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=INTRODUCTION= I've recently decided to come back and take a look at ATLAS after a very lengthy hiatus from the game. Not being into the "MMO" scene, I elected to go back to Single Player and see what changes have been made - on both the "Ocean" map and the Blackwood map - which was initially designed for smaller servers/Single Player. What is disappointing to see is that Single Player - a game mode that has been included from the start - appears to have been neglected in favour of "doubling down" on the multiplayer aspect which appears to be going catastrophically wrong, given the rather passionate responses I've been reading through today. Single Player is useful to people for many reasons. 1 - It allows people to play ATLAS either alone or, though a non-dedicated server (or even a small dedicated server), with a small group of friends and experience the storyline of ATLAS. 2 - It allows people to get a feel for ATLAS without the rampant toxicity multiplayer servers typically devolve into. 3 - It allows people to experiment with and/or design ships and bases that they may decide to employ on a multiplayer server. For those reasons alone, while it may not be "the focus" of Grapeshot Studios (which to me is seems like Wildcard but by a different name), Single Player should be maintained in the same manner as Multiplayer. The following is my opinion, some suggestion and recommendations which - while I am only one person with one opinion - may spark some more creative flare from a developer or a group that can take this further than I possibly could. =CONTENT= For the most part, given my several hours of reacquainting myself with the systems and mechanics, the "new" map that came with the Trade Winds update so far appears to be a significant improvement over the previous iteration. However there are still areas that require addressing. 1 - Ships of the Damned. This was one of the major reasons I stopped playing (from a Single Player perspective) ATLAS the first time around. SotD seem to ignore any damage resistance/modifier changes. They also still spawn in the *STARTER* zone. While a fully crewed sloop in multiplayer can probably outrun them (assuming good wind - which, granted I did not have in SP at the time of my encounter), my partially crewed Single Player sloop was sunk in 4 volleys by a Level 28 Brigantine. After searching high and low for a command line or mod to assist with SotD, I ended up disappointed. I understand that SotD and AotD are embedded into the storyline and the end-game resources so they cannot be removed entirely - however their number and power should be able to be managed by command line/in-game slider. There should be a map guide (or even a revision of the mechanics surrounding SotD) explaining the likelihood of SotD encounters and their relative power in the zones/regions - similar to what occurs for Wild Pirates - so players can make informed decisions. My recommendation for handling Ships of the Damned for Single Player and small Multiplayer servers is to either implement a slider (or command lines) that reduces the level, damage and group size of SotDs that spawn in and disable their spawning in the STARTER zone (at least), if not the zones immediately surrounding the STARTER zone, ENTIRELY. This gives the player(s) a bit of breathing room to get themselves established - so that when the player reaches the open ocean in either an AI-crewed (or player-crewed) Brig or Schooner (or something larger, provided they can acquire the resources from the starter zone/immediate zones) they at least have a chance to defend themselves if they're unable to avoid the ship. I would also recommend, especially for Single Player - but could also work very well in both an Official and Unofficial setting, that SotD only spawn in the regions containing, and immediately surrounding, the Stones of Power locales. 2 - Wild Pirates. This is not a negative, this is actually a commendation. I actually very much applaud of the addition of these AI pirates from not only a Single Player perspective but also from a PvE and PvP perspective. It gives PvE something to fight against on the sea (aside from SotD) and gives the PvPers something to practice against. From a Single Player perspective it implies that the player is trying to establish their own pirate empire. The map also advises the player on just how powerful the Wild Pirates are in the zones/regions before you enter them - so the player can make an informed decision about entering the zone. 3 - Stupidly high temperatures An island with an ambient temperature of 63 degrees. That's hotter than Dubai on a hot day. In fact, that's 7 degrees hotter than the highest recorded temperature. And these temperatures kill players trying to level. Not even swimming in the ocean works at these temperatures. Either a global temperature adjustment, or a command line/slider to manage how high (and also low) temperatures get. 4 - Blackwood This map was intended to be the ideal answer for small multiplayer servers and Single Player. After exploring the map and reading comments regarding Blackwood on Steam (I've not read the comments here) it is apparent that the upkeep of the map has been abandoned. Certain trees are missing textures, it's missing certain resources and certain spawns are tricky to find. At the very least, I would encourage an update to Blackwood to ensure that those who play on the map have access to the same content as the multiplayer game in a much more condensed size. This would also suit smaller multiplayer servers. However I do have an alternate suggestion: 5 - New Map: The New World A map with the same overall size as Blackwood, but modelled after the real world - much like what the multiplayer ATLAS is doing, but on a more compressed scale. Players start in the Caribbean freeport and the Americas on the western side of the map - with the expansive "Atlantic Ocean" (containing the Kraken's Maw - and 'Atlantis' in the depths) between them and Europe, Africa (and perhaps even a representation of Asia and Australia, if it would fit) on the eastern side with the polar caps hosting icy zones representing the Arctic and Antarctic regions at the top and bottom of the map. Where possible animals would be assigned to spawn on their respective land masses/biomes (i.e. Lions, Elephants and Giraffes in Africa, Wolves in the Americas and Europe, etc.). The Stones of Power can be spread throughout the world (such as ruins in South America and Africa, hidden away in ruined castles in Europe, etc) which encourages the player (or players) to sail and explore - to tame specific creatures they would need to head to specific biomes (which, with the ability to utilise the new 'tame transporter' ship, can be great to showcase what is possible in ATLAS). It would also give players several distinct choices on where to live (the Americas, Caribbean, Europe, the Mediterranean or Africa - or the north/south pole as they choose). This map would also include the necessary resources and requirements for end-game content (such as Atlantean ruins), and need to be able to be expanded upon (in terms of catering to future content). As referenced above regarding SotD, SotD would only spawn in certain regions, though especially in the oceans adjacent to Stones of Power and surrounding the Kraken's Maw - meaning a player or players can go 'hunting' for them with only a very minor chance of them appearing elsewhere - and certainly not as soon as you exit the starter zone. 6 - Gold This is more specific to Single Player, but more ways to find/earn gold would be a great addition. As Single Players *need* gold to manage the larger, more capable ships - even to use a Sloop to get off the starter island - one could find themselves essentially bottlenecked trying to find enough gold to afford a crew. I have no issue with the cost of AI crew, or their cost of retention, but coming up with the gold to pay for them to begin with was quite challenging. In my playthrough, very few bits of flotsam spawned in the starter area and I found myself having to use a raft (after already buying and prepping the ill-fated Sloop) to head out into the adjacent, more dangerous zone, to look for flotsam - to then head back to the starter area in order to get myself a crew. In SP, I suppose I am not penalised for staying on the starter island (with the exception of not having access to metal) so this might not be seen as much of an issue, but in a multiplayer setting - you don't necessarily want your players to base out of the starter island: you want them to leave and explore the larger ATLAS world (hence why there is now no metal on the starter islands). Even if, in SP specifically, one of the vendors in the freeport bought a stack of wood, thatch or stone for 1 gold. It's a lot of work (rates notwithstanding) for little gain but if a player is struggling and they're prepared to put in the effort, they can afford to get off the island with a crewed Sloop, leaving the starter zone behind them (though I would still return myself, especially if I was hosting a non-dedicated session with a friend - or if it was a private server). =CONCLUSION= Overall, I did find that ATLAS had fewer, less obvious bugs than when I last played - so it has clearly had some TLC applied. During my 5 or so hours getting reacquainted, I had no trouble with the way leveling now works, or the introduction to progression. I can not, obviously, speak to the balance of the wider multiplayer game as I personally would not seek to play ATLAS on such a scale - as I play with a small, close group of friends. From what I've been able to observe and achieve in my time, there is no issue with how things progress (with the exception of SotD and extremely high temps). If the 6 main points above were to be addressed and/or achieved this would put ATLAS in good stead when it comes out of Early Access. If "v1.0" does not contain methods to address or fix the issues listed above, the game cannot be considered "out of Early Access" when features it has had since EA launch do not function as intended across all game modes. Thank you for reading.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1770907149 These walls, the doorway and door at all facing "in" to the foundation, they should face "out" from it. There is no way of flipping the doorway to get it or the door to face the correct way.

Network: EU PvE Grid: B11 Description of issue: Group shows 20/20 with no actual weapons in the group Any screenshots or video demonstrating the bug: could not trim the picture enough to post Repro steps if available/applicable: CCC : on the boat cheat TP B11 -140254 -335228 1048 CCC: next to the boat cheat TP B11 -138921 -336498 780 really really need a fix for this - i basically cant use this gally anymore - please just give us a key command or pin wheel command to clear all groups so we can manually put weapons back in their groups

Issue: When starting the game and getting into the main menu game will automatically join the wrong server (empires.) This only occurs after launching the game and I am still able to quit that server and join the correct server. Version: All versions. This has been a present issue since the first public version.

As you craft items in your inventory, you weight goes up. This is wrong. When you take raw materials, and craft something in real life, the end result is significantly lighter than the total weight of the materials you began with. There is a lot of wasted material, and that weight ends up in the waste bin.

The EU PVE server has crashed on me 7 times so far with that unable to query shit and ive also gotten 4 fatal error crashed today alone! And yes I have verified the game files twice today.

Everytime I verify integrity of game files it says that 1 file is wrong, but it doesn't fix it and when I verify again the file continues being wrong. Any way to stop this so I can play? I can't connect to any server.

Does anyone know what is wrong with them and how to fix it? I brought them to the land and the same thing happens ... It's a pity to fire, since the level is already high ... Video

when will you decide to work on the weights of the objects? they are all wrong @Jatheish

Don´t know its a Bug but it looks like one . some small Code change will fix it. Small fix -> Big Improvement photo hosting

I kept getting kicked out of the server. I could see my ship and not access anything on it and when I tried to look at my inventory or get on my ship I was unable too. Inventory flashes and immediately closes. It's happening to friends also so I know it's not just me. Any idea what's happening?

For some reason the mapmaker skills in the seamanship tree require you to go down the branches of shipbuilding. Then on the other branches you have things like navigation and sightseeing.. Talents that relate to mapmaking... It seems to me like someone has made a mistake and put the mapmaker talents in the wrong place on the branches. What does ship building have to do with making maps?.. It makes no sense that you'd need to be able to make a galleon before you're able to perfect mapmaking. It'd make much more sense at the end of the navigation and sightseeing based talents; which is why i'm pretty sure this is an error of some kind.

EU PVE Just yesterday, i died and did not get the option to spawn on a bed, they didn't show on map either. I have three on ships anchored at my island. I thought they changed the rules on beds, but no one else seems to have had this problem. There was no timer. I only died once. I had to spawn at a freeport and move back to my island 2 sectors away. Am I doing something wrong? Or is this a bug?

Dear sir or madam, I (Raz Ghoul) leader and owner of the "Putrid Co." located on the NA Hydras Den server. Made peaceful negotiations to form an alliance and merge with the "Lost at sea" company. When the time came for the merge to happen I saw the pop up on my screen saying the merge was offered and I then selected "merge", After merging something was very clearly wrong. The putrid company was now red to me all my ships, tames, and buildings no longer belonged to me. The game is behaving as if I abandoned my company but I am positive this did not happen. I was hoping I could get help with this issue. Cheers, Raz Ghoul

as the title says, game concept is wrong. pirates were never for world domination. yet you bill this as a pirate game when its more of a nation builder. if you want it to be a pirate game then instead of so many lawless and freeports there should be colonies of other nations, instead of ships of the damned their should be nations warships and trading galleys for us "pirates" to attack, forts for us "pirates" to assault. but as it stands, this isnt a pirate game in anything but looks.

The weights of the objects are wrong, how is it possible that 100 peppers weigh 10 kg? also barrels of water weigh too much for the real weight! please modify and solve these problems

I have a Nitrado 1x2 grid A1 and B1 with a private server password. If i try to sail to B1, i get DC'd and told wrong password?

Why did you basically make a game that you dont want people to stay and play or buy? We are on the NA PVE server and everything is empty of players now. Your game is so shitty and unbalanced its ridiculous. I cannot get sap in the cold to make fur. I cant sail to get it because I get sunk by super fast Giant whales and ghost ships on a raft. I have cleared the beach on my island to make a dock and as soon as i killed the wolf 5 more wolves and 2 giant snakes spawned right on-top of me. WE killed your gay ass Hydra boss last night on D12 and got the crystal and went into the cave to get the powerstone but surprise surprise. %0 giant bats that respawn immediately and 20+ army of the damned or more. If you are specifically making this game for large groups to only have a shot you are morons and ill be glad to watch your game die. If you plan on actually keeping this game alive you better make it playable in small groups or all your servers will be empty in a month except PVP. Also your game is super broken atm, glitchy, laggy, the animals hit boxes are so screwed up where hits dont even register but you will still put 100 of the respawning all over a single player. Fix your shit you morons. This could be a great game if you got your heads out of your asses. I've never seen such incompetence and lack of thought put into something this big. You need to clean house at that company and get some new intelligent people to work for you. I made excuses for laying this game up until now because it looked promising and I thought it was fun but its just so broken and overly hard for no reason. I had to get on an island with 1000 cyclops, wolves, dinosaurs, to kill a Hydra as big as 10 houses, on an island i cannot lay anything down on. Adn then after all that you make me go into a cave that I have no chance of getting to the altar without a large heavily armed team?? WTF is wrong with you people. You are basically begging me to quit your stupid game. On the M12 island there is literally 700 crocodiles in 1 fucking spot. Have you ever head of two simple words, Balancing and play-ability. You have neither. And your player base has spoken. I started with a 10 man squad and am down to 2 because they all quit because of how unbalanced this game is. Id love a refund but im sure that will never happen.

Did anyone notice that your placed marker will appear in different location after you enter your current coordinates? Maybe I'm doing something wrong as no one has complained about it yet. Just in case you didn't know - take out your map (M) and use (N) button to place a marker.

https://steamcharts.com/app/834910#1m

My screen resolution is the wrong size and I cant get to the options to fix it in game. Anyone know how to fix it?

exchanging bamboo fiber costs 108 instead of 18 gold

I got on this morning to try and make some stone buildings. The recipes asks for Fiber. I'm happy for the change. I think there's bug however. All the material components are met, but it wont craft the item until i put organic paste in the smithy. Crafting also consumes the paste instead of fiber. I'm on unofficial, but all the other changes went through fine. I think the change might not have applied as cleanly as intended. Just a heads up in-case this is missed against all odds.

By using land ownership as the criteria for Top Companies in Atlas, you have given good reason for companies to hog as much land as possible, which is in direct opposition to helping new companies and new players find a place to have fun. You should reward players being beneficent and generous to others. It doesn't matter that this is a "pirate" game; pirates are bad people and the entire premise is harmful to people by encouraging them to treat each other poorly or to become victims of evil actions. That is, if you, Grapeshot want more players in your game, you're gonna have to balance Good and Evil to maximize population, or face the fact that your game will be super-niche. The larger a participating population becomes, the more important it becomes to promote and enforce good morals, ethics, and civilization in order to support the longevity of said population. Right now, the Top Companies are those whom are the most evil, and their behavior is harmful to a the concept of a larger variety of players playing this game for extended periods of time and enjoying it, and spreading the word of the fun they are having.

There is a Bug for " FinalNPCLevelMultiplier " in https://github.com/GrapeshotGames/ServerGridEditor How to reproduce: Default value for FinalNPCLevelMultiplier should be 1.0 per island Changing the value to 2.0 and hitting save, it will change it to 20 Reverting it back to 1, it will change it to 1.0 Opening settings again and hit save, 1.0 will change to 10