Originally posted by theviik

Does this mean that even if the player base keeps dropping, to the point where it is less than 1000 concurrent players on average, you will not give up and keep updating the game often?

Originally posted by johnbremner

Reading this! I know you get it Jat. What do we need to as the players to help? Some of us love the game and want also want it to be the goat. We want to work with the creators, not against. Some of the improvements have been fantastic while others with the best intentions have had a more negative impact, but regardless. Any change of the meta is going to upset some and help others. All I want personally is a better bug reporting tool, with proper Engine dumps to send. I know you and the team are extremely busy but would honestly wish to have you or some from the team view a raid, even from admin fly and see how the meta currently is. Idk if you do this already but to me, the tools are already built into the engine to learn and witness where the shortfalls are in PvP. More than happy to have you witness one of ours, even if its us being raided ha.. Still, I havent had this much fun in a game for a long time, the fact its such an early access game gives me more hope than anything el...

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Originally posted by theviik

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Ark was getting content updates every week... ATLAS will get it's first content update 2 months after launch and it is mainly cosmetics -_- Also the PvP in ATLAS is fun only when doing ship vs ship (but sadly that's a really small part of the game)

Originally posted by MIssWastingTime

Been waiting for it to get some stuff done lol.

Originally posted by n_xma

Its position is utterly crap. Me and I bet that a lot of other players who play this game are constantly misclicking it due to being used that the last button in the inventory HUD is the Atlas button.

This makes it very frustrating when trying to quickly navigate to the Atlas button. Humans are creatures of instinct and mechanical thinking so it will always or at least for a pretty long time stay in our minds that the last button in the HUD is Atlas and not some crappy Gamepedia button that turns on your steam overlay...

Originally posted by Jatheish

It's something we recognize and are going to be working towards it in the months ahead. Content patches are usually planned quite a while in advance, and instead of having the team stop working on the large February update, we made some slight adjustments and plan to release it accordingly.

Following that will begin most of our design rework. We spoke about this in an announcement post previously, some of the things we'd like to address:

• 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.
• Allowing players to experience the ‘piracy’ side of the game immediately, whilst not trivializing the content.
• 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...

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Originally posted by Hikqe

This game has so much potential, but internally I feel like it's the Fyre Festival of games. My own voiced concerns, my peers, have fallen on deaf ears. Even this wonderful community which has no short of constructive criticism, is dwindling in players now.

So let me ask you, are you aware on a player basis, the game IS dying?
Visit steam charts Atlas page.

Are you aware it wasn't just the patches, but the defiance to even acknowledge how unreasonable the costs and imbalances are, that drove the majority of us out?

There was a lot fixed in the first week that players needed immediate addressing, after that It sort of felt like everything was resolved around the personal interest of the developers rather than what was needed to improve the players' experience... And the sad part is that it still functions this way.

Even a moderate display of neutrality towards players when discussing patches would be gre...

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Originally posted by 1658596

One of the main reasons Ark stayed fresh during their EA period was due to their steady delivery of new content via dinos. If any devs are reading this - make sure Atlas carves out its own content cycle equivilency of new dinos as well.

My advice: new boat frames with different roles. New plank types. New optional ship attachments. New rare ship crew with different roles/buffs.

EDIT:

Polish and refinement is a given (or should be, at least. This communuty is funny.), and will always naturally take higher priority than content. I'm not speaking to the prioritization of content over balance/fixes. I'm also not speaking broadly about content being added to Atlas. My point is more that having some degree of predicability around future content helps keep people engaged / keeps them looking towards the future; and when that predictable content drops, it brings people back.

For example - in the early days of Ark, people would theorycraft about new dinos tha...

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Originally posted by AceofSpadesTwitch

Why farming when you can dupe? Look at those https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrcb2IZB1fI

Originally posted by Ohh_Yeah

They can also teleport to a player, shoot and loot them, and then teleport back to the original location. On the Chinese website that sells the program they call it "shadow/assassination hack." They also have a YouTube channel demonstrating the functions of the program.

I will send you a PM with that info

Originally posted by Raysix

Hacks: Aimbot with documented oneshots even in building or while diving deep in water

Changing flag building allowance to everyone -edit: Jat personally came to our grid and fixed that. They were able to reset the flags to default, which was everyone-

Area of effect delete boxes inventory. Similar to S+ transfer gun. We found the script, they used.

Enter pinlocked doors seconds after changeing pin

They apear in closed buildings (new patch may solve this)

They teleported one of our ships to their grid. As we spawned there it was moving towards there island on its own while sails were up and anchor down. Video documented.

Originally posted by Rex-Starborne

Alright, here's the problem:

Every time the server restarts ships are loaded in without levels. As in, my Brig with 5 total points in Accommodations is now the default value of 2. So the server sees 5 Beds on my Brig that can only hold 2. So, it then deletes, at random, 3 Beds. The server continues loading and my ship Accommodations goes back up to 5 and I can place 3 more Beds.

The old Beds still show up at the spawn screen and, because they aren't there, cause the "green-screen spawn" issue. Accommodations, as of right now, are useless beyond reducing crew pay.

Originally posted by TomasGunz

u/Jatheish , my clan is having a hard time figuring out what to do about all the abandoned ships in NA-PVE. The folks have left for private servers or just left in general and we have demolished all their old buildings. but their ships are everywhere blocking new folks from building.

Any suggestions for us? we are getting frustrated not knowing how to deal with them. We cant move them, we cant sink them, we cant claim them. and they dont decay.

what are our options? It cant be good on the server resources.

thanks in advance for the direction.

Originally posted by w00tengaben_the_3rd

opening the map lets your game crash!

Originally posted by Frustrated__Nerd

You guys should come out with special weekends. Taming weekend, gathering weekend, gold weekend, Weak Ships of the Damed or Bonus loot from SotD weekend. You can make some regular islands every once in a while spawn higher then normal level animals for better tames weekend. Maybe a Trade Winds weekend.

Originally posted by Aurliea89

Just pick up stone off the ground make your life easier. It shows 2 stone if its x2 and 4 if its x4.