Remember Project M? Where you could spawn as an NPC?

[loramin]

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

Same here... back in the day we were all doing that hussel for pixels and levels. Ain't nobody got time to play as an NPC. But on P99 would be sweet.

[Ennewi]

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#2180 - 11/08/01 11:01 AM
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Oceana,
Before I run off to write that post I talked about previously I wanted to add my perspective to this.

My character whacked a chasm crawler in EK last night, that had just finished off a Carrion Spider. Having never seen a Spider/Snake fight before, I figured it was some Player running a MoB. The snake hesitated to attack me after I buried an arrow in it, guess he conned me and realized he was going down, or perhaps the AI really does have those two MoBs fight one another?

Several guildmates were jumped by a group of gnoll casters in LR that behaved remarkably intelligent, and were quite irate at being beat upon by MoBs that previously ignored them (not sure about that, but it seemd that was the implication).

I think that as player we may need to be more on our toes now, because stuff that previously left us alone may jump us if we are in range. Hehe, my warrior may be able to find work now as a true bodyguard!

As to how RPing may be affected, unfortunately it appears VI hasn't taken that into account, perhaps they should have restricted monster choices to humanoid/intelligent creatures?

It would be interesting to see the monsters emoting (they are capable of that, I know because I played a Fire Beetle in FP for a very short while, forgot the guards don't like bugs LOL)

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#2199 - 11/08/01 04:46 PM
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I tried it on Test Server 2 times and I was a Lion and a Misquito...

I know some have issues killing Lion's but everone will kill a Misquito :-P

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#2214 - 11/08/01 08:56 PM
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OK tried test some more on this project M..

I was:
A skeletone (SK)
A Lion (EK)
A Orc Centerion (Blue) (Crushbone)
A Gnoll (BB)
A Giant Rat (Sewers of Qeynos)
An Orc Warrior (Orange) (SRo)
A Minotor (Gorge)
A TabPole (Ogre Land)

Now it wasn't the players I had to watch out for... It was other MPC's... Every time I died was to a MPC... Whats up with that??

Also I wonder if players could get on and PL a MPC to the highest lvl creature of the zone it is in?? You cant zone [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] But you can get exp [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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[Rygar]

Did I miss something, are ezboards now viewable again?!

The guild list in that link goes to guild website message boards and posts are accessible:
https://web.archive.org/web/20031111...cID=2235.topic

[Encroaching Death]

Glad to see the Snake NPC has a Kick button

[Jimjam]

Very odd seeing reported maximums for atk/ac on the npc ui. I wonder why that is.

[mcoy]

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

Very odd seeing reported maximums for atk/ac on the npc ui. I wonder why that is.

You see max 1000's in lots of old screenshots though?

https://www.firesofheaven.org/thread...ts.9033/page-2

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[tiadashi]

I remember spawning as a skeleton in the field of bone quite often and pissing off enough people that they grouped up and whacked me - although sometimes I would spawn in completely dead zones and had nothing to do - it was an amazing and exciting concept I would really like to see this again

[Trungep99]

I remember playing with this feature and it would spawn you in unpopulated zones half the time like lake rathe. The most fun was when you were in newb zones.

[Jimjam]

It was only in for such a short time.

I think that is a part of it’s enduring nostalgia. It wouldn’t work as a long term feature of red.

To recreate it’s fleeting moment in the sun I’d suggest it be something that is only rarely toggled on. For xp weekend holidays and stuff. Especially as these tend to be thr busiest times on servers.