Ok basically what we established was that the flag you are contesting will not countdown unless the 3 day refresh has expired but there is currently no visual data to show this to the pathfinder or company contesting. Basically that land hogger has replaced all their flags within the last 3 days to prevent anyone contesting (just another part of their grind duties every time they log on). At least they are still active though and this proves as such. Your best bet IMO is to find somewhere that looks abandoned (regardless of all the red circles). Search every island you come across. We found a 4X4 hut with the door open that was practically empty and when we placed our flag next to the existing flag it immediately started counting their flag down and did not stay stuck on 9:59. This is because they had clearly abandoned the area and not replaced their flag recently. The funny thing was that we figured out why they got the hell out of there and it was because it was in a spot where alpha lions and tigers were spawning constantly inside the damn base and the pathfinder (clearly alone) would have been continuously ravaged by the overwhelming spawns of dangerous creatures in that area. Kind of like a "Screw this, I will try my chances elsewhere". Since then we have left official servers and gone unofficial because official is seriously too broken to play at the moment and the reports of the broken areas of the game have saturated the forums a lot faster than they are being fixed or can be fixed. Therefore until the devs catch up with that to an acceptable level I wish you the best of luck in official but you will not be seeing me or my company there.
Ok basically what we established was that the flag you are contesting will not countdown unless the 3 day refresh has expired but there is currently no visual data to show this to the pathfinder or company contesting. Basically that land hogger has replaced all their flags within the last 3 days to prevent anyone contesting (just another part of their grind duties every time they log on). At least they are still active though and this proves as such. Your best bet IMO is to find somewhere that looks abandoned (regardless of all the red circles). Search every island you come across. We found a 4X4 hut with the door open that was practically empty and when we placed our flag next to the existing flag it immediately started counting their flag down and did not stay stuck on 9:59. This is because they had clearly abandoned the area and not replaced their flag recently. The funny thing was that we figured out why they got the hell out of there and it was because it was in a spot where alpha lions and tigers were spawning constantly inside the damn base and the pathfinder (clearly alone) would have been continuously ravaged by the overwhelming spawns of dangerous creatures in that area. Kind of like a "Screw this, I will try my chances elsewhere". Since then we have left official servers and gone unofficial because official is seriously too broken to play at the moment and the reports of the broken areas of the game have saturated the forums a lot faster than they are being fixed or can be fixed. Therefore until the devs catch up with that to an acceptable level I wish you the best of luck in official but you will not be seeing me or my company there.