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Ideas for handling Giant Excavator Bottleneck

Hello, with the recent nerf to hqm quarries, Giant Excavator became more attractive to players. The queue from the bandit camp vendor moved to Giant Excavator which in my opinion is more complicated to manage. I think some further balancing needs to be done, there were some talks on the Relic EU server so I'm writing some of the suggestions here:

- Add a rule to GE to only use it for 25 barrels if there's someone else in line

- Nerf pumpjacks

- Nerf or remove LGF to diesel conversion from outpost

I think applying at least one of them will make it more balanced and in my opinion the least impactful is the 25 barrels rule, it can just be added to the server message when entering GE zone. If it's not respected then probably other measures can be implemented.

I know there is a plug in that makes GE “Instanced” basically everyone could use it at the same time but diesel and output hoppers would be tied to the player. So essentially players “x, y and z” could all be running GE at once, Be farming different ore’s and all be able to take their own loot from hoppers.

Quote from pooh5989 on January 10, 2025, 4:26 am

Hello, with the recent nerf to hqm quarries, Giant Excavator became more attractive to players. The queue from the bandit camp vendor moved to Giant Excavator which in my opinion is more complicated to manage. I think some further balancing needs to be done, there were some talks on the Relic EU server so I'm writing some of the suggestions here:

- Add a rule to GE to only use it for 25 barrels if there's someone else in line

- Nerf pumpjacks

- Nerf or remove LGF to diesel conversion from outpost

I think applying at least one of them will make it more balanced and in my opinion the least impactful is the 25 barrels rule, it can just be added to the server message when entering GE zone. If it's not respected then probably other measures can be implemented.

Thank you for the suggestion, pooh. Agree! It seems to be a bit of a problem currently. Let's implement a 25-barrel limit when others are waiting to use it, pending feedback and suggestions. I added this to the zone message and a hard 50-barrel limit. We can adjust this if it is too restrictive.

This will be an ongoing battle of balance. Again, thank you for the suggestions, Pooh and nuk_a_cola.

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