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ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
Escalating Entropy
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Posted - 2017.02.10 03:02:28 -
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Not supported.
The point of the game is to get people to interact with each other... for better or worse. "Hiring NPCs" detracts from that and, in some cases, might even discourage people from teaming up with other flesh and blood players.
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ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
Escalating Entropy
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Posted - 2017.02.10 03:30:30 -
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OP... you still run into the issue that I posed; it detracts from player interaction.
People have asked for everything from NPC mercs, to NPC explorers, to NPC haulers... the simple fact of the matter is that the gameplay here is centered around players playing with or against other players.
Having NPCs do stuff for players moves players away from other players.
It also puts pressure on actual player miners... as they will not be able to compete with NPC miners.
This decreases ore and mineral prices, which makes things less profitable for player miners overall.
Now let's run through this logically:
- Sure... things can be balanced so that a player who mines gets more ore... but the NPC miners do not feel fatigue, hunger, or have any real time constraints. They can simply keep going indefinitely.
- Sure... you can set time limits for using NPC miners. Players can then get alt characters to hire miners as well. When they get tired, have other players / characters repeat the same process.
- Adding the points above, you and a couple of friends (or alts) can hire a whole fleet of NPC miners to quickly and efficiently strip whole belts before any time limit is reached and before any actual players can "compete" against you.
- Your idea of having more hostile NPCs show up if NPC miners are around? Easy. Get a friend or alt in a logistics ship. Keep the NPCs alive while you, in your combat ship, nuke them. Or combine the best of all worlds and use a Nestor or some other drone ship! Remote Rep while you nuke hostiles.
And most hostile NPCs can be easily nuked with the right equipment in the right configurations.
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ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
Escalating Entropy
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Posted - 2017.02.10 03:44:35 -
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Don't feel too bad.
Coming up with ideas is hard in a game like this.
You have to consider...
1. How can this be abused?
2. How can players min/max it?
3. Will players use it as intended?
4. Will it step on any "toes?"
5. Go back to point 1 and 2.
6. Go back to point 3.
And after you go through that checklist, consider the core concept you are trying to pitch.
Keep in mind that some ideas are simply "dead on arrival" regardless of how you tweak them.
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