Hull Cell Banks
It's a miracle! NPC instantly gains 100% health AND shields after waking away 10 seconds earlier!
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Hull Cell Banks
Yeah, they are able to go home to change ships, but still forget to fuel them. We have smart NPCs in ED.
The one that really bugs me, is NPC pirates that turn up when you drop into a station and message you as if they had just interdicted you.
The real problem is that instancing is not centralized. Some player out there, it might be you, is controlling the instance. In order to have a persistant instance that data has to be stored and retrieved. Where do they keep it? On your PC/Console if you are the instance host? How much data space are you willing to give up to hold that data? For how many players can one instance host store data? Should you have to give consent? Storing instance data on a centralized server presents problems such as cost, bandwidth, latency, reprogramming the whole instance logic, etc.
I'm not saying it can't be done but there are a lot of factors involved then would need to be considered.
Nonsense, it's padded with elephant butt leather.
What really annoys me is NPC pirates who know yu have a hold full of "tasty cargo' before they have even interdicted and scanned you. Where do they get this intel?
Welcome to the world of MMO games without dedicated server infrastructure. Yes, kind of car without engine.
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Spies, each and every worker at a station cargo depot is on the take. No one in this universe has anything approaching morals, they'd literally kill their own mother to make a few credits. Heck, even the mission givers should be suspect.
Oh those mission givers are truly suspect! They offer you those high paying "spec ops' missions that are really just a way to trick you into getting a bounty on your head! I am convinces they are getting kickbacks frothe factions they are "telling you to target"!
Yup. Old problem. For a while it seemed like it was fixed, but it has been recurring more after latest update.
What annoys me is that when you pick up a bunch of missions, you get either 5 of them in a row with time bonus, or 5 of them with pirate targeting you. There's no mix. Either you get a series of one or the other. And when you get a couple of pirates hunting you for different missions, they tend to show up in the same interdiction, so now suddenly you're face 2 or 3 pirates with engineered shields and weapons. Not fun when all you have is a non-engineered cobra.
Have filed bug reports about this one myself, 1st one well over a year ago so not holding my breath for it to get fixed anytime soon.
Funnily enough if they high wake out if you have a wake scanner fitted and follow them to their destination then they still have whatever % armor they had when they fled, so makes no sense that Fdev can't seem to maintain the same level of persistance with the post low wake re-emergence scenario.
Funnily enough if they high wake out if you have a wake scanner fitted and follow them to their destination then they still have whatever % armor they had when they fled, so makes no sense that Fdev can't seem to maintain the same level of persistance with the post low wake re-emergence scenario.
IDK, she managed to kill off a whole wack of minor characters before they could escape.
I like the way you'll get some people attempting to justify this on the grounds that NPCs aren't persistent.
I could almost accept this in the case of random NPCs but if the game is spawning NPCs specifically related to something you're doing, they quite simply SHOULD be bloody-well persistent.
Now that FDev seem to have given NPCs the brains to flee when they're in danger of being destroyed, they REALLY need to have another look at this and find a way to make mission-related NPCs persistent.
If they're not going to do that, I'm afraid they need to lobotomise them again, so they don't jump away when they're about to be destroyed.
Here's a weird thing that happened to me today. I was hunted in one of the missions by an NPC. He had a python, me a non-engineered cobra. It's a new account. No engineering so far. Not even million credits in balance yet. Working my way up for reputation. Now, I timed out and failed the mission this morning because of... oh, well, things. But... the NPC is still chasing me, and after taking him out, his buddy is now coming, even though the mission is gone. Strange. I don't think I've seen this before. He did say something like "Your former employer wishes to greet you." Or something similar.
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Dang. Good point. Now with mission system having a semi-persistent server for all modes, and USS-es are persistent as well, now the NPC for sure should be as well. If they're damaged, they need to go to a station and repair or stop and use repair limpets like any normal person.
Make them persistent. They can do it. Missions and USS are, so why not NPCs.
It already works, there is just a bug preventing it