Thank tou for you report, we'll take a look

Yep, this is expected. Marking the topic as solved.

Thanks for your report, it will be fixed.

As someone who have one of the best defense systems, I'd like to add my two cents. There are indeed many of clever thoughts I see here, but still there is something to be said.

It's theoretically possible to have a perfect defense, but, in practice, it's extremely hard to write. First of all, you need time for coding, and, more importantly, you need test cases for your code. On other words, you need someone to attack your rooms. The stronger the attack is, the better defense you can create. I was lucky enough to be attacked by one of the most capable raiders (of course, in times of that battle I didn't see it this way, but now I do), but this is rare. And without a good attack on you, there are too many things you need to consider, too many things could go wrong... and you have no motivation to do it.

Terminals? Go ahead and overflow them all with some cheap mineral, it's extremely unlikely that anyone has a code to detect this kind of attack and create market orders to free his terminals. Be creative! As said before, an attacker have the advantage of being proactive, he is able to find a breach or uncovered case. Like, throw a nuke into a wall. Boosted repairers spawned? Ok, throw a nuke into labs block (not many people cover them with ramparts everywhere). Rampart construction sites didn't appear? Congrats, you just found a breach.

The game mechanics are deep. It's always possible to find a way to fool any defense, and the only way to have a perfect defense is to experience all kinds of attacks ever possible (and if a defender survived them all... he probably deserve to sleep well). The only perfect defense is a defense that being upgraded.

As far as I know, this is expected. Will clarify.

This issue is fixed, thanks again for reporting.

@gankdalf said in Invaders die when pvp starts:

It might be better to just not allow spawning invaders manually while hostiles are in the room...

As far as I know, it's not currently allowed. If you're able to so so, please report a bug.

Also, summoned invaders should kill themselves when room is under attack. If that's not happening, please report a bug, replay link (or replay coordinates in case of swc) is very welcomed!

This is interesting. Thank you for report, that looks like a bug most definitely, we'll take a look as soon as possible.

@Gankdalf I'd try to shoot the healer starting from edge of room, that should keep him there. Once attacker is far away from the healer, quickly shoot him, and the healer will despawn. I mean, you don't kill healer. You kill attacker and let healer suicide. But yeah... tricky. Was suffering from those raids myself when I was new player.

Hello @Gankdalf,

Thank you for erecting this question.

First, npc invaders never damage your structures except for walls/ramparts, so they can't cause a heavy damage to your base.

Second, with some smart target selection even one tower could be enough to take down attackers (hint: damaged healer stops moving until fully healed, and attackers doesn't wait for them)

Third, any case resulting in empty room (without your creeps) will trigger immediate despawning of the whole raid. Like, your creeps could just walk away to an adjacent room, wait one tick and then return (not saying about suicide/recycle scenario).

But, despite of all aforementioned, I'll discuss rcl4 invaders with devs and keep you posted here.