Blackwood vs Ocean

[spiff]

I'm interested in the best single player experience, so Blackwood seems like it was almost designed for it being smaller. But I see people complaining about lack of certain resources both on and off land on that map. I also worry that it might be lacking in quite a bit of the over all experience. Besides obviously missing a lot of the volume and the adventure that navigating all that space entails, is it missing any of the story quests and bosses too? Does it have its own unique quests if so?

I would be appreciative of any other comparison insights. I started playing Blackwood, but I see now that even on this smaller map that getting any real feel for the map would take many times what it would on Ark. Sometimes I wonder if I would have been better off starting on Ocean.

Thanks in advance

[GI Ged]

i think the answer to your question is time. if you have only limited time playing blackwood serves you well and if you have plenty of time ocean seems the better choice.

for my taste blackwood ist a little smal, i think a 3x3 grid would be more suitable for SP, but than the grid system has to work 100%.

thats why i still play on blackwood

[Liatni]

I prefer Ocean Map. Blackwood is fine but, it is only a single grid example of the over all map and only has basics of everything on it really.. kinda a Sample of the Ocean all in one spot.
If you dont spend a ton of time in a game, Blackwood imo would be my pick, Can learn the game mechanics and learn how to sail and fight from a ship and all that, can build a fancy town and dont have to go far for well.. anything really. Meet the creatures in the game for the first time and figure out how to fight them best.. all that stuff.
I only use Blackwood as my SP admin playground, use cheats to do everthing on it.. and I make my actual gameplay over on the bigger Ocean map to explore and get into things a bit more legit like..

[Liatni]

Ocean map, if you need salt.. you may find it a all day adventure on the seas to go get some salt then if your day was long you may end up anchored at a random island till next log in for another all day adventure back to home port... Blackwood , its a five minute or so boat ride to get some. at the farthest point lol.
Exaggerating on times there :P now I want to log in and see actual sail time in a ramshackle sloop to go from ne corner to sw corner of blackwood.. dangit. lol
I have wiped my Blackwood map several times since it came out, I usually make a mess of the landscape while messing around with building and other stuff and find something else to get into so wipe it and start over to give it a try.. for fun. lol

[spiff]

Thanks for the feedback. Does Blackwood have the same bosses and quests?