Poaching Kills

eowan the short wrote: Then I'd say the cost of replacing harvesters isn't my problem when they get squished. Why communicate when a quick attack is a much faster and efficient method of ending the poaching of a kill? I've had issues in the past where people get annoyed that I've killed their skinners

I voted No... Frankly speaking I personally never had issue with poaching. That can be due to all my cities in close proximity and clear demarcated map on my profile. Most of the time I will hunt more than I can harvest. Lately I do 1 or 2 days of kill then a week of harvesting...

rajput wrote: Plus there is no way to figure out whether anatomies were naturally dropped or hunted unless there is a equipment drop as well.

This topic has been debated since harvesting started. Bottom line is everyone can do what they want. I kill anything poaching my kills without bothering to even approach the offender. If I catch that person again I directly attack his or her cities with troops and diplos. My kills are very rarely poached.

Conservatively, you shouldn't harvest anything that you don't kill yourself. That completely avoids these sorts of problems. If you weren't strong enough to hunt that Legion, then you don't deserve the reward, even if nobody else has claimed it.

Conversely, if you killed something you find valuable, you can afford to occupy it. Imaginary scenarios like "what if I want to hunt 100 animals?" ignore the fact that people have multiple cities. I never run into situations where I need to kill dozens of separate NPCs. If you intend to harvest what you kill, then at some point your skinners are the limiting factor.

I should clarify that I consider hunting for XP to be a joke, since PvP is astronomically more efficient at generating XP. If you don't engage in PvP, then you don't really need advanced commanders anyway. It's a self-defeating argument.

Sending any harvester type over any large distance is foolish. There is a special place in the Underworld reserved for people who send troops anything they didn't personally kill. Animals do kill animals--particularly in biomes like jungle and desert--but any time you are trying to harvest something you didn't hunt yourself, you are taking a gamble and should acknowledge the possibility of loss.

On a positive note, the avenging of dead skinners is a quick, community-endorsed pretext for starting a skirmish or war.