Guard Towers

[greg]

While I agree that stealing is a game mechanic, there is currently no way for us to defend against it. It's a one side victory for the thief, and it drains our supplies like hell. We can currently:

1) Blow there heads of with arrows IF we find them.
2) Set up poor walls of unfinished baskets, in which can be instantly destroyed

And that's it.

What I suggest here is one of two simple ideas being implemented.

1) A guard tower that spawns two guards, with 30 melee and 30 archery. The tower can be set to tell the guards who to kill, and then they will do it on sight. The player would be responsible for equipping the guards.

2) A guard tower that automatically fires arrows at anyone that it is set to kill. It would fire at the same rate as one archer, and would take half the time to build as the previous one.

Now both these towers should have around 500-800 hp, so they can be destroyed. Each should probably be about the building requirements of a house. You should really take this into consideration loftar and Jorb, otherwise we just get stolen from and that's that.

[Devour]

Personally, I'd rather have a system like WurmOnlines, with guards spawning all about the claim, instead of preventing people from getting into the claim.

[Potjeh]

I'm not so sure I want many NPCs in H&H, as it reduces player interaction. What I could live with are guard towers that simply alert their owner that someone has entered their perimeter, though even that feels metagamey.

[Rift]

frankly i think the currently panned mechanics + ingenunity and effort should be enough
by those i refer to the gates/fences and the ability to designate who can go into claims besides owners.

[Vattic]

Rift NPC guards have been mentioned by the staff I believe. It's also been suggested by a member that there be a way of leaving a character online while you are offline, this character could then be given the order to kill trespassers and would go about doing this.