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Implemented in this PTR patch.

@thmsn it has the structureType property similar to construction sites.

@tigga level 5 strongholds are able to expand max hits around the expected nuke impact area and spawn a boosted fortifier to raise ramparts. As for a nuke, it won't leave ruins or dropped resources. So yeah, you definitely can destroy a stronghold with a nuke, but its treasury will be destroyed as well.

@tigga All loot resources are placed with 1 unit amount, the exact formula is still under development.

This post describes changes on the Public Test Realm.

NPC Strongholds

NPC Invaders now finally have a home!

We've deployed NPC Strongholds mechanic to the PTR for testing. Strongholds are spawned in all sectors on all shards. See the previous discussion to get more understanding of it. There are subtle differences from described there:

• Invader Cores do not return damage on attack.

• Invader Cores of all levels always have 1,000,000 hits.

• There are two new "natural" (non-power) effects in Structure.effects:

  • EFFECT_INVULNERABLE means the structure is temporarily immune to attacks (Invader Core uses this effect while it's deploying the stronghold in the first stage);
  • EFFECT_COLLAPSE_TIMER will remove the structure when the timer is over. Invader Core will be respawned almost instantly

• The most valuable loot is stored inside an Invader Core and only visible when it's destroyed.

Keep in mind that defenders' logic is still under development, it will be much stronger after release. Also, all loot resources are placed with 1 unit amount, the formula is under development.

Ruins

We also introduced a new concept of ruins which is similar to tombstones. When you destroy a structure, it does not disappear but drops a ruin object. All resources are moved to the ruin's store. Basic player structures ruins have 500 ticks of decay, but some special cases exist:

• InvaderCore ruins will last exactly the same time as the remaining EFFECT_COLLAPSE_TIMER on it.

• When a user respawns, all structures are converted to ruins with 500,000 decay time.

• When a novice player initially spawn into the room with another player's structures, all structures are converted to ruins with 100,000 decay time.

This is how a room of a destroyed or respawned player may look like:

API Changes

• Introduced StructureInvaderCore prototype.
• Introduced Ruin prototype.
• RoomObject.effects elements now have either power or effect property.

Private server support for these features will be published in a few days.

@tigga Yeah, we used a wrong script on Tuesday. After that, we reset it again with the right script, everything should be ok now.

@deft-code please confirm or report something

@Tigga @deft-code could you please confirm that the issues are still there? I'm observing PTR, looks fine.

@davaned Going to publish to the ptr soon

@tigga this is weird, I'll take a look

Should be fixed with server version 4.0.0-beta.1.