I thought this might be helpful to others so I wanted to share it.
Recently my clan and I were subject to a 14 day suspension for “land claim”. Lots of people on our server were. We were struck by one of those persons who like to transfer across servers and report bases. The person even bragged about reporting people and getting them banned. That’s whatever and done with, fine. I had some great friends in the game that preserved our stuff for us when our bases decayed.
I worked with one of the GM’s through Zendesk to basically ask… how do we prevent this from occurring again. We had no honest information on why we were banned other than “land claim”. We did not land claim, at least… not in the way someone would normally consider a “land claim spam”. We were a clan of 5. We had 2 primary bases (Jungle, Oasis). And we were running 2 outposts (Dregs, Sinkhole). We also had 1 wheel house at the volcano, and 2 QOL builds (Jungle Obelisk staircase, and a warming house on the frost bridge). There wasn’t anything “Claimed” around those areas. And no one on the server complained. At least not that I am aware of because had someone complained I would have removed or corrected whatever. But, as I ask… in a perspective of claim, nothing seemed “I was blokcing this as land claim”. So, I asked; If I don’t know specifically what we did as a clan then there’s no real way to not do it again. The GM was kind enough to explain the following:
“As long as you keep your base condensed in a specific area and don’t land claim around it or somewhere else on the map by building random things like bridges, foundations, fences, etc. you should be fine. We try to prevent that from happening because those kinds of land claims prevent other people from building their bases and structures.”
So… there is was. That I had multiple builds, that I had QOL builds, and that I had outposts was considered “land claim”. We took our punishment and lesson learned. When you’re wondering why you were suspended/banned for land claim when you “only have one modest build and three small outposts” … now you know.