Hey everyone , I read all the comments and I understand both sides has some valid points !
sorry if the following is quite a long post
To put in context what I am about to say , I play on an official eu PVE-C server and started 5 months ago and due to some gap between 2 jobs I had some free time to invest . and boy have I invested time in the game , some new players even though I was an admin at one point …
In the time of those 5 months I’ve seen a lot of different case scenario that was described in the comments :
- we have a solo player that has build a base near the elephant cubs area (savanah) which has a path leading to his east of NA (new asagarth ) base that also has a path leading to his vulcano base … so he can refresh the 3 by just connecting 2 seconds since they all are linked (fortunatly though his bases doesn’t contain much placeables so there is no lag issue or fps lost )
- we also have a player that has been sneak attacked during the pvp time while he was farming mats , he was a kind guy , after the sneak attack though he started filling the front of NA with a sandstone fundation maze ( mostly ugly , not so blocking ) and now connects every now and then for 4 sec to reboot timmers …
- most recently we got a troll who’s only motivation is to kite bosses to outside wall thralls in chain to kill and loot the thralls of others , built on top of the boss koopa island north of sepemeru ( a sandstone monstruosity ) blocking the boss spawn , he also sneak attack low lvl players and others when they come back from farming
this kind of behaviour would be punished if I was on a PVP server , since the bases can be destroyed by other players .
Since we are on a PVE-C server , god tokens duping isn’t really an issue cause they are quite useless on those types of servers , like people here use them just for the thrill of controlling a huge thing in the exiles land , and in the process kill a world boss , and so there is no real benefit of farming 500 zeal and losing your archprierst and altar as there is in pvp where you can literaly destroy an oponent base with a god !
Also our community is 90% of great people ready to help new commers by answering all their questions gifting some pets and helping them through rough purges .
speaking of new commers , most of our new commers are people that come from pvp servers where their base was constantly destroyed since they started not so long ago playing .
Most of the people playing on PVE-C servers want the security of their base and still having some pvp action and this is why we have an (un)official pvp arena built .
Personnaly I have now invested 2000+ hours in the game , and I can be considered as an alpha clan on my own ( I have 3 clanmates but they play a lot fewer than I do )
with those 2000+ hours I have discovered the map , the bosses , the flying rhinos , the bugs , the purge destroying my 1st base entirely cause I didn’t knew what it was at the time , I have fought and tame a lot of npc and pets , and of course I built myself a cozy base with the ressources I spent time to gather to do so, and it’s still unfinished ( meaning there is roofs to be done and a set altar to place )
but to the people who call other hoarders , this game is a sandbox , it is made for everyone to make their own experience , in my case having one of each named in their respective outfits feels like something i want to do , it take a very long time to do so , since you have to go through the hole map , and after , wait for those purge only thralls. (and the wait is long)
another point is the annimal tamming system , to get some greater pets you have to create a lot of unwanted non greater pets in the process , in my case those unwanted I gift them to newcommers .
I don’t understand those comments on immortal thralls , I’ve seen a lot of base decay in my time of playing , and the thralls disappear also , just takes a week more than the bases ( unless of course the clan is still active , but then I think there should be the same system of having to go near them to reset timmers )
I understand though that all I said is mainly influenced by me playing on PVE-C server and that PVP servers has some issues with duping and other exploits.
(Personnaly I only experienced those things unwillingly as I was lvling and learning the game, and never used them .)
But I think server wipe would be a bad thing for 2 main reasons :
- first of all people like me who plays the game extensively and spend a huge load of time will always have an advantage on more casual clans, players . So the game wont be “fair” after a few days again, cause with the knowledge acquired by an extensive amount of hours played , all the mistakes that were made would not be repeated.
- second , as it was said , since the exploits are still for some active , then the wipes would certainly profit the people using exploits to lvl faster than others or dupe their items ect … so the solution of the problem would just make it bigger in my opinion.
at last if there was a wipe , It would just feel like if wasted 2000+ hours of my life and that feeling would not make me want to continue playing , I spent hours creating something I like , it’s a large size but not blocking or making your frames go down , now I just add to it the new stuff comming in updates like those black yetis and my pirate ship crew has some new armors
here are some screens that shows my time investment that would be lost if so ( a part of it )