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Happy for the discourse around this change. The one thing to keep in mind throughout the discussions is that the only reason for pull/retrieval times existing at all is for anti-griefing. It's far from bulletproof but early on in Foxhole's pre-alpha development we found through testing that it eliminated a huge percentage of griefing and players taking more items than they need. Not a lot of massively multiplayer games have open public sharing of items like Foxhole does and this is one of the things that helped make it work in the first place.

I'm not saying there can't be a better solution but just want to clarify that this is the main reason for it's existence in the game today. It's not there for realism or because we're intentionally trying to make things harder for anyone.

Even if a better solution were to present itself, it should be implemented more intentionally and not through a piece of content like the BMS Mineseeker.

Good catch! It's fixed now.

I love these so much.

Its so beautiful... I need footage

Thank you crew of randoms.

Very nice

There has been intermittent networking issues at one of our datacenters these last few days. This is the equivalent of having errors at your ISP level even though your PC/OS is functioning correctly.

To mitigate this we switched to backup servers at a separate data center (we always have back ups in case) yesterday late afternoon for the original data center to resolve their issues. When running on backup servers we have slightly reduced player capacity, so it's intended as a temporary measure only.

This morning the original datacenter seemed to be back to normal so we migrated back but now there issues seem to be returning. Our live ops team is in contact with the impacted datacenter to resolve the issue but it's uncertain how long it will take them. In any case, the live ops team is monitoring the situation closely. Thanks for the patience.

The main reason for decay and Maintenance Supplies is to keep server performance at a stable level. For that reason, anything that can impact performance can theoretically have an impact but there are measures in place to mitigate the obvious cases of griefing.

To be upfront though, it's version 1 of a brand new and complex system. If there are issues please let us know so we can iterate in the future (though please don't take this as a promise for any particular change being made).

Our certainty level is high, but the possibility of bugs or data errors should never be ruled out. If there is a discrepancy, please note it in the bug channel on Discord with as many details as possible demonstrating the issue including time stamps and regions. The team does not look at reddit for bug reports unfortunately. Thanks.

The system accounts for this kind of behaviour with Tripods. This scenario has a negligible if any impact on the Maintenance Supply economy.

The system tunes itself over time based on server performance. An update isn't required. We knew implementing this would be a risk, but the only path to figuring out that very delicate balance between usability and server stability is to try in a real world environment with 1000s of real active connections. The initial system tuning was based on data from previous wars but it's never as accurate as live testing.

Reposting my comment from yesterday. Hopefully it's helpful.

As mentioned on our devstream the goal is to keep server performance stable but make maintenance more manageable by allowing supplies to be produced at the MPF/facilities, having auto repair on decayed structures, and giving more control over what is supplied with Maintenance Tunnels. The goal is not to make things harder for no reason. If it wasn't for the technical constraint we wouldn't even have decay or it'd at least be very different.

The team is keeping a very close eye on the system over the next week. We're concerned about both problems: Either it's too difficult to maintain structures or server performance starts degrading. It's a difficult trade off in both directions and the system needs time to tune itself to the correct balance.

As mentioned on our devstream the goal is to keep server performance stable but make maintenance more manageable by allowing supplies to be produced at the MPF/facilities, having auto repair on decayed structures, and giving more control over what is supplied with Maintenance Tunnels. The goal is not to make things harder for no reason. If it wasn't for the technical constraint we wouldn't even have decay or it'd at least be very different.

The team is keeping a very close eye on the system over the next week. We're concerned about both problems: Either it's too difficult to maintain structures or server performance starts degrading. It's a difficult trade-off in both directions and the system needs time to tune itself to the correct balance.