Hello!
Happy Monday, everyone. This week as our team is returning from the Leipzig Games Convention, we take some time out to revisit an old and favorite topic with a new twist - defense and looting.

Tyrus Dark asks us one very interesting question regarding defenders - are they in fact too powerful to handle by any offensive attack? We say "certainly not!"

1) What's to prevent the defender's respawn point within their base (or teleport point) (as noted by the recent Stratics Chat) from giving a defender a nearly-overwhelming advantage: assuming roughly equal economic strength, it seems like 1 kill for the defenders will mean a LOT more than one kill for the attackers.

When a player is killed, all his inventory that is not Insured is dropped on the battlefield and before his next respawn he is offered a chance to reinsure all his inventory and to retrieve items that were dropped but not yet looted at excessive price if he definitely does not want something lost. Given the death rate on a battlefield, expect defenders to lose huge amount of money by constantly being respawned and their inventory reinsured. Despite this, there is an option to actually make money in a siege battle if you score more kills than deaths, at some point the defenders will deplete their personal funds forcing many of their members to retreat or face being totally looted... and returning to the battlefield completely naked is an embarrassment most players will want to avoid at all cost, not to mention they won't be able to offer any realistic defense of their base.

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Please be sure to visit our other related topics:
http://forums.play-earthrise.com/index.php?topic=1521.0 (insurance, as it relates to looting)
http://forums.play-earthrise.com/index.php?topic=1158.0 (insurance)
http://forums.play-earthrise.com/index.php?topic=23.0 (21 pages of looting fun)

See you all on the forums, and thank you to the developers for this clarification! As always, we invite discussion on this topic, below.
- m.

But the attacking side are also susceptible to item loss and insurance premiums... am i missing something? 

My answer to Tyrus would be the guild defending the base are supposed to have a huge advantage, that's why they have spent all the time and funds fortifying their position. In any military campaign attacking a defensive stronghold of an enemy will always consume a vast number of resources.

To quote one of the greatest military strategists who ever lived;


Guild bases are not supposed to change hands like erm... biscuits. (I'm hungry) 

I doubt they will tap into there guild coffers to defend a base as that would leave them even more vulnerable.  The cost of losing a base is the deduction of incoming money from a certain resource  and if your base is lost than there is  the grievance of putting all that money into structures and what not to make the base better and more defensible.

It sounds a lot better than a bunch of bored folks in a city getting together at some random moment to "go cap some bases". 

I have to agree, the way I read it, the effects listed affect both parties involved. I'm sure the attackers will have saved up more in anticipation of the attack, but so will the defenders I'd assume. You take into consideration the defensive structures the base might have, and the attackers have it worse off the way I see it. So it still seems to stack in favor of the defense.

Unless the offensive party pays less than the defensive for getting back items and insuring them during siege, it still favors the defense. I do understand that the taking of a base is a great undertaking though, and I am hoping that I am missing something lol

I think that is the whole point.  I think what they are trying to say that it is going to be balanced and just cause you are defending does not mean you get extra bonuses besides defensive structures and the respawn point. 

So don't plan on treating ER's PVP as a kill/die fest.  The guys that rush in against a well defended base are gonna die, pay dearly for it.  Looks like this is encouraging tactics over zerg mentality. 

I realize a lot of the pvp'ers are going to say "but we want our freedom to pvp any way we want!"  However as always, there has to be a balance. 

The defenders will have a major money loss from gear, insurance and also repairs to building/defensive structures.
We do not know such things as they can teleport into there bases.  I have not read that what I read about teleports is that they will be like eve that they will not go to certain destinations just certain locations.   I have no clue where you are pulling this kinda information out of.  The only thing they have is respawn and defensive structures.  Other than that it is all gear and skills.   

Also what you expect...Isn't that the whole point of attacking a base taking a risk? Like Rift said taking a fortified position should be difficult. 

I really do not see a problem with the current way they are making it.