I would LOVE to see thralls on PVP, PVE-C, AND PVE servers attack anyone not in their clan, that starts demolishing/looting a base that is not theirs. Think of it like their last act of loyalty to their masters, or maybe they’ve gone feral. Either way, I think it would be an amazing addition to the game. Now that bench thralls are placed, and can be geared up… along with existing fighter/archer/dancer thralls, and animal pets (I dont think mounts would… but I can see even housecat pets attacking), it makes sense to me that if a stranger violates their home, they will defend it.
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Time to level my cat
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Also a thought, you could of course just get 60 cats to guard your base. The mewling would make any potential looter go mad.
That way you at least get to truly damage the attacker for life before he gets away with your loots.
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My cat is ready! Don’t let the helmet fool you it’s transmogrified.
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I like this idea.
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it just FEELS like a much better and far more lore appropriate response instead of a crazy lazy click and loot.
That could be a double edged sword. On one PVE Server, someone got suspended beyond the decay timers. So players banded together to loot his bases and store as many things as we could until he could come back. Trying to do that with his Thralls attacking us, would have been interesting.
well, dont get suspended. there should be some risk in bad behavior. decay timers are fairly long now, so unless they are banned for 30 days, they should be fine. If it is tough for one group to save it, it will be tough for another to loot it.
The reason for his suspension was unknown, and could have been spam reporting. It is just known that a lot of other players on that PVE Server saved a lot of his stuff.
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Personally, this one would prefer if thralls, in a final act of spite and restitution against the wretch that had assaulted and enslaved them, would demolish the base themselves, attacking like purge NPCs, to destroy the place they were forced to toil, before they also decay.
With the addition of more ways to gain “thralls” it will become less clear cut, and honestly, there may be merit in designating whether a “Thrall” is someone whom their master enslaved or purchased, or some who was liberated/joined due to gratitude.
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I thought about that… but “stockholm syndrome” is a real thing, and I think enough might suffer from it that I decided they would defend their masters property (either out of fear their master learns they failed them or because they actually want to please their master)
Do you know who I am?
I AM Deacon the destroyer of decay.
Sure bring it, more weapons and armor for my loot bearer
Ya I got something for them too
Ya right saving it till they come back 
Personally I think the thralls would immediately flee the instant some one broke the door 
Be a better chance of getting knocked down by the stamped then attacked by the thralls 
Sounds like a good way to lose a ton of thralls as well as one’s buildings.
It’s a really popular bit of junk science.
And exceedingly rare when anything even begins to fit into the rather silly standards it purports.
At largest it seems 8% of victims of abduction develop some form of affinity for their captors, and the vast majority of those cases are not enslavement, but instead hostage or PoW situations.
This includes the victims who are later indicated into the cult or organization that abducted them.
You can indulge in whatever fantasy you want for this fictional game, but please leave the quackery at the door.
I didn’t say it was common, I said it was a thing. Are you ok? Should we send some hugs over? You seem kind of angry about this ficitonal game forum.
No no no.
That’s the problem with text only communication.
It is so hard to convey emotional context.
But then again, as someone who sites Stockholm Syndrome as a support for an idea, your comprehension of human mental processes is probably limited at best.
Should this one punctuate with emojis so you don’t have to struggle thru your own assumptions?
Or do we want to play the armchair shrink game?
After all, you seem to have thrown down the gauntlet there.
Ah yes, perhaps you are projecting your own anger at being called out on trying to magic realm your fantasy where your abuse victims develop undying loyalty for their tormentor. By attempting to infantilize or degrade a challenge to factuality of your argument, you avoid addressing your manifest desire for a form of escapism where you can violently enslave people who then grow to love you. Is this escapism rooted in a frustration with having attempted this and failed in your own lived experiences, or is it an expression of urges you lack the conviction to explore with other people, knowing that it wouldn’t work out (and is of extremely dubious legality besides)?
Why don’t you express your feelings?
Tell us why you crave the loyalty of those you abuse.
Why is this the power fantasy escapism you need from this game?
As for the meta argument…
Are you snidely defensive because being called out on a forum reminds you of being called out in your abuse driven relationships previously?
Have you been triggered and now fall back on adolescent reactive defenses to try to compensate for the remembered shame?
This game is fun.
But, if you are not inclined, perhaps we can get back to the actual topic and leave speculation on other’s fee fees for another forum
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On pve nobody should be able to loot others even after decay, it’s wrong. Other than that now the thralls decay faster than the base, just a few hours, so the whole suggestion doesn’t stand at all. It’s good however that now Zendesk do wipes, this way the one with the offense is punished properly.
Before i go let me once more explain why looting others on pve is wrong.
If a player decides to play pve, it means that he spends time to grow and obtain everything the aspect gives. If it is to loot it from others, then you simply don’t play pve, go pve-c or pvp. Rng is a bit.ch yes, but that’s the pve in this game, take it or leave it. And for another time, the decay timers in this game are bugged since day one, so, many people may loose things from false decay timers. If nobody could loot, many trolls would be out of pve servers.
How so?
Interesting opinion, I don’t agree.
So now you’re name calling at people that don’t play like you.
Not now always. Pve is player vs environment, for looting others there are 2 other modes you can play. But you’re mistaken about the part…
Or misunderstood.
I don’t blame normal players that looting decayed bases on pve servers when devs allow it. But i blame devs for allowing trolls. If Deacon nobody could loot your base, then probably they wouldn’t bring a purge in your base. And that’s not happening now with this purge system only, this happens forever. This is not pve!