Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25283582-20140809151025/@comment-24108228-20140813221030

Gosh, this was a short week.

The raider will instinctively take any boat better than theirs, and rase any others. Once happy with their boat, they will sail around, looking for villages, in particular wooden ones. If they find the village is fireproof, they will kill all members and try very hard to find parts that the owners forgot to fireproof. They will eat all food and kill anyone who comes close, claiming the village for a short amount of time, either until they get bored, or the owners retool it.

In the event they are killed during a raid, either by well armed residents or a well prepared owner using an effective combat technique, they will react depending on their species. A soloist raider will either leave the server, quickly regain the same tools they were using, or quickly grab the best of the tools they have stored. Unless they went for the former, they will then attack the tribe that killed them, almost always in vain. This repeats until they run out of tools, patience, or time, at which point they will leave.

In the event of a stronghold raiding group, they will be more strategic, and attempt to gain in tool tier before performing another attack. This can often take a long time, as a large number of raiders all require lots of high end tools, and the target tribe will sometimes even disband before preparations are finished. In this event, the tribe will take advantage of their new tools and kill all the new tribes that have arisen in this time, before running out of targets and eventually leaving.

In the event of a troll being defeated, the response is normally the troll simply taking advantage of the fact they killed him to further infuriate them. Little can be done but to ignore them until they get bored.