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Resources ?

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Topic: Resources ?

Posted By: waylander69
Subject: Resources ?
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2010 at 19:33

How often do resources fill back up or new ones show up...as it is the area im in has lost lots and whats left we have a lot of people heading for...

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Posted By: GM Stormcrow
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2010 at 19:50

It's a great big unknown tbh.

Oh, alright then:

THE LONG ANSWER:
Every 6 hours the server:

Looks at the current distribution of new players and says "this is the generally the boundary of the map as regards population density"
It then asks "How many NPC (ie resourceable) squares do I have within this population density?"
It then generates a random number of how many "resourcable squares" it thinks there should be there, based on a secret formula which GM ThunderClap might possibly give up if you make his life extremely miserable (this last fact may or may not be true, but it's worth a try from my perspective)
It then compares the "weighted" random number of resource squares it has come up with against the number of squares that still have resources on them post-harvesting by the playerbase
If the random number it has come up with is less than the number of squares that still have resources on them, then it generates more resource points to attempt to fill the gap

THE TL;DR ANSWER
It's pretty random, and every 6 hours the server may or may not add resources around the map squares.

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Posted By: bow locks
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2010 at 19:54

and when it comes to occupying resources with armies, check hours vs days.

IT WAS 8 HOURS YOU MORONS, NOT DAYS.

omigod, will i ever see them again? they were meant to be back this afternoon :(

Posted By: waylander69
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2010 at 20:45

thanks stormcrow...

Posted By: GM Stormcrow
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2010 at 20:49

bow locks wrote:

and when it comes to occupying resources with armies, check hours vs days.

IT WAS 8 HOURS YOU MORONS, NOT DAYS.

omigod, will i ever see them again? they were meant to be back this afternoon :(

I'm taking this as "user error"...

Am I wrong and I need to use a Embarrassed

smiley?

Or am I right, and I need to use a Big smile

smiley instead?

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Posted By: Wuzzel
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2010 at 22:56

I made the same mistake bow locks.
Lucky for me i used the number 2 and not 8.
:P

SC is making fun of you bow locks!
Attack him... owai.. he is GM Angry

Posted By: fluffy
Date Posted: 21 Mar 2010 at 01:31

Wuzzel wrote:

I made the same mistake bow locks.
Lucky for me i used the number 2 and not 8.
:P

SC is making fun of you bow locks!
Attack him... owai.. he is GM Angry

haha, i made that mistake, not once, but with both my armies....luckly someone was nice enough to attack both of them and my commanders are nice and safe back at home :P

Posted By: GM ThunderCat
Date Posted: 21 Mar 2010 at 02:25

Wuzzel wrote:

SC is making fun of you bow locks!
Attack him... owai.. he is GM Angry

Careful now Wuzzel, we have other creatures; and the spiders know the blockade tech...

They will weave your town in their silken webs; catching all your caravans like flies in a very dangerous web

Posted By: GM Stormcrow
Date Posted: 21 Mar 2010 at 08:16

Hush, gentle ThunderClap - do not let the Evildoers know of our innermost secrets!

The Forbidden Knowledge is not for the likes of them.

For do they not already fear the Marauding Hordes of Vengeful Mammoths? Must we make further examples of them, with their Wrongfulness and their Wilful Thoughts?

Say it isn't so, I beg of you.

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Posted By: Wuzzel
Date Posted: 21 Mar 2010 at 13:15

I have done nothing wrong!
And i guess some people fear the Mammoths that are eating grass all day Evil Smile

Posted By: Diablito
Date Posted: 21 Mar 2010 at 13:18

*puts down a leg of mammoth steak* i'll have you know that being surrounded by GM mammoths is terrible!

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to welcome my two o'clock tour-group.