For knowing how much I like the game, my wife decided to play Conan about 2 months ago (official server). She is a very very very casual player. I taught her the basics, and she was doing well in nobbie river. I never got worried about the purge because she plays so few time, the purge bar would never get filled.
But yesterday she called me to see something, and that is what she showed me:
At first I didn’t understand, I was really sure her purge meter wasn’t full. So we looked at event logs and it showed the building was attacked by a “Scorpion”. So I realized that a purge was started by a close base and it made what you can see.
She was enjoying the game, that’s why she was so disapointed. I tried to explain to her that one of the objectives of the game is to protect the base, but she said: “How could I know it would happen? What the sense in playing a game that I am offline and my base is destroyed in a PvE server?”
I told her that I would play in her acount and rebuild her base, but she was really upset and decided to don’t play Conan anymore. She was so proud that she had manage to tame a level 3 blacksmith. But the bench was destroyed and she lost her.
So I decided to share this story here because I saw one more player that was having fun with the game and just quitted it. And before people asks, she wasn’t playing offline because she wanted to play in a map with other players, other buildings, etc. But she decided to play PvE exactly because she didn’t want to be raided or to have her base destroyed by any means.
So, my sugestion is: prevent offline buildings damage in PvE. It’s really strange to quit the game and when you log again you don’t have your base anymore. I know the purge is part of the game, and it’s nice because you can control the purge meter and avoid it. But when the purge is started by onother player/clan, it shouldn’t damage other players/clan bases.
And maybe some people would say that Conan is a “barbaric game” and casual players should find other games. But I don’t think it’s true and Conan, like all the other games, should attract the more players it can. Casual players has a large share in videogames business. And Funcom did a great job allowing players to opt for PvP, PvE-C and PvE. And it’s clear that “Barbaric Players” can find their fun in PvP and PvE-C. While PvE is clearly designed for casual players. That’s why this detail should be considered.
. Still this sever was US and if i wanted to have a purge, i had to stay awake from 3 o clock till 6 in the morning. A little difficult for my timers, i am a kid anymore 
. So what i try to say to you here is that i found it a little impossible this damage came from purge because when you are not online you don’t get one.
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