Allow Adjacent Land Claims With Player Consent
The recent change preventing players from claiming land directly beside another player's claim has significantly changed how many of us are able to play and build. One of the biggest benefits of the Earth server is being able to create towns, neighborhoods, and communities with friends and family. With the new restriction, players can no longer build seamlessly beside people they know and trust. Instead, gaps are forced between claims, which makes it much harder to create cohesive towns and settlements. Not everyone is comfortable playing in a completely cooperative claim where multiple people have access to the same land. Some players would rather have their own individual claim while still living directly beside their friends, family, or trusted neighbors. This system allowed players to have both privacy/security and the ability to build together. There is also a potential downside from a security standpoint. The forced gaps between claims leave land open between established builds, which can make it easier for griefers or unwanted players to move into spaces within otherwise connected communities. Would it be possible to bring back adjacent claims, or add a system that allows players to give permission for their claims to be placed beside one another? For example, a Treaty/Neighbor system could allow two players to mutually agree that their claims can touch. This could require both players to approve the arrangement, preventing someone from simply claiming directly against another player's land without permission. This would give players the best of both worlds: š Individual claims and protection šļø The ability to build actual towns and neighborhoods šØāš©āš§ Friends and family can live directly beside each other šļø Communities can build seamlessly without forced gaps š”ļø Players who don't want to cooperate can still keep separate protected claims The current system solves the problem of unwanted adjacent claims, but it also removes a major part of what makes
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TL;DR The new claim restriction prevents friends and family from having protected claims directly beside each other, making towns much harder to build. Could adjacent claims be allowed again, or through an opt-in Treaty system where both players agree?
I would also say that the current system is flawed but can be improved by allowing chunks already claimed and are visible abandoned are cleared and offered to the city that is bigger than 10 chunks (this applies to cities who claim only one chunk and are not affiliated with the bigger city) then I would say yes keep the one chunk barrier on the caveat that if the group has a written agreement on sharing the chunks the 1 chunk limited can be lifted thus keeping space apart but also allowing the group to connect and link the city build
There are a lot of ways to have gone around this. I think even just putting them up for smaller amounts as there is the market place for claims but I dont even know if anyone really even uses thoughs outside of selling a huge build
this would be great especially if when you lock a claim no one can claim around also if you could only lock 1 chunk and others not be locked it would be amazing cause I want to lock some chunks but not my shop but I cant cause its not a thing but i agree the new chunk thing is unreasonable there can be other fixs but they took the short route so if they really want more people to join the should take the long route and try hard to make it best for both sides becouse my freinds house got unclaimed and get be reclaimed cause its next to my claims and its horrible they should fix this issue fast first be removing the chunk thing entirely then making the new thing
The is the exactly issue im facing. 2 of my cousins and myself play together. We forgot they were implementing the 1 chuck space and unclaimed a spot trying to fix it and reclaim only to no longer be able to claim it. Its very unreasonable and leaves areas open to potential greifing
It's leaving so many spots in my city where people can grief :(
There are a several post on this everyone saying the same thing and I agree ..at minimum coop should be allowed to claim next to each other...I play with my family..and we can no longer build our city the way we had intended..it's horrible for those of you who now have unclaimed exposed chunks open to possible griefing ...we tried to swap chunks only to discover now neither of us can claim it..I'm just glad we hadn't built anything there yet..
This was what happened with my cousin and I. We were trying to adjust our land claims and unclaimed one each to not be able to claim them again. Sadly we'd made a dock there already so atp were just waiting for someone to come and mess it up :[ If anyone sees this PLEASE DONT MESS UP THE PUBLIC DOCK!
Hopefully it will stay safe and something will be done to fix this since so many players are being affected negatively by it. Good Luck!
Thank you and to you as well
Had to shrink my store again cuz of this
The island is already getting greifed. Lola had to turn out a bunch of fires and ive filled in like 4 holes
That sucks :(
This would fix alot of issues im trying to fix rn lol
I tried to bring it up last even and they immediately shut it down... and due to that the whole dock was just greifed by eXeinty404. If you can please block him. We are gonna block him from our end.
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