Ya, as I have said we have been down this same road so many times it’s a canal now. Till funcom joins in we’re all just spitting in the wind.
Now here is the issue from funcoms perspective, any changes to the building rule will have wide spread detrimental effects on the player base. You go on any PVE server and you will find massive sprawling bases, with court yards, zoos, and parks. Or full villages. Both of which are examples of how not to build.
So funcom institutes the foundation count limit, and people use ceiling/floor tiles as bridges between the foundations and boom mega base with plazas using the max foundations. So you do a building piece limit. And you know you’ll need a placeables limit.
Now that limit is a per person thing, each person joining a clan gives over their piece count so now we have ghost clans. 1 person 9 alts and right back to single player mega builds.
We can set here all day long and work out an acceptable TOC and enforcement there of. But nothing will change as long as funcom isn’t part of the discord.
My suggestion now is land claim blocks. Start with one, can make 5 more once you unlock the recipe. Ingredients would be mid level rare; hardened steel, reinforced brick, alchemy base, tar. Or similar.
You can build how you want, parked Borg cube, Norse walled village, Camelot, Hogwarts, don’t care.
With this system no builds for POIs would be easy, just needs to be the point of the POI in most cases.
No more false reports, or reports at all for building, so no need of admin running down reports.
And back to the problem for funcom, how do you implement this with out losing a bunch of long time players that simply don’t want to lose their years long build; they haven’t covered a map square yet.
So how does funcom implement changes. Do it and let the chips fall where they may? Set up new servers; with a better host, and ask people to migrate and rebuild? Wipe the servers and start over with the new system?
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How do they do it with out alienating their best customers?
Yes, I know this wont stop server lag. It will come back, why? My opinion storage causes server lag. And PVE Conan probably has some of the biggest hoarders in gaming.
You want to hear people scream? Limit hoarding.