unless the current distribution for high altitude gems is changed, or the overall percentage of valid terrain on those planets themselves is changed, i fear that we must prepare for that to be a likely outcome 
we love this game, but some people genuinely just love control.
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Maybe it just requires a tweak to the resource regen algorithm, wherein, if an area is detected to be completely blocked in by beacons, the regen pattern changes and said resources start spawning elsewhere.
No idea how feasible that would be, or how much of a crunch the servers would have to go under to detect whether itâs happened.
Youâre bound to get some players do it at some point⌠as far down the road as that may be, I think itâs inevitable that it will happen. But ⌠as youâve mentioned, there will be many more worlds online at launch and by the time players have enough friends/plots to lock a enough of a resource area down, the private world base (and possibly public world numbers) would have grown by then (hopefully) as well, so that itâs not a problem.
Also need to remember that things like gems will generally be on much higher tier worlds, where everything wants to eat you for lunch ⌠I think that if a guild has enough moxy to lock an area down on a high tier world and mine it successfully, they probably deserve to reap said rewards.
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And keep in mind that even if they were to do that, theyâd need to abandon those plots to let the resources regen if they wanted to farm the area.
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Theyâd just need to create a big enough box around wherever the resources spawn - any unbeaconed area inside of the box would still be able to regen as normal.
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Yep, but again for it to even make a sizable impact on preventing other players from acquiring said resources the plot usage would be incredibly (pointlessly) high.
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True, but just because we think the plot cost would be pointlessly high, it doesnât mean people wont try and do it 
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It would be much more effective to simply rent a world and control access to the entire world. Then resource regen could continue as intended, and competition is stopped from even landing on the planet. Boom, total control. Furthermore, because itâs a rented server added to the live world list, it does not have a negative impact on the rest of the public population. Its well worth the monetary cost for a large competitive guild, and does not interfere with the general population of casual players. Win-win.
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