That sounds familiar to situations I’ve observed in other games.
In Ark Survival Evolved, on an official PvE server, I have seen players purposefully build next to and up against others who have their structures placed there far longer than their neighbor.
A newer, younger neighbor reported our neighbor. My tribemate told me that our neighbor has been on the serer since day one, far longer than the reporter, whose name I wont say in respect of people (and because it was a bit inappropriate of a name). The GM that handled the report deleted my tribemate’s friend structures that were also protecting rare resources (and we lost some of those resource spawn areas as that reporter built over them). The reporter boldly declared that they report people because it is fun, and proceeded to build into the area of the person he reported.
And from my experiences with that individual who filed the reports, nothing but malicious intent and cruelty spewed out of him… And then he started to build near my base, and threaten me verbally with words of reporting my tribe.
I got the heck out of there, terrified, because if he successfully got my friend’s friends structures removed with that tactic, I wasnt going to be his next victim.
Plenty more servers and places to build.
But this seems all too familiar tactic in land claiming on games. Using a GM to get the land you want… I dont know if this thread here is a case of that, but it can and does happen elsewhere.
I hope GM’s are able to look at the beacons to see whom placed first.
The lack of knowing who placed first in this Ark situation left the GM, whom is only human, to make a best guess on whom was griefing whom. If there was a record of who placed the structures first in Ark, it would have shown the reporter was the griefer, and not his victim.
But I cant know what it is for this situation.
I just know it happens. People grief, people make mistakes.
People are human.
you rock 
