So right now, if you take the capital city spot from someone, they will just get it back either because they are a main hub (looking at you, pre-release players) and will gather all their friends to get it back OR new players just live in near hubs anyway.
I suggest that when you are the capital of a planet, you get a special portal block that connects you to a special place - we can call it the capital planet city room. Inside the CPCR it is a very simple room that has only portals from capital city to capital city per planet. Nothing else.
The point is this is, if you are a new capital city, it will give you a chance to remain capital city if you arnt a pre-relase player.
So how it works is, you become a capital city, the leader of the settlement gets the special capital city planet teleport. They have 24hrs to place it in a spot in your settlement. If you do not place it within 24hrs then some sort of ramifications happen, not sure what but something.
In a nutshell, the general idea is to give new capital cities some sort of reward for getting capital city status. As it is right now, it is too easy for anyone who is connected to the main hub to always remain capital.
Being the capital should have a special bonus, and I feel that bonus should be the capital city portal access. 1 per planet, whomever has capital status gets it. This would also encourage new players to venture out and seek something other than hub cities, since when you are a capital city you ARE a hub city (as long as you retain it). If you lose the capital status, your portal is closed and the portal is moved to the leader of the new settlement.
We don’t need bonus for people building giant poop made of refined block and random gleam.
If the game begin to promote crappy build, I am out and will never come back.
Yeah, it is much better to have the game slanted towards the pre-release people.
What do you suggest then? Because as it stands right now, aint nobody, for example, taking any capital status away from any of cities that the PS people made into “main hubs”.
I’ve got to disagree with the assertion that pre-release cities are beyond touch. Ask @the-moebius about the original aquatopia - he came into the game almost a year and a half after that universe hit the beta servers and in very little time grew his new city from scratch to what is now (repeatedly!) the largest city boundless has seen. He achieved this feat purely by networking and socializing with new incoming players and lots of self promotion. If it can be done once, it can be done again.
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Prestige was broken from the very start…
It’s too late to fix this.
The only way to mitigate the impact is to keep prestige and settlement ranking as a joke scoreboard.
(seem already not the case with the footfall cashflow mafia business).
There’s sure a lot of whining in here for what I see as a non-issue. Why are you complaining about someone else’s hard work? Groups of players have come together to build cities, much of which is for extremely helpful causes like connecting the universe, and all we have here in complaints?
I’d like to see if you’d change your tune if the portal seekers, Ultima, Skyway, and my own hubs all shut our gates… I undoubtedly think you would. Do we get some benefits for our work? Definitely. But we earned those benefits, plain and simple
aquatopia hasnt build aquatopia yet we just have a embassy on beckon atm we start from scratch aswell sometime later i think embassy got so big becuase we focus on helping people and have no build regulations there
lot off players apreciate that
we never focus on capital it just happend
guess we make big embassy’s lol
maybe you luckie you know where we are to avoid the aquaforce hahahaha
thats the reason prestige exist nobody can say his build is better then a gleam poop
our he becomes a poop
what if the person making a crappy build is 9 and is real proud off his build he would be my friend not the guy telling people there build is to ugly and need to be removed cuase his build is superior
If being a hub is the key start your own hub network then. PS is not the only portal network so it is not impossible. They were smart enough to have a group and focus on trying to be first to the new planets. Anyone can mimic what they are doing. It is not like they have some magic or early access totem that lets them open and not maintain a portal.
I will say it seems to be a lot of work to build the hubs, craft the necessary items to open the portals, and to get enough oort to keep the portals fueled. Personally I do not want to do it and the fact that others do not and want to be close to the hubs is really not a problem. If the PS hubs are capitals, it is more due to the builds around them than the hub itself. So you want to not let people build close to the hubs because of some perceived advantage?
I always encourage everyone to build what they like. This is a sandbox, the best reward is to be proud of your creation, you should not care about other’s opinion (mine included)
Thus no need for extra super-duper-joker-bonus to artificially push people toward the same direction/goal.
Complaining about someone else hard work? Wow, you can spin stuff great.
Im saying MY HARD WORK is worthless since the “portal keepers” are almost unlimited income due to footfall. This race isnt fair, not in the least.
When game went live, there should of been a 100% reset. Period.
All of you people who are like “you can do it, blah blah” get out of here. That is like trying to start a business with nothing VS someone who has 5million in liquid startup to spend.
I understand all you pre-release people stick together and most of you are the ones on the forums, what w/e.