Radio Towers & NPC Recruitment

nameless_survivor · 2018-10-30T01:27:21.346Z

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 · 2018-10-30T01:29:59.161Z

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 · 2018-10-30T01:31:06.085Z

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 · 2018-10-30T01:47:34.307Z

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 · 2018-10-30T01:55:50.774Z

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 · 2018-10-30T02:18:45.537Z

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 · 2018-10-30T03:03:10.084Z

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 · 2018-10-30T10:37:43.713Z

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 · 2018-10-30T11:10:47.491Z

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 · 2018-10-30T12:47:33.437Z

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

nameless_survivor · 2018-10-30T12:55:54.014Z

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.

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socom55 · 2018-10-30T13:00:56.844Z

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

nameless_survivor · 2018-10-30T13:03:25.622Z

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 · 2018-10-30T13:03:44.422Z

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

TheZoneWizard · 2018-10-31T05:11:38.226Z

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 · 2018-10-31T15:42:32.037Z

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 · 2018-11-01T08:52:27.866Z

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

Mantar · 2018-11-01T20:06:56.229Z

nameless_survivor:

No, its inside the bubble unfortunately.

If you can work out the coordinates, you can go into your save folder and delete the data for those map tiles, and then use the overhead map gen editor. I did something similar once in my Testworld when trying to track down a bug.

nameless_survivor · 2018-11-01T20:48:21.745Z

What about the tile the bunker itself is in? Can that one be a “forest” tile as well? Or would it by default have to be a field tile for the structure to be placed there?

I have SO MUCH stuff stored in it I’d never be able to debug it all back in, and moving it would be less than desirable. Contents include, but not limited to, a couple hundred guns, 200+ CBMs, thousands of rounds of ammo, enough preserved food to feed an army, and a bunch of valuable jewelry that can’t be disassembled I kept for trading purposes.

Eastwardrope91 · 2018-11-01T23:41:02.740Z

You don’t need the bunker to change unless that’s the spot you want to place it you only need a 3 by 3 map tile area to build a camp so if it’s in that area just move the spot you want it further back by a tile or so.