We’re back folks! Thanks for your patience.
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Hey Doom,
Totally appreciate the idea - in an ideal world we’d be able to give good estimates, but it’s always a bit of a stab in the dark with downtime. Unexpected roadbumps always come up when you, well, don’t expect them!
I’d hate to give out estimates of 30 mins, then 60 minutes later everybody’s waiting for news… it’s a bit of an unavoidable problem I’m afraid!
We’re back up now in any case, thanks for your patience!
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Yay, work on builds that were stuck because of the buffer zones can start again!
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Hi Sam,
Thanks for your response! that’s fair enough, I’m relatively new but it’s clear your updates are all different sizes so yeah it would probably be futile; I just wanted to add that it’s nice to see a dev team so in tune with their community - keep up the great work guys!
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So if i see a tick on beacon protection then my reserved plots are protected? No player can claim my reserved plots.Am i correct?Im double checking as my beacons were set on tick before today.When i press dont allow anyone to use my reserved plots that beacon protection tick turns off and this is looking like its not protected.So with me visually seeing my tick on protection status its safe then? So i wont need to change my settings then?Hope im reading my beacon right.So im checking with you.
I agree that it’s confusing at the moment
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This is exactly what i meant.Lol You explained better.So the green image is my beacon setup.Am i protected ?To me it looks like i am.If a button on my beacon protection has green light then id clearly see my reserved plots are protected.So having a switch would be good idea.Your idea having an indicater would be best.
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Currently, if it looks like this image, the plot buffer/reservation system is activated:
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Lucky i asked.Lol Thanks:)
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OK what am I doing wrong.
When I use the debug I see that all the beacons around me and my own show the beacon buffers. when I validated the debug by checking the group, I am finding them as reserved. If they were disabled by default and I did not change them today or before today, do we still see the zones even if they are disabled? I did not want to mess with the settings in case someone needed to check them out.
Edit: when I use a totem, the ground reflects the same reserved status as the debug did.
I just checked this myself…and it all looks the same to me too.
The only thing that changed was default = off now instead of on.
Just my opinion on this, i just think this gonna push the problem to later. Once people gonna start to active that buffer we will still be in the same situation.
I think it would have been better just to remove it for now until something better can be set in place.
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I am happy they made this change, but I agree with you… once a beacon gets protection on the problem will be later when they quit playing… 
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I 100% agree.
I agree that it will just push the problem to a later date however I do feel that doing it this way will reduce the amount of support tickets that get sent in and will spread them out to a more manageable load for the devs.
Just my thoughts.
Edit: wow that didn’t quote very well at all.
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New glass? Oh you guys are too nice thanks for this surprise (haha).
Should be a moderator option… like a ban, but worse.
“if you kids cant behave ill turn on buffers and there will be no ice cream for anyone!!!”
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you could jokingly give a range it will be back up somewhere between 10mins and 24hrs lol
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Or “if One more person asks me if we are there yet I am turning off footfall!!”
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“Don’t make me pull this forum over…! 
And you have lost your exo privileges for a week!!”
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