Once i logged in on an empty building. It was just the build and my thralls. All the chests, all the crafting benches and my crafters were gone, poof, magic!
The event log was saying that some of my decorations that were on my benches lost stability, but nothing else.
I was wtf???
Later on veterans in here explained the situation to me.
Doors are not building pieces that tear down your whole build. So if a building goes on decay state, someone can break just the door and enter. Then very carefully, he can dismantle all the working benches and all the chests without destroying the building. So people who knew how to do this were emptying the whole freaking base, loot it all, even the last branch and fiber and let the building be dismantled by the decay timer.
The funny thing is that this building was on exile lands and i was logging in every 4 days to refresh because i was learning Siptah. In this base i had gathered things i wanted for character transfer
. Since i was sleeping naked with absolutely empty inventory, through the bug we were suffering on death through log in the next day, my workaround not to log in dead was this.
Sh.t happens i guess
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Not a week ago i was helping a friend on exile lands, he was on vacations and i logged in to refresh his timers. You cannot imagine how many things had different timers
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So here my friend you understand that we have 2 problematic cases. Not only the decay timers may not work properly, but trolls exist with repair hammers in their hands ready to “destroy” others on pve servers.
Sometimes however it’s players that do not wish to destroy others, they do it not to get lost. Yet nobody really knows if that’s the correct decay timers. So what i suggest to decayed bases or outposts? Leave them be, there is nothing but trouble if you touch them.
Ps. Sorry for long post, happy to chat
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