Hi there,
My clan have been playing since EA and thoroughly enjoy the game. We play on an official PVE Sever. As we have been building our base since launch it has got fairly large. We have put a huge amount of effort into making it feel authentic and lore-friendly. Unfortunately there are currently two main issues that are causing our clan to dwindle and play less and less frequently.
Firstly the new thrall/pet feeding system is repetitive, dull and really needs an overhaul. We all lead busy lives and maybe only get the occasional hour or so on a week evening to play. During this hour we want to be crushing our enemies and seeing them driven before us… not watching endless piles of gruel and fish sticks cooking just to keep our thralls alive.
Secondly, these thralls and pets don’t even seem to be doing there job! Every time we get purged (which seems to be all the time we are offline) there is destruction everywhere and the thralls all still standing there like they didn’t even try to defend the base.
This means that we are spending maybe 95% of our limited in-game time cooking food and doing repairs rather than experiencing any content. If we keep on like this I don’t think we will stick with the game much longer.
A couple of suggestions to remedy these issues:
- Automate thrall feeding. Let us build work stations that can be manned by thralls to produce food. If these stations decay by normal means, the thralls will die.
- Let us manually trigger a purge when the meter is full, so we can be in the base and the thralls will be spawned in and defending.
Thanks very much,
Treloar