So we are all enjoying the epic battles new purge had brought.
I like it too, buy there are few things I dislike:
problems with spawning the purge in many locations - we need to build secondary mini-bases just to find the spot where purge spawns.
arcade-ish feel the new purge hasā¦ The old one had a feeling and a sense to it, my base grows, eventually ātheyā are going to try and attack me. Also itās inevitability was adding to savage atmosphere of Exiled Lands.
The new purge mechanically is very cool, as the event I like it. But the way itās being triggered etc feels like an arcade minigame inside the game. Itās not immersive.
Iād like to see some new mechanics that actually spawns that new purge, be it some timer, or return of the āactions counterā (could be optional on some (private) servers)
Right now it feels like a separate mini game where players spam the purge and can farm gold and resources from it whole dayā¦ and it should be a struggle for survival
Would it be possible to bring mentioned extra mechanics for private server owners in the future? Like the action counter that spawns the purgeā¦?
Thinking back to what the Purge was originally intended to be, the Purge should also come after people who have collected one or more keystone pieces. The more pieces you have, the more intense the Purge. These Purges would be Thoth-Amonās mercenaries (āRelic Huntersā) rather than Stygian military, because there are two different agendas going on behind the scenes.
This wouldnāt apply to Siptah, but that would just make the two maps more different.
thisā¦ my biggest problem too
old purge was ideal from conceptual side (how it was made another topic)
local tribes and beasts try to recapture their land from the players
element of threat and surprise (some1 gonna attack, but who and when?)
helps (in theory) clearing the server from old and abandoned bases
give purpose to the army of thralls and pets (PVE especially)
players design their bases with possible online\offline siege in mind
on PVE servers thats the ONLY option fight actual siege\base defense
New purge is cool, but its completely erase everything above. Triggerable invasion AKA tower defence is cool idea and gives more variety to the game, but completely against the whole idea of the purge.
New purge force players to create special base for the event only (most of player bases are build to be hard to raid, not convenient!).
On pve servers, now, there is no purpose to design your base with the idea you will have to protect it, because no1 gonna attack it ever.
Also now we have āpurge basesā where the wave has to enter the obstacle course maze to reach the door, because they go straight for the door. So you can design the āpurge baseā this way that they are going to die before they reach the door.
I definitely would like to have an option to make the purge destroy the base buildings to get to the chest. Iād like to have these options in vanilla game without adding yet another mod.
Or just make both of them.
New purge is controllable.
Some sort of PVE treasure\tower defense event (they are after the treasures, not the base).
Old purge is just basic random part of the game (pvp\pve) - wild life or tribes are gonna strike you, their goal, to evict you from the lands (they are after the base itself).
I donāt see why both of these ideas canāt exist together.
Yes, and so nobody complains, add an equivalent of the Convergence Trap to the Exiled Lands for people who donāt want the classic purge
I can understand the argument that having to always be online to defend in case a purge happens is not good, and so the option to prevent the classic purge at a cost is definitely a good idea, it just needs to be on both maps
And of course, it doesnāt invalidate the new purge with treasure
I have no idea why Funcom had bothered with removing the old Purge in their server app for private servers. It all looks like the new one is a completely new thing, so why not leave the classic purge for private servers (we were able to switch off the purge anyway)?
well, i have 1000 hours in game, 500 probably single player, but other 500, official servers, i got purged while offline only once (they managed to damage 1st line of defence)
maybe I am lucky but purge activated only online each time for me
