I am assisting a friend of mine with the administration of a RP / PVP Conan Exiles server. Up until recently - we believed that we had the Dynamic Building Damage configured correctly: other players lose the ability to do damage to an offline player after 10 minutes.
However - we found a case where one of our players had a number of pets and thralls set to hostile. And, while this player has not been online for several days… his pets and thralls are still attacking. This wasn’t operating as we had understood this feature to work. In our previous experiences, and testing when we launched the server, once another player was offline after 10 minutes, aggressive thralls would stop attacking (or defending) as they were no longer able to be damaged.
Also - we were able to damage his pets. And his property. As if he were online. But he had not been online for days.
Is this a case where the Dynamic Building Damage system isn’t working correctly? Or - is this possibly tied to the bug where players who are disconnected/offline are somehow remaining flagged as “online” by the server, even though they’re not around? I know that this issue is causing problems with the decay system on Officials. Is it possible that players getting “stuck online” in this same fashion also has an affect on the Dynamic Building Damage system?
Many thanks in advance for your thoughts, consideration, and helpful comments.
Here comes the question.
What if i have a huge base in this private server and log out just to protect it? The offender will be able to do some damage yes, kill some thralls ok, but not wipe me.
So even if the system work correctly it still can be abused.
In the private servers i participated, the offender had to send the player list photo on the admin and the defender the event log.
If the defender logged out through the raid, the offender could totally wipe the building he was attacking.
Again however this system was abused since solo players had 4 bases and took all the necessary to depart and let the others with the cucumber!
Tell to your friend that no matter his efforts, the system lacks. I wish to both of you for fine players to join in this server and have a blast .
I will try to replicate the issues you said with @UNfun and @LostBrythunian in the private pvp server of UNfun.
This is the design, and the wishes of our server owner. Personally, I would wish the slider to be adjusted to allow for up to 30 minutes, or perhaps more, offline assault. But our private server owner is very particular on this, and wants any conflicts to be handled online.
As to the number of bases, and the size of said bases - we also have building guidelines that limit this. Any that don’t follow our server policies are flagged by admins as “Outlaws” through our server Discord, and then receive no protections whatsoever by our governing policies. This is up to, and including, adjusting the server settings on the fly for an event to all demolishing of Outlaw land claim.
We are a small server, so managing this administration is pretty reasonable. And we are having a blast!
That’s all i need to know.
You know every game can have rules, but when the company is good then the game is really fun. So i am happy you’re having a blast m8, i really really do. Let’s convince @Kikigirl to join this fun party, she needs some good pvp blast.
Cross fingers she’ll pass by for a hello .
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