On official server 8005 EU there is a clan building a massive wall around the leyshrine twice drowned. I will say that the surge poaching has been rather bothersome and good loot is being swept up by another player and their thrall. My clan has been poached twice on this server but to build a massive wall around the perimeter of the leyshrine…now it’s simply an inconvenience just to pass through this area or farm for meat and hide. Please Funcom could there be a protected force field around the shrine when a surge is activated by the clan or player whom activated? This allows for poachers to go onto a pvp, pve-c server and thus allows us simple pve players a chance to earn their loot.
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You need to report them here;
https://funcom.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
Make sure you provide evidence. You can use a repair hammer to display the clan name on structures.
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Will do, thank you
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Do you realize how much resources goes into building a wall big enough to encompass whole leyshrine? Is there a couple of gates for you to get in and out? well if so then what are you crying about? The whole point of the game is to build stuff. You can’t get mad because other people build stuff in a building game it’s just dumb. And there is a kind of “forcefield” it is surrounded by an unbuildable deadzone. you want to get meat and hides? Is there no other animals around? I think there is just look.
@Mulkon
There are many places you can build beautiful structures on the Isle of Siptah. When you try to block access to critical UNIQUE game resources you aren’t doing it to be nice. She’s asking for a Force Field so that the major reason to build a wall around the Surge Spawn is nullified (because then you can’t steal other peoples resources) on PvE where you aren’t supposed to do that aggressively anyway.
The Resources that went into encompassing the Leyshrine were not spent in good faith, it’s pushing the limits of what’s allowed on PvE and abusing the fact that people cannot remove the obstacles themselves.
This is a Survival Game before it is a Building Game. If your Buildings interfere with people’s ability to play the Survival Game as intended, you’re going to find them get deleted by a Mod.
I’m not even sure if this sort of behavior is tolerated on PvP or PvE-C to be honest. You aren’t suppose to block Boss Spawns, it’s anti-competitive meta that is against TOS from what I understand. The Leyshrine is a whole level above Boss Spawns, wouldn’t you say?
If you really can’t help yourself and you want to build on the areas of the game that have the most unique resources… there are private servers that allow that and you can ALWAYS do that in Solo/Co-Op then post a video on YouTube to show off.
It’s critical that until FunCom is able to sort out issues of Overbuilding that people not be discouraged from informing the Mods when they believe they have found abusive behavior. The Mods know what they are looking at and will respond accordingly as the situation demands.
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Building to deny access to game features is not permitted tho. It should be reported.
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You do know for a fact that a gate/door can only open by it own clan member right? If it close than too bad the other.
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So it fine for the clan that build it to control it, do they dismantle it after they are done with it or will they be like all the anti social jerk leave it there forever?
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@Mulkon The behavior you are defending is directly against the TOS on ALL Official Servers. Doing this can get you kicked from a server… repeatedly doing this can get your profile banned.
It doesn’t mean you can’t do it. You can still build walls with gates on Solo/Co-op modes around important areas… although it obviously doesn’t serve the same purpose in that case. You can also find a Private server or start your OWN Private server where that behavior is tolerated, welcomed, or encouraged.
It will never be okay on Officials, no matter how many times you manage to get away with it.
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Its actually perfectly fine on officials… I have a report of obelisks and dungeons being blocked going on 5 months after report they only made things bigger… and nothing… so i can assume funcom doesnt really care at this point…
Also note I submitted a video of everything they blocked… and still nothing
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In what kind of Fascist world are you simply allowed to report anyone who gets in the way of you farming a couple of boars? The clan who built that wall probably did so to keep people from stealing their surges and protect their investment. They most likely have built gates to allow access in and out of the Leyshrine so your claim that they are blocking are most likely false and therefore you cannot be banned for it. Geez, all of this effort you people are doing to report people and whine about them on forums you could be doing something about it in the game like OH IDK maybe TALK to the people who are pissing you off directly. OR you could go and build a big freakin stack of foundies right next to their wall and force a purge on it? OR IDK scout another server, maybe one with no wall near the Leyshrine and then build a big freakin base right near it so a wall cannot go up. You people act like there is no other way and I have given you plenty of options to explore. Have a good day now, BUH BYE!
You are missing the point, blocking any key game feature in Official Server would be ground for a ban wherther it get carried out in time is an other question altogether.
Just because there is a gate, the control will fall to the clan that build the wall, and who is to say the clan would alway play actively maybe one day they close the gate to it and just log in to refresh the decay timer. nobody would care if it build in pvp server as the player themselves could something about it.
In pve only the purge would be able to damage it. Like you say one can build near there and trigger the purge to break it, but they might have to erase their own base just to get a confirmed purge location.
Talking to them, depend on the kind of people some might be willing to listen, other don’t.
At the end of the day, the Official server are meant to be shared. Though I been seeing groups driving out others in bid to had the server all to themselves.
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OK so how many times have you gone up to Seper Maru and tried to walk past the zone in straight through the canyon and have seen a huge wall there blocking the path? you can still get into the town you just have to go around so 99% chances out of 100 fun com doesn’t care to ban that person.
Do you understand what I am saying, I am going on an assumption that leyshine is compeletly enclosed by the wall and gate there is no going around and that is a ground for a ban. If it only one side, the most you will hear from me if I ever encounter it “huh this way is blocked” very irritating but I would have to plan my next trip with this in mind.
I won’t even mind if they enclosed it only they must take it down after use. And how many people would you think would do that?
The reason because they put a lot of effort into it, they shouldn’t get banned does not hold.
Anyone should be at least aware that this action can lead to them getting banned.
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Usually griefers and haters put lots of effort into it. It is still against the TOS. It still needs to be reported.
Those “poor” griefers, all that effort for nothing. . . pffft
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This is the problem with a system that requires Moderators to take action.
People can never be sure if the Moderators ignored them, if they didn’t provide enough information for the Moderators to act on, if the behavior is flat out allowed, if the Moderators are overloaded with cases, or any number of other conclusions people can draw from it.
The worst part about this is… whether the time lag between action is 5 days or 5 months, that’s more than enough time for anyone who has a problem with abusive behavior to lose control of their senses and get into a very nasty argument with people who rely on exploits. You drop a few of the wrong words here or there and you could end up being reported instead. Or the Moderators are left with conflicting reports where everyone is reporting each other and it’s too unclear who is really causing trouble to take any action… unless the action is to kick everyone involved from the server. It seems a tad absurd.
Moderators have to be paid, but this game is quite popular in the end. It doesn’t have a subscription model. This is exactly why I keep bringing up my idea “Affront to the Gods”… it’s not like the behavior that’s abusive cannot be identified, tracked, or discouraged. All of that data already exists IN the game… it’s just a matter of expanding the database to include consequences that can be triggered by people testing the limits of acceptable behavior.
And it’s clear that blocking Obelisks is egregiously bad behavior for Officials… although MANY people think this is actually a necessary tactic when dealing with trolls on a server. I’m actually not totally against this abusive nonsense, but I want there to be consequences for doing it and MORE consequences for doing it often. On the high end, I could see an entire clans holdings being wiped out for boldly enacting abusive policies… without any moderator intervention.
If parsed correctly, Moderators would have to deal with Exploits FAR less often… and they could focus on responding to cheating reports. (To be fair, there aren’t nearly as many complaints about cheating in the forums as there are about exploits. That’s very unusual for most games, even games that have very little cheating.)
Its not their place to allow anyone access to anything just because they built a grief structure. They don’t own the server. “Go play on another server” “convince them to have it open” or how about just deal with the problem. One party sounds like it needs to be off all the servers if they can’t behave themselves.
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That is it in a nutshell. FCs slow response to griefing in any form, makes the culprits think they are immune or not doing anything wrong, then months later we see the “This is the first time XXX has posted, lets welcome them to the community” message and they whine because they were banned and they do not know why.
FC needs to take a hardline and announce when they ban people and why. This will give the “I can do anything I want” crowd a wake up call, and everyone can see why people are being banned.
Is FC afraid of a lawsuit for banning TOS violators on their own game or are they being overly sensitive? Only Crom can answer that.
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