Building - what you think stops you

[Nightstar]

@tarranth

go in the settings and turn the weather visuals off

Wait, what?

[MadManMoon]

@Nightstar

Wait, what?

[MadManMoon]

I’d wondered if it was in the post I’d bookmarked “Small UI Mods” … alas …

Still … that compass point mod might literally save your life in game.

@Nightstar … this could be it … I’ve just been scrolling Modding

A small fix (mod): Rain No More

Happy New Year to everyone I got back into game, started doing some building on Boori, and after an hour or so got really bored (annoyed) by constant rain. I’ve poked a bit in game files and managed to remove rain. What you get: no more rain animation - it’s replaced with pollen animation which is less intrusive no more rain sound - this does not affect toxic/freeze rain, if you are on such world and have interest to remove rain let me know What you don’t get: fog is still …

EDIT - Hmm. This could possibly be game breaking. I wish I could isolate what it is.

[tarranth]

Here is the relevant forum post.

Removing / Decreasing Weather

There has been a number of complains lately that weather effect X is too (insert complaint here) So here are two files to address some of these issues for those on PC and for those that don’t mind modding the game. The first file aims to remove any effect that would block “clear vision” but leaves many of the effects alone… so it will still rain/snow/floating-alien-creatures BUT there will be no: Fog, Mist, Dust, Rock, Sand Storms, Snow Ground Cover etc … let me know if there is som…

[Nightstar]

Ah, sorry if that was unclear but there is no place to just “go into the settings and turn weather effects off”.

Yes if you’re on PC, you can mod your installation to get rid of most of it. Maybe. Probably.

Anyways you can always revert the files

There’s no need to be looking in settings, there’s nothing useful in there about the weather. Or foliage, or grass really. They’ve made it so “If you’re on PC” the settings basically have the same (lack of) effect as the PS4.

[matteodiaz]

I heard from a good source that a player was friends with the developer. As a matter of fact the player even sent the developer an awesome gift for the holidays. A few months later the developer deleted hundreds of hours of the players work without a warning. Just poof- it was gone and followed up by a unipersonal generic message. The player’s questions were never responded to. I hope I heard wrong because that just seems cold hearted and doesn’t make me want to build

[Rydralain]

I think you’re referring to the reclaim of the unused roads around DK mall - if so, those roads were in violation of the plot compactness system.

In the initial thread about that, some players explained that it isn’t possible to be in violation like that without getting warnings from the game that you are in violation of the system, and as long as you aren’t splitting up your plotting to bypass compactness, there is little precedent for this happening.

[MadManMoon]

Don’t spread this kind of stuff … it isn’t a good look on anyone.

@matteodiaz

I heard from a good source that a player was friends with the developer. As a matter of fact the player even sent the developer an awesome gift for the holidays. A few months later the developer deleted hundreds of hours of the players work without a warning. Just poof- it was gone and followed up by a unipersonal generic message. The player’s questions were never responded to. I hope I heard wrong because that just seems cold hearted and doesn’t make me want to build

[Nightstar]

Ehhh, there’s a bunch of stories like that. Though maybe not so many who made a public point of gifting the developers something …

It’s no matter, the ones where I knew people, I’ve been both surprised at some of what has been removed, and surprised that some things took so long to be removed.

There’s always at least two other sides to any enforcement story. And that’s just assuming everybody involved is being (relatively) honest.

Anyways generally some active moderation is, overall, a good sign for the health of a game. Vague assertions and implications aside, I don’t think this really discourages more than a minority from playing.

[Solgato]

I mean in real life, not in the game! ;D

[Solgato]

@Nightstar

There’s always at least two other sides to any […] story. And that’s just assuming everybody involved is being (relatively) honest.

This is the gold standard for good journalism too, though I make it “always more than two”. <3

[carterrohan6]

I used to try to follow a rigid idea for my builds but now, with the exception of 2, i go off of loose outlines and build freely which makes me happier.

[MadManMoon]

This is how I operate mostly … it’s so much fun.

[kasaisaru]

My stoppage is the quest for an unavailable color.

Oh and starting multiple builds and working on all of em at the same time

[RagnarLothbrok]

Time, always time, there’s just too little of it. I need a daily time bubble of say 3-4 hours where I can play Boundless. Outside of the time bubble time is still and does not advance!