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I swear i get on here and seems like I build 2 ships playing with me and 1 friend or 2 and seems like season is over... I hate how long the seasons are. It seems like there only 1 month long. Does anyone know how long the seasons actually are? ANYHOW IT NEED TO BE CHANGED. It takes me like 4 days to update the game because my bad internet and the super short seasons. The season should be 3 to 6 months per Season. Not just like 1 month or whatever it is.

Im having all the same problems and when i went to craft the smithy the game crashes and it didnt even spawn me in a freeport. It would be nice if the DEVS I swear dont know how to respond or respond and post in their own forum ive been a faithful player of this since i was launch in 2018 and as much as i hate to say but the DEVS break more then they fix

I didn't live on the forums ... i played the game. so the game is completely shifted from the concept of the first draft. little sad as it was so much fun. Without comparing it to the original if what they have now was released as the game would it be fun? do they finally have a good single player mode map? When i quit they had Blackwood... which was fan made and i swear they just grabbed didnt clean it and released it with a ton of bugs and missing resources.

I've seen every wipe since the beginning. I'm not feeling like putting up with another. To me the worse things about Atlas are not the servers or bugs, it's the wipes. I could swear they said long ago, no more wipes, then, only if really needed. Then it turned to a regular event. I don't know why I have not wiped my hands of this long ago.

This is literally the only gaming company I know that continuously breaks their game with every major update. I swear, it's almost as if they're trying to drive their player base away. I've been patient with them since the beginning, but even with a game in early access, it should be somewhat playable. More stuff that used to work is broken now that they've wiped and reset with the Trade Winds update. Extremely amateurish gaming company. See you guys if and when they decide to actually be a professional gaming company and make a playable game.

**Note -- Originally posted to Reddit June 1, 2019 Fellow Texians and Men of Honor in all Parts of the World, I come to you now in earnest to account the loss of our island in F10 to the rogue agents of Wendigo and Jazz Cabbage. I would dare say that it was a fair fight to the last man, but from our own ill-preparedness that was hardly the case. Our island harbor was protected mostly by the ships at anchor, their crews set to ready action should any hostile approach our entrance. But due to the earlier raids by the accursed bandits of the Wendigo and Jazz nations, our harbor lay exposed and empty except for the wrecks of our small Texian fleet...which we were in the due course of salvaging when the scoundrels appeared on our horizon once again! A ship of unknown allegiance first approached our harbor and the call went out to action! I climbed the High Guard platform and manned a mortar...one of my captains joined me there and manned a second. We identified the ship in harbor as she opened fire on our remaining yards and structure...as suspected it was our friends to the West come again to harass our small settlement and test our Texas good nature. In appropriate response we tried our best to bite at their heels with what teeth we had left ~ Don't Tread on Me! Our pucklers began to shout out sightings of men-at-arms on foot and mounted bears entering our valley. We turned our mortars then to the inner grounds of our crafting hall and surrounding buildings as my captains called out positions and sightings of the invaders. We caught sighting of a second brig off our eastern coast...at anchor in the unprotected waters where we have often invited visitors. It dawned on me at that moment that it was the exact spot we had invited a Jazz Cabbage galleon to come ashore to harvest cotton just days ago and welcomed them with our nicest Texas hospitality....myself guiding them to anchor using multiple flares and bidding them safe travels on their peaceful departure afterward. It is now believed in my heart that their pale excuse of needing our cotton was but a ruse to scout our defenses and make ready for these underhanded and treasonous actions against us. So be it...all pleasantries be damned at this point! The High Guard turned our mortars on the offending brig at anchor to the east and we opened fire! She bore the brunt of our assault and made a hasty retreat....leaving ashore her men and cannon bears to fend for themselves! It was one of several small victories we enjoyed during the night. But that was just the beginning. We rained mortar fire down on the island below and exhausted our stores of ammo in rapid order. One of our captains mounted horse and rushed from our crafting hall up the sloped cliffs to High Guard and brought us new stores and supplies. An enemy cannon bear followed him and we attempted to rid our cliffs of the animal to no avail. Protected by own platform, the enemy began to attack our mortar structure from below and was helpful enough to instruct us and advise us on our lack of experience and poor tactics. We Texians enjoyed a laugh or two as this helpful individual seemed willing to help and yet so willing to grief us at the same time. How noble these brutes must think they are, I wonder? The battle lasted for some time. We would attempt to man puckles and swivels as our hired crews would fall, only to be cut down ourselves by either cannon or marksmen or grenadiers. It was a good fight and quite the spectacle, to be sure! Our High Guard mortars kept up the barrage during the battle until the enemy was able to assault it directly on foot and rid us of our mortar captains -- then they set about to destroy the mortars themselves which they accomplished unopposed. Their cannon bears made short work of the crafting hall walls and our beasts of burden were slain in their pens. Wall defenders died at their posts or had their stations blown out from under their feet from cannon fire. Our stores were plundered, our crafting resources pilfered and many of my fellow Texans were slain in their beds at slumber with no chance or offer of surrender or retribution. From our hidden spots among the cliffs and ridges overlooking our small settlement, my captains and I bore witness to the destruction and the barbarous nature of these poor bastards who would have you hold their actions in high esteem as "fair play" or "it's just PVP". No my dear friends, utter destruction for the sole satisfaction of kicking a dog while it is unable to bite you back, is not fair play....not by Texas standards at least. Then the leader of the assault called out his wish to now talk. Suddenly it would seem that once there was nothing left to destroy or pillage this man would wish us to join his allegiance and swear fealty to himself and his band of miscreants. To be absolutely clear and honest, my captains and I had discussed this possibility already prior to the events of the day at hand -- prior to the raid on our harbor by the Jazz Cabbage brig, Grimm Reaper. We had already noted that the Wendigo nation seemed to be good sports and had only given us their cursory attention in due course as they made patrol of our waters in search for their intended quarry, the YT men of China. I swear to you now on the Holy Ground of the Great State of Texas that had the Wendigo and Jazz Cabbage invasion come to our shores with peaceful intention to recruit the Republic of Texas as an ally and sought our favor as a friendly harbor in the F10 war....they would have been met with respect and interest. But as God is my witness when their demands came in the form of an ultimatum to either join them or pay them taxes after such a pointless raid of utter brutality and accompanied meaningless show of force....my one and only response was, "Have you ever been to Texas, sir?" It was our national hero, Colonel William Barret Travis, who upon hearing the demands of el Generalisimo de Santa Anna, that the garrison of men of the Alamo mission surrender their arms and submit to the Mexican army, answered with a single cannon fired over their heads! If I had but one shot and one cannon at my disposal, my answer would have been likewise. My Texian captains and I stood our ground with nothing but the rocks and sticks in our hands and we refused their satisfaction. Our hearts and minds were set. They would have to take it by force for we would not give them a single inch. It was then that the Wendigoans and Jazz Cabbage men set about to take our claimed island from us. They established their claim and set their perimeter. I took note of the time and my captains and I discussed our options. To some, the battle was over and the time was late...our ships were at the bottom of the sea and our base was but a shell and empty walls. Understandably, some elected to retire for the night and hope for the best. A few of us remained. I inquired to the men who now wished to take our home from us if it was truly their intent to play hide and seek for the next three hours as our island would count down and cycle back to peace time. They assured us that they had nothing better to do. My captains and I discussed how sad a state of affairs it must be to be in such an organization that would have nothing better to do than spend an entire night taking pennies from the poor and call it fun. Why would anyone want to join up with such a group in the first place, I wonder? To be honest, some of their members expressed their displeasure in the situation. We could overhear their discussions....and one of the ships departed entirely when a single YT ship made its presence known in the grid. The Chinaman's poor attempt at insult to the Wendigo nation made even our Texas captains smirk. We bantered in private, "and they think we are with these guys? Do they not see that nobody is coming to help us???" But the line had been drawn in the Texas sand. We set our minds to harass the invaders and try to keep one of our number within the line at all times...thinking that if we can delay the declaiming of our island for the next 3 hours that the fight would be ours and their efforts totally wasted. It was a battle of wills at this point.....we were determined to defend our small claim as best we could or at least make it the most irritable action for them to endure as possible. We gave it our best. At one point, we had sent a captain to our reserve base and returned in a small sloop loaded with supplies. We donned armor and weapons, firearms, bows and arrows, grenades...and we steeled ourselves to rush the walls of our own crafting hall. We split up and came into sight...one of my captains stripped his armor to appear naked as before, attempted to lure them out as seemed to work easily and had been often repeated. When they came upon him, myself and one other lept from our cover and rushed them...muskets and blunderbuss fired, swords drawn. It was a short fight but chaos none the less. I ran through the melee having spent my powder and ran to the crafting hall. I literally ran into a number of their men who let me pass not knowing it was a Texan wearing armor and not one of their own. I was able to approach their claim flag and discern the timer -- it still showed 59 minutes and the Texas flag was still above half-mast. We were doing the best we could and it was going to take them all night to be sure. My captains were killed in the fight but I escaped detection for some time. While hiding inside the boundary line, the claim timers were frozen, contested. They would have to find me. I could see the back of the crafting hall and I remembered that I laid some ceiling tiles next to foundations when I put in the plumbing for our seed crops....if I could make my way to one of those tiles, perhaps I could hide under it and go unnoticed for some time. It seemed like a plan so I jumped at the chance. I ran to the back of our structure and demolished one of our cisterns...directly behind it was an open space under our wooden floors and I crawled inside. It didn't take as long as I had hoped for them to find me. In fact, I wondered if they had a lookout posted above the valley in the cliffs and he had seen my actions because it wasn't long before one of their men addressed me at the end of a musket and bid me come out. He fired to persuade me. I had just used my final respec and focused all my energy in health. So his musket did me far less damage than he had hoped and I'm sure the full plate armor helped as well. I crawled out to face him and he fired again....I grinned under my visor and drew my sword! We tangled...I embraced him in close hand-to-hand combat and danced around him leaping and jumping. Then I remembered the grenades I had on my belt....I began dropping them at our feet as I laughed maniacally in my bloodlust. This one man was about to pay for all the wrongs given us by these miscreants! To my great satisfaction, I blew both of us to smithereens....and laughed and celebrated for quite some time! Another small victory. The game of cat-and-mouse continued...for hours, literally. At another moment in the effort, I found myself swimming in our harbor among the wreckage of our ships. A pair of elephants had gotten themselves tangled in the debris and I knelt below one of them perched on the hull of our harbor tender sloop. I was inside the circle and contesting their claim, again. Quite happy with myself I knew they would have to go to a great length to find me. I thought I was discovered when one of their men swam around me and literally demolished the plank I was perched on....I fell into the water behind him and immediately swam away under our docks. He did not follow. Did he even see me? I curled back under the docks where we had left many open spaces between columns, pillars and stacked foundations....I could hold my breath for quite some time and could catch air when the waves and tides surged. Not long after I was discovered once more and put to the sword. One of my captains managed a huge feet of luck when he was able to rush the crafting hall and lock himself in the space between the inner and outer main gates. To the joyful glee of myself and my fellow Texians we laughed and joked about how they would have to really put in some effort to get him out...stone gates on one side and a medium wood gate on the inside of the crafting hall....surrounded by stone walls. It was a tomb fit for a king, or in this case, the most brilliant turn of luck of the night. We laughed as our invaders gathered what grenades and hand weapons they had and began to chip away at the gates. My captain taunted them yelling "Tik Tok, Tik Tok!!!" from inside his coffin. Another small victory, yet short lived. they eventually blasted him out but every minute and every second counted to our favor. We were not winning, but neither were they! They eventually setup cages and gibbets and instead of killing us outright they switched tactics to try to take us prisoner. They would chase us with grappling hooks and assault us with clubs. We countered by rushing the rhinos and elephants and slapping them as we ran into the courtyard to be taken captive. If done right, the animals would kill us and knock our foes in all directions as well. Their beastmaster made work of taming every animal he could. They eventually had a small herd of goats guarding the claim flag and we would run in and jump into the middle of the aggressive animals and attempt to get them to chase us out of the claim area. One of my captains rustled up a small herd of elephants and lead them into the fray to much entertainment and confusion. They eventually caught me and placed me in their guillotine...they removed my head and took their prize...it was a grizzly scene but a small victory for them to be sure...and a hard won trophy. I hope they never forget this night and think about it every time they look upon my face. I hope it haunts them. But the night was not over. Another of my captains retired...the next day brought real work to be done and 2am was his last call. That left it to only two of us remaining. We took turns in our efforts...one would lay in wait while the other would do his best to distract the enemy whose numbers were also greatly reduced from the start of the evening. When they were distracted, the other of us would run in and try to hide inside the claim. The enemy had been hunting down our beds and safe havens and were removing them as methodically as they could. They even enlisted the work of a small sloop to destroy our watch towers around the entire island since each had a safe bed inside. We also had platforms and observation points on the cliffs facing the open sea and those as well had to be destroyed or climbed and the beds thereon removed. It was tedious work I'm sure...and meant to make them earn every second of their conquest. I was caught again and placed in a cage...guarded by one of their men who was quite apologetic for the circumstances. We chatted and I expressed my utter displeasure for their antics and methods of harassment and promised that this was not a sure way to earn one's respect or allegiance. In fact this was how one makes enemies, not friends. I eventually died of thirst and went about the work of thwarting their efforts once more. With less than thirty minutes remaining in our combat window my fellow Texan was captured, leaving me alone. I spawned at our last bed...our farthest south platform, facing open ocean on the side of a cliff. I knelt in a corner and privately discussed our situation with my fellow captain. He was taken with full health and well fed and rested...it would be some time before he would die in their cage. The timer was under 20 minutes. Would the claim fail if the island came out of combat before our flag was lowered? We didn't know but that was our hope. While we were discussing our options, the enemy climbed onto my platform and stood just outside my doors. I heard them discuss that they had no way of destroying the walls or doors as their grenades and blasting powder was spent. They suspected this was the last bed and they would just wait for me here. They had no idea I was just inside and heard every word. It was then that I laughed to myself as my plan solidified in my mind. When the timer clicked 15 minutes, I demolished the platform on which we all stood. The entire structure fell out from under our feet and we all plummeted to the cliffside below. The plan did not quite go as I imagined because we did not fall in the water and nobody died when we hit the cliff -- it was not so far a fall after all. And lastly, the weight of the materials now in my possession made it impossible for me to run away. Damn the luck! My enemy made short work of me with clubs and knocked me out just as I was able to drop my inventory on the ground. They shackled me and lifted me to their shoulders and began parading me back to their base and the waiting cages. Happily they estimated that the fight was done and they had won. But it was a ruse....I played the part of being knocked out until I regained my strength....at once the man carrying me dropped me and I landed on my feet! I leapt from the cliff and found the water below and made for swimming the deep and followed the cliffside below the surface. I was very familiar with the waters of our small island and as long as no sharks, mantas or crocodiles caught my scent I would be able to make the harbor. As I held my breath I circled past the harbor and came out on the northern cliff slope....just a few yards from their claim flag...I just needed to run that short distance to suspend their claim once more...maybe for the last time. But the effort was in vain. At that moment, the island was still in combat phase for another several minutes, but they struck down our Texas flag and our claim was lost! The battle was over. .... It would take gold for me to contest their claim now and all our gold had been stolen from us during the night. What we had left was on the claim flag as I had not thought to remove it when the invaders appeared on our shores. The claim was lost and there was nothing I could do about it. The victors called out asking what my intentions were to which I responded "I need to find a way to remove these hand cuffs" which they replied they had expected me to be food for the sharks by then. My captive captain began to ask them to remove him from the cage he was in....which they were reluctant to do so seeming intent to add insult to injury. His pleas for mercy fell on deaf ears...as they took him to their guillotine. In response he pointed out their poor sportsmanship and I myself found a crocodile to help remove my shackles. Unable to return to our once home island, we retired for the night...swearing that our vengeance would be patient and measured, as is our way. This was Thursday night and all the way up til 3am on Friday morning. It is now the weekend and we Texians are busy making preparations to claim a new settlement and work towards new ships and bases of operation and we will incorporate many of the new ideas we have learned in the past few days to bolster our defenses against such invasions in the future. And rest assured....one day the time will come....that we will present ourselves before the factions of Wendigo and Jazz Cabbage and ask a single question: Remember us? ~Republic of Texas

TLDR: Do not include structure claim.Though I do agree with the Original land claim system which blocks building nearby (For Lawless), The "Structure claim" tied along side of it is basically a death sentence for small companies/solo.All the large companies would just need to do is strip the defenses, and simply wait for a flag timer to finish and they would get everything without the need to blow through doors and gates anymore. Wiping entire compounds by just demolishing. Negating Internal Defenses.45 mins is nothing when the window time for lawless is a full 24 hours with large companies having constantly people on due to large numbers. This should be play tested before release with the assumption of mega-tribe -exploitation-.Mega-Tribes already have monopoly of the island systems, This lawless claim system needs to be released with an amendment/adjustment to island claims along side it. As this is just another exploitable means for mega-tribes to have total control which now includes the lawless regions.Is there a limiter for number of claim flags? And how long does it take to de-claim. This information needs to be released prior to implementation.Some would argue to just swear fealty to these mega-tribes MAX TAX islands and play the game. But that is merely further -empowering- mega tribe toxicity. There is no power sink or tax for large numbers of people.What we need is some form of Pirate Law that will -though heavy handed- should just pit mega tribe vs mega tribe. Like a protection mechanism to stop large companies from damaging (to a degree) small companies by company count (Potential ex. Bonus damage for small companies vs large). What I said is extremely rough, but that's a ballpark shot towards a direction.

I was wondering if we are supposed to be able to build on golden age islands? I cannot recall clearly but I swear at some point we used to grab cyclops and lead them into traps to shoot.

Not sure who has seen the latest twitter post but it mentions a patch coming today or tomorrow and tells us to be excited for it!!! However on the post there is a picture of a pirate riding a dolphin..... I swear to god if you guys think making dolphins ride-able is what the game needs to be better or what the player base wanted...... Please be a joke like the FLYING SHIP you had on the banner and finally removed....

i swear they must do this to get people more active on social media/forums. Look at all these fresh accounts.

I gave this a negative review on Steam in Feb 2020 and had every reason to never come back, which felt like a tragedy because I bought five copies of it so I could play with my wife and kids. The moment-to-moment gameplay was fun an engaging (which made it so we put in ~300 hours and felt like we got our money's worth), but the macro game was chaotic and genuinely soul-crushing and we just had to stop playing. Out of sheer curiosity last week, I read some of recent the patch notes from after I quit playing, and to my utter surprise you had addressed every concern I had in my review, so I took it down and switched it to positive. There is still a long ways to go, but this last year has made me optimistic about ATLAS again. I gave a fair amount of the new content a try-out in single player and creative mode so I could see how things would work and play out and I'll give PvP and PvE a try when I have time. I'd like to start off with some compliments about this game, so you guys can get some insight into what you're doing well and what makes ATLAS fun. 1. It's beautiful. Your modeling, design, effects, everything is just absolutely stunning. I like that it's UDK as well, because it means my kids can play it on their cheap-o computers and enjoy it with me on my monster gaming rig. I'm a bit of a sucker for pretty scenery and your game is very nearly at the top of my list for well-crafted beautiful scenery (you're honestly going toe-to-toe with Guild Wars 2 and Breath of the Wild here) 2. I love the volume of content, and honestly can't get enough of it. I love sailing out to a new zone because I need aged wood, or a different kind of fiber. If you added a dozen new types of fiber, and trees (hopefully with unique models to match), I would absolutely take my time to go exploring to find them all. It makes exploring feel emotionally rewarding, and makes me feel content with the time I spend in game. So long as I avoid the wiki, it's just impossible for that to get old. 3. The micro mechanics of the game are fun. Sailing is engaging and I feel like I'm rewarded (with lower repair costs, and combat advantages) for being good at it. Base building is fun to place and design your outpost, so much so that I am motivated to go gather more materials for it. Building and designing a ship makes me feel invested in its survival. I mention these first because I feel like understanding what you do well helps you play to your strengths as you explore new mechanics, and code, and features. So, here are my observations and suggestions. I've put a lot of thought into these so I hope you see this for what it is: someone who is absolutely rooting for you and your game. 1. Individual player interactions with devs is bad. I know most people in engineering are not sociable by nature, but this is currently the #1 point plaguing your steam reviews. Get a dedicated support person. They can write bug reports for you, interface with customers, make social media posts and do light advertising for you—in short, get a community manager. A good one will pay for themselves. Have someone help players feel like their concerns are being addressed because my personal interactions with your support was. . .well, lacking to say the least. Your devs are busy, resources are tight, and I get it, but I truly believe this should be your next financial investment so you can start building the community around this game, as opposed to most of us just dying off after a while of playing because we're frustrated. If you already have a community manager, then I am not seeing any real benefit from them and you should look at one with a different skill set. 2. Early access is a generally poor decision for a game in the MMO genre. Wipes are needed, frequently, in Early Access, stuff gets lost—it's part of the social contract. However, MMOs require a huge time commitment from their players, and many MMO players are ready and willing to devote entire days to playing their game of choice all in the pursuit of character development and in-game wealth. Because of this, early access will naturally poison your developer/player ecosystem. There are few remedies to this that have worked inside of the MMO genre. You already tried the first one: wipes means newer players have a better chance at claiming an island, but it disenfranchises more established players and the ones who are genuinely desperate for their friends to convert over to their MMO of choice. The few MMOs who have tried this eventually die off. I think the best approach is two stages: public test realm, and tailored migrations. Public Test Realms are inherently imbalanced and indifferent to exploits. Players can start with nothing, mid-game stuff, or late-game stuff whenever they want and play with other people in a public arena. This fixes some of the problems with Early Access because a player can always just hop on PTR and play the parts they enjoy without the typical MMO investment. They can kind of do this on single player, but, yeah, tether distance makes that not-viable and it limits the content they can explore. More importantly, not having it means that the only place you have to test experimental features and new ideas is your production public servers that some players have invested close to 1000 hours into. See the problem? Having a PTR means you can test a feature that is risky with little to no risk to your players—like having character migrations from one version to another. I hope this is a simple thing (especially since ARK already had the player transfer and dino upload, so there is a kind of migration path forward there). It's disheartening to lose your Galleon that you spent hours upon hours making, upgrading, designing, filling with crew, and became your virtual home. Really, making it so crew and ships can be stashed before a wipe would mean the world to established players, and the key feature here isn't for the players at all, but for the devs down the road. I know external storage isn't exactly conducive to UDK, but solving that is probably essential for an MMO in the long term. The PTR also gives you the mechanism for gently removing broken game mechanics, and for offering consolation prizes to users who invested in a mechanic that ultimately doesn't work with the final game (which items often become collectables down the road). More importantly, having this would open up the user base to the more common MMO revenue streams, like paid for cosmetic skins and titles. Without having a culture and expectation of migration and data preservation, attempting to introduce either of those would likely incite a riot or boycott. I think this two-stage approach will help fix most player complaints and problems much quicker, and to some extent would address all the other suggestions or problems listed after this. 3. The servers feel generally empty. Even when I make it to another player's base, it feels like I'm walking through a museum. Having more players and well-established companies help alleviate that, but some of this needs to be put into the feel of the game. A simple fix would be to add in freeport style NPCs as purchasable upgrades for player bases. This is a sensible thing to do with the upcoming trade system updates, you're already putting in this kind of effort, why not apply some of it more generally? It's a small thing and it may not seem like it's worth the effort, but taking the time to add in animation trees and some rudimentary patrol paths for NPC characters would make the whole game feel much more dynamic. Something like more noticeable idle animations on vendors, and if you're really feeling ambitious, having them respond to the animals nearby could help Atlas feel more like a living world of exploration, rather than an archeological dig. Even if it's just a meaningless animation, a harvester NPC from the farm would go a long way to fixing this feeling. One suggestion I have that could also help this, which the game seems well suited for is borrowed from an ultimately failed MMO, Shadowbane. In this particular game, any skill or ability past level 20 was simply not accessible until you joined a clan. Player-made cities were the hubs of trade as a result, and everyone was intrinsically motivated to clan up. It made for some very fun social play, and since you already have player base building as a core mechanic, why not extend that into a social fleet building? I know a lot of players would moan about it, but if you think about it critically, does it really make any sense that murdering seagulls gives me the ability to craft a large speed sail? Learning skills from well-established player ports would create incentive for an entirely new kind of exploration—other people. That particular mechanic will never get old and will require a lot less dev time to develop (still needs some care and attention so it doesn't develop into a toxic community). I think the best way to implement this would be to have high-level skills (basically anything that gets upgraded in the current skill tree) come from tome drops that you need a port-specific NPC to decode to gain the skill (in addition to regular level requirements). I'd break up “Esotery of building” to individual building tome skills as well, so that individuals are inclined to clan up with strangers to get access to ports and companies are motivated to take in strangers because they have tomes/skills not found in the clan. As fun as it is to have a character that can do it all and be it all, MMOs just don't really need that. Everything should be split up into specialties and only the most dedicated players who are willing to create multiple toons for their account should be able to do that. ***This is a side note for future reference*** What killed Shadowbane, apart from bad business decisions and the market just generally moving onto the next-gen, was that clanning up was to heavily incentivized. In Shadowbane you could capture other clans cities (which took typical MMO levels of effort to build in the first place), and make them swear loyalty to you. The result was that one or two players would become the effective emperors of the MMO and it would eventually work it's way out of a PvP environment. The only solution that they could get to reliably work was to force a reset and everyone would have to start over periodically. Even putting in a taxation system only reinforced this dreaded cycle, because emperors had more money and resources and it would snowball into server-wide kingdoms. Putting constraints on it didn't work either, because they'd just have one of their long-term clan mates control a not-officially-affiliated clan and they'd just do tandem raids and city captures. Knowing their pitfalls can give you a better chance at preventing this, and some of the pirate theme could help. Reversing it so that each player-captured base requires upkeep from the conqueror seems a pretty sensible constraint, and allowing captured companies to mutiny after a certain time has passed would probably be enough. History is probably the best educator for this, and the factors that led to the collapse of the British Empire are probably your best bet (expense for making war to reclaim rebellious colonies, and just sheer distance involved in punishing those who rebelled, which you can easily emulate in the ATLAS environment) *** end note *** 4. It's been mentioned at great length, but the gold cost for building a ship just doesn't make sense. I could see justification for it at 1/10th the current rate, but in its current form, it's just nonsense. Honestly, you should hot-fix that out ASAP. I think an alternative to it that achieves what you were after would be a patron/loan system for a ship, where you can rent one and get a commission as a privateer. Make it the start of your power stone quests and in true pirate/privateer form make players obligated to fulfill the quests of the commission, otherwise your patron hunts you down for failing to pay your debt. Existing random-generated maps are a great first draft implementation, and you could expand it to doing trade hauls as you build out that system, that way you don't just increase your server load without increasing your player count. Formalizing this and enforcing it via mechanics could even make it possible for existing players to sponsor new players and give them a commission and a ship (which you'd want the rewards to be essential to unlock certain game mechanics to get the seasoned players onboard). Now for the last problem on my list. 5. Persistence and Instances. There's no possible way everyone who plays ATLAS can get their own island, and even trying to find a good spot for a PvE base can be challenging. It's also a core gameplay mechanic, and a fun one. The decay timer solves your needs and alleviates this problem to some extent, but it puts a time bomb into our experience. We know we'll lose everything sooner or later, contrast that to other MMOs I've played where I come back after 3 years and I'm filled with nostalgia at my armor, gear, and items in my bank. I will never have that with your setup, and I am honestly concerned that the game will never make it out of Early Access for this reason. I also need base of operations on land. I think armored docks are a step in the right direction, but I think the ultimate solution is instancing and zone specification. I don't see any real technical reason why H3 couldn't be a PvE zone, and H4 a PvP. It's good to have that blend so players can kinda pick and choose what kind of game they want to play that day without having to maintain two separate characters. It gives the Pkers more prey, and it enables PvE-centered players (like myself) to be careful, wary, and pick up some PvP skills along the way without fully committing to the pwning noobs cutthroat environment common to PvP games. It creates some excitement and keeps me from getting bored from staying in my comfort zone to long. Risk vs Reward becomes the player's guide, and that's something you can tune behind the scenes to ensure you have a welcoming and engaging gaming community. But, instancing could work just as well. It's a cheap and dirty way to make the world have less boundaries, and would make most players indifferent to another world-size shrink. In my head, for ATLAS, it would look something like a zone labeled “the unknown.” As soon as you sail into it, you're given some navigation options. “Use a chart” could take you to a specific player/company base (sharable amongst friends of course) charts, “Follow the stars” could take you to a random player base of someone who is currently online, “Pillage” would take you to a player base that's specifically in a PvP capture window, and “Explore” would generate a random bare island. Of course, to save on costs, you'd want to limit the “random” islands to the ones you've already made, and so it doesn't become to comfortable make them only spawn base_ resources. That way, you could limit what you store in an economically IOP provisioned database, and map it to static assets. Long load times are acceptable for these regions, and a single island could be smaller in size so more would fit on a single host, because they will implicitly spend a long time in them and it would be something they could actively choose to go to, and you could put the servers you're running or hosting it on in a cloud autoscale group with a shared data drive that loads the instance when a player travels to it. That way your costs better match your usage. If you're willing to take the risk, you could even have this data exclusively stored and hosted client-side (so it really only is available when a company member is online), and just put in constraints on what resources can leave the region (like, players have to register a ship and cargo manifest before it can leave to ensure nothing impossible or unlikely makes its way into the public, and the item count and value could put a throttle on how long it takes for the system to approve their manifest). That lowers your operations costs, and then it merges the three different systems you're maintaining: PvP, PvE, and single player. It really is just about which resources you have at your disposal, more Dev, or more Ops? If you have more Ops, you probably want the autoscale group with shared data drive. Anyways, sorry for the long read, hope some of this is helpful.

Please protect the small team！ I have witnessed ATLAS Lawless Island from 50 people per server to 5 people per server，Ninety percent of the players lost by ATLAS are lawless island players. They are small teams and single players.Your game mechanics need major changes, take advantage of the early access mode.Advice for PVP server，This is a pirate game, what the pirates want is gold coins and resources。ATLAS pays too much attention to the performance of blueprint items, causing players to focus on how to obtain mythical blueprints。The current game mechanics of ATLAS are destined to not retain new players，The highest online number of this game will only be when the season restarts And then keep falling、Can't make the number stable。Because the safety of the players on the lawless island cannot be guaranteed, many people often wake up after a sleep and find that they have lost everything。what ATLAS keeps losing is the players on the lawless islands. Perhaps reducing the output of resources such as metals and gems and crystals and weakening the attributes of blueprint items will increase more players and wars Reducing labor on land does not increase warfare at sea, because the reason why players do not conflict at sea is that they are busy obtaining drawings Make it easier for the ship board to be penetrated by cannonballs. For example, 5 or 3 shells can make the ship board leak. The ship board cannot be replaced and can only be repaired and requires players or NPCs to repair it all the time. The ship plate can be renewed after breaking down. You need to weaken the attributes of the blueprint items, because it is very difficult for players on the island of lawlessness to obtain，I swear I didn’t think I should weaken the drawing attributes because I didn’t get it. I was a member of JOJO last season. I had a drawing of 5 legendary large-scale control sails with 122, and I made it with a 130-level crow and dolphin buff. Out of 4 125 and 1 123，I just think the blueprint items are too powerful, and many players don’t have a chance to get them if they don’t join a large company. When a large company gets it, they have many ways to prevent small companies from getting it.！ Weakening the output of metal gem crystals will also reduce the number of ordinary ships. Players will also cherish their own ships. Reduce the number of blueprint ships or the difference in attributes will make more players dare to fight. Let players collect basic resources, delete farmhouses, and reduce the output of some basic materials. Players will also fight for basic materials. The other is the problem of large Large control sails,Why can a large controlled sail sail so fast? And it can also make the ship turn faster. I think the acceleration of the large-scale control sail should be weakened and its influence on the ship's rotation should be removed. I didn’t even see the large-scale speed sail in the 100-man decisive battle of the H8 last season. The naval battle should be determined by the old captain's superb technology and the diversified collocation of ships (the choice of weapons, the choice of sails, the number of people, the number of ships, and the matching of ships), as well as the battle of the ship. The existence of the whirling gun makes the battle of the ship basically impossible. You need to improve the status of gold coins, first weaken the attributes of the drawing items, and then set up gold coins to buy some drawings in the free port, and buy any basic materials including metal gems and crystals, so that the status of gold coins is improved, and then reduce the amount of money except for killing ghost ships. And the amount of gold coins obtained other than treasure digging.Or set up to buy blueprints and basic materials on the marine merchant ship, or create a new merchant ship, the player can sail to rob the merchant ship and fight the merchant ship. Now you have limited the amount of XP you can get. I think the upper limit of level 120 is no longer necessary. It can be reduced to level 80. After all, most players did not reach level 120 until the end of the season. Players from big companies, such as me, were early in the season. It reached level 120 within the first month. Translation software is used in many places. I hope the developers can understand what I mean. Good luck JOJO company

I have witnessed ATLAS Lawless Island from 50 people per server to 5 people per server，Ninety percent of the players lost by ATLAS are lawless island players. They are small teams and single players.Your game mechanics need major changes, take advantage of the early access mode.Advice for PVP server，This is a pirate game, what the pirates want is gold coins and resources。ATLAS pays too much attention to the performance of blueprint items, causing players to focus on how to obtain mythical blueprints。The current game mechanics of ATLAS are destined to not retain new players，The highest online number of this game will only be when the season restarts And then keep falling、Can't make the number stable。Because the safety of the players on the lawless island cannot be guaranteed, many people often wake up after a sleep and find that they have lost everything。what ATLAS keeps losing is the players on the lawless islands. Perhaps reducing the output of resources such as metals and gems and crystals and weakening the attributes of blueprint items will increase more players and wars Reducing labor on land does not increase warfare at sea, because the reason why players do not conflict at sea is that they are busy obtaining drawings Make it easier for the ship board to be penetrated by cannonballs. For example, 5 or 3 shells can make the ship board leak. The ship board cannot be replaced and can only be repaired and requires players or NPCs to repair it all the time. The ship plate can be renewed after breaking down. You need to weaken the attributes of the blueprint items, because it is very difficult for players on the island of lawlessness to obtain，I swear I didn’t think I should weaken the drawing attributes because I didn’t get it. I was a member of JOJO last season. I had a drawing of 5 legendary large-scale control sails with 122, and I made it with a 130-level crow and dolphin buff. Out of 4 125 and 1 123，I just think the blueprint items are too powerful, and many players don’t have a chance to get them if they don’t join a large company. When a large company gets it, they have many ways to prevent small companies from getting it.！ Weakening the output of metal gem crystals will also reduce the number of ordinary ships. Players will also cherish their own ships. Reduce the number of blueprint ships or the difference in attributes will make more players dare to fight. Let players collect basic resources, delete farmhouses, and reduce the output of some basic materials. Players will also fight for basic materials. The other is the problem of large Large control sails,Why can a large controlled sail sail so fast? And it can also make the ship turn faster. I think the acceleration of the large-scale control sail should be weakened and its influence on the ship's rotation should be removed. I didn’t even see the large-scale speed sail in the 100-man decisive battle of the H8 last season. The naval battle should be determined by the old captain's superb technology and the diversified collocation of ships (the choice of weapons, the choice of sails, the number of people, the number of ships, and the matching of ships), as well as the battle of the ship. The existence of the whirling gun makes the battle of the ship basically impossible. You need to improve the status of gold coins, first weaken the attributes of the drawing items, and then set up gold coins to buy some drawings in the free port, and buy any basic materials including metal gems and crystals, so that the status of gold coins is improved, and then reduce the amount of money except for killing ghost ships. And the amount of gold coins obtained other than treasure digging.Or set up to buy blueprints and basic materials on the marine merchant ship, or create a new merchant ship, the player can sail to rob the merchant ship and fight the merchant ship. Now you have limited the amount of XP you can get. I think the upper limit of level 120 is no longer necessary. It can be reduced to level 80. After all, most players did not reach level 120 until the end of the season. Players from big companies, such as me, were early in the season. It reached level 120 within the first month. My English is not good. Translation software is used in many places. I hope the developers can understand what I mean. Good luck JOJO company

Why do you people insist on killing the fucking game? your taking every thing away we like and putting in stupid shit if you want us to stop playing come out and say so. I swear the dev do not play this game I am new here I only have 4,707 hours in the game just tell me your killing the game I have a crew of 21 that are leaving thanks to you

I have witnessed ATLAS Lawless Island from 50 people per server to 5 people per server，Ninety percent of the players lost by ATLAS are lawless island players. They are small teams and single players.Your game mechanics need major changes, take advantage of the early access mode.Advice for PVP server，This is a pirate game, what the pirates want is gold coins and resources。ATLAS pays too much attention to the performance of blueprint items, causing players to focus on how to obtain mythical blueprints。The current game mechanics of ATLAS are destined to not retain new players，The highest online number of this game will only be when the season restarts And then keep falling、Can't make the number stable。Because the safety of the players on the lawless island cannot be guaranteed, many people often wake up after a sleep and find that they have lost everything。what ATLAS keeps losing is the players on the lawless islands. Perhaps reducing the output of resources such as metals and gems and crystals and weakening the attributes of blueprint items will increase more players and wars Reducing labor on land does not increase warfare at sea, because the reason why players do not conflict at sea is that they are busy obtaining drawings Make it easier for the ship board to be penetrated by cannonballs. For example, 5 or 3 shells can make the ship board leak. The ship board cannot be replaced and can only be repaired and requires players or NPCs to repair it all the time. The ship plate can be renewed after breaking down. You need to weaken the attributes of the blueprint items, because it is very difficult for players on the island of lawlessness to obtain，I swear I didn’t think I should weaken the drawing attributes because I didn’t get it. I was a member of JOJO last season. I had a drawing of 5 legendary large-scale control sails with 122, and I made it with a 130-level crow and dolphin buff. Out of 4 125 and 1 123，I just think the blueprint items are too powerful, and many players don’t have a chance to get them if they don’t join a large company. When a large company gets it, they have many ways to prevent small companies from getting it.！ Weakening the output of metal gem crystals will also reduce the number of ordinary ships. Players will also cherish their own ships. Reduce the number of blueprint ships or the difference in attributes will make more players dare to fight. Let players collect basic resources, delete farmhouses, and reduce the output of some basic materials. Players will also fight for basic materials. The other is the problem of large Large control sails,Why can a large controlled sail sail so fast? And it can also make the ship turn faster. I think the acceleration of the large-scale control sail should be weakened and its influence on the ship's rotation should be removed. I didn’t even see the large-scale speed sail in the 100-man decisive battle of the H8 last season. The naval battle should be determined by the old captain's superb technology and the diversified collocation of ships (the choice of weapons, the choice of sails, the number of people, the number of ships, and the matching of ships), as well as the battle of the ship. The existence of the whirling gun makes the battle of the ship basically impossible. You need to improve the status of gold coins, first weaken the attributes of the drawing items, and then set up gold coins to buy some drawings in the free port, and buy any basic materials including metal gems and crystals, so that the status of gold coins is improved, and then reduce the amount of money except for killing ghost ships. And the amount of gold coins obtained other than treasure digging.Or set up to buy blueprints and basic materials on the marine merchant ship, or create a new merchant ship, the player can sail to rob the merchant ship and fight the merchant ship. My English is not very good. Translation software is used in many places. I hope the developers can understand what I mean. Good luck JOJO company

Advice for PVP server，This is a pirate game, what the pirates want is gold coins and resources。ATLAS pays too much attention to the performance of blueprint items, causing players to focus on how to obtain mythical blueprints。The current game mechanics of ATLAS are destined to not retain new players，The highest online number of this game will only be when the season restarts And then keep falling、Can't make the number stable。Because the safety of the players on the lawless island cannot be guaranteed, many people often wake up after a sleep and find that they have lost everything。what ATLAS keeps losing is the players on the lawless islands. Perhaps reducing the output of resources such as metals and gems and crystals and weakening the attributes of blueprint items will increase more players and wars Reducing labor on land does not increase warfare at sea, because the reason why players do not conflict at sea is that they are busy obtaining drawings Make it easier for the ship board to be penetrated by cannonballs. For example, 5 or 3 shells can make the ship board leak. The ship board cannot be replaced and can only be repaired and requires players or NPCs to repair it all the time. The ship plate can be renewed after breaking down. You need to weaken the attributes of the blueprint items, because it is very difficult for players on the island of lawlessness to obtain，I swear I didn’t think I should weaken the drawing attributes because I didn’t get it. I was a member of JOJO last season. I had a drawing of 5 legendary large-scale control sails with 122, and I made it with a 130-level crow and dolphin buff. Out of 4 125 and 1 123，I just think the blueprint items are too powerful, and many players don’t have a chance to get them if they don’t join a large company. When a large company gets it, they have many ways to prevent small companies from getting it.！ Weakening the output of metal gem crystals will also reduce the number of ordinary ships. Players will also cherish their own ships. Reduce the number of blueprint ships or the difference in attributes will make more players dare to fight. Let players collect basic resources, delete farmhouses, and reduce the output of some basic materials. Players will also fight for basic materials. The other is the problem of large Large control sails,Why can a large controlled sail sail so fast? And it can also make the ship turn faster. I think the acceleration of the large-scale control sail should be weakened and its influence on the ship's rotation should be removed. I didn’t even see the large-scale speed sail in the 150-man decisive battle of the H8 last season. The naval battle should be determined by the old captain's superb technology and the diversified collocation of ships (the choice of weapons, the choice of sails, the number of people, the number of ships, and the matching of ships), as well as the battle of the ship. The existence of the whirling gun makes the battle of the ship basically impossible. You need to improve the status of gold coins, first weaken the attributes of the drawing items, and then set up gold coins to buy some drawings in the free port, and buy any basic materials including metal gems and crystals, so that the status of gold coins is improved, and then reduce the amount of money except for killing ghost ships. And the amount of gold coins obtained other than treasure digging.Or set up to buy blueprints and basic materials on the marine merchant ship, or create a new merchant ship, the player can sail to rob the merchant ship and fight the merchant ship. I am a Chinese player. My English is not very good. Translation software is used in many places. I hope the developers can understand what I mean. Good luck

This is a pirate game, what the pirates want is gold coins and resources。ATLAS pays too much attention to the performance of blueprint items, causing players to focus on how to obtain mythical blueprints。The current game mechanics of ATLAS are destined to not retain new players，The highest online number of this game will only be when the season restarts And then keep falling、Can't make the number stable。Because the safety of the players on the lawless island cannot be guaranteed, many people often wake up after a sleep and find that they have lost everything。what ATLAS keeps losing is the players on the lawless islands. Perhaps reducing the output of resources such as metals and gems and crystals and weakening the attributes of blueprint items will increase more players and wars Reducing labor on land does not increase warfare at sea, because the reason why players do not conflict at sea is that they are busy obtaining drawings Make it easier for the ship board to be penetrated by cannonballs. For example, 5 or 3 shells can make the ship board leak. The ship board cannot be replaced and can only be repaired and requires players or NPCs to repair it all the time. The ship plate can be renewed after breaking down. You need to weaken the attributes of the blueprint items, because it is very difficult for players on the island of lawlessness to obtain，I swear I didn’t think I should weaken the drawing attributes because I didn’t get it. I was a member of JOJO last season. I had a drawing of 5 legendary large-scale control sails with 122, and I made it with a 130-level crow and dolphin buff. Out of 4 125 and 1 123，I just think the blueprint items are too powerful, and many players don’t have a chance to get them if they don’t join a large company. When a large company gets it, they have many ways to prevent small companies from getting it.！ Weakening the output of metal gem crystals will also reduce the number of ordinary ships. Players will also cherish their own ships. Reduce the number of blueprint ships or the difference in attributes will make more players dare to fight. Let players collect basic resources, delete farmhouses, and reduce the output of some basic materials. Players will also fight for basic materials. The other is the problem of large Large control sails,Why can a large controlled sail sail so fast? And it can also make the ship turn faster. I think the acceleration of the large-scale control sail should be weakened and its influence on the ship's rotation should be removed. I didn’t even see the large-scale speed sail in the 150-man decisive battle of the H8 last season. The naval battle should be determined by the old captain's superb technology and the diversified collocation of ships (the choice of weapons, the choice of sails, the number of people, the number of ships, and the matching of ships), as well as the battle of the ship. The existence of the whirling gun makes the battle of the ship basically impossible. You need to improve the status of gold coins, first weaken the attributes of the drawing items, and then set up gold coins to buy some drawings in the free port, and buy any basic materials including metal gems and crystals, so that the status of gold coins is improved, and then reduce the amount of money except for killing ghost ships. And the amount of gold coins obtained other than treasure digging.Or set up to buy blueprints and basic materials on the marine merchant ship, or create a new merchant ship, the player can sail to rob the merchant ship and fight the merchant ship. I am a Chinese player. My English is not very good. Translation software is used in many places. I hope the developers can understand what I mean. Good luck

I swear to christ, they don't think when they make a change. Have the dev's even played the game?

I swear the game cheats and looks at your cargo box, got a bunch of gold and BP. Calm seas sunny skies. Starts raining, water spouts, fog, and SOTD all at once. If it did not feel bad when you die then it would not feel as good when you survive it.

Many of my friends and I refuse to touch anything EA does. I know there are many around the world who swear the same and hopefully most of them actually do it.

Also bump. Asked people in my alliance but didn't get a response. Do whales so as treasure chest with the sextant buff? Swear I heard a whale...

Great game, for such quality graphics everything works fast enough, does not lag, almost no bugs and glitches. But I have friends who try to play this game on Tamagotchi, they all suck, constantly something happens, they swear and waste their nerves. Are you one of them?

When will Mouse and Keyboard Support be added to the Xbox one. Looked everywhere and haven’t found anything on when it will be implemented. I swear I remember seeing somewhere that the game was going to support mouse and keyboard on launch

I found it. I swear it wasn't there a few days ago. Lol Thanks.

Swear to dog I was once asked as a teenager working my first job at a Subway “ How long is a foot long sub?” *facepalm*