Have you tried building? Many S+ building concepts are already in ATLAS, with additional improvements.

Crew can be obtained in the Freeports from the Crew Merchant, or you can rescue them from Army of the Damned ships that you destroy at sea.

Ah, yeah GeForce 210 only supports Shader Model 4 and is quite below minimum spec... Sorry :(

Are you running with a GPU that does not support Shader Model 5? Atlas does not support Shader Model 4.

Also NPC Crew were used in the trailer in addition to players. NPC Crew can follow you around on and off your ship and take orders, so if you're rolling around with 20+ NPC AI you might have them stand around, have a seat and wait, or ride along with you in town. Hopefully some enterprising Companies set up their own trading ports similar to the trailer towns on Official servers one day!

Here is the relevant patch note:- Removed requirement to be on a boat to steal someone's boat after placing the claim flag. Adjusted base value times to claim the boats to be 1 one minute to steal a dinghy, 30 minutes to steal a raft, a couple hours to steal sloop, and so forth (levelling a ship increases the time it takes to steal that ship).

Originally posted by Zebby:

Originally posted by Jesse Rapczak: This is being adjusted in the upcoming patches, sometime tonight or tomorrow.

Thank god, and I pray that it's a REALISTIC PLAYABLE timer. But thanks for the hard work, keep it up. Starting to change a lot of my opinions.

Thanks for the feedback, that's what EA is for ;)

Originally posted by Garfy:

Originally posted by Mystomex: Didnt they just post that an easier method to claim already claimed territory is coming?
"Changed declaim period (stealing enemy territory) to 30 minutes from 1.5 hours (requires they have no live crew or players in the vicinity)"

Also the game does not say Singleplayer. Its not unreasonable for you to be expected to play with other people

They're making it harder to contest claims. Now you can't do it unless the person stops playing for 3 days.

Claims need to be limited to 1 per person/clan but you should be able to upgrade it to make it bigger (at an increasing cost). One person shouldn't be able to spend 5 minutes sticking down 50 claims which each take ages to remove and soon wont be removeable until long after that player quits.

The 3 day timer is PvE-only. Read more

This is being adjusted in the upcoming patches, sometime tonight or tomorrow.

Larger ships are not controlled with wheel menus if you are manning them properly with NPC crew. All the controls are at your fingertips much like the other examples brought up in this thread.

On anything larger than a raft, if you assign NPC crewmates to the sails and guns, the captain can control everything on the ship using WASD and other keys while on the wheel of the ship. Very much like AC: Black Flag.