As far as I know if enemies show up at your base and you aren’t there they can just kill all your pets while they just stand there. They won’t attack back. Am I correct?
I really want pets and thralls to be able to attack any player or npc that attacks your base.
Pets and thralls are only able to die during raid hours. However AI is broken so most of them wont attack intruders or defend themselves. This applies even more when more players are online, when more lag is being experienced. Then none of them wont defend themselves.
Regarding this, “dead” official servers are just fine, since at least ~1/3 of the thralls react to intruders. However, who sneaks into a base on a dead server?
This has been a thing for as long as this rule with thralls being immortal outside of building damage times.
Funcom did it like that because some people just ran over to places and killed other peoples thralls even during the night. (Well… I guess that was the reason.) On PvE, this caused a huge mess while on PvP IMO the real mess just started with this issues solution. (Not trying to say that its fine for PvE now, it’s just as bad when thralls or pets dont react the tiniest bit to purge enemies.)
No matter what kind of defend you set up…
If it includes any thralls or pets, your defense is worthless. So one better wont rely on those…
What I would really like to get to know in the next stream is the current state on solving this issue.
Though I guess most people just gave up hope this being fixed.
The only time they start to attack players as well is when those archers saw some npcs and started to shoot them. If the player then gets into range, he is likely to get attacked as well.
-> I saw that at klaels place, someone built a lil base there and set up a few archers who every once in a while start to attack the skeletons.
What seems funny to me is that thralls seem to defend only when a player is near enough. (Not the owner but any player.) However judging the eventlog when the last purge happened, purge attacks even though no player is near (only a guess though 
). I am not too sure about thralls defending then though.
They changed something in the thrall behavior, they used to attack anything that it sees now it does opposite kinda weird if you ask me.
Yes. They changed thralls not to attack if they are immortal.
Unfortunately, this applies to times when they are mortal as well…
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