I think the next question is what are the rules?
I remember losing 5 or 6 mil on gems when they suddenly went down in value and became common. It hurt but it happens.
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I think same that when prestige was changing earlier this year there could have been system to show prestige for 2-4 weeks before it is going to change to it. But same time if it is one time thing is it good that developers need to use resources to make such parallel counting system.
This happens in nearly every MMO. Take warframe, you will grind for weeks to get the parts for a prime weapon with great stats, then they release an update which nerfs the weapon, making it useless, but no one expects the devs to compensate us for the time and materials wasted. Its what happens in MMOs. I had made a load of deco gravel just before update was announced, I’ve been playing for around 3 months, so the cost of making it was enormous for me, the hours I spent gathering sap and shadow orbs, mining the gravel 1 block at at a time, cos I couldn’t afford an AoE shovel, all added up, and yes, when I saw the patch notes I was a little miffed, but I also understood that this is how games progress. Devs have to be constantly updating their games and sometimes those changes can have what appears to be a negative impact, but within a month everyone will be over the changes and loving the new blocks. Yeah it sucks when you have invested time, but that’s MMOs and if you don’t like that MMOs progress in this way maybe Boundless, or MMOs in general are not the games for you.
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So why hop on the forums now to complain when they didn’t want to be fully informed about the update or add their input while in testing.
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Good job we both have billions muhahhahahaa 
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thats the point 
now new players can build with marbles so old players are afraid of loosing their Alpha Builder status
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Lol this is gonna keep going isn’t it. And if/when a craft change appears again the same complaints. For builds… don’t use the same block over and over. The prestige change will happen again. Shops well to bad accept your losses or find the new best thing to price high.
(My point of view)
For those that don’t use the forum. There are other ways to get informed.
(Can’t remember how many times i annoyed pc players about testing info in boundless. Im ps4).
I am probably going to get heat for this but; which game doesn’t use social media to bring info out there. How many gamers don’t make videos about the up and coming.
And how can someone miss the real obvious one… Discord on a lot of signs in boundless.
If testing is quick understand it can be missed but i am practically isolated most of the time on antarVI and in the past 3 weeks it got mentioned by several visitors.
If you aren’t interested before or really don’t care. There is no point in complaining after the fact.
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"Dont want to" and “Dont know” are 2 different things
The Devs stated that everything in the Test server are "Work In Progress" / “Might be changed” / “Dont represent for the Live version” / "At your own risk"
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I think the prestige comments are similar to when the developers totally rebuilt the prestige system a while ago. A number of players lost a lot of prestige and not just because the gleam prestige was lowered. The developers wanted the effort put into the block to be used to determine prestige. I think with the recipe change, the prestige had to be lowered or marble would be spammed by some builders just like gleam was before it’s prestige was changed.
As far as players loosing value, does this not happen on some scale every time a recipe is changed or a new mechanic is added? Ash was pretty worthless until they added it to brick, so players that sold to cheap lost coin. Farming had an affect on the prices for a number of items that could only be gathered. Personally, I will take the hit if it means the developers will continue to add new systems and blocks and make changes to existing systems and blocks to make the game better. Yeah I will probably still complain some, but in the end the game is going to continue to change and maybe we are just understanding how much some of the changes will affect players.
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I ve a Big Pyramid build with marble because of the shiny Look and IT s coulor is a yellow one Transformers all Stones from Sediment to metamorphic , i m a Bit Frustrated because of the Material s i ve Put into IT 3000 Seba IT Took me i Don t now how many hours to achive IT . But i will build more with marble because ITS looking great the Thing i would Like to have is to get my Seba Back or the half of IT , the Prestige is Not important the Material s are the Thing when you build all lone
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Our builds lost close to a mil prestige, ahhh. With just 3 ppl building it seems like a lot, but oh well. Now it’s easier to make the mats to build the builds quicker, and move on to other projects that just had to go on the back burner cause there just isn’t enough time to farm all the mats to make the rich ingredients.
This update actually helps ppl. My kids got into this game, they couldn’t get all the mats to build bigger builds with marble, now they’ll be able to.
Yeah it hurts a little, but it also means we will see builds with new designs being built, and that’s just cool.
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No I dont “know it”. I don’t claim to fully understand anything. This why I “ask”. Also when I placed marble I was not getting this prestige. I ALSO have lost between me and Powerman a substantial amount of oort with the portals now consuming my oort and shutting a day later… my response was pure curiosity. Anyone who knows me understands this. I talk to half of the player base in voice about these issues. Trust me, a lot of people are getting exhausted feeling as if this is identical to a early access game.
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Not really. The entire point of the prestige balance in the first place was to reward creative builds. Had nothing to do with how hard something was to do. The algorithm would detect stacking and adding things not alike like doors and such. Marble is still a high class block…
That is why I was hoping previous laid marble could have the original value while any new block (marble) would adjust to the new values. BUT, I am not sure this is possible with out some previous time stamp on a voxel to go by.
Great attitude 
Marble masters can not withstand this assault on humanity. I will start selling yams instead.
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You’re right, i was a bit harsh in that comment. I do apologize for that.
I just get tired of people not logically thinking about the changes they propose.
Lets say it is somehow possible to convert old marble back. You would also have to know if the marble was mass-crafted or not. You would also have to know what colors of gleam was used and what colors of rock (as you can mix rock colors).
Any way you look at it, the solution the devs have chosen is the best out of a host of bad options.
Does it suck? Yes. More for some, less for others. But this happens in real life too. Things go on sale all the time. If you just bought something the day before the sale, yeah you’d be annoyed. But that’s life. In the end, the product you have is the exact same as you had before.
I’m not sure what you are trying to say here. Are you saying that before the update, the marble you placed didnt get as much prestige as it should? (This is likely die to diminishing returns they built in when using the same blocks)
That sucka, but im not sure how this factors in? I haven’t heard about this, is this a bug? How does this factor into the marble conversation?
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Yes sir. But they have to do with the road systems I had built with marble. I’m not sure. I do know there are bugs with some players over others. As far as the oort mention, just venting as to why this is frustrating.
Prestige…what’s that??? Wait…did I already comment this before…sounds familiar…I’m sure we are going to see entire cities made of the new marble just a bunch of oortian designs everywhere.
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