Hello Landmarkians!
There are changes coming to
Claim Upkeep, and they’re coming soon! These changes will be happening over the next two weeks.
This week
With this week’s hotfix (currently scheduled for Wednesday, 3/1
8/2015), we’re going to be removing the ability to buy upkeep directly with Station Cash. This will have no impact on any upkeep you’ve purchased previously with Station Cash.
However, once the SC option is removed, everyone will need to continue paying upkeep with copper until after next week’s update.
Next week
With next week’s update, you will no longer have to pay upkeep at all. Instead, whenever you
log in to the game, you will automatically reset the time to expiration on your claim. Logging in to the game will work the same as pre-paying upkeep previously did. In the new system, each day (determined as 12:00:00AM to 11:59:59 PM Pacific Time) you log in will be tracked, and the more days you’ve logged in, the greater the duration your claims will be protected. Here is how the new system works:
First, you start with an initial Upkeep Timer
- New player – 7 days
- Current player – Either 7 days or the maximum upkeep length you can currently pre-pay, whichever is longer
Then, for every 2 days you log in once this system is active, you get 1 additional day that you can protect your claim(s). The maximum length they can be protected for between logins is 90 days.
Previously, protecting your claims capped out at 30 days, and as you can see the new system will allow you to earn much longer periods of protection.
Let’s setup an example to hopefully explain this a little more clearly:
I’m a relatively new player and have only logged in 6 days. This means my current upkeep timer is 7 days + 3 days (this is determined by 6 unique logins divided by 2), which is 10 days. Now, let’s say I login (for the 7th unique day) today. My claims would be protected for the next 10 days. Then I can’t log in for 4 days (don’t ask me why I’d let that happen, but whatever!), so while I’m away, my claim timer will be ticking down. Then, I log in on the 5th day (for my 8th unique day overall), and my claims would then immediately be protected for the next 11 days, which is my new maximum upkeep (7 days base + 3 days from before + 1 more day from the two additional logins).
Hopefully that makes sense!
Once these changes are in place, we will also be refunding everyone’s current upkeep credits as copper, regardless of whether it was initially deposited by the player or the upkeep was purchased with Station Cash.
When we do the character wipe near the end of April, we will be introducing a system for anyone who bought copper or upkeep via Station Cash to be able to get different resources instead. Stay tuned for more information on that system in the near future.
Terry "Fairan" Michaels
Senior Producer