I play on PvE-C server 1822. I finished what is, by far, the largest structure on the server the other night. Experiments in single player suggested that if I left my gates open, my thralls would be in better position to help in case of a purge. Players are not supposed to be able to destroy player structures and I felt I’d addressed possible purges, so I took a little pride in opening the doors for others to see the fruits of my (months) of labor. (I started working on this week 2 after the game went live.)
18 hours later, I log back on and the north, west and interior of my castle had been destroyed. Above you can see the interior walls/towers in white and exterior walls in green, before the damage. Below I colored in red what areas had been destroyed.
This damage was NOT caused by a purge. My purge meter is still full and the only reports on my clan/purge log are from a purge from last week at my winter base (as you can tell from the types of creatures who attacked in the pic below).
I built this structure twice. The first time I built it in reinforced stone (because it’s in the volcano). Just as I completed it, Aquilonian marble stone came out and I could not resist. I bought the DLC and re-did the whole thing in marble. The following pic is from when I was building it the first time. You can see where the exterior walls were, if not the grandeur of the finished product.
Below are pictures of what the exterior looks like now.
The interior floors, ceilings, walls, décor is all gone. The thralls, their stations and all but a few chests were untouched.
I opened it up to visitation Saturday night. I found the devastation Sunday night, and transported all I could of supplies to another base until I passed out from exhaustion at 4 a.m… I had reason to believe this might have been a result of player action, so instead of reporting it here, I reported it to the Exploits people Monday. I’ve still not heard from them, and as I’ve also reason to believe it may NOT be a player, I am reporting it here. The reason (aside from it’s supposed to be impossible for players to do this sort of thing) I suspect it may be a bug is…
For two days prior to the debacle, whenever I’d log in (my bed was upstairs), when I tried to move, it gave the jumping animation (except I never landed) until I got down stairs, or at least out of a certain area. This would even happen when I went upstairs and had been in the castle a long time.
Let me reiterate. This is NOT the result of a purge. It is either a hack, or the worst bug yet discovered in the game. I’ve put hundreds of hours into building this structure. The SECOND time I built it, I counted blocks… it took no fewer than 32k hardened brick alone to make the construction blocks. That’s just for the blocks, not including the décor.
THIS BUG MUST BE ADDRESSED. I ask your help in bringing this to the attention of whomever can address it. NOT ONLY does the bug need to be fixed, but I don’t have the heart or time (now that summer’s over and I have to teach) to reassemble the materials to build it a THIRD time. I do not think it unreasonable to ask to be given the blocks it would require to reassemble the structure that was destroyed due to a bug… pretty please. With sugar on top.
I am the only player left from week one who plays regularly on this server. I have adopted the server, and I regularly give new players a hand / running start. I do this because I love the game and I want to keep my server alive. Many (if not most) of the level 60s on the server can vouch that I gave them a leg up when they first started and helped them figure out how to navigate the game (including many bugs). I’ve done right by my server, I’ve done right by this game. I hope that FunCom will do right by me.