Prestige buffered regen

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@Xaldafax

Unfortunately that really isn’t an option. There are people that have hacked the game and can read the beacon timers. Those people show up instantly upon expiration and take the builds over. So as much as I loved scavenging, at this point until we remove those that cheat nothing really will solve it. I don’t want regen to be ruined in other ways by some changes in this area.

I’m sorry Xal, but I’m totally thankful for those who don’t scavenge and take wild builds over to give them back to their rightful owner. That’s quite altruistic of them. If that requires them to use a hack, honestly, so be it.
I have no respect for the “dog eat dog” kind of mentality in Boundless.

If for some reason my own beacon went wild and people jumped on the occasion to steal its blocks, even though it’d be fair game, I’d be pissed, and that would be a game-killer for me, I’d stop playing for sure. But if instead some people tried to save as much as they could, I’d be super thankful.
If your build accidentally went wild and some guy using a hack immediately took it over and was like “here you go, I give you your plots back for free!”, would you really be angry because he used a hack to be there before scavengers?

It’s like what happened to Blood Horizon City on Raxxa yesterday. I see that capital like a friendly adversary that I’ll never beat (because 20 millions prestige with just me and my friend, we’ll never get there), but never would I wish for them to lose half of their build to world regen or to have people jumping on the wild parts like hungry vultures.
I have the utmost respect for those like @BabyCookie and @DKPuncherello for what they did, hack or not.

NOW people who use a hack to be there first to scavenge, or who take over plots and try to sell them back, that’s a whoooole other story. I’m more ok with those who sell back because, eh, they took some of their time to save your stuff, so a little compensation is in order. The scavengers though? They can burn in HFIL.

Now a good question would be “why do they use hacks”? Because you can’t see the timer on other people’s beacons. Maybe because their hack gives them an alert or something?
I’d say, preventing people from using such a hack would be one thing, but honestly, I wouldn’t mind being able to see the timer of someone else’s beacon control, and receiving an alert when a nearby beacon dies. I’d try to plot them back to give them back for free…

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So, back on topic, I’d be happy if what @Krollbar wrote could be done. But I’d still prefer 100 times to go with my older suggestion :

CRAZY IDEA : what if there was no automatic regen on prestigious dead beacons?

So I know, this is going to sound like a crazy dumb idea, but I just thought about that while on the johns, and… I thought “what if one day I stop playing the game, what will become of everything I did?” I spent months working on my build, over time, making something nice to see. [Eastside%20view] There’s no way for me to gift my build to someone who’d still be active, since it has hundreds of plots, that’d be crazy to do it manually. If the beacon runs out of fuel, one day later, it would…