Kingsmarch mapper frustrations (hostage mechanic)

Hi

Normally in leagues since we got Kingsmarch, I have been doing all professions and only 1 map device as I could not generate enough gold to upkeep everything with my working schedule.

This league I decided to only do mappers and have been able to do all 3 map devices quite comfortably.

Now here comes the frustration I am facing.
Every night I log off filling up the map queues and expecting to come back to a lot of garbage but every couple of maps something decent like a divine or puzzle box here and there. Instead what I am getting almost every afternoon when I get off work is a stream of map completions upon login and then a dreaded "Atlas Runner kidnapped by Bandits".

If this happens between map 9 and 12, that's would be ok but every time I get this its between map 3 and 7. What is the point of an AFK mechanic if 90% of the time it gets paused because 1 of the map devices got taken hostage??

I understand if they get taken hostage while I am playing in my evening sessions, not when I can literally not free them because I am working.

Please look into reworking this to be more forgiving as it really is not nice to log in after being away for 12-16h and then only 9 out of 36 maps were completed because of something out of your control entirely.

I know this was a bit of a rant but I hope I got my point came across.

It's part of the intended friction of mappers, I doubt they will change this.

Farming: Predictable, hands off, fairly cheap, uninterrupted resource gathering. No deaths, no events. Slow steady profit.


Mapping: Unpredictable loot, hands on, expensive, interruptions. Mappers die/get kidnapped. Generally higher div/hr when running, potential for huge jackpots.


If they were going to make a change, it should be that the kidnap boss loot gets buffed. Right now its basically only ever ~40-50k gold. Throw in a new rare div card drop or chance at currency into the drop pool for him. Make getting kidnapped feel like an exciting lottery, not a chore than delayed your mapper loot scratch off tickets.


Also: @GGG Please fix the buggy behavior affecting which map devices get paused during a kidnapping. Depending on which map device triggers the event, different numbers of devices cease to map while kidnapped. It should really just be the 1 that triggered the event, but whatever the intent is, make it consistent!

I like the idea of adding better loot to the boss. I think knowing its just a low amount of gold is what makes it feel just so bad.

I think all map devices gets paused if one of them have a mapper taken hostage. Allowing the other devices to continue would make it also feel less punishing.

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Jabber267#1215 wrote:

I think all map devices gets paused if one of them have a mapper taken hostage. Allowing the other devices to continue would make it also feel less punishing.

Sometimes its all. Sometimes its just 2, and I think I've seen it just be 1. Its annoying that its not consistent is all. If GGG wants it to be all of em, fine, but do it.

Then we are experiencing it differently. All of my stops the moment one gets taken hostage.

Maybe they fixed it this league. I havent been kidnapped yet this time, but I have only run like 7 sets of 12. I always start with farming first.