2 hours ago, Riamus said:And driving 20m vs 3m is going to make all that much difference, even at 10x per day? Why would you even be going to the trader that often? It is rare that I'll go to a trader more than a couple of times a day unless I am really focusing on questing. And then it doesn't matter how close it is to the base because I'm going there from the quest. Besides, the amount of extra time spent dealing with screamers because of the extra heat from the trader will probably eat up any time savings from going back and forth to the trader. At least until you have automated defenses.
Anyhow, it doesn't matter why you want to do it. If you want to, there isn't anything wrong with that. It just isn't something I'd ever want to do. And it doesn't change that you learn immediately not to dig that close and so won't do so again. A fix might help another player who doesn't yet know that, but it won't really impact you since you already know not to do that and so won't do it again.
The difference between 20 meters and 3 meters is not that big, but if I've decided to build my base near a trader, why should I build 20 meters away instead of 3 meters from the fence? Especially if I don’t know that for some reason the developers have imposed these strange restrictions for different activities?
I didn’t create this topic for myself — now that I know about this ridiculous restriction, I’ll build only at the distance allowed by the LCB if I continue playing near a trader. Obviously, this imperfection in the game is quite absurd and needs to be fixed since others might face the same issue. That's why I created the topic, not because I urgently need a hotfix to correct a few dug-out blocks near my base.