Radio Towers & NPC Recruitment

[nameless_survivor]

I can wait. I presume I need oceans of nails, wood and rock?

[Eastwardrope91]

Best place like he said is a plain, but there are better places but at minimum you must I’ve a 3X3 map tiles of plains the better places are near forests a river and a swamp(rare combo). The forest gives you better materials the river gives you water (I think that’s for you) and I have no idea what a swamp gives you (again I think it’s for you) and expansions give you access to the tools within and give you the ability to make other bits and bobs you might not be able to make. It’s pretty good but I wish it could be under ground I mean people can build under ground but it should be more expensive as building a house is less material extensive than digging it out as it takes time to mine a room out and then costs materials to build supports and materials to furnish it as necessary and more to light it as you can’t use natural light under ground with out a hole outside.

[mlangsdorf]

Several hundred logs, 2000 or so two-by-fours, roughly 250 rocks, 1500+ nails, 90 long ropes or vines, 24 sheets of glass, 50 pipes, 12 sheet metals, and various bits and pieces. Your NPCs can scavenge stuff and cut logs for you, and soon they’ll be able to forage for food, but there’s still a huge amount of stuff you need to acquire.

[nameless_survivor]

Does the land have to originally be clear, or can I cut down a 3x3 area of a forest and have it work?

Speaking of which, something you guys might want to add is having the map tile change if the terrain changes. Ex: I had to completely eradicate a forest infested with fungus. Instead of forest tiles, they should have had a fungus icon or something as the infestation progressed, then each tile changed to field as I burned it down and the percentage of trees dropped below say 10%.

[Eastwardrope91]

You have to have map tiles that are fields building and rubble in them have no effect that I have seen. But I agree that map tiles should change for thing like that.

[nameless_survivor]

Any way to debug that on the map? I have a REALLY nice spot where my bunker is, but its got trees around it.

[Eastwardrope91]

Has it entered your reality bubble? If it has then you can’t really edit it. You can edit how the map looks through the debug command Overmap editor but I’m not sure if it will work for camps. But as long as it never generated in your reality bubble and only on your map then you will be fine to use the Overmap editor.
It’s either Overmap or Map editor.

[nameless_survivor]

No, its inside the bubble unfortunately. I’ve been using it to store equipment for the future reconquest of New England ever since I broke into the bunker and found that it had an autodoc. Its much more convenient to use the one there for installing cbms in an army than a lab in the middle of nowhere or a zombie infested hospital.

[Eastwardrope91]

Well the camp system doesn’t care about what’s in a tile just that there’s a three by three of fields around it. Again it might not work and you might need to find a new area.

[Orange01]

You could set up a temporary camp which can clear forest tiles, and then set up one in the cleared tiles. I have a video on NPC base mechanics here.

[TheZoneWizard]

Wouldn’t the reality bubble limit the way in recruiting or does an NPC spawn out of thin air with a dice roll when using radios to contact anyone?

Perhaps I completely misunderstand the nature of contacting NPCs? 0_o

[nameless_survivor]

Yeah I was thinking it would just spawn npcs in your reality bubble, the number and the quality of their equipment based on your skill and two dice rolls.

[mlangsdorf]

The existing camp_recruit() function already does something like this.

[nameless_survivor]

I was thinking on a larger scale. For conquest purposes. Maybe have it take a lot of resources to get a transmitter up and running, but once it is, you have a near limitless supply of NPCs at your disposal.

[socom55]

it would be cool if you and the npc army went to war against the factions

[nameless_survivor]

That is exactly what I plan to do long term, at least in my game. Although I was primarily planning to exterminate the fungus, zombies, extradimensional entities, or any hostile mutant I ran across.

[mlangsdorf]

There’s also functions for NPCs fighting other NPC forces, but they’re badly coded and hard to invoke.

[TheZoneWizard]

Sounds like a solid end game idea. But I think unless the game moved completely into the 64bit realm. This won’t happen, due to the reality bubble holding so much stuff.

[mlangsdorf]

NPCs can fight each other, or monsters, outside the reality bubble. The performance impact is supposed to be pretty minimal compared to the cost of drawing the screen inside the reality bubble.

[TheZoneWizard]

Hmm. Neat. Reminds of me of working with STALKER mods. The reality bubble works similar. But sucks in a 3d first person due to being able to see beyond the bubble…2d top down though. I have hope for the future of it =D