I understand your feeling, man. I left public servers because the amount of blantant claim spam was too much to keep up with. Myself and 4 other players got fed up one day and spent our play sessions each sending in tickets to the most egregious foundation chain offenders on our pve server yet it only made a dent for short time. I’m now on my own server.

I do miss all the fun I had with many strangers over the years, but the abandoned mega bases and Great Walls of Hyborias ruined my, and many other players, enjoyment of public pve.

In all honesty though, once your play session is spent mostly filing reports, the game ceases to be fun. And to anyone who wants to run in here and say “have you tried talking to them!?”… obviously. Truth is, it’s a hit or miss what reaction you’ll get from people. Either they do not respond to your many attempts to make contact, or they respond and get defensive immediately and will not change their build and often will hit back with “well, if i get my base wiped i know it was you who reported me” and then a revenge war starts all because the claim spammer was too egotistical to control himself on a shared public map with limited space for hundreds of players.

I’ve had maybe 2 or 3 people in the 4 years i played be reasonable and say they did not realize their build had gotten out of hand and they let me help them remodel their base. 9/10 people act like a targeted victim when called out on their build spanning 2 square grids.

Sorry if I came across like a Debbie downer, dude. But seeing this post reminded me of how much fun and how many friendships I’ve lost over having to choose a new playstyle over this nonsense. I hope you find a solution that works for you.

Before i sign off, i just want to take a minute to throw out a thank you to all the pvers that do make large but controlled bases that do not interfere with the other players on your server.

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