You know what this is about if you read the forums.
This is about the MEGA build meta on PVE.
This is about blocking resources and bosses on PVany.
Encasing mesas in storm glass to make obelisks.
Surrounding islands with foundations.
Blocking off paths.
Building in cuts, caves, and crevices.
Building practically on top of obelisk.
Ect.
This is about a complete revamp to the TOS, expanding out no build zones, and Funcom not only clearly defining the TOS but actually enforcing it as well; and I don’t mean only on report wars on PVP.
I’d like a “report player” option added to the repair hammer menu. You walk up, check the block with your hammer, it gives the usual info plus a report player option. When you click it a menu pops up asking for the reason.
Admin gets a notice, gives the block location, owners name, reporters name, and reason.
Players are only allowed 3 reports per day.
Rereporting a build just voids the previous report. Which means loosing it’s place in the admins queue.
Abuse of the report system will get you a time out from the system. Week first time, 2 next ect.
Next I’d expand out the no build zones, this would also include paths and resource/material nests.
An example. By the sentinels is a single iron node, could be built over. By the tower of the bat{?} are huge iron node fields. This entire area needs to be a no build zone.
This expansion would include ruins and land marks. No more building in the structures at Xel Ha, no more encasing ruins/land marks.
Next I’d add a construction count page to your character menu. Like the thrall page, it gives you the option to show your land claims on the map. Tell you how many foundations you have used; next to the limit for public servers, and how placeable heavy your build/s are. Each build would be listed separate like thralls.
At that point funcom aught to be able to put in an auto alert for someone using too many foundations,
Now this isn’t about server lag; mostly, this is about actually having to enforce common courtesy rules. What I consider being civilized. Now I know I’m abrasive, sardonic, disrespectful, and can come off being arrogant; it’s a mask. But I always play like I am playing on someone else’s server. Their house, their rules, and I am going to be conscientious of others in the house.
The issue is people get on a public server and build like it’s theirs and there is no limit. Oh ya you have to click “ok” to the rules when you log in, but whom has actually read them? And if they did they are so vague and open to interpretation that there is no reason to even have them. You know what happens when you give people wiggle room? Ya, and not only are they going to wiggle, they are going to wiggle as much as then can till dad reaches in the back seat and smacks them.
I for one thought that blocking access to a boss or chest was one of the top there NONOs, a certain TOS violation. If it isn’t then I have to question all the rules. I have to wonder if anything I read in the TOS is actually a rule; yes I read it. After reading the rules I thought I knew what was a TOS violation and what wasn’t. Seemed with the explanations it was pretty clear. But I just don’t know now.
Yes, I know this will get us no where. But posting about it is all I/we can do.
Oh, man. Just logged in to a public beta server. Read them rules, all up in your face.
