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So we recently started playing and after gaining a few levels decided to check out the skill trees and plan out our specializations so we wouldn't be wasting precious skill points with pointless overlap. Only to find that there is literally NO WAY to do this. The skill trees are a hopelessly tangled spiderweb of prerequisites with either no way to spec your way down any one tree without filling out half a dozen others, or requiring you to buy seemingly unrelated prerequisites to get to the skills you want. What is the point of "specializing" as a beast master to tame beasts of burden for your company if you're the only one who will be able to ride them? Why volunteer to be the blacksmith if everyone has to learn all the crafting recipes anyway in order to use the higher level equipment you make? What in the heck is the point of forcing your character to learn how to breed tier 2 animals before they are allowed to ride tier 3 animals? Why do I have to waste 9 skill points increasing my crafting speed in order to unlock stone structures? Why do I need to learn hand to hand combat before I can hand feed a chicken? Who knows!!? Please please for the love of RNGesus, tidy up these skill trees. Separate the "use" skills from the "crafting" skills, it;s redundant and frustrating to be forced to learn all of them or none at all. Let us create roles among the crew. THIS is why players are spending more time on land at their base camps instead of out exploring and pirating. They have to grind halfway down a dozen skill trees in order to get anything done!

Check your "Firearms Unlock" under Archery and Throwing Weapons. There's a typo. It says FireRarms,

I was thinking of the effect of the number in the captaineering skill work. the % does stack, but does those % only work when i am on the ship? for example, i unlock the cheaper Crew skill, does that mean the skill will only active on the crew when i was on the ship? or does it effect the crew that i hire. if only affect when i was on the ship, does that mean i never going to see the real gold per hour because the number is calculate with the skill. also have the same question with the ship maintenance skill and the rationing skill as well can someone help me answer these please

If you open your Skills tab, you find the skills delineated with various colored lines and some appear with a shaded bar on the left side of the darkened image. The bar can be of varying heights. What do these colors and bars mean? Some lines are white, some lines are blue and some lines are yellow. The shaded bar on the left side of the image is always yellow. I've searched Reddit, official and unofficial wikis, and find no information on these. They don't seem to be intuitively obvious. Apologies for not posting a ss to clarify this, as I haven't been able to resize it to an allowable size.

New Mechanic Suggestion: Sail Ships away if All Crew/Deck Hand Killed [15 Minutes] Why: Piracy revolved around stealing ship's w cargo Stolen ship's Should increase LVL cap of ship by a % of LVL cap this is due to LVL cap being determined by ship dock type Mythic dock would offer +15 LVL cap increase, Masterwork +12 LVL cap, and so on Diminishing returns of this too should be implemented, stealing a ship a second time would off less of a LVL cap increases & stolen ships should be harder (longer timer) to steal Stealing a ship BACK (from prior owned company) should have a shorter timer (both on Sailing AND Stealing back, This incentivizes Company’s doing raid missions to steal a boat back, Invulnerability should be turned off on doors and walls and any “deckhand” (IE killable) for a stolen boat from a Previously owned company) THIS IS A HUGE INCENTIVE to steal ship's (ship inventory should have Mechanic/Button to see stolen history (another reason to have company names binding)) Deckhand Status: If anyone in range of deck (fighting in water wont negate Deck hand), Deck hand status to boat. (Multiple boat deck hands can be applied as clustering boats in and of itself is a HUGE disadvantage to the boats being clustered) Who has been on deck in last 15 minutes (only in zone, cant bed-spawn, then bed-spawn to somewhere else will reset it) Making Landfall will also negate being a Deck hand -A deckhand who was killed in range of ship will not RESET deckhand timer unless alive past bed/PvP timer (IE Re-spawn timer is 3 minutes due to multiple PvP deaths, he will have to stay alive 3 minutes PAST re-spawn to Reset Deckhand Timer, Which would be at 12 minutes as he was dead for 3 minutes waiting on re-spawn) This forces people to GUT ship's and destroy beds. (so fighting will be extended, and should be rewarding) This will allow/force players to design better ship interior's as they will take consideration, (seen a lot of galley hallow, this mechanic will require them to build better) If Deck-hand Status alive to ship, Ship cannot be sailed away or NPC's snapped to sail Sailing: Sailing a ship away allows a Chase mechanic/Game Play, adds the option to request companies to help save ships (cross company support/help would be more wanted/requested) Ship cannot be anchored in Island invulnerability range, Sailing in a Free-port would be DETRIMENTAL to someone trying to steal. It would cancel the steal status/flag. It would allow the crew to come back to the ship and they couldn’t be killed, and those in range would reset the sailing ability of the boat. Ship owner can TRACK BOAT (still visible on map) until the boat is Claim flag’ed stolen. (allows them to chase it and have great time fighting to get it back) You will HAVE to have NPC's snap to each sail (2 per sail) during sailing/stolen process; Unfamiliar Sail/Knot/Rigging System of unfamiliar ship is a DISADVANTAGE and require more constant attention to work Allow/Require 2 players To operate a sail (2 players having to communicate (open to -65 degree 100% sail) and both having to get it correct, if either put different option sail has random negative effect, Random Rotate/Open Close) NPC's cannot man anything OUTSIDE OF SAILS; Players cannot man anything outside of SAILS and Helm (piracy skill for helm control? Disadvantage to DRIFT without this piracy skill, meaning any one can sail it away but a pirate would be BETTER at it and constant readjusting course) Reason, it will require players to DISADVANTAGE another ship to make this play (they weaken a boat by either having extra crew/NPC on it (less player/crew slots) or they have to remove gun NPC’s, Or 2 actual players NPC LVL must be above 20 (more experienced sailor right?) Mechanic / Game play I’m still concerned about: Parking ships in SUPER harbor’s (this takes all the fun out of rescue missions) maybe have a mechanic that the ship cannot be parked at/in range of Islands w a high/med value? And within a LARGE range of a foundation/building structure Of course people would just build SUPER LARGE structure/harbor in the middle of the ocean… but if they went through that much trouble to build it in the middle of the ocean and are that big of a target to be attacked and have a bounty placed on it… so IDK Suggestion and feedback are APPRECIATED A company Can only steal a CAPPED amount of ships from another company (avoids company stealing each other’s boats to get super fleets) (say 3 ships Company A can only steal 3 ships from Company B But can steal another 3 from company C ect ect ) I think this mechanic added to game play would: Incentivize people into NOT sinking Ship’s instead try and STEAL ships (reward system to not offline ) I think the GAME-PLAY would offer a Great Reason to use The Bounty systems and offer company's a reward to get boats back.

Here is my list of improvements after a fair amount of playtime. Please consider the critics. The game have good potentials but you really need to step away from the copy paste all mechanics ARK had. You need to bring more new stuff. Specially how to interact with objects. Your E menu interface is not fun at all. Noticeable when sailing. My list of suggestions: 1. Cold = Death: If you decide to be on cold islands well fortitude won't save you, spent 8 points into it still freezes to death unless near 3 campfire with cloth armor. Also standing in houses require a lot of fire to keep warm. Increase fortitude resistance to elements House give resistance to all elements 2. Acid Rain: Rain comes together with cold fronts, as mention cold was already a huge issue and kills you a lot, being wet makes it even worse. I died in a warm freeport because a cold front with rain came. It is savage. Also spawning in rain 100% wet, 1 nano second in rain 100% wet. Make wetness scale linear instead of 100% wet when outside. The skill tree for resistance to coldness in water should apply to the coldness applied by the wetness bar. If wet you resist the extra coldness a lot better. Right now it is not even noticeable. 3. Building: It was not nice in ARK and since the game is more or less an exact copy it is still a pain. The use of T and Q to bring snap points and so forth barely noticeable and sloped half wall has a right and left config and it is pain in butts to pay attention to when to use the right one. Automate the half sloped walls to fit for left and right. Either make better visual for the use of T and Q instead half opacity white in left bottom corner or bring back old ARK building with blueprints instead of T Loom is huge scale it down! looks like a big shop. Longer time to pick up or always able to pick up. 4. Vitamine: So yes super cool idea but don't really work? I guess you want cooking to be a huge thing although the vitamine destroys it. You eat one source to the rim of overeating and vitamine overeating. The deplition of vitamine is far less than hunger. You get hungry much much quicker and whopsie daysie you are poisoned for eating to much of same vitamine. This can kill you. Remove damage from overeating same source of vitamine Sync vitamine depletion together with hunger depletion Make skill of lesser vitamine depletion to also make hunger deplete lesser. 5. Boats: They are bad, it is so hard to sail them! Anchor is impossible, you need to find that hidden spot with small text, sails well you need to navigate through the worst interface menu of all games to find rotation and sail lower and raise buttons. Instead you could bound them to the actual buttons. After pressing E on sails use W and S to raise and lower sails. Hold E to get Massive interface where you can quick lower or quick raise. Will make it more easier to sail. Afer pressing E use A and D to turn around sail to Left and Right. Will make it much easier. Sloops hole in middle totally useless unless hiding from acid rain. Can't build anything down there or take part of fire warmth. Add visual anchor spot to press E on, If stuck on land have sound effect and increase the turn speed for easier unstuck. When sailing instead of only a small picture of showing wind and sails, add some sort of wind blowing in a certain direction. Make a fancier picture. More animation and sounds during sailing. Like more water splashing against the boat when more rough seas and more bounce up and down on the waves with sounds of boat splashing down after a big wave. 6. Death: So there is a lot of glitches when it comes to death. If you die many times it clips through environment and you cant reach it. Fix the body clipping through building, minerals, boats and ground. Transfer all items button for all inventory management Make the death beam smaller and more centralized. Death beam animation of skull need improvement. 7. Resources: Well it is not that bad but some remarks here. When using sickle you get berries from berry bush and fiber from fiber bush. Why not get fiber from all bushes increase the rate of fiber gathered. Specially in the cold biome from cotton bushes barely noticeable. Increase fiber gain from using Sickle. When you harvest stone as an example you can hit anything near that stone. I got killed by a pack of elephants because I harvested stone on the opposite side of where an elephant stood. Spears also hits everything in its surrounding even behind you. Once again elephants killed me because I tried to kill a chicken! As a last mention please be sure to at least try to optimize things. 100 GB disk space and computers can barely run it. My friend gets black skyboxes and I run below 60 fps with GTX 1060 3GB where I could run ARK with almost 60 FPS with much higher settings in graphics. To me it seems to be the water causing a lot of problems.

As far as I am aware, at the moment there is a set list of plants to farm and cultivate. I would like to suggest that herbs be given the same. My thought is that it is not in the game so as to facilitate trade and limit healing. I am currently enjoying the need for specialization in the skill tree, and suggest that be the limiting factor on herb cultivation. The way I envision it is by separating the ability to plant and harvest herbs and medicinal herbs into several skills. One grants an herb pot for growing herbs such as mint, another allows for the cultivation of seeds from the herbs themselves. The next allows a larger pot, or more refined pot to permit medicinal herb to be farmed, then an additional skill allowing seeds to be obtained from medicinal herbs, or a recipe to turn the herbs collected into the seeds. These skills could be locked behind the Farming tree, or split between the Medicine tree and the Farming tree so as to further limit specialization and create Medicinal farmers. The ability to harvest the medicinal herbs can also be locked to a final tier, giving a set of gardening gloves which grant the user--who also has the relevant skill--the ability to cultivate their herb crop. Stay healthy, ye scallywags Scrubtimus

For me just starting my journey sailing through the great world of Atlas as a Pathfinder, the one thing that really annoys me is the style of the skill tree chosen by the developers is very random and boring showing strings going through each other and is kind of uninspired for me I was hoping for something not miring but similar to the skill tree(s) from the borderlands series with several paths to go showing multiple playstyles to really make the character unique to you, the player. Just to let everyone know I'm not hating on the developers I'm just trying to give some solid feedback on what I think of the game so far.

Everything when I disconnect while playing the game and I connect the game my characters skill tree is being reset and restarting the game doesn't fix it. The messed up part is You need to die in order to fix it, but when you die you get the character creation menu instead of the spawn map so you need to restart the game. Then you go to the spawn map so that you can get the character back to normal. It's so frustrating when you sometimes have a poor Network speed. Hope to see a fix soon

Hi, I would like to propose arranging skills into a single layout, PoE has arranged way more points successfully. Here, I have made a concept. In case the forum isn't good at handling/displaying attachments: https://i.imgur.com/hSahkMT.jpg I believe in the game and would like to contribute making it better.