Is building a base near a portal considered griefing?

[Ark!]

Hi everyone,
I have a question I’d like to clarify. I’m considering building my base near a portal, but I’m unsure if this is considered griefing or bad practice within the community.

Are there any unwritten rules or recommendations about this? I don’t want to interfere with other players’ experiences or cause any issues.

Thanks for your input!

[Jaggid Edje]

Not really griefing, as long as you don't actually build around the portal such that your base blocks access.

There are people that will say it is griefing though, because there are people that think building a base near any POI is unacceptable. Which is just silly. As long as you don't block access, there's no grief being done.

Note that in POI's that require digging, like a crashed freighter, just having the base there can block access. Portals don't require digging though.

As far as being "Bad practice". There's probably more people that would say yes it is bad practice than there are those who would go so far as to call it griefing. There's not really a community-accepted standard on that but I would go so far as to say most players do not think it is.

[Felis_Exploria]

Near the portal is frowned upon by 1/3 - 1/2 community because it prevents the use of a portable refiner or nutrient processor.

Around the portal is major no no and your base will be reported.

Best to stay more than 300u - 1000u away.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

As long as you don't try to turn it into a trap or block access it is no problem. Even less of the problem if you are doing it on a regular save and not in an Expedition area.

I build them quite often because they are interesting to work around.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1489657376

[Octavus]

Nah, people can just report the base and it will disappear for them - no consequence to you either. Build wherever you want. Unless you're doing an expedition no one will probably find that same portal anyway.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Felis_Exploria:

Near the portal is frowned upon by 1/3 - 1/2 community because it prevents the use of a portable refiner or nutrient processor.

Around the portal is major no no and your base will be reported.

Best to stay more than 300u - 1000u away.

I think that's a grossly exaggerated value.

Yes, there are 'some' players who think that, but it's not likely even close to 1/3 to 1/2. Firstly, because it's very easy to just report the base and have it vanish, and also because most players aren't going to care about placing a portable refiner (they have personal refiners) and even fewer players are concerned about being able to place a nutrient processor next to random portal #5619.

[Jaggid Edje]

I feel it's also worth pointing out, that if you do not Upload a base, than it doesn't even matter. So if you're ever concerned one of your bases might cross a propriety rule, just build it anyway but don't upload it.

[Grimmslayer73]

There's 16 gazillion portals in NMS. It's ok to say "This one's mine!"

[Octavus]

Originally posted by Grimmslayer73:

There's 16 gazillion portals in NMS. It's ok to say "This one's mine!"

Heh, yup.

[Galactic Starman]

Problem bases that have been uploaded, can simply be reported using the Quick Menu while close to nearby base computers and will vanish from your local game. : )

Some bases may have been created in locations with the game offline and without any malicious intent. Mostly they are unfortunate coincidences and easily removed as mentioned above.

Some uploaded portal bases have also been amazing works of art.

Any base that is not uploaded will not be an issue anyway and not visible to other players. I think playing online in a group of friends this also applies but I'm not certain.

[Seelenschwarz]

When you use the glyphs to skip to the center, there are alway buildings.

Sometimes they direct build over the Portal.

in every galaxy up to eissentam i have 1 teleporter next to a portal, the idea is that others can use it.

[taniwhat]

If you find a square room with panels and batteries on top and a teleporter inside snuggled up to the portal terminal so it can be used even in a storm - it's likely I did it :).

That's useful to everyone.

[+VLFBERHT+]

There are literally TRILLIONS of Portals out there to use...

However, as long as you don't alter the functionality/access of Portals (or any preexisting structure for that matter) during an Expedition or on a highly populated planet, what's the harm?

I think many Portals and other areas required to complete missions during Expeditions are already locked by Hello Games... or should i say "most"... because during The Cursed, i found a structure built by someone that trapped "The Boss" [battle] inside a building...

It was well done though... i almost instantly built a lore around it... There were open crates inside the building, so...

Someones Frigate expedition came upon an enormous locked and chained Door inside a cavern containing an Ancient Ruin... When they opened the door, there was found a small, weak looking entity inside... They captured it and brought it to their surface encampment... but once the entity was exposed to the sun, it began to grow huge, broke out of the crate and seemingly began to posses the workers, as they began to run around screaming and wildly swatting their hands and firing multitools into empty air, as if shooting at something ... the surviving Freighter command called it, "The Curse" (lol:)

[Shadow Strider]

It would be considered griefing if the building was specifically designed to prevent access to people who want to use the portal or to trap people that arrived through it...

However, anyone complaining that they cant place a portable refiner at someone's base is full of it...
They've clearly never installed the personal refiner... and obviously don't use the melee boost either... it takes all of a few seconds to get out of the base radius.
And why would you ever need to build a nutrient refiner at a portal? Such entitlement...

[Spocks Toupee]

Originally posted by Octavus:

Nah, people can just report the base and it will disappear for them - no consequence to you either. Build wherever you want. Unless you're doing an expedition no one will probably find that same portal anyway.

Even if you report the Base and it's removed, you still CANNOT put down a save beacon, or any other item you might want to quickly put down, because you will get the "UNABLE TO EDIT" or whatever the message is.

[Liralen]

If the portal can be accessed and used as intended, I don't consider it griefing.

Edited Note: People who feel entitled to do their refining, cooking, or laundry there, LOL.