On Raiders and The New Mechanic

[Lunarius_Haberdash]

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[Óðinn]

Why not remove raiding completely? I mean, it just impedes peoples fun anyway right.
/sarcasm

[Lunarius_Haberdash]

Why not remove raiding completely? I mean, it just impedes peoples fun anyway right.
/sarcasm

No, it really doesn't, but how much they can capture and run away with should be mitigated by what they can carry. It will limit the impact a raid can have by how many and how organized they are. Otherwise it's just hearth hearth poof no consequences no chase unless they're there.

I'm still waiting to see if the 'no log off with active scents' sticks. Though it doesn't change anything if they just hearth back to their secure location.

The point of this would be to have raiders have areas they frequent and attack, places close to their home, or organized raiding parties, rather than just "wander to the best place then hearth back across the entire map to their place of safety."

You want to raid on the road, raid on the road.

[Óðinn]

This will just lead to more items vanishing as they can't take it, so they dump it on the ground or staight up bash it. :/ It doesn't help anyone - not the raider or the one that owns it.

[Ragnar214]

Why not remove raiding completely? I mean, it just impedes peoples fun anyway right.
/sarcasm

No, it really doesn't, but how much they can capture and run away with should be mitigated by what they can carry. It will limit the impact a raid can have by how many and how organized they are. Otherwise it's just hearth hearth poof no consequences no chase unless they're there.

I'm still waiting to see if the 'no log off with active scents' sticks. Though it doesn't change anything if they just hearth back to their secure location.

The point of this would be to have raiders have areas they frequent and attack, places close to their home, or organized raiding parties, rather than just "wander to the best place then hearth back across the entire map to their place of safety."

You want to raid on the road, raid on the road.

I like your idea. I was also thinking the same thing since HnH 1

[overtyped]

Why not remove raiding completely? I mean, it just impedes peoples fun anyway right.
/sarcasm

No, it really doesn't, but how much they can capture and run away with should be mitigated by what they can carry. It will limit the impact a raid can have by how many and how organized they are. Otherwise it's just hearth hearth poof no consequences no chase unless they're there.

I'm still waiting to see if the 'no log off with active scents' sticks. Though it doesn't change anything if they just hearth back to their secure location.

The point of this would be to have raiders have areas they frequent and attack, places close to their home, or organized raiding parties, rather than just "wander to the best place then hearth back across the entire map to their place of safety."

You want to raid on the road, raid on the road.

I like your idea. I was also thinking the same thing since HnH 1

salem did this, and thats why its shit.

[drowned]

Cash shop tokens that let you start at another players location?

[aikidragon]

Cash shop tokens that let you start at another players location?

The devil has spoken. Pay2Win is obviously not the way to go.

[Lunarius_Haberdash]

salem did this, and thats why its shit.

Aside from the fact that raiders hate it, care to explain why this makes it shit?

Also: RE: Raiders dropping and breaking a bunch of shit. Yes, that happens anyway, so it doesn't address (nor was it meant to) that issue.

The most important part of this is the inability to FLEE from the scene without crossing land and a chase ensuing. Present W7 system is shit, I'm looking right at you, and you vanish like a ghost just because I can't click fast enough to start combat?

THAT is a shit mechanic.

[Audiosmurf]

It sounds like that would just make the game less fun for the sake of making the game less fun. I like exploring/foraging/mapping, and if I'm restricted in doing so by the fact that I either have to walk all the way home or ditch my boat it would significantly impact my interest in the game. There might be some merit to the idea with regard to making escaping with raid spoils a little tougher than poofing, but complete removal is a really bad idea IMO.