Sooo defence towers do what exactly?

[Droknar]

You would think something named DEFENCE tower it would, ya know, defend against threats. I have had animals within the towers area of influence and the towers did nothing. I just had a riot that was attacking the tower itself and the guard inside was doing nothing. Forget defending the town, they won't even defend themselves. So other than affecting the crime data and making people sad, what do they do?

[Jester]

They shoot at attacking wolves in their coverage area. not fast enough to stop the wolves from inflicting damage.

[CaptainRAVE]

The early iterations are weak and inaccurate, but they get much stronger as you upgrade them - better weapons, more defenders. I still aim for complete coverage. Garrisons (previously hunting huts) are much more effective (and provide food).

[Droknar]

Ok so they do attack wolves, but I didn't see my tower attack the rioters that were attacking it. The person inside was "defending" lol. Guess they don't consider rioters to be hostile?

[Sword_of_Light]

They murder the wolves, as well as those filthy infidels from the village up north trying to raid the Chosen, and at the highest level, shoot down that damned UFO. Which crashes and leaves loot.

[Dave]

The problems with wolves are they can spawn stacked on each other. Sometimes 5+ wolves are all piled onto each other, and that is allowing them to get past the towers. Each tower can only shoot so fast, and a bunch of wolves stacked on top of each other, is too much for 1 tower.

Wolf attacks are being worked on and re balanced. Unfortunately, that probably won't go live until the next patch. In the meantime....

A few tips:

1) sound the alarm (if you have a weather tower). That will send nuggets home and will greatly reduce the risks/deaths during a wolf attack

2) pause the game on and off until you find the wolves. Then pick them up and drop them or zap with lightning

3) use the Seasons God power and skip winter. You must skip winter either before it starts or right away as soon as it starts. Otherwise you risk a wolf attack

4) Make sure you have towers on your city's edges as well as inside the city to help kill threats that get past your outer boundaries

5) Save your game, manually, just as winter starts. Then reload if things go bad :)

-Dave
Crytivo Support & QA Team

[FinalKingdomHearts]

Originally posted by TallBear:

The problems with wolves are they can spawn stacked on each other. Sometimes 5+ wolves are all piled onto each other, and that is allowing them to get past the towers. Each tower can only shoot so fast, and a bunch of wolves stacked on top of each other, is too much for 1 tower.

Wolf attacks are being worked on and re balanced. Unfortunately, that probably won't go live until the next patch. In the meantime....

A few tips:

1) sound the alarm (if you have a weather tower). That will send nuggets home and will greatly reduce the risks/deaths during a wolf attack

2) pause the game on and off until you find the wolves. Then pick them up and drop them or zap with lightning

3) use the Seasons God power and skip winter. You must skip winter either before it starts or right away as soon as it starts. Otherwise you risk a wolf attack

4) Make sure you have towers on your city's edges as well as inside the city to help kill threats that get past your outer boundaries

5) Save your game, manually, just as winter starts. Then reload if things go bad :)

-Dave
Crytivo Support & QA Team

It is hunters that kill the wolfs.

[Dave]

Hunters can kill the attack wolves, but they really are not effective until later in the game. Early in the game, the wolves will kill your hunters

[Black Jesus]

Originally posted by TallBear:

Hunters can kill the attack wolves, but they really are not effective until later in the game. Early in the game, the wolves will kill your hunters

I've seen both defense towers and hunters kill wolves the only difference is I sometimes get food from the hunters.

[Dave]

Originally posted by Black Jesus:

Originally posted by TallBear:

Hunters can kill the attack wolves, but they really are not effective until later in the game. Early in the game, the wolves will kill your hunters

I've seen both defense towers and hunters kill wolves the only difference is I sometimes get food from the hunters.

They can, but often "attack wolves" will kill the hunters as well. Mainly because the packs can be up to 10 wolves, and they overwhelm the hunters