The land claim rules is really bad… My base just got wiped and I got banned from official servers for 2 weeks because I built a too big base? I didnt even block anything important. Just some iron ores and 1 goat… Like wtf? You didnt even give me a warning?? I can understand you remove my base. But why ban me too? It doesnt help at all… Come on, you can do better Funcom… use what you have inside your heads…
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Can you share your base screens and location?
AND how exactly your base was wiped?
I lost my base too (all building blocks just gone when i get close to the base), but everything else remains intact…
didnt get any warnings too…
pvp official, location not named, small canyon pass with cave under mountain, not really important and leads to nothing, what a geck…
That’s a can of worms right there mate. We’ve had a massive discussion about that in other posts.
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and… result of those discussions? ;E
Yeah…ongoing lol. Needless to say we all agree with you.
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Seems to me the devs just really need to put a number on it and call it a compromise. Any number on allowed building pieces would be too much for them and too few for us but that’s why it’s a compromise, we meet in the middle somewhere. And if there’s locations where they don’t want you building they can code it so you can’t build there. I agree, wtf. And I never did understand the ban part of it, I get it that some people just totally exploit the building system in this game but MOST people have no clue what they did wrong so I would think just wiping the base should be sufficient punishment and on the client side too severe coz we didn’t know what we weren’t supposed to do. So wipe the base in the cave coz it was inconvenient to another player but just totally ignore all the builds in the mesh and/or outside the green just coz someone didn’t report them, even though you know they’re there and also exactly where to look.
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I think with the addition of new Customer Support Staff, that Funcom should adopt a proactive, communication based form of feedback with potentially offending players before a ban occurs.
In my opinion, this is a way for things to not seem so arbitrary, helps to better inform the player what is, and is not acceptable, while also restoring some faith in the Company.
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Totally agree, they must just put building block to ALL VITAL zones, and probably, limit of building radius\number of blocks (officials only) to prevent foundations spam (lines) and abusive land claim…
but leave small bases alone!
My server was low populated, 1-2 players online max, i didnt mess with anyone, calm play, meet some good lads, plenty of big clan bases (looks empty but still operational) near obelisks, world structures and etc, FOUNDATION spam, and devs decide my base is the issue? really?
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@Denversetti i don’t think it was the devs, they usually only act if a player puts in a ticket about you.
ANY reason to ban a player because they laid down building block is and should be unacceptable. That’s what this game is all about. If the developers want there to be limits… ADD LIMITS. You don’t go randomly punishing people by playing the sandbox game you designed with no notice that you don’t like the way they are building.
The only exception to this should be undermeshing as it’s exploiting the games mechanics to get an unfair advantage.
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Make sute to buy that battle pass when you come back from that 2 week ban tho!
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No. You could call it a compromise if it was a solution. It isn’t.
Anyone who wants to know why it isn’t a solution is welcome to use the forum search function.
Sure, now that 3.0 is out and the no-build zones can be disabled, Funcom should feel free to add a bunch of no-build zones and run the “cleanup” code that automatically destroys everything in those no-build zones.
Of course, a whole bunch of people would come to the forums to complain about that, but then the rest of us – those who are tired of seeing new restrictions added to the game because players can’t be trusted not to build on POIs – could point them to posts like yours and explain that this was “what players asked for” 
I mean, be honest: if you didn’t get admin-wiped because someone reported you, and they implemented what you asked for here, would you shrug and say “yeah, that’s totally fine” or would you come here to complain anyway?
Except that wouldn’t prevent that. Look up previous discussions. They’re numerous and accessible via search.
The developers don’t want there to be numeric limits. If they wanted that, they would have added it, just like they added the follower limit.
So maybe the answer isn’t adding in-game limits like that? Maybe they’re trying to achieve something else?
Well, the reason they can’t… is because if they put a building limit… and then you arrange that number of blocks in a specific way where your base still ends up getting wiped and you still end up getting banned, you’re going to argue that you were under the limit…
No, MOST people know very well what they did wrong, they simply don’t want to say it and prefer to play dumb or complain. I agree though that there are a FEW who got banned unjustly as “collateral damage” of the ineffective system that was in place.
Yea, I disagree with their methods too, if they’re wiping bases without a warning they should at least take the safeguard of creating a backup / export of your base that you could then import in single-player. And ban reasons should always be explained clearly, they shouldn’t be up for too much debate, but definitely should have a very specific reason of which part of the building offended which rule.
So, I partially agree, but like we discussed in many threads, the build limit number is not a good idea and does not solve the problem, however could create some additional ones.
The in-game reporting system is a step in the right direction now though, so hopefully things will get better from here.
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Here it is… there is literally nothing except rock nodes and rocknoses…
and any base not block pass cause you can go around (from both sides) and even above canyon…
we need 100% devs clarification we cant build there anymore, so next time we wont waste our time with such kind of bases
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@Xevyr and @CodeMage i totally understand that you play pc and as such websites and forums are very much a part of that gaming experience. But for console players we come home, turn on our consoles and just want to play our game , not have to visit some website and search and research and read thread upon thread of written and discussions about the game. We just want to play the game.
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But I do find it absolutely frustrating that every other thread always turns into this same argument from the main thread which is now just way too long and on going to read every post.
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wait hold up, for real?!? you built in there and got admin wiped and banned? that makes ZERO sense. i’m not questioning you, i’m questioning FC. that would make building in any ‘cave’ virtually a bannable offense. i’m so confused.
Yea, I totally understand that 
In fact, it’s not just for console players, a lot of PC players do that too and they only start googling and searching for forums when something goes wrong.
That is why I spent a LOT of time after the update trying to help out on the forums here, often times very patiently as frustrated gamers aren’t the best at understanding tech instructions So they could just get back to playing 
I understand that, but I also see that you decided to come and join the discussion anyway. Those of us who have participated in these discussions countless times before and explained the same things over and over again don’t really have to do it again just because you play on a console and don’t normally use forums.
Or to put it differently: just because someone comes from the UK, doesn’t mean they should learn how to drive on the right-hand side of the road in (say) Canada 
That being said, the shortest summary I can give you on the topic of building limits is that they would have to be way too restrictive to even come close to solving problems Funcom is trying to solve with their admin policies. On top of that, building limits would do nothing to solve the fact that those policies aren’t applied in a way that appears consistent to us players, or the lack of communication before and after an admin-wipe and/or a suspension.
@Biggins pls elaborate. Sarcasm or true confusion? Is it against the rules to build in caves?