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One score less six days from now, Xanoric will see his ninth year as a Covenant of the Phoenix member. While it is inconsiderable to ascertain his leadership credentials in this present time, with chapter leadership in no less than five separate CotP enterprises along with officership in five more, I would go as far as saying it is his appreciation for efficiency in chapter achievement which sets him apart from most. This day, as we salute his service as a member of the Sacred Circle and his sacrifice to this community as a Knight, Xanoric is hereby appointed to the rank of Paladin. Rise good sir, and be recognized.

Current ATLAS Official Server Network Server Version: v16.14 Current ATLAS Official Server Network Server Status: Smooth Sailing! UPCOMING PATCH NOTES PLEASE NOTE THESE UPDATES MAY NOT NECESSARILY BE IN THE NEXT PATCH BUT WILL MAKE INTO AN UPCOMING ONE. V17 - BOUNTIES - ETA: LATE FEBRUARY New Features - Bounty System for PVP: Don't like a particular player or Company? Set a bounty on their heads, then other players can get gold for bringing in the target's head - Guillotine: hanging your foes in a noose taking too long? Off with their heads! - Submarine: explore the depths of the ocean in this small scouting submarine. No weapons on board, but it does have claw arms to help harvest the ocean floor and explore (demolish) shipwrecks - Player shops in freeports. Players can setup automated shops in each freeport, listing loot for sale and naming their own gold coin prices - New creature: Giant Crab. It can carry heavy loads, along with players, tames and wild creatures - Tame tokens are available for more mythical creatures, allowing players to have limited-time tames of the Fire Elemental, Rock Elemental, Cyclops, and Gorgon. BONUS: Rock Elemental and Cyclops are rideable! - New cosmetics: get your pirate on with hook hands and peg leg cosmetics. Yarr! - New armor cosmetics to customize the look of your Company and crew - Streamer Stealth Mode: client option to disable showing all location information; super useful to prevent stream-sniping 😉 - Added a new deep ocean trench environment to explore, with powerful underwater creatures and is the home of the new Giant Crab - Added a new extensive Polar Dungeon, only accessible by Pathfinders who have all the PowerStones or have defeated the Kraken Endgame Balance improvements - Beating the Kraken unlocks a new Feat, which allows players to prevent wild creatures from aggroing on them within range for a period of time - Beating the Polar Dungeon unlocks a new perfect water breathing Feat, allowing players to remain underwater for a period of time without consuming any oxygen Updates - Players can now mount a sail to directly control the sail's open/close amount and rotation settings in a more intuitive way - AOD AI Ships will now come in multiple size variations with different stats and difficulty levels - Global territory message updating - Any dead ships (shipwrecks) from your Company appear with a unique icon on your map now, so you can find the wrecks - Character creator now has a Height slider to make it easier to set your character's desired height - Territory map will now display allies as teal-colored - Reorganized claim flag notifications, so they no longer clutter up the entire HUD when lots of messages are flying by Misc - Streamlined ship hull rendering for performance gains - Server Performance improvements round 2 (+25%) - Additional balance changes - NPCs will be added to Freeports which will allow players to redesign their character's tattoos for a gold cost - Significant server improvements over the coming weeks, where we'll be doubling performance increment by increment. ⚓ RELEASED PATCH NOTES ⚓ CURRENT V16.14 - Fixed a server crash related to demolishing structures - Fixed an exploit with Grapeshot that allowed it to be shot rapidly v16 Server Changes - Player Movement Optimisation for an approximate 15-20% performance gain on servers - Server Launch Option which locks the Fountain of Youth to one Golden Age Ruins server: -AlwaysActiveFountainsOfYouth Balance Changes Land - Stone Structures crafting costs have decreased by reducing the metal cost by 55% and reducing the organic paste requirement by 25% Ship - Steering Wheels are now considered 'stone' when it comes to their defence type, so they cannot be hurt by fire and take less explosive damage Creatures - Dragon now has 65% less HP when Tamed - Dragon now takes 40% more bullet and explosive damage when tamed - Dragon now recovers stamina 25% more slowly when flying - Dragon can no longer be healed by Nature's Touch - Dragon tamed timer reduce from 8 hours to 6 hours - Dragon Fire Damage reduced by 50% - Dragon Token cost increased to 40,000 gold coins

https://www.playatlas.com/index.php?/forums/topic/2628-pc-patch-notes-client-v1561-server-v1567/ Current ATLAS Official Server Network Server Version: v15.67 Current ATLAS Official Server Network Server Status: Smooth Sailing! UPCOMING PATCH NOTES PLEASE NOTE THESE UPDATES MAY NOT NECESSARILY BE IN THE NEXT PATCH BUT WILL MAKE INTO AN UPCOMING ONE. V16 - BOUNTIES - ETA: LATE FEBRUARY New Features - Bounty System for PVP: Don't like a particular player or Company? Set a bounty on their heads, then other players can get gold for bringing in the target's head - Guillotine: hanging your foes in a noose taking too long? Off with their heads! - Submarine: explore the depths of the ocean in this small scouting submarine. No weapons on board, but it does have claw arms to help harvest the ocean floor and explore (demolish) shipwrecks - Player shops in freeports. Players can setup automated shops in each freeport, listing loot for sale and naming their own gold coin prices - New creature: Giant Crab. It can carry heavy loads, along with players, tames and wild creatures - Tame tokens are available for more mythical creatures, allowing players to have limited-time tames of the Fire Elemental, Rock Elemental, Cyclops, and Gorgon. BONUS: Rock Elemental and Cyclops are rideable! - New cosmetics: get your pirate on with hook hands and peg leg cosmetics. Yarr! - New armor cosmetics to customize the look of your Company and crew - Streamer Stealth Mode: client option to disable showing all location information; super useful to prevent stream-sniping 😉 - Added a new deep ocean trench environment to explore, with powerful underwater creatures and is the home of the new Giant Crab - Added a new extensive Polar Dungeon, only accessible by Pathfinders who have all the PowerStones or have defeated the Kraken Endgame Balance improvements - Beating the Kraken unlocks a new Feat, which allows players to prevent wild creatures from aggroing on them within range for a period of time - Beating the Polar Dungeon unlocks a new perfect water breathing Feat, allowing players to remain underwater for a period of time without consuming any oxygen Updates - Players can now mount a sail to directly control the sail's open/close amount and rotation settings in a more intuitive way - AOD AI Ships will now come in multiple size variations with different stats and difficulty levels - Global territory message updating - Any dead ships (shipwrecks) from your Company appear with a unique icon on your map now, so you can find the wrecks - Character creator now has a Height slider to make it easier to set your character's desired height - Territory map will now display allies as teal-colored - Reorganized claim flag notifications, so they no longer clutter up the entire HUD when lots of messages are flying by Misc - Streamlined ship hull rendering for performance gains - Server Performance improvements round 2 (+25%) - Additional balance changes - NPCs will be added to Freeports which will allow players to redesign their character's tattoos for a gold cost - Significant server improvements over the coming weeks, where we'll be doubling performance increment by increment. ⚓ RELEASED PATCH NOTES ⚓ CURRENT V15.67 - Fixed a case where Steam clients sometimes were unable to connect to the servers. We recommend hosts upgrade to this version. v15.63 - Discovery Zones now provide 1 Discovery Point per unlock - Resolved some connection timeout issues. v15.61 Server Changes - Server optimisations to increase performance by approximately 5% - Optimized transition data cleanup in Redis to avoid DB bloat. - Server Listing for non-ATLAS servers has been rewritten and will list non-ATLAS servers immediately. Fountain of Youth and Aging Changes - Fountain of Youth is only usable if you're over age 90. - Fountain of Youth is now available on two random Golden Age Servers. - Old Age debuff has been reduced by 50% Bug and Exploit Fixes - Fixed a bug which made it so that beds and boats would not display on the map if they weren't in a company. - Fixed a bug with the Drake which allowed it to phase through structures - Fixed a bug which allowed players to have more beds on their boat than permitted, this is a retroactive fix. Balance Changes Land - Increasing explosive damage to stone structures by 2.5x. - Increasing seige structure damage to stone structures by 60% - Wood Land Structure has been buffed to provide better resistance to siege weapon types by 40%. - Wood Land Structures have been buffed to provide better defence against all non-explosive/siege damage types by 50%. - Stone Structures crafting costs have been increased by adding metal cost, and changing fiber requirement to organic paste, which requires both fiber and sap to craft - Thatch Structures have had their crafting costs reduced by 3x. - NPCs mounted on Puckles are now invincible Ship - Ships can only receive damage from collision encounters with other ships if they're of the same or a greater weight class (deals with cheesy cheap ramshackle builds to sink bigger boats). Galleon - Weight class 5 Brig - Weight class 4 Schooner - Weight class 3 Sloop (Ramshackle) - Weight class 2 Raft - Weight class 1 Dingy - Weight class 0 Creatures - Drake balances adjustments (10% less HP, 10% less damage, and double stamina cost for using fire breath) - Magical tames can no longer be used in boss fights and will be destroyed when used inside the dome (Drakes)

Tools you will need See this link for the ARKpnt Editor If you do not want to use your default paint editor or you do not already have a favorite graphics editor installed, click here to download the free GIMP graphics editor. Local "my paintings" file folder Your local saves will be in your steam folder and will follow a folder path similar to this: SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\ATLAS\ShooterGame\Saved\MyPaintings Prepare and download customizable area In Atlas, obtain a paintbrush (on avatar) and some black paint on a grill using berries and filled water containers (leather pouch or water jug). One filled jug and a few berries will make a stack of 5 paint. For sails, equip the paintbrush and left click on the mast of a ship, the in-game paint window will activate. For tattoos, right click and select the tattoo button on the lower middle of in-game paint window. Use the thick black paint option to outline all the areas on the sail and/or avatar you would like to customize. When finished, click the save to disk button in the middle top of the paint window. Once complete, you have successfully save the pnt file to your "my paintings" folder. Open up the ARKpnt editor and load the saved ARKpnt file from the above mentioned "my paintings" folder. Once loaded, click the "Save as Image" button in ARKpnt and save a png file to the same "my paintings" folder. Now, open the saved png file in your graphic editor (I use Gimp). Here's a few examples of what you'll initially pull out of an ARKpnt file: Now do some fancy magic in your graphics editor in place and within the bounds of the above rough outlines: Now export your changes in png format to your "my paintings" folder. Once exported, load the image file into ARKpnt by clicking on the "Load image" button in ARKpnt....it will then ask to convert the image using "Ark/Atlas" colors. You'll end up with something like this: Next, click on the "Limit Colors" button in ARKpnt. This will allow you to customize what the final product will look like using the colors available in-game as well as limiting how many colors will be needed (the editor tries to fit as many colors as possible). So far, I've stuck with red/black tattoos and Red/White/Black for sails. It just makes it easier for others' to download the file in-game and make a copy. Here's a couple of my finished products: Once you are happy with the finished product in ARKpnt, click the "Save as ARKpnt file" button and go in-game. Get back to the paint editor window ingame, with the paintbrush left-click on the sail or right-click for tattoos. Don't forget to select the tattoo button in the bottom middle of the paint editor window. (if you fail to do this, the upload will come out fuzzy. Now click on the upload button: If you are missing dye, the editor will visually show you what you're missing. If you have all the required dyes, click the same button again to upload and apply the dye. The paintbrush will apply the paint automatically. There are some caveats that will cause network timeouts for some tattoo designs...I haven't figured out what exactly causes them, other than uploading less.

Welcome to the CotP family of gamers!

We have been at it since day one, that ugly and...well, let's just stick with ugly...launch. Even through the lag muck and server instability, you could read the stars and see the potential. Right off the bat it was only for the tough, and we barreled through the glitchy log-ins, the shaky starter zones and the wretched "lawless" starting areas and found our way to the rafts. Some were able to get to our island after 3-4 hours of learning how to tack, zig zag and fight through server borders and with a full stack of human hides, and then some were finally rescued after what seemed like days of being eaten alive by scorpions and crocodiles, only to quickly get used to dying to the cold, the wolves, the alpha horses, the water, the sharks and each other's general noob mistakes. Yes, with the known developer, we did try to ARK it, or Dark and Light it...hell, we've even tried to Life is Feudal this one....and Atlas is just NOT those games. Some visuals and sounds are there, but the depth and options and functionality is just SO much more. What really took the game from just another ARK expansion to, the potential mmo of the decade, was getting out on our first schooner, the SS Skjoldr (video below). The experience was entirely PvE, but when you have 13 people packed on to a single vessel and the guys repairing the ship are as vital as the helmsman steering and the deckhands manning the sails, it became something I haven't seen in a game since our friday night flights on the Decimator back in SWG. We have had just a blast learning the game and surviving our island and our neighbors over the past couple weeks. Though it may appear as if we are well off enough, growing from 30 actives day one, to more than double that now, we absolutely could use more folks interested in living the Atlas life. Whether you are interested in navigating the high seas, captaining a brigand, farming the tundra, mucking through politics, taming elephants or exploring the massive (30-40 hours of sailing from one end to the other) world, it is all here and we have many members willing to help you get started. Here is a few screencaps and videos to give you an idea of what we have been up to:

Hello PG, welcome to the CotP family of gamers!

Current ATLAS Official Server Network Server Version: v9.3 Current ATLAS Official Server Network Server Status: Stormy Upcoming Notes: Please note these updates may not necessarily be in the next patch but will make into an upcoming one. Upcoming v10.0 (ETA: Monday Noon EST :P) - Claim Flags now allow a "Neutral Zone" setting which allows any other tribes to build within them, with the specified tax rate applied to them. You are also able to specify an inclusion or exclusion list to these, to only allow or exclude specific company ID's / player ID's. All claim flags will have this enabled as a default setting when placed, and this will also be a retroactive change. However, it will not function until Wednesday the 9th of January at NOON EST, where we will release another server update to make Neutral Zones active. This means you will have two days, from Monday to Wednesday, to decide and adjust the settings on your claim flag before the change is live. - Server performance improvements - All Cannons/Turrets can now be pin code protected for lever activation/deactivation - There are 4x as many trade ships on the seas, and they now also sell commodity types for gold, as do NPC's at Freeports. - Lawless servers can no longer be specified as Homesevers. If your Homeserver was a lawless server, you'll be required to pick a new (Freeport) Homeserver upon respawn. - You can now buy a "Ramshackle Sloop" from the NPC Shipyardsman at Freeports. The "Ramshackle Sloop" is a pre-built sloop which has permanently lower plank HP, carry weight, and crew limit, but is cheaper and faster to acquire if you want to get into sailing faster. - "Favorites" server selection drop-down is added for Unofficial - Joining through Steam browser server list with password now properly caches the password for ATLAS travel - Fixed up some temperature scalings and Weather events are now indicated on the HUD - Armour effectiveness will be adjusted so that firearms are more useful in PVP - Fixed some bugs related to Sea Claims, Enemy Claim Flags can now be directly pinged to identify any contesting enemies nearby, and the time required to steal an enemy claim now decreases the more Claims that enemy team has. - Farming rebalances to be easier; water can now pipe uphill, region requirements for growing crops are more forgiving, and crop growth & yield is much faster and higher. - Reduced shovel stamina cost. - You can now fill waterskins/jars from ground spouts. - Metal Tools can no longer damage the planks of anchored ships. - 50 more player levels added, and Skill Points per level increased. - Loot stat scaling has been boosted (retroactively) by 60% - Sea Monsters' damage has been reduced by 66% - Some ship costs have been adjusted, and in some cases reduced by approximately about 50% - Animals health regen rebalanced, so they're not regenerating high amounts whilst in combat! - Eating poop is now instant-death - Fixed an issue where you couldn't kill yourself by exhaustion (for stuck situations) Further out - Updated some undesired movement speed max taming additions within status components, (some already set in CreatureBP), plus some unintentional unrealistic water movement speeds. - Adjusted Seagull and Crow aggro speeds (Would previously take a long time to de-aggro). Updated collision to allow player attacks to land more consistently. - Improved Tiger so they can walk up slopes better/easier. - Razortooth stamina adjustments (Would previously fatigue from running in like 2 seconds) - Animation updates for Rabbit and setup for shoulder mounting (Not yet enabled until the ability is final) - Updated Vulture AI to only target sleeping humans if the player is connected. - Included foot sockets in Giraffe neck attack to more consistently harvest. - Reduced Bee movement to allow player attacks to land. Reduced sting buff duration to better reflect Bee size. - Increased harvest amount of fur and milk from Sheep and Cow to incentivise taming and better compete with natural resource gathering amounts. Updated max yield timings to scale with creature level, similar to other creature abilities, instead of food value. - Clamped amount of fur gained from harvesting wild sheep, again to incentive taming. Wild sheep will also flee, and may attack players after excessive shearing.

Hello Undead, welcome to the CotP family of gamers!

Current ATLAS Official Server Network Server Version: v8.72 Current ATLAS Official Server Network Server Status: Stormy Upcoming Notes: Please note these updates may not necessarily be in the next patch but will make into an upcoming one. Upcoming Version v8.8 - Default resource and taming speeds have been increased to 2x as the baseline. - Reduced min damage and min percentage on flame arrow buff by 33%. - Reduced max damage done on projectile hit to 50. - Increased gravity on flame arrows 20% to make it less ranged. - Added durability consumption to flame and stone arrows (1 dura per shot, 40 shots per bow repair). - Change bow durability from 50 to 40. - Fixed a bug which allowed Mortars to have rapid fire. - Fixed an issue where upkeep timer on PVE Claimflags was not correctly updating. - Company Member, Company Groups, and Alliance data loss issue should hopefully be resolved. - Official Network Companies are now hard limited to 500 members, and this is a current measure until the Company system receives a backend overhaul in the long-term. - Fixed inland water buoy's being invisible and fixed buoys, so they no longer prevent resource respawn. - Prevent ship collision damage from occurring when caused by other player ships on PVE servers. - Fixed sunken-ship area indicator lingering even after a shipwreck has been entirely salvaged. - Reduced deepwater aggressive creature frequency and targetting range. - Melee weapons are now temporarily ineffective against ship planks. Later this will be changed so that it will only be ineffective against anchored ship planks. - Sailing against the wind now provides 30% of with-the-wind sailforce, as opposed to 0%. - Also increased the amount of sailforce provided by minimum windspeed conditions by 30%, and the sailforce provided by maximum windspeed conditions by 15%. - Every Tame can now get a minimum of 30 tame level-ups put into it, plus however many base levels it had when wild. So for example, a level 5 wild wolf would get 35 tame level-ups to apply, whereas a level 40 wild wolf would get 70 tame level-ups to use. - Increased the base carry Weight of all ships by +40% Upcoming v9.0 (ETA: Monday Noon EST :P) - Claim Flags now allow a "Neutral Zone" setting which allows any other tribes to build within them, with the specified tax rate applied to them. You are also able to specify an inclusion or exclusion list to these, to only allow or exclude specific company ID's / player ID's. All claim flags will have this enabled as a default setting when placed, and this will also be a retroactive change. However, it will not function until Wednesday the 9th of January at NOON EST, where we will release another server update to make Neutral Zones active. This means you will have two days, from Monday to Wednesday, to decide and adjust the settings on your claim flag before the change is live. - Server performance improvements - All Cannons/Turrets can now be pin code protected for lever activation/deactivation - There are 4x as many trade ships on the seas, and they now also sell commodity types for gold, as do NPC's at Freeports. - Lawless servers can no longer be specified as Homesevers. If your Homeserver was a lawless server, you'll be required to pick a new (Freeport) Homeserver upon respawn. - You can now buy a "Ramshackle Sloop" from the NPC Shipyardsman at Freeports. The "Ramshackle Sloop" is a pre-built sloop which has permanently lower plank HP, carry weight, and crew limit, but is cheaper and faster to acquire if you want to get into sailing faster. - "Favorites" server selection drop-down is added for Unofficial - Joining through Steam browser server list with password now properly caches the password for ATLAS travel - Fixed up some temperature scalings and Weather events are now indicated on the HUD - Armour effectiveness will be adjusted so that firearms are more useful in PVP - Removed Sea Claims (they weren't very useful at present), Enemy Claim Flags can now be directly pinged to identify any contesting enemies nearby, and the time required to steal an enemy claim now decreases the more Claims that enemy team has. - Farming rebalances to be easier; water can now pipe uphill, region requirements for growing crops are more forgiving, and crop growth & yield is much faster and higher. - Reduced shovel stamina cost. - You can now fill waterskins/jars from ground spouts. - Metal Tools can no longer damage the planks of anchored ships. - 50 more player levels added, and Skill Points per level increased. - Loot stat scaling has been boosted (retroactively) by 60% - Sea Monsters' damage has been reduced by 66% - Some ship costs have been adjusted, and in some cases reduced by approximately about 50% - Animals health regen rebalanced, so they're not regenerating high amounts whilst in combat! - Eating poop is now instant-death - Fixed an issue where you couldn't kill yourself by exhaustion (for stuck situations) Further out - Updated some undesired movement speed max taming additions within status components, (some already set in CreatureBP), plus some unintentional unrealistic water movement speeds. - Adjusted Seagull and Crow aggro speeds (Would previously take a long time to de-aggro). Updated collision to allow player attacks to land more consistently. - Improved Tiger so they can walk up slopes better/easier. - Razortooth stamina adjustments (Would previously fatigue from running in like 2 seconds) - Animation updates for Rabbit and setup for shoulder mounting (Not yet enabled until the ability is final) - Updated Vulture AI to only target sleeping humans if the player is connected. - Included foot sockets in Giraffe neck attack to more consistently harvest. - Reduced Bee movement to allow player attacks to land. Reduced sting buff duration to better reflect Bee size. - Increased harvest amount of fur and milk from Sheep and Cow to incentivise taming and better compete with natural resource gathering amounts. Updated max yield timings to scale with creature level, similar to other creature abilities, instead of food value. - Clamped amount of fur gained from harvesting wild sheep, again to incentive taming. Wild sheep will also flee, and may attack players after excessive shearing. Released Patches and Verified Notes Current Version: v8.72 - Fixed some server crashes - Slightly improved server performance and reduced server stalls - Ended New Year's event (Tophats remain but no longer grant double treasure gold and can no longer be bought at in-game cosmetics NPC traders) - Buffed Tamed creatures HP and Damage globally by 25%

We will be having a chapter meeting tonight, 7:30p PT, 9:30p CT, 10:30 ET in discord. Meeting minutes will be posted in the private forum section after the meeting. We will be going over a few items regarding the alliance, pvp and defense plans. A regular meeting schedule will also be discussed.

Welcome to the Covenant of the Phoenix family of gamers!

Welcome to the Covenant of the Phoenix family of gamers!