PVP elements: sprucecaps pov or how do i avoid death?

[ascote]

Just one question, do palisades even offer safety anymore? I had my 28 hour palisade destroyed in 30min the other day. Waiting untill world 16 atm as I'm not wasting weeks to get a new base just to have it demolished like that again.

[Dawidio123]

Just one question, do palisades even offer safety anymore? I had my 28 hour palisade destroyed in 30min the other day. Waiting untill world 16 atm as I'm not wasting weeks to get a new base just to have it demolished like that again.

Once fully dried AND on claim they can be only bashed through siege.

[telum12]

How to not be a dumb dumb with claims: viewtopic.php?f=42&t=72166

How to combat: viewtopic.php?f=42&t=72160

^ Read the part about running in the PVP section. Stats do not matter if you're not trying to fight back.

The person running away has an inherent advantage. If you know how to run you will generally be able to get distance and hearth out. There are only a handful of players that are spooky if you can run and have water/food on you.

[SnuggleSnail]

The person running away has an inherent advantage. If you know how to run you will generally be able to get distance and hearth out. There are only a handful of players that are spooky if you can run and have water/food on you.

he doesn't know

[DonVelD]

So. I've being enjoying hnh for like ~10 days now.

For this 10 days i've:
• got randomly KO'ed on deep water; RIP main char
• got robbed twice for hides and leather before having any chance to build a palisade
• got my first palisade destroyed before soaking and got myself KO'ed and robbed for everything I've got
• tried to go to the edge of the map jumping 5+ times in whirlpools to avoid any publicity, encountered silent pvp'ers group that wiped me and my new base without saying any words; RIP second time
• tried to find another location, encountered some friendly people that helped me out with ~50QL starter tools
• build my small palisade and shitty house at remote location, far from water, without any other player's bases in ~20 minimaps radius
• got some random dude spotted me near river while I was refiling my barrels with watah and after he KO'ed me and took all my cool tools
• saw my palisade destroyed next day, cupboards are destroyed/stolen, all that was left are two stockpiles of sticks and one stockpile of wooden blocks
• got my char killed after 30 minutes by dude who was camping my hearth fire

Based on this wonderful experience, I have a couple of questions:
1. Is the only way to enjoy this game is to suffer and hope that one day I'll have ~300 stats char to fight back?
2. Is the only way to enjoy this game is joining on world start when there are no pvp-ers with full meta set of armor that are just enjoying themselves while killing random sprucecaps and wiping their bases?
3. Am I just incredibly unlucky?
4. How do I avoid this kind of situations when I can't even soak my palisade before some dude will find me and fill his ego with destroying somebody who can't do anything about it?
5. Will I become the same asshole after i'll develop my char enough?

Thanks for your answers.

1. Yes/no - Getting a group of friends to play with in a village is an easy way to not get fucked as much. You get stuff done faster.
2. No - You can start out whenever, you just have to acknowledge that you will be very behind in everything. It's not that hard to catch up like 60% way there compared to the top 1%
3. Yes/no - It's kinda unlucky how much this has happened but it should also be expected from a game like this.
4. Get better at concealing where you live: i.e. - start out in a cave and build a palisade somewhere outside until it dries
5. Yes it's profitable/fun unless you pretend like you have some fake-ass morality system. It is, after all, only a game and also PLENTY of people I have met in this game are fucking assholes anyway. Better kill them early before it's too late.

[The_Lich_King]

At the start of every world i spend 4-8 hours looking for a good place, maybe longer, and i don't travel by land. First thing you need to do is build dugout ASAP, and just follow the coast line. Jump between continents, don't take whirlpools and oftentimes choose a place which is really worthless that nobody would really want, like a small island far away or someplace far from a swamp and localized resource... etc. Don't try to take competitive land if you aren't playing competitively.

I started VERY late this world and have not really had any pvp issues save for a couple instances, its just about gaging how far you are from the center and if your land is somewhere that might have alot of foot traffic.