#Remove resource caves

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smoky juniper
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They defeat the point of farming and are way too overpowered to begin with. Controlling one for 5 minutes at the beginning of a wipe puts you 4-5 hours ahead of everyone else and a single run can get you cs tek structures. Black pearl deposits are on Valguero, Aberration, Astraeos and Ragnarok. There is no need for insane resource caves

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more detail why:

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Fabricators (spawn 6+ at a time and respawn insanely fast early game):

  • drop 200+ electronics = 600+ silica and 200 ingots
  • drop 70+ ingots

Clams (spawns around 8 at a time):

  • drop 800+ silica pearls
  • drop 100+ black pearls

Bones (spawns in dozens):

  • drop 500-600++ cementing paste = a good beaver dam or 1k+ chitin/keratin + 2k stone
  • drop keratin in the thousands = equivalent of a few bugs in a cave

ELEMENT (4+ spawns):

  • drops 90+ element OFTEN IN THE HUNDREDS = a good chunk of an ele vein
  • drops 100+ shards = 10+ element
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Hitting a cave like this with a mining drill boosts the gathering. Beating everyone to it propels you so unnecessarily further ahead of everyone. Coming out of this cave, you can craft multiple heavy turrets 10 mins into wipe. The cave also drops thousands of poly but this is too easy to farm so its not really a consideration.

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perhaps keep the poly deposits dotted around the map for center beginner maps so that poly farming is easy still but REMOVE THE CAVES

gritty notch
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thats the point

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there has been a lot of pvp and action at these caves

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then once the first 1-2 hourrs pass, everyone is on the same level

crude aurora
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Also to add on^ there amazing for isolated beginner servers

tawny ermine
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Resource caves are great for tribes that are behind and not able to partake in deadzone PvP for instance to farm bps

vivid imp
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and if a tribe camps the cave then the tribe your speaking of will be more behind

smoky juniper
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Eliteark is slowly turning into an ezcraft server essentially

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Rates going higher and shits getting easier

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Removes the beauty of a 10x server where the grind is much lower than smalls but the activity is higher

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Drop buffs are fire tho 🔥

gritty notch
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We reduced the element already. We will continue to monitor everything else

latent mantle
dim mural
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This gotta be bottom 10 suggestions oat put this in the hall of shame 💔

fickle marlin
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At the same time if it becomes dog shit to the point where people dont go to it anymore they gonna end up removing them probably

gritty notch
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We nerfed element. I don’t think much else needs to be nerfed

frigid frost
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lowkey bring them back like when they had ele cause the other stuff actually spawned just leave the ele out of the cave

frigid frost
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there should just be the one ele cave cause it brings alot of good foot pvp aswell

gritty notch
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ill add it to deadzone

crude aurora
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Ouuu yessss a nice custom cave with just ele nods on dead zone will attract a lot of foot pvp

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Could SE and Deadzone both have a ele cave? ( obviously Deadzone being the better one) cause SE ele cave did attract a decent amount of pvp too

gritty notch
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ok

latent mantle
gritty notch
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The JuNkYaRd Enters the chat

crude aurora
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RONNIE COOKED AGAIN🔥🔥🔥🔥

frigid frost
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ya ele cave on deadzone would go crazy

digital verge
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I like the idea that you have to run ele veins to get element, I think that encourages more pvp than just a cave you can go to and get out instantly. A lot easier to find people doing veins for 20 minutes

frigid frost
digital verge
indigo crescent
alpine ice
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