Offline Raid Protection

54 votes

Inspired by my time in EVE, where they have defense shields on player structures.

- Base Shield powered by in-game resource, either collected or refined.
- Shield HP/Duration based on amount of resource placed in shield generating object.
- Shield only activates when base is attacked?
- Potentially lock/disable crafting stations in the base while shield is active. This incentivizes the player to resolve combat rather than sit behind an invulnerability shield while the attackers get bored.

This can either be a timer-based shield, or an HP-based shield. The intent is to discourage, but not completely disable, offline raiding while encouraging more player-to-player combat.

Feature Request Suggested by: Justin (09 Jun, '22) • Upvoted: 18 Feb • Comments: 5

Comments: 5

15 Jun, '22
Ken Svensson
Maybe some kind of spell that can be cast while in the coffin (at least stone), that triggers the same as castle decay --- some aura around the building, none of the stations operate.

Meanwhile all the blood essence in the castle heart is dedicated to making the walls invincible at some considerable blood essence cost.

Going into the coffin with blood essence in your backpack can extend this duration as well.
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22 Jun, '22
Count Von Count
This is such an important feature to keep casual players engaged.

Once all clan members are offline, or in coffins, a 5 minute timer starts. If no raid is started within 5 minutes, the castle is protected.

I really love this game, however it's such a time sink, and it's frustrating to log in and see you've lost a week of progression (a week for a father of 3 anyway) because of an offline raid.

To counter this, online raids need to be easier.
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27 Jun, '22
Ingwe
This! I agree, as my initial thought was that walls get 2x HP, or to take another idea from another thread, implement defense as part of the mist tower where mist massively drains hp of golems but not vampires but it eats up a specific resource. That way if you go offline, you can feed the mist tower, turn it on, and if you are offline for 10 or 15 minutes it activates, but only activates the defense part if you are offline. If you are online it returns to its normal function of generating mist to obscure vision.
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28 May, '23
Unfawkable Merged
An item that you can craft expensively, like the gold key levels of expensive, to protect your castle from being raided and alleviate offline raiding could be a thing that can fix offline raiding and make balancing raids in the long run easier. The item would for example take hours to craft and activate and show your castle as impervious to raids to everyone on the server so they don't bother, but none of your clan mates can leave the castle or the protection disappears so you don't get to raid either. If you kick or invite anyone to your clan, the protection also disappears. You of course can't use it if you have a shard.

To make it even better, it could use a rare material to craft that could be part of a map event or something that requires Vampires on the server to contest it. But perhaps it's better to keep it available to everyone but expensive, this I'm unsure of.
02 Jun, '23
Rooibos / C.M. Admin
"Offline Raid expensive item to protect when you know you can't play" (suggested by Unfawkable on 2023-05-28), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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