Testing 241: Beacon Reclaims!

[DKPuncherello]

I agree.
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[PendragonTheNinja]

@Kelmat

When a beacon expires, as the plots are removed one by one, all the non-natural contents of the plot will be reclaimed and turned to Ash of the nearest similar colour.

I’ve read this a bunch of times and am too dense to grasp what it means. Help?

It sounds to me that blocks of Ash will replace the blocks of whatever build is expiring. For instance, if I built a huge tower made out of whatever materials, and that tower expired, as the plots were reclaimed, it would slowly become a tower of Ash in the exact same form with similar colors of Ash. Basically, your build expired and turned to ash.

It sounds really dang cool, actually. XD

[wakeNbake]

@AeneaGames

And that’s exactly the same as if you harvested the goo before it’s mature or when removing the block it was on isn’t it?

So don’t see how this can be abused

I believe he is suggesting you let it mutate and mature to a sought after colour… then wait 4 weeks for it to self harvest with 100% seed return. So yeah I don’t really see this will be an issue, good luck to anyone with this master plan in mind.

[Kelmat]

@PendragonTheNinja

It sounds really dang cool, actually. XD

Ok, that makes sense and really might be pretty awesome. Theoretically this then resembles a ruin of what was there before. Assuming it stays until a normal regen cycle happens you could re-plot some or all of it to preserve a build in a ruined state.

[Dulki]

@AeneaGames

I want to move it to a rental planet when available

@AeneaGames

I figured it would be less work than to manually tear it all down and move everything one inventory at a time.

I would use it for the same thing myself especially when PoP comes

PoP = Player owned Planets

@AeneaGames

And James did say that this is one of the use cases

Awesome I allways find it such tedious work going back and forth this would be alot more easy

[PendragonTheNinja]

Exactly!! If you ever found someone’s beacon that had expired, but hadn’t yet regenerated, it could make for a cool monument to plot.

[anon34275467]

@james

Currently the reclaim system has almost no gameplay costs to use - however it is extremely powerful. During Testing and based on player feedback we may introduce some costs to using the system.

I’m afraid this would defeat the purpose of the whole thing being a safety net for people who have a beacon fuel mishap.

Otherwhise, this feature should be great.

I hope the devs could at the same time figure out how to add a display in a beacon’s tooltip for the actual date of expiration of the fuel.

[Dulki]

Havent done alot of farming so used it as an example beacause i’ve heard they dont have 100% seed maybe it was someting else

[james]

@AeneaGames

Before deciding to put a cost to the reclaim feature using cubits, please know that for instance in my case I expected the feature to be handy to reclaim beacons on many planets without having to manually tear them apart. I can use the plots for other things but if the cost of reclaiming is going to cost me cubits which I then can not use to buy more plots this is something that I won’t be doing so I will leave them as is taking up unnecessary space…

And this is explicitly an expected and desired use case - which is listed in the overview.

@Kelmat

These two seem to contradict themselves, I assume the 2nd is a typo?

Correct - typo. The notes evolve during development.

[wakeNbake]

No you are quite correct they do not have a 100% set up but it really would not be worth the trouble.

[Dulki]

@james

And this is explicitly an expected and desired use case - which is listed in the overview.

Must have missed it but awesome

[RISCX]

Well interesting addition. As i was reading the details to the update started thinking! Oh could i just claim a bunch of land and reclaim all the blocks up into a cloud storage? Then i seen defining as non-natural and player blocks. Witch is fine i guess not plot reclaim mining for me.

Anyways. Can we just end up getting a cloud storage then to use at the cost of oort? We have portals that cost oort now. Just our extradimensional storage costs to open up? I say reasonable cost be the equivalent of a 1x2 portal and can be fueled the same. only issues is that this would virtually replace need for in world storage if cloud storage just holds tons more. If can be accessed so easy. So i guess perhaps a shard pull or even put cost? Ie:pull open up cost 50xshards. Then can cloud transfer into player normal inventory.

[Kelmat]

@anon34275467

I’m afraid this would defeat the purpose of the whole thing being a safety net for people who have a beacon fuel mishap.

Any costs would only be for those who initiate the reclaim process prior to it naturally occurring upon running out of beacon fuel.

[anon34275467]

Aaaaaaah. Yeah, then OF COURSE, that’s totally different!

[almund]

After exceeding set storage limit, game could produce annoying popups to disrupt game play of course more frequently when capacity is used more

[james]

Testing is now available for people to try. Please be aware of the following known issues.

@james

Known Issues:

1. Removing forged gear from a Reclaim can sometimes kick you to the Sanctum with an “Illegal Protocol” message.
2. Text filtering on the Reclaim is disabled.
3. (Admin forcing expiring a campfire crashes the server.)

[Kal-El]

I will also agree that a cost to removing beacons would mean I just do not remove them and they can remain and clutter various planets. If I have Gleam Club then my unwanted beacons will not expire so it is not even a matter of waiting a few weeks.

Even in the case another player brought up. If someone asked me to move one of my non-used builds, I would be willing to do it if I could just do it with no cost, but if it is going to cost me coin or cubits then I guess it stays.

[AeneaGames]

@james

And this is explicitly an expected and desired use case - which is listed in the overview.

Excellent! Didn’t like the idea of all that marble going to waste

[Kal-El]

I had a build on test and was able to easily reclaim it and get to the items from a new beacon.

Reclaimed beacon items in storage

Everything converted to ash which I guess will regen on the normal cycle.

[AeneaGames]

Could this not potentially create ash colours we haven’t seen yet??