Npc's and creatures spawning on certain time/date

ihuntudown · Post by **ihuntudown** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 9:42 am

As some of the undead in the realm spawn only at night times...

But isn't it possible to get for example drow city guards spawning on the silver road/ neversummer city, or dwarven skullcleavers in melencia, etcetc on a certain day of the month? Or even a certain day in a game year (since hours, days and months are in game)?

Would be fun for people that love devending their cities, nice xp close to home (like garagoth... mostly far from action for MA toons level 10 and up). Thou can be fun i think to help your city guards raiding other cities as well

Only downsides i can think of for the moment is
a) prolly additional lag on those moments

b) some scripting

c) Hard to survive if you are a very low level and accently entering a screen on that moment

And very maybe you can link it to a city job as well, 1st defender and the 2nd raider

Maybe a challenge for the already drowned in work devs

$chase$ · Post by **$chase$** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 10:00 am

i imagine as much as you guys complain. were going to randomly have npcs invade a area without a DM there..wich would mean when you die no rezz and xp loss. i can hear the screaming and complaining now.
i dont see this happening and may i be the first to say please no

Zaranthys Rivermoon · Post by **Zaranthys Rivermoon** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 3:33 pm

$chase$ wrote:i imagine as much as you guys complain. were going to randomly have npcs invade a area without a DM there..wich would mean when you die no rezz and xp loss. i can hear the screaming and complaining now.
i dont see this happening and may i be the first to say please no

What $Chase$ oh so wisely said

PeregrineV · Post by **PeregrineV** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 4:47 pm

Let them complain. I know that drow scouts are plotting with the Bandits on the Dorian Coast, and that Gnolls and Ice Giants have sent emissaries to the Giant Mountain, or a den of plotting Kin meet in cabins in the woods.

Dying with no rez and xp loss sucks. True statement. I think with the number of characters some players have in NS4, leveling isn't hard, and if the whiners just go away, that might be OK too.

As a final option (brace yourselves), if you are outmatched, you could always retreat until you can handle it.

Or die, respawn, and get over it.

Bring on the random suprise hordes!

ihuntudown · Post by **ihuntudown** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:22 am

death is just one part in the circle of life

Why whining, my suggestion was once in a game month or game day, and only when entering the screen on the day. I think the change to come in a battle to hard for your toon is minimezed by that. And if you accendently enter in that day, when you leave area again and reenter after 30secs, that day has passed (if no one else is in that screen).

It sure encourange the faction wars