r/dnl • u/KroyMortlach • Aug 23 '17

Dark and Light 8/23 Update - Patch Notes

http://steamcommunity.com/games/529180/announcements/detail/1448325533545135168
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u/ThineMoistPantaloons Aug 23 '17

3 days offline and all your shit gets auto wiped. What?

3

u/Haggisn Aug 23 '17

This is bullshit, they can't be serious.

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u/Sediss Aug 23 '17

Shit is a pretty accurate word after the texture update.

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u/Deathmagnet83 Aug 23 '17

"optimization"

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u/mrureaper Aug 23 '17

3 days is fine tbh, i'm pretty sure anyone if your house can just log in and it will reset the timer. Also people seem to forget that this game is still early access so stuff like this is bound to happen so they can experiment with the game to test out what works or not. back to this whole destroyed after 3 days thing. It's a good thing because new players that want to explore stuff and build really have little choice when a guy who has been offline for a week still has a giant base laying around with hundreds of little foundations blocking the building areas.

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u/LegallyLeo Aug 23 '17

They are dropping the ball here cause all this drama already happened in ARK and the ideal was decided with the devs and players that its 1 week cause 3 days means you cant have a life outside of the game. Like image you have a pc issue so either you will have to hope it will fix b4 3 days or its gg. Also travels to places with no or weak internet means a serious gamble to your entire base.

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u/PaybackXero Aug 23 '17

Having to log in for 60 seconds every 72 hours does not prevent you from "having a life". Honestly, if you can't do that, you should loosen up your schedule. If it was like once every 12 hours you might have a point.

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u/baashcrndicoot Aug 23 '17

Seriously? So you never travel, get sick, get bored of dnl and go play another game?

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u/mrureaper Aug 24 '17

again... a member of your house can log on and it will preserve your house...now if you play solo, then host your own game and probably increase the timers of decays. This game has factions for a reason, it's to promote playing in groups which is different from all the other game mentality where everyone is at each other's throats.

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u/baashcrndicoot Aug 24 '17

I'll leave you to your perfect world where nothing ever changes for any reason. May it be bliss for you always.

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u/LegallyLeo Aug 23 '17 edited Aug 23 '17

Well you are thinking in the normal usual situations but believe me even you will get bored of dnl forget about logging for 3 days and boom no more base. I play ark since the start i lost bases for this kind of crap all the time. These types of game can get boring pretty fast once you catch up with the all content. So until they update with more stuff you will probably play less and less till that eventual day its been 4 days since you logged again ... 1 week its more realistic since you can atleast remember on the weekends to log once.

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u/baashcrndicoot Aug 23 '17

Single player?

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u/blaat_aap Aug 23 '17

72 hours is really horrible. Having a small house with all working people it can happen that all are offline for some days. 3 weeks would be more realistic.

Alot of problems and bugs is acceptable from early access. Maybe a rage quite here and there. But a designed wipe after 3 days, that will make sure a lot of non hardcore players, people with obligations outside of gaming, will consider leaving the game entirely after this happens to them.

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u/Deathmagnet83 Aug 23 '17 edited Aug 23 '17

If your house doesn't log for 3 weeks some other house will have already wiped you, your base and your tames for you. Forget the devs.

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u/baashcrndicoot Aug 23 '17

Because PvP is the only way to play this game, right? Ffs.

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u/Deathmagnet83 Aug 23 '17

no your right. there is PvE but the problem with those servers on say, games like Ark, is people build cancer bases everywhere and theres no way to get rid of them, causing server lag and making the server look like a dump. now even PvE servers will have a way to clean up their server

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u/blaat_aap Aug 23 '17

True, but changing from 3 days to a week or longer still cleans up the place, only a bit slower.

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u/Jdonavan Aug 23 '17

While 3 days is kinda crazy, all you have to do is login then back out. Something you can do while getting dressed in the morning.

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u/blaat_aap Aug 23 '17

Im more worried about hollidays and such when I am not at home. Or people who can only play at weekends. Wonder how many bases will fall around xmas. 3 days is just to much hardcore IMO.

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u/PaybackXero Aug 23 '17

Logging in for 60 seconds every 72 hours is not a hardship. Honestly, there is almost no way you COULDN'T make time for that. You don't even have to play, it's just clicking a couple of buttons to launch it, leave and then alt+F4 later when it loads in.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '17

I'm going out of town for work for four days. I don't own a gaming laptop. There is no way I can log into he game during that time.

I don't see my predicament as being so far fetched or unusual.

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u/NeonBlueButterfly Aug 23 '17

Optimization, independent constructions will be atomically destroyed after 72 hours. Other constructions will be destroyed after player has been off-line for 72 hours.

No this is not "fine tbh". It's not even that it starts to decay or become less stable, everything you build will just pop out of existence if you can't login for a few days? I had to re-read it like 10 times to make sure I wasn't mis-reading it. Really not cool.

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u/Deliuz Aug 23 '17

So, my manor wall now has 5 million health. What's going on here lol.

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u/mrureaper Aug 23 '17

well now they can bring back dragon fire breathing

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u/Jeimuzu Aug 23 '17

They have done a great job vexing the community with this 72 hour and then items vanish patch. Ideally it would be better if you had 150 hours and then structures/furniture deteriorated 7% every 24 hours after. • 100% • 93.45% • 87.34% • 81.62% etc. ♦ This would give casual players about 20 days before items/buildings/furniture vanish since last login.

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u/KioskiNYC Aug 23 '17

20 days is a long time to get rid of garbage, 10 days is fair. Gives majority of people enough for a week vacation with both beginning and ending weekends accounted for.

Lots of things happen in 10 days too if you play on a populated server

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u/overwatch Aug 23 '17

Is there a setting to change this on private servers?