Glitchy Town Foundation

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Not having played Eco in a very long time, my crew decided to hop back into it. We built our areas really close to each other so we could work together. Finally reaching the settlement table, we quickly worked out a Town Foundation.

When I went to place the town foundation I didn't realize it needed placed indoors. I went the location that we left open between us, selected the town foundation, and it went "green" on the ground... I placed the foundation and it just vanished. The heck?

I checked all the inventories, it was gone. I flipped to my claim view and could see a purple claim where the foundation had been placed, but there was still no foundation object. Even looking at the bottom right by the minimap showed I was standing in a settlement in "Draft" status. Alright, I figured I'd restart the server.

When the server came back up the purple claim was gone. I decided to test it out so I clicked my own claim into that spot. Now my entire claim shows a town settlement in "Draft". Not sure what to do now. I'm kinda afraid if I admin delete the "Town", if that's even an option, that it'll take my homestead with it. So now my homestead is stuck in a town that has no foundation table, and I've got no idea what to do about it. Build another Foundation table and put it inside maybe??? I dunno...

Anyone have any suggestions?

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23 days ago - /u/SLG-Dennis - Direct link

This is an issue that appears only when the server has unrestricted claim papers, it'll be fixed with next Update this week.

21 days ago - /u/SLG-Dennis - Direct link

Originally posted by DNedry

I don't think that is possible unless you have some kind of wild bug. Go the map, there are different areas for settlements and personal property. A town foundation has it's usual property (they start with 9 claims) but it also projects a range that shows the town borders (the range of it's laws etc).

To form a town, you put down the town foundation in a valid Room, then make sure you have the constitution how you want it. Then once you have 3 members joined, you can vote to ratify the constitution. Once succeeded in the vote, you can go back to the foundation to form the town.

All that being said, ECO is still a pretty buggy/glitchy game. If you can't see the foundation, just restart ECO and it usually fixes visual stuffs like that. Restarting the game fixes most bugs like that.

FURTHER if you are interested in playing in a pretty relaxed server with lots of helpful people who answer questions, check out my server Ecophoria. We are 7 days into a 40 day season so plenty of time to get going, and I can give you each a catch up star if you're interested.

They did have a wild bug :)

Also, could you please stop the unsolicited ads for your server - I've noticed them quite a few times. Server ads only belong into the megathread and otherwise may only be posted if a user has explicitly asked for recommendations, which as far as I can see was not the case here. Thank you!

21 days ago - /u/SLG-Dennis - Direct link

Originally posted by DNedry

Seriously, we're not allowed to mention it in a comment when replying to someone? Just offering a place with helpful people. LOL

Yes, that is what R4 says when you uncollapse it (at least on new Reddit that is). I'm happy to make wording more clear if it was unclear? It can generally be considered as rude to just unsolicitedly make ads for one's own servers in a random comment, especially so when everything in a post hints at the user having their own server. Some of your other comments had been reported for that in the past as well. I've honestly not seen anyone else doing that either. And of course it's fine in posts where users specifically ask about servers.

21 days ago - /u/SLG-Dennis - Direct link

Originally posted by DNedry

Was just chatting with someone and figured I'd offer a place to play where we often help new people. I didn't link anything, just mentioned it's name.. This is such a ridiculous conversation I honestly don't know what to do with it. Never in my life have I seen a community manager butt in so often for such mundane reasons on the official reddit, and it's definitely targeted at me. I'm just trying to push this game because not enough people know about it.

Not sure what you are trying to accomplish here. I know you don't like me (it's totally mutual) but this is pretty petty for a community manager of a video game. If it was your intent to kill my morale for ECO, job well done. A+ community management.

It's not at all targeted at you - I simply asked you to follow Rule 4 in the future as I have seen that you have added server ads to random comments multiple times and there were reports for it. The rule isn't new, it's been here forever and if there is a rule users can expect it to be followed. There is no reason for drama, no further action was taken other than asking you to not randomly advertise for your server unsolicited in a help thread. Noone else is doing that either. In any case we're not debating moderative decisions. Please simply post your ads in the main thread and feel free to post them whenever a user asks or the topic is clearly about servers to begin with. Assuming the rule wasn't clear enough, I have adjusted it to better represent the already existing moderation policy.

21 days ago - /u/SLG-Dennis - Direct link

Originally posted by SLG-Dennis

This is an issue that appears only when the server has unrestricted claim papers, it'll be fixed with next Update this week.

The issue was resolved with Update 10.2.2, already broken towns will need to be refounded, though.

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