I don´t play a lot anymore, but just came to say i totally agree with this, and support the idea everytime it pops up in the forums.
PvE servers are often filled with buildings not being used and in the nicest places. Some of them are huge and there is no real consequence for occupying tso much space, that´s a mayor flaw in the game design too.
If any player play constantly wouldn’t have any problem keeping their bases from decaying, and if they build huge they better play a lot in order to get the resources to maintain it… that´s only fair.
For those amusement parks and roads, is not like the floor is lava you know? at least for the most part… they´re also ugly and annoying, for they take so much good space for actual players.
For PvP servers sounds like agood idea too, that way players can´t hide in their bases all the time…
So for all i care, this is the best thing that could happen to the game right now… and just because it has been so long since we are asking for it…
Welcome @John.Doe. I wish I was a modder to be able to fix these things. I am just a key pressor for fun, gaming fun. These things to be done demands hours and hours of work, not fun. There for I can only give my greatest respect and gratitude to people who work so hard for others to have fun.
Maybe skipping that “decay of 24 hours” part, if it could somehow sneak into the game, it would be fun. But that’s really just that. The inability to repair (or even pick up build parts) means that we think twice as long whether to build something beyond what we need. This does not really limit players’ imaginations, but gives more strategy when building and deciding on defense placement.
Currently, I like what devs are doing. Instead of introducing one large system that fixes all problems, they create small POI (Point of Interest) protection system, to fix only a single problem.
I don’t know, I feel like that’s still not enough on PVE(-C) servers. On PVP, sure, but on PVE(-C) you can still plop down as much crap as you want and only worry about purges – and that’s not a lot of worry.
I agree that different types of servers need different solutions. Therefore, with small steps, small changes, many problems related to building and balance could be dealt with. I can see it in new updates as if someone was really read our comments and topic like this could really makes a difference
There is something similiar in ValHeim. They use a construction bench that has a radius. You can only construct inside the radius. you can move the bench, but if anything is not in a radius in cannot be repaired or added to.
If there’s a lack of content for those players, then they should consider the game done and move on, leaving their stuff to decay.
An upkeep system would simply be part of the game. Its a challenge people would have to work out in order to keep their things. You have to pick up rocks to make that first pick. You have to pick up rocks occasionally to keep that sandstone hut going. Its just playing the game. Building buildings is playing too. You play to play. If you’re not playing, you’re not playing.
In short, I totally agree with @Ragnaguard. I think it would be the opposite of fun, just collecting fuel, just grinding like working in a game (the game could easily be renamed to Conan the Woodcutter or to Conan Chop Chop Wood!). There would have to be other ways to fill the fuel.
I forced myself to figure out what kind of refueling would please me. And in the easiest way, it would be enough if the fuel for the upkeep could be anything. Completely everything!
Imagine you really want to go hunting today. After several minutes of killing and skinning creatures, you can fill upkeep with unnecessary items obtained during the hunt - I always have too many bones from there.
Imagine that you can use up items that are unnecessarily stuck in your chests: demon blood; fiber; bees; bone meal, T1 thralls… There would be more space for important things!
Imagine you are repeating a dungeon all the time. But you don’t need the items from it anymore. You could use them in the bottomless maw of the upkeep system
This way, you can choose what you want to do in the game and fill the fuel with this activity. Through the gameplay of your choice You could live your own story
You mean add more game? You all wanted more content, there you go. You built all the structures to begin with. So gathering resources couldn’t have been that bad. If it wasn’t fun, why were the structures built in the first place?
I was thinking of something. It’d be a bit of work to make the table (but only once), but if they did the Medieval Engineers method. Then nearly any item could be used to pay the upkeep, and the more valuable items would grant more time. Things like bricks would be worth more than the sum of the rocks made to build them, if even a little.
I look at the sameway I’ve handled log in only landlords in the present and in the past. They are not online to defend only to to refresh. I call their castle at this point free target practice !! More content for my god of choice, bombs (boring, but effective (too?) , or treb practice ( personal favorite).
Well all I can say from a PvP standpoint as I rarely play PvE is that it would be impossbile to offline someone who is in fact online. To me of the offlining a person who is rarely online in the game anyway is that nothing really changed except now the building and objects are gone . They were not using the building much anyway as you need to be online to use the assets of the game unless you are in singleplayer mode. So if killing players who are not playing killed the pvp official servers then they were not really ever alive in the first place.
But an upkeep would do 2 things. Make people on officuals play some to maintain. And therefore if they play more on pvp, then dbd can be initiated because now you have players to truly pvp and remove offlining all together. Again, destroying a refreshers base is one thing, but how many clans go into refresh mode on pvp because Noone is ever on to pvp. They may have went to different server, and thus offlining is still not something to brag about. It’s more non pvp than a pve server tbh.
Build it and you should have to maintain it with blood, sweat, toil, and time. If you build they may come and destroy it as long as it is done without exploit of course. We do have raid times for a reason. You should expect to have to defend anything you create on the server during these times on pvp servers atleast.
You could live your own story 