Outcats in Towel-23

[jxie93]

/me postulates that all NPCs should be banned because they aren't players, attack without warning, don't RP whentold to, reengage, cheat with regens and defensive statistics.

FL's AI does have its limitations. But without then, the Sirius would just seem too empty.

So careful spawn locations, numbers and behaviour according to roleplay is required. But we're still in the middle of fine tuning it.

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[LancerZero]

Best part is when you're flying, say, a BWT and some NPC in a fighter with less than 100 cargo space says "Drop your whatever (3600) or I'll shoot!". Uh huh.

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[mwerte]

Now take a look at what A&L guy is showing - our player average is up such that we're barely dropping below 100 players at night, and frequently I'm seeing 150 players even at 8 pm locally. It's nice to have people on here to play and interact with.

Aye, we've been getting more players late at night. But last night after the server restart there was about an hour where there was around 40 people on, and the NPC spawn was hellorific. We've grown so accustomed to not having them, that having them is a pain.

When it comes to the point that they're interfering with player actions and making it hard for 2 players to interact, it's not a good thing. NPCs really need to lose their CDs.

And yes, Tau 23 is particularly bad, I've jumped in and been gang-jumped by 12ish Outcasts.

Omega 47/49 is also really bad, leveln 19 Titans that DON'T FRAKKIN MISS WITH OVERPOWERED GUNS! Grrr. :angry2:

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[Sebastian Wolfe]

I find it funny when 4 Hacker Daggers in Texas or such decide that they can take my Gunboat unassisted.

They got balls, them NPCs. They just need a little more brains.

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[Elsdragon]

I just lost my avatar uniqueness. Blergh

ON topic, THe storm of random NPC's is very annoying. Nerf em, or -just- remove the TCD's, Or any CD's

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[Coin]

FL's AI does have its limitations. But without then, the Sirius would just seem too empty.

hmmm, sometimes it can be really lonely on a trading run, cos i get to play when the server load is almost max.... everyone seems to be in ny

Aye, we've been getting more players late at night. But last night after the server restart there was about an hour where there was around 40 people on, and the NPC spawn was hellorific. We've grown so accustomed to not having them, that having them is a pain.

/signed, once i was taking a 'shortcut' through the lonelicrons, server crashed when i was *just* past the ravine... i log back on and manage to evade the first patrol, jump into the next system and find a gang of 8 squishies camping the jh


i also remember passing a weapons platform that CD'd me.... why? for the love of all things disco, why does a weapons platform need cds?

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[mwerte]

i also remember passing a weapons platform that CD'd me.... why? for the love of all things disco, why does a weapons platform need cds?

Because Guard Systems should have 'zomg HALP!' NPC swurms in them, but since the server is full so often, the NPCs don't show up, so Weapons Platforms have to be used.

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[n00bl3t]

-just- remove the TCD's

Exactly.

If you choose to fight them they are just as hard.

This allows choice of fight.

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[Beagle23]

Exactly.

If you choose to fight them they are just as hard.

This allows choice of fight.

This would only address people getting stuck in packs of NPCs though, not the rest of the problems such as trying to stay in one spot for the purpose of talking, detaining, negotiating.

I'd say leave the CDs in, lower the spawn rate to something much more normal so NPC patrols happening upon you are a chance thing and not sure thing, and scrap the mechanism that increases NPC spawns when there are less people in the server.

[Tovig]

* Tovig postulates that all NPCs should be banned because they aren't players, attack without warning, don't RP whentold to, reengage, cheat with regens and defensive statistics.

Where do I sign ?