PETITION: Nerf NPCs

[tazuras]

Well I actually read through the whole topic so far and here's what I think:

Some of the NPC's are a little un-balanced, I think this should be handled on a case to case basis. Whenever you are talking about them being over-powered you are talking about them being over-powered in certain areas, maybe those areas just need a little alteration. Now personally I have not hung around a lot of these areas so I cant comment on them specifically. In general though since the Release of .85, no NPC has interfered with my RP.

In terms of NPC's on missions, well I really think that is a different topic so I'm gonna move on.

In terms of NPC's in Gallia, yes, they are strong, perhaps too strong, but it is in RP for them to be this way. My biggest issue is with some of the navy patrols by Macon. I once got jumped by a bomber patrol in this area and then another one spawned right on top of me after I had killed maybe one of them. At the time I was flying a Council GB with an anti-fighter/bomber loadout and a cap6 armor. I almost didnt survive. This does seem a little extreme to me. Other than that though I cant really comment as I have not flown anything smaller than a GB in Gallia.

I think one of the better points brought up in this thread was Benjamin's. What if someone from a hostile faction has a special RP reason to visit their enemy's space? Now I think this really needs to be possible, but I dont think we need to reduce NPC strength to do it. To do this I propose the /neutral command. This command would be just like the previously discussed /attack command except it would make all hostile allied (to the user) NPC's in the system neutral, until the hostile player docked or left the system of course. I think this would be pretty un-abusable, and though it may allow some OORP situations for OORP players I think that it would mostly help, in fact I think I'm gonna go start another thread about it.

I voted 'no' BTW.

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