Originally posted by Requimatic:

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..Drake raid?

I'm not looking forward to that. D:

Just use a bow and strafe, they aren't that hard as long as you don't get hit and frozen/slowed. The first time I got that event on the server I was both still in the bronze age (so well below the tier you normally deal with drakes) and I was at this little cottage I made exclusively to keep my cart safe while I was mining copper, so it had basically no defense and was made of nothing but wood. Crude bow with fire arrows still got 3 out of the 4 drakes that showed up before the event ended and they flew off, despite me also having the misfortune of a random troll deciding that was also a great time to get mad at me for mining nearby (although it was also mildly hilarious to watch the drakes nuke the poor troll).

Now, if there was just something to do with all those bones, eh?

Yep, I love the invasion for it is mostly a battle for Thor!

The skeletons rush the base, fall into the moat, and then I jump in shield in one hand, axe in the other, and they explode into piles of bones.

Each day II hope for more trophies, especially the rancid skeleton trophies... but alas, I take the bones to the obliterater and Thor bestows me with a better gift.

I don't really need the bones, but I still like this event. I have an iron mace so they basically just explode as I swing which is oddly satisfying. Even managed to get a rancid remains trophy.

Although I kind of wish that they had a system where a specific event is less likely to occur twice in a row. I've been patiently waiting for more drake events to get more freeze glands without risking mountains just yet (I can handle mountains, but I also haven't beaten bonemass yet, but it's a MP server where another has already) and yet all I keep getting is a whole lot of skeletons punctuated by the occasional troll raids. Sort of wish that if one event is selected it is less likely to be selected as the raid type when another raid starts later.

Originally posted by RequiemsRose:

I don't really need the bones, but I still like this event. I have an iron mace so they basically just explode as I swing which is oddly satisfying. Even managed to get a rancid remains trophy.

Although I kind of wish that they had a system where a specific event is less likely to occur twice in a row. I've been patiently waiting for more drake events to get more freeze glands without risking mountains just yet (I can handle mountains, but I also haven't beaten bonemass yet, but it's a MP server where another has already) and yet all I keep getting is a whole lot of skeletons punctuated by the occasional troll raids. Sort of wish that if one event is selected it is less likely to be selected as the raid type when another raid starts later.

..Drake raid?

I'm not looking forward to that. D:

Wouldn't care for a nightly raid. You would never get the time to build your defenses. And the beginning raids would mean you wouldn't even need to do much exploring b/c all the animal part based mats for your builds would get delivered every night until you killed the deer boss.

Originally posted by Lucidess:

But invasions are terrible as it is, they come randomly, and the raids are always weak unless it's trolls when i'm taking a crap on the toilet. How is this good game design? It's not, i'll tell you that now. Trolls come right after Elder, and then rarely ever occur after Bonemass, so just by killing Bonemass you are lowering the difficulty on invasions because Dragurs are weak af. This bass ackwards invasion system needs to change.

How do you have your base setup where trolls were a problem when you were “away”.

Having nightly raids would just be cheesed by players avoiding them completely by going to sleep.

I’m not one for wanting nightly raids since that’s usually when my crew wants to refresh their rested bonus plus restocking food buffs and cooking.

To get the topic back on the topic of laying to rest some weary bones here was the invasion I had
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2628583495

I want more invasions.... sigh...

Nightly raid? No thank you. Survival in this game is stressful enough on the player as it is; a nightly raid would become a chore that many would not want to even deal with, thus turn them away from the game entirely. That design choice would be pretty bad for business.

I think a more sensible solution would be to add a warning before a raid was starting. Regardless of the raid, a warning (5 minutes, maybe?) telling the player that "Something is stirring near by.." before the actual raid happened.

At least then you'd have time to stop what you were doing, eat and repair gear, and maybe even distance yourself from your structures a bit before having Skeletons, Trolls, Draugr, or Fulings up your ass from every direction at the drop of a dime.

Yeah, it's hilarious swiping through the horde of them and watching them all explode.

Some invasions come too frequently, and the dev's need to just throw away the concept of invasions entirely and add some kind of nightly raid instead, because I only vaguely remember this particular invasion and yes, I did enjoy it too. I'd rather fight a wave of 50 skeletons every night if that was the case.

Originally posted by Lucidess:

Some invasions come too frequently, and the dev's need to just throw away the concept of invasions entirely and add some kind of nightly raid instead, because I only vaguely remember this particular invasion and yes, I did enjoy it too. I'd rather fight a wave of 50 skeletons every night if that was the case.

That is a terrible solution when they would just need to tweak the algorithm that decides the type of raid.

Raids definitely should be more random in the type and variety though.

Dealing with a raid every night would be annoying. If you want to fight then just walk outside your base.

But invasions are terrible as it is, they come randomly, and the raids are always weak unless it's trolls when i'm taking a crap on the toilet. How is this good game design? It's not, i'll tell you that now. Trolls come right after Elder, and then rarely ever occur after Bonemass, so just by killing Bonemass you are lowering the difficulty on invasions because Dragurs are weak af. This bass ackwards invasion system needs to change.

Originally posted by Lucidess:

But invasions are terrible as it is, they come randomly, and the raids are always weak unless it's trolls when i'm taking a crap on the toilet. How is this good game design? It's not, i'll tell you that now. Trolls come right after Elder, and then rarely ever occur after Bonemass, so just by killing Bonemass you are lowering the difficulty on invasions because Dragurs are weak af. This bass ackwards invasion system needs to change.

I've had multiple troll raids on my Plains base. Troll raids are never a problem once you reach iron. You can go toe to toe with them after that. Just meet them outisde.

As for raids. I like and enjoy the ones that exist and their random timing. Even the "You Are Being Hunted" one has caused so panicking but hilarious moments in the Plains.

There is definitely a problem with the algorithm though. Raids type should be more random and no raid should go away after your progression. I'd love to see boars and necks still attack and laugh.