telum12 wrote:
Ram takes 32 hours until it can destroy a brick wall. During that time, anyone can come up to the ram and destroy it. In order to siege, the ram needs to be babysat for that time. They can also be destroyed using archery towers.
This is why Shubla's ramblings about siege being unfair for the defenders is incorrect. It's heavily favouring the defenders.
To destroy a ram, you need plenty of strength, because the ram has lot of soak.
To destroy ram, it takes a long time, I'm no sure how long currently because devs change it all the time, but at least minutes, MAYBE EVEN MULTIPLE HOURS, some time ago devs changed this because they felt that too many players were playing the game and not quitting fast enough, can you imagine, good thing that is now mostly fixed.
Attacker can use alt to camp the ram so it alerts the attacker in some way when somebody tries to destroy it. Then attacker can log in and come kill everyone attempting to destroy it, so he may not need to spend 36 hours to camp it thats bs, maybe just 1 hour.
Realistically most defendants have only few tries until they run out of chars with enough str. It is very, very minimal risk for the attacker, defendant has no chance except if he is among the strongest factions in game.
Also, the ram can be built outside of the range of any archery towers or siege equipment, so that you cannot use those at all against it during this 36 hour setting time.
Then when the ram has dried it can be moved to the wall by moving and repairing within few hours. During which it may require some active defense with catapults against archery towers etc.
Archery towers are useless because you can destroy them with catapults, they take time to dry and you can build them only once. Also even if archery tower was shooting the ram you could ram the wall before the tower destroys the ram.
Defending with catapults is not realistic because people don't have enough materials (especially brimstones, but also hard leather etc.) lying around.
If you want to raid some nab in this game its very easy, you can contact me for more advice if something is unclear. Please make video out of it too and send to devs, assuming that siege mechanics arent just their intentional masochism.
And after this 35 hurs of jerking offf and 3 hours of actually camping the ram the attacker can destroy 10000 hours worth of work done by the defendant. And possibly take 100's of dollars of income away from devs as everyone in that village will quit for at least until next world, possibly even permantently.
I don't see anything wrong in this mechanic, not at all!