Frotted wrote:Seems the winning solution is for defenders is to stage alts outside the base... wait for raiders to break into Brick or better...and then plug the hole with them inside. Have repair/coal on hand as well... to reactivate any defenses they disabled on their way in.
No easy retreat... wait for them to KO...only a few minutes now... and then rob them to naked, kill, and scalp them.
Just have to build up more alts...
I find it enormously tragic since the big push was about reducing alts...and/or too many ***** alts...and here Devs go encouraging even more than ever before!!! Cheers! Takes full advantage of the weaker alts who had to retreat a few times to regen to get in... as it takes considerably less to build up vs destroy... Raiders are *****.
This has long been a valid defense and one I mentioned awhile back as an alternative to leaving scents while defending your town. But, no one has really ever used it that I know and thought it was stupid when I suggested it... so I don't think we really have to be worried about this being an overused defense tactic. And you'd need something more than an 'alt' to do this, you'd need someone robust enough to get in a raider's way for a little while and someone skilled enough to build a brick wall while the other is doing the distracting. But if this does start to be used and ends up unbalancing something, we'll make a change to rebalance it.
It's also been said many times that we don't care if you have multiple characters and think it's a fine idea if you want to. We just didn't like being able to store things on alts without any fear of them ever being stolen, a thing we stopped with lootable claimstones/leantos.