why do i feel like more than inactive players may get destroyed with this????? sure hope this dont get mucked up.
You'll be safe! We've already run this code on some of our server in the past, we're just expanding it to be on all PvE servers and run constantly now.
I certainly hope you'll be making sure claims refresh properly and maybe last longer too, so people like my tiny 4 person company don't lose everything because we were busy over a weekend. You know, in the real world.
Especially since sleeping players contesting claims is a bug, according to the captains log.. so how do we make sure we're safe?
Only inactive claims are meant to be contestable via this system, so those who haven't been playing for a few days.
I am also concerned with the change of not allowing sleeping characters to contest claims. I would hope that you could clarify the timers first at the very least. As it is, there are positive and negative timers and as far as I can tell, no one actually knows exactly how long you have before they can be contested on pve. Small groups can't realistically log on every few hours to make sure no one steals all the time they put into the game. As this is a core game mechanic I feel the time they have (including if there are time changes per flag) should be clearly visible to the company land owners. I'm also reading conflicting reports on how to reset the timers. Do you need to run to each flag or just log onto the zone? I have been logging on in the morning and at night before sleep and just running to the flags just to be sure. It's not fun... but would be worse losing our progress to an unclear mechanic. Then there is the overlapping claim flag issue as well, at least sleeping bodies prevented this. As it is, another company can just slowly creep over yours. So please before doing these changes consider those aspects as well!
I'm seeing if we can push up the negative timer fix for this very same build so people are able to tell clearly whether a claim is inactive or not. You need to physically be in the zone where the flag is, logging onto the server wouldn't be enough.
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