Upcoming changes to Decay

[Death]

Per the community vote we will be enabling decay on our Pure servers for the month of August at 50% vanilla rate. This will require players to keep their cupboards stocked with the required materials to ensure their bases have upkeep to prevent decay. This change is to help boost economy for basic resources and help restrict unreasonable builds, while not punishing players who just like to build.

For the last week of August we will run a new poll to see if players would like to keep it after having experienced it an entire wipe. Based on the results of that poll we will either disable it, or continue running it for the foreseeable future.

If it is voted to become a primary feature of the server we plan to scale it to vanilla over the span of a few months, increasing it by 15% each month until we reach vanilla upkeep rates, or until player feedback states otherwise.

[sl0w--]

Great Decision Team. More important than unreasonable bases, players who like to play PVE have no reason after 3 days of gameplay because they have explored/Built/Farmed everything and no reason to go out once vending machines are setup.

[The_Mule]

would be great to see this applied on all servers formats. Have had quite a few so called newbie players show up on the servers and immediately want to get massive net worth straight up without learning anything about the game at all and simply build mega bases with full automation for no other reason than create massive networth in a single wipe. Some claiming to have < 300 planters per base and having several of them around the map. This also creates overload on outpost resources and putting the demand well above normal eg smoke grenades used to be seen at 2 scrap for 1 but when it simply remains at 5 scrap to 1 simply by the flooded volume off these bases it detracts any effort by other players on the server. I would think they would not be able to sustain these massive bases if decay was there at all the maintenance would definitely slow them down and would also reduce the massive lag for everyone else who is on the server having no regard towards anyone else