Thin pillar spam ban

[meager goblet]

need to come up with a solution to thin pillar spam as its getting ridiculous now people spam hundreds and they are so hard to see.

[broken blaze]

I agree with u this time u have my Vote

[vague ore]

Yes, just yes

Either remove them from working as spam, or make them only snappable to structures, instead of placeable on ground.

Or just make a rule, but I think as usual it will be annoying to enforce

[plain trench]

Clearly remove then from spam, crazy how ppl hide them or can't be destroy without mek/arthro

[hollow bone]

Ye they gotta go, like at least 1 out of 10 is in the mesh that you can only hit with an artho or mek

[meager goblet]

Even if there not in the mesh yesterday I was fobbing on someone and it took like 3 hrs to find them all structure finder doesn’t work as too many structures in area aswell

[hollow bone]

We had the same on mushroom cave took us like 2 hours to get a tek gen down

[vague ore]

Don't even tell me about it, they are very hard to see/reach. In most cases even MEK can't hit them (even though arthro can).

But if they have some rocks / walls around the base, they can stick pillars in each hole or bush there is, making them very tough to see and destroy.

Spam should be serving as protection from building and slowing down push, but if you have access to it, you should be able to just push without spending multiple hours running around like a madman before you can even place foundation.

[tawny mantle]

Not as bad as hitting someone through mesh

[vague ore]

Bump

[vague ore]

Bump

[meager goblet]

Bump

[umbral trail]

would a solution might be to allow more structures in range of the structure finder item? that way you won't have to ban another item again but make it less effective since you can just find it

or add 12h or even 6h structure decay timer on non snapped items like on official

[hollow bone]

We’re not asking to ban the structure we are asking to get a rule to not spam em so you are only allowed to place em on like a foundation or whatever

[umbral trail]

Yes still its a custom mechanic in the game now. Elite ark has already tons of shit disabled or forbidden

[vague ore]

Do you believe its a good thing for a game?

[cerulean bobcat]

thin pillar has no real use besides terrible spam

[hollow bone]

I guess you have never online raided a base that got thin pillar spam

[vague ore]

Its just purely anti-fun

[hollow bone]

It just shouldn’t take hours of looking for thin pillars in the mesh

[umbral trail]

Bros i came after 1 year official to unofficial. The half thin pillars are new so i agree on them but the regualar thin pillar was always a thing in asa. So i raided against it online and offline. Add 8h auto decay on single structures and it wont be a problem anymore. All the things you cry about here were never a problem on offi

[umbral trail]

Mesh structured should be more of a focus in total.

[vague ore]

My question still stands. Do you think that this meta is good for the game?

[cerulean bobcat]

official is a bad comparison when people play here to get away from official

[umbral trail]

Yes i think so. Look at any ase cluster. First weekend capped servers, second day half players left, one week in and servers are dead. Its because you get everything fast and you loose it as fast as you get it. Faster raiding automatically results in more players loosing their bases and servers dieing faster. I like that we are almost two weeks into the current 6man wipe and there is not a single dead server yet. Raiding takes me longer but tht also means you wont get offlined as fast, also to overcome obstacles during raids is what makes the game good. So yes. I think stuff like tesla, free turret placement and even thin pillar spam is good for the game. I wouldnt disagree with half pillars tho, they are tiny as fuck.

[cerulean bobcat]

L opinion

[umbral trail]

Let me reverse the question then. You think fast raids, in and out, no challenge at all and fast dieing servers are healthy for the game?

[cerulean bobcat]

yea idc to read that. thin pillar spam is dogshit. nearly everyone agrees. you look like an idiot disagreeing

[umbral trail]

I said i agrer with half thin pillars. You play even unoffi with regular thin pillars for a year and that suggestion gets porpular a month after half pillars are added. Dont you think you overreact on the regular thin pillars?

[cerulean bobcat]

irrelevant arguement. this suggestion has 31 upvotes for a reason

[umbral trail]

Over 50% of the americans voted for trump and now look at the overall mood over there.

[cerulean bobcat]

irrelevant argument

[hollow bone]

Just no1 wants to sit there for hours to look for thin pillars or half thin pillars in the mesh sometimes you can’t even destroy em unless you get an artho or a mek

[umbral trail]

Half and meshed 💯 wouldnt even mind if half pillars get disabled fully tbh. They are not even relevant in building

[hollow bone]

You can put the normal thin pillars like half pillars too just have to place and turn it around and boom it like a half one

[umbral trail]

Ye but you need more effort in the first place. If you invest enough time you can mesh everything. Thin pillars are just nice for hiding them in bushes or shit like that. I totally agree on the meshing in total tho. if meshed shit is done excessively on any spam it should result in temp ban or something

[hollow bone]

I guess you don’t online then

The Meta is so defense related and the thin pillars make it even worse

[umbral trail]

I do online. But i have to admin no tribe mass spammed thin pillar agains me during a fob yet so i might have to experience that to agree with you

[vague ore]

Fred I agree that meta shouldnt be like ASE, and I think its not. Its just that these pillars are just anti fun to deal with. It artificially extends the raid in the most stupid way possible. If it would mean that people get raided due to this, which I don't believe, then EA team would compensate.

Its just that these pillars are purely toxic because you fight something that you cant even see.

[umbral trail]

I dont fully disagree with you guys, i havent downvoted even. Would just be nice to get something else back instead then like teslas. Maybe we can push that discussion simutaiously if you agree on that

[hollow bone]

But why you wanna push the defense meta even more ?

[umbral trail]

I just like the new stuff in asa. If i would like to have the same shit like in ase i would play ase. We have the chance rn to choose so why push asa to be ase and have the same shit.