Originally posted by Estyn:

It's a shame, I realize they have their 'vision' of what the game should be... but come on, at least give players the option for something like raids without needing to resort to third-party addons. I simply don't understand the apparent objection to having options available in the base game.

"Vision" has always been a pretty poor excuse to not give players options. Look at Cosmoteer, that game should be a model to every developer on the planet. The options menu in that game is HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE.

Yes, I've come to the conclusion that mods are pretty much required for many players. I'm another of those that find raids a pointless annoyance to my gameplay loops.

It's even worse with the Mistlands update, because previously you could kill bosses on a different world to avoid triggering raids on your 'regular' world, but now boss kills are tied to merchant goods on that world.

It's a shame, I realize they have their 'vision' of what the game should be... but come on, at least give players the option for something like raids without needing to resort to third-party addons. I simply don't understand the apparent objection to having options available in the base game.

Then again, when you turn to an addon/mod for something like that, you discover all the OTHER fun, cool mods that add amazing functionality that should have been in the base game to begin with.

I'm fairly sure that player/admin configuration management will be included before the game leaves EA. IGS and Coffee Stain are well aware that their business profits from as large and diverse a customer population as possible. Some player/admin will want to have something so challenging that even highly skilled and experienced multi-play teams will be screaming for relief and then others will want a much more sublime experience to allow explorers and builders free reign to visit the Mistlands with no enemies at all (or even the ability to tame Seekers?) and build spectacular edifices that can be featured in build-of-the-month. But customized games are not easy or cheap. There is a lot of testing to make sure that all of the parametric variations won't crash the game or cause other unintended bugs. That means a vast number of testers and there are no better set of testers than the folks who visit this forum and participate in the Public Test activities. It will be fun, exciting and very challenging in and of itself.

Pretty sure the mod Valhiem Plus , adds in a config file that can alter the raids, and many other aspects of the server/game.

THEY ALSO GIVE YOU VALUABLE LOOT TO MAKE STUFF. RESIN, SKINS, WOOD, ROCKS.
They are very easy to kill if you use just a knife, the knock back from the knife prevents them attacking and energy is bare minimum using a knife. You can repeat knife attacks quicker than any other weapon.
also you get much needed experience to make your skills way better so they are essential to the game.
I used to only use a bow and arrows which was so slow and used up to much energy.
also the atgier is a must for wiping out hordes so use your head, no enemies means no more skill increase.
Later on you can use the troll to knock down valuable wood for your buildings arrows etc.
Also the trolls will fight other enemies for you , well not for you ,but they do it so just get them near each other.
Also you can run around and destroy the spawn spots eg the pink smoke from the ahh what do you call them

Originally posted by Archie:

THEY ALSO GIVE YOU VALUABLE LOOT TO MAKE STUFF. RESIN, SKINS, WOOD, ROCKS.

If I want to farm mobs, I can go to a spawner to farm them. I don't need them showing up at my base.

Originally posted by PhotriusPyrelus:

Originally posted by Archie:

THEY ALSO GIVE YOU VALUABLE LOOT TO MAKE STUFF. RESIN, SKINS, WOOD, ROCKS.

If I want to farm mobs, I can go to a spawner to farm them. I don't need them showing up at my base.

Yep , I missed the point a bit, alot then, but if you run around and wipe out the spawners you don't seem to get raided as much.
Maybe the devs could make it switchable in the future.
Me , I like the raids as my base and defences and preparation for the enemies is tested.
But each to his own. cheers

These developers don't believe in options unfortunately.. whatever you want you will have to get with mods.. this game has a LONG way to go before it is as good as far as customizing as 7D2D, Conan Exiles, ARK or any other survival game out there..