Home Cave buff adjustments
The Home Cave buff works well but there are issues involving bigger dinos. User(s) are able to abuse their size to trap dinos from entering their HC. Example 2 EOs posted outside of HC were able to completely block my Rex from entering HC and due to the slow speed they are able to wait out the HC buff and then attack. Or if a dino has just exited, prevent them from re-entering.
1. I would suggest that while the HC Buff is active that collision with other playable dinos be removed for that duration so that you can't abuse your size to prevent other dinos from entering or exiting HC.
2. Another solution would be to make the HC buff work similarly to the debuff, instead of being a timer it would be based on distance, a dino would need to travel a certain distance away from HC before they can engage in combat thus they can't stay in front of cave if they wish to grief at the cave.
Either or both of these solutions would be a great QoL improvement overall to reduce HC griefing.
Comments: 2
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12 May, '23
tweak222Wanted to comment to add, if #2 is implemented without #1 the potential for abuse still exists. Consider a scenario where Dino A kills Dino B, collects a trophy and heads to nearest HC. Dino A could potentially alert friends stationed at the closest HC to exit and block Dino A from returning with the trophy forcing them to go to a further away HC and give Dino B (or friends) an unfair advantage to revenge kill. So if the collision is removed this "revenge" abuse would not be possible they would need to run away from the HC to remove the buff so they can engage and possibly revenge.
A side benefit is that it may encourage dinos to meet with other dinos after they exit HC, use the buff for protection as players form groups around the HC and head out into the wider world! -
30 Mar
RhiannonSimply turning collision off while the exit buff is active sounds pretty simple to me. Maybe turn it off during the debuff too. Not the hitbox detection in the second case but just the player collision so a homecave debuffed player can be run or walked through by other players. I hate how insistant people are at trying to find every possible way to abuse the homecave just to be a jerk but it's pretty clear they will do litterally anything so make sure they can't block it with sacrificial debuffed dinos while friends do the killing too.