Okay, so I have been loving the changes in Alpha 17 so far, except for one: Land claims.
As I'm sure most of you know, you can only have one active claim in Alpha 17. Your previous claim will become inactive and die from one hit after you place another. I'm not really a fan of this approach. I like to play PVP and this change makes defending your base a lot harder, because in previous alphas you could hide numerous land claims inside your base and make it a real pain for someone to raid.
I don't know what the Pimps were thinking when they made this change. Only reasoning I can see is that maybe they thought players were abusing land claims by using them as base walls, but that would still take a lot of resources. If that was their thinking, why couldn't they just make it so that you couldn't place land claims within three or four blocks of another one? Seems like a much more reasonable fix to me.
I haven't heard the reason for this change and I'm just curious if anyone who knows more about it could shed some light here. I do hope they change this back to the way it was before.
As I'm sure most of you know, you can only have one active claim in Alpha 17. Your previous claim will become inactive and die from one hit after you place another. I'm not really a fan of this approach. I like to play PVP and this change makes defending your base a lot harder, because in previous alphas you could hide numerous land claims inside your base and make it a real pain for someone to raid.
I don't know what the Pimps were thinking when they made this change. Only reasoning I can see is that maybe they thought players were abusing land claims by using them as base walls, but that would still take a lot of resources. If that was their thinking, why couldn't they just make it so that you couldn't place land claims within three or four blocks of another one? Seems like a much more reasonable fix to me.
I haven't heard the reason for this change and I'm just curious if anyone who knows more about it could shed some light here. I do hope they change this back to the way it was before.