Well it seems that I came here to say what everyone else came here to say... but I'm going to say it anyway, 'cause more voices etc etc...
Yes, pillars can be used to spam. But far more often, they are used to protect valuable routes and spawns, to provide a bit of a buffer around a tribe's base to prevent someone building literally on your doorstep (and often blocking a valuable route in the process), and to prevent spawns (dinos, trees, rocks etc) within a tribe's base. The first of these is, imo, the most important - it will now be, it seems, impossible to protect important metal/crystal/obsidian spawns, and major routes, and those will quickly become blocked off by trolls. You might say that we can submit tickets in those instances but 1) that can take weeks, 2) what we consider an important route (eg the only land route from our base) might not be what you consider an important route, 3) spawns etc are clearly not protected or they would be made no build zones, as a very few of them have been (eg metal spawn in Jungle Mid on Center, ruins on Barnji Plateau on Ragnarok etc) and 4) it was kind of nice that servers could work together to protect their important resources from trolls, by maintaining neat little pillars for protection (I'm sure this wasn't the case on every single server but just look at these comments - clearly most servers were using them in this way).
Please, please, rethink this. We had an issue in Legacy where we hadn't pillared around our base, trying to be nice, friendly and trusting, and a troll tribe built right next to us, blocking our only route out and completely prevented us taking land dinos any further than about 100yds from our base. It wasn't reportable because we weren't 'blocked into our base', nor was it a major route in terms of the whole server, but we were completely barred from using any large land dinos that couldn't be flown out with our quetzes. It was pretty crappy and will be a common occurrence if people can't protect their bases. Or, people will be forced to building huge ugly structures all over the map, blocking even more spawns. Neither of these is an ideal scenario.
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Well it seems that I came here to say what everyone else came here to say... but I'm going to say it anyway, 'cause more voices etc etc... Yes, pillars can be used to spam. But far more often, they are used to protect valuable routes and spawns, to provide a bit of a buffer around a tribe's base to prevent someone building literally on your doorstep (and often blocking a valuable route in the process), and to prevent spawns (dinos, trees, rocks etc) within a tribe's base. The first of these is, imo, the most important - it will now be, it seems, impossible to protect important metal/crystal/obsidian spawns, and major routes, and those will quickly become blocked off by trolls. You might say that we can submit tickets in those instances but 1) that can take weeks, 2) what we consider an important route (eg the only land route from our base) might not be what you consider an important route, 3) spawns etc are clearly not protected or they would be made no build zones, as a very few of them have been (eg metal spawn in Jungle Mid on Center, ruins on Barnji Plateau on Ragnarok etc) and 4) it was kind of nice that servers could work together to protect their important resources from trolls, by maintaining neat little pillars for protection (I'm sure this wasn't the case on every single server but just look at these comments - clearly most servers were using them in this way). Please, please, rethink this. We had an issue in Legacy where we hadn't pillared around our base, trying to be nice, friendly and trusting, and a troll tribe built right next to us, blocking our only route out and completely prevented us taking land dinos any further than about 100yds from our base. It wasn't reportable because we weren't 'blocked into our base', nor was it a major route in terms of the whole server, but we were completely barred from using any large land dinos that couldn't be flown out with our quetzes. It was pretty crappy and will be a common occurrence if people can't protect their bases. Or, people will be forced to building huge ugly structures all over the map, blocking even more spawns. Neither of these is an ideal scenario.