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05OCT15 - Faction Update, notifications & reports

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Topic: 05OCT15 - Faction Update, notifications & reports

Posted By: GM Stormcrow
Subject: 05OCT15 - Faction Update, notifications & reports
Date Posted: 05 Oct 2015 at 22:18

Hi all,

Effective immediately:

COMBAT REPORTS

Combat reports from NPC combat will no longer simply read "Combat Report" in the in-game-mail (igm) subject line, instead it will now contain more meaningful information such as:

Victorious defense by GM Stormcrow's forces at Stormont under attack by Azure Throne (NPCs)'s forces from Location: [587|-2898] in Calumnex

FACTION LINKS

Factions can now be link-identified using the ingame parsing script in the following format:

[@f=N]

... where N should be replaced by the FactionID for the faction.

For example, [@f=1] will produce a link labelled "Council of Illyria" which will link via a pop-up to the Faction Page for that specific faction.

FACTION AI CHANGES/UPDATES

Faction aggression has been significantly increased, and further 'hate' factions have been activated (so it's not just The Tower any longer!).
Deliberate Faction Interaction will now occur from the following factions:

The Tower
The Melders
The Lost Clans
The Houergerrt
Sirens
Tenaril
Drek-Hhakral
Free Orcs
Guul-Hai

Faction AI action options have been increased from their current (fairly single-minded, simple) attack style to include further tactical options and a more complex decisioning engine.

NOTIFICATIONS FOR DEFENDERS

Players defending in a town or on a square now get a notification when hostile units arrive at that location. The format is:

[Attacking Player]'s army arrives at [Defending Town/Square]

This notification appears ingame, and in the notifications XML feed (as type 42 "Unit Army Arrives").

Enjoy,

Replies:

Posted By: Wartow
Date Posted: 05 Oct 2015 at 22:22

Free Orcs? Crap... Jurgor just got interesting...

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Posted By: Brandmeister
Date Posted: 06 Oct 2015 at 00:31

This is a promising development. Is there a possibility that the faction armies will also increase in size?

Posted By: Bobtron
Date Posted: 06 Oct 2015 at 02:44

in hindsight, it probably wasn't a good idea to place a dwarven city right next to a free orcs hub...

a question: how are the faction units of The Melders, Giantkin, Dragonkin, .etc, going to spawn if the faction itself have no hubs?

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Posted By: demdigs
Date Posted: 06 Oct 2015 at 04:00

can we begin to influence these other factions in any way ie change upwards and downwards the faction standings?

Posted By: GM Stormcrow
Date Posted: 06 Oct 2015 at 22:00

Hi everyone,

Quick update and a minor display bugfix.

A couple of players who have been attacked by factions have had the ingame combat report message erroneously report the wrong faction attacking (in a few instances saying eg "attacked by forces from Council of Illyria"; although then the unit composition of the force is clearly not from the Council of Illyria!)

This has been rectified, and the attacking faction will now be correctly identified.

We have also altered the "faction troops from Location" to refer back to the faction army's start point (eg a hub or spawn point) rather than to refer to the last location the faction was present at.

Regards,

Posted By: IbnSenna
Date Posted: 07 Oct 2015 at 09:52

so, time to waken up Audrey once more, and sort out the crafting discoveries…

Posted By: king stag
Date Posted: 10 Oct 2015 at 01:58

I had a Houergerrt army attack my city. Is this intended? Maybe I missed it but I didn't see anywhere where this functionality has been activated yet.

Posted By: Brandmeister
Date Posted: 10 Oct 2015 at 02:48

He said that AI complexity had been moved up a level, and that the aggressive factions might make more deliberate target choices.

Posted By: Hyrdmoth
Date Posted: 12 Oct 2015 at 20:02

"Military units belonging to Drek-Hhakral from Hub: Madh-Vraken-Kalj at [9|-2842] in The Orken Coast inbound to Hyrdmoth's [HORDE] town Theb-Madh-Broc with Hostile intentions."

They're supposed to be friendly with me...

Posted By: Solanar
Date Posted: 12 Oct 2015 at 21:21

Maybe they are not friendly with your alliance as a whole?

Posted By: zolvon
Date Posted: 12 Oct 2015 at 22:15

They should be friendly with an alliance full of smelly Orc's

Posted By: Hyrdmoth
Date Posted: 12 Oct 2015 at 22:47

Our alliance is at plus 33 and I'm at plus 40, so there must be a bug.

Exciting times!

Posted By: Brandmeister
Date Posted: 12 Oct 2015 at 23:28

Maybe they are reinforcing? There are times when your own messengers and incoming troops show up as unknown hostile incoming.

Posted By: Hyrdmoth
Date Posted: 13 Oct 2015 at 09:12

Brandmeister wrote:

Maybe they are reinforcing? There are times when your own messengers and incoming troops show up as unknown hostile incoming.

I thought that might be the case, but when they arrived a battle was fought.

Another possibility is that it is because I sieged an Orc town nearby (abandoned alliance member) and it might be revenge for that.

Posted By: Brandmeister
Date Posted: 13 Oct 2015 at 15:06

Can you post a battle report?

Posted By: Hyrdmoth
Date Posted: 13 Oct 2015 at 19:26

Victorious defense by Hyrdmoth's forces at Theb-Madh-Broc under attack by Drek-Hhakral (NPCs)'s forces from Hub: Madh-Vraken-Kalj at [9|-2842] in The Orken Coast

Sent By:     System
Received By:     Hyrdmoth [HORDE]
Date:     12 Oct 2015 20:44
Two opposing forces clash against each other.
Swordsmen, and especially cavalry, find attacking into very mountainous terrain difficult - although ranged units can excel.

Narrow passes and gulleys hinder any mounted units' ability to defend adequately. Nimble spear units have no such worries here, and defending bowmen are able to use their height advantage to maximum effect.

Attackers:     Unit:     Quantity:     Casualties:     Survivors:
Troops:     Marauders Marauders     105     105     0
Troops:     Hordesmen Hordesmen     83     83     0
Troops:     Champions Champions     113     113     0

Defenders:     Unit:     Quantity:     Casualties:     Survivors:
Commander: Bella     Fangs Fang     1     Damaged for 54, 96 health remains.
Troops:     Kobold Cohorts Kobold Cohorts     256     140     116
Commander: Freya     Fists Fist     1     Damaged for 54, 96 health remains.
Troops:     Fists Fists     256     139     117
Commander: Holly     Wolfriders Wolfrider     1     Damaged for 54, 96 health remains.
Troops:     Wolfriders Wolfriders     64     34     30
Troops:     Scrawny Wolves Scrawny Wolves     44     25     19
Troops:     Fists Fists     39     22     17

Posted By: Sirius
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2015 at 02:28

Brandmeister wrote:

This is a promising development. Is there a possibility that the faction armies will also increase in size?

I think they already have, Brand. Here's a report I got from Omen troops attacking a city (additional attacks of similar size have come since).

Victorious defense by my forces at home under attack by The Tower (NPCs)'s forces from Hub: Omen here in Calumnex

Sent By:

System

Received By:

Date:

09 Oct 2015

Two opposing forces clash against each other.

Large hills such as this are difficult for attacking mounted units, but provide opportunities for ranged to unit to show their worth. Arms-bearing footsoldiers take it all in their stride, of course.

Manueverability and lines of sight are the keys to defending very hilly terrain. Lightly armoured units such as spearmen and ranged units find it easy going here.

Attackers:	Unit:	Quantity:	Casualties:	Survivors:
Troops:	Shadow Mages	1143	1143	0

Defenders:	Unit:	Quantity:	Casualties:	Survivors:
Commander: Barin Heavyblade	Stalwart	1	Damaged for 27, 73 health remains.
Troops:	Stalwarts	905	249	656
Commander: Borin Slingrock	Slinger	1	Damaged for 27, 173 health remains.
Troops:	Slingers	2000	549	1451

Posted By: Brandmeister
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2015 at 03:07

Had you otherwise interacted with the faction prior to that, perhaps by attacking their camps? Just curious if something triggered the attack.

Posted By: Hyrdmoth
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2015 at 16:43

Brandmeister wrote:

Had you otherwise interacted with the faction prior to that, perhaps by attacking their camps? Just curious if something triggered the attack.

I haven't attacked any of the faction troops, though other members of my alliance have.

The one thing I have done recently is to siege and capture an Orc town right next to the faction hub (this was a town of a player who had been in our alliance who had gone inactive). Since our alliance has some non-Orc members our alliance standing with the faction is lower than the Orc default, so it's just about plausible that it was some sort of revenge attack for that.

I think it's more likely that there's a bug in the code though... (I've written code, I know what it's like)

Posted By: Agalloch
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2015 at 23:17

There is no bug that faction hates everyone, also devs said they upped aggression up a notch that might mean that factions will start attacking towns as well as encampments.

Posted By: Brandmeister
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2015 at 23:48

Actually, that Orc faction only hates non-Orcs.

Posted By: Agalloch
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2015 at 09:15

Brandmeister wrote:

Actually, that Orc faction only hates non-Orcs.

My personal standings with the tower is at -95, pretty sure I have green buttocks.

Posted By: Brandmeister
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2015 at 12:12

The Tower isn't an Orc faction. I was referring to the Orcs that attacked Hyrdmoth, even though he is an Orc and should have a favorable standing with them.

Posted By: Agalloch
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2015 at 14:22

My bad, you are right I thought you were referring to the other battle report.

Posted By: Balrek
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2015 at 14:20

Brandmeister wrote:

The Tower isn't an Orc faction. I was referring to the Orcs that attacked Hyrdmoth, even though he is an Orc and should have a favorable standing with them.

One of my cities got attacked by a friendly orc faction (Free Orcs) in Farshards last night.

My standing with them is +20 and I trade through that hub. Details here

http://forum.illyriad.co.uk/faction-attacking-a-town_topic6631_post90854.html#90854" rel="nofollow - http://forum.illyriad.co.uk/faction-attacking-a-town_topic6631_post90854.html#90854

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