01-08-2020, 09:54 AM
Dharus Wrote:Yeah, I messed with all of the server setup a while ago. My friends didn't like that I set the nighttime to be similar to daytime but it made the game feel more realistic. Getting attacked at night was more thrilling. You know how I am... I like to make things painful. I did that with the server too.
Some suggestions on server settings.
Set the Purge to max difficultly (6). Set it to 12,000/10 as far as activation goes. (10,000/10 is probably good for single player)
Purge duration 45 minutes,
Minimum time between Purges 60 minutes
Set Thrall count to 3 plus 1 per active player
Set damage done to buildings at 1.5
Keep the night and day equal at 1.0
For real single player challenge
Reduce Harvesting amount below 1.0 (.75 is probably good, .50 is a real challenge)
Increase damage by NPC's to 1.25
Change the water and food settings to 1.5 (This really means you need regular sources of water and can't go too far without multiple skins)
Increase the cost of Stamina to do actions to 1.25 or 1.5.
Don't be bashful about increasing the xp gains. There is no shame in leveling quickly, you won't survive long otherwise. You may have to restart multiple times.
Build in the open near resources with no obstacles to your base, In the Volcano their are obstacles everywhere but the Purges are the hardest there.
The Thrall count setting may be the key to a good game:
You will have to make some tough choices. Do you want crafters, taskmasters or just body guards? Without crafters you don't have access to some nice gear and it takes longer to repair Purge damage, without taskmasters you can't replace your losses quickly, without body guards that are leveled up you aren't defending very long. You can swap in and out some crafters but once the body guards are deployed there is no putting them back in the box.
The game will kill (decay) one of your thralls (not sure how it picks) if you have more than the limit out at any given time. Sure you can cheese it and swap out crafters as needed but that means one of your body guard positions will always suck so their is a price to be paid for making that choice.
Once you put in the time to level up your fighters (thralls or pets) you are not likely to pull those crafters out of the box.
In single player I am not sure you can do less than 3 +1 and actually make it to higher level purges. Even 1 god like Thrall (assuming you get lucky enough to make one) can't hold off the Purge. Plus those Thralls have a way of bugging out or falling into the Lava and dying when you least want it to.