So instead of arguing I’ll tell you a story, about two months into EA I had a friend who thought as you do. he spent all his time breaking stone filling furnaces, Reinforced stone was the only T3 then, the north had yet to drop. he had maybe 20 furnaces going. I had one.
I built a little T2 two story shack on the ground. He spent weeks making a huge fortress atop a pillar.
he told me my base was raidable, I said I know.
and my base was of course raided, I lost nothing because I planned to be raided.
he told me his base was unraidable, I walked up to him inside his base and said “How so?”
Anyway I just build a little base from t2 to house me as I stock up t3 mats. I gather for only a few minutes a day.
I then build as I go
I put basic mats in my inventory then one of whatever building piece on my hot bar, and tap after placement to make another, no waste. any leftovers go to the repair stock.
So you and I have very different playstyles. I concede for your playstyle black ice is quicker.
for mine the difference is negligible.
See now you are talking.
For me with black ice, as is, i build a 2x2. then i power level in 10 hours. Solo, no help from friends. I will hit every tree with a pick and gain bark and wood. I skin all the hide i can get. I grab every iron node i can find in my power level area. Then once i hit about 45, i head to Asagarth. I pick every tree for bark, wood and resin. By the time i am 60 i have 1000 dry wood. then i head to frost temple and get 15,000 black ice. By 14 hours in i have a 50 foundation raid base (out in the open so i can see who is aggessive. ONce i know who, i build in a more secure location and start pvpinig.
I apologize for the story post, my wife was distracting me, and I left out details that without them, make me look better than I am, a whole paragraph.
And I was just trying to illustrate the difference in playstyle.
So how I got in his base, this was just after elevators but before climbing.
he used ceiling tiles extended out from his base and a door between the elevator and his base, and his base had no roof,
lots of people did this, I just rode the elevator and jumped atop the doorframe, then over his wall.
But forgive me if I don’t share why I didn’t lose anything in that raid.
I absolutely have lost things in other raids.
You’re right I didn’t understand. I think small when it comes to bases I don’t usually build anything but a main base an maybe one outpost, all that time solo on old TL-US2 with no raid timer and no ping limit made me that way, and I quit before the volcano.
You recall my mentioning that fellow from our server who built the Map you discovered? We were a duo on another quite popular server. When I arrived, he had a prominent, massive, water base that he’d slowly been building up to Black Ice. We/he put a whole outer layer on it with honeycomb, and in between did a Purina symbol (the 5 on a die) of campfires per ceiling block. That place was hot and unapproachable. Yet it was in the noob river, south of a scalawag’s camp. That’s my yarn. Happy New Year, my great friend!
The other item that occurs to me is that if one hasn’t broken the Rebar Barrier yet, adding the extra brick-firing step makes it seem extra onerous. Once you get a Purge Smith (or many, @WhatMightHaveBeen) and your steel reinforcements flow like Cimmerian wine, Hardened Brick doesn’t seem quite as daunting.
Here is another tale of my various and jaded conan past.
I was testing out a modded private server, someone the alpha clan I suspect. had build a huge black ice fortress in the desert, this was right after the northern biome released and quite a few people were under the impression black ice was the new endgame material.
They were constantly in chat bragging about their castle, while also complaining about dying while offline.
ps. the castle had a common weakness I still see today. I don’t know if I should say what is was,
because I’ve used that method of entrance to get my stuff back quite often.
pss. we should start a tales of hyboria thread, where us more traveled folk can share in game anecdotes.
Because if I could request one thing from the DLC, while we’re on the topic, it’s different/civ-matched drawbridges. I very much like the look and animation of the one we have, and its protection is superior. I just wish we had some more options.
One thing I really like about the DLC is that each civ’s Awning is (as is the standard T3/Reinforced Awning) made with iron reinforcements, wood and shaped wood. Even though it’s T3, it retains its OG lower-tier material, that’s a nice touch. More items in the DLC going forward that are similarly, made with lower-tier mats would indeed add to the DLCs’ attractiveness and accessibility.
