Purge cannot place Camp.. ever

[Minnie the Fairy]

I googled about it already and found quite a few hints about how the placement of the koffer matters ect...

It just does not work... AT ALL.. I was building 3 bases by now, on different spots that were recommented, but it always just gives me the error message about the camp cant be placed. Currently I am at the huge, open spot near the summoning place, and there is plenty of room in every direction from my base.... I tried to kill all mobs around... I placed the koffer facing in different directions, I replaced it to different spots in the treasure room, and I even removed all the doors, leaving the archways open (I know, its a stupid thing to do for what is supposed to happen, but I tried) ... I used no big gates either... but no luck.

Do you guys know of any kind of workarounds or mods or guides or anything that might help?

[[Ar]Curry]

I have the same problem. Tried it on three different spots. Someone said to retry it multiple times on the same spot, but I haven't tried it yet. I am curious myself if this is another bug or what-so-ever. Buddy wants to open a tavern, but without the purge... well

[Judaspriester]

First of all, check the error message in detail. "no suitable place for the war camp" and "to hard to reach the treasure room" indicate different issues.

For me, every now and then, the purge doesn't start because no suitable location. At my old base it was even kinda common to start the purge 2-3 times until it worked. So giving it a few tries before changing something might help.

For cleaning the place: a certain amount of open space so that the camp can be placed is required, but removable stuff like trees or mobs shouldn't matter.

In case you want to give it another try with a new base, fist place the coffer, place a single coin in it and start the purge. If it works then, you at least know, that the place itself is suitable and you at least know 1 spot where the war camp is able to spawn (might help with the further defense planning).
Thinking about this, another thing you could try is placing the coffer with a single coin in it in front of your base. that way you could at least figure out, if there's a problem with the location in general, or if the game has issues with your layout(s).

Side note for this: the purge will end, once your coffer is empty, so for test purges you can just let them run against your 1 coin coffers without the need of fighting them.

[jollibee]

For me I had to turn the coffer around to where the back side of it faced an open area and that got it to work.

[Judaspriester]

Originally posted by kay:

For me I had to turn the coffer around to where the back side of it faced an open area and that got it to work.

got a similar issue. placed another war horn in my treasure room, close to the coffer and then it was "to difficult" to reach the coffer. That's why I asked for the error message in the first place. ;)

[Ellorien]

I built a special camp for purges only and placed the coffer right on the sand in the courtyard. No doors, no archways, no gates, no nothing. Just a short corridor leading to the courtyard surrounded by the walls with archers on top. 2 fighters are in the courtyard, about 15 fighters outside the walls, guarding the entrance. Currently running lvl 7 purges, usually lose one or two fighters max per purge (or none) and only few of the enemies ever enter the courtyard (those who do are get slaughtered within seconds). It is important not to block the way to the coffer so make sure you do not place thralls in front of the entrance to your base or inside the narrow paths leading to your coffer. And when declaring your wealth try to get away from the coffer immediately or you would get the message that it’s hard to reach your coffer. At least that was my experience.

[Leshiko]

It is better to build the treasury separately. I can say that you need a flat floor up to the chest with steps if it is higher than the ground. The number of doors to the chest is no more than 5 pieces.

[Vincent Mercier]

Hello!

The number 1 thing that causes the unable to spawn purge camp thing for me is having treasure or other furniture packed too tightly in the treasure room. Literally removing and replacing a carpet/a golden harp/a jade horn has fixed the issue for me.

It makes me think the game tries to think of a path to individual treasure items in the treasure room as well as the treasure accountant too.

Other things that I have noticed causing issues is having too narrow paths blocked with thralls/pets.

If you have a very tiered base height wise, try and make every stair/ramp 2-3 blocks wide. I had a very up down base with lots of stairs and I had to make paths at least 2 wide and stairs at entry points at least 3 wide to get the purge camp spawning again on siptah.

Hope this helps!

[Oraorao]

it's clear the purge is just a skindeep EA level feature, looking back i doubt they will perfect it

[Leshiko]

Funcock' purge: In order to be robbed, you must try very hard and create all the conditions.
It's FunCOCK.

[[Ar]Curry]

Now we're reaching levels we don't have to...

[thurgond]

Purges can glitch out either not finding a spot to place the camp or path to the cofer after starting the purge at any time. But often this happens after the server has been up a while and starts to lag. Unless you have placed your cofer in an inaccessible spot at the top of a cliff or on an island, do not bother moving your camp or rearranging you purge base. You can keep declaring your wealth and it might start and go to completion. However, if you want success try soon after a server reset or wait till after the holidays for server population to thin out.

[Gabthelazy]

First off, test your base by building the treasure coffer near your front gate by doing a level 1 purge. If you can't make a purge happen there, then your base won't ever be suitable for a purge.

[[Ar]Curry]

Can you guys say you can do purges on every single map tile? And if not, which map tiles are you using to start purges? I can imagine the wide and vast desert area with the summoning place from the darfari is very good for this

[Minnie the Fairy]

Thanks for all the hints! I also made a discovery that may or may not be relevant (or just pure coincidence)

I placed most guards right and left of the doors, using these green, suggested Guard spots.. apparently these block the path tho.

Since I placed the NPC's freely, not using the green suggestions anymore, the Purge starts as intented.

[Judaspriester]

What about placing 2 guards on the suggested places again and see what happens?
That way we could track down if that's really a factor or just a coincidence.