I know raids got turned up a bit for 0.7.6p2… but I am on the middle setting and getting raids every other years and every 3rd year sometimes… More power to the people that like it hard, but I kinda like it in the middle where there is a challenge, but I also don’t go to bed crying at night… 
Just my thought lol
Ok, seriously… every 2 years on medium setting… its a bit frustrating. Is the hard setting twice a year?
I’ve been playing on Vanquisher because I personally felt like the Trailblazer raids were pretty passive. Yeah, I was wholly unprepared for the raiders that showed up 5 mins after loading my town again. Had it been the previous settings my walls and defenses would have held, but this time… 
I just closed the game at that point.
And I do sometimes get raided twice on Vanquisher since the update. Can’t say on what frequency that happens though, but I’ve generally expected one attack a year since Tier 3
Ugh… that much is not for me. lol
I don’t want to go pacifist, because I don’t want to turn off the preditors and raids… just back to the 4 year rotation with the occasional 3rd and 4th year back to back thrown in. I don’t want it to be TOO predictable, but I’d like to at least be able to bury my dead 
I’m just going to keep posting here
First payment demand… Invader Champions, Heavy Invaders, etc, etc. Against my sticks and stones. Now I admit my walls are a bit behind, but even with them, it wouldn’t have changed it much… and in two years I can expect the same again… just saying… it really puts a damper on things… especially on the medium difficulty… my personal opinion.
That is really heavy, I play pioneer now, but middle, will never play it 
Got busted pretty hard since p1, but not on that level, woahhh duuude!
OK, I always play Vanguard (0.7.5f) … but if raids are too often, I might go for “custom” and lower raids to pioneer.
I like raids (little less when they do annoying things like destroy my fences and allow wildlife to eat my crops and cows to escape) … but I’m playing a city builder, not endless swarm of attackers.
Exactly this!
I can’t find the thread where we were discussing this to just putting it here.
I just had a gold demand for 2.2k. I had 6k in my vaults and 2.5k in my TP. So I am not sure what they calculation is based off.
I like the raiders on this game but I haven’t gone to ransom demand yet. I went to T4 on 68 raiders with 320 population and it’s still pretty easy to defend on Vanquisher. So far the raiders are predictable that they come in at the time traders arrive. My settlement is open with just 2-3 towers along entry points and 1 tower along the center of market/houses. My town center is open but a barracks with 4 soldiers and 3 guard towers are protecting it including the trading center, warehouse, vault and armory. With these developments I think I have to prepare for them heavily before going to around 400 population.
Idk, for me Trailblazer is all good for now. I just reached about 250 pop, so I might know nothing though, but still. Every time I struggled was due to my stupidity and/or overextending.
Also, yes, double raid can happend form time to time (or it’s one but bigger and in few phases)
Last raider invasion that was demanding gold was asking for roughly 25% of my vault & storage stored gold (9k of 36k about there).
They did not look for gold stashed away in the trading post (150k) I guess?
So the trading post seems to be the “real vault”, kind of.
It’s a survival city builder.
Except that it is super easy for them to steal from
I think the key word there is “endless”
Imagine if the dead raiders also needed to be taken by your labourers to fill your cemetaries for burial.
Good thing their unattended dead bodies don’t seem to attract rats, though.
Never seen any bandits close to it.
I mean yes, that’s where they want to go, sure.
But also, that’s where they should have the most trouble getting to =)
Would toss them on a pyre. Or a stake
Yeah their heads would have to go on stakes along the city wall.
I don’t want to keep beating a dead horse here… but the squeaky wheel gets the grease…
I had an army demand last year and 152 raiders there year… I feel this is a bit much for medium difficulty settings
