Sparring NPC's!

Started by RogueGunslinger, November 28, 2009, 11:30:12 AM

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December 03, 2009, 05:12:50 PM #150
I too would like to express my agreement with this idea.

I'll also volunteer to write up sparring npcs, should they ever be called for.  Staff knows I'm good for it.
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December 03, 2009, 05:15:03 PM #151
Stuff like the uselessness of sparring dummies, and other coded features of the world, often feels to me like legacy from when the MUD was much more twinkish and there wasn't such an emphasis on appropriately, accurately, realistically portraying our PCs. Yes, twinkish behavior still happens, and we do constantly get new players who need help with figuring out what should be done and what shouldn't...but for the most part, we are surrounded all the time by veteran players who do know what to do, and why. The playerbase is more trustworthy than 10 years ago, I'm sure of that, and I wish our coded environment reflected it.
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December 03, 2009, 10:25:40 PM #152
I... agree with Gimf. Someone call my psychiatrist.

I think a lot of "excuses" for not doing things, are based on behaviors exhibited many years ago before we had the structure and rigidity we have now. Do people still twink? My god, yes. I've even been known to forage 10-10000000000 times without emoting so much as "bends over low, ass wiggling at the watching staff".

Simply put, players want to be trusted. Those that can't be, can be weeded out, but you need to promote SOME sort of positive player atmosphere. Right?
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December 03, 2009, 10:43:22 PM #153
It wouldn't even be possible to "twink out" on a sparring NPC, if  you set it up with the right script.

Make it auto-stop backstab, steal, sap, throw (others?) similar to the way you can't even try to use the 'steal' command in certain shops (even if you're not targeting the shop itself).

Have it show up only during scheduled clan sparring periods.

Make sure it flees before it reaches poor condition.

Make sure it disengages once its target PC reaches 'not well.'

Hell, you could even code other NPCs to come in for "unarmed sparring" days and for "wrestling/subdue/guard/rescue" drill days.  Each with their own nifty little scripts to facilitate training those skills.

Again, impossible to twink because of the skill timer, and the limited availability of the NPC.
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December 03, 2009, 11:16:13 PM #154
I say we try it. If it doesn't work, we get rid of it. It doesn't have be something that will last longer than Arm.1.
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December 04, 2009, 12:41:17 AM #155
Quote from: Synthesis on December 03, 2009, 10:43:22 PM
Make it auto-stop backstab, steal, sap, throw (others?) similar to the way you can't even try to use the 'steal' command in certain shops (even if you're not targeting the shop itself).

No, no, not auto-stop.  You know that thing where every NPC in Luir's Outpost pours out of barracks and cracks and holes in the ground to come kill you?

Imperfect use of backstab, sap, or throw against a training NPC should trigger that thing.
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December 12, 2009, 03:29:44 AM #156
Bump! This is an important issue.
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December 12, 2009, 10:30:57 AM #157 Last Edit: December 12, 2009, 10:32:35 AM by Akoto
If there's a lot of concern about this being twinked out on, something similar to the AoD's sparring area could be set up. Their sparring dummy is set up at dawn, and slaves take it away by late morning (I think). It's coded that way.
December 12, 2009, 03:46:38 PM #158
Yup. The training sergeant comes out at dawn and the slaves prostitutes take him away at high sun.
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December 12, 2009, 04:10:38 PM #159
Quote from: Akoto on December 12, 2009, 10:30:57 AM
If there's a lot of concern about this being twinked out on, something similar to the AoD's sparring area could be set up. Their sparring dummy is set up at dawn, and slaves take it away by late morning (I think). It's coded that way.

What is AoD?
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December 12, 2009, 04:14:32 PM #160
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What is AoD?

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December 12, 2009, 05:01:08 PM #161
Seriously ... I hope staff have been dilberating this.  >:(
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December 12, 2009, 11:21:17 PM #162
Quote from: musashi on December 12, 2009, 05:01:08 PM
Seriously ... I hope staff have been dilberating this.  >:(

Dilberating?  Is that that thing where staff walk into cubicles like dilbert comics? lol
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December 17, 2009, 09:22:35 PM #163
Bump. Being off peak blows.
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December 19, 2009, 11:13:45 AM #164
December 20, 2009, 06:00:27 PM #165
i miss hitting dummies enough using bare hands. It's not often but it'll raise general offence.
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December 21, 2009, 07:34:52 PM #166
January 02, 2010, 07:30:32 AM #167
Quote from: jmordetsky on December 17, 2009, 09:22:35 PM
Bump. Being off peak blows.

Even though I don't play any warriorly characters...
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January 03, 2010, 02:53:33 PM #168
ARMAGEDDON IS SUPPOSED TO BE AS HARSH OOC AS IT IS IC YOU FUCKING PUSSIES.

I agree with sparring NPCs.
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January 03, 2010, 03:33:49 PM #169
I wonder what the coders and admins think about this idea?  Has anybody from staff weighed in here yet?
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January 03, 2010, 09:28:01 PM #170
All we can do is keep bumping the thread till they say something  :P
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January 03, 2010, 09:49:02 PM #171
Kinda already have.

Quote from: Olgaris on November 28, 2009, 02:43:23 PM
While I think Good Gortok's ideas are both strange and inaccurate, I can agree that you will not see a sparring dummy that is useful to improve your skills.
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