Catering to one over another ?

[tredo]

I think it makes sense that tribes of 10+ get prime locations, rather than soloists blocking large area's.

So reduce the size of a homestead... simple solution!!

[Phayz]

This is not really a fair practice, I am not looking to steal someones location but i do intend to play solo and should the same starting ability as everyone else. If the solo players cannot place a totem for their hopmestead, they / we have nothing to keep us safe

[Sobez]

This is not really a fair practice, I am not looking to steal someones location but i do intend to play solo and should the same starting ability as everyone else. If the solo players cannot place a totem for their hopmestead, they / we have nothing to keep us safe

Also adding on to this, This game is built off of creating a world with others, so shouldn't everyone have the same chance? Not a select few or have a bunch of friends or more members?

[tredo]

This is not really a fair practice, I am not looking to steal someones location but i do intend to play solo and should the same starting ability as everyone else. If the solo players cannot place a totem for their hopmestead, they / we have nothing to keep us safe

Completely my point, so for a "few" days solo players have to run around and hide or don't play at all in order to keep from getting killed and looted so that when we can place a "homestead" totem for safety, by then we have no tools or anything to work with.

[Tehralph]

ITT: Solo players that think the world belongs to them.

[zeus3715]

Completely my point, so for a "few" days solo players have to run around and hide or don't play at all in order to keep from getting killed and looted so that when we can place a "homestead" totem for safety, by then we have no tools or anything to work with.

Its not supposed to be easy as a solo player in the first place and if you dont like sandbox PvP then play a different game. (Its not like EVERY player is going to gank you anyways.)

There are also plenty of ways to get around it. You have bins that you can drop and nobody can go in cept you, multiple ways to get tools and there are plenty of junkpiles in the mountains that I never see anybody at or are pretty damn hidden.

And if you die and get looted, whats stopping you from killing somebody else and taking their tools?

Also safe-zones were supposed to be removed later in the game anyways.
(Although they may change their mind, ive seen a lot of debate about it.)

The only thing you cant do at the start is terraform and build, which I agree is a major downer.

[Sobez]

ITT: Solo players that think the world belongs to them.

Example of somthing being a troll and should be shot in the face...

Its not supposed to be easy as a solo player in the first place and if you dont like sandbox PvP then play a different game.

There are also plenty of ways to get around it. You have bins that you can drop and nobody can go in cept you, multiple ways to get tools and there are plenty of junkpiles in the mountains that I never see anybody at or are pretty damn hidden.

And if you die and get looted, whats stopping you from killing somebody else and taking their tools?

Also safe-zones were supposed to be removed later in the game anyways.
(Although they may change their mind, ive seen a lot of debate about it.)

The only thing you cant do at the start is terraform and build, which I agree is a major downer.

Example of someone giving a good answer and making the opposite side of this discussion not seem like a bunch of annoying trolls. Thank you zeus

[Robhood]

If solo play is screwed, I may be out. I enjoy playing with a couple of close friends. Don't force me to get in a bigger group just t be able to have a safe zone and build structures.

[pilok]

Its not supposed to be easy as a solo player in the first place and if you dont like sandbox PvP then play a different game.

But this way they make it much easier for tribes and it was already easier for tribes.
What is said before, make the area that a solo player can claim much smaller than for tribes.

I really cannot believe that they will go through with this idea, maybe they think this is a good way to force people to join a tribe.

[zeus3715]

But this way they make it much easier for tribes and it was already easier for tribes.
What is said before, make the area that a solo player can claim much smaller than for tribes.

I really cannot believe that they will go through with this idea, maybe they think this is a good way to force people to join a tribe.

I agree with that, smaller tribe zones would be nice but if you make a single person tribe it reserves a 50 tribe slot for the location, but how can you tell that tribe is going to be a solo tribe or a tribe thats just starting out?

Homesteads are the answer but sadly they aren't in atm.

Personally I would delay Prelude until they finish Homesteads.

And I would scrap the second server Idea too.
(It is a lot easier to add another server after a week or two than find out the pop is too low and have to merge servers down the road,)

One of the things I have enjoyed the most in the game is the ability to build my "own" spot in the world... do you own a home in RL? Know what it feels like to have a place to call home, to do with as you want? So this isn't RL but I still enjoy my own spot in the game to do with as I want. So instead, I am being told I have to run and hide in the mountains and come back after the world is well underway. I have to then search and find a small place to call home, and begin my life after everyone else has already been into it for a few days, even though I paid my dues, and have done as much as the next guy, and for that I get a big fat, "you can't do what you want in my sandbox till I say you can!"

Hypothetically, lets say you take a nice location along side the beach. You manage to log in first and grab it. However a 20 person tribe that was going to take the spot because they need a spot with a larger size to be able to sustain their numbers. Is it fair that one person can cockblock a tribe thats 20x bigger than his own just because he logged in first?

What will happen at prelude if they allow single person tribes, is that the bigger tribes will remember you took the spot from them. And then they will gank, grief and camp you.

It is a lot safer to separate the big tribes from the solo players. And it is a lot smarter to cater the bigger groups at first than the solo players.

By making it so you single tribes cant take land at the start they cut down on massive tribes griefing and ganking solo players.

Tbh, im going to guess that homesteads will be added a day after or two days after the start.