Game mode: [Online official] Type of issue: [Bug] Server type: [PvE] Region: [EU] Hi Since the recent patch to purges to make them more reliable a bunch of peeps myself included have noticed the following in logs. https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/990135412904847872/6FBF27A92C611C7815DFCC47580FE0F050EA46B7/ Logs have a start-end with a 2-3 min duration but no purge occurs and i’m in the actual structure. Before to initiate a purge one would have to place 3 unconnected structures slightly but not too far apart to make it happen. Now after testing in solo admin mode you just need a few foundations and have to be in the vicinity for it to occur. But if you are too far away from any structures you get the 2-3 start-end in logs. Now I’m currently playing on server 1005 and after the patch i received a purge at the location i currently am, but since then i just seem to get the “ghost” purges as people call them. Since the new purge mechanic is now based on player location how does the setting “minimum players online” on offical servers work with players no longer in the area? Can you please make them unreliable again? Thanks Please provide a step-by-step process of how the bug can be reproduced. The more details you provide us with the easier it will be for us to find and fix the bug: 1. 2. 3. 4.

Hey everybody, We’re aware of some instances in which the purge is still not triggering for some people. Also, as @Vattende mentioned, they work a bit differently in single player and online due to those reasons. Our team is working on refining the purge mechanics even further. Thanks for your feedback.

It looks like exactly same issue I reported few days ago :frowning: [image] [BUG] Purges do not start even after warning PC Discussion It is probably the same issue as we are having on our server. We just get an info about a purge and then few minutes later info that it is over. Also purge bars are filled for all clans frowning [unknown] @Ignasi I know logs are in Polish, but you do have Polish devs so they can check it slight_smile I also asked players using AoC mod and none of them has such problem frowning

Since the previous thread where I had reported my Purge issues closed on its own a few hours before I got a Purge again, and because this topic has been touched in this thread, I’ll post this here: On my single-player game, the Purge is still reliable as ever. It’s always Starved Exiles, always the same base, no matter where I am. Today, all waves performed correctly. No-one disappeared and made the Purge stuck or anything like that. Curiously, the Starved Exiles had brought reinforcements from the Black Hand, as several T4 Black Hand fighters and archers could be found among the starved (but now at least partially clothed) Exiles. My Purge level is set to 3, so in theory I should be getting Purges further north than Camp 24, and at higher tiers than Exiles. Now, we’re still talking about just statistical improbabilities, but of my seven bases, only this one has been targeted since the update, and only by Exiles, and both times I’ve been at or near another base.

Maybe a screenshot of the map showing where your bases are situated could be helpful ? I did experiment with purges in singleplayer these last days, also with settings for purge between 2-4, and had similar purges it seems. The desperate exiles, with some blackhands, and named wanderers. All wanderer i saw and catched so far are in the exiles faction. They are wearing mostly blackhand armour, and may have steel weapons, often 2h steelswords. But i only tested lately in the same area, executionners entrance, once more bit under it, once more above. All two bases had similar purges sinces, but this looked ok to me, and they worked well.

Here’s a map: [basemap] The blue stars are where my bases are located; the gray lines show the approximate routes where the “roads” (built of sandstone foundations) connect my bases. So technically all my bases are one huge building stretching across the map, which may confuse the Purge, which always attacks the base near Exiles Camp 24, marked with the red arrow on my map. The Purge type was Starved Exiles, and it did contain several named Exiles (Ciria the Mad, Frigga Falsehope, Deirdre Deathbringer and Enis Ironwrought), but it was also joined by Cristian the Blade, Iekika the Visionary and Sarnai Thorn as well as Cruaidh the Crusher, all of Black Hand fame. The last two times I’ve been Purged I have been at or near my base at the Pagoda of Boundless Lusts, far to the east. It’s entirely possible that my foundation network confuses the Purge so that it always picks the southernmost point of my world-spanning base as determining which Purge types are available. I guess I could test this by removing a foundation block from the connecting road when the next Purge is about to happen and see if it would affect the Purge’s target.

Thanks for all this information @Kapoteeni :slight_smile:

This happened on 1942 to my clan the other day. Purge announced and then vanished with no message. Our purge meter has now been full since. For our clan, we are currently immune to a purge. Not cool when there are so many purge only thralls. 8 ppl in the clan and server is always capped so there is no reason for the purge not to hit.

Roads between the bases… hmmm, well ye, never did that of course ! :laughing: But yes, i think this may explain how purge behaves here. Like said, purge in singleplayer act differently than on servers anyway. Try make some interruption in your road-system ? Just to see at first.

This is similar to how my bases are constructed, but since I play on a server with other people, I dismantle the sections in-between bases so that’ I’m not cluttering up the map. Remember, even if they aren’t physically connected anymore, because they were built on the same snap-grid, they will continue to share the same decay timer. So you might consider making a backup of your game, deleting the intermediate roadways, and seeing if that helps. For doing the deletion, you’ll probably need to make use of admin mode to do radius deletes unless you are immune to boredom and/or repetitive strain injuries. In case you need it, the path to the save files should be here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Conan Exiles\ConanSandbox\Saved Just make a copy of game.db and name it something obvious like gameWithRoadways.db or some such. If you don’t notice any change with the roads deleted, you can then erase the game.db with them deleted, and rename the backup copy to game.db again.

That’s a good advice i think, the DB “will remember”, don’t forget it. :wink: For me it’s fun to read about these roads around the map. I built a lot in this game since EA, but never roads, i love mostly a roadless and wild univers. But why not, but it may be bit perf heavy on the long run.

Purge Is Not More Reliable In Fact Its Broken

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Ignasi March 14, 2019, 8:54am 18

Thanks for all this information @Kapoteeni

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