Monco wrote:WestArcher wrote:Safe zone in base is fine. You do need somewhere nice to go AFK.
However the biggest problem I have is there is not a lot of reason to leave that safe zone, so even when you are online you do all your business in your safezone and never leave.
Now granted there are a few reasons to travel around and do things, these instances are rather rare and you end up with a pretty dead over-world with little to no pvp or pve
When boosting was still possible there was a safe zone already if you wanted to go AFK, which was a building with a door or a shack with a drying rack covering the door or whatever.
If people were so ignorant to go afk not in the safe zone then they should have been punished and by dying they would have learnt to go afk in the old safe zone.
About incentives to leave the base a friend of mine was thinking about daily quests from the trading post which would require you to go out of your base and collect some materials which upon returning would reward you with god's favour.
It's not a bad idea and it would at least keep some players logging in everyday to collect it, but there's no system to gain that without paying real money so i don't think they'll ever implement something like that.
They need to do something tho, because the world really feels empty and that's bad, especially for new players.
Bring back boosting, make small scale raiding and roaming a thing once again.
so basically your saying not matter how hard you try and build super cool castle it all should be negated with some ridiculous boosting mech or spamming bark boxses with mattresses , rather than wanting an actual siege mechnics that doesnt require spamming ib's for ever to get t4->t1. any sort of "boost jump over my head" mechanics also with this ladder building with bark boxses and sleeping bags shouldnt been possible from the get go, or any other physics denying stupid "lumber" bridges that i have seen hovering over the air.
Imho , battering rams , siege ladders , actual range for that trebutchet , catapults , scorppios with grabling hook / pull hook ( for ripping castle doors / house doors / gates appart ). for assaulters
Onagers , tribod scorpios , hedgehog , rampart flail , pouring hot oil trough murder hole , etc for defendant. would actually perk up this game isntead of watching folks doing physics denying over derp sky bridges.
and whom was doing that now bitching bout townclaim being safezone , well it was your fault that building "meta" turned that way , since you were climbing over walls with skybridges in the first place.