Platform: Steam
Issue Type: Gameplay
Game Mode: Online Official
Server Type: PvE
Map: Exiled Lands
Server Name: 1015
Mods: None
Bug Description:
Hello, Can someone tell me what is going on here? Recently the schedule times were restored to 168h, 3 days ago the times on the bases were something over 120h… Today these bases have about 60h of schedule. Two days ago, in the base affected by the problem, we were with my wife, the base had 168h of time. Today I noticed that suddenly the base went into a state of decay ( for this it was supposed to disappear 10.01.2023, that is tomorrow) and disappeared today 9.01. On top of that, I noticed in the logs that a certain person with the nickname “Shani” demolished the foundations… on the PvE server. Please take some sensible steps, we have put a ton of resources and time into this base.
Please, restore our base or…i dont know. Its really bad situation.
The base entered a state of decay and decayed after 14 minutes
Any player can “demolish” a base in PvE once it is in a state of decay. Not all of your buildings will have the same decay timer, only pieces that are connected, will share the same decay timer. It sounds like a player came across one of your builds that was in a state of decay and chose to demolish it. Sorry for your loss.
You cant demolish foundations, only chests, decors, doors, craft stations…etc. Cant demolish foundations, roofs, walls… And still, we’re online there 2 days ago, check timer before log off, base should decay today, not yesterday. And dissapear whole, where is decay time? And as i said few times… 168 hrs is not 2 or 3 days.
Destroyed and decayed all down floor on volcano, upper part is still okay, with “good” time on decay. Up and down was connected.
I spend in this game 2850 hrs…i know how decay timer works.
The base entered a state of decay and decayed after 14 minutes
How? I always on the foundations and walls have the information that I do not have this element. Doors, stations, wheels of pain, chests, etc. I can destroy.
By the way, it doesn’t change the fact that the base went into decay after 2 days and in 14 minutes managed to disappear.
Im destroing by pressing “E” button and using “Demolish”. No working on founds and walls… So how? It will be helpful knoweladge on PvE server… No need to report land claim spammers when they start decay.
And why we still talk about this?
The fact is:
We are online 2 days ago
We check timer using hammer
Base start decay and decay in 14 minutes
And by happy coincidence, during those 14 minutes, the Shani player was there, before dawn
Little edit: When server back to 168hrs, everyone have last time 120hrs… (Checked on our servers) Now these peeps have 60 hrs. On 1015, on siptach server where i play…
Sorry, i cant demolish foundations and walls, only doors from “building pieces”. Can someone tell me how destroy decaying founds? Use “E” button and “Destroy” work for me on everything, expect walls and foundations. Other peeps trid too and same, also wife tried on her PC and same.
Anyway its not main topic. I dont need “sorry”, i want resolve this problem.
Everyone from few days have time 168hrs, now if someone still dont log in -have 60 (checked).
We are in Game 2 DAYS AGO.
Today we should have something close to 100hrs, but NO. BASE CHANGE STATUS TO DECAY AND DECAYED IN 14 MINUTES.
I want to know why base start decay after 48hrs and dissapear after 14 minutes. 168hrs is 7 days, not 2. Also after start decay we have 24hrs to stop decay, not 14 min. Dissapear whole low part of base.
I dont care about destroying walls and founds, i dont have this option on PvE, i tried. Other peoples ask me for this too, becouse they cant too.
People are giving you condolences but also discussing your issue. Getting angry at them won’t make anyone want to help you.
As pointed out, there are many ways that decay can occur and including bugs. What is the bug if it is? Can you reproduce it? Hard to say.
In the past others have experienced similar issues, try searching the forums for that information.
Regardless, the decay could have met certain parameters that decreased its time, such as removing pieces. Perhaps there’s a cascade issue though? Maybe it’s a server degradation issue.
You absolutely can demolish anything like DaVice pointed out. It has to be in the red decayed state though, low decay or 0 decay can’t be demolished. Were people looking at the decay with a repair hammer to determine if it was actually in red decay?
Ultimately no one has the answer to this: "I want to know why base start decay after 48hrs and dissapear after 14 minutes. ". But at least you got attention on your post? Be more humble.
Additionally, as stated in ToC and beyond, they will not reinstate your base or refund you what you lost.
I still wait for tip how on PvE destroy foundations and walls in decay. I cant, tried.
Everything what i want to say is in 1st post with screenshots.
One time i have same problem on Siptach, log in next day and saw my base empty…without logs who loot base, just decay after few hrs after my log in… Ask support, no respond.
Last time my thrall died in safe place, without reason. Noone can help.
This time, half of our base gone in 2 days and we started topic about possibility of destroy foundations, but its not reason. For me is strange situation… Base with 100+ hrs start decay and after 14 minutes was removed with one nick who destroy all foundations.
At 6am.
We play there with other peoples, we “guard” each other base too and inform when timer is low or something and send message on discord.
So yeah, im angry becouse we talk about demolishing foundations, when is not the main problem at all. The problem is why base gone after 2 days offline. Why our other base dont gone? We check before log all camp with hammer 2 days ago. Where is fun from game if you spend tons of resources and time to build something and this building dissapear without reason. Spend close 3k hours in this game, bought all dlc’s and some things from bazar to support delevopers…so i want some form of…justice? I have right to know why my work was destroyed.
It happens on occasion. We don’t know what happened.
You can be angry, but being angry at people trying to help inasmuch as they can won’t do you any favors. It is what they COULD answer.
No one knows.
Ha. Heh. Haha? You won’t get this my dude. You won’t necessarily get an answer.
The best you can do is attempt to reproduce the problem and report it here. You have the ability to also restart. Those are choices you can make for yourself.
I have a sneaky suspicion that you may not actually know how decay works in this game. You’ve mentioned a couple times now that you “should” have a certain amount of time because you had just “logged in.” As I tried to explain in my first post, not all buildings share the same timers. In order to reset a timer you have to “visit” that base, not just log into the server.
Hypothetically, if you logged into the server and checked your surrounding buildings with a hammer, then those buildings are the ones that didn’t get demolished. Meanwhile, the “other base” that you didn’t go visit, was demolished by those “friends” that were helping you watch your timers. I’m guessing they probably did that about 14 minutes after it went into decay.
It was a hard lesson to learn I’m sure, but if you really have 3k hours played in this game, then I’m sure you will have no trouble getting back into the swing of things. You will have everything replaced and forgotten in no time. Best of luck to ya.
Just to be sure I understand correctly, did you check both bases, with the repair hammer, before logging off? Or did you only check the one where you logged off?
I know how decay work and i know about time sharing. It was big area and i checked it with hammer. Low part and upper. There are no building pieces around, everything was on stormglass foudnations. We were in this base and run around for a while.
And still, all buildings on server should have 60+ hrs yesrerday, when back to 169 hrs.
We check all our base before log off, checking with hammer to be sure with timer, like always.
I dont care so much for resources, we have them. I just want to know what happend. For me its not normal, all buildings are refreshed and there are no way to decay.
As i mentioned… You can see decay time on screens. Decay time limit in that case was set on 10.01, not 6am 9.01, 14 minutes after start decay base. Big low part base, on few hundreds foundations.
the decay state “abandon” (in your first screenshot: 2023-01-09 05:57) means that from now on every player is able to demolish your “abandon” stuff. the specified decay time (in your first screenshot: 2023-01-10 05:57) is when the game removes your decayed pieces.
and as you can see in your screenshots, shortly after entering the “abandon” state, someone started to dismantle your base
Unfortunately I cannot blow up your screen shots to be able to read on my phone so I can not make a educated response. @Laravandrel However you could send in a Zendesk report to Funcom Zendesk. Com. From what I have read something Went sideways with decay refresh. On pve Ps4 we have one larger base a place large enough for whprpeel of pain at Sinners refuge
Above mounds and another base about 15 minutes to hit all using map rooms and Battle standard. At large base never run across whole property been doing for months no problem.
Still, the base had no right to go into a state of decay. It is also interesting that this person demolished 490 foundations in a second… In total, she destroyed everything in 2 seconds.
On Zen only help when i ever got was… Remove foundation spammers… Thats why i create topic this time here. When hacker clean our base siptach, we send tickets… No respond.
