This may be a bug so i am reporting it, but its also my own feedback.
If you have creative build mode enabled for everybody and someone builds something in creative, but someone or even yourself when no longer in creative pick that item back up, you get the actual resources. This seems like a oversight since creative can be allowed for everybody, and this effectively allows to spawn in resources without admin access.
Anything placed in creative should not give resources when dismantled/picked up outside of creative.
This seems like a petty squabble. Either you are okay with the entire server getting the free mats they need to build whatever they want, or you aren’t. The only thing they gain when they pick up the items are the materials that you (or whoever the admin is) gave them to freely build in the first place.
I wouldn’t say petty squabble… one of the first things i did after testing out creative was to see if those resources would be given to me if I left creative… it seems like a bug only because you are letting a user build, not spawn in resources if they aren’t admin. And to be honest… if someone can just spawn in the best materials, and skip harvesting altogether, then that would deter servers from enabling creative mode for everyone (And it is a server setting). I just feel things built when in creative should retain that they were creatively built and not give resources if destroyed outside of creative.
Well, I see it as petty. If you are enabling anyone and everyone to build freely (without farming), why is it important that you force them to farm other stuff. They will either, play on your server because there is no cost to anything, or they won’t. I see it as, you either trust people to play, or you don’t.
Agree to disagree. I just wanted to submit my feedback as i feel its a bug and maybe funcom will see the post. If it gets fix/changed in the release then we have our answer and i’ll accept it.
It doesn’t matter in which way something was built. When it’s dismantled, resources are always returned. There is no way the game marks a piece built in creative mode - and I strongly doubt there will ever be.
Considering it is a new feature… I highly doubt funcom intended to allow people to just get whatever resources they wanted. If creative is allowed on a server for everybody, i view that as, allowed to build freely, but still need to gather resources for things like weapons, tools, etc. If you could just spawn in resources, then why not allow everybody to just be an admin as it defeats the purpose. Funcom could easily add a property to built materials to indicate if it were built in creative or not.
Because Admins have far more power than just spawning in mats, they can spawn in thralls, NPCs, change game settings, teleport, become invisible or even invincible.
If you choose to allow random people to build freely on your server, than you need to accept that some of them might obtain some free mats as well. That is far different than making everyone an admin.
You are missing the point of what I said, taking only one sentence out of context, sure that is the answer. You know what. I give up. I’m ditching the forums, i came to report bugs and give feedback, not engage with a bunch of trolls.
I have no horse in this race. See what happens when 3.0 is ready for ps4 and give it a go on my wife’s and I server. @zontreck don’t quit the Forum because someone doesn’t agree with you that I am learning how Forums work. There is much to learn here.
