I only play on Officials. There is literally nowhere to build on PvE/C servers plus there’s no incentive to play PvE anyway. PvP servers you’re forced to immediately contend with established clans that you will never catch up to because you are either found by them within a week and wiped or the other smaller clans just eat each other trying to consolidate more power.
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or completely divide…as this thread alone shows.
you play PVE competitive? What’s the purpose then if other people don’t have an advantage over you?
I can see this to make sense from a PVP perspective, but in a game mode where “showing off” your builds and enjoy the stuff you aquired over the years is the goal, a wipe is counter productive.
unless you are out for a very specific spot on a specific server, real estate is hardly a problem on most official PVE servers. At least the ones I’m on.
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Found faster if there’s a good scout in the opposing clan - solos, duos and trios either need to establish themselves in really good spots where tink tinking is possible or move frequently to avoid detection. One of my favorite things is finding people XD
Gotta agree about PVE and is the reason I moved on very very early to PVP. Visited many PVE-C servers and it’s so crazily overbuilt not to mention a lot of mentalities about PVP encounters. Some absolutely lose their ever loving mind by getting killed it’s really cringy.
Right now I can’t play on PVP because of hackers otherwise I’d be there. There’s no hiding tactics, no protecting of loot, no battles and wars 
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I finally got around to hopping in that server to see if it is as bad as you say. I asked the server for the laggiest areas of the map, B9/10 was one spot, Deserters was another and Sinkhole was the last.
I had a small frame drop as each base loaded in, all surrounding animals and thralls reacted maybe a second after I walked close to them. They were able to attack me and nothing was teleporting around.
From what I could see, was very little in the terms of what Id call lag. But, I wasnt PvPing, although I did run by a guy and again, no issues with teleporting or anything on the extreme end.
What things do you encounter on that server, or others? Id like to test them out too. My goal of this is to see how hardware reacts, to see how much that plays into the equation.
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Oh gosh, where do I start?
Back in 2021 it wasn’t as bad. 2022+ it started to get insane.
But generally it’s getting raided, raid, have a god on the map.
When it’s happening on any server it’s always a bit unstable of course. Multiple raids simultaneously makes it a bit worse. But it’s doable. General expectations are desynching right? You can always tell when big raids are happening on a server with ping going a bit nuts.
Mind you these are my experiences spread out. It was a gradual increase in instability - while I’m describing largely the most recent, these were issues present as that gradual. But the last 3 attempts on there couldn’t climb, couldn’t open chests and even if it eventually opened, couldn’t load inventories, putting on/off gear took forever, respawning at bedroll was always a 2 min+ wait for anything to load, couldn’t see the enemy, I was even seeing my clan mates desynch.
All clanmates and opposing clan were seeing the same things.
Never experienced this on any other server before or since and these were comparable in pop and builds. Only heard about 1540, I wouldn’t touch that one with a ten foot pole again. Sucks because 1530 is where I met a good majority of my friends
As I mentioned earlier, a regular removed their entire build. I seriously considered the possibility that the server location had been moved. But I play with East and West coast players, same for all and the West complained more.
What’s the pop there right now since it’s raid time?
As for the 3 PVE servers, no raiding so don’t experience any lag issues due to that. But I desynch or take quite a bit to load when someone is running purges. Dying in a mob because you’re left helpless to the lag is frustrating. Then of course the known crash issues.
I don’t generally experience huge issues even loading bases though. I give it the few seconds it needs even with ginormous ones. My PC isn’t the best but it isn’t the worst. Internet isn’t my problem and can’t be with gamers in the household - husband and I ensure that.
That’s just it. I think the forum should replace the ‘regular’ tag with “PvP”. I like the gist of it, and it’s more honest.
I’m usually the designated scout too. I switched to an EU server recently to work with my work schedule and as soon as I tried to claim the Keyhole so I could get out of my hidden hut the alpha clan raided the unfinished Keyhole.
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There was 16 online when I was running around. Someone was talking of a raid, and another asked if a raid was going on, but I was able to open chests and interact with everything ok. Maybe its gotten better, or maybe there wasnt enough people on for me to see the issues you experienced.
The only issue I was having was the battleye kicking me every 5 mins. Got disconnected I think 5 or 6 times in the short time I was on. Super annoying!
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Maybe, and I might pop back in and run through a thrall camp and try to get multiple things attacking me.
The only player I saw, like I said never lagged out once as we ran past. Safe for me to assume combat wouldnt be different.
Maybe! Would be nice if that is the case 
Might need to get a base going and get a few more people milling about.
Lets take example with some games…
Rust have wiping servers every month and now its a DEAD game…
Ark survival you can build with no fear , you can reflesh your base just joining the server (yes you dont need to go near your builds to reflesh in ark) and the game is VERY popular.
The people crying about wiping servers or to remove serial refleshers are the same people cryed about thralls and look thralls now are useless.
If you dont like server with builds or serial refleshers choose another game to play or rent a server for you.
Can someone tell me what game make wiping every month and is popular?
Because i can make a HUGE list from builder survival games where we dont have the retricted rules like conan and they are very popular.
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There’s several decent reasons to not wipe, and only really one good reason to wipe. However the following statement is kinda… special:
Let’s use a diagram to show this point of view:
Where is Conan Exiles on this list? What site is this from and is it for all players or just steam?
Its just steam, and meant to be a satire. But the data is accurate there.
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Before closing servers, server transfers should be made available for those that are still “active” on those servers. Most of the official servers do not have more than 2-5players active anymore, and those mostly login & logout after few minutes.
The option of NEW “Season” servers is still there btw…
The only counter argument I’ve heard was “it is out of the question…” with no further explanation, lol.
That would basically cater to all parties in this debate, and would only come to some additional cost to FUNCOM…and I’m not even sure that is true, since they certainly have a deal with GPORTAL in which it wouldn’t cost them thousands of dollars per month more for additional 20-40 servers.
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The stupidity of not wiping the PVP-servers is beyond all believe at this point.
People have been asking for server wipes 3months after the game launched 6 years ago.
Official solo,duo, trio servers should be a thing too , so people dont have to get ripped off on private servers.
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Lots of players are already bored of the game.
Imagine you’d have to start from scratch all the time.
Its like when I played on lots of different servers and always had to start with new character doing same stuff to level up character, to learn recepies…
It just not fun.
If youre a good player you dont care what others have in their body vaults.
If youre a new player. It also doesn’t matters. You wont have a chance against good player. Regardless if they have body vaults or not.
If you want to wipe bases only. Then why would you want to build nice base and spend time, if it will be wiped anyway.
On pvp wiping bases wouldn’t do much. Bigger clans would still be able to build base quickly.
I dont see any benefits in wiping servers.
Big bases that causes lag. You can report and should be removed.
What is a serial refresher? There’s summer extended decay timer. If I play once every 20 days, would that make me a serial refresher? How does that effect anyone?
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We had it, it was the blitz servers.
Failed experiment really but they also wiped monthly. Sure PVP now means maybe a few weeks if you’re lucky to have enough people to fight without running into a hacker but back then it was months long social development and wars. 1 month was not enough and I still don’t think it is now. 3 - 6 months feels right.
Define good player. Because offlining is very real and very common for body vaulters. On a good day, a team of established body vaults can wipe a server in one night. Leaving everyone logging in going WTF.
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