HELP! Give us your opinion on the balance of beacon compactness?

[Kal-El]

There is a consistent narrative that the changes are only being made to address beacon reservation abuse or prestige and annexation. based on several comments James has made

@james

Now, as your Beacon expands there will be plotting limits to help keep your Beacons collectively compact and reduce excessive Beacon sprawl. A compact Beacon prefers to expand locally rather than meander across the landscape. Settlements can still grow and become large. But the sprawl needs to be proportional to the size. Once Plots are claimed they become unavailable for others, so the system now encourages you to claim Plots closer to home, leaving those further afield for others.

@james

The system will:

• Limit the amount a beacon can abuse the reservation system.
• Limit the distance roads can span out of a beacon.

So while some of the abuse of the reservation system is certainly part of the rationale it is not the only rationale for the change. The reason for bringing this up is suggestions are being made to reduce the abuse of the reservation system but not what is being seen by the development team as unnecessary sprawl.

So while I do not think there is anything wrong with a discussion on undesirable behavior, that is not the only issue that the change is trying to address.

Edit: One suggestion I would make for reducing sprawl would be to look at increasing the meshes allowed in a chunk. If you want to get players to build higher then allow for more complex blocks to be used vertically than we can now.