So should they curb raiding? And if so, how?

You should stick to only posting things Narsrim tells you to. They suck pretty hard when you post something you thought up all on your own.

Or, to use your new favorite word, you fail.

Watch it guys. Keep it decent or keep it to yourself.

The big bold word of the day is: Lolwut.

This is called defending, they all do it, turns out, Supernals, Avatars, and yes, even the Demonlords, so yes, you do look stupid.

Yikes, you should have fact checked that little gem, because you are wrong. Not all of them do it.
I'm not sure why I'm planning your raid for you but next time start with Nif and see how it turns out.

Uh.. doesn't Ashtorath defend Nifilhema?

are you serious? I'm just going to stop, you just keep sinking your own ship

I mean if you want to get technical, yes we can take Gorgy by himself, but he's definitely a lot stronger, it's always been easier to take on baal/ash or ash/nif or nif/ash at once than gorgy, and unless we get someone unenemied, can't get to Luci until we kill the other 4, so it seems like the smart thing was to go for what has always been traditionally the weaker DL's

Stop it, Llandros and Sidd.

wait for it ...... ok, it looks like I was mistaken and will now eat my failburger of shame

Actually, yes, they all defend each other (it's only Gorgulu that doesn't, mainly because he's a lot harder to kill). Even the Avatars and the Supernals have this defend-another feature.

Moving on, then - I quite like the idea of having other features (such as quests) having a bigger role in organizational conflict. The only thing that should be changed (read:removed) is the drain-power-from-opposing-nexus penalties. We all know how those turn out.

The village quests are good ones - still has impact, although not directly harming the ever-lovely nexuses, and newcomers can do most of them (exceptions include Mountain Villages). Or, the Catacombs quest that releases orcs. I suppose you can add in releasing gorgogs, helping Gromagh, killing the Wyrdling, sea battles, etc. etc. There are a lot of them that have the potential to be nice outputs of conflict; it's only because outright raiding is the usual center of attention that the other features of Lusternia are forgotten.

This might be terribly late, but I'll post in anyhow: YES PLEASE, given how certain individuals relish in chopping down great numbers of elders to annoy the communes, paying for power to protect these elders would be worth it as it saves the commune the grief and the rather long and tiring process.

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As regards to raiding the planes, the absence of members of security from other guilds also plays a factor in the defense. Why not allow part of the security of other guilds/org-leaders to put up these nexus powers at, say, double the cost? Or allow members of the commune above cr 2 to put them up? The cost would increase the lower the rank, example:

For those not members of security/protectors/not GA,GC,GM raising nexus defenses of ANOTHER GUILD
CR 6 --- 250% of original power cost
CR 5 --- 300% of original power cost
CR 4 --- 350% of original power cost
CR 3 --- 400% of original power cost
CR 2 --- 450% of original power cost

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For those members of security/protectors/GA,GC,GM raising nexus defenses of ANOTHER GUILD
Regardless of CR --- 200% of original power cost



edit3:
For those not members of security/protectors/not GA,GC,GM raising nexus defenses of THEIR GUILD
CR 6 --- 150% of original power cost
CR 5 --- 200% of original power cost
CR 4 --- 250% of original power cost
CR 3 --- 300% of original power cost
CR 2 --- 350% of original power cost

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edit5: took out edit 4

I kinda like this idea.

Elder trees are fine. It's pretty rare that we lose any, and it's even rarer that we lose a significant number. We lose some power, but power is hardly a scarce commodity, and we gain some of that power back by gathering massive amounts of feathers/pixies. Kinda sucks that there's no equivalent way to attack the prime cities, though I guess the forests don't have anything like angels/demons to be killed

You want to spend power on something that's only purpose is to produce power so that during the brief times that they are vulnerable normally, they can't be destroyed?

Boy, your memory really, really sucks. You should get a doctor to look into that for you. Until you do, I'd advise not talking about the past.

I don't know what Zarquan may or may not have complained about, but my complaints are a matter of public record and date back even to the time when Narsrim was doing to Glomdoring what you and Nienla try to do to Serenwilde now, back when Glomdoring was newborn. Sorry, sweetie, you've picked the wrong guy.

You're likely correct that my memory concerning a game from a few years ago likely isn't going to be sparkling clear, Mr. Passive Aggressive. And for that I do give my most humble apologies. Unfortunately, I see no doctor appointment in the future to help with my forum memory!

I thought that was pretty aggressive aggressive, actually. Like, as in, "sorry, you're just plain wrong". Maybe you should just look up what passive aggressive is!

Meow.

Actually, I would consider it more of a catty aggressive, to be fair. I think given the tone of your posts in the past as well as statements that you would not be playing much due to all the evil, evil raiding nowadays you would likely not be able to handle "aggressive aggressive", except through this lovingly filtered venue.