“Land is already claimed” This needs to be adjusted. Its far too easy to sweep with a foundation piece. Maybe you have to try to place the foundation before you find out out this or just leave it general as Cannot place regardless of land claimed or not able to build.
kinda disagree with the first part, foundation sweeping isn’t easy, it has to be done on foot opposed to horse scouting and takes a long long time to get a hit unless you are super lucky or got an idea where they are to begin with, but if they changed it to your idea, wouldn’t be the worst thing.
I used to agree but gotta a toxic alpha clan that is all they do and one day in the week they wipe all of their finds. They have found my original storage hold that lasted months without anyone finding it and now my stores that were dang difficult to find with a new camouflage technique…but that just doesn’t matter when all the got to do is wave a piece of sandstone within 12 block zone around it and see there is a base.
I hear all about feroxic daggers or horses as the meta…not much talk about foundation sweeping even though it’s destroys the point of stealth building…might as well join the crowd with big ugly black ice lollipop bases. No point into investing hours just to make sure it’s cover is perfect when I can throw up compliant spam crap that is just annoying to blow into and be part of the crowd that makes the map look like 90’s Hong Kong.
I stealth play so I can sympathise but the way people at a high level play now on official at least involves a lot of transfers bodyvaults and alt networks.
an alpha clan doing a clean sweep is pretty classic but at least you can start to adapt to it, I really try and CSI type investigate post raid, what they hit, where they came from what they are thinking, if you can use misdirection and illusion its all the better for long term survival and your own time, opposed to a lollypop base that needs constant defence 24/7.
having a small stealth base that even when it gets hit they miss the storage and is a 5 minute fix because its paper thin is the best.
so I can sympathise with your current situation but alternatively I had to sweep the exile map for a nuisance recently 3x as he kept moving, was taking me 9 hrs to sweep the map a mixture of horse scout, climbing and foundation sweeping, and I only located him because of an allies tip off (fun thing is he accused me of cheating for always knowing where he is XD) Now if you mitigate that down to a 10 man clan it would take no time at all to locate.
one of the major reasons id be against removing this is I have historically used it to find undermeshers that I wouldn’t otherwise be able to find.