Crice Wrote:Do you guys have a clan of thralls that attack the base daily or something? I am trying to envision the change.
Are the animals harder, instead of 1 pack of wolves does it change it to 2 or?
The Purge frequency is set by the actions you do in the game. We have it set so very few actions start a Purge so we have a Purge every single day sometimes 2. Basically we take damage, fix it then it is almost time for the next Purge. We occasionally have time to do some other things but primarily we are just fighting Purges.
We also have the Purge strength set to maximum. So we get multiple waves (up to 6) of mobs that attack us until you defeat the main boss of the Purge. A single wave can represent 6 to 10 mobs depending on the Purge faction that attacks you.
We only play with three crafter thralls (blacksmith, carpenter and armorsmith) the rest you have to go with no thralls. Each player is allowed one body guard. Anything more than that the game randomly kills a current body guard to allow the add. (if you cheat you may be killing one of your mates body guard) So make sure you kill your own body guard before trying to level another if you don't like him. i.e., Arsilon dragged his in the lava last night since he wanted to replace him.
Dophuz plays with animal pets rather than humanoid thralls so he is still cooking them just incase his main dies. In otherwords we may have back-ups in a wheel or pen but you can't take them out and use them unless you kill your current deployed body guard.
We also have damage taken by the purge set at 50% higher than normal. If a Purge mob reaches your base they really only need about 3 attacks to start putting holes in your base.
We have only fought one Purge faction that was higher than T3 and we darn near lost that one. So in typical Guild Purge fashion we now jumped to T5 purges and are awaiting what that is like now.
Killing a Purge isn't the issues. The issue is can you repair fast enough without immediately kicking off the next Purge. We are trying to create a state where you repair, fight, repair fight. We haven't found that balance yet.
You have to keep in mind that not all Purges are equal. You can get easy ones multiple times in a row or extremely difficult ones.
Right now I suspect while the mobs in Purges are more difficult in the Volcano I don't think the Purges will be more difficult. What gets you is when your base is attacked from multiple sides. In the Volcano there isn't enough room to build a place that can be attacked on all sides. We will see. The one primary failing of a Purge is the mobs hit players before the building so it may be possible to agro the mobs and run them away as to not have your base hit.
That was my point above that it is very possible unless in Single player or 2 player the Purges are still not strong enough.