Same problem - players are killing my slaves in guarded mines. Player named Voltaire for example.. when i was talking to him today he just said.. "Killing slaves is faster, i just shoot them, grab everything they mined for hours and run away, bwahaha."
There were 9 slaves in the mine and withing 10 minutes when i was on other char, he wiped them all. I've tried different guarded mines - slaves never made it more than a few hours, most of the time less.
What is the purpose of guarded mines then???
Do i have to be there and watch 24/7 and try to kill him faster or do i have to mine click by click? Most of people here are 20+ (i hope) and we are all working, nobody has time to waste it for mining, thats no fun.. And playing a game should be fun in first place. I can't have slaves in unguarded mines, cause of better ore/minerals, thats fair.. But guarded mine, where everyone kill everything, isn't it little bit.. wrong?
- Suggestion (not sure if this is possible to set, just trying) - Place guards with 9999-9999 dmg and 200% accuracy all over the mine, they will insta kill the attacker after 1st shot. Set up guards to loot corpse of killed attacker and killed slave - better if mined resources goes to a guard than to these lazy trolls.
Maybe someone suggest a better solution, but we all should agree that guarded mines, which are not actually guarded, miss the point.