SO... pillar and ladder thing

[Black4Halo]

no one has mentioned the pillar and ladder thing lately so i thought i would add something (while i look for a place to live on the new servers)

[Hrodh]

Could you elaborate? Don't know what you mean...

[Black4Halo]

Originally posted by Hrodvalder:

Could you elaborate? Don't know what you mean...

well i just logged on to a new official server and everywhere at all is a pillar with a ladder on it (apparantly sticking a ladder on the pillar makes it not despawn or anything) so the entire island im on is "on lockdown

[Hrodh]

Originally posted by Black4Halo:

Originally posted by Hrodvalder:

Could you elaborate? Don't know what you mean...

well i just logged on to a new official server and everywhere at all is a pillar with a ladder on it (apparantly sticking a ladder on the pillar makes it not despawn or anything) so the entire island im on is "on lockdown

Oh that... Well honestly, one could see this happening from a mile away.

[Black4Halo]

Originally posted by Hrodvalder:

Originally posted by Black4Halo:

well i just logged on to a new official server and everywhere at all is a pillar with a ladder on it (apparantly sticking a ladder on the pillar makes it not despawn or anything) so the entire island im on is "on lockdown

Oh that... Well honestly, one could see this happening from a mile away.

i did but its been so long since ive been on official i was like hey because those whipes this wont be a total F fest XD i went in too confident i guess

[Hrodh]

Originally posted by Black4Halo:

Originally posted by Hrodvalder:

Oh that... Well honestly, one could see this happening from a mile away.

i did but its been so long since ive been on official i was like hey because those whipes this wont be a total F fest XD i went in too confident i guess

Nothing they can do about it really. It's sad, especially on PvE

[Black4Halo]

Originally posted by Hrodvalder:

Originally posted by Black4Halo:

i did but its been so long since ive been on official i was like hey because those whipes this wont be a total F fest XD i went in too confident i guess

Nothing they can do about it really. It's sad, especially on PvE

so true sadly (tho they literally added a timer to the pillar which doesnt fix because they stack stuff XD)

[L0N RNGR]

Whats really sad is all the PVE players are crammed into a small amount of servers. Most of them are filled to max and we spend hours just tryign to log on. Not fun at all.

[Black4Halo]

these are very true i didnt know how to put it but yeah i think just slapping a ladder should make it go faster (maybe they could judge by amount of weight the pillar takes?)

[Kazarl]

Originally posted by Black4Halo:

these are very true i didnt know how to put it but yeah i think just slapping a ladder should make it go faster (maybe they could judge by amount of weight the pillar takes?)

the problem is the longer the servers are up the easier its going to be to get the materials to make them so changes like that are just going to make the pillar structures bigger

[Black4Halo]

Originally posted by Darcia:

Originally posted by Black4Halo:

these are very true i didnt know how to put it but yeah i think just slapping a ladder should make it go faster (maybe they could judge by amount of weight the pillar takes?)

the problem is the longer the servers are up the easier its going to be to get the materials to make them so changes like that are just going to make the pillar structures bigger

true but there has to be something that could fix this problem no one has thought about but sadly eh

[Kazarl]

Originally posted by Black4Halo:

true but there has to be something that could fix this problem no one has thought about but sadly eh

only way i can see this being fixed is if WC has someone going around banning the people that do it they are going to keep trying to find work arounds for the changes and the legit players are going to suffer for it since the changes will put more restrictions on building

[Black4Halo]

Originally posted by Darcia:

Originally posted by Black4Halo:

true but there has to be something that could fix this problem no one has thought about but sadly eh

only way i can see this being fixed is if WC has someone going around banning the people that do it they are going to keep trying to find work arounds for the changes and the legit players are going to suffer for it since the changes will put more restrictions on building

sadly true even tho most people say theyre making sure people dont mess with resources theyre all just stealing land like a bunch of c u c k s XD

[Black4Halo]

Originally posted by Silky Rough:

Originally posted by Darcia:

the problem is the longer the servers are up the easier its going to be to get the materials to make them so changes like that are just going to make the pillar structures bigger

Not if the decay rate is large enough to discourage building. Ark mechanics does not disallow forcing a structure to be "lived in" and failure to "live in" a structure for x hours/days could readily be fast auto destruct.

No, it's not ideal but having whole servers pillared/locked out is far, far worse. The ones who complained when we had faster decay were the ones doing the pillaring. I understand why some pillars are used but their use to deliberately lock players out should not be one of them.

exactly they used that we were saving the resources excuse like are u thick in the head theres an entire map you just dont want someone close to your base stealing "your" metal

[Black4Halo]

Originally posted by Silky Rough:

Originally posted by Black4Halo:

exactly they used that we were saving the resources excuse like are u thick in the head theres an entire map you just dont want someone close to your base stealing "your" metal

Game mechanics would also allow for a "structure" within a given range of a resource to be protected or granted greater decay time (we already have the reverse). Devs need to first accept it's a greater problem than they think and act on it.

OR apply better rules against pillaring and *enforce* them... retrospectively if they have to and get the word out.

i morely hate spawning and seeing nothing but pillars and literally no castle not even a shack in sight (like i spawn on an island where there is nothing connected and no resources i see pillars and cant level up by making my terrible hut to live in

[Probitas]

Originally posted by Hrodvalder:

Originally posted by Black4Halo:

i did but its been so long since ive been on official i was like hey because those whipes this wont be a total F fest XD i went in too confident i guess

Nothing they can do about it really. It's sad, especially on PvE

Can't they just remove ladders from the prevent despawn code? Literally just loaded into a 12 day old Rag server, and it's got pillar ladders all over the place. In caves, outside caves, in the light house. No structures anywhere, just crap to prevent people from successfully starting out, like PvE was some kind of competition. Why can't these aholes just go play PvP?