1 week AFK territory removal

[LoveGiant]

I was wondering why that is implemented. I got a message stating that my house blueprint is saved but they removed my house. Which is great and all, but I've built my territory on a mountain, it has levels. I can't plop it back down again. So essentially I'd have to build it from square one again. I've been away for a week. Been egregiously sick for the past week.

Apart from being super frustrated at not being able to plop my territory back down again, was wondering why this is a thing? There's already a limit of players on a server, nobody else can join the server. And right now we are in a phase that requires players to do activities that give server wide rewards, it just doesn't seem reasonable to remove player territory.

I think it's fine for people that built on flat ground, and, if I had to be fair, I understand that for anyone else this isn't a huge issue. But half my territory ground level is in a mountain, so I built stairs up to the top. It doesn't let me B > Z my territory down because half the foundation has to be in the mountain, which it doesn't let me. My territory has a lot of levels.

Really makes me contemplate my building choices, and I feel like I should just make a boring square house next time.

[LoveGiant]

Originally posted by swischeese:

Don't play a month wipe game that month seems like a good idea.

I can't really predict myself being sick that month, sadly, I don't have that ability.

[LoveGiant]

Originally posted by Aldath:

Originally posted by Chris G:

I would argue the fact we have a reset is why this shouldn't happen. It is the entire point for the season reset (Or at least was earlier on in dev chats)

Also if you have loads of water tanks / pumps filled with water / acid it caps your base vault storage and you lose a lot of your items :)

It should happen. There's plenty of people who build and never come back and they're just occupying space and cluttering when others could be using it.

I do understand that, and I agree there should be some sort of solution to it, but I'm not sure this is it. Wasn't planning on being sick for a week. In the starting area it's just littered with territories to the point where I can't drive my bike on dirt roads without hitting some sort of foundation. But past the starting area the houses are far and few between. It also affects players building in a non prime location purely for aesthetic purposes, which I did. On a Mountain overlooking a city. I don't move my territory when a new area gets uncovered per phase.

Now if the point IS to move your house every new area, then my bad, I wasn't aware that was the goal and it's me misunderstanding the way the game is meant to be played. But I personally don't understand why it's implemented if after 6 weeks you get reset anyway. There's no "forever" in that, it's 1.5 months.

But it's interesting to me that there are locations on the map that are prime to build on, could you tell me of a few of these locations? I wasn't aware people want specific spots to build. Let alone on top of a mountain that doesn't serve any purpose other than being aesthetically pleasing.

[Halastat Dendross]

I mean, spot I have now is pretty good. Near a place to gather good scrap and get plenty of enemies to gather acid, large amount of resources, plants and animals for food, and not too far from the ocean for sea water. But as to the 1 week delete thing, no clue. If we had people joining the server that's one thing. But each server has 15 worlds, so even if you want to say somewhere is a prime spot... there are 15 of those spots available. As for people saying they are happy they can build on those spots after a week? Eh... seasons aren't that long so just wait if you have a reason for that specific server, such as friends. Otherwise, they always have new servers coming out.

[Terran-ChapterZ]

My opinion is the first week you could not build anything anywhere everyone was on 1 pile. And also my base had built in 1 mountain. But wrote in the grid. I managed to move on this in week 3. Because the server was almost empty with people who were AFK. Then my base expanded to 18x18 what is standard I don't know. I made 1 grid of 18x 18 and built everything from the heart again. Almost nothing demolished. Which was 1 best job. I did lose some things where these are like the doll. Toem this on the 4 corners put 1 block then I have 1 grid next season. Note this is not the standard starting grid. Now I have 3 Blue prints myself. 1 From the beginning start season that was in the mountain. And 1 from start exit of 18x18. And 1 from where I am now at that moment. Tip you can also make 1 blue print of your neighbors. Then you have 1 start moment again. But whether this is exactly in the grid is another story. Server 90 world 9 Europe.