Can the devs put a variance spawn on... any npc?

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

Originally Posted by wuanahto [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

i read this twice and i still dont get it
does the button spawn or despawn it? or do the old women kill and the old men spawn?
whats stopping your elderly brother from spawning all the time just for you

My brother could hit the buttons but he can't control 3 dozen elderly women from doing what they please. It's pretty laughable. There's a reason the nurses station isn't in the dayroom. That's their turf, he says.

Anyway, the buttons don't "control" the spawns, they add old lady variance. They can opt to set the button how they wish. That changes as the day progresses. It's not chaos, it's just like watching a "stubborn river" if that makes sense.

[cd288]

Originally Posted by tunne [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Bards mess up swarms all day. Dying is not something you should be doing in DL 26 years into the mix. Something is not adding up.

Depends on where the Bard is swarming. If they're swarming up by the walls in "safer" areas and then die to the swarm, those mobs can path path back along places that are normally safe to AFK in. You don't know how that pathing works in 2025?

[Ciderpress]

Originally Posted by tunne [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Bards mess up swarms all day. Dying is not something you should be doing in DL 26 years into the mix. Something is not adding up.

They pull mobs from all around KC, if they die or zone or whatever, those mobs reset to wherever they spawn, which is all around KC. And they just walk through the walls.

Something not adding up indeed.

[Pootle]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

places that are normally safe to AFK in.

I think i am seeing the issue here...

[Ciderpress]

Sure you might think the EC tunnel is safe but sometimes people train mobs into it, so it's not safe really and you should never feel like you can afk there.

Oh wait just don't pull mobs into the tunnel, and also don't swarm in DL.

[Zuranthium]

That kind of thinking is what killed the MMORPG genre. The game isn't supposed to be safe. NPC's should actually be hunting players down sometimes. It shouldn't even be completely safe to be AFKing in the middle of your hometown, because scripted city invasions should be a thing and cause monsters to come flooding in occasionally.

[Duik]

Originally Posted by Zuranthium [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

That kind of thinking is what killed the MMORPG genre. The game isn't supposed to be safe. NPC's should actually be hunting players down sometimes. It shouldn't even be completely safe to be AFKing in the middle of your hometown, because scripted city invasions should be a thing and cause monsters to come flooding in occasionally.

Obligatory "Sir, This is a Wendys!"
I think you are after a different game. Or make said server. Im almost certain it is simple... Everyone will swarm to your server and almost never complain ot is "Wrong".

Good Luck.

[Rygar]

If they can put it on one they can put it on anything. How 'easily' this can be done/implement may be another matter.

Fun fact: Classic EQ had variance on all mobs that were over 2hrs to repop. Some kind of formula that scaled based on the spawn time, which is why longer spawns have bigger windows. There is a bug report on it

[Rygar]

Another thing is 'spawn clusters' are a thing, even on live today. Zones such as dreadlands and newbie yards can never be completely empty. If the game designates 3 mobs as a specific cluster, and all 3 are dead, they instantly repop.

Is basically limited to outdoor zones that aren't dungeons.

[shovelquest]

Originally Posted by Zuranthium [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

That kind of thinking is what killed the MMORPG genre. The game isn't supposed to be safe. NPC's should actually be hunting players down sometimes. It shouldn't even be completely safe to be AFKing in the middle of your hometown, because scripted city invasions should be a thing and cause monsters to come flooding in occasionally.

would be awesome if there was a quest that would make an assassin NPC spawn somewhere near you randomly and you had to fight it or it would kill you. Then when you complete the next step of the quest it stops.