Server wipes maybe sounds good, clean up the server and all, but it reveals a major weak point in Conan Exiles. Just that the bases are too easy to destroy, offer no protection for the player. After your server gets wiped by some clan a few times you realize you are just wasting your time playing Conan Exiles. You lose all your friends as well. Bad on bad. And that is what you remember about the game.
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yes explosives are too cheap and too strong, catapults are basically not used even though they are really economic by means of material too, instead people just blow thru your t3 base even when your wall at that spot counted 340 000 hp , after a few explosions its gone, eighter its an exploit or just bad game design.
As I already wrote in a topic the players online list is a really big case too, everyone literally waits until you outnumbered or offline/crashed/server full and comes raiding you without you having any chance
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The best defense is a good offense. No matter how imposing the fortress, it can always be sieged and in time taken down. Some of the most stubborn players spend weeks and months building high up hard to raid citadels only to spend a few weeks more fighting a losing war to mega tribe hordes or well organized crews. In the end its about how long you want to keep fighting and surviving. Fortresses, clans, players come and go, but the real question is, how long will you last? It maybe easy to make bombs and trebuchets but its even easier to spam foundations and hide your gear/loot across the map.
Maybe funcom should create some sort of PVE instanced area on the map for weaker or casual players to live out of (like claimable small rooms in the cities) until they’re ready to venture out back onto the map but I don’t see anything wrong with bases being “too easy” to raid. Let me know when you have to do month long sieges against toxic pvp clans and blow through 20 gates and excessive land claim every other day just to get at their throats before they move again across the map. If anything it should be much harder to repair and replace building pieces while bases are taking damage, then it might make sense to make it a little harder to blow through people’s bases.
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Raid window attendance is not my problem and offline raiding is an accepted reality of this game, but the main point is even the best defended bases fall if clans rely solely on defense of one or a few locations. One has to diversify their survival strategy. Now you can be rude and insulting or just accept the reality of the game for what it is. Maybe PVE conflict might be a better fit for you if you’re worried about being out numbered and things being unfair?
God Avatars make no sense at the current game settings, every player with 7 bombs is like a god himself, thats why nobody works towards creating avatars in PVP, very sucky and bad pvp gameplay status at the moment, also clan max size too big, 5 players is enough
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Mr thoth- anon you obviously don’t want to understand or you just too naive to understand , its about the fact that you need to be online everyday from 5pm until 11 pm just because everyone knows who is online and who not, on top the fact that joining a server on PS4 is actually a real challenge because they almost always full does not make this case easier.
What was the reason your participated in this thread at all? I mean its obvious that english isnt my first language I guess but hey, is it so hard to understand? If you get raided outnumbered ok , but atm people do only that , because they wait and watch the online list they even dont raid bases where nobody is online , no they wait until 1 (one) player is online from that clan and then they attack with all they have, do you find this cool, does this make you â– â– â– â– â– ?
There is no offline raid protection (except for outside of raid window) and likely never will be. Many players don’t care about the ethics or fairness of off-lining either. This is not a casual PVP game, you or members of your clan have to be on everyday on a busy populated server or you will eventually get raided. Either be on every day to defend what is yours, have clan mates / allies or just accept the fact you will probably get offlined. There really is no “casual” pvp on official. And yes, I fully expect to be attacked if there’s only one or two clanmates on during raid window. I’ve had plenty of bases get offlined over the year and likewise I have no problem hitting offline tribes that have it coming too.
Fortunately even having 1 guy on it is pretty easy to defend a properly built base. Having stacks of replacement foundations/walls/gates/doors/crenulation, repair materials, water orbs on thralls etc on hand can quickly seal off holes attackers punch into your base. You can out build / out repair bombs and catapults in many cases. I suggest that you try it sometime rather than being upset with the current reality of the PVP game.
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Say for youself, games are meant for entertainment, and I play to have good time, even made friends in Conan, if you can’t have fun in a game, maybe go play or do something else?
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You dont want to understand Mr thoth - anon obviously turning words in others mouth, sure there isnt offline raiding protection but the players online list supports maximal unfairness in raids you still dont understand i know. i give it up with you where is the ignore function please?
Exactly! This server had well over the 40 limit, long time players 4 weeks ago, we were friends mostly. Good people to play with. So many players the server would fill up every night for a while. Then some clan shows up and says they are going to fix the server because it’s not working right! LOL!! So they proceed to destroy all the bases, some of them really big really well defended. Now the server is empty. It’s Saturday night and there are just three players on instead of 40 and they are new to the server. All my friends are gone.
So I deleted my supplies and character and will play a different game like the other 40-50 players. I have no wish to play with the a-holes that took the server down to garbage.
You say, “Good deal, get out”. But players often never come back and eventually the game dies. All games die, but that can happen slow or fast. Right now I’d say Exiles has trouble holding players and most of my friends on the above mentioned server went to other games. My thought was make the bases stronger so they can’t be so easily wiped out, but maybe Exiles can’t be made into a game that holds players except for alpha clans. In which case Exiles is already doomed. Somehow game developers often don’t realize that games need the non-alpha players to maintain a living population. It’s just not the focus.
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Yours and MANY others’ issue is the fact that you hold on so dearly to things that can be quite easily taken from you. You refuse to accept that raiding IS a part of the game and, while refusing to acknowledge that fact, also play on a PVP SERVER where raiding WILL HAPPEN!
Yeah, it sucks when you build up a strong base with many high-grade things that took you weeks to earn just for it to get raided. It sucks, but it’s part of the game. That’s actually part of the longevity believe it or not.
You play with the mindset that it’s meant to be difficult to lose all the things you worked SO HARD to earn, but why should bases be extremely difficult to break into, especially when you have literally ZERO limit on how much you’re able to build? This isn’t a casual PvP game, but it seems too many players have failed to grasp onto that concept. Players leave when their base gets raided ONE time, yet plenty of other games, such as Rust and Ark, are going quite strong and raiding is just as common there as it is here. Why is that?
Man, you’re a little sensitive when it comes to arguments aren’t you?
Apart from the other bits of nonsense coming from your nonsensical mouth, perhaps removing the player list wouldn’t actually be a bad idea. Just show a number of people online, but not the names.
If you want to make cool bases and just enjoy the game, play pve… funny when people complain about pvp, you chose to play there yourself, take it like a man.
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That’s not the point, rather that bases are too easy to siege.
Or perhaps,
take it like an Exile
This possibility came to my mind the moment I started playing so instead of going to a hosted server as a newbie to the game (I consider myself somewhat of a Minecraftian veteran, but games differ and some differ greatly), I went with my own and tweaked the settings fitting to my then-current liking. Still learning what setting set fits to my liking the most, but I’m getting there (thanks to admin panel as well; great asset).
I don’t know if the bases are as weak as the op implied, but in case they really are, what if we get more tools to defend them instead of merely tweaking numbers? Just buffing hp is lazy business and while I do like bullet sponges here and there, they are not the solution to every issue there is.
The hostile npc villages are indeed easy sometimes. 
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