Initial Thoughts About Black Dragon Raids

[Panophobe]

1) Idea, good. Delivery? Jury's still out...
2) STEEEEEEEEEEP difficulty spike. Can't get one of these raiders down without my entire squad being annihilated first.
3) Almost game-breaking to fight them - Reloaded and tried this a few times and each time, if I even try to fight them off for the sake of getting experience... after the raid, two or three (which is enough to destroy my 8-man squad anyway stand there aimlessly, and about every 15-30 in-game minutes, take about 3 steps, and then repeat. So I can sit there and die waiting for them to leave with their ♥♥♥♥. Once, the rest of the squad even came back and hit "military formation" right in front of me. lol

[Locklave]

ipsos님이 먼저 게시:

If you want to make a base early just keep a squad or two of mercs. I don't understand why people seem to ignore this mechanic. You can build a base almost immediately if you keep mercs.

Renewing contracts every 4 days is annoying.

I know you can mod them longer but still.

[Panophobe]

ipsos님이 먼저 게시:

If you want to make a base early just keep a squad or two of mercs. I don't understand why people seem to ignore this mechanic. You can build a base almost immediately if you keep mercs.

2,000 every couple days for protection really isn't that feasible in the beginning (unless, maybe, your character is 100% criminally aligned and you can just steal all the things! lol).

Considering the ridiculous amount of everything it takes to be self-sustaining with food, yeah. At least I've got 2 small wheat farms, and it generates about 1 loaf of bread each harvest. lol! :-) So a substantial amount of my money goes to bringing food in from local bars.

[Precurse]

They're very easy to kill for me. They give me quite a nice amount of swords to sell.

[PlainWithFire]

@Kraken, if you have 4 copper miners outside The Den, you can pull like 20-30k a day from them alone. (could be a bit less if they are low skill, or get interrupted a lot because fights)

[Panophobe]

PlainWithFire님이 먼저 게시:

@Kraken, if you have 4 copper miners outside The Den, you can pull like 20-30k a day from them alone. (could be a bit less if they are low skill, or get interrupted a lot because fights)

I had 4 outside of The Hub, they would average about 4k based on:
--having to bring everything inside to sell
--pulling them inside at night to sleep, research, etc.
--fighting, healing, etc.

These 4 had early-game stats. Range of about 15 to 40 on labor skills.