miirkaelisaar wrote:But no one has to do maintenance to keep the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Great Wall of China standing, and they have been there for thousands of years, slightly weathered and nowhere near destroyed, and will probably be there another several thousand. Cantr isn't even 350 in game years old. This doesn't make any sense in reality, this is a personal preference of a few people being forced on all of us... nothing lasts forever, but landmarks last millenia, this makes zero sense to me and makes Cantr LESS realistic, if anything.
Also, if we're going to make huge landmarks deteriorate, you better also make every note lying around disappear too. Why should a piece of paper last forever but a monument crumbles away in 50 years? If you're going to destroy history, don't half ass it, just destroy everything so there is no history, if there's no point in keeping it without it being constant work. My characters are so busy feeding all the dumb pets and steeds everyone was so excited about and then didn't want to keep playing those characters, to even stop and make food for themselvees, and now they'll be expected to maintain literally every building, vehicle and landmark, all my characters will starve to death or lose their town.
Most mastabas a small pyramids were pillaged and/or recycled through time. Same happened to many kinds of monuments when unprotected, abandoned, or forgotten.
Landmarks are not going to deteriorate for now (and if so at some distant future, then it would take as you say hundreds of years). This is not about destroying history, but allowing the game to renew itself and giving people the chance of doing so instead of being selfishly stuck in the past because some people don't want to allow things to change and others to have the same opportunities.
About your characters, that's a personal choice you do. You can always stop doing that at anytime. You don't have to keep going with what others left behind. Maybe there's something there you should start questioning yourself about related to the reasons of why are you doing this, or if things should change.
AGAIN, this is not a discussion about if things will occur or not, but about
how. Please, lets stay on topic.