Make thralls free (and hostile) NPC

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@antib

Making those thralls forget all they learned while leveling will defeat the purpose. Let them retain all stuff and stats, but make them short-living, like 3 days. Keeping an army in chest will not be equally effective and therefore will be easy to be killed.

You’re glossing over most of what I said.

Again, official servers are rebooted every day, so keeping them for 3 days is already going to be a problem, for reasons I already explained and can’t be arsed to repeat. As for army-from-chests scenario, it’s effectiveness has nothing to do with how easy it would be to kill these freed thralls. As long as you can deploy it reasonably quickly – within an hour or so – you have a way to degrade the whole server’s performance on a short notice.

Whether we like it or not, Conan Exiles is built on tech that has some unfortunate limitations. Nobody but the devs knows the precise ins and outs of those limitations, but it’s possible to get a relatively good idea from what the devs have been saying and what the mod authors know. Just as an example, not very related to this thread, I’ll point you in the direction of the thread about mannequins and armors stands, where you can see that the devs don’t want to add them because displaying armors would be a potential source of client lag.

From all I’ve seen and heard so far, AI seems to be a significant source of server load. And like I’ve said, server lag – unlike client lag – degrades the experience for everyone connected to the same server. Considering that the devs don’t want to add mannequins or armor stands or cosmetic thralls just because they might cause client lag, there’s no way in hell they’ll implement something that can be easily abused to cause server lag.

@antib

Building a Great Chinese Wall around 25 replicas of Taj-Mahal could be against rules, but it scares nobody to break those rules.

That’s not what you said and not what I replied to. Building the Great Wall around New Asagarth, which is what you said initially, is definitely against the rules.

@antib

Designing and redesigning a functional castle with adequate security staff supposed to be goal in PVE survival game with environment capable of retaliation (like it is in “Dwarf Fortress”). But de facto this environment is not capable of destroying a single unguarded shop from arabian nights bazar (stretched from Sinkhole to Summoning place).

Yes, PVE could use a lot more challenge. It would be fun to have something else to play for than just “I have a new idea for a cool castle” or “they dropped a new patch with a bunch of new gear to collect from new bosses, which will be rendered obsolete and useless 3 patches hence, so I better go play with it now”. But I’m not holding my breath anymore.

PVE and PVE-C are basically Conan Minecraft and I don’t think that’s going to change. I enjoyed that thoroughly for a long time and then – just like with Minecraft – I got bored and now I don’t spend much time in the game. Thing is, that’s just me. Most people are perfectly fine with the way things are and I don’t think Funcom’s going to rock that boat a lot.