a job to auto loot bandits?

[Rhah]

I get raided by bandits alot in my base, easy to kill them. but when I am focused on other things like exploring world.

they loot my food and i spend a lot of time trying to check corpses for my stuff they stole. usually before I can get through all the corpses I get another attack. right now I have over 50 corpses and trying to check them for my stuff... insane micro management

[Pyrrhus]

Sounds like you need to set up effective killbox to make it impossible for raids to enter your base. If you had set it up then you won't have to deal with that micro management.

[dnrob7]

Hmm.. I never seem to get raided that much but I have often felt some kind of pity for the starving bandits. They have never managed to steal anything from me but I did try to open up a "soup kitchen" of sorts. I can grow enough rice to feed several armies so I thought I'd just boil up a load of rice and leave it out defenseless and let them take it.
But Nope! Just don't work that way. Even if you throw food right in front of them, they won't pick it up. They'd rather just keep chasing us, fighting high level killers head on and die for nothing.

[Incunabulum]

Originally posted by Pyrrhus:

Sounds like you need to set up effective killbox to make it impossible for raids to enter your base. If you had set it up then you won't have to deal with that micro management.

He's talking about looting corpses. Killing them outside the base doesn't change that. He can choose to not loot them, but if he wants to loot them there's still the same micro whether its in or outside the base.

[dnrob7]

Originally posted by Rhah:

they loot my food

Originally posted by Pyrrhus:

Sounds like you need to set up effective killbox to make it impossible for raids to enter your base

Originally posted by Incunabulum:

Killing them outside the base doesn't change that.

Yeh.. It does.

[Rhah]

the dust and hungry bandits drop fast they are not the issue. its the black dragon genin that run right for the food every time. only 1 or 2 out of 20 - 30 make it to the food.

they attack alot of time when I am out exploring. I keep the gates open since jobs travel between mining and base area. my guys are not enough to man all the turrets and none are really skilled yet. I just have mk2 lighted crossbow all along both sides of the corridor walls, until their friendly fire is better I really don't want to use harpoons.

I have noticed when I am actually at the base that they will be closer to the gate of the main base where they stop and say some text for a bit before they rush the food. If I am at the base or not head buried in popup windows, i just select all my guys and attack them they never make it past the inside steps of the gate. I been lately closing the gate and practice the turrets, buts only when I am at the base.

it could be that I don't have enough people to actively engage all rushers so instead of getting caught in combat they continue for the food.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MTXfYGJi6bIudiK-7-vT2VcI19BQ8MrQ/view?usp=sharing

what would really be nice if I can get some catwalks to attach the two ramparts. then I could keep the gates closed. and man both sides of the turrets much easier.

[Pagsy]

Is that fun? (fix ya game)

So, im pretty mid game i guess. I have got a town and raids are constantly. im exploring the map and train my ppl.

What rages me so hard is this what happend a minute ago:

i got a standard 30ish bandit raid, they destroyed my gate and fought with my people.

Until now everything is okay.

But then i noticed (after i defeated them pretty easy)

All of them had my food in their pocket.

I need to loot each body, CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK , CLICK . Then put it back.

Why?

If im not defeated how can they steal my ♥♥♥♥? Why does my ppl dont loot them, if i have correct store for it?

I really like it, but some things feels so stupid, just a tendios click battle. YOu cant even drag right click or something like this.

[SnugSnug]

It would be nice if there was a 'forage animal' styled task for looting food from downed enemies.

To a degree it's already coded as npc do it.

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

Did you lock your doors that hold your food?
as for them stealing, it's part of what they do. and that means they got close enough to do it.
that part is written into their AI function.

and it function like this.

find food, food found, steal it. i'm hungry, eat it now.
i have no weapon, search for one. grabs it, uses it. won't go for best version, just closest.
just like you can strip them naked, and they will get their weapons and ignore the rest.
The AI is that of a company on its first title. its simplistic.

which limits a lot of other things as well.
like looking.
you can set up to loot animal corpses.
it's set to find hides and ram meat. nothing else. but it can only pick up one type at a time.
this gets much worse with NPC humanoids as they can carry a ton of different stuff.

[Pagsy]

My own ppl cant even can loot 1m, but WHEN ONE ENEMY REACHES MY FOOD, ALL OTHER 10000 invaders got food in their inventories, in seconds.

[bunny de fluff]

Dev should make it so that, only after your whole base was unconscious the raid party can touch your food, and not let them get the food before they have to deal with your people

[Pagsy]

correct, or atleast ONLY THE ONES WHICH REALLY ARE NEAR enaught to loot, can loot.

[bunny de fluff]

The workaround for this problem, is try to build your food storage as far back as possible away from the gate.

[Rhah]

I had this exact same discussion few days ago lol

https://steamcommunity.com/app/233860/discussions/0/1640917196998260186/?tscn=1563490261

I do not mind that they loot my food (i like the AI accomplish things like this)

Just let me automate get my stuff back.. the job loot corpse would be amazing

I do not want to loot 50+ corpse to find my food
Just 2-5 experiences of trying to loot 50+ corpses is very annoying.

also the automation would be nice as well as many of the ninja have useful med kits,I do not know if other mob have useful item as i do not want to manually go through every single coprse, not with the quantity and frequency with the current way of how it has to been done.

[Raymond]

Originally posted by bunny de fluff:

Dev should make it so that, only after your whole base was unconscious the raid party can touch your food, and not let them get the food before they have to deal with your people

It is gonna cause bug if not all your characters isn't present in the base. You can already get around the problem by locking the building and have some guys guarding the entrance and aggroing the bandits that trying to break in.

[BigRowdy]

You know you can just hold shift and click all the food items, but yes you still have to do it 1 at a time. but the easiest solution is just to make a small shed building that houses food items and lock it during a raid..