Talk:Pillaging

Is pillaging currently disabled? Even using ogres it seems I can't click the pillage option! --Bibendus 20:05, January 22, 2011 (EST)

There's a technology Pillage Party that unlocks the ability to pillage, and I know you need certain units (such as the Ogre), but other than that... I dunno; I haven't gotten that far yet. Maybe it hasn't been implemented yet.
 * ~n47h4n

Don't you think I have the research and the ogre? I simply can't click on the raid option against other players. Maybe they enabled it now, I should check when my ogre respawns --Bibendus 06:56, January 23, 2011 (EST)

I emailed them about the seemingly broke pillage function, and received this reply.

"Pillage has two requirements. For one, you can only pillage from an expansion dungeon, IE, you have to launch the attack from a dungeon other than your starter. Two, pillaging can only be done on dungeons, any only if they've attacked you. Pillaging does actual damage to a player's dungeon and as such, is only available as a retaliation to an attack, to prevent people from unnecessarily harrasing/destroying players dungeons."

The rationale is weird - if someone is strong enough to "unnecessarily harass" me, I am unlikely to be in a position to retaliate effectively by pillaging. And you can't use it as an offensive tactic - only in response to an aggressor. So you have to fool someone into attacking you first. It is unclear if the pillage target is limited to a player who has attacked you, or a specific dungeon that has attacked you (i.e, the player's other dungeons are immune). [NOTE - KTCAOP's Movement of Dmbeaster's comments.]

Pillage results
I conducted a successful pillage attack that included 2 lvl 10 Ogres. The battle report did not show any particular outcome from the pillage other than "Dungeon Pillaged". I directed the pillage at the storeroom - you have to direct the pillage raid to a target in the dungeon in the same manner as a normal raid. If it had any effect, the report did not show it. Maybe that was not enough force to inflict any pillage damage - will be trying again with bigger Ogres in near future. Or else maybe it would have registered an impact on some other target. Or maybe the function is not working. Who knows.