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Topic: Location of Artifact unreachable

I have an artifact in unreachable position on Kraslovsk and reported it already in ticket system real long ago, would like to know, if you could fix it soon.

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Re: Location of Artifact unreachable

The only solution we could come up for this so far is to let the server reset all artifact locations daily at a specific time. Not sure yet whether this is technically possible at all, but it's on the todo.

  • ETHOS
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Re: Location of Artifact unreachable

+1 to artifact respawn timer.
Even weekly would be fine.

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I am against daily update. But if the only solution is to reset artifact locations, I would recommend to do this 1-2 times a month unless there are more positions where you can have artifacts being really unreachable (aka non Terraform Zone on Gamma in combination with Terrain beeing blocked for all bots.

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what reason would stand against daily reset at the same time the EP are given?

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Re: Location of Artifact unreachable

If the update would be daily, there would be no reason to use some effort reaching a spot not easy to reach. Eg. kill some NPCs or if you would need to terraform to get there. As even if you have 2 spots hard to reach on an island your fine digging for the other 8.

But if a spot is unable to reach, there needs a corrective measure within say less than 4 weeks.

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Re: Location of Artifact unreachable

whats the point?
there is no mechanic that makes that hard-to-reach artifact special in any way.

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Re: Location of Artifact unreachable

The point is that you already get free lunch on alpha.  No need to get everything for free on beta/gamma.

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Re: Location of Artifact unreachable

DEV Zoom wrote:

The only solution we could come up for this so far is to let the server reset all artifact locations daily at a specific time. Not sure yet whether this is technically possible at all, but it's on the todo.

Seriously!? That's "the only solution we could come up [with] so far".

This issue has raised its head numerous times over the last couple of years and there have been at least a couple of much better workable solutions suggested. Try searching the forums.

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Re: Location of Artifact unreachable

Wait, if the artifact respawn daily, that brings another problem, if you dont want to find that artifact in a day. So lets say you collect some Observer stashes when you have the support from your team to kill them.

So I would say 1 week reset is not a bad solution.
Alos as Ludlow said there is some other possible solutions.

+1 for weekly reset

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Re: Location of Artifact unreachable

Repeating relevant suggestion of introducing a new artifact charge that pops a artifact from far away. Possible downsides: -Can't collect the artifact even theorethically -High seeding cost and no craft option -have to hit the location of the artifact pretty dead on

Or more generally make it a per player option to have (partial) rerolls on your artifacts for some cost instead of the environment giving out natural free rerolls.

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Or just run a script that deletes artefact DB locations that are 28 days old and creates a new one

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Re: Location of Artifact unreachable

I think we have a lot good ideas in this thread how to solve this problem.
My favorite would be Jitas idea of deleting locations after 28 days, but even a reroll every 1st of a month would be acceptable.

I just like to see a solution as the ticket is now older than 6 month.