High quality nodes and being powerless.

[gdwdalfem]

I don't know if this thread should be in congress or not but whatever.
Well, today i found a ball clay node q74 and got happy as fuck until i realized that i play with just one more guy and we are nothing on this game, there's a lot of powerful villages and in some point in the next week or so, they'll find it and my life in hnh will become hell.
So, how do fuck do i react to that? I'm sure i won't be able to defend it or anything like that, all i can do to make it "mine" is expand my claim, make a village idol and watch the millions of thief scents and scouts waiting to kill me when i try to dig some of that clay.
I'm willing to give it to someone, i thought of giving it to one of the major factions and making an agreement so i would have access to the node but it'd be not in my control, but people aren't that nice, right? I also thought of giving it to the villages i know are good guys like Frog's Crown or Emerald City but still, i don't know if they'd be able to defend it since they're not THAT big of villages and Em City isn't combat focused. (right?)
I know this thread is confusing but i'm kinda new, i don't belong to any big village or faction, i don't know any big guy in game or anything like that so i really don't have a clue of what to do.
Any ideas?

[bitza]

make your pclaim as big as possible, and then sell the node to someone

[cobaltjones]

Ball clay is pretty useless to own with how easy it is to train up vandal alts, but if it's free claim it anyway.

[LostJustice]

I would not suggest giving that away with an "agreement". The Village will take it and kick you off it. People get greedy.

I would suggest claiming it like posted earlier and start training your combat stats, but as long as you do not flaunt it around that you have this clay, then I don't think you will have a problem for awhile.

[bitza]

really you've got a few options:

1. keep the node, stockpile as much clay as you can for personal use, don't live on the clay node of course, trade off any excess clay you get and don't stress out too much about people vandalizing your node. it's gonna happen no matter who you are, especially with river clay.

2. as mentioned before, try to sell the entire node. q74 clay is pretty valuable and even if it is on a river there are no doubt people who would like to own that spot. think big when you ask for offers

3. grab a couple hundred of pieces of clay for yourself and just move on and don't worry about it any further.

4. look around your sg for bigger villages and offer access to your clay in exchange for assistance to protect it. but if you go this route, never drop your pclaim over it.

that's really all i can think of to do with it off the top of my head

[asval]

First step is claiming it and trying not to make it look like there's anything of value there while you do that. So put some noob shit all over the place and try to make it look like it's just some noobs base.

Second step is digging as much as you can and storing it in a safe place for later use.

Third step is selling it to someone else after you put a big enough claim on it.

Fourth step is never posting about this in the forums as everyone and their mother is going to be out searching for it now.

You could also try blocking the water ways around it through different methods in order to buy more time, but that might raise suspicions.

[talon00302]

Though this doesn't help your particular situation, you can starve cows ontop of an acre clay node and then then pave the rest besides 1 tile you remember. They'll never know the place where your cows q10 cows are is a prized possession!

[gdwdalfem]

Thanks guys.

1. keep the node, stockpile as much clay as you can for personal use, don't live on the clay node of course, trade off any excess clay you get and don't stress out too much about people vandalizing your node. it's gonna happen no matter who you are, especially with river clay.

I'll pick that option for now.

[NaoWhut]

Defend it, fill the rivers with rafts

Kill everyone that comes

You are capable, you are strong,
there's strength in numbers, but
in groups people make the greatest
mistakes because they all overlook
simple mistakes in the logic.

Use that clay, get a village idol up,
get personal claims up, make it look
like you're competing with someone
else for the node... people are less
likely to step into a 3 way war. Train
archers, they're the most efficient
way to kill people currently, and that's
great because you can use multiple
archers from one computer

[Frddyk4]

id just dig it down... also, like others said, make it look like some noob settlement with a claim and live elsewhere. there is a chance, that people will also sort of 'forget' its there later in the world too. my village had a q65 ball node that after a while, wasnt vandaled anymore.

hell, if i knew i could get there/ claim it id even buy it off you or work together with you on it, but i dont know if i could keep my sanity through making yet ANOTHER alt char with a claim

good luck in keeping it, that node is a nice little prize there.