I was running a purge on an official server. I started the purge and the enemy camp was pretty far from my purge base. My power went out for a bit. The purge continued without me online for quite a while (over 30 minutes). Since their base was so far away from mine, the purge boss wouldn’t come anywhere close to my fighters so they could end the purge. However, the purge just kept spawning in endless waves of fighters to go into my purge house.
So without me being online, how would I make sure that my thralls can end a purge? Preferably before my thralls start running out of food and slowly dying off.
My suggestion for the developers would be to have a timeout on the purges so they will stop at a reasonable amount of time when things that are outside of my control and Funcom’s control go wrong such as loss of power or Internet.
Having said my piece to the developers, I am now currently looking for what I can do to solve this issue that maybe I haven’t considered before.
If I am not online, I cannot go to him and fight him.
But yes in the foundations would be almost the same problem. Can’t build or break to get to him. And if you can’t access the coffers to remove the gold while the boss is in the foundations, then you would have my exact problem.
I had one last almost two hours because the players died but when we came back the base and our bodies didn’t reload. We couldn’t beat the boss naked, couldn’t lead him into the base, couldn’t pull the coffer gold, couldn’t use a sorcery circle to get our bodies, and neither one of our bases would spawn in either. Logging fixed nothing. But we could kick the Thieves so the thralls would attack them.
Eventually another player came online and killed the enemy boss for us. Thank goodness that was my tank base or we wouldn’t have lasted two hours. In that case we got someone else to come beat the boss and everything went back to normal. Got all of our stuff back. I would prefer not to get stuck like that again. Or like I did with a purge running while my Internet was down for 30 minutes.
There were two such glitches. A Stygian FOB that the Hand of War challenged my clan, and was nowhere to be found. Noxious Gas Arrows where he should have spawned did nothing either. Another was a FOB spawning partially inside, partially outside The Ghost fence. I ran into the fence after taking out the Hand of War and getting his keys.
It’s rare but it happens. I remember this happened to me on the chapter 3 and a lvl 5 managed to kill finally 2 of my thralls. Like you explained, they left out of food, the waves were coming non stop and my relationship with the game was “connection lost”.
Bad situation indeed!
Yeah, the purges can be a problem.
Personally, I really have a problem with the fact that even after almost a year FC can’t add one stupid line of code and set a MINIMUM base distance.
So I solve it by immediately taking the gold out of the chest every time a base appears right next to me, but one time it didn’t quite work as I wanted.
Brutally overloaded with a ton of gold, I was cornered and died, only to have the purge " end" before I spawned again because the treasure chest was empty.
But the base remained - empty, the new purge couldn’t be turned on and nothing could be built - because I was under attack.
Everything went back to normal the next day after the server restarted.
The other day I took out the gold to stop a purge. For the rest of the day I was able to build some things but not others at that base. I could build anything at any other base, just not that one. Server reset fixed it up for me too.
Thankfully it wasn’t a big deal in my case since I could repair what I needed to, just not a couple of things I wanted to repair. Still had fun that day helping another clan get 24 thralls and getting them all up to level 20.