Fast way to destroy an idol... some questions... [solved]

[al]

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We have a village with inactive lawspeaker. He said he had some problems with his job, and promised to drop in, but didn't. He's offline for ~four weeks already, afaik. And when chieftain tried to contact him outside the game he didn't answer and then deleted her contact in a messenger .

It's hard to maintain a village, when there are only 2.5 active players (we're afraid chieftain will quit playing too because of the situation). We need more players, but before inviting them we need to refound the village and relocate the idol (there are some design problems in city planning which we can solve by doing this, and we want new and reliable lawspeaker).

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We tried to built a ram, but it turned to be a pain in the ass. It has broken 20 cells away when we tried to move it. We tried to destroy the idol with pick axes, but it appeared to us as nearly as impossible ...

1. What is the fastest way to destroy an idol? Would a chief or a lawspeaker make it faster than others?
2. What stats/skills and material quality you should have to build/use battering ram effectively?
3. How long will it take to destroy an idol with battering ram? And how many times it'll take to repair?
4. What happens if authority level drops to zero? Will the idol and the village be destroyed automatically?

[arriel]

Well, from personal experience, inactive idol is easily destroyed by one man with pickaxe in about 4-5 stamina rounds. Village idol is not automatically destroyed, you wait while its authority tick down to zero, it deactivates and can be destroyed then as any part of the scenery. Inactive village idol also had an option of "Become lawspeaker" last time I tried to approach it (need Lawspeaking skill).
Never destroyed idols with ram, but did destroy palisade, two average (~90STR) people on vine destroy palisade tile in about 15 min. I never had to repair ram, because I built it right next to the palisade, so barely had to move it at all. Ram itself was like q10

Hope that helps.

[Riou1231]

Just let the authority level drop to 0, if you do. All things associated with villages, such as idols, banners, statues, whatever will start to decay.

[Bl1tzX]

Cool story bro.

Anyway, the village starts to turn 'inactive' when it has under 50,000 authoirty points.
Just in case you didn't know.

Also, was your village's authority level above 50,000 when you attempted to destroy the idol? Or can you try to destroy it even if you've got more than 50,000 authoirty?

[al]

Well, from personal experience, inactive idol is easily destroyed by one man with pickaxe in about 4-5 stamina rounds. Village idol is not automatically destroyed, you wait while its authority tick down to zero, it deactivates and can be destroyed then as any part of the scenery. Inactive village idol also had an option of "Become lawspeaker" last time I tried to approach it (need Lawspeaking skill).
Never destroyed idols with ram, but did destroy palisade, two average (~90STR) people on vine destroy palisade tile in about 15 min. I never had to repair ram, because I built it right next to the palisade, so barely had to move it at all. Ram itself was like q10

Hope that helps.

Great thanks! It will help, definitely.

Actually, the ram was for palisade, too. There are inner walls in the village, and they are very irrational, they make any travel through city 2-3 times longer...

Just let the authority level drop to 0, if you do. All things associated with villages, such as idols, banners, statues, whatever will start to decay.

Thanks.

Cool story bro.
Anyway, the village starts to turn 'inactive' when it has under 50,000 authoirty points.
Just in case you didn't know.

Yeah, we knew that but we were not sure about what happens when it is zero...

Also, was your village's authority level above 50,000 when you attempted to destroy the idol?

We had <50k, when we tried, progress bar appeared, but there were no visible progress on it . We'll wait for zero authority now...

Or can you try to destroy it even if you've got more than 50,000 authoirty?

Some time ago, when it was >50k, I tried to destroy, but message appeared saying that I can destroy it only, if I can build it. I guess I was not a member yet at that time or had no lawspeaking skill, or both.

[Onionfighter]

Try turning on criminal acts.