Testing 241: Beacon Reclaims!

Coal will likely only drop in price slightly as it’s the preferred thing for furnaces. Pie makers and ore smelters still need to use it

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Edit.
My brain was not working properly.

What? Why would increasing the margin scare away bots?

In the end it’s just spark and you don’t make a fortune with crafting. What would you consider to be a good price for 1000 spark?

Half awake brain told me was a good idea.

Full awake brain has realised its stupid lol

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Can any player put a fuel in to stop the process or just the person that started the reclaim process?

It is my understanding that only the beacon owner can. This is to help if a player accidently reclaims a beacon they did not mean to. It lets them fuel it and stop the process before too much of it has been reclaimed.

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Not yet but i will in the zebra district of Axon!

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I agree DK. I am also ready to move on from all this stuff and get some solid new content like new creatures, new blocks, or anything other the complaint driven updates.

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I agree with you, as long as its not serious bug they shouldn’t worry that much.
They can always release a hot fix patch to remove or fix those exploit situation.
A lot of games deal the exploit with this way.
I really don’t know why it takes so long for them to deal with the gleam exploit.
It already become one of the meta to making money. If they deal with it in 2 weeks, I think not too many people will complain about it. You can even find some place said how much you can earn in 1 hour, it means most people already know the way to exploit it. And it means they react too slow to deal with it.

Anyone with permission.

Farming Gleam wasn’t an exploit. Botting was the problem.

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If this is the case,Its nothing related to the new patch release I think. Because people can always write new bots for every contents. I saw people using the gleam as example for exploit, this why I respond the issue. If grinding gleam and making gleam product for money is not consider as exploit, then I think we shouldn’t worry too much about exploit for this reclaim update. Unless its something will hit current econ seriously.

Also i am not too sure about the standard you guys have for consider something as exploit because using huge amount of gleam product to exchange money is really similar as crafting stone to exchange exp. Its something we need to balance I think.

What’s being exploited isn’t so much farming gleam as it is selling the products to the minter for massive profit. It’s this value that I personally can’t believe hasn’t been dealt with.

So long as minter values are static and as high as they are for things like gleam doors and raw exotic earthyams, someone’s going to find some way to “exploit” something…

But the minter values of gleam doors and refined gleam was lowered a heck of a lot because of this???

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Oh was it? I’d not seen any sort of devlog for the nerf. I tend to not abuse game mechanics so had no real way of knowing and was expecting there’d be some announcement or devlog or something about it.

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Thanks @AeneaGames and @almund! Missed that!

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I am personally very excited for the spark changes to allow it to be sold as a base item. A lot of items that couldn’t be sold before are now able to be used. Wood as an example.

I farm wood to get sap/bark for my store. The wood part is great spark…but no one would buy it for that at a good price.

Now I can turn it into spark as a part of farming it and then sell it! Less waste. Exciting! <3 Can’t wait for this update.

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I think one free reclaim per month would be an awesome idea, +1 like so devs will see ^^

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Urrgh that’s a nope from me. Would take me 6mth just to get rid of some old builds. Being able to remove beacons very easily might even convince the people who have abandoned builds on every other planet to take them down as it’s now easy to get materials back without smashing everything up

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