Yeah but as i already said, some dont want the "age of empires" to replace "age of barbarians". They simply dont consider the game is more than mine>kill, cant get their head out of the full loot ffa pvp "deathmacth" type of gameplay, only with some grind for sustaining it.   I know for sure some other so called "sandboxes" who catered too much for the "free kill" crowd, now its a no mans land.

Dont get me wrong, ffa full loot im all for it. But with some "meaning" beyond that. Not just mindless roams, i kill your riveler, you kill my symbiont...   How could some play as "pirates" or "outlaws", if there is not a beginning of "civilized land"?

Dazamin you imply that Arga only wants to mine in peace? Im 100% sure you are wrong.  Imo, Arga just wants to play a level higher than the roaming tribes we got now. Cause your so loved pvp style began to steam, even before any wall was constructed.

What i think would help balance wall (that has already been suggested):

-No auto building up. Each wall has to be built entirely. So you add a time sink to the money sink. Only that would help greatly not spamming.

-Walls are easier to destroy, but the wall tile stay as long as the owner (with a new "area owning system linked to OP") dont want to destroy it, with a new window to handle all that (Devs at one point or another you'll have to create some UI to support PBS, heres a good chance to begin). The tile itself is costy(and also very long to deploy... again time sink good for lowering spam). The "building up" is more of a time sink, but not much money involved.

-When a wall is attacked, the owners are alerted (but not wich one is attacked, only the area where its attacked) The bigger your wall network, the harder to find the attacking point (without a good probe network to back it up).

-For the love of all gods, you should have introduced GATES at the very moment you introduced walls. With a system of ally/neutral/ennemies filtering. Walls without gates?? Does it ever existed in human civilization?

-TARGETABLE WALLS!!!  Why not?? Everything mobile or static should be targeted and shooted at. If a single castel wants to go to some beta island, lock a wall , then shoot it for 3 hours until it is destroyed, it should be possible.

I dont see any good reason not to do it. THAT would balance the "spam like a beast" kind of behaviors with walls. Bombs are just... unadapted. Cause you have to make them big and costy to balance them (prevent other "ab"uses). But that render them unpratical in roams, even big ones.

Not a bad change however are you working on making it possible to lock and destroy them?

as a wall builder & designer i like this change & welcome our new ninite overlords! well done devs & thx

@ Cobalt: some good well thought out & articulated ideas. i agree with you mostly

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This also means that walls that aren't undergoing maintenance will be easier to destroy over time. After 8-16 days they are down to half in hp. Making one plasmabomb enough to bring them down.
Regular maintenance is necessary.
Good or bad? I don't know..

So... Thanks for path. Our members are waiting when you return the money. We bought the wall, but not this. You can take your "walls" back. We going to spend money for something more useful.

The walls wasnt hard to destroy u could do it solo and now its even easier to kill them.

There is a easy and cheap way to kill them, u just need to use ur brain.

But from what i have seen on the forums latetly some ppl thend to lack vision and brain power

And i want my money back!

I hope PBS comes soon.

This modification is just another change, we'll roll with it and adjust. The real problem is that walls were actually fun to build. Now they will be an ongoing nuisance. Sure, it achieves the goal of reducing walls 6000m from outpost, but it will also stop players from building them 1100m from the outpost. Just like gate camping now, someone is going to need to use an hour or two of thier game time to run a symbiot up and down even a short wall systems repairing them, we were already running up and down inspecting them.

Manpower is at a premium in this game, by requiring corps to spend it on mind-numbing things like wall maintenance will likely result in walls being unused for strategic defense; and all the loss of all the fun that goes with that.

In any case, outposts will now be harder to defend and/or maintain again.

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This is wrong

Well it happened to me trying to shoot walls and npcs jumped the wall so i couldn't shoot the wall anymore. Have you tried today because there has been a few changes?.

@cobalt

With decay, I think the devs have shown why they didn't put in gates. Walls are now just for tactical use. Decay isn't relevant since they aren't meant to keep out the invading barbarians.

If the PBS system doesn't have some type of Empire building, as you call it, then that's an indication that Perp wants to just be a persistant World of Tank type of game, with small instant gratification encounters.

Unfortunetly, I don't think those 2 generes will mix well. Personally I'm not going to grind and build so players can just blow up bots in meaningless combat, so the player base will have to be more like Lupus, PVP players with indy alts producing for self-gratification.

Note to Devs: If you can tell me now which way your going, I may be able to save 3 or 4 months of wasted effort. Thanks.

Yeah its always the same thing with "so called" sandboxes.  It turn into a deathmatch thingie because blood thirsty pvper are always the most vocals. Nobody cares about the ones that prefer CONSTRUCTION to DESTRUCTION. Too bad for everyone, im sure some (of the pvpers) would really like to enjoy some "godzilla time" in others built cities.

But once again we as a community lack the distant future vision about what the game will become. And like Arga id like to know what type of game AC wants to create for the future.

One last thing. Good luck implementing PBS with decay mechanics. IMO its a bad decision, you will exhaust harcore crowd and scare casuals/less hardcores.

tldr:  destruction always favored to creation.

walls as they were would be fine BUT it was peoples need to build them en mass over every tiles that could be built on nearly.
The way walls were not being used to build a city.... they were being used to setting the game to WW1 style warfare.

And lets just remember how that ended. Not fun for a game.

True Pros make a Podcast to influence the Devs minds, 
The rest of you guys are Hacks

PS. I got my Highways & stopped playing b4 they came in & have never used them! ...... Irony much ?