wipe? What is with working markets, tradewinds, the lag and everything else. Did they finally found an propper angle to approach math?

Well that are some good and unexpected news about bug fixes that also consider the single player! Keep going Devs i like that for everbody playing this game in this mode(i don't). Bug fixes of current stuff needs to be high priority to keep players attached to the game to test the new features. Improving of the HUD - Inventories - and market surface etc is much appreciated. Will test this after work. Looking forward to see the feedback about the claiming towers. That feature should be tested and adjusted before the next wipe to allow fair play for the following month in the Season 6.(I know you don't like the so cald Seasons xD) Water claiming there are no real information about that? How does it work? All structures in that circle are 24/7 protected until th tower gets destroyed? That means players don't reduce the harbor building at all but they don't need pillars in the dooway - you can simply open or close the large gates - quality of life improvement for each ship about 1-2 minutes. Ships are not protected in that area? If ships are placed in armored dock does the sea tower protected it from claiming if the land tower falls? Well all for lawless where you usually don't build harbors. Sea Horse/Dolphin of now use if they can't follow ship? Well nice to have a saddle. You may consider a water tank attachment to ships that could store two sea creatures while traveling?(like cargo attachment) (You may also add a cage for ship that could store 5-10 land tames? Yesterday i lost 4 free standing NPCs from my shooner by just driving(strong wind and wafes where unsync with the ship). I was close to lose the shooner to SotD after going off steering wheel because my bear glitched into the stearing wheel ... but i placed him in front of the ship. precrafted ships buff i don't know if good? Never saw one of them neither played myself. Maybe somebody have feedback better than some single players youtube video? You may should be allowed to remove cannones and place blue printed once? Bugs with auto destroy after loosing ship segments got solved? Instant repair of the planks got solved? Ships respec is a great addition to the game. Thank you for that one. I see no issues to this change. Hats for crows... well thanks for the effort... but maybe actually wasted developers time? Fix bugs please? You may improve the HUD and inventory - change the font to allow letters like German äöü. Several translations are not shown correctly or text is overlapping into other text. Even english version has those bugs. The translation itself is good but just shown wrong or displaced.

Single player is broken......... How about you fix current issues/ bugs /mechanics that are already in the game and have been broke for months or optimization instead of adding more to the game. Everybody wants more added dont get me wrong but I bet you everyone would prefer bug fixes and optimization more The lack of information about these new systems is baffling I'm not a pvp or pve player on official because of the horrible performance and crashing when approaching populated islands and now cant play singleplayer or non-dedicated because of saves being corrupted I understand this is a beta/work in progress but I'm starting to question the "WORK" in progress

First of all, just to be clear, I'm laughing in agreement w you about the money. I only had 1 warehouse and 2 to 4 consistent trading partners and gold was not an issue. I gave away 3 schooners, 3 brigs, a galleon, over 60k, kept about another 150k+ in reserve plus I owned a brig and a gally and kept around 100 NPCs on hand. I can only imagine on PvP owning Control Points + multiple markets + multiple islands + using alts (to keep the income on all sides of the transaction) + having large groups actively farming Treasure Maps... I'm sure theres some VERY wealthy Companies.. Second whats a "War Deck"? Lastly though, I disagree w your conclusion. Remember that for some people "more" is just never "enough". Your assuming people will behave logically. Economists used to to call this the "Rational Markets Theory", I think, (I may be wrong on the name) but the important part is that its usually wrong. Theres going to be, FOR SURE, someone or group who wants to be the richest. #1 just for bragging rights or out of megalomania or to show off on Twitch etc... Like I stated in previous posts, it won't be out out of a NEED for the gold but the desire for more.. more, more, more that will move them to expand into these Lawless Tower spots... A closing example; I knew a guy on PvE who had THREE markets/warehouses to HIMSELF on PvE. He had to jam them into wierd spots and refill them quite often BY HAND when he took mat losses, because he couldn't squeeze in a farm. Guess what? He still wanted a 4th... or more.. Made zero sense to me and me being satisfied with ONE market made zero sense to him..

Megas do care about lawless. Perhaps not in the way you think. I refer to it as an exploit, but it might not fit that definition. What's better than having a few markets on your island for trade? Going to the adjacent lawless tiles and taking over some islands to setup more markets and WH to trade with yourself. Ever wonder why the megas have millions of gold? Its sheer volume. 50+ people cant generate that much gold on an island, but by dominating several lawless they basically farm gold in unlimited amounts. This is the problem, this is what us solos and smalls are complaining about when we say its hard to get gold and keep markets up. The ever brilliant devs stated that the markets were to help the solos and smalls and that there would be incentives for megas to let them exist and earn their keep. They were obviously wrong as the incentive ended up being to dominate the land of solos and smalls (lawless) and take it over for their own trade rather than trade with the markets we set up. This is overlooked and not discussed enough. When it comes to gold, its clearly an incentive to take 20 guys to wipe out 1 solos area to earn another 10-50k a day.

I am a solo and you are clearly in a mega company. Likely abusing several thing as megas are wont to do. Since you seem to be speaking for me, let me help you out on some details. For starters you are wrong. I can prove it very easily. Most megas are currently full roster. Meaning there is no issue inviting people currently. Certainly not to the point where you have trouble maxing out membership. When you say "Literally NEVER going invite new players able to come in and scuttle all the boats in the harbor." You are "Literally" wrong. The main #1 reason we do not want to be in a mega is because of what you are advocating for more of here. WE DO NOT WANT A FUCKING DICTATOR WHEN WE PLAY A GAME. You want to lock me out of more things after you invite me to your company? Oh YOU can say what boat I sail. YOU can say when and where I can build. You can say what doors I can and cant use. YOU CAN GO FUCK YOURSELF IS WHAT YOU CAN DO! At least with that I must own you view. Your idea would make people leave your precious mega more than it would attract anyone of use to your cause. You want the solo players to join bigger companies? Take away the threat of restricting our in game access. All doors, boxes, buildings, boats should be unlocked to every company member 110%. Basically, everything I can do as a solo I should still be able to do as a member of a company. Else why would I join people and lose content? Do I look like a slave? Do you want to be a slave? I'm not trying to be a dick. Would you join my company if I told you everything you could and couldn't do? If I had 200 people and said hey, "this is your schooner, there are many like it but this one is yours." I believe you would tell me to go fuck myself. I'm just saying, please don't be so attached to your fake shit I game that you want to oppress people to get your jollys off. Knowing full well you were all 100+ against 50s-80s, you took 200 people to fight 35? Well, I guess I hope it was a rewarding experience. Megas sure sound like a blast.

Yes, I was not aware you could place a silo on lawless. And yes I do not believe you have many hours on the pvp server, is that wrong?

2. I think Devs intended that the larger islands and more resources and short distance would get the Megas there with 24/7 combat. But they are prooved wrong because Megas enjoy peactime as well. The Megas had to adjust to the less good islands to claim with good harbor bays and decend resources. There are lots of claimable islands that where useless on Maelstorm until added armored docks. 3. You can feed and pay NPCs on lawless with a silo. You do not need the flag therefore. Also costs are decreased heavily compared to Season 3 for example. So you could build a PvP base on a lawless pillar(mountain) which is pretty safe from the 1-5 players groups looking around for offline raiding. But you can't protect your warehouse and farmhouses from being destroyed every couple days. So yes, Megas could go Lawless but they don't need to and stay with the safe peacetime. Only issue of this map design ist that Sea Battle focus is turned to GA and all the high level ships pass by the lawless where small players want to start. The Devs should play the game and visit the different servers and islands, make some pictures of how players build the islands to protect themselfes. Even better would be if the Devs would speak ingame to the Island owners to ask them why they do things. 1-2 weeks like this and Devs may get a plan how to improve the game. I just settled on a lawless island with 4 types of Metall you can farm there! Is this still a bug from the Maelstorm map adjustmend?

One final thought for the dev team.. Why did you present this feature, then have a "Q & A" with questions selected that HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FUCKING FEATURE THAT YOU JUST ANNOUNNCED? Thats like me telling you that your car just got swapped with a Tesla, then following it up with a "Q & A" about why the dinosaurs went extinct. Are you all really that fugging scatterbrained? Are you capable of focusing on ONE thing or is there some kind of issue going on? Can you walk AND chew bubblegum? No, seriously can you? Were you playing on Discord or fucking around on your cell phone when you wrote this announcement? What the fuck is wrong with you AND your staff that this "Announcement" cleared the approval process? Do you have a process?... Dimwitted, short sighted, incoherent fucking drivel...