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    I will also help new people ....as  quite a few here will testify,  but  remain cautious. If you are in the  game and  come across honey chicken.... well   thats me  and i will help , and  am friendly but  warning  i do not  tolerate  fools,  once  bitten  twice  shy     As i said n a previous posts ...look for  discord   groups ...ask around in them  and   soon  you will find out  who to trust and  who you  avoid

    :)

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    sadly, this happens  so  often  that multiplayer games are dangerous...and i  immediately  kick from my region any  name i  do not recognize before they can move!   kick first! ..its  unfriendly,  but then  99% of  unknowns are coming to plunder and  destroy

    Theres also a group of them  well known to  discord  users ...  their only  aim is to   use pvp wherever possible  and    wreck others  experience in the   game

    Multiplayer is hardly worth it...   unless you get a group of  friends  you know and  trust  and can join in at the  same  time ....  thats difficult  when in certain time  zones.

     

  6. Posted · Edited by kimbuck

    If you want adventure, Ylands  can  provide it :)

    All those screenshots   seem  almost  identical to  my experience...     same island  view ...  maybe a map  issue?

    I found that if  you log out  with your  ship  offshore and in deeper water  its  less likely to happen .....   when it happened to me  i was in deep water but adjacent to steep shoreline..i  surmised that maybe the   ship co-ordinates "drifted"  over land when logged  out and logging in...     since i been careful to  moor further offshore it has not  happened again 

    So a tip ... dont    go  offline with your ship  moored in an inlet  with  shallow  water   either side.   :)

     

     

     

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    its happened to me  twice before   and it seems like an old bug  i reported   some time ago ..i got  tossed out of  ship when  logging in ... and we went different  directions. Having to re start   from scratch is  one of the reasons i  rarely  play  Ylands now ,,,   i have been back  since the update,  but if this is still happening ... well...   ?????

     

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    @ktzo ...if  in a mp  game and you see    Honeychicken  blundering around ...or the   asian  biome  BaconHam ... ..drop in and we can comiserate   together. ?

    I took a  shopping break ....  got  some  neat  sales specials  and   shoe  shopping therapy  works  wonders.

    I am making a  back up base on an pvte island to store extra stuff.... in case the  ship goes   bye-bye  again  

     

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    Players  want  what they want...and  complain if they do not get it. The issue is  not all players want the same and the Devs  have to add and  subtract  to  keep  everyone happy, 

    But as they say,  a  camel is a horse  designed  by a committee, and  as  players   scream  for    Boss monsters,  flying  things,  more  combat,  less combat, whatever etc   we get an uglier  camel!

    But  Camels  are useful  in the proper  environment ... :)  .. they  no good in the arctic  or tropics....... ( and harder to  like  than horses...)

    So perhaps  the players  should  stop pestering the  devs  to add  things that will make  Ylands the  same as all the other  games of this  genre, and let them  follow their   roadmap and  get what's here working properly  first

    To be  honest ...if   the  games changes to require  fighting  monsters and  Boss monsters  to proceed... then  its  just like the plethora of  other   teen/anime  based  kill everything games ... and   people like me   wont be  bothered.

    To  the  devs...    you cannot  please everyone  all the time.   Look at the  original  game  and its initial success...and  work  from there.   :)

     

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    Possible path  of looking for a solution to this  issue:

    Notice that  ships   tend to "drift" from their   mooring position between sessions.    If you moor a ship  close to a pier or  a land  based  dock,  they "drift"  further out to sea   a bit  when you return to the game. Its like there is a limit as to how  close  to the edge of the  ocean  a ship can be to "spawn" in  on log in.

    I was contacted  directly  by another player   who encountered a similar  situation to  mine.   He moored  his  ship  close to the  shore in a  small inlet....  there was a flat beach  alongside.   Upon  re- joining the game, with his  avatar  inside the ship  cabin,  - he experienced   a bouncing  effect  with his  avatar   bouncing in and out of the  ship as it  bounced...   similar to what i experienced.  When  he tried to move  he "fell" through the ships  hull onto the beach  and  saw his  ship   bouncing up and  down over the  flat sandy beach.  He  managed to  unsummon his  ship .....  then    summon it    back into deeper water away form the  shore.

    In my case, i had moored the  ship  adjacent to a sandy  hill ...which was  taller than my ship.

    I  now  suspect  that  my  ship position "drifted" when offline and  tried to  respawn  on top of that hill .... sending it  skywards.  That would explain the  "i am  freezing  " message  and aerial  view of  just clouds. When i  pressed  "w" i fell through the  ships  hull to the  beach ...    possibly  perishing in the  process and  out of  reach of that ship that's possibly   still there ....  " over the rainbow,  way up high!"  :-? and  in  some sort of region limbo

    When i re-join, i  appear on the hillside  near where the  ship was,  and for a  few seconds i get a  ghosted " loading wheel"  briefly.

    So   could  this be   of  assistance as to what's  happening/or  happened here?

     

     

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    I logged in  ...and  found  myself sitting on the top of  my ship somewhere  "up in the air"  with a  message  'i am freezing". ...so i pressed w  to stand up and   "poof"  ship  disappeared and i was on the shoreline  on the  island i had been on, ... and   no ship. nothing !

    So i pressed  Q  to  summons   ship ...    option was greyed out

    so wonderful!

    Lost all progress ....   lost the  ship ....  and all the  stuff i collected  through   exploration .....     and   rapidly  losing   the  remainder of  my interest  in this  game.

    tried  re logging ...  same  result  . end  up on the shore  with  just my inventory.

    tried everything ....   ie  relogging   ...  no  go.

    logs attached  but  i don't hold  any hope  of that  achieving  anything.

    Am i  angry?

    what do you think?

     

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    Some time   ago,  during the   echo chamber  era ...the period of the  great silence ...   i made the comment  that  after the  enthusiasm of  announcing Tencent  involvement,  we suddenly  get  mobile based   mini games  ( very popular in Asia) ..and a new Asian  Biome ..(which looks  great). 

    But   exploration was forgotten.  The  PVE players  were forgotten.  A group of us   felt like we were un-paid  game testers,  as every time we played,  the game would  crash and we sent in bug  report  and  output logs. Some of us  spent  more time waiting to log in or sending in output logs   that we spent  actually  in game.  ( if  we got in and  didn't get  kicked out  after 10 minutes

    Thankfully  Adam  arrived  and he listened to our  pleas to get the  game playable ... but  did they listen to him?

    It was obvious  to  some of  us  that  Tencent  was  funding   Ylands ... because as the saying  goes   " He who pays the piper,  gets their  tune  played".   and  what we were hearing  ( when something was done)  was not  music to the  regular players  ears.

    I stuck with Ylands  because of  P1 and   Red ... we had a community that was initially  working to  help Bi develop the  game, with  scripting  enhancements   and  suggestions that  made the game  playable  and   a community that interacted.

    Suddenly the  rules  changed after tencent  partnership was announced ....  the  servers   changed,   other things  changed,  and all the  coding work was  tossed  out and those who worked their  butts off  trying to help  were literally  ignored.

    And  so were the players.  The exodus  began.   and is  still going on.

    We would  send in log /bug reports and  there was not  even acknowledgement.

    And i   found out   as soon as i posted here  a positive criticism designed to  highlight  an area  of needed improvement ,  my posts were literally  pushed off the  front  page  by a  orchestrated   wave of   "fan-boi" postings waxing  lyrical  about the  mobiles  or  mini games ..

    It was obvious  they didn't  want  people to see any criticism...  even though it was intended to  be  helpful in fixing  something  important.

    Will i stay with   Ylands?  Its  basically a good  game in concept but  rather than  fixing   what they have   got,  there's  still talk of  adding mythical new  shiny things.

    Guys...  all you are doing is  adding  pretty flags and shiny decals to a  car   that's got  no wheels and a broken engine.   

    I play  Ylands  as i have an old   computer... and its capable of  running the game , but not powerful enough to run  other games  ...like   Journey of  Life,   Subsistence, etc.

    I am saving up  for  a new  computer,  an  i7 with the  top  NVidia   graphics   card.   When that arrives ...  Ylands will be  collecting  dust on a shelf  along  with the original  sims,   donkey  kong, ...

    Unless the game  improves...       but  i am not  holding  up  hopes  from  what   i  hear ...and  see  at the  moment.

     

     

    PS   Just saw Bojo's   post  ..agree  100%     We didn't  buy this  game to  fight   boss monster, level up    etc ...we bought it based on the original  road map .    look at he original log in screen and see what we expected.

    If you want to  bring  the players  back,  bring  the original concept  back.

    But it may be too late.

     

  23. Posted · Edited by kimbuck

    All but one of  the traders  on  my sharegame   disappeared ....    are there  union rules  regarding  NPC  holidays?  ..or  do they have a use by  date?  maybe they got  bored and  wandered  off..

    or ... as they say in  Oz ...  "a dingo ate my  traders..  :)   "

    anyone else   encounter this  'oddity" or is it another Ylands  feature?  ?

     

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    This "being offended" reminds me of the story of the   90 year old   woman with a walker checking into a  hotel ,  then  ringing up the reception with a complaint 30 minutes later.

    She complained  when she  looked out her   window  she could see a naked  couple...

    The manager went up to investigate ..and  looked out the window ...all he saw  was a fence .

    Then  the  old  woman  said  " you  have to  jump  up and down on the bed ,  when you  jump  high enough you can see over the   fence  and into the  bedroom of the neighboring  unit...:"   :)

     

     

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    Whats  annoying    are the  anti-vaxxers spreading    conspiracy tales and  false  stories ... like the  vaccine  causes  sterility,  it  alters  your  DNA ,  and   (believe it or  not)  it  makes you susceptible to   effects  of  radiation from 5G phone towers...   ;0

    Next they will say it  will  attract aliens to  abduct  you... :)

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