[2019] Atlas Developers, is it just continue forward as planned?

The new plan is making some pretty big design changes over the coming months, so yes! Continue forward with the new plan. Old plan was sunk.

Same? Ultimately talk is cheap, so over the coming months we'll have to show it, otherwise, the game will not do as well as it could and everyone at the studio recognises that.

Cause we're still figuring it out. Once we have that is worth sharing, we'll share it. Some of the things we've touched on at a high level:

• Allowing players to experience the ‘piracy’ side of the game immediately, whilst not trivializing the content.
• Making sure that solo players and smaller groups feel safer when logging off, or that after they’ve taken a break they can come back and know that it won’t be such a difficult feat to get out on the seas again.
• Incentivize companies to neutralize their territories, inviting others to make use of their land so that both can benefit.
• More MMO aspects: player markets, player-specified automatic trade routes, additional quests, and daily missions
• and moreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

But nothing specific to give details on right now. Developing and designing a game is a pretty huge undertaking, so redesigning core aspects can take a bit of time.

Yup, those are a nightmare and a priority for us to resolve. Sadly they're one of the more difficult cases we've encountered and we are working on a solution.