* New Feature (Random NPC Teammates)*

T3hRedMage · Post by **T3hRedMage** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:17 pm

Several infractions have been made by A95 and we've had several complaints. The staff has even done account wipes and other forms of punishment in the past. I'm suprised to see that A95 still plays on the server after the extended period of population issues and yet he still seems to gain the same amount of attention he did went he was younger.

Perhaps the best punishment we can give is to ween him off of this bad habit completely to warrent a pathway for him to grow up.

Heavy_Metal-2000 · Post by **Heavy_Metal-2000** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:29 pm

for one, logging out of the arena IS against the rules if some1 else is on in ur range and on a team willing to take prt in battle with you, REGARDLESS of whether they are actually engaged atm with you or not.

95 knows this and despite the fact that hes played here for a long time if i noticed it its jail time afaic.

The real trick is annoy him as much as he annoys you and you're problem is solved.....

Musekaze · Post by **Musekaze** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 8:10 pm

So that must be why all of the fun people like Casas, Gnarr, Drunken... *goes on and on listing all of the vets* left. Over half my characters were CSers. Hell, I remember times when I hated playing CS because there was always an anti-sneak hanging around.

Post by **Rary** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:55 pm

The barb NPC's find you alot because their listen is high. I have tried with my rogues and if I CS, they come to where I last was and sit there.

Its not that they always see you, its their programmed to go into detect mode the second you "disappear". If they find you they attack, their attack isn't like us humans. The NPC's look like their auto-following you, but they are really going to attack you. Its a bug with Bioware I believe.

If the NPC's are seeing you. Get a better move silent.

I've tried to test every evenue and yes, they catch me alot, but its always down to the fact that I didn't get around the corner fast enough or they detected me.

Maybe I can add something that notifys you if you hid successfully and when they find you, but this will spam people.

Heavy_Metal-2000 · Post by **Heavy_Metal-2000** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:59 pm

meh sneaks are lame anyways like they need a scanner on their HUD to let them know they succesfully have hidden form bots....

Just my thoughts..

Musekaze · Post by **Musekaze** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 11:51 am

Replace the barbs with fighters? Normally I'd use CSers on melees but with all the NPCs barbars most of the time, this gets incredibly hard.

Heavy_Metal-2000 · Post by **Heavy_Metal-2000** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 7:00 pm

As opposed to building a new NPC all togther, we could maybe reduce there listen instead but honeslty its a bug more than anything and if we take away there listen then players have free reaign to make CSer's and own NPC's all day for ez lvls....

Cobra · Post by **Cobra** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 12:05 pm

Replace the barbs with fighters? Normally I'd use CSers on melees but with all the NPCs barbars most of the time, this gets incredibly hard

I kinda agree with this. For when barbarians have shields it basically just rips all the 3 pters and 4 pters it can get. With its ac in like 35 or so it gets very difficult. I was thinking remove the shield barbarians and replace them with pure fighter npc. That has the nice ac mabye even more but not as much ab and dmg those barbarians get. Just my suggestion,

And sometimes I the barbarians do auto follow actually. You can tell when you hid from npcs when you go around a corner and they turn transparent, but then they walk around the corner doing the little auto follow stop and run stop and run.

Musekaze · Post by **Musekaze** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 3:26 pm

You know there is a quote function.

Cobra · Post by **Cobra** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 5:46 pm

Musekaze wrote:You know there is a quote function.

I never even saw it

Post by **Rary** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 9:04 pm

Give shield barbs more con, less str?

The high listen doesn't make CS'ing hard, it just keeps it under control. You have to run around a corner for longer than a few seconds to succeed.

CS'ers with very little amount of players on kill the game quick. More players, less npc's and cs'ing is not so annoying.

Heavy_Metal-2000 · Post by **Heavy_Metal-2000** » Wed Feb 24, 2010 7:13 pm

True once theres 8 or more players its easier to keep a lock on sneaks and u can work as a team to keep them checked....

The NPC's do little more than chase and swing, they cant strategize like human's do therefore they need somewhat of an edge.

We need les CS'ers ad more fun builds here anyways ive spent the last 3 days either chasing CS'ers or run/cast CSing mages... it gets lame after a while and when things get lame people stop wanting to play..

Food for thought right there.

Post by **Rary** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 7:31 pm

As I've seen the NPC's going after the sneaks is pretty fair.

Heavy_Metal-2000 · Post by **Heavy_Metal-2000** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:12 pm

yup. Also love the new names. I got into a fight with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dawg earlier this afternoon rofl.

Musekaze · Post by **Musekaze** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 3:03 pm

Some of them are amusing while others seem a bit dirty for your "family" server, Rostiklav :p