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Re: NPC Kingdoms

Post by Hector » Wed Oct 14, 2009 7:28 pm

I just repopulated the NPC kingdoms, good luck everyone!
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Re: NPC Kingdoms

Post by Teanos » Wed Oct 14, 2009 7:31 pm

Good thing Kaz didn't listen to me.
I told him to put 50 in.

Shred, under 500 doesn't mean you automatically die. We made a change almost two years ago that allowed a kingdom to drop to under 500 acres of land and still live. I remember being 460 or so once or twice in the past. But if you think its a bug, post it in the bug thread, you don't need to mention it in every active thread.
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Re: NPC Kingdoms

Post by Kaz » Wed Oct 14, 2009 11:15 pm

Question about NPC kingdoms and then being reborn.

As I see it, we have two options.

1.) We set a script to go off every 5 mins, randomly (eg 1 in 3) set ambushes, sheild etc
and also randomly (eg 1 in 15) bring NPC's out of death.

2.) We move the button that you have currently been provided into the game with a random element attached. When you click to bring new NPC's back to life, it may instead restore the sheilds etc of the living NPC's

In fact, we do have a third option too.

3.) Both of them
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Re: NPC Kingdoms

Post by Archangel » Wed Oct 14, 2009 11:24 pm

In order to not confuse the new players, I'm inclined to say put it on a script to run randomly.
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Re: NPC Kingdoms

Post by Nether » Wed Oct 14, 2009 11:25 pm

I like option 2
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Re: NPC Kingdoms

Post by Zeblamar » Wed Oct 14, 2009 11:37 pm

I like option 1. I have to agree that it would be less confusing for new players. Maybe instead of having it run every 5 min maybe have it run randomly between 5 and 15 min. That way we don't know when its going to happen.
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Re: NPC Kingdoms

Post by Teanos » Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:28 am

Lets leave it out of the hands of players, for now.
It will be easy enough to schedule a cron job that can run at certain times and that should be more then enough.
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Re: NPC Kingdoms

Post by Shredman » Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:59 am

Teanos wrote:Good thing Kaz didn't listen to me.
I told him to put 50 in.

Shred, under 500 doesn't mean you automatically die. We made a change almost two years ago that allowed a kingdom to drop to under 500 acres of land and still live. I remember being 460 or so once or twice in the past. But if you think its a bug, post it in the bug thread, you don't need to mention it in every active thread.


i am just going by what kaz said, he plainly said if you are out of turns or below 500 acres you should be able to delete, guess what the thread it was posted in, My thread was deleted, big surprise....
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Re: NPC Kingdoms

Post by Kaz » Thu Oct 15, 2009 1:06 am

Shredman wrote:
Teanos wrote:Good thing Kaz didn't listen to me.
I told him to put 50 in.

Shred, under 500 doesn't mean you automatically die. We made a change almost two years ago that allowed a kingdom to drop to under 500 acres of land and still live. I remember being 460 or so once or twice in the past. But if you think its a bug, post it in the bug thread, you don't need to mention it in every active thread.


i am just going by what kaz said, he plainly said if you are out of turns or below 500 acres you should be able to delete, guess what the thread it was posted in, My thread was deleted, big surprise....
Your thread was merged into an official suggestions thread

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Gerien happened to be the 'poster' cos his post was oldest and thats how phpbb3 does merges.
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Re: NPC Kingdoms

Post by Teanos » Thu Oct 15, 2009 1:11 am

I don't think there's been any thread but one deleted since the boards were created.
The one being the "Welcome to your PHPBB3 Forum!!" which is the default thread.
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Re: NPC Kingdoms

Post by Shredman » Thu Oct 15, 2009 1:41 am

Teanos wrote:I don't think there's been any thread but one deleted since the boards were created.
The one being the "Welcome to your PHPBB3 Forum!!" which is the default thread.



ahhhhhhh


see and this made me feel kinda bad, but again thats what assuming does.....


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Re: NPC Kingdoms

Post by Teanos » Thu Oct 15, 2009 2:01 am

I was just thinking that darned "Administrator" guy is probably very upset with me. I deleted his only thread/post!!
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Re: NPC Kingdoms

Post by Kaz » Thu Oct 15, 2009 2:10 am

hehe, he's prolly more irritated with me.

I deleted his account lol
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Re: NPC Kingdoms

Post by Gerien » Thu Oct 15, 2009 5:05 am

Kaz wrote:Gerien happened to be the 'poster' cos his post was oldest
You callin' me old?! :x
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Re: NPC Kingdoms

Post by Mickal Redwater » Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:38 am

Someone made a 2mil acres kingdom with 0 defense.

This seems to me to be a little bit of a problem with the NPC system and needs some changes :P

its just a little ridiculous because whoever finds it is automatically in first with no effort.
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Re: NPC Kingdoms

Post by Mickal Redwater » Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:54 am

And its the same kingdom every time :P
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Re: NPC Kingdoms

Post by Shredman » Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:28 am

wonderfull, i sat there and watched you sorcer kill me when i could have easily slaughtered you, i wanted to see how dragons fare and get me a human build save, all that sidhe was good for was sorcery then you get 2mill free acres.... lovely
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Re: NPC Kingdoms

Post by Mickal Redwater » Thu Oct 15, 2009 9:00 pm

Sorry was really drunk when i posted that and somehow attacked and did whatever last night :P

But i think that 54mil NW 2mil kingdom with 0 defenses is a little too much :P give it defense at least. I'm not sure how it pulls from the NPC created kingdoms, but maybe worth just killing that one out of the system :P


Also i think i said this before but not sure where... at some point would be nice to take NPCs off the Score page. They are polluting (most corpses )
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Re: NPC Kingdoms

Post by Nether » Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:46 pm

i look at it this way, if it wasn't for that kingdom, then some people would be outta reach for to long, i like it.
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Re: NPC Kingdoms

Post by Mickal Redwater » Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:04 pm

Yes but you like it and i like it.. but what about the Angies?
They don't get the chance for 2.8mil free land :P


It needs to go... NPCs shouldnt have so much land for so easy...give it defense maybe.. but i think a 200k land NPC limit would be best.

If i had saved up another 10k turns... i could try to get more so out of reach.

Already have over 60k temples and maxed out troops for my 5mil acres :P

even that isnt enough for your 2.8mil acres droben ;)
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