Homesteads, like a plague of locusts

[galagah]

It's getting to be ridiculous, with single homesteads spread all over the map blocking huge zones of land from tribal use.

You do know that a lot of players are jsut messing with totems instead of reforming their tribes after every wipe etc ?

Exactly. Homesteads are a problem. One homestead can block a tribe for 280m in every direction. I have a couple solutions to this. A. Designate areas for tribe use/ homestead use only. As well as shared areas. B. Allow tribes to overlap a homesteads land C. Dont allow homesteads to be placed for the first few hours of game time. D. Allow totems to be destroyed, even if the people inside are in a safe zone.

Let me see :-

A) No , because all you would get is a headache for the devs from people " crying " cause their spot is reserved for a homestead when they wanted ot place a tribe , and vice versa .

Get to the spot first is a simple solution

B) No , Why should Tribe land overlap homesteads ? , if that's allowed , then Homesteads should be able to come in and plant in the middle of your tribal zone and be safe .

C) No , everyone should have the same rights to place at the very start of the game , Everyone paid the same amount to play .

D) Again No , because a tribe / homesteader can NOT be only 24/7 to stop the totem being destroyed .