Yes. That pet peeve of mine. And I honestly don’t know how else to try to change this attitude.
FYI this isn’t a specific person. This is PVE
Now I know you are a good person.
I know you have some seriously nice building talent.
I know you just want to help every one out with conveniences, like open maprooms, elevators, stairs and paths to make difficult short cuts easy.
But that in no way, shape, make or form makes you immune to the TOS.
Now I have no issues with convenience build that help our fellow players. But they do not need to be big elaborate examples of your skills.
I’ll put an elevator off the cliff next to the jungle obelisk as a convenience for me; easy access to buccaneers bay. If it’s convenient for me it’s convenient for everyone. My elevator looks more like a flotsam diving board then an elevator lobby, it’s there for convenience not looks. I may make it prettier but not bigger or well lit.
I know we all appreciate a maproom by an obelisk, but does it need to be any more then a foundation and a light? Maybe a dancer?
I’m not saying don’t make it pretty, I’m saying don’t make it big, elaborate, or extremely fancy/well lit.
This is something I need to point out to all builders. Animations cost fps, the more flickering torches and emoting thralls, the more drag on my GPU. So please, when you are building take in to account not everyone has a top of the line rig with the newest GPU. Assume most people are running in laptop mode not ultra. I recommend light sources that glow.
Not saying I don’t like easy paths with stairs and lights for difficult short cuts, in single player, or on a private server, but read the TOS. In these situations that is an ornamental land claim, a TOS violation.
That brings us to bridges. Now I know of a few places a simple bridge would save some run around time. Us players do appreciate these. Still could be considered a TOS violation. Now I see it as a scale, complexity thing. Nice little goat bridge in the north, a rope bridge in the jungle. Fits the aesthetic with out being elaborate. The golden gate over noob river is way too much.
But are most bridges against the TOS? When you could drag swim a thrall I thought all these water surface sand store things would go poof. Nope still run afoul of them regular. But with the age of war bridges are now a necessity. Once again, they don’t have to be huge, elaborate, or well lit. And I’d deeply appreciate if you built them above the water level. Not that hard to add one more pillar.
My opinion, funcom knows the pathing in game, add bridges for chapter 2 of the age of war.
I’d appreciate it if content producers would do some “how to build on a public server” videos. People see these beautiful builds; which I dearly love to watch, and think “I want to build that” and head straight for a public server to build the entire town of Camelot. Not just the castle but the surrounding city as well. They aren’t going to read the TOS, or if they do they will think so and so did it so it must be ok. That is why I am encouraging you all to make some public server TOS safe builds. Maybe even link some here.
No not having issues, just thinking while autorunng and moving my base. That boss is too freaking close, I keep losing pets.
Now if you know I’m on your server, don’t sweat. Till zendesk changes how they do things I wont be reporting builds. I have big issues with time outs/bans with out warning or explanation,