Big Building Bans?

[gjcp]

Hi everyone, I've heard a few people (facetiously I hope) saying the stunning example castle shown on the new People of the Dragon DLC would get you banned on an official PVE server for being too large? Don't get me wrong I hate 'land claimers'... but this isn't at all true is it?

Like, what are the rules now? I've been away from the game a while and quite fancy building a castle to about the same size :)

[gjcp]

Originally posted by Furry_Boots:

foundation spam will get you yeeted, guys that want the desert to themselves should just play single player, we had a guy on 1043 that spammed foundation litterally everywhere, he got yeeted and deleted!

Yep we had a guy on 1972 a few years ago who did same. It was a pain and I'm glad those days are over.

So all-in-all, it's fair to say (from everyone's comments above) we all applaud the eradication of this kind of behaviour, while at the same time hoping Funcom shows good sense in always allowing at least one very large base per clan/[payer to accommodate the full range of building options, and also, player creativity. Assuming that base is not built somewhere inconsiderate or stupid.

When I started playing there were 5 in my clan, if I think about just how big a PVE base for 5, with all the options would have to be... man it does get up there size wise.

[Mike Hawthorne]

I have a city Brigadoom that runs for a bout a scale half mile along both sides of the southern river. I'ts been there for over two years, but I have many pass troughs and ways to go throw the city and access the river and other items of value. In some cases I've done things to aid newbs, like water sources along the edge of the desert etc.

If it ever vanishes that will be the end for me. I had that happen on my Isle of Siptah base, which is much smaller, but I suppose I didn't log in for 5 days. I think that logging in on either the exiled land of the isle should count, it they want you to play both then let both count. It's bad enough to have one game where you have to log in in less than a week much less two.

[Chill°bucket]

Originally posted by Furry_Boots:

foundation spam will get you yeeted, guys that want the desert to themselves should just play single player, we had a guy on 1043 that spammed foundation litterally everywhere, he got yeeted and deleted!

nope, not ever:

Clan/Guy which spammed massive foundation snakes to claim massive land sections on 3 places with T1 fundament snakes; He's not even playing, only goes online to reset timers. I reported with detailed pictures, coordinates and map locaion pic. End result: mail from Funcom

"We currently experience a high number of contacts from our community, and regret not having been able to do an in depth investigation on the issue you reported.
We hope it has already improved on its own"

I guess only if several people repeatingly report and it is a really Serverbreaking Thing there happens something. As it not really disturbs my own play, only maybe new other guys it was just a test how strict those "new rules" are handled. As I don't really care and those snakes don't block the ways I leave him for good. As said, just a test.

It's more a bark than a bite, like I thought.

[Kemalist(mdx³)]

Originally posted by RAY°451°:

Originally posted by Furry_Boots:

foundation spam will get you yeeted, guys that want the desert to themselves should just play single player, we had a guy on 1043 that spammed foundation litterally everywhere, he got yeeted and deleted!

nope, not ever:

Clan/Guy which spammed massive foundation snakes to claim massive land sections on 3 places with T1 fundament snakes; He's not even playing, only goes online to reset timers. I reported with detailed pictures, coordinates and map locaion pic. End result: mail from Funcom

"We currently experience a high number of contacts from our community, and regret not having been able to do an in depth investigation on the issue you reported.
We hope it has already improved on its own"

I guess only if several people repeatingly report and it is a really Serverbreaking Thing there happens something. As it not really disturbs my own play, only maybe new other guys it was just a test how strict those "new rules" are handled. As I don't really care and those snakes don't block the ways I leave him for good. As said, just a test.

It's more a bark than a bite, like I thought.

dont play on official servers?
join a private one or rent your own.

or play singleplayer, you sound like an sp dude.

[Chill°bucket]

Originally posted by Kemalist:

dont play on official servers?
join a private one or rent your own.
or play singleplayer, you sound like an sp dude.

And why do you think I might sound like an sp dude, Dude?
Cause I think people shouldn't block large parts of the map with fundamentspams?
Which is btw against the new formed rules and a pretty egoistic manner?

So you think official servers are for misuse, if people want to play this game
in a senseful way they should go private, rent or anyway better play SP?

You sound like a person which likes to troll people and misuse stuff on official servers,
which are the problem that's to be solved.

[Evil Ways]

If ONLY.. There should be a ban.. if Funcom was halfway smart they would put restrictions on blocks, placables, per character and [clan numbers].
40 player number servers yet, only 5 to 10 can play on them as some fool has 1,000,000 blocks down... and its the same thing on every server..
No one can play on PVE servers due to this bullshitery... Only large clans should be able to build large structures.. The issue is people are not building bases.. They are building Monuments, and Mega Structures, or literally just pooping blocks down over a whole areas of the map..
All because this game was never intended to be played PVE.. or even PVE Conquest as these are entirely different games with no set rules for them..
You can build a base on PVE and some a$$hat can build a wall all the way around you base locking you in with minimal effort and cost.. Block all spawns.. Hell, people have even tried blocking off the whole Start Area to lock you into the Start desert area... lol
What Funcom forgot if players can find a way to be an a$$hole they will... which is why you NEED RULES, and LIMITS.
-like say 500-1000 blocks/placables per level, or per player in clan. If you cannot build a base with 60,000 blocks you need to be playing on Single Player anyways...lol

All you have to do is log into any of these PVE servers and they have already been destroyed. They are Unplayable.. Which is why 90% of the players who are not playing PVP are playing Single Player.
There are still servers where there are thousands of blocks Under the Mesh.. or items have been placed with no timer on them... there has been a crafting table on one server [pve no ping] all by itself for at least 8 months.. lol
PVE is a joke.. The map could be a thousand times larger and it would still be BONED cause there ARE NO RULES for PVE...

I would love to play on a PVE server, but you cant.

[Chill°bucket]

@Evil Ways: exactly. After a long long long search I found at last 1 playable official PvE server cause of this you describe, most servers are unplayable. But Funcom will not really touch this cause they fear angry clans/people leaving the game. So they only mildly bark.

I personally would go on a private server if I would find one which fits, but I tried several and either the performance is bad, the admin is an a...*, the settings don't fit what I want, aso.

And I want to PLAY the game, not ADMINISTRATE an own server. If there are a bunch of official servers and you hardly can find one to play the game in a senseful way the problem is not the player who wants to play...

[LifeIsNotForYou]

I've reported in the past to fix some issues concerning lag on the official server I play, 2 guys with huge square building bases surronding dungeons and blocking path thru the coast line of Siptah got banned and their buildings demolished. I was sad at the begining because I only wanted the lag gone and the actual blocking building pieces dismantled not everything they owned... now I'm not certain.. they started a clan of 5 on the server and now they are trying new tricks , like IP's sniffing, texture bugs... found this guy sleeping next to one of my vaults trying to bypass textures: https://files.fm/u/quz2yasc7

It's kinda funny... they used to capture purge thralls and drop them on my buildings. Once a structure got destroyed using this method, so i'm not sure if they are planning the same this time.

Is it too hard to stick by the rules and play along with other players?
Thankfully it is a PvE-c and I have 100% achievements and only missing to summon the avatar of a god to finish the journal... not much to do really.

[Ten4]

Originally posted by RAY°451°:

"Massive constructions or over-use of memory intensive items leading to loss of performance both on client and server-side."

As even a relatively small base built in a wrong way with many item-filled chests, many torches, many thralls in and around it will fulfill this and around 60-70% of bases I saw fulfill this you can translate this rule in "we will somtimes set an example". At least on the official server I play ALL bigger bases fulfill one of the points. And this is a pretty good server with only very few big bases (5 left) and good playable.

ALL bigger bases lead to performance problems, especially those built very near to Asagarth or other npc places, 1 base supresses the spawn of the 2 female huntresses between Asagarth and the horse spawn point. All big bases on this server either fill big places on central points or have large surrounding fundament walls which claim unnecessarily big portions of land.

1 Clan uses large fundament snakes beneath excessive buildings to claim land. That clan I reported for testing if something happens. With coordinates and pictures. Nothing happened.

So basically you can say:

"If many people report an annoying clan/building it could be that there will be set an example, but this is pretty unlikely if you don't block very crucial places, like the entrances to the volcano."

This is more the reality.

And afaik the new rules are atm not executed as they are in discussion with VIP players about these rules, as they are not transparent and some banned clans are pretty upset.... Ban means btw only ban for 2 weeks until the buildings run out of time and decay.

Why report? It just makes you sound sad and lonely.

[LifeIsNotForYou]

Originally posted by Marcus:

Why report? It just makes you sound sad and lonely. [/quote]

Sure, let's celebrate those who prevent others to enjoy the game for the glory of happiness and companionship... while we dance despacito.