Monohan wrote:what if i attempt to settle close to the darkness, would that be safer or is that where most the griefers are?
Unfortunately, as a new character you won't have the luxury of setting up a camp in the Darkness due to having low humours to start. There is an argument that the further you are from Boston the safer you are and in terms of being murdered I would wager that is very true. In terms of having your city burned to the ground not so much. Unfortunately, the only balanced mechanic for defending your city at this time (The Darkness) that made raiding hard on the raiders has been nerfed. Therefore, anywhere you now place your base is pretty much as easily seiged as anywhere else.
At this stage your goal should be to get humours up as fast as possible and prof. Then from there when you can quickly and less painfully "re-establish" a base I would encourage you to spend a good weekend exploring the most aggrivating and difficult to reach areas of the map (hills, lakes, mountains). Everytime you come to a fork in the road with an easy way to go and a hard way continue to take the hard way. At the end of that weekend you are hopefully down a path that very few will travel and have probably done all you can do to mitigate raiding.
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