EQN:Landmark Beta Starts March 26th!

Question regarding claim flag.
If you consume your flag; does that mean when the "land rush" happens those who didn't use their claim-flag have slight advantage since they will not need to create a new flag? (how do you create a claim flag anyway?)

Also, I've been trying to get a claim since last Saturday and no luck. I just end wasting hours switching from server to server with no luck.
I guess I blame my working hours.

yea, the only way i finally found a spot was spamming my claim box around, if failed, i moved a bit more down the map and tried again.. eventually it worked and i just took what i could get.

Laura_sl said:

Question regarding claim flag.
If you consume your flag; does that mean when the "land rush" happens those who didn't use their claim-flag have slight advantage since they will not need to create a new flag? (how do you create a claim flag anyway?)

Also, I've been trying to get a claim since last Saturday and no luck. I just end wasting hours switching from server to server with no luck.
I guess I blame my working hours.

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Claim flag right now is 1 per character, granted upon character creation.

When you claim something, it uses up the flag. If you delete your claim, it returns the flag. Some people have extra claims due to claim flag bugs. SOE does not approve and actively tries to keep people down to 1 claim per character for the current alpha.

As for claim space, they are opening 2 more servers (on top of the new one just recently), and adding more islands. This is spreading people out so you should have more room this weekend. Unless you're a hardcore builder, just stick to mooching off other peoples crafting tables and start stockpiling resources, upgrading your gear, and tools.

As for actually claiming, the UI is pretty bads. Basically, claims are giant square donut plates. The middle is where you can immediately build, the outer is just buffer space for your future expansions. Since they're basically plates, its possible to stack and overlap claims, but not intersect them. It's difficult to see with the current UI but if you know this you can pan your map around to find space between claims.

Also don't necessarily believe the map if it shows an area isn't claimable. If you think it might be, even just barely, just click anyway and it might let you through.

Yup the tier 4 gems are going to be an issue until tier 4 areas go in. Its like mining for tier 3 stuff in a tier 2 zone you can find it but the rare stuff is a PITA to locate and there is not much of it when you find it.

Soygen_sl said:

Are T1 gems always under copper nodes? I mined a bit last night and only got some gems once. The orange ones, I think. I still have 0 of the gems needed for the bronze pick. I forget the name of the gem right now.

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Copper usually ends with tin but can end with tier one gems rarely. If you see tin you won't get the gems from that node.

I think i saw a video posted here which showed off the creating tools as well as the keyboard shortcuts, but i can't find it. Anyone have the link still?

Some really creative designs out there.

Someone make Las Vegas.

Damn people are creative. Watch for when the truly creative have time with the tools. The sculpters, if you will.

Funny.. as I walk around you would think people would be taking advantage of the potential of voxels yet I keep seeing 8-bit objects. haha

Easy starter material and retro is always easy to appreciate. I want to do something Metroid related soon.

So, My plan is to make a Greek/Roman inspired plot. Starting out pretty well.

Making the columns was a bit tricky, I took a cross section of a marble sphere, copy'd it, stacked it. Then I hollowed it out to save marble, copy'd and stacked that. Good results so far, really need smoothing tool tho, and I wish I could make the columns fluted, but, ehh..



Next Im going to try to figure out how to make a decent looking arch (Then I can just copy and rotate it 360 to make domes and extend it to make vaulted ceilings.)

Does anyone know if the tiers are supposed to be underground eventually? When they initially pitched the game, they showed the various depth layers (blue, crystal, red crystal, lava, etc). It would be nice if you could find all the materials in your world, though I guess that reduces your drive to visit other islands

Laerazi_sl said:

Does anyone know if the tiers are supposed to be underground eventually? When they initially pitched the game, they showed the various depth layers (blue, crystal, red crystal, lava, etc). It would be nice if you could find all the materials in your world, though I guess that reduces your drive to visit other islands

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Yes from what I understand there will be a massive underworld. It is just not in yet.

The claims map would probably be a lot clearer if they had an option to show the space that was available to build, instead of the confusing jumble of overlapping rectangles.

I'm having fun collecting shit and building stuff, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to run out of things to do in about 1 week.