It seems pretty evident that there won’t be a wipe of official servers, meaning all the duped resources that cheaters banked already are here to stay. Official servers are being completely ruined by people that have endless supplies of building materials. Obelisks are being walled off and valuable resources are being despawned. I play on 3 different servers actively and 2 of those 3 are being ruined by this method.
Unless you plan to do something about it, PLEASE enable gods again so that we can fight back. Funcom, your official servers are becoming unplayable. It’s time for an official response on what you plan to do about it because this is getting ridiculous.
They turned the gods off because of the duping, I really doubt they are going to turn them back on to help counter duping. Doesn’t make a lot of sense.
The gods were a good idea on paper, but 2 years in they’ve never been able to get them working right. I wouldn’t hold my breath.
They might as well turn them back on. Being able to duplicate 10s of thousands of building pieces every night is ruining the official servers. One clan comprised of 2 to 4 players is covering the map to block obelisks and despawn resources. You can’t bomb this crap fast enough even if you had unlimited bombs… the only hope of clearing any of this crap is with gods.
But you’re right. It’s not likely that they’ll enable them again. Just like it’s not likely that they’ll fix the other issues. Official servers may not recover this time.
The gods worked perfectly as they needed to for the first 6 months of the game. People were just upset because farming things was a lot more grindy back then.
But now, farming is 100x easier, which we seen when people spam stuff around the map to block. Never had an issue with that in the early days. Gods need to be restored to how strong they were in the start, where you could walk through a t3 base and it just simple explodes.
It’s not that farming is easier, at least not for building mats, it’s that people figured out more duping options. The spam you see around the map isn’t usually super farmers. It’s exploiters and dupers.
With a god, you walk through a bunch of the dupers stuff, destroy spam, etc. Great. Within 2 days they have everything back, they spam a god and destroy everything you have. If you’re not exploiting, you won’t come back so easy. There is definitely a problem, but I don’t think bringing gods back will help.
Bringing gods back gives legit players a fighting chance to continue playing on their servers. Without it, there isn’t enough time in a day to place individual bombs to counter all of the building spam.
We NEED gods to counter it. Placing down a single fence foundation that takes 10 bombs to destroy is insane when they are duping like 30,000 a night. That’s the equivalent of 300,000 bombs. And even the people that resort to cheating to try to counter it can only pump out, what, 6000 bombs a night?
So they’ll keep spamming the map with fence foundations to block obelisks, caves and despawn resources so that legit players can’t even play any more, and now the decay timer is 300+ hours so even if the cheaters get bored, it’ll take forever for this crap to decay.
Funcom, WE NEED ANSWERS ON WHAT YOU PLAN TO DO ABOUT THIS PROBLEM.
We all paid for this game and your servers are becoming unplayable, you aren’t holding up your end of the deal.
There duplicating gods in undermesh spots …some undermesh spots can t be godded In retaliation… don’t turn gods back on until all stored tokens are deleted and all stored blood,hearts etc are too… there spots need blocking also … I play/played on a few servers full of these known exploiters and we manage to hold them off …( lost one server just before gods were disabled in the space of 30 minuets . A few guys destroyed the whole server people had been building on for months) we know they all ready have the tokens stored to send 10 sags through our bubble we grind for every other day … the mesh spot they are in can not be damaged so they will have the freedom to destroy another server …
I cant disagree that duping and undermeshing is a massive problem.
But, if we take that out of the equation, and look at legit gaming, farming has gotten way easier then it was 2 years ago. With the introduction of more high tier tools, perks to speed up harvest and unlimited carrying (I know, capped at 200 slots), the fact you can get various materials quicker and easier (remember the only way to get ichor used to be harvesting spiders in caves? Now one massive fish farm and in one day you have enough ichor for 10,000 T3 pieces) means that building is a lot faster and easier.
Now, look at the methods to attack, or raid. The gods have been nerfed. Explosive damage has been nerfed. Orbs no longer stack to do mass damage. Explosive arrows while very nice, they are situational, only do DOT and no actual explosive damage. Raiding is harder now then it used to be (granted, its still rather easy to do, but you get my point) while making farming and building/spamming easier.
We need to find the balance between the farming/building vs the effects of explosives or gods.
Ok. So what are you going to do about the hundreds of thousands of duped items that are already ruining the servers that AREN’T god coins? I understand why you want to fix the duping and hiding problems but that’s only one part of the issue. All of these duped items and building pieces are far harder to target and remove than the god coins.
The clan ruining one of the servers I play on are literally doing it so that you guys are forced to wipe officials and I can’t say that they aren’t right, because once you fix duping, cheaters will still have destroyed many of the official servers by spamming duped t3 pieces all over the map. And most of the people that cheated will still have duped items…
We’re aware of the extent of this and other exploits and our team is working on stabilizing and fixing them on many levels. We cannot share any more details about this yet.