making a coffer base

[Booneblaster]

i'm choosing a location. any obvious things to avoid?

i read large water bodies gave people trouble. i'm assuming at the top of a hotdog shaped rock spire would also be unrewarding.

any basic, successful configurations? i'm thinking nerd-poling foundations up and placing it there would also abort the system. or otherwise even small climbing/par-kor setups are not useful either.

never done surges before. i'm just now cooking up my steel and bricks. I'll be building it at a separate location

[thurgond]

If you are building a purge base, you obviously want the purge to spawn, so don't try to cheese things by building on top of a cliff, around water, etc. You want as much fairly flat area around your base as possible so the purge camp can spawn.

Some people have reported that any steps leading up to your treasure room can generate the dreaded "the purge cannot reach your base" error, but I have not had that experience. That said, putting your coffer at the top of a tall tower may be tempting fate.

My base design is evolving but has several elements:
1. Cofer room build of T3 pieces with one door.
2. Maze leading to cofer where invaders have to pass through several doors. Place guards at doors, specially the door(s) leading to the outside. All doors should be T3.
3. Killing zone outside the maze. Parallel fence lines leading away from the maze with some archer emplacements one foundation high. Close off the killing zone leaving a gap of one foundation. Defenders and invaders tend to pile up in the gap which gives time to kill the demolishers.
4. Put a few placeables in front of the gap so the purge camp doesn't spawn immediately in front of your base.

Set your followers to a low 5 or 10 meter chase distance so they don't chase the invaders into their camp.

The purge will scale based on how many followers you have in the area of your cofer. If you have cats, rats, bunnies, poorly leveled pets and dancers. and mounts in your main base and they are in range of your purge base, they will make the purge more difficult. Place your purge base outside the area where the followers in your main base are highlighted in your followers tab.

[Booneblaster]

yeah the kill zones are a great idea. stops with doors for them to hack at, perhaps while gassing them, is maybe a solid tactic. i just remember getting floored by the purges 2 years ago. they were no joke.

isn't the whole point of the new system that the purgy/surgy thing scales off the value of loot in the coffer? i'm pretty sure thats what the dev blog/update blog described.

[thurgond]

Originally posted by Booneblaster:

isn't the whole point of the new system that the purgy/surgy thing scales off the value of loot in the coffer? i'm pretty sure thats what the dev blog/update blog described.

The purge scales off the level of wealth you proclaim and to a lesser extent the number of followers near your cofer.

[Scar]

If they're having issues around water then it's probs because they're either on a tiny island or the treasurers back is faced towards the water, he needs to face flat land.