can someone explain how sommoning works

[Sevenless]

I think the reason we're being general is due to the fact that we're only explaining the actual mechanics of summoning. What you want to know has a lot to do with how the players react to the crime. Kill a noob hermit, maybe he rage quits and you're never bothered by it. Maybe a bored/powerful ranger gets contacted and kills you. Maybe you grief the friend of a faction and they grief your base to the ground.

It all depends who you piss off.

[McMoody]

you need to pick up the evidence (so that it replaces the mouse cursor) and then you have to right click on the ground.

if you did that and cant summon, then most likely there is a lean to on the claim itself and the bad guys is bound to that lean to - in that case, you have to get close to the lean to, which of course might be protected by walls, which you would have to tear down (you will leave scents yourself if you do that)