christenoc

Nah you have to be able to kill and steal from anyone. Otherwise there is no need for internal policing, no use for a public hanging square and no threat of danger that keeps you awake while grinding. The point would be that you are automatically given land to build on and people in your immediate vicinity should, but not necessarily, be much more friendly as you are all working for a common purpose under an overseeing law.

VPNs are illegal in China. You'll get a few breaking their law to play a game, but not enough to be a big problem.

Alot of the problems in this game come from nothing being unified right now. There are thousands of tiny groups all trying to make their own base and come out on top which means there is no space for people to build and there is general chaos and lawlessness. Much of this will fix itself with the organic progression of the game. Companies will start to come out on top and own large amounts of land and they will proscribe laws to guarantee some kind of security on their territory and there will be hundreds of players each holding different jobs like farming, internal policing, scouting, warring etc, and they will build the towns and giant seaports and things like you see in the trailers, and their empire will be fighting against a couple of other empires which will also have become dominant and each will have developed their own laws, culture etc. This is the organic vision of the game which actually still excites me, even though my experience so far has been abominable. The problem is, will the game survive till it reaches that state? Might it be best to kickstart that dynamic by automatically aligning a player to one of three or four pre-set empires at character creation? But that comes with it's own problems like the game has to guarantee that each empire will survive and have a set minimum amount of land ownership, and so you lose that organic appeal.. but still, it may be preferable to thousands of players leaving because there is no place to build and there are too many competing tribes packed way too close together to ever get anything done without it instantly being destroyed the moment you go offline or leave your base for 10 minutes.

I have a problem with actual racism. Name calling isn't actual racism, it is an attempt to get under someones skin and people will use whatever means they have, whether the N word or "ugly" or "dumb" or anything else. None are any better or worse than the other. Having a different rule for insulting a race rather than hair colour or looks or intelligence ultimately just ends in race baiting as it enlarges the problem in the minds of the 'victims', then they shoot back, and then a real racial divide begins to form where actually there wasn't one before.

We're all in the same boat buddy. Probably some asshole just decided to kill you are destroy your shit because he could. There are alot of degenerate nihilists out there.

Meh. In a game where you can take everyone someone worked hundreds of hours for, you are worried about an offense that only occurs in your head?

Yeah i found one. A waterfall that leads into an interior pond/lake. Couldn't tell you where it was though, one of the desert type islands around on a cell close to or on L7