kimbuck

So we have 3 tier islands ... thats good ..and its working ... ... just needs refining and some tidying up and optimization But how about having say 2 extra tier regions .....? and they show as diff colors on the map? (currently blue = SP ...pink = MP). Place say 2 of each of these new tier island groups in every biome group. Say we add Red tier 4 islands, ..and they be dedicated pvp . Non pvp players can avoid them , those who like that style of play can visit them ...and slaughter each other to their own content And then say we have tier 5 island...again PVP (orange color) and many smaller islands in that group but infested with NPC pirates ....on ships or in forts ! ... these npc's being aggressive and appear randomly and actively thirst for battles Also forts on coastal areas or hillsides, that will fire at you when approached and defend ... and contain great treasures etc for gathering if conqured ... and they will respawn elsewhere on the islands every 3 days if destroyed... Also roving npc vagabonds that spawn and go searching for intruders ;0 ...armed to the teeth. Have fun avoinding them and other pvp unfriendly players ...and predators If you place a base on a tier 5, expect npc's attacking and to try to overrun it This would add excitement to those who like running around killing things ...would make survival really challenging....and those who are not interested in such endeavors can avoid those places and do their own things on non pvp blue and pink islands

You were lucky you got back in and it was just gone! Some players get kicked out/ connection time outs etc ..and when they do try to come back ...everything is gone... they have to start from zero on a spawn island ... without a protection barrier. Every time i come to the situation i have to cross to another island , its "flingers etc crossed" hoping that the game doesn't hang ... and i have to stare at a non responsive hamster wheel hoping the game wakes up. A task manager exercise is required after waiting 15 minutes to quit out and try to get back ..and when you do get back, you pray that you log in back where you were before, and everything is still there . Twice i have been forced to restart ... its not a happy situation and i can understand why players leave ...never to return.

Peter Sellers said in a movie " Join the navy, Command a ship, travel to exotic places, meet people ... then kill them". That is where the MP explore seems to be headed. If your game / island is not deleted by either accident, a rollback or connection glitch, or act of something no one can explain, you eventually end up on a map surrounded by mp regions that seem to either not allow you to visit ( they scared of griefing) or they "invite" you in and change its status to PVP and try to seize your ship and goods. If you have to restart, you have np barrier to protect your base. Even so i have had players enter when island was "no password required" and tried to blow up my base, me and kill anything that moved. Yup .. there always will be these kid type feeble brains who have no imagination other than kill and destroy. In my game ( before it was deleted after a " connection timeout") i encountered players with obviously throw-away-alt names ( such as qqqaaswdw or fffgfgfttg or 111221232346666 ...) roaming around mp areas lookin g for genuine players to attack . the dont rob you ...just destroy everything and then look for another victim So perhaps as well as blue sp , pink mp also include regions with red to indicate pvp is active, and also block pvp on the other islands. Then genuine explorers will know which islands not to bother visiting. There is talk of "infinite islands, resources etc" but it is obviously not explained fully . Player soon find them on islands that re " unreachable" or "there are no more mp islands available" and often as i found out, if away from your base island with its barrier etc , it can get deleted ..and you are back to zero.... The new explore is in the right direction ... and theres promise (?) of it being better after 1.6 . Please listen to all the feedback and tweak the game accordingly. Otherwise the players you have won back might decide enough is enough... and please take the time to fully and simply explain what mp is etc ...a lot are confused from what we hear every day.

My latest ship has a forward mounted cannon and two side mounted ones.... someone with an obvious throwaway name tried to approach me from the side deliberately avoiding my front facing cannon..... and ignoring my chat Imagine his surprise when i opened a side door and appeared next to my sidewards facing bumblebee. I was a lousy shot ....Missed by miles ..but he had a change of mind and by the time he regrouped , i had reached the edge and scooted off to another island Diplomacy ..the art of saying "nice Doggie" whilst looking for a stone to throw I avoid MP islands with anyone on them.

ditto everything for me. regarding memory, i have a 2 Tb external drive fitted, and for good measure run CCleaner and also Bitdefender Optimizer to clean up files etc .. but it happened again today ..game hung when trying to move between islands Logs attached ' output_log_clean.txt output_log.txt

What annoys me is that i lost my barrier after a forced restart because my session was unreachable after i was kicked out from a timeout issue. The island i had started on and built a base there and the explored islands nearby all disappeared. The games unplayable if you have to contend with griefers wrecking unprotected bases etc .. and your ships etc being vulnerable to theft ...or your base simply disappearing ..or you get forced continually to restart after a connection timeout or some other server issue. If we have to wait 2 months for a fix ...well a lot of us will be out of here before then.

Theres a tier 3 island called 'yodelling octopus" on my map ..it has pirates, raiders zirc in the caves and iron, clay and sulfur and saltpeter.....on the surface. Not a nice lace to stay overnight ..those golems are not sleep friendly. I guess its like a lotto draw... some islands do, some dont.

Logged in at 8:30 my time finally got in at 8:35 am, 8:55 am server maintenance shut down Logs attached .. expect many many more posts like this today output_log_clean.txt output_log.txt

Adam ,,2 days ago i got a "connection timeout" message and then couldn't re connect ... when i did ...all my game progress was lost. . the map showed all the islabds with ? as unecplored, and i could not find any of the islands i had visited ...it was asking me to start as if for the first time...except i had no Protection Barrier I got bac in by being invited to someone's game/server and when i arrived i had my ship intact plus all the stores on it .. but alas... searching around i found only2 islands that were near my original island ,,, but it and all others were "unreachable". currently i am loathe to start building anything grand ...in case i lose it all again..

What made i more annoyingng was just prior i fought off mutants in a cave and found copper gold and zirconium i took it back to my base to make into ingots ... about 300 of each ..;( I was planning to get a friend who knew the pw to my base to take my keys and try to access the base ... but the islands gone! including the 3 others nearby i had explored . so i guess others wouldnt see it as well This could happen to anyone ...i ihear of others having similar misfortunes of " area unreachable" and having to restart after losing everything including ships .. Something needs looking into here... otherwise mp might start again to lose the players it has won back

I Joined the game in a tropical area selected an island , named it, pw protected it and set up a base from which to explore. I made it Mp visible and some friends even visited. I built up stores of resources and was about to expand it after i went to a spawn area to help re-populate it after the usual noob rush and denuding era. Much to my horror as i left my base i got a "timed out connection" error and was dumped out to the game lobby. When i logged back in i was treated as a new player! nothing ...no base, no anything, and the option to start again ..without a barrier etc. All the islands in the map had a ? ... it was a total reset. Players said my boat had disappeared from the island i was on. Eventually a friend invited me to a game on another server and i arrived there, boat complete and with stores etc ... BUT :::::::: no matter how far i travel or search, i can find neighboring islands i visited around where mine should be but not mine. So, if you have a base on a Bi server, dont expect it to last! if griefers do not destroy it , then it will disappear on you regardless , it seems. Suggestion: build a big ship ..... put all your goods workstations etc on it, for at least you will have ( might have? ) something when your island goes missing. MEANWHILE 3 DAYS OF EXPLORATION AND BUILDING ALL GONE! good luck! ..

Be afraid The Y.S. Battlechook is now on the high seas of the P1 server. Although i do not expect to encounter any trouble whilst exploring....note the forward mounted cannon and two side facing defensive cannons. Hopefully i will never have to use them ... Its powered by 6 Ylandium engines ..very fast and has heaps of storage and other facilities inside. Friendly P1 gaming explorers welcome ..

How about the option of making flags that have custom made symbols ... ?ie cats, alligators , lightning bolts ... etc .. Craft able with a pole and cloth and maybe the options available through the dyeing station to add images? just a thought ...would make a nice touch to have a ship fluttering personalized flags ..then others would know who owns the ship ...and hmmmm................. discourage thieves? :0

I also encountered an alpha brute bear while i was building my ship ... yes a tier 1 island... i managed to swim to the ship and get aboard and used my entire crossbow store in disposing the blighter. i guess i can say now i swam to safety with a "bear" ( bare ) behind ...

On My 1.5 exploration multiplayer "chickenland" i had established a base and armed myself, and whist crafting in my hobbit hole, i heard mutants making threatening noises outside. With caution i emerged to find my base being encircled by 6 mutant golems !! They appeared to be searching for me . After i disposed of two, i was finding about 15 mutant leopards roaming inside my barrier...i suffered a few hits but managed to find a place from where to defend. The battle lasted a whole "night" and after exhausting my supply of bullets, the tree trunks were littered with crossbow bolts that missed their mark, and the hillside and surrounding area was glowing green with piles of Ylandium dust and crystals. I survived ... Either my base was near a spawn point , or they came out looking for me ...their behavior suggested the latter. Anyway . it was a "fun" night . I think it was just coincidence but really devs, this could be a interesting game addition....if after so many days and the caves not cleared ... the mutants emerge one night for an apocalyptic revenge ... Sure made my exploration game more interesting ..meanwhile i need to craft ( lots) more ammo and beef up my defense walls ... And for the record ... two of us managed to cross the seas of exploration and meet .. the game is lookig up ..

Well well ...another night and about 6 golems and 30 mutant leopards tried to overrun my base .. they were appearing around the edges of my barrier and definitely trying to get in .... check out the screenshots...the piles of ylandium and crystal tell the story. need to craft more ammo in a hurry!

Very promising lands is now struggling out of the quicksand ..and if 1.6 delivers then faith will be wholly restored

Spiritchaser said ..."Thank goodness! I will have to wait a few days to play again because I refuse to play it while constantly starving. (It's like having an open wound you can't heal) More like driving a long distance with your mother--in-law as a passenger who has failed multiple driving tests but insists she tell you how to drive ...non stop!

masochisitic me tried again ... i deleted progress under settings etc ... started again ..but no barrier oh well all seems ok i re built up some weapons and clothing ... sailed and visited 2 islands , built a temp shelter and logged out for dinner . came back and all worked including feeding. Had to go to rl for 20 mins .. so made another shelter on another island ..put down a bed again ...logged out. Came back 30 mins later at correct place ... but unable to feed . tried diff foods ... diff places - logged out and back and whatever ...still unable to feed . Game is useless as it is .. will it be fixed before xmas? hopefully yes but from past experience ... i doubt it. Game still broken ...ohh its got new stuff,, look see ... but whats the use if its basically broken? logs not provided as i am tired of sending them in ... spent more time sending logs than playing the game

i encountered it intermittently ... on one game i couldnt ...joined another with a friend and i could and he couldnt ... he's game is now offline so went back to the first game where i could eat and now i cannot And no MP reraly ... Sorry guys this half baked approach is not working. The hype was nice but i am giving up being a game tester ... maybe in 1.6 . IKF it ever arrives , and then possibly 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.n tot eh n-1 I am getting disappointed with ylands. Its BROKEN and i am not the only voice crying in the wilderness.

..when you arrived in your undies on an island, and have to craft some basic stuff yo make fire and to survive the first night without starving, freezing or being eaten? The island had some resources for you to craft decent weapons, or some thoughtful players made a help centre to get you started. There was lag and there were bugs but the game was playable. just, in some cases... your choice was either to make a base for safety on that island ..or look for another... but to do that you had to actually explore! The islands were random in size and placement ...you knew desert biomes usually had copper and sulfur ... temperate coal and saltpeter, tropical copper coal and sometimes sulfur ..... all had some iron.and clay somewhere. And inside the caves? that was a surprise. Yes there were glitches ...flying sharks, invisible boats and horses , and falling through the earth - but there was talk of them being fixed Then came the improvements...lots of additional stuff, different island shapes ...and talk of fixing the flying sharks, invisible ships and horses and falling trough the earth. And we then came to the great silence. Several updates that really went nowhere. more shiny things but the horses and ships still went invisible .. the sharks were hidden away, ( problem there temp, solved!) and you could still fall through the earth and die. We had players who had dedicated servers who managed to script things so that their games had some form of griefer control and enhancement ... there were bugs but the game was fun, with lots of explore. Then the big release. We no longer had pvte dedicated servers so all the work done by some players was useless. ( those playres went elsewhere feeling like they had been shafted!) We got heaps of pretty shiny things ..but still have invisible ships, horses and you can still fall through the earth. And explore ? where has it gone? you start out on the same shape island..which soon depletes of basic stuff so you cannot leave and eventually die. The other islands are in the same place and all the same, so if you know where the iron is ..you get there asap, plunder it and then no one else can get ahead in the game there's no real explore anymore ...only the npc's and the position on the islands of the ores and resources change ... well kinda .. There's added "excitement" of pvp style npc's and extra predators, but did we really want that? we got it regardless , along with invisible ships, horses and falling through the earth. But if you like to play gameboy stuff and walk around with your nose pointed at your mobile device .. and like roleplay, then the game is ok for you But if you are more mature, want social activity in MP to explore and create.... Ylands has currently ignored you. They might be adding stuff later, but ? ... but then we also still have ships and horses that can go invisible and earth like quicksand in places. Of course there will be rebuttals to these comments, but look at the facts ..there are some of us that were here from the beginning, saw the promise and liked what was "to come" and have thousands of hours gameplay. Its not the same game any more. for many, its not what they expected or wanted. a lot of my friends here have moved on through frustration.. Will it improve? Time for a rethink, guys ...

Some of us have stuck with Ylands, because we had hope . We spent hours and hours struggling with the bugs ...and sending in logs etc for the benefit of the game. In one instance i spent two whole days trying to play the game and sending in bug reports every time the game crashed after 20 minutes ... thats a lot of logs and waiting to get back in! connection time outs ... disappearing objects and work stations ..or simply " shut down for no apparent reason" wit a restart and 20 minutes lost work. But i am not alone .. others were doing it too , but unfortunately a lot just either did not have the time and patience and simply gave up ...especially as there was little to no feedback from BI. The P1 community has given feedback ....lots if it .. but has anyone at BI noticed? Whats frustrating is to send in reports and they disappear down a black hole somewhere. ... no feed back was obvious and disheartening. Thankfully Adam has responded to correct that recently, but there was a time when there was "the great silence" and players deserted en masse. These bugs being mentioned now are in the basic game . There's an exploit that was ruining the game that we reported to Ane ( remember her? that was looooong ago ...) ...yet i still see that exploit today despite a comment it was fixed. If you don't know what this exploits is, then that proves a point . No one paid any attention to the players then...and it might be too late now. As it is the game dies from bugs as it progresses. You start to move out to explore, but all these glitches start to multiply .. and the only fix is to wipe and restart. But these days all the maps re the same, so it ends up like groundhog day. I am currently marking time to see what 1.5 achieves. I still have some hope. Patience is wearing thin, though.

What i am afraid of is history repeating... we get this 'updater" just before a major holiday period ..it will bring in lots of new shiny stuff with possible inherent bugs .... fix very little of whats broken and we players will act as game testers struggling with bugs and drop outs server issues and whatever ... and there will be no one at Bi able to help as they will be on holidays. In Jan we will get the promise of a 'hotfix" ... which eventually emerges just before the Easter holidays ... and then .... go back and read this post from the start .. and replace Easter with Christmas 2021.. I am still wondering who is now running this game ... i suspect tencent, and if so ,,,, well time to move elsewhere...

Two of my family members on forums for other sites/games have run strangely, into someone who does the same as here, word for word. impersonating mods, switching names pretending to be someone else. Whats so stranger is phrasing, modus operandi is identical. in fact you could say they are the same person. One board has that player ( and several alts) on permanent troll ban. Now , i am not accusing this person being the same as that one, But as a warning... Forum mods can see more than what on the surface, and playing games with forum members etc is not a clever idea. You soon end up talking to yourself.

New day new game clean map ...new start .. 1 hour in ... disconnected due to timeout? Screen froze on that message ..had to re boot system to get out. Tried to rejoin.... game hung on rejoin .... couldn't get into even the lobby. (sighs loudly ... ) i am better of wasting my time doing something...anything else.. logs? couldn't get back into game ..that eternal slow moving wheel thingamy gets annoying.