Decay timer bug?

Conan Exiles PC Discussion
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Game mode: [Online ]
Problem: [ Bug ]
Region: [EU]

i don’t know how i did it but i saw it multile time.

After certain action (not sure about witchone), decey time incrise.

if i put 1-2 fondation, i will have for exemple 12h:20min:00 sec decay timer and it will start to cownt down (12:19:59, 12:19:58, etc…)

i m going to do other inside game thing, then comming back to my fondation and when
i watch again decay time it is now at 15h:35:min:15sec (counting down when watching it)

in this exemple decay setting are :
BuildingDecayTimePerScore=5400.000000
MaxBuildingDecayTime=648000.000000
BuildingDecayRateModifier=1
DecayCleanupTimeMultiplier=2.000000
MaxDecayTimeToAutoDemolish=648000.000000
BuildingDecayTimeMultiplier=0.350000
DecayBonusTimeRate=600.000000
DecayShowBuildingScore=False

saw this behavior on a field of fondation :

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befor :

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after server restart :

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and it incrise again after i go away (do thing) then TP back to check but i did not take any screenshot

Steps on how to reproduce issue:

  1. do a field of fondation
  2. watch decay time
  3. restart server
  4. watch decay time again ===> incrise
  5. do other thing (go somewhere else etc…)
  6. go back and watch decay time ===> incrise again

if at eatch server restart decay time incrise (did not confimr this yet), should we keep restarting them ?

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by the way, what is the difference between :

  • MaxDecayTimeToAutoDemolish (default was 604 800)
  • MaxBuildingDecayTime (default was 1 296 000)

i had them both in my setting file befor doing anything

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uping thread because i don’t know if they saw it

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i gess decay is not working as intented, or did not understand how it should work
as you can see 22h later and one server reboot timer lose only few hours

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Okey did more test :
After server wipe
i did not toutch server setting
i put 1 T3 fondation
===> bug still happen

But now i know that you have nothing to do ti reproduce it.
Juste put 1 T3 black ice fondation
look after timer decay for over 5 min

you will see it do like going down for 1 min then taking +10 min then going down for 1 min then taking +10 min etc…

try it on solo player and dedicated server

edit : so bad in spellingsorry xD

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Okey, after yesterday wipe and tests (so less than 24h)

decay timer have done almost like x6

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could be nice to know if i’m the only one to get this probleme.
is my setting doing this ?

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This is not a bug. This is a struggle with those who love to block other people’s buildings, putting one block of the foundation. If there are no walls, doors, beds (that is, it is not a base), then the life time is set short. When next you put more elements of buildings - the time of life grows.

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i don’t think you get what i mean.

instead of decreasing, decay timer increase, eatch minutes, decay timer get +10 min without putting enithing new near it or on it

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so i made a video :

at 1:04 you can see timer increase

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Oh, im understand now. It is very strange. Near none of your clan built anything?

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i was alone on server

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made a test on official pvp server 1060 (PC - EU) same result

only one fondation, nothing new near or on it, eatch minutes timer inscrease by 10 min

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What you see is not what it is with the decay system. That timer has been bugged since they put it in, honestly.

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strangly when i change decay setting it change this value, are you sure it’s not decay timer ? as it is write ?

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It’s based on the decay timer system, but it’s not at all accurate. Think of it like “Microsoft Minutes”. It’s a widely innacurate estimate based on the “real” decay timer which is stored in the server, but gets lost in translation.

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so witch setting i have to adjust to quickly decay little strucures ?

BuildingDecayTimeMultiplier=0.350000 ? or 10 ?

if needed all decay setting i know are listed earlier in this thread

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okey i know why this hapen.

it came from this param :
DecayBonusTimeRate=600.000000

@Jens_Erik, could you ask if t’s a good idea to put this setting to DecayBonusTimeRate=1.000000 ? or event 0 ?

whould love to know :stuck_out_tongue:

EDIT : after goin to zero, fondation did not disaper and timer start again.
Is theyr a way to see, true decay timer ?

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Okeyyyyyy !!!

i fond it. finaly omg.

i find a way to see true decay timer with this setting :

BuildingDecayTimePerScore=5400.000000
MaxBuildingDecayTime=648000.000000
BuildingDecayRateModifier=1
DecayCleanupTimeMultiplier=0.000000
MaxDecayTimeToAutoDemolish=648000.000000
BuildingDecayTimeMultiplier=1.000000
DecayBonusTimeRate=0.000000
DecayShowBuildingScore=True

where :
BuildingDecayTimePerScore=5400.000000 is in sec
and knowing that 1 T1 fondation do 1 point to score
and 1 T3 fonda do 21 points

DecayTime (in hours) = (building Score * BuildingDecayTimePerScore)/3600

with this setting i mage to make building auto destroy when timer go to zero

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okey after 4 day with this setting on a fresh new server.

Everything seem okey.

only bug that still remain but not due to this setting is the fact that decay timer restart from begining when server is reboot.

So, as i reboot server every 6 hours, everything that got more than 6 hours of decay do not decay

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HI @Funcom_Community,

with new decay setting you are releasing soon, i’m wonderring if we have to be carefull for thos who don’t run “normal” decay setting.

Any advise on what we should do ?