The Federation entered our tile about 12 days ago and we were extended a Non-Aggression-Pact if we allowed them a small piece of the island to our north. All was well and dandy for the next several days between ourselves, Federation and our Allies that shared the island with them. Our group consists of about 30 players vs their near 500!

Then one day a rogue Federation brig shot at our walls & sunk a ship breaking the NAP. We returned fire and sunk it. According to our soon to be "allies" this was a rogue splinter group that wasn't following orders. Our request to replace the materials of the ship as a sign of good will from Federation was denied. Instead we were promised a full alliance through game invite. The day before the invitation was to be made however, Federation instead sieged & wiped our close allies to the north that offered to share a part of the island with them. We were vastly outnumbered with server populations reaching 200+ at times and making standard ship warfare unfeasible.

The next day our company was sieged for 12 hours on Tuesday, Jan 16th. The main attacking force was the Federation, throughout the night they were repeatedly pushed back and the island was held. This was done when facing odds of 3 to 1, and at times 5 to 1, the server was above 200 players. However they were not able to take any claims that day. We have been defending our island for what is now the 7th day in a row. The first 4 days of assault heavily burned their resources, ships & player morale.

After various days of fighting & defending on the morning of Jan 17th we sunk several brigs, a galleon & a great number of other ships. Unfortunately due to the admin account exploit all of our work was rolled-backed and it never happened.

We have enjoyed everyday of fighting so far up until Federation quickly learned they would not be able to take us & our island down with sheer numbers & brute force. To make up for this Federation members have stooped so low as to use cheats & hacking methods to try and wipe us.

This includes:

an almost infinite grenade glitch (similar to mortar burst fire) which luckily crashed the abuser after a minute of it's use.

The usual aim-bot that can headshot you while underwater from any range/gliding and so forth.

As well as spawning as OUR OWN PLAYERS CHARACTERS by abusing a bed spawn glitch. As seen here at 1:03 and again at 4:39 (with a Federation nametag)
To be clear we have had the most fun in this game for the past week defending our island non-stop and we thank you for bringing a fight to our hermit island, however when you have to resort to hacks.

Here are some fun clips from the streamers who not only gave us clear communications & info on the siege as it was happening live but also many a good laughs = ^ )

Rough night for Federation with nothing to show for it
No way we can see the bears
Those darn stream snipers, eh?

"I'M A FUCKING BEAR ON FIRE IN THE FUCKING WOODS HOW CAN YOU NOT SEE ME???"
No bears here

We are still offering honey to trade if you need it. Bear count is currently 6?
SHHH i'm not streaming.
I hope all of you 200+ players in federation had fun sieging with multiple streamers making the raids futile for your groups!

PS: You won't rest until you have secured every inch of this island.

TL;DR: Federation broke our NAP, faked an alliance invite, wiped our allies & after failing to claim our island fairly has resorted to cheating.






///KATE COMMENT///


Just commenting to give more info.

I'm the one who took the gif of the grenade glitch, what you're looking at is a lone user, SPINSPIN SPIN, an officer in Federation, and known aimbotter somehow not getting a cooldown on grenades on his toolbar and constantly barraging us with them for 4-5 minutes straight (upwards of 3,000+ pounds worth of grenades before he crashed, more than one person should be able to carry post bug fixes. We are assuming people knew he was exploiting and were popcorning grenades to him) to the point where the server was lagging and he eventually crashed himself out. We could never get to the roof to get direct evidence due to Fed's numbers swarming the stairwells, but heres a few gifs of him killing us, he was the only one to ever kill us with nades.

https://gyazo.com/72fce19c309dbcbb34b00c82d48998b5
https://gyazo.com/26cbc78aa23fdd8533f6bfebdee84ef7
Due to the lag in the above gifs the exploit doesn't look as bad, the gif in the OP shows it better before everything started getting choppy. 2-3 nades exploding at once, 1 second of lag, 2-3 nades, lag etc.

This also seems to be known and tolerated within Federation, one of their members were trapped and chatting with us to pass the time, and we mentioned "So, what's the plan here?" to which he responded "Don't worry, Spinspin is our ace in the hole"

We've been having a blast defending our island, first real bit of pvp we've got to experience, but, now that they've resorted to cheating and cheap tactics... ugh.

Also to note, they have some rafts w/ beds and land claims under our island, so that's cool.