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Thanks, i will give that a try! UPDATE: Yay that actually worked! I thought i had covered that angle by respeccing.

Context: My character is currently unable to make wood walls. (I can still make any other item, its only wood wall that suddenly stopped working, within minutes from my last production of wooden walls). How do i go about getting help from the developers/gm's to fix my character? The ticket system seem limited in scope as they say they won't even consider anything that is not company ownership or merger related... Any good ideas? I have made a post on the bug forum, but that seems likely to get flooded away.

As the title says: I was in the process of building a sloop, and had already made several buildingblocks to build a wooden cabin, including several wood wall pieces, I then realized i had made a design mistake, and wanted to redo a portion of it from scratch, and tore it down in order to start over. Then to my surprise i was suddenly unable to create wood wall pieces, even though i had all the required materials in my inventory. I can still make any other item i from inventory like normal, its only the wood wall, that simply does nothing. Out of frustration i initially just logged off, and played something else. But now, a day later i went back in, the problem persists, and i have even tried to respec, and that did nothing to fix it. Please help, as i'm finding this to be a major gamebreaking bug for me!

It doesnt matter if its an amarican company or not, its doing business in europe, and thus subject to european laws. Even Google/Microsoft/Apple/facebook, and more cannot hide behind the fact they are based outside of europe, they can comply/get fined for up to 4% of their annual turnover, or they can stop doing business in europe, they are all complying, so of course the same will be the case regarding steam. And you as a private person are also liable to legal action if you keep databases of personal information of identifiable individuals. You will of course be harder to go after, than a company, that for the most part want to do business in europe, but if you are based in europe, you can be charged directly, and if not, you can be charged, if there is a strong enough case against you, and you want to visit europe sometime in your future.

@Bullet Force For a person clever enough to write a piece of software that logs and presents data about other peoples playing patterns, you, at the same time, seem willfully ignorant towards the viewpoint that the people you log may feel that you are invading their privacy in doing so. In the EU, that can get you into trouble with the GDPR, as any unsanctioned logging of data and publication is against the law as soon as it can be lead back to the person that you are tracking. And since you and battlemetrics are using the steamname you are indeed storing personal information that can tell alot about a persons private life. On top of that, what you are doing is in its essence cheating, since data that shows online patterns, etc does not exist without your tool (and battlemetrics). @Jatheish What are you guys doing to prevent breaches of the GDPR in Europe? Since the data is mined from your systems, you are enabling logging of private information on individuals, this could make you liable to being fined.

Actually I think that there are something one can do about this problem. Due to the new GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) in the EU, you can request that any company hand over/delete anything that they have logged in relation to your person, and since these tools, use your steamname, which is (unless you change it to 123), possibly personally identifiable, then they can be forced to hand over, and delete any data they have on you. The problem is, you have to be a EU citizen to be protected by this legislation, and you have to make them stop tracking you yourself. They then have 30 days to comply, or you can lodge a complaint against them with your local data protection agency. Failure to comply is enforceable with hefty fines, that have made even google/microsoft/apple etc comply to such requests, I don't see why the same can not be the case here. The problem is, the way the data is collected, everytime you shut down one place, another springs up.

The intention from the developers of EVE is exactly that, that you cannot hide, you can even pay npc's to get them to locate the player you ask them about, and you will then get an aproximate area that they are in, there is still plenty of ways to "hide" but you cannot, if you really piss someone off, ever think you are completely safe. Neither should you, if you are a murdering, plundering scoundrel And, at least in EVE, it doesn't stop people PVP'ing at all. - But it does add consequences!

EVE logs (or killmails), show everyone who participated in killing you (anyone who did damage to you in the event that killed you, or your structures), you can then click on the listed participants and see what corporations they are in, and what corporations they have been in, in the entirety of that characters life). So what you know in EVE, is who did it, and what groups have they affiliated with, and you can always look them up later, to see who they are affiliating with later, if that changes. In my opinion, this makes for much more hardcore PVP, as you can always choose to be the villain, but doing so, will follow you, maybe nothing will come of it, but it does make you think twice before going on a killing spree. I mostly spent my time in EVE as a pirate, so i won't say it outright deters people, but you always know you cant hide from your actions. This game (and ARK for that matter), is a kiddie version of PVP, where nothing you do will ever really haunt you, and it feels very catered towards 10 year olds, that cant grasp their actions "means something".

The devs should really look towards EVE-Online on this issue, sometimes the log in this game doesnt even show who offline raided you, PVP is great, but i lacks meaningful consequences, if you add a log that works somewhat like in eve, there would be no hiding from your actions. That doesnt stop you being able to raid, it just gives the victim, who is often the little guy anyway, a chance to respond. As it is now, you can get raided, and you won't even know if it was your neighbour or someone from 7 grids away randomly sailing by.

Yeah, forgot about that setting, but really it shouldnt take much bandwidth to tell the client what buildings is around them, its not like its sending a picture of it

Do you mean the servers bandwidth, or the player? Because i have 1Gbit internet, and still occasionally crash into stuff because it hasnt loaded yet, mostly when its close to a huge base, but still. In my experience especially shipyards loads slowly for some reason, so maybe they are not very optimized or something.

This exactly! In the stone patch mega thread, much focus have been given to the addition of organic paste and metal to the cost, but to me the worst part was always the reduction in strength, to stone, that wasnt even slightly too strong to begin with. I sincerely hope they wise up to their mistake in a hurry.

I smashed someones stone base with 1 medium cannon in minutes. Ofcourse if you are attacking a well defended fort, with active defenders, its gonna take time, but if i recall correct, you did win didnt you? So whats the point, you attacked, you had 9 hours of hopefully great fighting fun, and you ended up winning, so stone wasnt "too tough" ? Just because its PVP, it doesnt mean every attacker has some divine right to be able to waltz in and smash up everything with no effort put into it. I guess your opponent put more than 9 hours into the fort, that it took you 9 hours to break?

I feel like their response is an insult straight into our faces. No communication. Ridiculous small reduction, in their insane added cost. Not a single word on the worst part of this patch, the reduction in strength for all stone buildings. (a reduction that was NOT needed, in fact stone was very easy to smash in the first place and would have been much more suited to a buff). I don't know why i even bother trying to convey to them how bad this change is, i feel disheartened, and just want to quit this shit, which is sad, because this is not generally a bad game, its just being tinkered with by kneejerk devs, who seem to have no sense at all of what is needed, and how it will affect their playerbase.

You give your opinion on the infamous stone nerf, then somone (funnily enough, the original OP) gives his opinion to yours, and then you go on attacking him and derailing the thread out of the blue. I would advice taking a step back and consider if this is in any way constructive to the topic of this discussion. Noone said your opinion was invalid, someone just didnt agree with your view. And maybe in the future, keep your fingers off your keyboard, if you are not prepared to recieve feedback, when you write your own opinion on a public forum.