xNatti

Ok so I haven't been on Pure for a few wipes (trying out Scourge and now Elysium), but since I spent a part of 2021 and almost all of 2022 there I'm going to add my view to this. While I admit that loosing my base and stuff because I was careless with upkeep sucks, it hasn't been that much of an issue. Sure it's different because of stacking, but the idea of a vanilla "versus Environment" includes decay in my mind. (The 7 day removal affects me more, b/c sometimes I need to be away for 8-9 days due to work, and that ruins the whole wipe for me, I can't plan for that, but I can plan for upkeep.) Having upkeep means that in many cases people will be more conscious about how they build their base, optimization, engineering and design starts to matter. And for that reason upkeep gets my vote. (Not having spawned boats and horses, and the miniature range of launch site sams, isn't vanilla either, but hopefully we'll get there someday.) Now, the Western Town(s) is what I thought of first when I read the poll. But I think having the *community* participate in building material and upkeep for certain projects isn't necessarily a bad thing. It might as well bring the "community" part closer together. Because let's face it, a number of the "community" builds are still just solo builds, and players outside of the friends-circle of the creator stay away except for occasional fly-over to view the masterpiece. And I'm not going to miss yet-another abandoned/empty "community hotel".

Got a bit discouraged after seeing the other submissions and houses being built.. but whatevs, here's mine xNatti / solo / T11