Mercenary banners- no hardcap for mercenary placement

Conan Exiles PC Discussion Public Beta Client
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1

There’s no hard cap for the amount of mercenary flags a player can place down.
They are unaffected by the follower cap so a player can place down hundreds if not thousands of them without any limit.
Please introduce a cap mechanic to Mercenary banners.
Steps to reproduce:

  1. Buy a Mercenary banner.
  2. Place it down.
  3. Check the follower’s limit.
  4. See no changes.
  5. Spam banners all over the map because there’s no limit.
2

do the banner has no life timespam like the minute man in age of empires, or it lasts until all the mercs are killed?

3

I’ll check next time I log in.
But, from what I remember banner is just a trigger for spawn. Once it spawns mercs it has no additional mechanics attached to it.

4

Mercenary Banners = the new “troll” tool

They definitely need some kind of limit:

  • Can only be placed during a purge at your base
  • Can only be placed within the radius of your treasure coffer
  • Can only be active when a purge is in progress at your base
  • Placed banners disappear when a purge is over

These are just some potential ideas. Devs are free to use any, some, or none. I just hope we get the conversation going so the banners will still be good (and not an abused “troll” tool) when Chapter 2 releases.

5

Banners have only 300 HP and act just like any placeable deco in the game.