Claimed Base Disappeared

[Shiven]

I found a base that had an expired claim so I threw down a tower and claimed it. It's been a few weeks and this morning everything that was original to the previous company's base is now gone. The structures I personally placed are still there. My claim time was full the day prior to the missing structures, and is still there and current.

I've seen several other bases or where they had been, but with tames lined up floating in the air where they previously had been. So this seems like something someone out there would know about.

Is this a bug with the game not actually giving ownership to who claims it and it just eventually gets cleaned up?

Could the previous owners of the structurtes have done something to cause this?

Just trying to figure out if it's really worth it to me to play on or wait for the next server wipe. Where we can only assume the devs will make building any structures to require gold to build.

[Shiven]

Company log stated all the structures were auto-decayed.

So my assumption that the devs don't know how to program their game rules correctly stands firmly. I took ownership of the structures via claim flag. The structures actually held onto the previous owners decay-timer regardless of it showing my company had ownership. The previous company members never came around or in proximity, so the structures were cleaned up by the server.

So if you claim something you would need to place a structure over every structure placed that was not built by your company.

Or if your base gets claimed, you just don't go there for a few weeks and it will auto-disappear on the new owners.

Is this by design? Or just sloppy devs?

[Shiven]

Ended up submitting a bug report for the devs.

If you claim something that wasn't built by you or your company, the decay timers do not get updated to your company's timers. They remain set for the original owner. This means if you claim something and the previous owner doesn't come within render distance for the duration of their decay timer (which you can't see looking at the structure) - it will be auto deleted by the server once the decay timer you can't see reaches zero.

Those who have claimed something that was not theirs and haven't had issues with this decay issue is because the previous owner/company is still coming within render distance of the structures which resets the decay timer.

I've seen many bases with claim flags still valid but the structures are gone with floating tames where a ceiling used to be. Always wondered why that was - now I know.

[doomerlar]

"Yard sale" claimed buildings auto decay much quicker (I think after only 3 days), Not sure if it is documented anywhere though. I found the answer by searching the heck out of this forum.

[Biomech3000]

I've claimed more than a few bases and have never run into this issue. I know the previous owners are certainly not around anymore. All timers reset decay after new claim is set up. Odd about your decay timers, but lots of strange things happen on Atlas, like crossing a server grid and appearing on the next server, ship totally on fire or just a skeleton hull and sinking fast... I lose more ships to glitches than actual PVP.