Yeah this is just for me at this point, lol, but I’m posting the results of my trip to the countryside.
This area has been more or less filled in at different times. The build touches the mantle, and the top of the sky. The beacons wind vertically through the caves in a way that isn’t clear on the analyzer screenshot.
Since I unbeaconed a large underground garden it hasn’t included the single-row border plots as part of the settlement anyways. At this point I think I’m just going to unbeacon this museum and be done with it.
Parts of my viewing platform are part of the settlement, and parts are not.
Farewell old home.
Just for lulz here’s another growing build i passed on the way. I guess a lot of people will be learning that their ‘settlements’ are 50% or more ‘road’ this week.
TBH I’m not even sure how much this changes, and how much it’s just revealing, by adding the analyzer.
It would explain how my solo builds hardly ever generate footfall even though I see people in them.
This seriously impacts my entire philosophy here. I was trying to figure out how people get enough footfall that they even care, much less for all of this crying all the time. Apparently I’ve just been doing it REALLY wrong and beaconing out massive swaths of refined stone pavement that people can’t avoid is the only way to go. Preferably in the middle of other people’s parking lots so you don’t waste high percentage of your plots to ‘road’ status.
Overall,this has severely dampened my enthusiasm for the game. It’s looking like parking lot competitions and empty mansion wars are what it comes down to, and with some added weight to the notion of the ‘first mover advantage’ that so many players already resent.
Time to sort out my motivations I guess. Went form being in a busy capital to being in a broken, abandoned town this week,and apparently the only build I have that the boundless devs/system consider ‘worthy’ of standing alone is due to me having plotted out a giant area that is, tbh, probably 50% empty right now.
I’ve been curious about the footfall thing, but for me it’s totally secondary to this. Covering my builds in little red squiggles that say “you’re a griefer/your build is bad” and refusing to allow me to participate in the part of the game that it seems like most players are somehow able to depend on for their gameplay pretty much
Well pretty much i dunno what. I already gave these guys my money .If I can’t sort something out or get to a place in the next couple days where I feel good about participating here, or see a hope of becoming “part of the system” without completely subsuming my gameplay to another person or guild, I’ll probably just kiss it goodbye.