shubla wrote:how am I supposed to prevent immediate raping of my place if my location becomes public knowledge?
One thing to notice is that the ram can be dried for 24 hours out of range of any of the defendants contraptions, and only moved in the range for the few critical hours. (Of course, decided by the attacker, for example, to occur in middle of night or christmas eve, could be fixed by defendant chosen vulnerability windows btw devs)
Some ideas that I came up with and why they don't work:
Destroy ram with a character
Doesn't work, because attacker has stronger/more fighters than you.
Build archery towers to destroy the ram
1 hour to dry, catapults are both immediate and have farther range, so attacker can easily destroy them before they fire even once.
Also when destroyed they prevent building of new towers.
Also they deal so little dmg that they are useless anyway.
Use catapults
Only option that may in theory work, but in practice it doesn't.
First of all, the attacker can prepare for the attack by collecing lots of brimstones and ensuring that all geysirs near your place are completely drained.
Few people have large stocks of brimstones to be used on demand, as they decay so fast.
The time window for defense is small for somebody who sleeps the nights and works the days. There is no time to collect more than a few brimstones at most.
Attacker can decide that he wants to attack, build his own catapults that he uses to destroy defendants catapults before defendant has the chance to even load his own. etc.
Even if defendant successfully built defensive catapults and destroyed rams it would still be battle of who collects most brimstone, as attacker could just build more rams until brimstone collecting capacity of the defendant is exhausted.
And on top of all this, most people build houses etc. right next to their walls, so there may not even be space to build defensive catapult near the pali!
What other options there are? None, I think. Stop saying that siege defense is possible if you cannot even tell how it happens.
if you have no friends that came to defend you, you can be raided easy and i think its okey (find friends)
After few months most factions quit and there will be just 1 strong autis faction remaining. After that it doesn't matter how many friends you have because you need the strongest faction as your friends. Then there are timezone etc. issues. No one bothers to defend your place if its midnight for them.
