(02-22-2015, 09:04 PM)Pancakes Wrote: then zoom out less?
doesnt help if there is more of them...or if there is GB spamming missiles on you, thats just mess your aim (sometimes to level when TSing is totally useless)
Hey good to know, we'll bring a second RM missile gunboat the next time.
What is the reasoning behind this? patrol routes make sense, NPCs are only good to make space feel alive, so why the change?
i know that after a disconnect, i might spawn 20k or so above plane and have NPC swarming me, why? they shouldn't patrol there.
having sporadic patrols spawning along the map routes would be fun, rather than them randomly spawning around you
Ghost of Pilgrim Wrote:Some wise person once said "There is this tiny skull next to the server name. It says players can kill players. Space is dangerous"
I too have the feel we are often sissying this game.
Most systems have larger background population zones, where NPCs spawn, though at much lower rates compared to patrol paths or population zones around stations/planets. The size of these varies depending on system and system size. Some merely extend ~18k above and below the plane, while some systems have spherical background population zones with a much higher radius. An example for that could be Omicron Gamma. In the visualisation you can see that the biggest sphere is where the background population spawns. That thing has a 70k radius, so you'll find NPCs spawning 70k above the sun, still.
It makes both inRP and ooRP sense to avoid hostile installation, or simply be too deep in their territory. Just hang in the grey area, people will come to you soon enough.
As for those who hugs their base until they outnumber you by three time, don't bother with them.
I remember before the update, when the server hit over 80 peeps( somewhere around there) npcs would vanish , which was great, but now, with the update, it's not the case anymore. They are annoying yeah, when they swarm like crazy, but they do have a role tho, still i think they should go go when server pop is high.
There was one time when the NPC's power damage was increased....
that was when people complained they couldn't sit still and RP because they would get swarmed and shredded xD xD
I wonder if NPC's could get on the forum and complain what they would complain about.
The constant nerfs for no real acceptably good reason.
players engaging without RP, even when they always RP.
not being allowed to use cruise disruptors making piracy impossible for them.
not being elligable for all of the privelidges that players recieve, no SRP, no unique ships, no bases, no cloaks, no jump drives.