SCUM Easy AdminAllow flags on base elements
Decides whether a flag may stand on a player-built foundation instead of the ground.
scum.AllowFlagPlacementOnBBElements=False
What does this setting do?
By default a flag has to be placed on the ground. This switch allows putting it on your own base elements too – a foundation, a platform, a first-floor deck.
It sounds like a detail and is in truth a decision about raiding. A flag on the ground is reachable for attackers: you have to fight your way to it in order to take the base. A flag on a platform on the third floor, surrounded by walls, is the exact opposite – it can be hidden and bricked in.
On PvP servers that is the reason to leave this off. Takeovers then stay a problem you can solve, rather than a hunt for the hidden flag.
On building and roleplay servers it is handy. There people want multi-storey houses, and a flag in the cellar or the courtyard is simply the tidier solution.
Which value suits my server?
On. On building servers it is mostly a matter of tidiness.
Off. The flag has to stay reachable or takeovers are pointless.
Off. Holding a base means holding the flag.
What to watch out for
Hidden and bricked-in flags make takeovers practically impossible. On PvP servers that is the side effect that matters.
Switching it off relocates nothing. Whatever is up there stays up there until the owner moves it.