The oasis of Nekhet is just that, about the only freshwater access around sepermeru. Beautiful wild life, jaguar cub spawns, multiple materials, mini boss, world boss and chest… and looks like down town Miami most of the time. Quite often on PVE the only places that aren’t build over are the areas between builds.
I’d like to see the entire area a no build zone. There is plenty of open, dead real estate around serpers to not have to build over an entire area of resources.
I’d like all of the oasis of Nehhet a no build zone. Save the oasis
Part of me wants to agree with you, but that’s only because currently, the Oasis on my server has been virtually completely paved over (seriously it’s ridiculous)
That being said, I hate any building restrictions, I think for the most part all they do is punish everyone for the actions of a few.
Seeing areas like this paved over on PVE servers is why I don’t play on them any more. I’m bad at PVP and don’t particularly enjoy it, but I’ll take my lumps in order to enjoy a multiplayer experience on a server that is far less built up. Obnoxious builds tend to get blown up.
I was up there to farm that reaper queen{?} Fairly easy world boss, no way I could fight her without getting backed in to the corner of a build or kite her in to someones base. Not something I feel right doing.
But this area seems to always be built over, been on this server since 2.0 and it’s not always the same builders, but as soon as one decays 2 more are fighting over the space.
How is it any different than Mounds? Or the countless teleporters at the Temple of Frost? Or the maprooms that seem to always populate just south of the shattered springs and west of the Sinkhole? There are spots that just are destined to be popular regardless. The oasis has easy access to thralls and brimstone. It will be overpopulated. You have to build in unpopular areas to get the nature feel. There are plenty of spots that are not popular. Get creative and try out those.
@DeaconElie
It’s one of the few places that hold a distinctive natural beauty to it.
Yet, although I’ve not seen what you’re describing, I can see it in my mind’s eye.
The horror.
I sense a premonition of things to come by the way they are going with our current “civilization”.
This bodes a most ill wind coming our way.
The darkest of clouds approaches.
There is vast acreage where people don’t build, right there. There is 0 reason to build in the oasis. That rise right out side that gate, between the gate and the oasis is huge, flat, empty, and very rarely built on. Which makes it one of my top building spots.
Not sure why you think it has anything to do with my taste or aesthetic?
I do agree that it feels sad to see the oasis completely overgrown with huge highrise buildings, but a total no building zone… Sorry, I do not want that, but I do wish for a more strict building system on official servers, don’t think it would solve it completely, but small steps can also make the experience better, just look at the result after the follower limit, before that I saw some insane zoo’s which I haven’t seen in same scale since - Limitations will never be something I would wish for, but sometimes they can improve the experience for everyone, especially on official servers
Because it doesn’t have anything to do with the gameplay, or performance, or anything functional. Even if I completely paved it over, you don’t lose anything that can actually be used, as opposed to simply admired for its view.
The notable exceptions are the mini-boss, the three human NPCs, and the world boss. Even none of these is counted as unique per Funcom’s revised rules, I still think these should be preserved, and I would be totally on board with adding small no-build zones to make sure they can’t be suppressed.
Everything else is fair game, even though I would much prefer if people didn’t build a ton of crap on top of it.
I think that all the efforts to enforce tons of different rules to maintain people’s preferences is, quite frankly, unnecessary. As CodeMage said, the things there are not unique so, other than the aesthetic of the view what’s the reason to make it no-build?
Yes, seeing all those massive builds wouldn’t be something I enjoy so I choose to play on a server with less people and with friends who have amazing build quality.
But if you play in a public space, you’ll see things built with materials you don’t like (I know somehow who hates Stormglass, for example). People will build shapes you don’t like (oh no, a big box!) and people will take places you thought looked better wild. It’s the nature of sharing space with other people.
Boss blocking shouldn’t be allowed, but “it looked better without buildings” isn’t a reason to impose additional rules that will affect everyone, private or official servers the same.
Never understood the role over and take it mentality.
Not at all the issue.
My point is these people ARE NOT sharing the space. They’re each trying to carve their own little chunk out of it. How is fencing off a POI sharing it?
To me POI infers public area, a public area is shared not built on.
And what additional rules? Just make it a no build zone, no rules to enforce. Not a TOS no build zone, an actual can’t lay down a foundation no build zone.
You have three options if someone builds over the Oasis of Neket and you don’t like it: Endure and don’t complain as recommended by CodeMage (because really this is a minimal issue, lol) Throw a tantrum on the Forums to get absolutely no result whatsoever. Move away from the context in which this thing you don’t like occurs.
→ Either go Single-Player, because really PvE is just a worse version of Single-Player if you don’t play with friends…
→ Or find a server without a Richard (no clue what Richard is except a French name but I get it), and that will most likely not be an official server because whatever is available to everyone is subject to hosting everything from the very best and nicest dude to the worst toxic idiot you’ve even encountered.
And this is hardly a tantrum. Have you ever had to deal with 5 year old in a candy store? This is simply me sharing an opinion. I wouldn’t even call it a request, because a request infers I believe there will be some action taken.
Endure and don’t complain as recommended by CodeMage (because really this is a minimal issue, lol)
Throw a tantrum on the Forums to get absolutely no result whatsoever.
Move away from the context in which this thing you don’t like occurs.