PhilC
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- §3.11 ITS FORBIDDEN TO BUILD a BASE in BLACK ICE (please use our black ice trade system to get hardened bricks)
Why would they ban black ice build!?
Black Ice and frontier buildings make lag.
Because like flatearthers believing the world is flat, some people believe they cause more ‘lag’ than other pieces. Its a similar myth to Pillar + Ceiling Tile + four walls is less lag than a single foundation.
A youtuber a few years ago decided to troll in one of their videos, and because they are fancy youtube mans, they must be right. That’s pretty much where most of these start, and on occasion a server owner will believe it and make it a rule. Because they did it, when someone else makes a server they decide to make the same rule without verifying the validity or truth.
Its been disproven dozens of times over, by many modders, server owners, etc. But even with evidence people still want to spread myths. The tribalism of human nature on full display.
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Its no a myth it is true we make the test in OUR server also isnt Just black Ice like i posted IS black Ice AND frontier(picto) too
And you are right about pillar build It IS the same of a Foundation build no less lag.
PhilC
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Based on your testing, all blocks of the black ice causes this or specific ones?
We used foundations , walls and roofs we didnt used pillar or stairs and we make the same base from all dlcs to check we make It in the big space from sepemeru to unamed city near the Scorpions boss
No they don’t. As for your so called ‘tested so it’s true’ argument, if you build big at a location that has a lot of assets (like Sepermeru) you may encounter lag as the game has to load the npc stuff in as well as your base. I’ve built massive structures out of black ice and frontier on old gen with no problems.
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FWIW, in the years of yore, before there were even rules on official servers, black ice builds would adversely impact the client-side performance. I was there, Gandalf, 3000 years ago, and I’ve witnessed it personally.
That particular problem has gone away over time, but it wouldn’t surprise me to hear that there’s superstition around it that has its roots in those olden days.
Then again, it wouldn’t surprise me to find out that there’s a real problem with black ice, a new one. I mean, they’ve screwed around with things best left alone and screwed them up royally (looking at you, inventory management), so why wouldn’t they introduce some regression or a completely new problem with black ice?
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I’m pretty God-damn sure that they don’t cause lag considering I’ve had at least 4 structures in the 75,000 120,000 block range each made entirely of Black Ice, using foundations, walls, ceilings, pillars, ramps, stairs, roofs, crenellations, fences, and fence foundations. As well as building in ways you normally cannot due to LBPR settings. No server impact.
I’ve even seen players with lower end systems (such as GTX 780s and 1400s) not experience anymore slow down compared to other large structures.
But congrats to anyone who thinks otherwise. You’re a card carrying member of the Hyborian Flat Earth Society. 
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There shouldn’t be any server impact anyways. Client-side maybe, but not server-side.
Good enough for me. 
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erjoh
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I totally forgot about that. Yes it was client side because we were all complaining about how our PS4s were sounding like a clogged vacuum.
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When you say about “OP-ness of bows”, I hoped it was a necro thread.
The easiest way to kill someone or some NPC is if they are using bows, any bows.
Unless you think this game is like the Muay Thai fighting “kick battle” Van Damme was so fond of. BTW, it is a real thing, mostly on training though, when fighters will do kick battles until someone taps out.
Only if you are not using a bow and trying to battle arrows with your chest, you can get a bow to be “remotely” OP.
Get the “finest bow” and a “Predatory Blade wielding” melee, there is no doubt who wins. It would go like a Machete movie.
Lmao
Pred blade against bow in hardcore PVP?
Hands down bow.
Clear you have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about.
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Wait… did I really just miss this drop? I have every blood crystal item and I missed this one? Shit on a stick!
PhilC
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Time to get out of your single-player modded RP game and come experience other game modes. I invite you to try PVC. You and me let’s test your theories about bows and also p2w stuff while at it ;).
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I missed it too, don’t worry 
Wait, is that the guy that said full corrupt Sorcery builds were perfectly viable and not gimped… and then it turned out that he was playing with like 4x damage and 0.1 damage taken modifiers?
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PhilC
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Lol not the same person but similar biases.
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