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TiWill33

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why do not just implement a Pound on tiles's markets, if u leave the ship there for 1 day it goes to the pound and u have to pay to get it back :) this way maybe poeple would think twice before leaving their trash near markets

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No punishment.

Turn crafts into a magic blueprint after a while*, which is stored in the market container and usable within 500m of the market container, similar to placing something via linked container. All the tech to do this is already there. 

As it is stored in the closest market, it would be easy to find. Cant find your ship? Check market containers via "J", which can be done from remote already.

Want to abuse the system? Sure, wait for your ship to despawn so you can spawn it again 500 meters further west. There is no way to abuse this if you are unable to take the bp with you.

Somebody "innocent" is hit? No harm done, just spawn the ship again. 

This would be a super easy pill to swallow, because nobody is punished, it would just get rid of all the permanent stuff at the markets.



*: So what is "after a while"? Best thing to make the game look alive, but not trashed would be the following rule: 
If there are more than X crafts within the tile, the oldest ship is despawned, unless it was parked for less than Y minutes.

So at market 6 there would only be X crafts at the same time, unless a lot of people arrived just now, it also means you would see different ships everytime you arrive (which is the difference between looking alive and looking deserted). Alioth moon markets would pretty much never despawn anything, or any of the outer planets.

At some point in the future you can of course add stuff like public advertisement space, an item that stops your craft from despawning which can only be used in a certain zone at the side (and in limited numbers at a time) etc. So any stuff that allows people to have semi-permanent presence at the market, you can add that later. For now we need something to get rid of stuff, not something to allow more.

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An impound system is not punishment. It is a reasonable reaction to unreasonable use of space and game resources as well as impact to other players.

 

I would welcome an "Aphelia Impound Office" near the ARK ship and anyone leaving their construct on a market tile for more than 48 hours will be welcome to pick it up as a magic blueprint for a fee (based on the construct size)  at the ARK ship..

 

In addition to this, NQ could open a second open market platform where players can rent space to place their own stalls/market constructs 

 

 

I'd say that would be reasonable , effective and an overall good solution to a persistent problem.

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