I swear this is the 2nd time i left for a few days and within hours not days this time, I get raided…again. I’m started to think there is a general announcement put on on the server when I’m out like it syncs with my google calendar.
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Oh crap. He’s on to us, guys. We need a new system. 
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In my experience with survival games, you’d be damned surprised the lengths some people will go to ensure they hit you when you’re at your weakest. They literally will go to some lengths to check your social media, streams, and other stuff to see when you’re not able to get at your computer.
Not saying that’s what happened here. But it is a bit of a warning to for peeps to keep their online and offline activities as separate as they can.
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This was very strategic. They hit my stores first and are now wiping the decoys. So far one per day. I don’t know what I did to piss in their Wheaties but they are definitely out to give me the message to leave the server.
Ah little do they know…I don’t care about most of the stuff. I’m more concerned that the bases I have had for months and years hidden and tucked away across servers and characters are now just suddenly getting found within one month. I only have one base left and it’s on one of the dead servers so I have been frantically trying to get stuff out of that one.
That’s just sad. I wouldn’t be proud of that level of intensity in a game and going for a win. That would make me rethink my life and priorities more than high five clanmates.
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Vigilance is required now more than ever. It only took four days after I left for my home server to be wiped.
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And that’s the problem…I’m on console and remote play via phone is great for only simple work not full on fight or build. Basically I’m SOL, like I was before. One time is coincidence. Twice? I suspect something.
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I’m reminded of a quote from the Street Fighter movie, “For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.”
And the reason I say this, is usually when I’m running with a crew or some of my veteran buddies, we do our thing. We don’t get to know the people we clash with when we PVP, we don’t do things because of personal reasons, and the things we do aren’t really that important.
But for some reason, those people get crossed in a major way and then spend much of their waking hours trying to make our lives as miserable as possible. People are petty. If they think you did something to wrong them. If they have a sliver of a thought process that you did something or thought about doing something to them. They’ll go out of their way, even to the detriment of themselves and their buddies to try and cause you harm.
Its not a crazy normal experience in PVP. But if you play on a server in a game long enough, you’ll eventually end up on someone’s s-list.
If only it was about high fiving clanmates. Its much more petty, malicious, and sad than that.
One of the last times I had to deal with this as a server admin was ridiculous (this one I wasn’t the target it of however). Its a bit of a long story, so I’ll try to abridge it as best I can. I’m going to call one clan the Jungle Clan because thats where they were, and the other involved, the North Clan for the same reason.
North Clan decided to raid the Jungle Clan. I think there was about 5 or 6 of them, the Jungle Clan had maybe 3 players online. So they were getting hammered. It was causing a bit of a ruckus as any raids did on the server. I think I was building something at the time or gathering mats so I stayed out of it, but some of my clanmates decided to help the Jungle Clan, being the underdogs and all that.
They were able to push out the North Clan but not before they did some damage and made off with some decent loot. No harm, no foul though. Its Conan. Raiding is kind of the theme of the whole IP. The next day the Jungle Clan went to us and a few others about a raid against the North Clan.
All tall we had about a dozen people. Then began setting up. The North Clan saw the setup and called on their allies. We called on some other favors and before long, it was a a God damned war of over 20 people per side.
The fight went on for several hours. Every kind of weapon was being used. Spears, Swords, Hammers, Bombs, Bows, Javelins, Trebs, Orbs, everything by both sides. Probably some of the best PVP I’ve seen in Conan. Eventually the North Clan called for a truce, as their base was going to eventually be wiped from the amount of ordinance being flung.
They returned everything they took the day before. Everyone’s equipment who played in the fighting and died had gotten mostly what they lost (not possible to keep track, but it was done enough to satisfy everyone). And our clan gave them back materials to rebuild with.
It seemed like everyone had a great time just fighting the war. And you gotta admit, it sounds awesome and it was, my words don’t do it justice. So why not let everyone go home with what they started with. And I think the Jungle Clan even got some extra for being victims the day before.
Now for the twist. This wasn’t enough for the Jungle Clan. Yep, the allies my clan helped out. They decided to crap in the cheerios of the North Clan every chance they could from that point onward.
See the North Clan didn’t raid the Jungle Clan because of any slight, or for any reason that was personal. They just wanted to raid somebody., they just wanted to PVP. Well on a PVP server that is what you do. You PVP. For some reason the guys in the Jungle Clan thought they were singled out, and wanted even more payback.
Mind you, they just had a server encompassing war on their behalf where they benefited more than they lost. But this wasn’t enough. So to cut this long story short. They decided to get the admins involved.
A few days later, I get sent this video made by Jungle Clan of some supposed rule breaking. I watched it about 3 or 4 times and couldn’t make any damn sense of it. Even using the timestamps provided. So I sent it to another admin to look. Come to find out, they were trying to bait the North Clan peeps into breaking a rule. But I guess they forgot their discord conversation was in the video.
This is why I was confused because they were discussing breaking the very rule that they were reporting. I was trying to wrack my brain on how they got ahold of someone’s discord audio, but it wasn’t matching with what I was seeing. Except it was, it was them, not the North Clan that they were reporting.
Dumb twits just implicated themselves. I don’t think we actioned them. But let’s just say they got caught breaking several other rules over the next few days and they were eventually kicked from the server. They couldn’t let the one raid go. A raid that didn’t wipe them. A raid that led to a war that ended in their benefit.
And just so you know I’m using an extreme example. Being raided can understandably put a bad taste in one’s mouth. I’ve seen people get into feuds over much smaller things. Things like taking a building spot. Fighting over thralls. Or what have you, like I said, sometimes its perceived slights, and not even real ones.
If you have no idea what you did, its possible you did nothing. Only that the peeps thought you did. And just for the record, this bickering and pettiness isn’t limited to PVP. PVEers can be just as nasty and petty and just as often in my experience. This is a player problem and not a strictly PVP or PVE one. I wanted to nip that one in the bud.
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I know you hear it a lot of times here, but allow me to say it once more. Try to participate on private servers. Find a vanilla one but with rules. At the beginning a private server will not seem challenging for you but in times it will. A lot of bullies from official servers go to play on privates to spread terror to all the players of the private, you can work as an avenger there. Plus you don’t need to participate every single day and admins always create beautiful events. You will meet a lot of gentle people there and admins will appreciate your ethics. I played 90% of my pvp history on privates and I enjoyed pvp even if I don’t like it. For me official pvp is just a pilot, an idea how the game can be played in this mode. On privates it takes a form touching the perfection of the game and some privates has taken the game to another level.
No raid off
No spawn kill
Nobody will raid you if you are not online, or kill you when your toon is on loading screen.
Only these 2 rules are changing the experience a lot. If however it will be done their bad for two reasons.
One the admin will return to you all your event log and more and you will be asked, you wish revenge or to ban them…
So I guess I know your choise already 
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Just give it a try…
Edit.
Before I type this message, I didn’t read anything else here. @Taemien just gave you a beautiful example what pvp in privates means and I believe that @SirDaveWolf is playing private too.
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They most likely checked your decay timers and just hit you then.
If on PC, you can see (rather unreliably) who is online atm via the console.
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I love conan war stories. It’s what we take with us after everything said and done and this was a good epic. Thank you for reminding me why I still play this.
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Aaaannnnd I lost all of it on this server. Second wipe from the same clan under the same conditions…away from the the console within a month.
I would check my friends list on the PS, to see if there are bogeys (but don’t change anything). Then I would be ready to fight, then create this exact “environment” of remote play. Then get 'em.
From feedback I have received from friends, foes and even desperate people who’ve barely heard of me, there’s a PC server-to-server purge happening now. I don’t have skin in the game any more, but it would seem a small few are accumulating a lot of the goodies, and driving everyone who can’t devote 5 hours a night away.
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i am a literla worried about the fact you were an admin, and yet joined in. This is a very big no no for a server for me. Admins have ro stay out of clan wars. Just my opinion.
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Ain’t much in the online multiplayer world that surprises me anymore. I can understand stream sniping. It’s pretty underhanded and all around not cool, but I can understand it. Sifting through your social media and whatnot though, that’s a whole different level of pathetic and petty. It’s bad enough when people do that to facilitate some criminal activity, but just to harass someone in a video game? It’s time to reevaluate your life if you’re doing that.
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Wait so you lost everything across several servers? They just systematically wiped you everywhere while you were away? I’m really sorry that happened dude, it’s so petty.
yeah probably this. Decay hunters on a PvP server. Amazing. I know people say it all the time, but why play PvP if you just want to wait people out or offline them? It’s like, to find satisfaction in that you must not have an immersive bone in your body. It’s what an AI would do if you told them to “win PvP” but didn’t tell them how.
“Beep-boop. Mission parameters are to acquire other players’ loot with minimal risk to Conanbot. Victory conditions met via systematic sweep of offline player’s structures.” 
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Then the list of servers you’d wish to play on is extremely low. Even officials would be off limits (yes some FC peeps DO play there).
Hell when I played Planetside 2, their Creative Director, Matt Higby used to play on live all the time (we got quite a few kills on each other back when I played with Recursion). I’ve also played with a few devs and GMs from Everquest and Everquest 2.
And to be fair, I’ve kept my playing characters and my admin character’s separate by using different steam accounts. This way everything was transparent and admin logs were viewable in live time. That’s a higher standard than SOE/Daybreak, Blizzard, and other AAA companies have.
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Hence why i stay off of privates. As far as official pvp servers with employees on them, i trust them more as they have revenue stream at stake. Privates really dont have a financial reason to have me on thier server.
And if true, the @ignasis . Is this real, because it would mean their needs to be transparancy, esp for pvp.
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