If that was the case then no city’s would work outside of 1 person city’s.
Plus people need to understand that if you don’t claim plots anyone can come by and claim them near you and you could get blocked in by multiple people.
Just tossing a random single plot is really a waste in this situation other then to place it for warp locations and won’t prevent the resources from becoming blocked off unless it’s stopped somehow or the reason to do it is.
Citys work because it is obvious that the intent here is to build a city, not purposefully block someone in. Also that should be expected when you are building in someone else’s city. which is a different matter then going to a very remote location, and then having someone who actually haves the intent of creating a problem start to plot around 3 or more sides of the persons plot.
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“Plotting around another players base, with intent to stop them expanding”
which says, they need to do both plot around another player AND have the intent to create a problem by doing so. obviously not the case in a city or group build or what have you.
Yes. people do need to understand that they don’t have an inherent right to unclaimed land. But we are not talking about something that just happens to happen via the normal course of things, plotting up against someone with the intent to build something at some point is allowed, we are talking about a player or players who purposefully try to create a problem by plotting around someone with the intent to stop them from expanding, and do so to the point it violates what the devs think is allowed and what is not.
The bottom line is this, if you feel like someone is doing something that is wrong, then use the report button, give as much details as you can in the text block, and follow up on it via the email support@turbulenz.com If you want to know the outcome.
Blocking off gems is allowed, Blocking off a player is not. If your effort to block off gems also means you are also blocking off a player with the intent to prevent them from expanding, then that is not allowed because then you are now doing two things.
You can’t block an area containing someone’s beacon undergound as you would then have holes both above and below for people to mine into.
People also need to realise that the advertising material for this game encourages blocking off resources, to penalise people for doing so would be false advertising.
For the conversation above, blocking people in is against the CoC, if someone does it then report them. There’s no excuse for that.
You can by placing plots on all sides and above forming a box since below is not an issue in low depths if the sides are plotted as the mantle and plots keeps people from getting under.
You won’t be able to where that person’s plot is obviously but if it gets plotted around correctly you can.
Think like a square donut where in the middle is the other persons plot.
This issue here is at what point can you complain when people do this do a random 1 plot?
Eventually as more and more territory on serp is claimed like this it will happen but just with multiple people claiming the areas in one spot and it can indeed block some of the smaller plots easy just like in city’s.
Plots above them can’t be beacons. Stick done like a 2x2 or 3x3 and there’s always a big hole in their box.
Edit: as mentioned, also reportable
And that is reportable
Alcyon is extremely good. Many hotspots don’t have much lava. I despise serp. Too busy, too many plotters and getting 2 gems max is disappointing.
Sure, you likely do get more gems in the same time frame in the best hotspots on serp but Alcyon is my precious metal go to.
If done by one person yes however the situation in some spots on serp has this happening when multiple’s peoples “protected resources” have combined with others with smaller plots in the middle and this is fair game as it’s impossible to blame one when 2 or 3 could be responsible.
if 3 people suddenly get the idea. to one night go out and fully block off someone else’s plot, it doesn’t matter. Having people helping you break a rule doesn’t make it legal to do so.
Now if what your trying to say is that this is happening over a period of time (weeks for an example) then that is a totally different matter. as then what the intent is becomes harder to tell. however if it is creating a problem. I would report it anyway. The devs are the ones who will make the judgment.
I missed this website, it’s amazing! Who did it?
Ive started to make antiplot fields. By plotting Above the diamonds and removing all beaconed stones so that the field doesnt block someone out.
If that messed with someones build then pm me and ill either unplot that bit or just give all perimissilns away.