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If you pile up boxes and block a doorway [on a station] but don't log out, what happens?

TL;DRCargo piled up in a doorway stays while someone is near but is cleaned up once everyone leaves, and they can clean up more aggressively when a region hits capacity, so trolling is handled.

Chad McKinneyLead Gameplay Programmer

It doesn't matter. If anybody is next to the boxes that could see them and interact with them or whatever, they stay there. But if everyone just goes away, then eventually the system will just clean them up, because nobody's interacting with them.

Jared HuckabyHost, Community Content Manager

And if you wake up in an Easy Hab and you open your door and you're blocked by cargo boxes?

Chad McKinneyLead Gameplay Programmer

You can move the cargo boxes, yes. Although I think making that happen is going to take a lot of effort.

Jared HuckabyHost, Community Content Manager

There's going to be one instance where somebody logs in and every door to the Easy Hab is blocked with cargo.

Chad McKinneyLead Gameplay Programmer

That's possible. So I mentioned earlier there's this thing that kind of manages entity lifetime. That's something that I've worked on called the Entity Owner Manager. And with that, like other things in the game, it has features associated with it, and it's still improving. So one of the things is that for those kinds of trolly situations, whenever we hit some max capacity for a certain region, we can just be more aggressive about cleaning it up. It's like, okay, you're trolling.