Quijenoth

Azure_Zero
I think we are getting TOO much carrot with the planned changes, let's add some stick to it.
Turn on Infections and strength generation, so people can farm all they want, but if not careful could cause big problems in the area.
Though I would use this forumla for spread speed; Infection_Points_into_Hex = 5000/ESCALATION_STR_MAX.
This will mean the weaker the escalations, the faster it will spread and since they are weaker, it should be easier to clean up. it'll make for good T1 recipe farming for buildings or helping the newbie in the area fight an escalation they can handle. It would mean the tougher escalations will infect much slower, and SHOULD be manageable, but farm too long and you might suddenly get a number of tough infected hexes.

This way there is a carrot baiting folks and a stick to make folks move it on killing the boss.
And to make sure folks don't like the infection, the infect should not spawn; Legends, Generals or Heroes, but tones of large mob groups making the area less friendly to gatherers and escalation farmers.

Agreed with the carrot thing. While I'm not sure about your suggestion overall (it has pros and cons) It would force settlements to concentrate on all their escalation hexes rather than just 1 with loot.

However would we really care if we had bonedancers across 70% of the map again? I think not, UNLESS, it impacted the settlement (say reducing effectiveness of outposts… ). That's a mechanic that's been mentioned but probably not on the horizon right now.