Official server and Corpses

[CdriXX 29]

Hello,

When you arrive on an official server, there are a lot of corpses everywhere... unplayable and it gives little desire to stay there !

[kimbuck 746]

Yes..it  can be depressing.  Even on pvte  servers there has to be a shut down  so  you "can bring out your dead"   and  remove them  otherwise they pile up and lag the game badly.  What is strange is  sometimes they levitate and compete with the flying  sharks..

I often drop in  to some  official servers for a look , and the view at the  arrival area  is post apocalyptic....  from natural deaths due to disinterest, or  victims of the  "kill everything" griefers ,  and  its so  depressing that there's  virtually  no life anywhere ...  and if i decide not to stay i   prefer to craft a  wooden   shovel , dig a hole  in a mountainside and  bury myself.

Its a feature of all mp games when  someone whose a non serious player and "there for the lolz" arrives .. they  run around the  spawn area...and then log out and   die!   Some  prefer to commit this  suicide on someones  doorstep or moored  ship or in the middle of a place where  building is underway, effectively   blocking it. It seems to be a passive  form of  deliberate griefing for some  and its not uncommon to see the  same  person do the same thing  each time a new game/map is  started.. Well  jellyfish have been around for  millions of  years and they don't have a brain too .. so there is help for these types...

You  have  several options ... if its not in  PB protected area, and they are in the  way and not  moved for  several days,  bury them,  but place a stone panel over the top to stop them re-surfacing!

I often get  people "infesting" the  sleeping areas on  my welcome   places,  where  they  lay there for days on end  and never return to the game and  clutter the place up .. so now i  build  elevated structures with sleeping accommodation... over water, if i can ...  so if  someone occupies a bed,  or dies there, after a couple of days i can  deconstruct the bed,  floor and  let them  drop into oblivion underneath  -----  If there's  sharks around  and the resting place is  out over the water, there's  some  rather neat  shark-feeding sound  effects   courtesy of  BI 

What needs to be done is  that if a  body is on the ground  in a designated  spawn area and  not logged in for  at least 2  real time days,  it  then "decomposes" ...  or  bring in modified vultures ......

[Indomitus 388]

I believe they did mention they were working on making the game "self-clean" dead Ylanders and general clutter over time.  Hopefully that will be ready soon.  It will improve things by a lot.