Why can't we have beacons in the wild.  It shouldn't be limited to town only. I feel that we should be allow and since you have to be friends to claims plots close enough together then friends should be able to share the effects of the beacons... Just make some rules that if you cant agree to the effects then you shouldn't be using it.  I know this asking the mods / admins, to do a little mediating between players but if they cant agree. then they cant use beacons... 

Can you explain to me why you need to control the effects? What's wrong with the default behavior, people want to build with friends, friends play near each other .. strangers that come near most wild builds are a couple of chunks away anyway, it's a risk they're taking.

99% of the wild players wants beacons, 1% might complain of a speed effect they didn't want, after just claiming a chunk next to the 99%

I just don't get it, sorry.

I've talked with Larry about this in the past, and while he has great points, I still think that it is silly to not allow beacons in the wild. I have never heard anyone complain about having a beacon affect, even jump boost/speed. There is no reason to have it disabled when so many others have them enabled.

To be honest I don't even see why you need a beacon so badly. What effect do you need so bad that you have to have a beacon on your wild chunks?

The only ones that are available are:
Speed, Haste, Resistance, Jump, Strength, Regeneration.

The only one that I can see as being 'valuable' is the Haste boost, in which case you can just get or make Haste 2 potions or just use VIP/Vet armor and deal with the beacons not being placed.

The other effects would be things you could easily just do in towns for things like repair grinding/mob grinding/etc.

Other than that I feel like Lawrence explained why beacons aren't allowed in the wild pretty well in the post that he linked in his last post here...

Where he himself posts at the end we're free to open another discussion about beacons if we wish to discuss it further. Just saying..

That said, the locations where for example, me, whuck, and others are placing beacons is no where near the border or anybody else. The arguments for multiple chunks not being wide enough (a decision they made during the development of six months of version 6, by chosing chunks only 2x but towns like 500 blocks..) is what seems to be the biggest problem. I see nothing in that thread explaining any technical limitation of using beacons in the wild that affects gameplay of others. We discussed this on teamspeak multiple times and larry even mentioned that it's super easy for him to allow placing of beacons, without the effect. Some people just want the ability, others want it for building. Beacons can be used for all sorts of things. That you personally have no reason to use a single one in your wild chunks that is fine, others have others gameplay needs. One example could be that mining out 400 chunks with u3/e5/h2 through beacons is a saving you a huge time, especially with these chunks prices - leaving more time for building and buying pretty resources. Another reason could be a private darkroom without having to buy a town first. In a way a town limits you to a single or two plots, and town rules; whereas a chunk in the wilderness can be as big as you can afford, and you don't have the town rules. It would be nice if both had equal features (beacons are not a towny feature).

Just explaining (but with a headache, so my apologies for sounding short).

Come People need to vote....

As per our update to v6.1 (https://www.noobscraft.com/server/noobstown-update-6-1/) you can now place beacons for the visual effect of the beam/block. They currently don't support the potion effects but it is something I will definitely keep any eye on and if/once a way to control their effects is added this is a feature we will introduce, it isn't likely to happen until then though.

Thank you Larry. My wild build plans have gone in a different direction!

Just a thought on the potion effects (I'm not interested in them for my build however). When a player activates the beacon, the server checks the area to be affected by the potion effect. If the entire area is owned by the beacon activator, the potion effects are allowed. If the entire area is not owned by the beacon owner, then no effect.