Destroying my own stuff

[staxjax]

Forgot to mention, it would be much easier if the shop were to sell an item that would let you instantly destroy things on your own property, than to implement some special rules for claim owners. As a matter of fact, I will add my idea to the cash shop thread.

[Dallane]

Please make this a reality. Very damaging for new players, who are left to figure all this out for themselves. Mistakes are going to be made, at least give the lower humoured players a way to fix mistakes. As it stands I can not take down this stone post I placed incorrectly, stays at 0%.

getting your phlegm above 25 is stupid easy. go eat a bunch of turkey and rabbit

[MagicManICT]

Merged identical requests.

[dageir]

I have never built a fence in real life, but I imagine I could destroy it faster than I build it. I say make building stuff harder!

[Chiprel]

I have never built a fence in real life, but I imagine I could destroy it faster than I build it. I say make building stuff harder!

sounds good! Phlegm needed to build stone walls = 50+! More nabs to raid (i bet all raiders will be happy)

[Sevenless]

It's actually critical that you can build stuff you can't destroy phlegm wise. Otherwise you'd be outta luck with raiders entirely.

[dageir]

Yeah, yeah, but Im speaking realism wise.

[MagicManICT]

I can't speak for stone walls, but I've found it much easier to build things by hand than to tear them down by hand. Now, when you add in power tools and such, tearing things down becomes easier and less time consuming. Building takes less manual energy, but more time.

Let's take a concrete slab for instance. I have to make a form of wood, mix some concrete, and then pour and smooth it.

If I decide to remove this slab later, I have to whip out a heavy hammer. Bring in the sledge!! I don't know if any of you have had to do this, but in just 30 minutes I've spent more energy swinging that hammer than it took doing all the prep work and mixing, and mixing by hand is quite a bit of effort. If it's a thick slab, it can take a few hours of beating on it to break it up into chunks small enough to pick up and move.

[tweenprinc3ss]

One idea ive had since posting, is that buildings or structure you build could have a period before they "set". For instance, if you build a stone wall segment, after you have "built" it, there could be a 1 hour grace period as the stone is setting, if in that time you realize you have made a mistake you can destroy it much faster. This would go along ways in helping newer players deal with issues such as this, without giving much room for exploitable loopholes.

[tweenprinc3ss]

Lets play devil's advocate here. What if a spy gets into your town/settlement? With low humours they could tear a hole in the wall with a very little effort/character development. Boom, your place is open to being raided.

We're assuming the bonus applies to anyone with vandal rights on the claim (otherwise the claim owner would need to do everything, and that has its own problems)

Could there just be another tier in the permissions for some kind of full rights beyond just Vandalism? Something like "Foreman" with full rights, IE Admin mode.