Why stop painting in PVE?

[Piwakawaka]

I loved the ability to paint on signs and billboards, I ran a good trade being paid for painting murals for people on our server. I coloured people's houses and gates for them, and was basically the painting guru for our server - Need a certain colour? Need some tips for painting billboards? I was the man to go to.

Now it's been taken away. It might be a petty thing to most of you, and to some of you who were unfortunate enough to be on servers with 'le ebin tr0llz' going round painting randomly, a good thing, but it's taken away a part of the game that I found extremely enjoyable and made me happily spend hour upon hour flicking through different paintbrushes and creating dyes, finding quirks in the painting UI like how metal billboards were stretched vertically in the painting interface but normal from outside, etc.

A harmless bit of fun for most, removed with no explanation.

[Piwakawaka]

bumpilicious

[Scooby]

I'm sure it was never meant to be in place and was just a thing that the devs overlooked. Because of this, I am sure people were going around on servers with big bases and painting them ridiculous colors just to troll. This probably caused people hours of having to re paint their houses because of these people. When you look at it, the pros to cons are just too different to keep this a thing. Unless of course, it was a server setting for admins to change on their servers. But, on the small chance that you actually do like to go around "helping" people with their decorative needs, the cons of the whole feature probably outweigh that.

[Piwakawaka]

Indeed, to alleviate it they really need to add more cross-tribe options, like granting friends from other tribes - allied tribes if you will - minor permissions like the ability to paint/build/use doors and so on.

[CillitBangTM]

Originally posted by Gling24:

Indeed, to alleviate it they really need to add more cross-tribe options, like granting friends from other tribes - allied tribes if you will - minor permissions like the ability to paint/build/use doors and so on.

totally agree thats the best way

[TheOne320]

or just make PvE painting a server option.

[Bella 亗 Nova]

Originally posted by Gling24:

Indeed, to alleviate it they really need to add more cross-tribe options, like granting friends from other tribes - allied tribes if you will - minor permissions like the ability to paint/build/use doors and so on.

yes, been asking for "tribe alliances" but they say that they have no intent on that. would really be nice, especially for PVE. yet they want to have PVE tribal wars, so why not alliances.

[Luketh]

"Removed with no explanation"

You explained it yourself. It was used by trolls to grief.

The patch notes themselves are explanation enough, something along the lines of "removed from PvE servers." Player vs Environment. In this setting, another player should have -no- power or ability to modify, damage, or manipulate another player's belongings be it structures or Dinos.

The ability to paint on another player's buildings in PvE was an oversight by the developers, it should have never been possible in the first place.

I am sorry that you feel that this fix will now diminish your playing experience, but you would certainly be one of the very few. Fixing this oversight is going to benefit a lot more people than it'll inconvenience.

with any luck though, once the tribe war options are introduced you may just be able to go back in to business.

[WoodPunk]

Gling24 are you aware that there is a weekly art competition in the community crunch post?
If you miss painting for all your friends on your server how about creating some pieces with a chance to win a cash prize!
I won last weeks with absolutely zero competitors, which is more than a little embarrasing.
It would be great to see everyones paintings proudly displayed there but it's not getting much attention.
Anyway just a suggestion to keep a fellow artists idle hands busy, keep painting!

[Greystar]

They did explain why they took it away. It was due to the people who were repainting other peoples structures, without permission. I'm guessing it will be allowed again when they find a workaround to still allow people to paint the buildings. I was thinking they could do a tribe thing but the unfortunate side affect of joining a tribe is all buildings You own and all the dinos you own become tribe property. No real choice in the matter. So currently it's disabled but I'm sure it'll be back eventually, especially now that they are allowing warpaint on dinos.