Poll: Are you tired of reading about Footfall and if it broke or not?

[james]

@Chompman

The issue is I have no issues with the bridging settlements part that the update broke as It’s mainly there for the bridge aspect for other players to use.

However it producing no coins when it had no issues before is a serious issue and people have made posts about it as this also.

Adding a ton of extra plots to it’s height, sides is not possible with other peoples builds near it, would be a waste of plots really for this character.

Just a shame if this is the case for people who do bridges or roads and cannot fix it on their end other then adding a ton of plots vertically as these are important for settlements and getting around with.

I’m happy to come and look at this beacon.

If the beacon does have a skinny bit (which could be a bridge - say) then one solution is to split that part into it’s own beacon. Align all of it to your guild and the fat parts will generate their prestige again.

@Krollbar

I guess in summary, anybody who factored footfall into their playstyle now hates it, those who hated the idea of all things footfall love the change, those who hate portal hubs love the change, and those who never paid attention to footfall are scratching their heads wondering what all the fuss is about.

This is an opinion independent of data.

Here is a chart tracking median footfall per data for all players.
(Reminder that median is: put everyone in order and ask the middle person what they got.)

There is a dip when we did the release. And we’ve tweaked the a balance since and the median is higher than ever.

The majority of players are getting more footfall.

The change we made in Release 123.1, was another step to balancing the configuration. Today will be the first 24 hour period that contains the full release. The partial data from yesterday already showed a marked improvement.

@james

Release 213.1:

• Balance pass on footfall focused on increasing footfall to higher traffic beacons and settlements.

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@Ark

For a particular plot column to be valid it must have 9 plots additively within itself + the 8 plot columns around it. So if you don’t want to or can’t add to the width (2w×2h works) then you must add 2 plots to height (1w×3h works). Your bridge must also be over 10k prestige.

A plot actually needs 5 plots around it to not be a road.

The initial update was set to 8 based on image based comparisons of settlement maps before and after the change. But we quickly realised that this broke too many beacons that were very carefully plotted and we altered it to 5.