i play on server 1044 ans just down from my base a big base was outlined to be built,but i objected to its size and another player whos base was other side of me agreed it was to big.i sent in a formal report to fun com with pictures and full details to surport my objection,nothing has happened in over a week since being told funcom are looking into the matter.
problem of players building massive bases is never sorted out by funcom,why not make an official post to say what base sizes are allowed,hence players are warned of the rules.this base is rihgt in the middle of the main area and is a pain to go around,honest funcom sort your game out.oh and base is still there:P.
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1: There is no actual size limit. There is no rule about size, there is a rule about causing server lag but an empty base likely wont.
2: It takes weeks, WEEKS before you will get a response from funcom.
Have you gotten the acknowledgment email your report was received?
3: funcom wont investigate 1 report.
Sounds like you really need to reread the ToC. There are rules about how and where you can build but there is no real rule on size, except for land claim abuse.
Big bases arent against the rules…
If the base dont have nothing against rules funcom wont will ban it just because you dont like it be too big.
If the base is ok and dont break any rule What you can try do is move to another place exile lands is huge and theres many places you can try build.
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so i have to find another place to build whch will give the green light to players who can abuse the game at will.
me and other players dont like this base taking up most of the area we play in,seems we have to fight back,so be it.
The purpose of Zendesk is not to review and act upon your interpretations or objections. It is to enforce standards of conduct.
You are not in a position of authority nor are part of a Homeowners Association. As much as other players should consider sharing, you should as well.
Keep in mind with any action you perform with your disappointment can result in you getting suspended/banned instead.
Tread lightly.
This game is incredibly forgiving for moving base and there ARE many places to build.
IMHO no one should send a report for “Funcom to sort it out”, it is an incredible waste of resources, both your time and theirs. Submitting reports should be a last resort when all available options have been exhausted and the other player(s) have affected your reasonable gameplay; exploits, abusive landclaim such as walling you in, building close for no other purpose but to prevent you from building, blocking real pathways such as through common caves, etc.,… Not simply “they built a big base and I don’t like it”.
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Try to look at it from the other side - someone builds a base, taking into account the ToC so as not to break the rules, but his base is a little bigger than the two players around. But he doesn’t restrict anyone and he probably didn’t break the rules - but his base simply has to disappear because two of his neighbors on the public server don’t like it…
Be glad that I’m not the admin in question, I would give you a 7 day ban for abusing the report system.
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I once reported a large wall around a small city on an official server. Waited awhile, and eventually someone with support sent an email that they investigated, and nothing was there. Lo and behold, by the time this lag machine base was investigated, it had either already been deleted by an admin, or decayed on it’s own.
As they interpret them, and there in lies the rub.
Abusing the report system is not filing a report because you believe some one is breaking the rules. Abusing the report system is spamming the system till you get an action.
I think most of us will agree one of the biggest issues with the ToC system is how vague the rules are. They are left open to some pretty wide and opposing interpretations.
I agree that the rules should be clearer, practically all the other games I played simply had a hardcap for parts and a fixed territory.
Territory restrictions would be bad in CE, but a clearly defined hardcap would not be harmful.
Even after years of following this topic here on the forum - I’m interested because I like to build but I want to avoid breaking the rules - I actually don’t even know what the optimal value is for, say, our 5-member clan
6000-6500 pieces (that’s what we have now)
8500-9000 which we had in the past
20000?
50000?
someone reported maybe even 250k…
what is a lot
it must also be taken into account that thanks to YT videos, players on the official servers LOVE the hundreds of blue torches on their TAJ MAHAL / ISENGARTH base and when I get close, I have a turn strategy from the game
Your text and how you wrote , shows you have used zendesk as a weapon, against those you dislike ,
I do hope ypu get banned instead. For abusing the report system.
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As much as this might bother you, you don’t get to decide what “abuse” is, FunCom does. You might not like their base, but if FC allows it to stand then that means they don’t think it’s abusive.
Players have lots and lots of things they disagree about, what you think is abusive someone else might think is cool. Whatever FC decides is abusive is the real answer.
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I’ve reported once in 3 years, thanks to Mitra I didn’t have to - I’m lucky to have a cool PVE server
i have found that talking to people in a friendly matter works best, you would be amazed how many people does not even know the rules. and talking about the impact usually works pretty well.
i am totally against on how the report system has been used
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Except, as other players pointed out here, there are no rules about the base being “too big”.
Because there is no rule about the base size. Furthermore, such a rule should not even exist. The rules are about how to share a server responsibly, without degrading other players’ gameplay experience on the same server. They’re not about catering to individual players’ pet peeves or appeasing your own impromptu HOA.
As for warning players about the rules, Funcom did that, by shoving a pop-up our noses every time we logged in. What was the result? A bunch of people ignoring that and coming to the forums to complain, even though they were prompted to read the rules every single damn time they logged in.
And despite all the efforts to make the rules known to everyone, and even clarify the reasoning behind them, we still have people like you who think that the base size has to do with the rules.
Yes, you do. If you want to be able to pick any place you want, without ever having to worry about sharing with other players, try playing in single-player mode.
Oh, right, how could we miss that important section of the rules that defines “abuse” as “@Movan66 and their buddies don’t like it”.
Please do. And when you invariably end up exploiting the game and breaking the rules to “fight back”, and get reported for that, I hope to see you around here opening a thread to complain about how you were unfairly banned.
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well im sure if you could see what i reported you might think different,also the clan have not built nothing since building an outline of base ,its like it was done to wind up players anyway. very big bases can also make lag.as i can make a report to funcom something i feel is wrong,funcom can then answer the report.i have had no action as yet due to funcom saying report is now going to looked into,then other day they said sorry they have not got round to looking into my report,but feel free to say if the matter is ongoing and we will look when possible.if iwas waisting time im sure funcom would tell me,they have not.fight back but within rules,one player has already actedbut in the rules so its not just me,even though i do what i think is needed.if funcom do investigate and find zero rules broken i will of course accept it.but big base can make lag,it seems alot of players dont give a damm what they do in the game,i do.i never build big bases and i am always polite and am well know to help other who are new.i will now wait for funcom to respond .
“I have a cunning plan”- give us screenshots of the base
just make sure there is no player/clan name or server number - to avoid name & shame
without them, the statement “is big” is more vague than the rules themselves
maybe there’s something in there that IS against the rules, and if so, I’ll be happy to tell you what.
I’ve made; I forget the exact number, 15 reports in 3 years 2/3 of which were “oh we so busy, hope issue solved self, byeee”.
And me pointing out the ToC is how I became the server villain. Because the server saint was the one with multiple ToC violating bases, yes bases. 18 most all bigger then all mine combine and doubled.
I wouldn’t, oh I was at one time, but after talking with people in chat, it seemed the majority think there are actual limits. And when they hit that limit they will get a warning like the do with thralls. They think if they can build there it must be ok because if it wasn’t the game wouldn’t let them.
These are the very same people that come on here all shocked and feel they didn’t violate the ToC when they get a time out.
I’m totally against how it’s not being used.
It seems the system is either ignored or abused, either way it doesn’t work.
If only.
My experience enough players have no clue how their build effects others and/or really doesn’t care, to screw a server.
Most builds i see are how can I show off all my content. Not how can I build with consideration for others.
All it takes is one builder that doesn’t care and a dozen players that don’t want to be an HOA agent to ruin a server for everyone on it. Then blame funcom or Gportal for how bad the game runs.
Once again it’s not the size, BUT if they just layed out a frame to prevent others from building yet never built; in a reasonable amount of time, that is land claim abuse. A clear ToC violation.
It’s not how much land you claim, it’s what you do with it.
Wont happen like you think. They wont tell you if they did anything, let alone what they did.
See this is the thing. My father was a marine corp drill instructor, I grew up with rules and regulations. By 7 I didn’t need supervision, I knew the rules and the accounting for breaking them. But that was then, this is now. Most players seem like 7 year olds on a server. Rules only count when mommy is watching and mommy is never watching. And the only time anyone gets in trouble is when some one tattles.
If all they did was lay down a frame for a build, it was done specifically to prevent others from building. At that point size does not matter.
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Is it so much of dire importance to the OP that they simply MUST build there?
Seriously,
will kids (or ungrown up adults) ever grow up?
he will probably be ok if the same build was in a different zone,
have you tried talking peolple before resorting on reporting them?
, more bees go the honey than the salt.
that is why funcom should provide a tool that could help player set those limits, or maybe the repair hammer to mark the building problematic. ?
i am truly sorry buit official servers do suck. they are REALLY BAD!
how long is it ok to hold a landclaim to build ? 2 days? 1 week? a month? i think that is something that could easily be said on those rules, no idea if funcom can see dates of when people dropped a foundation. (how old the piece is)
You can usually tell when admin deletes a base. It’ll often have thralls floating around and possibly pieces that weren’t connected to it still intact. This is all assuming you see it within a day or less of the action. The rest of the base will begin to disappear within days or so.
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