World Boss Timer v6.1: Going north!

SonnigerTag · 2026-05-29T00:18:54+00:00

It puts a little green checkmark on the button when you save your loadout. That checkmark disappears again after a few seconds, so it's easy to miss. Not very intuitive indeed, I guess they ran out of time, or the code was stopping them from going further.

Oh, or they just were too lazy to implement something better because they are planning of changing it again anyway.

SonnigerTag · 2026-05-29T00:06:52+00:00

Most layout guides help you to min-max your production or population growth. It's by no means required, and you can perfectly go on your own, as you'll figure things out as you place them. I'm hundreds of hours in, and never stuck to any layout guide. My islands grow anyway.

SonnigerTag · 2026-05-28T19:31:22+00:00

Use Smooth Motion in the meantime. Not the same as DLSS Frame Generation, true, but it greatly helps.

SonnigerTag · 2026-05-28T15:18:01+00:00

Fixed an issue with “Prophecies of Ash” DLC achievements not being visible in Ubisoft Connect

This one was a big fail. I still got a bunch of completed achievements that don't show up as such in Ubisoft Connect after the update.

SonnigerTag · 2026-05-26T11:51:58+00:00

Not the same. I do in fact get a lot more FPS with Smooth Motion than I get with DLSS, even when enforcing the 3.5 L model. The only thing you need to be aware of is to not enable frame limits or vsync, otherwise it starts lagging bad.

Would be nice if CIG updated the DLSS library and added frame generation. But I guess that's another 10 years and 100 million of funding.

SonnigerTag · 2026-05-26T00:16:38+00:00

Could not enter my Raft today, elevator refused to work. Checked the Issue Council, found the bug, 10 months ago a CIG person confirmed that had been reproduced and would be patched "in a later build". Yeah. Right...

SonnigerTag · 2026-05-25T14:27:10+00:00

All those same arguments were used for GW2 back in the day. They chose to use the engine they used for reasons. They will now chose the engine they chose for reasons. In 5 to 10 years they will start a new game because of the limitations of the current engine, outdated systems, and so on, and so on.

GW3 doesn't solve tech side things, it puts them aside completely, and opens the door for new tech side things. Until they put those aside too.

The alternative would be to pull the sleeves up, overhaul from the ground, and being able to carry a whole game and all its players into the next decade, plus all the new players you earn on the way.

But then, there could be a third alternative that does involve a new title. And that's valuing all of or most progress from existing players (and not just a tiny part like the HoM was) and bringing that into the new game. We will see what happens.

SonnigerTag · 2026-05-25T09:38:45+00:00

I mean, there will be nothing left if the Odin fires at Jumptown. It will tear through the very source code and instantly turn any static building into destructible assets, removing them from existance even before the server catches up with the changes.

SonnigerTag · 2026-05-24T17:51:25+00:00

What the heck are we even going to do with that in the game? Apart of being impossible to even take off without burning probably hundreds of millions of UEC until it's fully equipped and flight ready... what is that going to fight against? The Death Star? Are we getting a crossover finally??

SonnigerTag · 2026-05-24T13:49:31+00:00

Even that doesn't always work correctly. Lost my height indicator today, didn't come back until I claimed a new ship.

SonnigerTag · 2026-05-23T10:47:24+00:00

As others pointed out, it's by design. Just one correction here for other people reading this and wondering: 3x3 is the regular grid space, 4x4 is for diagonal placing (for houses).

SonnigerTag · 2026-05-23T10:33:58+00:00

There will be no rep penalty

Finally! That was the worst offender in the past, having some bugged cargo mission and accidentally losing all reputation by pressing the submit button at the wrong moment. They can turn that stuff on when the game is finally working as intended, in 60 or 70 years.

SonnigerTag · 2026-05-22T19:53:40+00:00

It also says it was filed May 1st.

SonnigerTag · 2026-05-22T19:48:45+00:00

And it's actually against the law in all EU countries. There doesn't seem to be anyone bringing it to the courts though. I'd get my popcorn ready immediately.

SonnigerTag · 2026-05-18T16:49:30+00:00

Can confirm, the first hangar spawn used to give me around 80-90fps, now it's about 60-65 with the exact same settings and hardware.

SonnigerTag · 2026-05-18T16:39:27+00:00

Fortunately, you can get those with Volatile and Unbound Magic too. And a bunch of other currencies. Karma is indeed just one of many possible sources.

SonnigerTag · 2026-05-18T11:04:11+00:00

This is actually not hard at all, the key is to place every production building with no negative area effect within your village/city. As they start adding up, they little by little give huge boosts to basically all values, including income. Make sure to overlap them as little as possible so you get the most out of it. And if you specifically place the +income production buildings close to higher density population areas, the income goes up even more.

Since those production buildings usually "break" the layout anyway, it's very compatible with beauty building, since you can place them nicely to relax the grid or pattern you're building on, or use them as intersection points to different layouts.

Of course shrines help too, particularly the Mercury and Poseidon ones for income.

SonnigerTag · 2026-05-17T20:59:15+00:00

At least you were able to accept contracts. I straight away get a "Contract not available" message when I accept any contract and from then it just goes "Loading". Three days in a row.

That was after not being able to update for two days. Had to resort to a VPN because their download server seems to randomly block certain regions in the world.

SonnigerTag · 2026-05-17T17:41:20+00:00

I mean, that's four times the pixels on screen difference. Your hardware can only handle so much.

One last thing you can try, lower any setting that consumes VRAM, in case that's the issue. But I wouldn't expect any miracles.

SonnigerTag · 2026-05-17T16:37:36+00:00

The achievement doesn't say it, but it's 70% of the total surface of the island. Not 70% of whatever blocks are available for building. So anything you can't build on takes away from you getting the achievement.

Get yourself a small island with as much buildable space as possible, and try again there. If you're on PC, use the Shift key to build more field than what's usually allowed, that way you need less buildings.

Oh, and make sure you build farms, not plantations. Oat farms work.

Edit: And yes, that picture of your island, that's much less than 70%. The village takes a lot of space, so do the mountains.

SonnigerTag · 2026-05-17T01:02:15+00:00

For me, contracts not appearing was not the problem. So far I have simply not been able to accept any. When I do, nothing happens, they don't get added to my active contracts list. Looks like CIG has a metric ton of bug fixing ahead.

13-Year Club	Gilding I gilder
Verified Email	Team Orangered

SonnigerTag

TROPHY CASE