so whats the point of leedsichthys?

[tribeofguy]

to stop players from using rafts much? i don't understand. i wanted to build a motor boat but alphas.

[edskelly]

To troll newbies on rafts

[Gruesome]

I know when I first started I had dreamed of making a floating sea base....I think they were trying to prevent people from making floating bases.

or they wanted to concentrate people more onto the land masses to facilitate pvp?

 

All I know is whenever I see them and I am on my Basil...they die

[Trainingmacro]

4 hours ago, tribeofguy said:

to stop players from using rafts much? i don't understand. i wanted to build a motor boat but alphas.

To prevent you parking your raft in deep seas and to control your raft's paths. To not get hit you'd have to stay in shallow waters.

[Brayn]

2 purposes.  One, as described, as a means to add risks to using rafts.  Previously you were 100% safe from any wild dino while you were driving your raft.  You still are if you drive the raft hugging the coast or on inland rivers.  Unless you have a dino or other player on your raft that is exposed, no wild dino will agro to your raft.  I've driven an unbuilt raft straight through the swamps of the island and right past alpha rexes, gigas etc.  They do not agro to you as the driver of the raft because the game considers you to be a structure.  Trolls on PvP would constantly build a raft, make it into a bullet factory and park it on the edges of the map to avoid detection.  It was cheap and Leeds fix the issue.  On PvE, abandoned rafts in the ocean take platform dino limit space, server load and are aesthetically ugly.  Leeds fix that too, to some extent.

The second purpose is to provide you with tons of raw fish prime.  Since fishing nerfs and loot table nerfs, there's really only 2 ways to reliably get raw prime fish meat.  The first is to use a sickle to harvest sabertooth salmon and the second is to swim up to a leeds and press the Use button (it's Y on xbox).  You will scrape either 50 raw fish or 50 raw fish prime from a leeds and can do that once every 8 minutes.  The Leeds won't even agro you. 

To a lesser extent fishing will provide you with some raw fish prime, but not nearly as much as it did before they nerfed fishing.

[WaltRBuck]

I took leeds out completely on my server.  I find that they serve no purpose in making the map fun.  Everyone else on my server has agreed unanimously.  

[ChargingParacerParacer]

 Basically a faft deterrant, but if you happen to like taming Pelagornis and/or Icthyornis then scraping a Leed for 50 Prime fish meat is very helpful.

[Ranger1]

23 minutes ago, WaltRBuck said:

I took leeds out completely on my server.  I find that they serve no purpose in making the map fun.  Everyone else on my server has agreed unanimously.  

Which is one of the great things about private servers.  If you have a community that is unified in not using rafts in ways that disrupt game play, but instead add to it, removing a balancing factor like the Leeds is a perfectly acceptable option.

Unfortunately that is rarely the case on official servers.

[WaltRBuck]

2 minutes ago, Ranger1 said:

Which is one of the great things about private servers.  If you have a community that is unified in not using rafts in ways that disrupt game play, but instead add to it, removing a balancing factor like the Leeds is a perfectly acceptable option.

Unfortunately that is rarely the case on official servers.

Agreed completely. 

This is also the reason I'd prefer just to pay for a private server.  I enjoy mmos but for me it means miniscule multiplayer online game.  Lol.  It's fun to play with friends. 

[Doedkin]

I like rafts/motorboats and I like the Leeds, makes voyages more exciting lol and I have never lost a raft/motorboat to any. Came close once on a fancy metal motorboat and just barely made it to land before it would have been sank!