Abandon Claims = Deteration of Claim...

[Nanothnir]

I know I might get flamed for this. But perhaps there should be a method much like Idols where after a number of days the claims demand a chunk of LP from the player else it starts to shrink. To the point that the stake eventually falls...

Your claim uses a system similar to villages where every time you earn LP it charges up some sort of "3 month till decay" timer.
Then if you're not on for 3 months, your claim disappears...

At the moment, if you quit, all that stuff there is still yours and only those with theft can take it, seems stupid that you can't salvage from an abandon claim without the risk of being tracked for fun...

What I have said kinda speaks for itself in some way, so I will leave off there, plus its a thought that came to me as I am falling asleep...

[Avu]

Yet another let's make shit decay because just because! How about we get our multiple claims per char so we don't have to make alts or dummy villages?

[vikingdragons]

ok, let me point out the issues with this.
1=Been suggested many times before.
2=

But perhaps there should be a method much like Idols where after a number of days the claims demand a chunk of LP from the player else it starts to shrink.

bad! very bad idea!!! making claims, or anything devour your LP is bad.

now, for a less bad idea:
The claim owner must log on at least once every X number of days. If he/she doesn't log-in in X days, then there claim goes Inactive, meaning anyone can come and go and take shit. If they don't log in for Xx2 days, then the claim stake is automatically destroyed. Do not pass go, do not get your LP back.

[Nanothnir]

bad! very bad idea!!! making claims, or anything devour your LP is bad.

Fail at pulling out the part to quote...

a method much like Idols

[Thinkerton5]

Awesome.
So, I go on Holiday for a fortnight and come back to nothing? That sounds like a fair plan really.
Or, what if British Telecommunications, being a terrible phone line provider cut me off if I don't pay them that extra 3 pence?

Deteriorating claims is a bad, bad, bad, bad, bad Idea.

[Sarge]

Yet another let's make shit decay because just because! How about we get our multiple claims per char so we don't have to make alts or dummy villages?

Please already...

Maybe keep the current claim stake sprite and LP cost, make a 2nd claim bigger claim stake sprite with more types of materials required and higher LP cost per tile and a 3rd sprite, way more types and qty mats required and very expensive LP per tile.

Maybe a different method required for village claims. A stronger maintenance penalty on the claim can maybe apply, e.g. drain rate calc'ed per village member on idol. Check done on villagers, each villager that has 2 village memberships cause double authority drain, 3 village membership = quadruple drain etc.

[sabinati]

it's not so much that it's a bad idea but there needs to be a reasonable ( > 1 month) amount of time that your claim is safe.

also this is like the tenth time this has been suggested.

[Sarge]

it's not so much that it's a bad idea but there needs to be a reasonable ( > 1 month) amount of time that your claim is safe.

also this is like the tenth time this has been suggested.

Other than the one obvious of 1 thread, the other is we fucking need this already!

[serpentyngallery]

How about we get our multiple claims per char so we don't have to make alts or dummy villages?

YES! Fully equipped with the ability to "travel" to them, no more parking your HF in your claim to make sure you can always jump back to it, just jump back to your claim post! (Kinda like the village idol... huh)

[theTrav]

Yet another let's make shit decay because just because!

I think it would work well if you used it for the "decay shield" mechanic...

Stuff on your claim won't decay, but your claim uses a system similar to villages where every time you earn LP it charges up some sort of "3 month till decay" timer.

Then if you're not on for 3 months, your claim disappears and your shit starts decaying


I don't think the dev's will buy that though, as I heard they like the fact that we've got resource sinks